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City workers protest
furloughs to council
From City News Service
Job-site protest
Photo by Gary McCarthy
Former employees at Overhill Farms, a Vernon company that sells pre-packaged
food to several major fast-food outlets, protest what they call the company’s mass
firings, discrimination and abuse of employees Tuesday. Protesters said the company has terminated longtime employees and replaced them with part-time workers
at lower wages and no benefits.
LOS ANGELES — Hundreds
of city workers and supporters
marched to City Hall Tuesday
to urge the City Council to drop
plans to force civilian employees to take 26 furlough days to
help offset a $529 million budget deficit.
Chanting slogans and carrying
signs that said “A Better Way for
L.A.,” the workers crowded into
the council chamber this morning. Many of them spoke during
the public comment portion of
the council’s regular meeting,
amid loud cheers from their supporters.
Stephanie Shelley, a deputy
dispatcher for the Los Angeles
LAPD officers shoot armed parolee
From City News Service
EAST LOS ANGELES —
Officers who went to a local
residence Friday to investigate a
parole violation shot and killed
a man when he stepped out
of a room holding a weapon,
according to police.
The unidentified man was
shot at about 8:40 a.m. at a
residence in the 3800 block of
East Sixth Street. He died at the
scene, according to Los Angeles
Police Department Officer April
Harding.
The incident resulted in the
Los Angeles Police Protective
League issuing a statement
regarding the danger posed by
the possible early release of
Eagle Rock couple
to receive degrees
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LOS ANGELES — Eagle
Rock residents Adolfo and Amber
Escobedo will celebrate their sixmonth wedding anniversary in a
unique place Saturday.
The couple will receive his and
hers bachelor’s degrees at Cal
State L.A.’s commencement ceremony.
Adolfo’s degree will be in
mathematics, while Amber’s will
be in liberal studies. Both of the
Escobedos entered Cal State L.A.
as a president’s scholar, a distinction given to a select group of
about eight incoming freshmen
each year who, based on exemplary high school academic performance, receive $5,000 annual
scholarships renewable for up to
four years.
Amber Stevens first met
Aldolfo when she was a freshman
at a president’s scholars reception.
Despite friends and staff trying to
match them up, the friendship and
courtship didn’t begin until they
got reacquainted at the university’s
2006 Alumni Awards Gala. They
tied the knot this past December.
Both have a passion for helping
others. Adolfo coordinated community service projects with the
Lions Club, Tour de Sewer and
Five Acres as this year’s president
of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Amber, a member of the
Alpha Sigma Tau sorority, participated in the American Cancer
Society’s Relay for Life and wrote
letters to female soldiers serving
in Iraq.
Separately, each volunteered
with the Habitat for Humanity,
helping to build homes in Glendale
and Thousand Oaks.
After graduation, Amber plans
to pursue a master’s degree in
education administration/leadership and a teaching credential in
order to become a school principal. Adolfo will be completing an
accounting certificate and applying for law or graduate school to
pursue his goal of becoming a
legal accountant. They are also
looking to buy a home.
prison inmates due to budget
cuts, a police union spokesman
said.
“Public safety must take precedence over economic and
political considerations,” league
President Paul Weber said.
The league, which represents
rank-and-file officers, opposes
the state’s proposal to transfer 23,000 prisoners from state
to county jails, which would
leave less room in the county
lockups.
Another proposal would
eliminate supervised parole for
25 percent of the state’s ex-con-
BY STEVEN HERBERT
CITY NEWS SERVICE
BOYLE HEIGHTS — The
Los Angeles Lakers unveiled
their 14th Reading and Learning
Center Friday at the Salesian
Boys and Girls Club, with three
players participating in the ceremony, a day after their victory
in Game 1 of the NBA finals.
Derek Fisher, Sasha Vujacic
and Sun Yue were greeted by
loud applause and cheers by the
young club members. Former
Laker stars Kareem AbdulJabbar, James Worthy and Robert
Horry and NBA Commissioner
David Stern also attended the
ceremony.
Fisher recalled that he played
his first organized basketball
game at a Boys and Girls Club
in his native Little Rock, Ark.,
while the teachers and coaches at
the club helped teach him “what
it meant to be a good person.”
Fisher said the most important
lesson he learned was “that I had
to respect my teammates, I had
to respect my coaches, I had to
respect the people who worked at
the Boys and Girls Club.”
“That’s what we have to
remember as we go forward,”
Fisher said.
The Reading and Learning
Center includes a library stocked
with new books and a technology center with computers and
printers.
The center will help the club
The City Council removes a legal
The first wave of layoffs at city
departments may affect far fewer
employees than originally expected.
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further its goal of “helping children become more productive
citizens,” according to Richard
Hugues, the president of the
club’s board of directors.
The establishment of reading
and learning centers is part of the
Lakers Youth Foundation’s Read
to Achieve Campaign, whose
goal is to instill the joy of reading among Southern California’s
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youth.
“For what the fans give us,
we have to give back,” Lakers
Executive Vice President of
Business Operations Jeanie Buss
told City News Service. “We’re
just fortunate to have the opportunity to do this. Los Angeles
is so spread out and so diverse
that the Lakers are the flag that
brings everyone together. Being
here today is just an example of
that.”
The NBA traditionally dedicates a new Reading and Learning
Center in each city with a team
participating in the NBA finals.
“Social responsibility is a bedrock of what we do and our
players exceed us,” Stern told
reporters. “Their work in their
communities is extraordinary.”
Los Angeles Lakers guard Derek Fisher speaks to members of the Salesian Boys and
Girls Club during the opening of the club’s Lakers Reading and Learning Center last
Friday. At far left is NBA Commissioner David Stern.
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The Los Angeles Unified School District
proposes cutbacks in student bus transportation
to balance the budget.
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loophole that led to the uncontrolled
proliferation of medical marijuana
dispensaries.
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time check for 40 percent of
their salary.
The workers, members of the
Coalition of L.A. City Unions,
marched from Hill Street,
between First and Temple streets,
south to First Street, then east to
City Hall.
