SHERIFF'S STATION TOURS ON SATURDAY.Byline: JIM Jim Miss Watson’s runaway slave; Huck’s traveling companion. [Am. Lit.: Huckleberry Finn] See : Escape SKEEN Staff Writer PALMDALE -- People can tour the new $24 million Palmdale sheriff's station Saturday at its official grand opening. A grand opening ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. at the new station, located at 750 E. Ave. Q. The open house will follow at 10 a.m. with guided tours. Public parking will be in the south lot of the station, with entry off of Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling . Scheduled to be on hand for the event are Mayor Jim Ledford, 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. County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. , and station captain John Witt. The event is scheduled to include displays from the Sheriff's Department Special Enforcement Bureau, Arson/Explosives unit, the Aero Bureau, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Motors, and Search and Rescue. The 48,000-square-foot station is nearly four times the size of the old station, which was in leased space at a shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into at 10th Street West and Palmdale Boulevard. Deputies had operated out of the old station since 1992; before that, Palmdale deputies operated out of a joint Antelope Valley station in Lancaster. The new station contains a 7,800-square-foot jail, a 8,300-square-foot vehicle maintenance facility, and a heliport heliport, airport designed exclusively for helicopter traffic. . The station also has a 911 call center, so that Palmdale deputies will not have to rely on the Lancaster sheriff's station for those facilities. Deputies have been operating out of the new station for about a month. The Palmdale sheriff's staff now numbers about 250 sworn and civil-service employees, plus more than 150 volunteers, search-and-rescue personnel, reserve deputies and Explorers. The station was financed by Los Angeles County. The city provided the 11.5 acre site, valued at $1.3 million, for the station, and contributed about $1 million to widen streets and modify streetlights and traffic signals. james.skeen(at)dailynews (661) 267-5743 |
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