PARENTS WIN FIGHT FOR BRIDGE.Byline: Alicia Doyle Daily News Staff Writer Plans for a footbridge over the Arroyo Simi to link central Moorpark with Mountain Meadows Mountain Meadows, small valley in extreme SW Utah, where in 1857 a party of some 140 emigrants bound for California were massacred. It was a period when friction between Mormons and non-Mormons was acute, with Mormons bitterly resenting the coming of U.S. neighborhoods have been in the works since the mid-1980s. Although cooperation between public and private agencies was slow in developing, the need for the bridge became clear when 11-year-old Joel Burchfield was swept to his death in February while taking a shortcut (1) In Windows, a shortcut is an icon that points to a program or data file. Shortcuts can be placed on the desktop or stored in other folders, and double clicking a shortcut is the same as double clicking the original file. across the rain-swollen wash on his walk home from school. The brief walk across the arroyo at the end of Liberty Bell Road is inviting for children walking home from Chaparral Middle School Chaparral Middle School could refer to
n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. areas shave shave (shav) 1. to cut at or parallel to the surface of the skin. 2. to remove the beard or other body hair by such a process. 3. to cut thin slices from or to cut into thin slices. a mile off their trek by crossing the arroyo, a a 30-foot-wide concrete channel that provides access for county flood control trucks and emergency vehicles. Since Joel's death, officials have wrangled over land easements EASEMENTS, estates. An easement is defined to be a liberty privilege or advantage, which one man may have in the lands of another, without profit; it may arise by deed or prescription. Vide 1 Serg. & Rawle 298; 5 Barn. & Cr. 221; 3 Barn. & Cr. 339; 3 Bing. R. 118; 3 McCord, R. , property values and who needs to sign the dotted line so the project can move forward. The Moorpark City Council awarded a contract for the bridge this month. Officials expect construction to begin in January and be completed this summer. Moorpark Mayor Pat Hunter credited the tenacity of Laura and Dan Burchfield, Joel's parents, for moving the project forward. Since their son's death, the Burchfields have confronted all five City Council members about the slow pace of building the bridge. The couple has made dozens of follow-up calls and has faxed letters to executives for Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. Co. and the Ventura County Flood Control District. ``(Building) the bridge next year is due in large part to the commitment of the Burchfield family to seeing the project come through,'' Hunter said. ``They are really the ones responsible. The city owes a large amount of appreciation to the Burchfields for their aggressiveness. I admire them. They're really special people.'' The $600,000 bridge has been designed for bicyclists, pedestrians and horses. It will also accommodate emergency vehicles but will not be open to through traffic. The bridge will be built with a small neighborhood park planned for the end of Liberty Bell Road, near the Villa Campesina neighborhood, officials said. Earlier this month, city officials turned down a Westlake Village company's offer of a $300,000 temporary bridge. The time needed to dismantle dis·man·tle tr.v. dis·man·tled, dis·man·tling, dis·man·tles 1. a. To take apart; disassemble; tear down. b. the bridge, move it from Long Beach to Moorpark, and obtain necessary permits and easements outweighed the benefits, officials said. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , volunteers from the Moorpark Police Resource Center - who are already trained in emergency response - are teaming with volunteers from the community and local organizations to prevent children from crossing the creek to and from school, said Moorpark police Capt. Mike Lewis. The volunteers will guard the arroyo until a permanent bridge is built. When the bridge is done, Laura Burchfield will know her family's efforts weren't for nothing. ``This bridge will hopefully make a difference in other people's lives,'' she said. ``But it's unfortunate that we had to lose our child to make that difference.'' |
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