The Rotary Club of Sunland-Tujunga/Shadow Hills welcomes our community to
The Annual 4th of July Parade! Starting at 10 a.m. on Foothill and Mt. Gleason
Sabrina Godinez: President Roger Klemm: Secretary Michelle Ramage: Treasurer Wendell Bowers and Michael Lucas: Past Presidents
Celebrating Our Volunteers
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I hope everyone in Sunland/Tujunga & surrounding areas, come out to watch the best 4th of July parade in Los Angeles! Our theme this year is Celebrating Our Volunteers, because the Rotary Club really wants the community to have a chance to be appreciated, & to appreciate everyone in our area who volunteers their own time to help make our neighborhood great!
Sabrina Godinez President, Sunland-Tujunga and Shadow Hills Rotary
The Rotary Club of Sunland Tujunga & Shadow Hills is proud to acknowledge the importance of volunteers within our community. Academic teams, business teams, sports teams, and even civic teams which make up a very important part of our day-to-day lives. This year, we at the Rotary Club are pleased to have Riverwood Ranch resident Brian Schneider as our Grand Marshal. Working with Art Miner and dozens volunteers from the community, they organized the clean-up and removal of debris in the Big-T. Another volunteer is Gail Carlson who against all odds, got the DOT boxes in Sunland-Tujunga decorated by volunteers. We have had children’s dance classes, clean-ups of Foothill Blvd. and the working with neighbors to create a new form of Neighborhood Watch to protect our local businesses. It takes a village, and we have a wonderful one!
Meet Our Grand Marshal
I’d like to express my sincere thanks for the honor of being selected as the Grand Marshal of this year’s 4th of July Parade. We live in a truly beautiful part of LA in a community filled with dedicated and very active volunteers; I am just one of many who are equally deserving of this honor. The Facebook group Brian Schneider I founded in response to local crime, homelessness and quality of life issues has now grown to over 2,600 local residents. It’s called CD7 Open Letter. Last November, our letter to LAPD Chief Beck, Mayor Garcetti and Councilmember Fuentes was published in several newspapers and signed by hundreds of our members. It asked that specific actions be taken to combat increasing levels of crime, transiency and blight. We’ve been successful in removing homeless encampments, helping to place formerly homeless persons in housing and accept services, cleaning up blight and persuading our elected representatives to pay increased attention to the wishes of the community. As a result of our group’s efforts, transient related crime fell 50% along Foothill after the largest clean out in November 2015. We are working hard to improve our city for everyone and there is still a lot of work to do. I hope you will take a look at our group’s mission and consider joining us. The more of us that are speaking with one voice, the more effective we will be at making Sunland Tujunga an even better place to live. You can find us on Facebook at “CD7 Open Letter”.
Each and every year, as we celebrate the 4th of July, it is easy to forget that this uniquely American holiday represents so much more than barbecues, fireworks and going to the beach. It represents our triumphant battle against tyranny and the struggle to free ourselves from the control of others. In the 240 years since we first claimed our “unalienable right” to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” Americans have continued to declare our independence and to assert the principle of universal equality in so many ways. It might mean speaking out on behalf of those who are persecuted because of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. Or it might mean promoting the ideals of freedom and democracy at home and abroad. No matter how you look at it, this great nation is unlike any other. And by the same token, every man, woman and child who calls it home is also different. But let us remain united in our differences. Today, let’s commemorate the birth of the U.S. by reaffirming our commitment to freedom and equality for all. These are the basic principles that our country was founded upon, and as long as we strive to uphold those principles, we will never forget the true meaning of independence. Happy Birthday, America!
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INSIDE:
A Halibut Catch!
Local boys star in SyFy film
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Bob and Roberta Scheu recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Bob is from Oklahoma and resided in California to become a telephone man. Roberta is from Boston and came to visit her brother Tom who was attending USC. They met at a singles group at the Hollywood Church. On June 25, 1966, they were married in Hyde Park, Massachusetts (where Roberta’s family lived). They have lived in Tujunga for 50 years. They have three children: Linda Scheu Taylor with her husband, Bill; Tom Scheu; and Tim Scheu with his wife Tiffany. They have three
The Scheus on their wedding day. grandchildren: Jared Taylor and twins Janie and Braden Scheu. Bob is now retired from GTE and Roberta is retired see Scheus, page 2
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Sierra Perez with her 54.5-pound halibut. Sierra Perez, a long-time resident of Sunland, went deep-sea fishing on June 24 aboard the Mirage out of Ciscos Landing in Oxnard. The Mirage traveled to its des-
tination, Santa Rosa Island, one of the channel islands, and Sierra started fishing at 5:15 a.m. She hooked a fish that turned out to be a large see Halibut, page 2
Smoke from the Santa Barbara and the Azusa fires filled the Tujunga basin.
