Adoption

SYDNEY Sydney, a black-and-white cat, is just 3 months old and needs a new home. She is very lively, playful and would love to be adopted into an active home where she will receive plenty of attention. Sydney has already been spayed and can go home with her new owner today. The regular cat adoption fee is $70, which includes the spay or neuter surgery, microchip, vaccinations and a free follow-up health check at a participating vet. Currently, the public can adopt two cats or kittens for just $85. For more information on Sydney, call (626)

Joe Scopacasa starts every morning with a two-mile stroll down Brand Boulevard. Along the way he picks up anything from candy wrappers to cigarette butts and puts them in the trash bins that line the sidewalks. Scopacasa?s habit of picking up trash led him to volunteer for the Glendale Adopt-A-Block program, which he has been involved with for the past three months. Born in Italy, Scopacasa immigrated to the United States in 1946. Coming from a small village that had no electricity and limited running water, Scopacasa said he was impressed by how technologically advanced America was. His service to his adopted country started when he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1949.

Paris, a boxer-terrier mix, has a permanent home at last. She came to the Glendale Humane Society via the Los Angeles City Shelter system about four years ago, and a foster family took her in for about six months, said Alyce Russell, executive director of the Glendale Humane Society. Her foster family’s frequent travels to Canada made it difficult to find someone to care for her while they were gone, so she was returned to the society. “We took her back into the shelter and noticed some odd lumps under her skin,” Russell said.