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Arson Fires Rage in The Foothills!
Spare The Rod — And Spoil The Seniors?
Care Center staff and residents with the Early Rodders cars on display.
Hansen Dam.
LaTuna Canyon.
There were two separate fire areas burning at the same time last Wednesday (May 20). One fire was started at the Hansen Dam Aquatic Center and the second fire was on La Tuna Canyon Rd. The La Tuna Canyon burn had five independent start areas and consumed
2.5 acres. A witness saw the arsonist throwing a device into the forest. The origin of the Hansen Dam burn of two acres has not yet been determined. In a “Mutual Assistence” call, more than 350 responders from LAFD, LACoFD,
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LC Woman’s Club Win Nine 1st-Place Awards
American Legion’s Memorial Day Tradition ................
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Last Thursday, a local group of car enthusiasts known as the Early Rodders held a classic car show for the residents of the North Valley Care Center in Tujunga. With more than 18 classic cars on display, the residents were brought down to the parking lot and allowed to
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Jim Laris on Dogs Being Named “Jim” ................
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DEPARTMENTS What Folks Are Doing........... 2 My Two Cents....................... 2 View from the Rock.............. 3 Letters and Perspectives........ 3 Chef Randy........................... 5 Pets Page............................. 8 S-T Crime Stats................... 10 Take My Card..................... 11
Of course they won! LCWC members having a great time at the convention. The busy women of the La Crescenta Woman’s Club spent a weekend in April winning most of the coveted awards at the San Gabriel Valley District of Woman’s Clubs convention. The event was held at the Ontario Radisson Hotel.
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There are 27 clubs in the San Gabriel Valley district that attend the convention and submit reports to be considered. The club scooped nine first place awards, four second see LCWC, page 3
touch the cars and look in“These are the cars I grew up side them. The staff joined in with!” the festivities by dressing up The classic car group is a in 1950’s attire and dancing loose knit bunch of oldsters to the “Oldie but Goody” that call themselves the Early 1950s-60s music. Rodders, both for the early People walking by stopped vintage dates of the cars and to look at the assembled cars for the fact that they get toand everybody had a great gether at 6 a.m. on Sundays time. One resident stated, in Montrose.
Violence Continues to Escalate in S-T
On Friday, May 12 at approximately 11 p.m., a man was found shot inside his residence at the Sunland Trailer Park on Sherman Grove, just south of Sunland Boulevard. LAPD responded to a home invasion call and found one male with a gunshot wound to the face. Paramedics transported the man to a local hospital in unknown condition and police were searching the area for possible suspect(s). A number of people were detained and questioned by officers. LAPD Foothill Division is handling the investigation.
photos: Rick McClure
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Two suspects were detained and later arrested.
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