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The S-T Chamber got themselves invited to a selfserving Los Angeles function and this group photo. The good thing about this photo is that it shows the immoral, unethical and corrupt Cleghorn machine as also being officers of the bankrupt chamber of You’re a moving target on Foothill Boulevard. commerce. Cindy Cleghorn, who normally works behind by David DeMullé of her at the intersection of the scenes to destroy local Foothill Blvd. and Tujunga businesses, has teamed up A traffic fatality occurred Canyon Place. She was ridon Foothill Boulevard last ing alongside her husband on with the latest chamber pawn, Mike Moncreiff. To quote Tuesday. another motorcycle who was one of the chambers officers Kathleen Yukl, an active not injured. “I see it’s back to business member of the La Crescenta The collision happened as usual. The mixer is at Presbyterian Church and a about 8 a.m. The early the ST Chamber President’s resident of La Crescenta, was morning sun may have been riding her motorbike with her a contributing factor. Foothill business. I thought we elected a new board in order to have husband when she struck a Boulevard has become more a new order and a new way of minivan that pulled in front dangerous each day.
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Third-Grader Creates Computer Game for School
These are the chamber members who are destroying our community. things. Very disappointed in this revelation. By the way... I resigned from my post of 1st Vice President over just this kind of behavior.”
The chamber refuses to give anyone a copy of their current board members or membership. see Whorrors, page 9
Horse Rescue in Little-T Canyon
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Rescued horse revives.
Third Grader David Tang shows that computers are kids’ play! by
David DeMullé
When David Tang, 9, a third-grade student from Apperson Street Elementary School in Sunland, was assigned an animal project report, his teacher, Mrs.
Harris, couldn’t imagine that the gifted student would also create a computer game in the style of the TV game show “Jeopardy” to teach the other students about sea otters.
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David DeMullé
A dramatic horse rescue was performed las Saturday near Little Tujunga Canyon Road in Lake View Terrace. Emergency crews from the see Game, page 9 both the Los Angeles and
L.A. County fire departments were on hand to carry out the operation. The rescue required the efforts of county fire camp crews to clear away the heavy brush so that the see Horse, page 9
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News From Your Annual 50s Family Fun Urgent Care Clinic Night at Sunland Elementary
Brown Recluse Spider Bites by
Sam Samalin, PA-C
We have had a few patients come in that had been bitten by the brown recluse spiders. The spiders are between one and one and one-half inches long and are poisonous. They have a dark brown, violin-shaped mark on their upper body and light brown legs and are poisonous. Their lower body may be dark brown, tan, yellow, or greenish. They also have 3 pairs of eyes, instead of the usual 4 pairs other spiders have. If you or someone you are with is bitten, call 911. Or, go straight to the nearest hospital emergency room. When the spider bites you, you may feel a sharp sting or nothing at all. Pain usually develops within the first several hours after being bitten, and may become severe. Children may have more serious reactions. Symptoms may include chills, itching, fever, nausea, sweating and a reddish or purplish color sore in the area of the bite. If bitten, wash the area with soap and water. Wrap ice in a clean cloth and place it on the bite area. Leave it on for 10 minutes and then off for 10 minutes. Repeat this process and call 911 Before calling emergency
Dr. Sam. services, have this information ready: person’s age, weight, condition, body part affected and the time the bite occurred. Take the person to the emergency room for treatment. The bite may not look serious, but it can take some time to become severe. Treatment is important to reduce complications. If possible, place the spider in a secure container and bring it to the emergency room for identification. The brown recluse spider bite can leave a large sore in the skin and ugly scarring. The person may need surgery weeks later to improve the appearance of the scar. Our clinic cannot take care of this type of injury and if bitten you should call 911 or go immediately to a hospital emergency room for treatment.
Dr. Sam is a Physicians Assistant and is certified at the Urgent Care Clinic, 7204 Foothill Blvd.
Ranch Side Cafe Suffers Break-in
The Ranch Side cafe in Lake View Terrace was broken into for the second time sometime around 4 a.m. Friday morning. The surveillance video shows two men whose features were covered by gloves, hoodies and masks. Cafe co-owner Zenashe Bayou said, “The money taken was not much, but the broken glass and the inconvenience of having to get the door fixed was a problem.”
