YOU CAN SHARE YOUR STORIES, CONCERNS.Byline: -- Mark Kellam Welcome to your latest edition of valleynews.com. It's hard to believe December is right around the corner. As 2007 approaches, we invite you to let us help you tell your stories, whether it's about your family, job, place of worship Noun 1. place of worship - any building where congregations gather for prayer house of God, house of prayer, house of worship bethel - a house of worship (especially one for sailors) or civic organization. Are you helping the less-fortunate during the holidays? Let us know about it with a story and photos. We'll share it with our readers. In today's edition on page 4, read about a luncheon honoring area legislators who have gone the extra mile to make child care a priority. Frequent valleynews.com user Pam Vetter has written a story about a restaurant that's been open in Van Nuys since 1955. Remarkably, one of the waitresses has worked there since it opened. Read about the Sherman Room on page 10. But you don't have to go out and cover a story to get involved with valleynews.com. You can express your opinions about issues that impact your community. One thing I'd like to sound off about is traffic in the canyons. Why is it that when there's an accident, traffic isn't rerouted to an alternate route An official alternate route is a bannered highway that provides an alternate alignment for a highway. Originally, the term for these routes was "optional"; but in 1959, the designation became alternate. ? On Nov. 15, there was an crash on Laurel Canyon Boulevard Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State Freeways (Interstate 5). , just south of Lookout Mountain Lookout Mountain, actually a plateau, is located at the northwest corner of Georgia, the northeast corner of Alabama, and along the southern border of Tennessee near Chattanooga. It is one of the southernmost ridge mountains of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians. Avenue. I go ``over the hill'' from West Hollywood West Hollywood A community of southern California northeast of Beverly Hills. It is mainly residential. Population: 36,600. to Woodland Hills every morning. On that day, traffic was backed up to Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades. on the northbound side. Fortunately, I knew how to get around the mess by switching to Mount Olympus Drive. When I got over the hill, traffic heading southbound was jammed all the way to Valley Village. Why didn't someone make a decision to re-route traffic rather than let those drivers and their passengers sit at a standstill for at least an hour? Let us know what you'd like to sound off about by posting it to valleynews.com. |
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