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FRIDAY • APRIL 28, 2017
TELLING THE TRUTH FOR 12 YEARS!
Carnage Continues On La Tuna Canyon Road Four people were killed in five months in Sunland-Tujunga as the city put the VisionZero program into effect. Safe Streets meetings continued with minimal response from the community. When the fourth fatality happened at the intersection of Marybell and Wentworth, the city went into action. A town hall meeting was called. Traffic engineers along LAPD officers and reps from the mayor’s office came to discuss La Tuna Canyon and their upcoming plans for modifying Foothill Blvd. and the bike lane. One witness to the Wentworth fatality accident on wrote to The Paper saying, “My reaction was essentially anger and frustration. I would
Arsonist On The Loose in Foothills
Firefighters use “jaws of life” to extricate trapped driver. have to say that the city is not responsible for any one particular crash or death no matter how bad it may be. This particular incident was not the city’s fault. No matter what we try to do, it’s still the driver’s responsibility to drive safely, even though it’s clear that
these sections of the road are unsafe.” This latest head-on accident on La Tuna Canyon was the result of someone driving at an unsafe speed and hitting two other vehicles head-on. Thankfully, there was no fatalities this time.
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Fire rigs line up to pump water to the top of the mountain. Last Friday was busy for The Paper staff. We rolled on five of seven fires that had been started in the Foothills region of L.A. The day started off with two fires being set on the westbound 210 just before and after the Sunland off-ramp.
The next fire was in Valley Circle. Returning, we covered the Wentworth fire, and just as darkness fell, the Big Tujunga Canyon fire. Please keep your eye out for any suspicious activity. Call 911 if you see anyone setting fires.
I N S I D E : May is Poppy Month Armenians March Poll Workers Women’s Auxiliary on Turkish Console Needed ................
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More than 100 people boarded buses at the Great Caesars Banquet Hall Monday.
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Community Help.................... 2 View from the Rock.............. 3 Movie Review...................... 4 Chef Randy........................... 5 Legion Post Calendar............. 7 Foothills Happenings............. 8 Crime Stats........................... 9 Take My Card..................... 11
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Joan Slater
In the spring of 1919, red poppies bloomed in
abundance in the battlefields of France where so many American soldiers had fallen see Poppies, page 4
David DeMullé
As people boarded the bus at Great Caesar’s Banquet Hall Monday, the atmosphere was festive, more like a large extended family getting together for a BBQ. Men, Women and children, some with homemade signs and others with T-shirts proclaiming “I DEMAND JUSTICE” peacefully boarded the bus to embark on a 1.4-mile march
that began at Pan Pacific Park and on to the Turkish Consulate on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. At the same time, a second march that was organized by the Unified Young Armenians, that they called a “March for Justice” to mark the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, began at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue in see Genocide, page 8
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