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News From Your Urgent Care Clinic
Itchy Insulation by
Sam Samalin, PA-C
Today we have a letter from a concerned reader and possible patient, and owing to patient-doctor confidentiality, I have left out the person’s name. Dear Doctor Sam, I’m concerned. I was working in the attic of my house and pulling wires through this pumped-in insulation. I didn’t start itching or coughing and my eyes didn’t get red until the next day. It’s now been a week and I’m still itching. Any suggestions? Dear Concerned: Without seeing a sample of the insulation, I’d suggest that you were probably exposed to a fiberglass based insulation. The first thing you should do when exposed to insulation is to take a cold shower because a hot shower opens up your pores and the glass fibers can enter and cause irritation. Although uncomfortable, the insulation isn’t dangerous (unless you inhale it) because your skin is constantly renewing itself and will expel any foreign particles. If the itching or the redness in your eyes continues, come over to Urgent Care or to your local doctor. Fiberglass is made of fibers of glass. When you inhale
Dr. Sam Samalin them into your lungs, they are not easily broken down by your body if at all. If you don’t like the idea of getting wood or metal particles in your lungs, then you shouldn’t inhale glass fibers either. For small amounts, you will be fine. You can wear a cheap dust mask to avoid this. The good news is that it does not cause cancer. It does case skin, eye and lung irritation. I have seen many patients over the years year’s and so far I have not noticed any continuing ill effects. If it is still itching, and then come in to Urgent Care or go see a doctor if it doesn’t go away. Fiberglass is probably not that good for you just like many other things you breathe in on a daily basis. I would recommend that next time you work in your attic you wear long sleeves, a dust mask and goggles.
Dr. Sam is a Physicians Assistant and is certified at the Urgent Care Clinic, 7204 Foothill Blvd. Scheus, from pg. 1 from Pinewood Ave. School. The couple enjoys square dancing and camping, and they have made several trips in their camper across the
Halibut, from pg. 1 halibut. Sierra fought the fish for 15 minutes before bringing it to the surface, where two deck hands used gaffs to bring it on deck. Perez’s halibut was the first fish caught that day and it also turned out to be the largest. Deck-hand Ryan explained to her that this fish might be a women’s world
United States to visit family in Oklahoma and Boston. Bob and Roberta were both involved at the Tujunga Little League as scorekeeper, ground skeeper and team mom. record and they would need to weigh it at the dock. When the boat returned to the dock, the halibut was hung on the scale where it was said to weigh 54.5 pounds. The previous women’s record was 42 pounds. Pending the approval of the International Game Fish Association (IGFA), Perez may have set a new women’s all-tackle world record for California halibut.
Tujunga Student Graduates Cate School Eunbie Coe of Tujunga, CA graduated Cate School on Sunday, May 28 — one of seventytwo members of the Class of 2016. She was inducted into the Cate School chapter of the Cum Laude Society and received her diploma with Honors. She received a Varsity Sports Senior Captain Award for Cross-Country and was named a Class Agent for the Class of 2016. She also received the Headmaster’s Cup to honor her service to the School. Coe will attend New York University in the fall. •••
Tujunga Student Named to Springfield College Dean’s List
Tujunga Student Receives Degree from Western New England U
Springfield College has named Zhaklin Shaumyan of Tujunga to the dean’s list for academic excellence for the spring 2016 term. Shaumyan is studying Human Services. Criteria for selection to the dean’s list requires that the student must have completed a minimum of 12 credit hours of graded coursework for the semester, the student must not have any incompletes in the designated semester, and the student must have a minimum semester grade point average of 3.500 for the semester.
