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CV's Dai Dai McFadden reaches for a pass as Burbank defenders Miguel Juarez and Ulises Ochoa break up the play on Friday, October 2, 2009. (Roger Wilson/News-Press)
CV's Dai Dai McFadden reaches for a pass as Burbank defenders Miguel Juarez and Ulises Ochoa break up the play on Friday, October 2, 2009. (Roger Wilson/News-Press)
Our photographer went today to take photos of Glendale Police officers getting geared up and briefed for their noon shifts.
At the briefing, police said eight vehicle burglaries occurred overnight in the city.
Glendale detectives have been investigating the trend of vehicle burglaries, which have been steady throughout the year. And they are trying to determine a pattern among the burglaries, but haven’t had any luck.
The police department provided the following tips for residents to safeguard their vehicles from thieves.
Exiting a press conference this morning, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made sure to stop for a picture with a mother and her child.
Bodyguards initially gave the woman a cold shoulder, hurrying the guv down the ropeline presumably to get back to the Governor’s Global Climate Summit happening now in Century City.
But the guv put up a hand and stopped abruptly. He smiled at the women, pivoted and voila, there was a Kodak moment. 
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.
Gov. Swarzenegger came to the L.A. Union Station to support a push for stimulus funding for California’s proposed high-speed rail system, in Los Angeles, on Friday, October 2, 2009. Speaker Karen Bass and other officials were at hand.
Surrounded by high-powered officials and area leaders, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks to a packed room at the Los Angeles Union Station during press conference to announce a push for stimulus funding for California's proposed high-speed rail system, in Los Angeles, on Friday, October 2, 2009. The rail system would pass through Glendale and Burbank. Karen Bass, speaker of the California State Assembly, is at left and Eric Garcetti, L.A. City council president, is at right. (Raul Roa/News-Press)
Thursday Club members Jacquie Townsend, left, and Jody Platisa prepared pink ribbons in honor of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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.”
David Wilcox, Ernest Koeppen and Neal Millard speak at the LCUSD candidates forum on Oct. 1
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.
A little before 9:30 a.m. this morning, the lights went out with a loud POP! In an instant, everything went dark at the News-Press/Leader offices, even the phones. The phones going out surprised me, I’ll admit, since I thought the main reason to keep land lines was their stability — even in electrical outages.
After a couple of calls to Glendale Water & Power, we were able to determine the problem was a squirrel. Apparently, one of the cuter members of the rodent family got into a circuit at the corner of Maryland Avenue and Windsor Road.
It didn’t work out so well for the squirrel.
The outage affected a little more than 500 people in and around downtown, and power was restored at 9:44 a.m.
From the L.A. Times
The blaze above La Canada Flintridge on Sept. 2. The Station fire, the biggest in the county's history, has cost nearly $100 million to fight.
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.”
Click here for the full story.
The Glendale Police Department took a Glendale News-Press photographer on a helicopter ride for an aerial view of the the Station fire burn areas.
Burbank resident and Former Dodgers outfielder Willie Davis, 69, died this morning, police said.
Authorities continue to investigate and are waiting for the coroner’s report detailing cause of death, Burbank Police Sgt. Robert Quesada said.
Davis, who made his debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1960, was a speedy outfielder during his baseball career, with 20 [...]
From the Burbank Leader
A Burbank Unified School District teacher turned herself in Monday for having sex with a 14-year-old student from March to September last year, police said.
Amy Beck, 33, a sixth-grade teacher at Jordan Middle School, surrendered Monday afternoon to Burbank police with her lawyer, and was being held on $400,000 bail, Burbank Police [...]
From the Glendale News-Press
Three candidates vying to fill a vacant seat in the 43rd Assembly District faced off in a bilingual forum Sunday that featured perspectives on the state budget, the economy and the Armenian Genocide.
The Assembly hopefuls were non-confrontational while expressing their often starkly different takes on solving state challenges, with one calling [...]
From the Glendale News-Press
CITY HALL — The mayor of Topeka, Kansas, signed a proclamation renaming the city “Google” for the month of March. The mayor of Duluth, Minn., jumped into icy Lake Superior to proclaim his love for the Internet giant in a video posted on YouTube.
Glendale officials this week joined the fray — [...]
Soroptimist International of Glendale is welcoming colorful and innovative creations for its seventh annual Bras for a Cause fundraiser on April 10 at the Embassy Suites Hotel.
Participants can decorate a bra with this year’s theme in mind “Bras for a Cause Salutes Television, ” or create their own theme. The entry fee is $100 and [...]
A Noise Within surpassed the $10 million mark Sunday night in its capital campaign to raise $13.3 million for its new Pasadena theater, it was announced in a press release tonight by company Co-Founders/Co-Artistic Directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott. The goal was reached weeks before the groundbreaking, the duo added.
A board challenge, which matched [...]
Clouds opened up from time to time Saturday in La Crescenta. In La Cañada Flintridge, residents inspected the Mullally Debris Basin on Manistee Drive in the Paradise Valley neighborhood after a short but strong downpour with lightning and small hail.
Flitridge Prep High School played at home vs. Santa Paula High School at home Friday.
Lonnie Kauppila will likely generate a great deal of attention during his senior season with the Burbank High baseball team.
Having already signed with Stanford, college coaches are no longer hounding the senior shortstop. Instead, it’s the professional scouts who have been coming out of the woodwork to take a look at Kauppila.
“We have a lot [...]
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