The coalition comprises six
unions representing nearly
22,000 city workers, including
trash truck drivers, librarians,
911 operators, traffic control
officers and after-school program recreation workers.
The City Council June 3
authorized a furlough plan that
would likely shut down most
city offices every other Friday
in hopes of achieving $100 million in savings. The plan is set
to take effect at the beginning of
the next fiscal year, which starts
July 1.
Meanwhile, Mayor Antonio
Villaraigosa was among a delegation of California mayors
who met with Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger in Sacramento
Tuesday afternoon.
They wanted assurances that
the governor would repay the
tax revenues that he is considering borrowing from cities to
close the state’s $24 billion budget deficit.
Schwarzenegger has said that
he might borrow as much as $68
million of Los Angeles’ property
tax revenues and $57 million
of local gas tax revenues. He
may also suspend Proposition
42 payments to cities.
NBA opens learning center at youth club
Transportation cuts
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Hundreds of demonstrators protest Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s
plans to slash more than $170
million from HIV/AIDS services in
Hollywood.
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victs in order to help solve the
budget crisis.
The victim of Friday’s
shooting was Richard Antonio
Cabrales, a 20-year-old parolee.
Weber said Cabrales may have
been categorized as a “low-risk”
parolee by the Parole Violation
Decision Making Instrument,
a computer risk-assessment
tool of the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Cabrales’ status in the system
could not immediately be confirmed.
Police Department, said the
furloughs would affect public
safety.
“God help us if you don’t
make a wise decision,” she told
the council members.
Michael Duran, a deputy
city attorney affiliated with the
Service Employees International
Union, said that instead of furloughs, the council should offer
early retirement to about 3,000
senior employees, which he
contended could save the city
between $100 million and $196
million.
“The reason why this is preferable to furloughs is because
it promotes the dignity of the
person who is leaving, takes
the highest-paid, longest-serving people and allows them to
move on, giving opportunities
to people coming up who would
be paid at a lower rate, and it
affects the budget for next year
by clearing out the highest paid
people this year,” Duran said.
The workers’ union is negotiating to give senior employees
up to three years of work credits, so that they can “virtually”
reach the milestone of 30 years
in service, or age 55.
The mayor’s office has said
that the union’s early retirement
proposal would impact as many
as 2,300 workers and cost the
city $850 million over 15 years.
An alternate proposal put forward by the mayor more closely resembles a buyout, which
would provide specifically identified employees with a one-
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‘What did you think about President Obama’s outreach to Muslims?’
“I didn’t care for it. I don’t
think it was helpful.”
Mike Alvarado
Downey
Mike Alvarado
“I think it was good to reach
out, but he didn’t hold
[Muslims] accountable and
placed all the blame on Israel.
He showed too much favoritism.
I’m tired of him apologizing for
our wonderful country.”
Sharyn Pohlman
Downey
“It’s good to reach out [to
Muslims]. I don’t think Israel
should divide East Jerusalem.”
Bert Taylor
Downey
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Protesters condemn plan to slash funds for AIDS services
“We’re not going to
be victims,” said one
speaker, as hundreds
take to Hollywood
streets to decry a
potential casualty
of the state budget
meltdown.
BY ARIN MIKAILIAN
STAFF WRITER
Hundreds of demonstrators
poured into Hollywood streets
last Friday to demand that Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger abandon
plans to slash more than $170 million from HIV/AIDS services.
Gathered in the streets around
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
before marching around it,
many demonstrators in the AIDS
Project Los Angeles-organized
event wore red in honor of AIDS
Awareness Month, hoisting signs
with phrases such as “cutting is
killing” and “cuts = new infections.”
Soon after the defeat of
Propositions 1A through 1E,
a series of budget-related ballot measures shot down by
California voters last month,
Schwarzenegger announced several cuts to HIV and AIDS services — including $96 million
from the AIDS Drug Assistance
Program, which assists about
35,000 Californians. The reductions are part of the governor’s
effort to trim a $21 billion budget
deficit by the beginning of the
next fiscal year on July 1.
At the protest, speaker after
speaker stood in a pickup truck
bed to discuss opposition to
the potential cuts. AIDS Health
Foundation president Michael
Weinstein said eliminating easy
access to HIV/AIDS medication
and living services would send
the fight against the disease back
to the 1980s, when AIDS-related
deaths were at an all-time high.
“I started this work sitting at
bedsides of people, watching
them die and feeling helpless,”
he told a crowd a demonstrators.
“We are not going back to that.
We need to put the heat on people
with the power to do something
about this.”
Weinstein also criticized
President Barack Obama for not
taking action and spending millions to bail out large corporations instead of using those funds
to aid California.
Elliot Johnson, a gay AfricanAmerican man, said he has written eulogies for countless men
and women who died from AIDS
in the 1980s and does not want to
have to take on that responsibility again. “I do not want to sit by
your bedside and say, ‘It’s OK
to pass on.’ I want us to live,”
he said. “I want you to live and
step up.”
Cheered wildly by the gathered
crowd, actress Sheryl Lee Ralph
spoke numerous times until her
voice went hoarse, each time calling for action and starting chants
such as “these cuts won’t heal.”
Before people began marching,
Ralph said those who were at the
protest must start dialogues on
the effect of the cuts with friends
and family.
“We’re not going to be victims,
we know what we have to do,
we know what happens when we
organize,” she said. “We have to
come off the sideline and make
sure that with our hearts and our
minds that we create a plan for
action. When you march, know
that you have to strategize to
bring others with you.”
Along the march route, participants drew outlines of bod-
Workers protest furlough plan
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That voter-approved measure
requires that state sales and
use taxes on the sale of motor
vehicle fuel be used for public
transportation, city and county
street and road repairs, and state
highway improvements.
“There is a better way,”
Villaraigosa said. “We come
here as productive partners
ready to work together and offer
viable solutions that ensure our
financial stability and chart a
course toward more responsible
fiscal stewardship.”
Under Proposition 1A, the
state is required to repay cities — with interest — for the
borrowed property tax revenues
over three years. However, no
such protection exists for the
gas tax revenues and Prop. 42
payments.
