Weekend Update -- April 8, 2007
For the folks who are into it, Happy Easter:
- Two separate car crashes killed two elderly Burbank residents early Friday. One of the drivers who drove the wrong way on the 134 and struck a 73-year-old driver head-on, is in custody on suspicion for vehicular manslaughter and a DUI. Another driver ran over a woman going home from breakfast on Olive Avenue.
- Meanwhile, Glendale Police caught a hit-and-run driver Thursday with a little detective work. The elderly victim was only injured, and the 21-year-old driver turned himself in.
- Valleynews.com prep softball blogger Richard Colon has a write-up on this week's match-up between cross-town rivals Burbank and Burroughs.
- Also, Grand View blogger Lisa Burks has two new posts -- one about the case of a pair of missing headstones; the other has a few thoughts about the nature of news coverage and sensitivity to Grand View's victims.
- Schiff, Bono Introduce Comprehensive Arson Legislation -- now when I saw this in the email inbox Friday, I thought whoa, our own U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff working with the U2 front man on a campaign to save the world from, uh, arsonists? But no, it was referring to U.S. Rep. Mary Bono, republican of the 45th congressional district, which includes Palm Springs. And short of third-world debt relief, they're proposing a database to track arsonists.
- A word from local state Assemblyman Paul Krekorian, who's pushing an Assembly resolution Monday condemning the Armenian Genocide, just in time for the annual remembrance in two weeks. Excerpt from the release:
GLENDALE – Assemblymember Paul Krekorian (D-Burbank) is the author of Assembly Joint Resolution 15, commemorating the 92nd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and demanding justice from Turkey and formal recognition of the Genocide by the US Government. The entire State Assembly and Senate will vote on the joint resolution during their session in Sacramento on Monday, April 9th.As the first genocide of the 20th Century, the Armenian Genocide claimed the lives of a million and a half Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire, upon the orders of its Turkish rulers. To this day, the Turkish government refuses to acknowledge its responsibility for the annihilation of its Armenian population during World War I.
Authoring this resolution has special significance for Assemblymember Krekorian, as he and his wife both lost members of their family in the Genocide.