This is the school’s seventh year bringing together the school community while raising money for the classrooms. This is open to the whole community. The event will have food trucks, provided by Pena’s Tacos and B&R Burgers, 50s music, snow cones, popcorn, root beer floats, nachos, cotton candy and so
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Well, boys and girls, this coming neighborhood council election will be the craziest that we’ve ever had. The community is polarized and if the candidates could be seen from space, it’d look like an “ant colony” here in the vortex. Alliances are being made and broken, candidates’ feelings are getting hurt and for the first time in S-T history, the truth is out there for everybody to see. The Cleghorn machine is breaking up and people are starting to think for themselves. Yes, it’s going to be interesting. And what will make it the most interesting is the fact that one side is made up of rednecks and the other side Armenians. For the most part, the rednecks are pretty scattered and relying on the machine to guide their efforts. The Armenian “slate,” on the other hand, is well organized, comprised of educated people and seem to be able to work together to create an effective neighborhood council.
I have to chuckle — maybe even chortle — when I hear the machine’s people saying with all sincerity, “They don’t have any experience; how can they hope to run the council?” Thank God for them having no experience. The machine’s “experienced” minions have stolen city money, given out bogus awards and spent most of their budget on temp employees and over-priced toys for their own use. These same “experienced” people destroyed the CERTSERV programs, ruined the Winter Festival, siphoned off city funds to their friends and above all, pissed off the CD-7 councilman so much that he kicked them out of the North Valley City Hall. Yup, that is what “experience” can do for you. Add to that the fact that our prima donna, super whoop-de-do council officer Cindy Cleghorn has been discovered to be calling city enforcement on those people and companies that she feels slighted her.
Yes, boys and girls, if Wikipedia ever has a category for a “Redneck Despot,” we got one right here. Small business, homeless and community activists that upset her were summarily driven out of town. So now it’s time for change. As one wag once said, “The council is broken; either fix it or scrap it.” I think you can fix it by voting for these candidates: Arnie Abramyan – President Angel Angel – 1st VP Anthony Rodriguez – 2nd VP Aris Hovasapian – Secretary Shooshig Susan Avakian – Treasurer Pat Kramer & Kathy Anthony – Region 1 Representative Kathrine Juarez & Adrineh Betcheri – Region 2 Reps
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The March 3 meeting of the La Cañada Flintridge Orthopaedic Guild (LCFOG) was held at the home of Linda Labrie, guild sustainer. MaryLou Morrison, sustainer, was in attendance also. Luncheon was provided by Labrie and longtime member Elinor Bunn who also acted a co-hostess. Bunn joined LCFOG in 1966 and served as president in 1978. She has held several positions while in the guild and continues to be a very active member. She has volunteered more than 4,000 hours at Orthopaedic Hospital now Orthopaedic Institute for Children (OIC) where more than 60,000 children are treated every year in their various clinics. For her gracious devotion to LCFOG over the past 50 years, she was presented with red roses as a small token of appreciation by past president, Marie Baker. Maria Gero was also officially recognized as a full member having completed her provisional period and was presented with a plant by Marie Gilhooly. OIC’s Annual Volunteer Recognition Ceremony will be held April 25 in conjunction with the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Ambulatory
La Canada Flintridge Orthopaedic Guild’s recording secretary Marie Gilhooly with new guild member Maria Gero. Surgery Center (ASC) on OIC’s downtown campus. Joan Cleven, president, will present the guild’s check for $21,000 to OIC at that ceremony. Members of LCFOG will be recognized for their service on that day also. The first surgery at ASC, currently the only stand-alone outpatient surgery center in Los Angeles County dedicated exclusively to pediatric orthopaedic care, is scheduled for May 9 and will be performed by Dr. Mauricio Silva, the medical director. Mary Beth Perrine, senior director, community outreach and liaison to LCFOG reported the gala, “Stand for Kids,” will be held on 20th Century Fox Studios’ lot on June 18 to top off OIC’s fund-raising efforts for the
ASC. America Ferrara has been signed as Mistress of Ceremonies. More information will be available to LCFOG members as the date approaches. Perrine told of a young man who sustained a basketball injury to his knee and being in severe pain was taken to a doctor who sent him to a local facility for treatment. The knee was stabilized but not treated secondary to the fact that the patient was under-insured. Fortunately the family learned of OIC and the child was seen by Dr. Anthony Scaduto who diagnosed a knee fracture and compartment syndrome, a limb- and life-threatening situation. Surgery was performed at the OIC–UCLA center in Santa see VHWC, page ?