Villaraigosa said any plan to
withhold tax revenue from cities
must be accompanied by a plan
to return the money to local government as soon as possible.
“Our willingness to sacrifice
on the state’s behalf does not
represent an open-ended commitment or a blank check,” he
said. “We must be sure that our
hard-earned tax dollars make
their way back to taxpayers as
quickly as possible.”
ies on sidewalks and streets to
symbolize the number of people
that could perish if HIV/AIDS
services are cut.
Andrew Sears, one of the
marchers, said he is optimistic
about the programs and services
being spared, but that he has
grown tired of gay concerns
being placed first on the chop-
ping block.
“I feel like our population has
always been expendable.” he
said. “So it’s not a surprise that
this is happening.”
Photo by Arin Mikailian
Protesters took to the streets of Hollywood Friday demonstrating against Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger’s proposal to cut more than $170 million from HIV/AIDS services.
County seeks to ban smoking in parks
From City News Service
LOS ANGELES — The county
Board of Supervisors took a first
step last week toward banning
smoking in Los Angeles county’s
144 parks.
An ordinance prohibiting
smoking at all county parks will
be drafted by the end of summer
for the board’s approval, based on
recommendations from Parks and
Recreation staffers in an April 7
report.
The report also called for designated smoking areas at leaseoperated facilities, including the
county’s 19 golf courses. The
department recommended that
driving ranges, putting and pitching greens and areas within 20
feet of buildings or at high fire
risk be declared smoke-free.
Smoking on the course, however, would be allowed under the
department guidelines.
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky,
Parolee killed by officers
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But Weber said the shooting shows that “cutting public
safety budgets while simultaneously releasing prisoners into
our community would create a
perfect storm, reversing hardwon reductions in crime witnessed over the past several
years.”
who asked that the ordinance
be drafted, said he regretted that
something was not done sooner so
that Angelenos could “enjoy the
parks in the most crowded period
smoke-free.”
He said he hoped the ordinance
could be written faster than the
mandated 90 days.
“It’s a good policy, a good recommendation,” Supervisor Mike
Antonovich said.
A representative from the
American Cancer Society, appearing before the board with other
advocates of smoke-free parks,
said lung cancer is the second
leading cause of cancer deaths,
even though lung cancer deaths
fell 26 percent between 1988 and
2002.
The city of Los Angeles enacted a smoke-free parks policy in
2007, following a fire in Griffith
Park.
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Council removes loophole from marijuana dispensary law
BY CHRISTINA
VILLACORTE
CITY NEWS SERVICE
LOS ANGELES — The City
Council voted Tuesday to remove
a legal loophole that led to the
uncontrolled proliferation of
medical marijuana dispensaries,
and to extend the temporary ban
on new dispensaries by another
six months.
Council members unanimously
directed the city attorney to eliminate the hardship exemption in
a 2007 ordinance which allowed
nearly 500 dispensaries to open
across the city. The council is
expected to vote on the revised
ordinance next week.
Hearings are under way for the
clinics that applied for a hardship exemption. Council members voted Tuesday to deny 14
applications.
City Councilman Jose Huizar
said the hardship exemption
“was being used by culprits who
want to make a profit.”
Councilman Greig Smith said
when the council was drafting
the ordinance, the city attorney
told the panel that the hardship
exemption was necessary.
“We made a tragic mistake: we
listened to the city attorney. The
city attorney is not the end-all of
the discussion. They are advisers,” Smith said.
During a news conference
prior to the vote, Councilman
Dennis Zine said the proliferation of dispensaries was “out of
control.”
Council President Eric Garcetti
said it was unacceptable that
a certain half-mile stretch of
Atwater Village has no less than
five dispensaries.
Number of city layoffs may be less than 100
From City News Service
LOS ANGELES — The first
wave of layoffs at city departments
may affect far fewer employees
than originally expected, interim
City Administrative Officer Ray
Ciranna said Monday.
The city’s $7 billion budget
had called for 1,600 layoffs and
26 furlough days for civilian
employees to help offset a $529
million budget deficit.
Of the positions slated for layoffs, 1,200 were already vacant.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
ordered layoffs for the remaining
400 positions, but Ciranna said
that number has been reduced
Family of slain deputy
receives $23,000 donation
From City News Service
LOS ANGELES — County
Sheriff Lee Baca helped present
a $23,000 donation Tuesday to
the family of slain Deputy Juan
Escalante, who was shot and
killed Aug. 2, 2008.
The 27-year-old deputy was
gunned down in front of his
parents’ Cypress Park home as
he was preparing to go to work
at the Men’s Central Jail. Three
people have been arrested in
connection with his killing, and
a fourth is being sought.
The funds were raised by
Cops4Causes, a group of law
enforcement personnel who
work to benefit their colleagues
and families.
Escalante is survived by his
wife and three children.
Suspected kidnapper arrested
From City News Service
LINCOLN HEIGHTS — A
man suspected of kidnapping
a former girlfriend after she
dropped off their daughter at a
local elementary school June 4
was arrested the following day
and the woman was returned
unharmed.
Matias Lopez, 27, was arrested
at his home around 5:45 p.m. after
he brought 21-year-old Stephanie
Lilian Davila back safely, according to the Los Angeles Police
Department.
Davila dropped off their 6-yearold daughter at Griffin Avenue
Elementary School at 7:30 a.m.
June 4, and never returned to pick
up her daughter, police said.
Lopez may have been upset
over a recent breakup with Davila
when he took her against her will,
police said.
to 76.
Testifying before the City
Council’s Budget and Finance
Committee, Ciranna said “what
we have seen is that departments
have gotten very creative in finding ways to move people. ...
They’re now saying that of the
original 400, only 76 — at this
point — need to go out the door.”
Ciranna explained that many
general managers found vacancies for employees slated for
layoffs. Other employees were
transferred to the Department of
Water and Power, Los Angeles
World Airports and the Port of
Los Angeles, which all have separate budgets from the city.
Councilman Bernard Parks,
who chairs the Budget and
Finance Committee, was skeptical and asked whether general
managers were “massaging the
numbers.”