Sofia Harutyunyan graduated Western New England University with a Doctor of Pharmacy on May 21. Western New England University is a private, independent, coeducational institution founded in 1919. Located in Springfield, Massachusetts, Western New England serves 3,955 students, including 2,575 full-time undergraduate students. Undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs are offered through Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering, Pharmacy, and the School of Law. •••
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The Pasadena POPs opened their 2016 season at the Arcadia Arboretum last Saturday night against a background of full throated peacocks. But nothing seems to daunt Michael Feinstein, ever. This first concert named the “First Ladies of Song: Judy Garland, Rosemary Clooney And Peggy Lee” all had a personal involvement with Feinstein as he grew up. Feinstein like Conductor Rachel Worby before him, is a walking encyclopedia of musical facts. And what he doesn’t remember, he probably has stashed away in one of his storage rooms. Soloists like Lynn Roberts appear to defy time. I thought I was doing pretty good at 74, but when Roberts announced that she just had her 81stbirthday, I was floored. Like Feinstein, nothing seemed possible to
The beautiful soloist Lynn Roberts tells her stories as she sings her songs. slow her down as she belted out a medley of Judy Garland songs. The season continues July
9th with Michael Cavanaugh performing the music of Billy Joel under the direction of conductor Larry Blank.
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The only unsullied event left in Sunland-Tujunga is the Rotary Club’s Annual 4th of July Parade. I find it really amazing how many people from all walks of life come out to mingle with their neighbors this one day of the year. Sure, we’ve had the Watermelon Festival, the Easter Sunrise Service, the Petting Zoo and even the WOWjam in Sunland Park. But the 4th of July Parade is OUR EVENT. It’s not sponsored by church groups or social clubs, but by members of the elite Sunland-Tujunga, Shadow Hills Rotary Club. Someone once said that our 4th of July Parade was like a mating of the Doo
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Dah Parade with Mayberry! And you know, I think whoever said that was right. This is the one time of year and the one place that everybody gets together to have funfun-fun! This year I think will be one of the best we’ve had in a long time. The motto this year is “Celebrating our Volunteers.” And boy, do we have a lot of them — and they do a lot of the things that get done behind the scenes. I’ve had the honor of working with the S-T Rotary Club even though I am a member of the CrescentaCanada club. But it doesn’t matter. What matters is that our friends and neighbors get a chance to let their hair
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R OCK down and march or drive or ride down Foothill Boulevard with thousands of people watching. This is the Rotary Club’s 33rd Annual 4th of July Parade. And that means that we’re going to have some pretty old people in it. I’m looking for a Rascal Brigade of senior citizens doing wheelies and burning
doughnuts going down the road. But what the heck — it’s time for everyone to get to know each other and have fun. Towards the end of the parade, the LAFD and the volunteer fire water-truck opens their valves and spray the kids (and adults who are brave enough) to get wet. And yes, you can officially say “It’s The Water!”
June 16, 2016 Jean Shiomoto, Director State of California Department of Motor Vehicles 2415 1st Ave., Mail Station F101 Sacramento, CA 95818-2606 Re: Equestrian Driver Safety
June 16, 2016
Dear Director Shiomoto: My constituents have brought a very important issue to my attention, which I believe requires intervention by your department. In my district, I enjoy the pleasure of representing a large equestrian community. The equestrian community uses the surrounding horse trails in my district, and also shares the road with vehicles. However, in the past several years, the equestrian community has suffered the loss or injury of their horses due to driver negligence and/or lack of driver knowledge regarding sharing the road with horses. In January, I convened a meeting between constituents and your Acting Deputy Director of Legislation, Patrick Barrett. During the meeting, ideas were discussed about ways to increase knowledge around this issue. The main focus of conversation was: 1) Mr. Barrett very open andthe informative about the process forequestrian including new information in Questions on the driver’s test about equestriThe driverwas handbook and lack of information about driver safety; 2) the handbook when it is updated, and provided reasons as to why certain questions are on the an driver safety; and 3) The possibility of displaying equestrian driver safety tips on monitors in the waiting area of DMV offices.
statewide test. In regards to equestrian driver safety tips being shown on monitors in DMV office waiting rooms, this issue needs to be explored further. Mr. Barrett mentioned that Mr. Barrett was open informative aboutprovide the process fortype(s) including new information in the handbook when it is updated, approval would bevery needed forand content as DMV offices different of information and provided reasons as to why certain questions are on the statewide test. In regards to equestrian driver safety tips being shown on their lobby monitors.
