Results tagged “La Mirada” from Whittier Dispatch

Budget season for local cities is just about over, but don't be surprised if many of our local cities keep an eye on them. In the next week, La Habra Heights, La Mirada and Whittier city councils are expected to approve them.

For La Habra Heights and La Mirada officials, their budgets are balanced, but just barely. On the other hand, Whittier's general fund budget projects a $1.2 million deficit that will be made up with the use of reserves. La Habra Heights City Council will study its city budget at a special 6 p.m. Monday meeting. La Mirada and Whittier city councils are expected to approve their budgets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday meetings.

The "Workers' Register and Articles of Faith," popularly known as the "Red Book," is being signed at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 9 at Biola University's Calvary Chapel.

It is signed annually in December by the Board of Trustees at a private meeting. However, this year on the heels of Biola's 100th anniversary, the event will be open to the public and each signing hereafter will be open to the Biola community.

Over the last eighty years Biola's leaders, such as Louis Talbot, Charles Fuller, Lula Stewart and founder T.C. Horton, have signed the book as an affirmation of Biola's core values and commitment to the University's mission.

The ceremony has only been public one other time, twenty-five years ago during Biola's seventy-fifth anniversary.

For information, contact events@biola.edu

     Deputies from the La Mirada Community Sheriff's station will hold a DUI checkpoint on Jan. 3.

     It is part of the state's Holiday DUI Crackdown Campaign. Funding is courtesy of a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

     Deputies are also asking the public to call 9-1-1 and report drunk drivers. Be prepared to describe the vehicle, its location and direction of travel.

     For more information, call the La Mirada Community Sheriff's Station at (562) 902-2960.

     A fundraiser to benefit a 15-year-old La Serna High School student injured by a hit-and-run driver will be held from 4 to 9 p.m., Thursday at Southern California Pizza, 12259 La Mirada Blvd. in La Mirada.

     All proceeds will go to the Arianna Varela Fund which will pay for her medical expenses. A family member said Varela was recently transferred from UC Irvine Medical Center to HealthBridge Children's Hospital in Orange where she is undergoing rehabilitation.

     "She's doing really, really good," said her aunt, Catherine Del Ferraro.

     On Oct. 3, Varela crossed the street to attend her school's homecoming game held at Cal High. A driver hit her and didn't stop. He or she hasn't been found.

     Officials with the Orange County Coroner's Office released today the name of the driver killed in a 2-car crash in La Mirada.

     Bret Hawman, 50, of La Mirada died of his injuries yesterday at UC Irvine Medical Center.

     The collision happened at 6:21 p.m., Monday on Rosecrans Avenue and Jalon Road in La Mirada. Sheriff's Lt. Mark Wilkins said one driver was heading east on Rosecrans Avenue and the second driver was turning on Jalon Road from westbound Rosecrans.