EDITORIAL VALLEY PRIDE SAY IT LOUD: WE'RE VALS AND PROUD OF IT!THERE'S a lot to be proud of 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. these days. Not that there ever wasn't, but it was sometimes hard to tell with all the neglect from the rest of the city. Indeed, the Valley has been the historic victim of the bad habits of generations of city leaders who used us as a trash can In the Macintosh, a simulated garbage can used for deleting files and folders. The trash can keeps the files intact in case the user wants to restore them, but can be "emptied" from time to time to save disk space. . Things sure have started to change. The Orange Line busway will open Saturday - the first major public transportation project in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. since the Red Line subway that barely gets to the Valley. The sensible and attractive 14-mile east-west busway has generated excitement from North Hollywood to Warner Center. Meanwhile, the $43 million Los Angeles Children's Museum has broken ground at Hansen Dam, and will be the very first major museum located in the Valley. The 57,000-square-foot center's exhibits were designed by Edwin Schlossberg, and the site promises to be architecturally important and innovative. Once the new performing arts center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , opens in 2010, there won't be a corner of the Valley without some cultural attraction. Throw in the just-opened Air Force One exhibit at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley (a spiritual, if not geographic, extension of the Valley), and we've got the start of a cultural revolution. There's plenty else to be proud of in this vast region, from the revitalized Van Nuys Boulevard and Valley City Hall to the three city college campuses that each grow and innovate to fit their students' needs. But these larger projects bring more than the local attention. Residents have always understood the appeal of living on the north side of the Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. Geography They run for approximately 40 mi (64 km) east-west from the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles to Point Mugu in Ventura County. ; now others are recognizing it as well. This is a credit to the years of hard work by Valley residents to make their local elected officials and City Hall treat the community with the respect it deserves. The achievements are real signs of progress, but a lot of work remains to be done. The community ought to be encouraged by what's going on What's Going On is a record by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. Released on May 21, 1971 (see 1971 in music), What's Going On reflected the beginning of a new trend in soul music. and energized to get better organized to provide the Valley with its fair share of police and other city services. It's a good time to be a Val, and it will get even better if more people get involved. |
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