FLOWERS WILL BE HERE, LILAC FESTIVAL WON'T.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - For the third year in a row, Palmdale's Lilac Festival Lilac Festival is the name of various festivals which celebrate the Lilac (Syringa). Canada
It was nixed the past two years by a lack of flowers. This year the culprit is the remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure. bone remodeling of the Palmdale Cultural Center. ``Unfortunately we have to cancel again,'' said Wayne Hoffmeyer, lilac committee first vice president. Ironically, this spring seems to be shaping up for a decent lilac season, for the first time since El Nino departed in 1998. The intervening years were too dry, beset by sudden cold snaps or other weather quirks. ``In another two or three weeks, we'll have a fairly healthy crop of lilacs,'' Hoffmeyer said. The lilac festival began humbly in 1947 with displays of lilac blossoms in the window of Palmdale grocer Gil Morse's one-man market. After Palmdale's incorporation in 1962, the lilac was adopted as the city's official flower at the urging of Domenic Massari, the city's second mayor. In recent years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time festival typically attracted more than 2,000 visitors over the two-day run in the first weekend of April at the Palmdale Cultural Center. Before the string of cancellations that started in 1999, the festival had been canceled once before, in 1994, when the damage to the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. from the Northridge Earthquake The Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, 1994 at 4:31 AM Pacific Standard Time in the city of Los Angeles, California. The earthquake had a "strong" moment magnitude of 6. would have made it difficult for visitors to come from elsewhere in 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, . Hoffmeyer said he worried that the Cultural Center remodeling job won't be finished for the 2002 lilac festival, but was assured by the city that it will be ready in time. |
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