BRIEFLY.Checkups, prizes set at Health Fair SUN VALLEY -- A Health Fair on Saturday will feature free immunizations, dental screenings and other health and safety checkups. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Sun Valley Recreation Center, 8133 Vineland Ave. Health care providers will be present, as well as law enforcement officials who can inspect and make sure child car seats are installed properly. Some families could be eligible for a free car seat. Organizers will also give away 200 bicycle helmets, and a dozen families will win a bike. -- Daily News Muslims open mosques to all In an effort to dispel misconceptions Misconceptions is an American sitcom television series for The WB Network for the 2005-2006 season that never aired. It features Jane Leeves, formerly of Frasier, and French Stewart, formerly of 3rd Rock From the Sun. about Islam, Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Muslims are inviting their neighbors to Open Mosque Day on Sunday at dozens of mosques throughout the region. In the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , the Islamic Center of Reseda, 18206 Victory Blvd., Tarzana, will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Christian and Jewish clergy and law enforcement officials are expected to join Southland Muslim leaders today at the Omar Foundation near downtown to encourage non-Muslims to attend the fourth annual event. In the wake of last week's disrupted terror plot to bomb British airliners, area Muslims want to show the difference between Islam and the distorted religion of Islamic terrorists. -- Daily News Post office to be named for coach RESEDA -- The post office will be renamed in honor of legendary UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX basketball coach John Wooden, thanks to President George W. Bush's signing of a bill Thursday authorizing the name change. ``Coach Wooden's leadership was not just on the court. He inspired so many by his testament to leadership, to success, to dedication and to sportsmanship,'' said Rep. Brad Sherman Bradley J. "Brad" Sherman (born October 24 1954) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing California's At-large congressional district. , D-Sherman Oaks, who sponsored the legislation calling for the renaming. The post office branch will be dedicated during a ceremony Oct. 14, Wooden's 96th birthday. During Wooden's 28 years as UCLA basketball coach, the Bruins racked up four 30-0 seasons, won 88 consecutive games, 20 conference championships and 10 NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association championships, including a record seven in a row. Wooden has lived in Encino for more than 30 years, but the Encino post office was renamed in 2002 in honor of the late Lakers See Lake poets announcer Chick Hearn. Wooden's daughter, Nancy Muehlhausen, lives in Reseda. -- City News Service |
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