“We want to find out that people are being legitimately put into
slots that are not being cut,” Parks
said.
During the hearing, Chief
Legislative Analyst Gerry Miller
also warned that if Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger decides to use
property tax revenues intended for
the city to deal with the state’s $24
billion budget deficit, it could cost
the city of Los Angeles between
$89 million to $200 million.
If the state decides to borrow a
portion of the city’s property tax
revenues, it would have to pay
the money back — with interest — over three years, under
Proposition 1A.
However, the state is also considering borrowing revenue from
gas taxes, which are not protected
by Proposition 1A.
Margaret Sanjacomo
Born February 20, 1914 in New Orleans, passed away May 28, 2009 in
Los Angeles. She preceded in death by her husband, Anthony in 1986.
Both were active in many projects and philanthropies for the Lincoln
Heights community through Kiwanis and Chamber of Commerce. Longtime area residents, and beloved owners of the Daly Shoe Store. They
were a beautiful couple who led a beautiful life.
She is survived by her daughter Pat(Bob); grandchildren Rob(Roxanne),
Cindy(Miguel), Ken(Jill), Julie(Ashraf), Karen(Christopher) and
Toni(Julian); great grandchildren Anthony, Johnathan, Bella, Kelly,
Kristy, Claire, Olivia, Alex, Chip, Charlie, Hannah, Madeline and Matthew; sister-in-law Florence and by many loving nieces and nephews.
All services were held on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at Calvary Mortuary
and Cemetery. Donations can be made to: Holy Trinity Church / School
at 3722 Boyce Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90039 C/O Margaret Sanjacomo.
“People feel under siege. I
think there are a lot of people
who supported medical marijuana and want access for patients
but do not want their neighborhoods taken over — to the point
where there are more dispensaries than Starbucks,” he said.
Two years ago, the council
approved a temporary moratorium on new medical marijuana
dispensaries. The purpose of the
interim ordinance — which will
expire in March thanks to the
six-month extension — was to
give city officials time to draft
regulations that limit where and
how dispensaries can operate in
the city.
California voters 13 years ago
approved Proposition 215, which
made it legal to sell marijuana to
certain patients with a doctor’s
prescription.
The drug is still considered illegal under federal law,
and U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration agents have
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Southern California. However,
Attorney General Eric Holder
recently announced those raids
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Clinics that were already
established at the time the ban
was approved had until Nov. 13,
2007, to register with the city. By
submitting a business tax registration certificate, state seller’s
permit, property lease and proof
of insurance, those businesses
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However, a loophole in the
temporary ban allowed clinics
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which provide dispensary owners
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why they should continue to do
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MEDWOOD IN NATIONALS
Long Beach State junior Kenneth Medwood, a transfer from
East L.A. College, is the lone
representative for the 49ers
at the NCAA Division I outdoor
track and field championships
Wednesday through Saturday in
Fayetteville, Ark.
The Roosevelt High School
product qualified in the 400-meter hurdles after earning an automatic berth with a fifth-place
finish at the West regionals. He
enters the meet as the 24th
seed.
During the season, he posted
the 49ers’ top marks in the 400,
400 hurdles and long jump. He
ran the fourth fastest 400 hurdles time in school history at the
Cal-Nevada Championships.
College baseball: He's
headed to Omaha
Wave Staff
The big stage clearly doesn’t
intimidate Cal State Fullerton
freshman pitcher Noe Ramirez.
That’s good because the next
game he pitches will be Saturday
in Omaha, Neb. at the College
World Series.
Ramirez, lately the team’s No.
2 starter behind Daniel Renken,
has been awarded the first-round
start against Arkansas (39-22).
The Razorbacks will likely go
with junior southpaw Dallas
Keuchel, who is 7-3 with a 4.04
ERA.
The Titans are making the
16th trip in program history and
fourth in the last six seasons to
the eight-team, double-elimination tournament at Rosenblatt
Stadium.
Ramirez, the Alhambra High
School graduate and East L.A.
native, takes a 9-1 record and
2.86 ERA into the CWS.
During postseason play, he’s 20 and has allowed four runs in 15
innings. In 107 innings, he has 96
strikeouts and 34 bases on balls.
Not bad for a guy who just a
year ago was leading Alhambra
to its fourth consecutive Almont
League title. Now, he’s trying to
help the Titans win the fifth national title in program history.
The right-hander hurled seven
strong innings in an 18-2 win
over Utah in an opening-round
NCAA regional hosted by No. 2
overall seed Fullerton.
Then in Saturday’s Super Regional game that sent the Titans
(47-14) to Omaha, Ramirez
struck out a career-high 10 in
eight innings of an 11-2 victory
over Louisville.
Only a pair of solo home runs
by Louisville third baseman
Chris Dominguez marred the
performance.
Facing just five over the minimum, Ramirez retired the final
eight batters he faced before giving way to Nick Ramirez in the
ninth.
The big early lead was a help,
according to Ramirez.
“You play with the lead and
you feel way more comfortable,”
he said. “You can get away with
some stuff and can miss some
spots.”
On facing Dominguez, he said,
“I learned to stay away from him.
Me and (coach Dave) Serrano
had a plan and I tried to stick to
that.”
After being outscored 23-2
in two games and being stifled
by the pitching of Renken and
Ramirez, Louisville coach Dan
McDonnell was impressed.
“We just ran into a buzzsaw,”
he said. “I’d be looking forward
to follow (Fullerton in Omaha).
“I was very impressed with
(Fullerton’s) balance in their
lineup. I was impressed with
their experience. It’s a mature
older club.”
Garfield,
Roosevelt
players
All-City
FRESHMAN HONORS
Cal State Fullerton pitcher
Noe Ramirez, an Alhambra High
School graduate, has been
named to Collegiate Baseball’s
Freshman All-America team.
The East L.A. native took an 81 record in 18 games (13 starts)
heading into the Super Regional
with Louisville. He was named
to the Fullerton all-regional team
with a seven-inning, eight-strikeout performance against Utah.
