EDITORIAL BULLY TACTICS SUN VALLEY'S DAYS AS THE CITY'S DUMP SHOULD END.CITY officials hear the words ``Sun Valley'' and they immediately think, ``Great place for a dump, maybe another junk yard. How about a gravel pit Noun 1. gravel pit - a quarry for gravel stone pit, quarry, pit - a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" or two?'' Enough is enough. The east 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. community has surely paid its dues as Los Angeles' dumping ground but that hasn't stopped city sanitation officials from considering a 125-acre gravel pit in the community as the site for a trash-transfer facility. Already, the operators of Bradley Landfill have their own plans for expanding the dump and building a transfer station. As you might expect, the nearby horse community members are not thrilled about the idea of having garbage loaded and unloaded in their neighborhoods. And they have a right to be upset. City leaders more concerned with downtown and Westside interests have long treated Sun Valley and other northeast Valley communities as dumping grounds. Out of sight, out of mind "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" was the 99th episode of the M*A*S*H television series, and the third episode of the fourth season. Written by Ken Levine and David Isaacs and directed by Gene Reynolds, it first aired on October 5, 1976 and was repeated December 28, 1976. , apparently. The community has started to get organized and fight against the trash tyranny Tyranny Big Brother omnipresent leader of a totalitarian nightmare world. [Br. Lit.: 1984] Creon rules Thebes with cruel decrees. [Gk. Lit.: Antigone] Gessler Austrian governor treats Swiss despotically; shot by Tell. , and elected officials should stand by their side. They owe it to the community after disrespecting it for so long. It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for Sun Valley to get a little bit of cleaning up and restoration, not to be dumped on yet again. |
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