Butting-out in Glendale; the Applebee's in your eye and Grand View tales
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- They've snuffed out cigarettes in Calabasas, Santa Monica, Burbank and Beverly Hills — and now a group of local residents has started pressing for a public smoking ban in Glendale. Advocates behind the "No Butts Glendale" campaign have been pushing the City Council since June to consider outlawing smoking in parks, lines and within 25 feet of sidewalks and business entrances. Daily News
See their online petition here. - Glendale-based IHOP (that's International House of Pancakes, for those not hip with the lingo) announced today it has entered into a deal to acquire Applebee's International Inc., operator of Applebee's restaurants, for $25.50 per share in cash, or about $2.1 billion. The all-cash transaction, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2007, is subject the usual shareholders and regulatory approvals, of course.
- Lawyers in the Grand View Memorial Park civil suit will be doing some discovery Tuesday. News Press
- The Pasadena Star-News paid their repsects at slain Glendale College cheer captain Brittani Idom's memorial.