Jean Shiomoto, Director State of California Department o 2415 1st Ave., Mail Station F101 Sacramento, CA 95818-2606 Re: Equestrian Driver Safety
on monitors in DMV office waiting rooms, this issue needs to be explored further. Mr. Barrett mentioned that approval would be I respectfully ask you to add additional information in the DMV handbook, as well as several needed for content as DMV offices provide different type(s) of information on their lobby monitors. questions to the DMV statewide test, about equestrian driver safety. I look forward to hearing from you regarding my request. I have enclosed a packet that was made by my constituents
Iwhich respectfully you to add additional information in the DMV handbook, as well as several questions to the DMV statewide highlightsask their concerns. test, about equestrian driver safety. I look forward to hearing from you regarding my request. I have enclosed a packet that was Thank you in advance for your time and consideration of my request on behalf of my made by my constituents which highlights their concerns. constituents.
Thank you in advance for your time and consideration of my request on behalf of my constituents.
June 16, 2016
Sincerely,
Sincerely,
Dear Director Shiomoto:
My constituents have brought a intervention by your department
Jean Shiomoto, Director In my district, I enjoy the pleasur State of California Department ofequestrian Motor Vehicles community uses the s 39th District 2415 1st Ave., Mail Station F101with vehicles. However, in the p Enclosures Enclosures Cc: Patrick Barrett, Acting Deputy Director of Legislation Sacramento, CA 95818-2606 loss or injury of their horses due Vikki Brink, Committee Chairperson, City of Los Angeles Foothill Trails District Neighborhood Council Cc: Patrick Equestrian Barrett, Acting Deputy Director of Legislation Vikki Brink, Equestrian Committee Chairperson, City of Los Angeles Foothill Trails District sharing the road with horses. Neighborhood Council Re: Equestrian Driver Safety In January, I convened a meeting Legislation, Patrick Barrett. Duri knowledge around this issue. Th Dear Director Shiomoto: the lack of information about eq My constituents have brought a equestrian very important issue to my atten driver safety; and 3) T June 16, 2016 intervention by your department. monitors in the waiting area of D Patty López Patty López Assemblywoman, Assemblywoman, 39th District
Jean Shiomoto, Director In my district, I enjoy the pleasure of representing a large equestr State of California Department of Motor Vehiclesuses the surrounding horse trails in my dis equestrian community 2415 1st Ave., Mail Station F101 with vehicles. However, in the past several years, the equestrian Sacramento, CA 95818-2606 loss or injury of their horses due to driver negligence and/or lack sharing the road with horses. Re: Equestrian Driver Safety In January, I convened a meeting between constituents and your
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Local Twins Star in New SyFy Film, Sharknado 4 Attention All Veterans, Sons, Daughters and Wives of Veterans
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Imagine landing a leading role in a movie franchise that you’ve been a fan of. That’s exactly what happened to 9 year old identical twins Nicholas and Christopher Shone. Nick and Chris have loved the Sharknado movies since they first started in 2013 on the SyFy channel. Sharknado movies were family nights of fun and watching the unexpected. When the third movie ended last year, the boys saw the possibility of a new character for the fourth installment. Nick and Chris put it out to the universe that they wanted to be in Sharknado 4. This past February, the boys received an e-mail from their manager, April Mills, for an audition. They quickly realized that their SyFy dream could soon become a reality. Although the audition was under a different name, the boys quickly figured out that it was for Sharknado 4. Their audition went perfectly and they soon found themselves on the set fighting sharks with Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, and David Hasselhoff. They worked at different locations throughout the Los Angeles area including a green-screen SFX studio. The boys recently saw a sneak preview of the film at a recent Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR) session and are now anxiously
The Shone twins, Chris and Nick, with David Hasselhoff during the Sharnado 4 filming. waiting for their July 31 movie premiere at 8 p.m. on the SyFy channel. Acting is not new to Nick and Chris. Thanks to mom, Mary, acting is in their blood. The duo landed a leading role in the 2011 made-for-TV movie, The Heart of Christmas, and have appeared in a national commercial together. When asked what they enjoyed most about being in Sharknado 4, Chris enthusiastically replied, “I really
liked being on the set and acting. I love acting!” Equally enthusiastic, Nick said, “I loved acting in the movie and being on set with my brother.” You can follow the boys on Facebook: Nicholas and Christopher Shone; Twitter: @ShoneTwins; and Instagram: @shonetwins. They’re somewhat new to social media (which is closely watched by Mom and Dad), but would love to hear from you.
