Morning Briefing -- May 16, 2007
Top o' the morning...
- Burbank city revenue for 2007-08 is slated to grow 9 percent, they're also spending more due tohigher staff and benefits costs. Leader
- Burbank Unified School District is installing a $50,000 emergency phone notification system to reach about 11,000 households. Leader
- Blame the horses? A Hampton Inn still under construction on Glenoaks Blvd. near Burbank Airport "has had a sign up saying 'coming, Fall, 2006' for ages." It makes to the list of "What's that gonna be?" projects at Curbed LA.
- Lisa Burks wonders what happened to the late Grand View Memorial Park owner Marsha Howard's dogs at valleynews.com
Have you seen Meeka and Ivory?
These two gentle American Eskimo dogs, left unattended, got out of the Grand View Memorial Park residence last November during the removal of their owner Marsha Howard's body, and they remain missing.
"Marsha loved animals. Her dogs were her family, her kids," says Betty Haskell, who was Marsha's friend and is currently the fiancé of Marsha's brother, Tom Trimble.
Then there's Bear, a black Labrador Retriever-Chow mix, who was left locked inside the home that same evening, hiding under Marsha's bed, says Betty. Sadly, Bear was picked up days later after authorities received calls about her barking, taken to the Pasadena Humane Society and eventually destroyed.