NEW FENCE TO INCREASE KIDS' SAFETY EAGLE ROCK INCIDENT SPURS ACTION.Byline: John McCoy John McCoy may refer to:
LAKE 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. - Last week's Eagle Rock tragedy, when a 65-year-old woman lost control of her car and plowed into a group of youngsters, has led a Lake Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. to take proactive measures In antiterrorism, measures taken in the preventive stage of antiterrorism designed to harden targets and detect actions before they occur. . With $5,000 donated by the PTA PTA or parent-teacher association: see parent education. , officials of Vista San Gabriel San Gabriel (săn gā`brēəl), city (1990 pop. 37,120), Los Angeles co., SW Calif.; inc. 1913. Fabric, furniture, paper products, tools, and aircraft parts are manufactured. Elementary School elementary school: see school. are moving the area where parents drop off and pick up their children and installing a sturdy fence as a barrier at the new drop-off point. ``It's a horrible area to be dropping off and picking up children,'' said Principal Cathy Sorenson. ``It's just not a safe place.'' Sorenson identified the drop-off area for changes after becoming principal in September. She had intended for the work to be done while pupils were off on spring break, but decided to take action sooner after the Eagle Rock incident, which put six children into hospitals. Contractors' bids are being sought for the work while Wilsona School District maintenance men have begun excavation excavation In archaeology, the exposure, recording, and recovery of buried material remains. The techniques employed vary by the type of site, but all forms of archaeological excavation require great skill and careful preparation. , removing nine flowering plum trees, to reduce the cost. The PTA agreed in a unanimous vote to contribute $5,000, Sorenson said. The fence will run about 180 feet and be 4 feet high, made from nine-gauge heavy-duty chain-link fencing and piping instead of standard fence posts, said Ruben Perez, a district maintenance worker. The barrier will run the length of the Computer and Reading lab buildings, with an opening where teachers will assist children into their parents' cars. ``With over 100 preschoolers, you never know where they are going to dart,'' said Sorenson. About 700 kindergarten- through fifth-grade students attend Vista San Gabriel, while an additional 120 preschoolers are on the campus each day. Most youngsters take buses to school, but children from about 70 families arrive by car. At present, teachers lead pupils across the parking lot to the side of Avenue O, where parents are lined up in their cars to pick them up. The fence will seal off half of the parking lot, and a white line on the pavement will lead cars to the opening where teachers will assist children into cars. Sorenson expects that $5,000 might not be enough to complete the project, but hopes the PTA will chip in more to cover the cost. She expects the fence to be completed by the end of February. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Wilsona School District maintenance man Ruben Perez prepares the grounds at Vista San Gabriel Elementary School in Lake Los Angeles for the new fence. John McCoy/Staff Photographer |
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