Movie Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane by
Bob Garver
The new horror movie, “10 Cloverfield Lane,” has been billed as a “spiritual successor” to 2008’s “Cloverfield.” This is an infuriating term that conjures up images of either a glorified remake or an unrelated film trying to cash in on the “Cloverfield” name. To be fair, it does somewhat fall into the latter category. From that perspective, it probably brings to mind “Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2,” also a barelyrelated steady-cam successor to a shaky-cam original. This movie is better than “Book of Shadows,” but that’s not much of an achievement. What is an achievement is that it’s better than “Cloverfield.” Gone is the grand scale of “Cloverfield.” You won’t see the decapitated heads of any national landmarks roll-
ing down the middle of a busy street here. Instead we get an underground bunker in rural Louisiana populated by three people. Howard (John Goodman) is the owner and master of the shelter. Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.) is a well-meaning neighbor who forced himself inside at the last minute. And Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is a young woman fleeing from her boyfriend who got in a car accident near the shelter. Howard pulled her from the wreckage and brought her to the bunker right before an attack on the planet left the surface uninhabitable. As outlandish as it sounds, there’s evidence to back Howard up, not the least of which is confirmation from Emmett and affected animals visibly rotting outside. But Howard’s a hard guy to trust. He may be a survival expert, but
he could do with some lessons in tact. He doesn’t have a clue how to be sensitive and reassuring to the scared Michelle, whose head is swimming with questions and who woke up chained in an unfamiliar setting (for her own good, according to him). Pretty much the best he can do is soften his voice to a whine, see Cloverfield, page 9
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Lemongrass Tofu by
Chef Randy
Lemongrass is grown on a commercial scale in Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and China and may be found at your local market. Ask your grocer if you don’t see it. A typical piece of lemongrass would be about 8 inches long with a slight bulge towards the end. Its color is pale green with slight brownish (or brownish pink) portions. This vegan dish is a nice starter for an elaborate dinner or enjoyed as a nutritious lunchtime meal. Its aroma, along with the flavor of Hoisin sauce and sate chili paste, will delight the palate. Serve it with steamed brown rice for a complete, nutritious dinner. Ingredients: 16 ounces medium firm organic tofu (cut into 1-inch cubes) 3 cups vegetable oil ¼ cup organic Tamari ¼ cup white vinegar ¼ cup granulated cane sugar 1 tablespoon Hoisin sauce 3 tablespoons water 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 small yellow or white onion (1/4 inch thick slices) 1 tablespoon garlic (minced) 1/3 cup fresh lemongrass (cut off the lower bulb - remove tough, outer leaves and use a food processor to grind the remaining yellow stalk) 1 tablespoon sate chili paste (buy some in the store or
make it yourself*) ½ cup fresh shitake mushrooms (remove stems – slice ¼ inch thick) 2 stalks green onion (chopped) 2 tablespoons natural rice vinegar Fresh cilantro for garnish Directions: Heat vegetable oil in a 2-quart sauce pan over medium-high heat. Cut tofu into 1-inch squares and pat dry with paper towels to absorb excess Garnish with a few sprigs of water. Fry tofu cubes uncilantro and serve immediatetil golden brown. Drain on ly. a paper towel (this step can * Sate Chili Paste skipped if you buy storebought deep fried tofu and cut Ingredients: it into 1-inch pieces) and set 1 teaspoon crushed red chili aside. pepper Mix tamari, vinegar, sug¼ cup organic peanut butter ar, Hoisin sauce and water to½ cup organic extra virgin olgether in a small bowl. Set ive oil aside. 4 garlic cloves minced Heat a wok or large skil1 teaspoon curry let over high to medium-high heat until very hot. Add 3 taDirections: blespoon vegetable oil. Add onion, garlic, and lemongrass. Mix crushed chili pepper and peanut butter together. Set Sauté for 30 – 40 seconds. aside. Heat the oil on mediAdd chili paste and tamari um and cook the garlic to remixture (see set aside above). lease the fragrance and oils. Stir until incorporated. Add in the remaining ingre Add tofu to the wok or skillet. Stir all ingredients togeth- dients along with the pepper/ peanut butter mixture. This er until the sauce coats all. will start to foam and them Add mushrooms and green form a paste. Remove and let onions. Deglaze with rice cool. Refrigerate until you vinegar and continue to stir are ready to use. The paste fry until the mushrooms are cooked through (about 2 min- will keep for up to a week in the refrigerator. utes).