Prep baseball: Each has
two players honored
Wave Staff
VALLEY WINS
Crenshaw High School’s Brittnei Price had an RBI-single and
Washington Prep’s Angelina
Crabtree an infield single for the
City Section team, which lost,
5-2 to the Valley in the second
annual City vs. Valley all-star softball game. The game was played
at Contreras, located downtown.
Banning’s Jessica Lozano
pitched four shutout innings,
striking out six, for the City.
SOFTBALL HONORS
Eagle Rock resident Renae
Beauchman of Long Island University is a first-team selection
on the All-Northeast Conference
softball team. A product of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High
School, the senior center fielder
batted .350 with 18 RBIs.
Although she didn’t earn AllNortheast Conference honors,
St. Paul High grad Kaelynn Armenta had a solid sophomore
season pitching for Wagner College.
The Whittier resident was 1115 with a 2.42 ERA. Among her
19 complete games were three
shutouts. She also recorded a
save.
Armenta won four straight
games during a five-game winning streak for Staten Islandbased Wagner, which finished
22-29.
BIAG SIGNS
Dan Biag of Cerritos College
has signed a national letter of
intent to play water polo at UC
San Diego.
He was a first-team All-American and the South Coast Conference offensive player of the year
for the Falcons.
He was an All-American and
CIF Division VI player of the year
at Cerritos High.
YOUTH FOOTBALL
Signups for the L.A. Demos
Packers Pop Warner Football and
Cheer program are being held
from 5-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and
2-3:30 p.m. Saturdays at South
Park (51st Street and San Pedro Avenue). Registration is also
available each day at The Pass
Barbershop, 1128 E. Vernon
Ave. The barber shop’s number
is (323) 231-0703.
The season and practice begin
July 27 from 6-8 p.m. at South
Park. The program is for boys
and girls 5-14. The costs are
$100 for flag football and $150
for tackle and cheer.
For more information, call Annette at (323) 972-8157 or Monica at (323) 321-5268 or visit
the website at demosfootball@
yahoo.com.
MOSS HONORED
Loyola Marymount senior golfer Greg Moss has been named
the West Coast Conference Mike
Gilleran Male Scholar-Athlete of
the Year.
Moss is the third LMU male
athlete and the third golfer overall to win the award, which is the
highest honor handed out by the
conference.
Serrano is confident heading to
the series.
“Proud probably doesn’t describe how the coaching staff
and I are of this team,” the Titan
coach said. “About a month and
half ago, the team was questioning their commitment. But we
came together.
“I hope this proves that when
you’re together you can accomplish anything. There’s not one
facet of our game that needs any
tweaking right now. Omaha is
the greatest place in the world to
finish a season. We think we have
a legitimate chance to win the
national championship the way
we’re playing right now.”
Photo by Robert Helfman
Cathedral High School’s Randall Carroll and Crenshaw’s DeAnthony Thomas, to Carroll’s left, are on the awards stand following
their one-two finish in the 200 meters at the CIF State track and field championships. Carroll also won the 100. Thomas was
sixth in that event.
Carroll sweeps the sprints
Prep track: Cathedral
shares team title
Wave Staff
It was the Randall Carroll
show at the CIF State track and
field championships Saturday in
Clovis.
The Cathedral High School senior, bound for USC on a football
scholarship, led the Phantoms to
a share of the boys state team
title with two first-place finishes
in the sprints.
Cathedral, Clovis East, La
Sierra and Frontier tied for the
championship with 20 points
each.
Carroll, who has recorded a
national-best 10.3, accounted for
all of Çathedral’s 20 points by
winning the 100 meters in 10.38
seconds and the 200 in 21.08.
He outran Fountain Valley’s
Kyle Middlebooks (10.57) in the
100 and Crenshaw soophomore
DeAnthony Thomas (21.35) in
the 200.
Thomas, who was returning to
the state meet, was sixth in the
100 in 10.76 and anchored the
Cougars’ 4 by 100 relay team
that placed sixth in 41.87.
Although Cathedral qualified
in both relays, it received no
points in either event. In the 4 by
100, the Phantoms dropped the
baton on the second exchange
and did not finish.
Dorsey senior Jeremy Harris
was third in the 110 hurdles in
14.12 and Santee junior Tevin
Carter was third in the 200 in
21.44. Carter was fourth in the
100.
----------
Other area athletes did well in
the finals.
Miles Beal of St. John Bosco
tied for third with JSerra’s Harrison Steed in the high jump at
6-9.
Patrick Hunter of Paramount
was fourth in the triple jump at
48-3 1/2.
El Rancho senior Pedro De
Alba just missed making the finals in the 1,600.
He placed 13th in Friday’s prelims with a time of 4:13.62, just
off the 4:13.59 of San Pasqual’s
Kenneth Raedel, the 12th and
last qualifier for the finals.
La Sierra’s Reggie Wyatt, won
the 400 in 46.13, a day after setting a national record (35.02) in
the prelims for the 300 hurdles.
Wyatt is a USC signee.
Finishing behind Wyatt in the
Quarterback Taylor Martinez,
wide receiver Ricky Marvray
and running back Arthur Burns
of Corona Centennial are the
standouts for the East.
Two other events preceed the
game.
NFL players LenDale White
of the Tennessee Titans and
Dominique Byrd of the Arizona
Cardinals will be at the Gridiron Football Academy camp for
youngsters 6-13 from 9 a.m. to
2 p.m. The cost is $50 and participants receive lunch, workout
shirt and workout bag. Registration starts at 8 a.m.
A combine/showcase for
the graduating classes of 2010
through 2013 will be held from
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The cost is also
$50. Registration starts at 9:30
a.m.
---------A flea-flicker play that resulted
in a touchdown highlighted the
West’s 21-6 victory over the East
Saturday in the 42nd 605 All-Star
Game at Cerritos College.
Garfield’s Lanny Delgado
hauled in a 43-yard scoring pass
on the wild play that gave the
West a 14-0 lead.
On the play, quarterback Roman Lewis of Long Beach Cabrillo pitched to Downey’s Jeremiah Higgins, who gave it to
Lynwood’s Michael Allen. Allen
tossed the ball back to Lewis,
who threw deep. Delgado caught
the ball at the 10, then broke a
couple of tackles to score.