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Chef Randy’s Bread Pudding by
Chef Randy
The origin of bread pudding is uncertain. Cooks from many countries and cultures, not wanting to waste stale bread, invented many uses for it including pudding. Today’s bread pudding shares these humble roots and adds a few twists depending upon the cook. Some cooks make it with day-old donuts but I prefer day-old French bread. I also like to add apples, walnuts, and molasses to mine, and serve it with a tasty whiskey sauce. This can be served any time of the day. I especially enjoy it for breakfast. Whiskey Sauce Ingredients: 2 cups heavy cream ½ cup whole milk ½ cup sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch ¾ cup Jack Daniels whiskey Pinch of salt Bread Pudding Ingredients: ¼ cup unsalted butter 3 Granny Smith apples (peeled and diced) 1 ½ cups sugar (divided) 2 tablespoons molasses ¼ cup raisins ¼ cup walnuts (chopped) 1 teaspoon vanilla (divided) ½ teaspoon cinnamon
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Bread Pudding Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a casserole dish with cooking spray. Melt butter in sauce pan. Add apples, ¾ cup sugar, molasses, raisins, walnuts, ½ teaspoon of the vanilla and all of the cinnamon. Stir to incorporate, remove from heat and set aside. Lightly beat eggs in a bowl. Add milk, cream, the balance of the sugar and the balance of the vanilla. Add nutmeg and set aside. Place bread cubes in a large mixing bowl. Add apple and custard mixtures.
Sauce Directions: In a 1-quart saucepan set over medium heat, combine the cream, milk, and sugar. Place the cornstarch and ¼ cup of the whiskey in a small mixing bowl and whisk until blended. Pour this into the cream mixture and bring to a boil. Once the sauce begins to boil, reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Remove the sauce from the heat, add a pinch of salt and the remaining ½ cup of whiskey. Stir to combine and ladle over each piece of bread pudding before serving.
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Rejection will always be a part of the art world. If one wants to succeed, one needs acquire a thick skin. When you look to history, you find countless stories where artists; many who now hang in most prestigious museums and private collections, were at one time rejected; many other artists never find success in their lifetimes. This is a recurring litany; a grueling assignment to ask of any artist and the harshest of roads to travel. I understand not all would-be artists are meant to reach meteoric heights; some may indeed rightly be rejected for a multitude of reasons. If you believe in yourself and know that having the life of an artist is for you, see rejection as a badge of honor. You are in the company of many others who have overcome rejection and rose to show their work to the world. To succeed you must see rejection not as a hindrance but as an asset. See rejection in the same way you see your failures with the work you produce. Overcoming those who seek to thwart us as well as coming to grips with disappointment in ourselves is all part and parcel on the road to becoming an artist. An artist holds a mirror up to a society that often isn’t ready to accept the image reflected back. The best way to handle rejection is to embrace it; make it your own. Paint in public. Nothing eradicates fear of rejection faster than having others peering over your shoulder while you work.
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July 4th is Not So Pet-Friendly How to make July 4th safe for your pet
The Fourth of July is one of the most stressful and potentially dangerous times of the year for pets. While you and your family, friends, and neighbors are celebrating the holiday with fireworks, pets are finding these festive activities anything but celebratory. Many pet parents assume that if their pet is not afraid of thunder or other loud noises, they will not be bothered by fireworks. This is not necessarily true. Even pets who normally are not bothered by thunder and other loud noises are often frightened and panicked by the cumulative effects of the fireworks, the excited voices outside, and being left alone inside the house. If pets are left outside and unattended, the noise and raucous often drives them to run away. In fact, the July 4th holiday is a very busy time for animal shelters across the U.S. They report taking in a higher number dogs that run off during firework festivities. In addition, many police stations log higher volumes of stray dog calls and barking com-
plaints on July 4th compared to any other day of the year. By planning ahead and taking some common sense precautions, you can help ensure your pet is happy and safe this Fourth of July: 1. Do not take your pet to fireworks displays. 2. Do not leave your pet alone in the car during fireworks (or ever). With only hot air to breathe inside a car, your pet can suffer serious health effects even death in a few short minutes. Partially opened windows do not provide sufficient air, but they do provide an opportunity for your pet to be stolen. Leaving your pet alone in the car is never a good idea. However, if your pet is most comfortable in the car, some pet parents find that driving around with their pet in the car helps to calm their pet. 3. Keep your pets in your home in a comfortable and quiet area with the shades
drawn. If your pet is crate trained, then his crate is a great choice. Some animals can become destructive when frightened, so be sure that you’ve removed any items that your pet could destroy or that would be harmful to your pet if chewed. Leave a television or radio playing at normal volume to keep your pet company while you’re attending Fourth of July picnics, parades, and other celebrations. 4. Consult vet for anxiety relief. If you know that your pet is seriously distressed by loud noises like thunder, consult with your veterinarian before July 4th for ways to help alleviate the fear and anxiety he will experience during fireworks displays. 5. If your pet seeks comfort in a bath tub, under a bed or other small space...let him. Do not try to lure him out. If the space is safe and it makes him feel more secure, let him be. 6. Never leave pets outside unattended. Even in a fenced
yard or on a chain is not safe. In their fear, pets who normally wouldn’t leave the yard may escape and become lost, or become entangled in their chain, risking injury or death.