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There comes a time, if we are fortunate enough, when we get an opportunity to look back. Reflect on our lives and take stock. When I was a young man I was so busy looking forward, I had little time to spend pondering what had come before. My successes and failures are all balanced, or imbalanced on an imaginary ledger somewhere in my mind. Stored there until such time you sit down, like now, and take a long look at what you have accomplished and the rush to get what I wanted or though I wanted. We travel through our lives and it seems that the phrase “rushing to the end” seems not to bother us in our youth. We fill our lives with activities, events to mark the passing of time – birthdays, holidays, weddings, births and of course deaths. Cycles of things, people and events that all add up to what we call our lives. But this is an art column, so how does this relate to art? you may ask. Well now that I’ve reach a respectable age where I can reflect, I realize there have been too many distractions. I don’t mean those mentioned above, I mean the way we seek to hide. We hide and rarely discover who we are and what we really should want out of life. Especially today with all the gadgets we have; electronic devices that may or may not make our lives better. Many are the distractions I am talking about. We are looking for
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faster, better, more exciting, fun; things to take our minds off the real issues of personal growth. Okay so how does this relate to Art you ask again? When I decided to be a professional artist more than 45 years ago, I had a hard time adjusting to what it takes to create good art. I was filled with all the trappings of a society that was only interested in the next new thing. I was, like many then and today, concerned with making a living and working toward “being comfortable” in later life. I was one that was rushing to a finite end. Life is moving faster today. Yes, I understand that this may be the opinion of someone working on the latter portion of life. But I don’t think so. Art has taught me the meaning of slowing down and looking more closely at my surrounds; my relationships past and present. In my case, since I am a portrait artist, it allowed me to look at other people; explore their lives and in the process get a better understand and discover my place in the universe. It has shown me the true reality of discovery. Not with iPads, PlayStations or any current toys we use to divert our attention from discovering our personal psyche. Art allowed me to open my eyes. To share with others the beauty of the world we live in. If we are given anything of real value in life, it is time.
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An anniversary trip across the border may not be the brightest idea right now by Jim
Laris
I was kind of hurt so I men- tary thugs were fighting for tioned that our marriage had the right to cut the heads off Hey, what have you guys outlasted my first marriage, of arrogant gringos such as been up to? I’ve been sitting which had lasted a measly 15 myself and myself’s spouse. on Mr. Right Buttock and years. And that if she dumped She said she knew all that but Mr. Left Buttock trying to me now, it would probably she was remembering when remember what the symptoms take me at least five years to we went down to Ensenada a are for shingles and rickets. I fool someone else into matrinumber of years ago and had don’t think I have either of monial bliss, and then I would that incredible grilled lobster those maladies, but I never have to try to stay married to and then went into this little can remember what they are, them for 25 years to break the crummy bar and we were and I always look up their record, but to do that I would the only ones in the place meanings, and then I forget have to live until I was 100 (except for the health departwhat the hell they mean. This to make that happen. And ment inspectors) and that we cycle has been going on since I’d probably get shingles or drank Margaritas and washed 1974. And you thought you rickets and not make it. them down with Dos Equis had problems. Anyway again, Marge before the Most Interesting Anyway, I was thinking sighed that getting-heavier Man in the World was even there might be a new disease every-year-of-marriage sigh born. called shickets when Marge and out of nowhere said, Just that one never-ending said, “What are we going to “Why don’t we go to Cabo? sentence brought back a lot of do for our 20th anniversary?” I’ve never been to Cabo.” memories. God, I remember And I said, “When is it?” And And I said, “Isn’t Cabo in stumbling out of the bar that’s when the shickets hit Mexico, Sweet Snookums and going back to our room the fan. No, no. I’m just kidSmore’s Face?” She sighed so in a flirty-frolicking kind ding. Even I’m not that dumb. loudly over this question that of way and falling onto the I said, “Honey Pumpkin she scared Archie the Airebed and asking Marge if she Snuggle Face, what do you dale and he actually moved, would like to have the most want to do?” And she said something he rarely does. earth-shattering, templesince it was our 20th an I cautiously mentioned that busting, sweaty sexy sex niversary she was thinking of I thought Cabo had not been she’d ever had, or would she China. And I said, “You want moved lately and could very like to make love to me. And to go to China?” And she said, well still be in Mexico and I I remember when she said, “No. Maybe you could go. On gently asked if she knew that “Neither.” And I remember a slow boat. I know a good the drug lords and the corrupt watching her go into the bathtravel agent.” cops and the bought-off mili- room and I remember how