Lynwood’s Isam Pegues
scored on a three-yard run for
a 21-6 lead after St. Paul’s Michael Demery recovred a fumble
by Mayfair quarterback Jimmy
Ohiri.
Late in the first half, the West
scored on a 10-yard pass from
Schurr’s Ricky Mendez to Allen.
The only East score, on a oneyard run by Ohiri, was set up
by a blocked punt by Santa Fe’s
Nikolai Crouch.
400 was Josh Mance of Chino
Hills in 46.41, Robert Woods of
Serra in 46.67 and Kivon Grant
of Dominguez in 47.65. Manual
Arts’ Terrence Conway was seventh in 50.44.
In the girls division, Long
Beach Poly won the 10th team
title in school history with 45
points to finish comfortably
ahead of Serra, which had 28.
Akawkaw Ndipagbor helped
Poly to the title by anchoring the
Jackrabbits’ 4 by 100 relay team
to victory in 45.88 and placing
second in the 400 in 53.12.
UCLA-bound
Turquoise
Thompson won the 400 in 53.10
and anchored Serra’s winning
4 by 400 relay team in 3:42.91.
Serra was second to Poly in the
4 by 100.
Garfield and Roosevelt high
schools are represented by two
players each on the All-City
baseball team.
The teams are selected by a
panel of prep sportswriters.
Senior second baseman Jose
Maya and junior pitcher Oscar
Preciado, who helped Garfield
win the Eastern League title and
reach the City Division I quarterfinals, made the second team.
Maya, the league co-player
of the year, batted .402 with 23
RBIs, a .453 slugging average
and only six strikeouts in 106 at
bats. He was 5-for-7 in the playoffs.
Maya was sure-handed in the
field, committing only three errors in 30 games.
Preciado went 9-2 with a 3.60
ERA and 10 complete games in
11 starts. He struck out 57 and
walked 14 in 70 innings.
Also a first baseman, Preciado
batted .346.
Roosevelt’s All-City representatives, both on the second team,
were pitcher Alvinn Herrera and
first baseman/pitcher Miguel
Helguera.
Herrera went 10-4 with a 1.44
ERA and 90 strikeouts in 81 innings.
Helguera batted .441 with
three home runs and 41 RBIs. He
was 4-1 as a pitcher.
Senior second baseman/pitcher Erik Ojeda of Division III runner-up Maywood Academy made
the second team.
He batted .439 with 28 RBIs.
Chatsworth senior pitcher
Mike Renner is the player of the
year. He threw a two-hitter in
the championship game against
Cleveland. He had a 10-2 record.
----------Eagle Rock senior Wilson
Chan was a second-team pick
on the All-City boys volleyball
team.
Game showcases area stars Tourney winners
Prep football: L.A.,
Inland Empire collide
Wave Staff
The 10th annual Gridiron
War All-Star Football Classic,
matching the East Inland Empire
against all-stars from L.A. and
Orange County will be at 4 p.m.
Saturday at Long Beach City
College’s Veterans Stadium.
Matt Logan of Corona Centennial High School coaches the
East and St. John Bosco’s Kiki
Mendoza heads the West.
West stars include quarterback
James Boyd and wide receiver
Delvon Purvis of Jordan, defensive lineman Justin Brown and
safety Chris Metcalf of Compton, defensive back Chris Hill of
Carson and defensive lineman
Kyle Bailey of Washington Prep.
Boyd, bound for USC, passed
for 4,264 yards and 44 touchdowns as a senior. He is projected as a defensive player for the
Trojans.
The Downey Ponytail Softball 12-under Gold all-star
team won its second consecutive tournament in
Camarillo. The team also won the Chino Tournament
over Memorial Day weekend. The team includes Jissel
Caballero, Jillian Saiza, Julia Gaytan, Brittany Juarez,
Rachel Poirier, Alyssa Soneff, Taylor Gallo, Jessica
Torrez, Eryka Garcia, Ashley Jenkins and Whitney
Pemberton.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Highland Park/Eagle Rock/Mt. Washington/El Sereno/Lincoln Heights/Glendale News Herald & Journal • Commerce/Eastside/Boyle Heights/Belvedere Tribune
Digital transition to affect TV viewers
Talk to me...
BY HANS LAETZ
CITY NEWS SERVICE
with Karen E. Hudson
Dear Karen: I visited my
son’s elementary school the
other day and was totally disgusted when I met his teacher.
This woman, whom he adores,
had on a low-cut top revealing
a tattoo on her breast. She also
had tattoos running up her leg. I
can’t tell you the arguments we
have over his desire, at age 10,
to get a tattoo. What is our education system coming to that
teachers are displaying tattoos
and setting such an example for
our children? Am I that far out
of touch with what’s acceptable
behavior?
Tattoo-Free Mom
Dear Tattoo Free: I’m not
sure I could have spoken if I’d
visited a classroom and been
approached by a teacher with
visible tattoos. No doubt, my
mouth would still be hanging
open. If things have changed
so much that tattoos are acceptable for teachers in elementary
school, then we can stand in
line together under the heading,
“out of touch.”
I think children are too impressionable and teachers should
set an example of appropriate
workplace attire and behavior.
I have no idea whether schools
have dress codes for teachers,
but if they don’t, perhaps we
should re-visit that old-fashioned concept. Children never
fail to imitate those who they
look up to, and teachers certainly fit that bill. If teachers
choose not to cover their tattoos, by all means bring the
matter up with the administrators at the school. You have a
right, as a parent, to voice your
opinion.
It’s hard enough to get children to obey your rules. It’s
even harder when the authority
figures in their lives are on their
side. Tattoos have a place in our
society, but not in the elementary classroom. Don’t badmouth
her to your child, but do let the
principal know how you feel.
Dear Karen: Every year I
get graduation announcements
from children I haven’t seen
since they were toddlers, and
I send a gift because I’m close
to their parents. This year I
didn’t receive any announcements and was ready to run off
and treat myself to a present,
when I began getting e-mails
“announcing” graduations. I
feel like these people don’t care
about me, only about getting a
check from me. Do I have to
respond to e-mailed announcements? For that matter, do I
have to automatically send a
gift whenever I receive a graduation announcement?
