CREWS CLEANING UP 120-YEAR-OLD CEMETERY PALMDALE WORKS TO PRESERVE LEGACY.Byline: JIM Jim Miss Watson’s runaway slave; Huck’s traveling companion. [Am. Lit.: Huckleberry Finn] See : Escape SKEEN Staff Writer PALMDALE - City crews began cutting weeds 1. weeds - Refers to development projects or algorithms that have no possible relevance or practical application. Comes from "off in the weeds". Used in phrases like "lexical analysis for microcode is serious weeds." 2. , trimming juniper juniper, any tree or shrub of the genus Juniperus, aromatic evergreens of the family Cupressaceae (cypress family), widely distributed over the north temperate zone. Many are valuable as a source of lumber and oil. bushes and picking up fast-food wrappers In data mining and treatment learning, wrappers were used by Ron Kohavi and George John. Their idea was to wrap their treatments learners in a preprocessor that would search to make subsets from the current set of attributes. and other trash in the Palmdale Cemetery, the first steps toward preserving, and restoring dignity to, the 120-year-old facility. The cemetery, a legacy of the community's first settlers, is cluttered clut·ter n. 1. A confused or disordered state or collection; a jumble: sorted through the clutter in the attic. 2. A confused noise; a clatter. v. with trash and debris and has been frequently vandalized. Grave markers are missing or knocked over, and a vehicle smashed into its front block wall. ``We'll clean it up the best we can. Then we'll have to take a look at the low walls to see what needs to be done to make it look like they should and make it safe,'' said Leon Swain, Palmdale's director of public works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. . The initial cleanup will take about 30 days. The site will be secured with a wrought-iron fence, but putting that up will take some time to complete. The fence must be designed and bids sought from construction companies, Swain said. In August, the City Council adopted a resolution toward taking over the cemetery. The resolution made three findings: The site is not an endowment care cemetery; the site has not had more than 10 human interments within the past five years; the site presents a threat or danger to the health, safety, comfort or welfare of the public. The last burial of record was Jan.17, 2001, city officials said. The cemetery was created by the settlers of Palmenthal, founded in the 1880s by German and Swiss immigrants from Nebraska and Illinois. Grave markers there bear the names of pioneers including generations of Ritters, whose former ranch west of Palmdale is being turned into a 7,200-home master-plan community, and Melville J. Courson, Palmdale's first honorary mayor for whom a downtown park is named. The top of Courson's grave marker has been broken off. The city has acquired 14 acres adjacent to the cemetery with the idea of establishing a historical park there. james.skeen(at)dailynews (661) 267-5743 CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour AV edition only) City workers trim a juniper tree at Palmdale Cemetery on Thursday. The initial effort is expected to take about 30 days. (2 -- color in AV edition only) A 1894 German grave marker sits in Palmdale Cemetery. Some markers have been vandalized. (3 -- 4 -- ran in AV edition only) City of Palmdale workers, top and above, begin cleaning trash and repairing vandalism The intentional and malicious destruction of or damage to the property of another. The intentional destruction of property is popularly referred to as vandalism. It includes behavior such as breaking windows, slashing tires, spray painting a wall with graffiti, and at Palmdale Cemetery on Thursday. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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