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S-T’s Stormy Neighborhood Watch Meeting by Jon von
Gunten
(NOTE: This meeting replaced our usual meeting that would have occurred Wednesday, June 21. That meeting will NOT occur.) TEARFUL TESTIMONIES. ANGRY OUTBURSTS. HANDCUFFED OFFICERS. How we can help ourselves against vagrant crime! What LAPD can do better! Ingredients at the Meeting: - 80+ residents fed up with assaults and intimidations by homeless - 10 LAPD brass, detectives and officers manacled by soft and fuzzy laws and lawsuits - Two psychs with explanations Stir up with audience reports of assaults, fights, threats, thefts, and fear of everincreasing homeless who are, themselves, fearless - Bring to boiling when women’s tears flow as they relate stories of no LAPD assistance (One woman told of very fast response time and help.) - Simmer with men’s irate remarks to LAPD - Hobble our willing LAPD officers by voter-approved laws and blown lawsuits. - Top with tales of *SOME* LAPD officers refusing to take crime reports, discouraging residents from filing reports, or refusing to arrest vagrants because law requires them to inventory shopping carts full of junk
ING. Per Capt. Eskridge and Off. Contreras, ask for their supervisor’s name and number. Go upstairs! It’s officers’ jobs to take reports on significant crimes. If no officer arrives, drive to Foothill Station and write it there. To phone in an anonymous report, call Foothill or your SLO and push for it. The more we file accurate crime reports, the more Foothill Division proves to the city our need for more officers! CALL, CALL, CALL LAPD: SAVE AND RELAY THESE NUMBERS! - 911 for crime in progress or ANY threat to human life or safety - Call Dispatch 877-ASKLAPD (877 275-5273)—or your SLO—for less urgent matters, e.g., nonviolent vagrant camped on sidewalk. - Your SLO for non-emergencies, suspicious or dicey people, excess noise, illegal parking, speeders. TUJUNGA SLO: Gloria Caloca: (818) 634-0754, 35755@lapd.lacity.org SUNLAND SLO: Cesar Contreras: (818) 634-0705; 36373@lapd.lacity.org - OTHER NON-EMERGENCIES: 877-ASK-LAPD (877-275-5273) - GANGS-DRUGS: Lt. Carlos Solano: 818-897-6081, 26339@lapd.lacity.org - NARCOTICS, Det. Travis Coyle, 818-834-3136, 33128@lapd.lacity.org - TRAFFIC ISSUES: Officer Joel Flores (818) 644-8142 - FOOTHILL STATION: 818756-8861, only for admin and follow-up
WHAT WE CAN STILL DO!! And PLEASE Send This to Discouraged Neighbors and WHAT CAN LAPD DO Friends! BETTER? - DON’T DIVE INTO We DO appreciate your APATHY and inaction! That work! Some could do better means they win. Keep calling, at SHOWING residents by nudging, objecting, emailing their ACTIONS they’re on and complaining to your may- our side! Urge and require or, our councilperson (current fellow officers to actively and upcoming), LAPD brass solicit and take reports of evand your SLO. Do NOT listen ery substantial crime. URGE to “It’s so much worse down fellow officers to arrest in ____.” whenever possible, especially - DO NOT GET PHYSICAL repeat offenders; don’t just or take the law into your taxi them back to the Wash. own hands. Your life—and Believe your residents more finances—change forever than the habitual liars who are downward if you start fights criminals. Don’t tell residents or violence toward anyone. “It’s much worse in ____!” Find ways to abbreviate your - REPORT *E*V*E*R*Y* tedious work in inventorying SUBSTANTIAL CRIME! vagrants’ junk. Stay safe If/when an officer arrives, and on your guard against INSIST s/he take a report. If criminals! they will not write one, or argue or find reasons not to, BOTTOM LINE KEEP POLITELY INSISTLAPD and we live in a
