Fighting to save a wa y of life

Drive anywhere in Sunland Tujunga, and you can't miss the cacophony of yellow and green yard signs and bumper stickers that form a single message: Save the Verdugo Hills Golf Course.
Tony Castro in the Daily News.
The message has unified a community that sees the fight as much more than a neighborhood bid to save a golf course. Rather, they say it's a struggle to protect the way of life in the Northeast corner of the San Fernando Valley.

"We're the last community in the city of Los Angeles that is the gateway to Angeles National Forest," says Tomi Lyn Bowling of the Sunland Tujunga Neighborhood Council. "And we want it to stay a rural space that isn't Valencia, for lack of a better example."