daintily she hugged the toilet and recycled the margaritas and the Dos Equis. Ah, the memories. So I was getting a haircut the other day and I mentioned the Cabo idea to my barber, Steve, who is of Mexican heritage and has owned a Chihuahua and has been known to pull back a few Tecates when he wasn’t butchering someone’s hair. (I kid my barber of Mexican descent.) And Steve said something like, “Hey, Cabron de Stupido, Jim Laris is Jim Laris. I’m Mexican and I won’t go death right in its cowardly down there. After they cut your head off they’re going to eye and spit a tequila worm in its cowardly face and step on put it on a big stick and roast its cowardly toes and laugh it over a burning trash barrel loud like bajanian bonteros while they sing La Cucaraor Antonio Banderas and then cha.” And then he said in his run like hell and shoot back at entrepreneurial way, “And, them over our shoulders. of course, without your head, you wouldn’t be coming in as And you know what we’re going to do for our 25th often to get haircuts.” anniversary? Well, I found I related this thoughtful out for you. I asked Marge information to Marge, but she and she said those three little still wants to go. So, we are words (plus one extra word) going down to Cabo, dammit. I love to hear, “How about And we’re going to have fun, North Korea?” or as they say in Baja, “Vaya con Dios, and get el liquored Jim can be contacted at uppo,” and we will celebrate our 20th anniversary and look jimlaris@mac.com
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The Foothills Letters & P erspectives The Opioid Epidemic Dear Editor, Peacefully tuning in to National Public Radio (NPR) this week; the message was jarring. The head of The Center for Disease Control (CDC), in Georgia, was informing me that our country
Whorrors from pg. 1 Cleghorn is accused of receiving non-bid contracts from the neighborhood council, calling Building & Safety on businesses she doesn’t like and participating in the fraudulent “Best of S-T Awards” that almost got the STNC shut down. Dana
Horse from pg. 1 animal could be sedated and airlifted to the Middle Ranch arena.
Game from pg. 1 His father came in on the day the report was due. He asked if he could install on the classroom computer a game that David had created using Scratch Software. By doing so, the whole class could learn more about sea otters. Apperson students had al-
Cloverfield from pg. 4 and that’s when he’s not being gruff or downright threatening. He clearly has a screw loose, and may be the last person on Earth you’d want to have power over you, even if he is one of the last people on Earth. It’s easy to dislike Howard, but more than that you’ll just really want him to be wrong. The film is a very tense and suspenseful cramped-quarters movie. Michelle desperately wants to escape, even though she’s constantly told that there’s nothing to escape to. But it’s just so tempting to want to get away from Howard, who’s an unpleasant control freak at best and something much more dangerous at worst. He manages to turn a simple party game into the scariest scene in the movie
VHWC from pg. 4 Monica. After an overnight stay in the hospital, the patient’s only complaint was “You shaved my leg”. We call
is suffering an epidemic of Opioids — pills prescribed for pain legally by our medical doctors. Five to six million people in our country are addicted to Norco, OxyContin, or Vicodin, the composition of which are based on compounds of Heroin. These pills are meant for short periods of intermittent
use, say 2, 3 or 4 days; but scoured the streets for more the prescription usually covpills to ease their pain, their ers 30 days and their strength pain was now being caused is so strong that addiction by the addiction of being out can occur within 2-3 days of pills. — Even ONE! The deadliest What to do about the “subresult is that 17,000 people urban addiction plight” of have died by overdose across five or six million people, he the U.S. in 2014. The spokes- did not say; obviously some man clarified the fact that as kind of increasingly lower these people changed doctors, withdrawal program. He was, searched the Internet and however, clear in what they
Stangel, who is also a STNC officer, is known for taking a $2,500 bribe from Shadow Hills Resident Jean Traubner to keep The Foothills Paper out of the Summer Festival. Nina Royal has been the STNC Treasurer for the past six years but has had a city employee and other NC members do the books for her,
and has taken money for ads in her non-existent newsletter, the North Valley Reporter, a defunct monthly paper which died more than 15 months ago. These are just a few of the things we know about them. Do you really want to vote for them in the upcoming STNC election?
