POBLADORES' PARADE WILL KICK OFF CITY'S BIRTHDAY BASH.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services The city of Los Angeles
The 200 descendants and 150 others will lead a procession from the 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. Mission to Olvera Street. The 9 a.m. nine-mile march symbolizes the founding of the city, when Spanish missionaries brought a band of natives from Mexico to the city in 1781. The procession will be followed by a daylong festival, which will feature re-enactments of pivotal moments in the city's history, the grand reopening of the Plaza Firehouse Museum, cake, artisan demonstrations and exhibits. The museum has been closed for the past year for earthquake safety improvements. Festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. begin at 9:30 a.m. and will wrap up at 6 p.m. Other holiday events include a Labor Day Canoe Challenge on the Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River is an intermittent river flowing through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the west end of the San Fernando Valley, 51 miles (82 km) southeast to its mouth in Long Beach. . Hundreds of people are expected to converge at the Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area to watch the race. 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. Interfaith Council will host a Labor Day Service at 5 p.m. today at Our Lady of Lourdes The apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes began when Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year old peasant girl from Lourdes, when questioned by her mother, admitted that she had seen a "lady" in the cave of Massabielle, about a mile from the town, on 11 February, 1858, while she was gathering Catholic Church, 18400 Kinzie St. in Northridge. Assemblyman Richard Katz, D-Panorama City, will deliver the keynote address and folk singer Fred Starner will perform. On Saturday and Sunday from beach sojourns to chili cook-offs and backyard pools, Southern Californians flipped burgers, Frisbees or basked in sunshine. Beach parking lots along Pacific Coast Highway Pacific Coast Highway may refer to:
Some 40,000 people turned out Sunday for the Abbott Kinney Street Festival in Venice, which featured 300 vendors, 14 bands, food and local crafts. Abbott Kinney Street, which was closed for the festival, is a main artery between the communities of Santa Monica and Venice. The Venice band, Horny horn·y adj. 1. Made of horn or a similar substance. 2. Tough and calloused, as of skin. Toad, performed at the street fair for a hometown crowd. ``We love playing festivals and the fact that this one is literally in our back yard is extra special for us,'' said Horny Toad vocalist Kid Caviar. ``It's such a big, fun party.'' Skies were clear in Malibu, but much of the Ventura County coast was shrouded in a pea-soup fog that brought a refreshing end to a hot weather spell. Unusually high mid-80 temperatures were reported earlier in the week along the coast. ``The crowd is here, but it's not the weather they expected,'' Ventura Harbor patrol officer David Glaser said. |
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