stranglehold created by Prop. 47, AB 109, new soft-ondrugs laws, and a string of softhearted (but profitable to trial lawyers) lawsuits that rot society, encourage criminals, reduce our safety, and recruit kids into drugs and crime. Without proof, LAPD LAPD officers discuss community concerns cannot arrest a person after with an unhappy audience. a minor assault because it soon drops into a “you-say/ speed arrests and paperwork they-say” dispute. They MAY MANY mental health criteria and experts must intersect A way to guarantee and be arrested after a report and before an officer can invoke expedite police reports get later investigation. TheoretiLaura’s Law to put a mental filed; e.g., a web site cally, you can tell the offender case into a “5150”—an in- Better enforcement against you are executing a “Private voluntary 72-hour psychiatric legal and illegal marijuana Persons Arrest.” But you hold: Only adult children, shops cannot restrain or lay hands parents, law-enforcement Restraining orders MAY be on him/her. officers and a few others useful against repeat offend LAPD’s “HOPE Team” can open a case. The person ers The Homeless Outreach must be 18+ and present a Psychiatric Evaluations team serious mental health problem, Do the math: doesn’t respond to radio calls have a history of treatment Many dissatisfactions with and rarely do enforcement noncompliance, be unlikely LAPD trace back to too few except for open felony warto survive without help, have officers on our streets. Budget rants. They work in schools two mental health episodes to put more officers on our and parks, reaching out to within 3 years, and be likely streets is handed out proporLAPD’s Mental Evaluation to benefit from a subsequent tionally to the need. The more Unit (MEU), the VA, and Los outpatient program. It has we file honest reports on Angeles Homeless Services been successful with 3 local substantial crimes, the more Authority (LAHSA) for the people. we tell the City, “We need homeless’ quality of life more officers!” The more we issues, cleanups and sanitaAudience members also fail to file, the more we’re tion. They have done several voiced these needs: telling the City our need is cleanups in S-T recently. - An LAPD station in S-T will smaller than it is. Laura’s Law Is Little Help
NOTICE TO CONSUMERS: The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 ensures that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use cannabis for medical purposes where medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person’s health would benefit from the use of medical cannabis. Recommendations must come from an attending physician as defined in Section 11362.7 of the Health and Safety Code. Cannabis is a Schedule I drug according to the federal Controlled Substances Act. Activity related to cannabis use is subject to federal prosecution, regardless of the protections provided by state law.
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Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council The Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council (STNC) was certified by the City of Los Angeles in 2003 as an official neighborhood council. Since that time the STNC has held four elections where board members have been elected by the community to serve in an advisory capacity with the City of Los Angeles. The STNC board consists of 21 members that meet once a month on the second Wednesday at the S-T Elks Lodge. In addition, various other committees include board and community members ·who work on projects and interests to better our community including safety and emergency preparedness, budget, bylaws, arts and culture and outreach. The most recognized committee in Sunland-Tujunga is the STNC’s Design Advisory Committee (DAC). This all-volunteer committee consists of STNC board and community stakeholders who review land use proposals for development along the Foothill Boulevard Corridor and throughout Sunland-Tujunga. Currently, the committee is involved in the future of the Commerce Center, Verdugo Hills Golf Course, the Big Tujunga Canyon wash and the construction site at Oro Vista and Big Tujunga Canyon, just to name a few. YOU, as an STNC stakeholder, may be elected to the board, attend the public meetings to gain information, hear diverse opinions, express concerns, present potential solutions and ideas to the STNC Board of Directors, who are empowered to take appropriate advisory action. Visit the STNC web site at www.stnc.org or call 951-7411 to catch up on STNC involvement with the City, S-T ·news and information. Come out and get involved on how you can improve your neighborhood. STNC is “Your Council, Your Voice, Your Neighborhood.”
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