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He shook hands with the mother and continued down the ropeline flanked by bodyguards Assembly Speaker Karen Bass and Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti.
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The La Cañada Thursday Club will recognize October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month with an event titled "Come Together for the Cure," which will take place at 1 p.m. Oct. 15 at the club's headquarters, at 4440 Woodleigh Lane in La Cañada. Laura Ziskin, a movie and television producer, and Rusty Robertson, a prominent marketing executive, will both speak.
Thursday Club President Judy Cooper, herself a breast cancer survivor, said the purpose of the event is to "bring women of the community together in one place, at one time, for the same purpose - to put an end to braest cancer once and for all."
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Budget, charter school status and STEP were the buzz words at the La Cañada Unified School District Governing Board candidates forum on Thursday night. Three of the six candidates, challengers Neal Millard, David Wilcox and Ernest Koeppen, participated in the question and answer session which drew approximately three dozen La Cañadans to the La Cañada Flintridge Community Center.
Absent were incumbents Susan Boyd, Joel Petersen and Scott Tracy, but that didn't stop the competition from taking digs at the current board's performance.
Wilcox riled against the Student Teacher Enrichment Program, or STEP, suggesting that the acronym should stand for "Simply Terrible Education Program."
Millard, a lawyer and financier who serves on the board of the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools, a top-performing charter management organization in Los Angeles, said if elected he would push the district to seek out creative sources of funding.
"We spent many, many hours working with foundations, working with government agencies to get money to the schools," Millard said of his work with Alliance. "This is important because I don't think La Cañada Unified has done that."
Koeppen said he feels that the district should be tougher on demanding high teacher performance. External evaluations, he said, can serve as an invaluable tool to determine which teachers are effective and which are falling short of the mark.
"It is highly important that our kids, and us, as parents, have some input," Koeppen said. "It is terribly important that we know what our kids think of the class."
A second candidates forum is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 6 at La Cañada High School. All six candidates have confirmed they will attend.
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Three weeks before the deadly Station fire erupted, the U.S. Forest Service issued a cost-cutting order to reduce its use of state and local firefighters, documents and interviews show.
Reinforcements from Los Angeles County were scaled back early in the battle against the fire in the Angeles National Forest, and federal officials now say they are investigating the actions that allowed the blaze to rage out of control.
An internal memorandum obtained by The Times instructed forest supervisors in the Pacific Southwest region to, "as appropriate," replace non-federal crews with the service's own personnel and equipment "as quickly as possible."
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A live grenade was found at GCC Garfield campus on Thursday. Click on photo for a gallery. [caption id="attachment_20908" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Crowds were evacuated after a live granade was found by construction workers at the Glendale Community College Garfield Campus construction site on Thursday, September 2, 2010. (Raul Roa/News-Press)"][/caption]
Menagerie: The Art of Animals exhibit at Forest Lawn Glendale [caption id="attachment_20898" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Andreas Deja's wire sculpture of a frog is part of the Glendale Forest Lawn Museum exhibit "Menagerie: The Art of Animals," in Glendale on Thursday, September 2, 2010. (Raul Roa/News-Press)"][/caption]
[caption id="attachment_20904" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A member of the L.A. County Bomb Squad prepares to detonate a live grenade that was found by construction workers at the Glendale Community College Garfield Campus construction site. (Raul Roa/News-Press)"][/caption] [Updated 2:54 p.m. Bomb squad officers have detonated the grenade device in a pit covered with sandbags. No injuries were [...]
From the Glendale News-Press Rachel Keown has gone from rookie to record-holder. The newly-minted motorcycle racer, who works at Harley-Davidson of Glendale, broke the speed record for a 1,000 cc motorcycle this week at the BUB Racing Inc. Motorcycle Speed Trials at Bonneville Salt Flats outside Salt Lake City. The final results won’t become official [...]
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From the Glendale News-Press GLENDALE — A Glendale man who was stabbed last week after a road-rage incident was recovering from his injuries at home Tuesday, police said. The man was released Saturday from a local hospital after having sustained a stab wound that sliced his liver, Glendale Police Det. Keith Soboleski said. “He is [...]
Two hikers were rescued by helicopter Sunday night after reporting they got lost while trekking the Verdugo Mountains, police said. They called emergency dispatchers for help, but the calls kept disconnecting, police said. A helicopter was dispatched about 11 p.m. to the area to look for the hikers, who were severely dehydrated. The helicopter crew [...]
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