Sucker Who Gives
Dear Giver: These young
people should be happy to have
you in their lives. The presumption that you must give a
gift just because you were sent
an announcement is ridiculous.
You may choose to give a gift
if you’d like, or simply send
a card congratulating each of
them on their achievement. I
think we’re all kidding ourselves to think that faster, easier, less effort e-mails will not
be the wave of the future.
I, for one, still favor handwritten notes over e-mails. In
any case, don’t let the casual
tone of an e-mail announcement
reflect ill on the sender. Maybe
what you give the graduate is
personalized note cards. Think
they’ll get the hint?
In case you’re wondering…
Do celebrate the academic
achievements of young people.
Don’t you dare let a child
decide what’s appropriate attire
or behavior.
Have a question for Karen?
E-mail her at [email protected].
LOS ANGELES — Major
changes are coming to the
Southland’s television dials this
week, but the average viewer will
not notice a thing. Maybe.
The area’s 22 television stations are preparing to shut off
their analog transmissions Friday,
part of the nationwide shift in
technology that will free up giant
chunks of electronic space for
new wireless services.
The shift to digital transmissions will mean several changes
to the way TV signals are delivered from TV stations to homes
and businesses using rooftop or
set-top antennas. Of course, most
persons using cable or satellite
service for their TV will not see
any major changes, FCC officials
keep repeating.
But some historic changes will
happen Friday nonetheless. For
example, the Channel 5 frequency used by KTLA television since
it signed on the air in 1947 will
go to full-time static after Friday.
Channels 2, 4 and 5 will be
among those abandoning their
longtime electronic homes as
they shift to new digital assignments in the UHF band. But to
make it easy on viewers, the new
digital channels have encoding
devices that tell digital TV sets
and converter boxes that they
are actually watching the old TV
channel number.
For example, KTLA will be
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CITY OF LOS ANGELES
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that for more than
three years last past there remained unclaimed
with the Police Department of the City of Los
Angeles monies held in the account known as the
“UNCLAIMED MONIES SEIZED INCIDENTAL TO
ARREST TRUST FUND” which were seized on
January 15, 1992 through March 31, 2006.
AMOUNT: $298,032.98
Claims for return of monies held must be filed with
the City Clerk, Room 395 City Hall, 200 N. Spring
St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 BEFORE Monday,
August 3, 2009.
THE AFORESAID MONIES WILL BECOME THE
PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES ON
August 3, 2009.
DATED: June 1, 2009
JOYA C. DE FOOR, CTP-CITY TREASURER
OFFICE OF THE TREASURER, CITY OF LOS
ANGELES
6/11, 6/18/09
NWA-1610366#
BELVEDERE CITIZEN
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAMES
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20090832868
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:
(1) PBCA, (2) Philippine Badminton Club Arcadia, 12301 Covello St., North Hollywood,
CA 91605-3013, County of Los Angeles.
Registered owner(s):
Benjamin O Baladad Jr., 12301 Covello St., North
Hollywood, CA 91605-3013.
Cornelio Artienda, 15898 Parkhouse Dr., Fontana,
CA 92336-6501.
Renato Bautista Jr., 5664 Shady Dr., Mira Loma,
CA 91752.
This business is conducted by a General
Partnership.
The registrant commenced to transact business
under the fictitious business name or names listed
above on N/A.
I declare that all information in this statement is
true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true
information which he or she knows to be false is
guilty of a crime.)
PBCA
S/ Benjamin O Baladad Jr., President
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of
Los Angeles on June 4, 2009.
NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of
Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on
which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk,
except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after any change
in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to
section 17913 other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious
Business Name Statement must be filed before
the expiration.
The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business
Name in violation of the rights of another under
Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411
et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Original
6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2/09
NWA-1613179#
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20090703656
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:
Antojitos Del D.F., 4003 E. Olympic Blvd., L.A.,
CA 90023, County of Los Angeles
Registered owner(s):
Angelina Andrade, 3966 E. Hubbard St., L.A., CA
90023
This business is conducted by an Individual
The registrant commenced to transact business
under the fictitious business name or names listed
above on N/A
I declare that all information in this statement is
true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true
information which he or she knows to be false is
guilty of a crime.)
S/ Angeli Andrade, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of
Los Angeles on May 13, 2009.
NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of
Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on
which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk,
except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after any change
in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to
section 17913 other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious
Business Name Statement must be filed before
the expiration.
The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business
Name in violation of the rights of another under
Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411
et seq., Business and Professions Code).
New Filings
5/21, 5/28, 6/4, 6/11/09
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STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL
FROM PARTNERSHIP
OPERATING UNDER FICTITIOUS
BUSINESS NAME
FILE NO. 20090703655
The following person(s) has (have) withdrawn as a
general partner(s) from the partnership operating
under the fictitious business name of Antojitos
Del D F, 4003 Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles,
CA 90023
The fictitious business name statement for the partnership was filed on 2-18-2008 in the County of LA.
Current File No. 20080285476
The full name and residence of the person(s) withdrawing as a partner(s):
Juan Andrade, 3966 Hubbard St., Los Angeles,
CA 90023
I declare that all information in this statement is
true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true
information which he or she knows to be false is
guilty of a crime.)
S/ Juan Andrade
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of
Los Angeles County on May 13, 2009.
5/21, 5/28, 6/4, 6/11/09
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GOVERNMENT
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
BIDDERS ARE CAUTIONED TO EXAMINE
CAREFULLY SPECIFICATIONS AND BID
FORMS BEFORE BIDDING.
Notice is hereby given that the Board of
Education of the City of Los Angeles will
receive bids from the District’s list of prequalified contractors to furnish all labor and
material for the following:
THE FOLLOWING PROJECT(S) ARE FUNDED
BY PROPOSITIONS WHICH WERE APPROVED
BY THE VOTERS AND IS SUBJECT TO THE
PROJECT STABILIZATION AGREEMENT.