Los Angeles County fire Companies 74, 82 and 103 handled the rescue and the Los Angeles Fire Department provided Helicopters Fire-1
and Fire-4 for the extraction. The horse walked away with only a few cuts and scrapes. The rider was uninjured.
ready learned a bit of coding through the Hour of Code, a Nation-wide computer science coding event currently sweeping the nation. David took it to the next level and, with the help of his family, created a computer game for his classmates which he turned it in as part of his report.
“I am more than proud of him,” said Harris, who teaches the Apperson’s third grade gifted class. The young Tang is from Shadow Hills and he loves math, science and reading. He also enjoys solving and creating computer puzzles in his spare time.
(but also the funniest). Mind is a tight low-budget thriller games abound, and you’ll that is one of the better lowwonder just how long these budget thrillers I’ve seen in three will be able to tolerate a while. Winstead is sympaeach other. It gets to a point thetic, Goodman is terrifywhere it doesn’t seem to mat- ing, and I wouldn’t mind seeter what’s outside, anything ing a follow-up involving has to be better than what’s the survivor(s) of this movie. inside. Of course, then there’s Both “Cloverfield” films do a the matter of having to deal good job of being unnerving, with what’s outside. and while the first one does a The end of the film is disap- better job of seeming spontapointing, not because there’s neous, “10 Cloverfield Lane,” nothing to it (as one might with its smarter script and suspect), but because it demore interesting characters, is volves the film into the kind the superior film. of hide-and-chase movie Three Stars out of Five that we’ve all seen before. It might have done well to ditch “10 Cloverfield Lane” is ratthe “Cloverfield” association ed PG-13 for thematic material so there’s more of a mystery including frightening sequencas to what’s really going on es of threat with some vio(then again, it would be adlence, and brief language. Its mittedly harder to get people running time is 103 minutes. interested in this movie without the franchise name recContact Bob Garver ognition). But otherwise this at: rrg251@nyu.edu. that a success story. Women who are interested in LCFOG and their work with OIC and perhaps other “patient stories” are asked to contact Marie Gilhooly at
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could control: keeping it out of the hands of new patients! These drugs are administered by state medical boards. It’s no coincidence that just two weeks ago, the head of our California Medical Board had a press conference stating that for the first time, one of our licensed medical doctors was being prosecuted see Opioid, page 10
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Crime Stats Burglary 03/08/16 10:30 AM 9800 BLOCK OF MARNICE AV
Burglary 03/12/16 12:00 PM 10400 BLOCK OF ORO VISTA AV
Theft 03/08/16 06:00 PM 7300 BLOCK OF FOOTHILL BL
Theft 03/12/16 01:50 PM 6200 BLOCK OF FOOTHILL BL
Theft 03/09/16 10:00 PM 6900 BLOCK OF VALMONT ST
Assault 03/13/16 07:45 PM 00 BLOCK OF PINEWOOD AND FOOTHILL
Burglary 03/09/16 09:00 PM 10400 BLOCK OF GLORY AV
Burglary 03/14/16 04:32 AM 8300 BLOCK OF HILLROSE ST
Theft 03/09/16 07:20 PM 10500 BLOCK OF HILLHAVEN AV
Theft 03/14/16 07:45 PM 10700 BLOCK OF MOUNT GLEASON AV
Theft 03/09/16 09:00 PM 7800 BLOCK OF FOOTHILL BL
Theft 03/14/16 05:00 PM 8500 BLOCK OF FENWICK
Theft 03/09/16 09:00 PM 10400 BLOCK OF GLORY AV Theft 03/09/16 04:00 PM 7700 BLOCK OF FOOTHILL BL
Burglary 03/15/16 08:40 PM 2900 BLOCK OF PARAISO WAY
Three Wounded by Gunfire Three men were wounded by gunshots in Pacoima, authorities said. The shooting happened at 13191 Corcoran St. just north of Glenoaks at about 3:50 p.m. on Sunday, said Sgt. S. Kennedy of LAPD Foothill Division. Two of the victims were taken to local hospitals by LAFD ambulances and one — with non-life threatening wounds — was taken to a hospital by friends, Kennedy said. There were more than 12 shell casings found at the scene where the shooter
