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[Updated 2:54 p.m. Bomb squad officers have detonated the grenade device in a pit covered with sandbags. No injuries were reported. Officials evacuated the surrounding area hours ago.
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[Updated 2:27 p.m. Authorities have evacuated the Glendale Community College satellite campus on Garfield Avenue as they prepare to detonate a grenade-type device that was excavated by construction crews earlier today.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's bomb squad officials will bury the device in a hole and cover it with sandbags before setting it off, probably within the next hour.
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Authorities have evacuated the Glendale Community College satellite campus on Garfield Avenue to investigate what appears to be a grenade that was unearthed by construction crews.
Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said it was unclear if the device was a replica or real.
Meanwhile, about 450 students and 50 college instructors and staff have been evacuated from the campus, as well as a daycare center and nearby residential buildings.
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's bomb squad is investigating the scene.
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From the Glendale News-Press
SOUTH GLENDALE — Shortly after noon on Thursday, Glendale resident Jermin Tulgar carefully sorted through several bags of groceries as she sat in a front office of Salvation Army Glendale.
Within each bag she found a variety of food products, including bread, cereal, granola bars and a sampling of canned soups, sauces and vegetables.
A regular client of the Salvation Army's food pantry, Tulgar is one of nearly 300,000 Los Angeles County residents who receive monthly food assistance, according to a report released Thursday by the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank.
From April to June, an average 284,131 people were served each month by one of the 500 Los Angeles County food pantries, which are in turn served by the regional food bank.
That's an increase of about 20% compared to the same period last year, and a nearly 50% increase over two years, officials said.
... Continue Reading: Local food pantries see higher demand
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From the Glendale News-Press
GLENDALE — State legislators this week approved a bill to release millions in one-time federal stimulus funds to Glendale and Burbank school districts, but local officials said nothing would change until the money was in the bank.
But school board members and staff in both cities said their fiscal challenges and positions won't change until the federal dollars are physically or electronically transferred out of Sacramento.
"Yes it's on track and our staff and our team has been very aggressive with this and putting this into our mindset," said Greg Krikorian, president of the Glendale Unified school board. "The important factor here is, until the money's in our bank, we have no clue, and it's a very volatile situation right now."
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From the Glendale News-Press
SOUTH GLENDALE — Los Angeles County Sheriff's bomb investigators on Thursday safely detonated a live Vietnam-era grenade that was unearthed by construction crews at a Garfield Avenue satellite campus for Glendale Community College.
The discovery prompted Glendale police to evacuate the entire campus and several nearby residential buildings before bomb investigators placed the grenade in a hole in the ground, covered it with several 25- to 35-pound sandbags and detonated it.
As construction workers and residents watched from afar, the detonation set off an ear-shattering noise and a small cloud of dirt.
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