Morning Briefing -- April 12, 2007
Consider this your morning reveille ...
- Eugene Tong writes about Rocky Delgadillo's crackdown on unlicensed contractors, complete with a short online video. (Tong's getting pretty high tech)
- Jason Wells writes about the fact that Glendale is having one of its driest years on record, equaling that of the yearly average for Death Valley, and causing firefighters to be on high alert. Glendale News-Press.
- Atwater Village Newbie ribs the New York Times for its recent articles discovering life in Northeast L.A. and Atwater Village. Newbie writes:
Last month the paper profiled our fellow neighborhoods in Northeast Los Angeles, or NELA. New Yorkers, it seems, are learning that some California homes are priced under $600,000 and have views of Mount Washington - "which could be mistaken for Tuscany."
Read the rest here. - Lisa Burks follows up on the unfolding situation at Grand View Memorial Park with a story asking whether Grand View is a Harley-Davidson biker cemetery, and reveals a new civil complaint filed in Superior Court alleging misplaced remains.
Grave Concerns: Inside Grand View CemeteryAnd finally ...
- Glendale resident George Reyes has won the Dorothy Cook Lifetime Achievement Award for improving the grounds at Five Acres, a non-profit in Altadena that helps turn around the lives of abused children. Reyes is the owner of Rey-Crest Roofing in Los Angeles. Since 1994 he has done many projects on the Five Acres campus free of charge -- from painting, refencing and even installing an emergency generator. In 1998, after joining and then chairing the building and grounds committee, he became vice chair for business affairs. Five Acres says George has made the lives of the children of Five Acres better today because of his extraordinary generosity with his time and expertise and his devotion to children.
Have fun ...