GRANDVIEW CEMETERY TO OPEN TWICE MONTHLY.Byline: EUGENE TONG Staff Writer GLENDALE -- Weekly visiting hours visiting hours Noun, pl the times when visitors are allowed to see someone in a hospital or other institution: many prisoners' wives complain about the short visiting hours visiting hours at Grand View Memorial Park will be scaled back to just twice a month next year as city officials help find ways to salvage the insolvent INSOLVENT. This word has several meanings. It signifies a person whose estate is not sufficient to pay his debts. Civ. Code of Louisiana, art. 1980.. A person is also said to be insolvent, who is under a present inability to answer, in the ordinary course of business, the responsibility 121-year-old cemetery. The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to reduce hours rather than eliminate them altogether, despite questions over the city's commitment to a private business and the unresolved lawsuits trailing the facility's owners. ``I hate to be here in five, six, seven years continuing to pour money into this with no end in sight,'' Councilman Ara Najarian said. City Manager Jim Starbird said it might appear they are ``grabbing the tiger by the tail,'' but the community has been grateful. ``Our first concern are the victims of the situation,'' he said. Under the plan, Grand View will be open noon to 4 p.m. every Sunday until Jan. 15, excluding Dec. 24 and 31, before dropping to just two Sundays per month. It is expected to cost about $56,800, including $37,000 the city already spent when the visiting hours began in August. Officials will reassess reassess Verb to reconsider the value or importance of reassessment n Verb 1. reassess - revise or renew one's assessment reevaluate the situation in several months. The city stepped into the troubled cemetery when it brokered a deal with an owner to operate once-a-week visiting hours following public outcry over its closure. Grand View's problems began more than a year ago when the state suspended operation and charged late owner Marsha Lee Howard with mishandling thousands of remains and financial mismanagement Financial mismanagement is management that, deliberately or not, is handled in a way that can be characterised as "wrong, bad, careless, inefficient or incompetent" and that will reflect negatively upon the financial standing of a business or individual. . Though she was cleared of criminal charges, Howard and co-owner Moshe Goldsman were named in dozens of civil lawsuits, including a class action filed by those who own plots or have loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl buried there. Meanwhile, the suspension order forced the cemetery's closure over the summer when the owners ran out of money. And Howard's death earlier this month also complicated litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. . ``We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. who's going to get (Howard's ownership), how that person wants to approach it,'' said Paul Ayers, an attorney representing plaintiffs in the civil case. Despite the problems, Ayers believes Grand View can be rescued. ``This cemetery has good bones,'' he said. `` ... It's a true turn-of-the-century cemetery.'' eugene.tong@dailynews.com (818) 546-3304 |
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