Burglary 03/15/16 08:20 PM 10800 BLOCK OF ELDORA AV
Theft 03/10/16 09:30 AM 7200 BLOCK OF FOOTHILL BL
Theft 03/16/16 07:30 PM 6500 BLOCK OF FOOTHILL BL
Theft 03/10/16 01:15 PM 10200 BLOCK OF JARDINE AV
Theft 03/16/16 11:00 PM 7700 BLOCK OF MCGROARTY ST
stood across the street firing at the victims. No suspect information was available because the victims were not
cooperating with police, he said. Rumors on the street say that the shooter(s) is from the Tujunga area.
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AB 2602 Fights Illegal Disability Placard Use
Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles) introduced legislation to address the illegal use of disabled parking placards in cities across California. Today, there are approximately three million disabled parking placards in use in California — in other words, one in every eight drivers has one. While placards are most often used responsibly and for legitimate reasons, irresponsible and fraudulent placard use has become a significant concern.
A victim of gunfire from an unknown assailant is loaded into an ambulance by LAFD.
Theft 03/15/16 08:30 PM 10400 BLOCK OF ORO VISTA AV
Theft 03/10/16 12:00 AM 2800 BLOCK OF ADAMS ST
Assault 03/10/16 10:05 PM 00 BLOCK OF FOOTHILL AND YATES
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AB 2602 will force the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to proactively retrieve expired parking placards, require individuals to reapply for parking placards upon expiration, and allow local jurisdictions to charge motorists displaying placards for the cost of parking, as long as the city offers sufficient, genuine parking options for disabled individuals. “California has been a leader among the states in providing equal opportunities to in-
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as a criminal for the fraudulent selling of pills for profit of five to six million dollars over the past three years. dividuals with disabilities,” This lady Chinese medical said Gatto. “However, there doctor was stripped of her are people who are trying to license and sentenced to sevgame the system and are takenteen years in prison! ing parking away for every It finally clicked in my person struggling with a dishead when two people I ability. knew had been prescribed “AB 2602 will benefit the Norco or Vicodin in the past disabled by making sure that three months. They called, those who genuinely need a and I drove seemingly evparking spot have access to erywhere; all the pharmacies one, instead of that spot being were out of stock! It could taken up by someone combe ordered, but that would mitting fraud on the system,” take seven or eight days. Oh, Gatto stated. “This is an imand the original prescription portant bill for making sure would have to be re-verified our parking system is fair for by the doctor, faxed back dieveryone.” rectly from their office. Finally, a Walgreen’s had For more information, please it in stock for $79 for 30 tabvisit Assemblyman Gatto’s site, lets. The cost however was www.asm.ca.gov/gatto.
not covered by her MediCal insurance, and there were no generics. The gal with me was a mother whose prescription was for a car accident, but she admitted she had used something else and wanted the Vicodin for her daughter. I remembered her daughter having a serious operation back in October, but she was still taking Vicodin. She was now addicted. She called her mother on the phone to inquire if the pills had been procured. I could hear the terror in her voice. What to do! Any suggestions Doc? Amelia Anderson, Homeless Advocate and your candidate for STNC Representative P.S. PLEASE VOTE ON APRIL 2nd!
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