DATE OF BID OPENING: June 26, 2009 (Friday
@ 10:00 AM)
BID NUMBER: 0910341
FIRE ALARM, HVAC AND EXTERIOR LIGHTING
(PSA) at ALEXANDRIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
(23.04037, 23.00528 & 23.00530).
Pre-bid Meeting: 6/16/2009 (Tuesday @ 10:00
AM).
Contractors are required to meet the 3%
Disabled Veterans Business Enterprise (DVBE)
participation goal set forth in the bidding
documents.
Prime contractor shall hold license in the
following classification(s): “B ONLY” license
required. Contractor Caused Compensable
Delay (L.D.): $750.00 per calendar day. The
anticipated construction range for the Work of
this Project is $1,000,001.00 to $3,000,000.00.
For Bids with a Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting,
Bidders who have not signed in on the attendance sheet will be nonresponsive.
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Compliance Program as approved by the Director of
the Department of Industrial relations and the Board
of Education in compliance with Section 1771.5 of
the California Labor Code.
Copies of the prevailing rate of per diem wages are
on file at the following District office and shall be
made available to any interested party on request:
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Program
333 S. Beaudry Avenue,
transmitting only on its channel
31 assignment starting Friday, a
channel it has been using for its
digital feed for several years. The
transmitter at KTLA, however,
will tell TV sets to display KTLA
as channel 5-1.
Viewers will also get KTLA-2
on channel 5-2. Some stations
have as many as eight channels
shoehorned onto their carrier
now.
Adding to the confusion, some
digital stations will move their
digital signals on Friday to new
homes. KCBS-TV, for example, will not only shut off analog Channel 2 but will move its
CBS2 programming from digital
channel 60 to digital channel 43,
the FCC said.
That means people who use
off-air antennas for CBS2, and
who are getting nice digital pictures there, will need to use the
rescan feature on their TVs or
converter boxes to regain CBS2
programming after the switch.
And for some people who live
where TV signals have always
been a bit dodgy, the switch from
analog to digital will mean an end
to free, off-air television signals.
That’s because a few TV stations are slightly moving their
antennas, causing a subtle shift in
coverage areas.
Most L.A. channels will shut
off their analog signals and shift
their digital transmissions from
temporary assignments back
to their traditional locations.
Channels 9, 11, 28 and 34 are in
this category.
Other channels, such as KDOC
Channel 56, will shut off their
analog feeds and maintain digital
transmissions at their new locations. KDOC will still show up as
Channel 56, but will be transmitted on a different channel.
If this sounds confusing,
remember that all the actual
transmission numbers are quite
irrelevant. Every digital-ready
TV set, and every digital converter box, sold in North America
has the built-in ability to scan for
available signals, and convert the
data into familiar channel names
such as Channel 11.
But here is bad news for some.
As anyone who has set up a digital off-air receiver knows, digital
TV suffers from the “cliff effect,”
where the signal will go from
perfect to digital mush without
any intermediate steps.
Old analog signals simply gave
the TV set a ghost or some static
when their signals dipped. But
digital TV translates a lousy signal as bad computer data, and
starts breaking up and “tiling” the
picture as scenes change.
But more than 99 percent of
the viewers in the Los Angeles
television market, who could get
acceptable analog pictures up
until Friday, will now get digital
coverage, the FCC predicts. And
that comes with advantages, such
as high-definition signals and
multicasting.
Some channels are taking
advantage of the change to offer
up to 8 TV signals wedged onto
its digital channel, such as foreign
language offerings. Some PBS
affiliates are offering 24/7 kids
programs.
ABC7 and NBC4 are among
several stations that are using
most of their digital spectrum
for a high-quality local feed of
its newscasts and network programming. But they have also
launched new lifestyle and allweather forecast channels on
their digital signals.
Station engineers are advising
that persons using off-air television sets aim their antennas at
Mount Wilson, the big mountain
north of Pasadena.
Hitting the rescan option on the
remote control will be mandatory
to get all the available stations
after Friday.
Despite oversimplified explanations from the FCC, some satellite TV customers will need to
rescan their set-top boxes after
Friday as well. HDTV reception
for some boxes is obtained not
via satellite, but via over-the-air
signals, even though the HDTV
channels are mixed in on the satellite box TV guides.
And persons owning widescreen TV sets and using antennas will need to rescan after
Friday, as their built-in digital
tuners will need to scan the skies
for the new channel assignments
for some stations.
Archdiocese to open summer school doors
From City News Service
LOS ANGELES — Local
Catholic schools will open their
doors to Los Angeles Unified
School District students whose
summer classes were canceled
due to the budget crisis, Cardinal
Roger Mahony announced
Monday.
However, Catholic schools will
charge tuition for courses normally free at LAUSD schools.
During a news conference at
Our Lady of Loretta Catholic
School, Mahony said, “LAUSD
students would be most welcome
to attend summer classes being
offered at many of our Catholic
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secondary and elementary schools
in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Our schools stand ready to assist
LAUSD students and their parents this summer.”
The LAUSD is eliminating
most summer school programs
due to declining revenues and the
state’s budget deficit. The move
— which could affect more than
225,000 students — is expected
to save the district about $34 million.
Mahony said Catholic schools
offer many of the same summer courses that would normally
be provided by the LAUSD. He
added the schools also offer pro-
grams to care for younger children.
The archdiocese’s superintendent of schools, Pat Livingston,
offered assurances that the summer courses would focus on academics, not catechism.
“Many of the schools do integrate some liturgical activities,
prayer services, things like that,”
Livingston said. “But I think
you would mostly find they
focus on academic skills because
that’s what kids need to continue
through the summer.''
Catholic schools are expected
to charge between $100 to $300
for summer classes that are nor-
mally free at LAUSD schools.
Mahony said the schools will
try to negotiate easier payment
terms with parents.
“While our schools charge
tuition for summer classes — we
have budgets, too — each of
our schools will work individually with parents who may require
assistance,” Mahony said.
The LAUSD plans to continue
offering only summer school at
the high school level for “credit
recovery,” meaning graduation
requirements, core classes and AG classes. The Extended School
Year Program for students with
disabilities will also be offered.
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