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GLENDALE — For the first time in four seasons, the Flintridge Prep girls’ volleyball team made it to the CIF postseason. The stay was a short one, however, but still not enough to diminish the journey in getting there. “For us to make it back to the playoffs ... I think was a huge success,” said Rebels Coach Sean Beattie after his team fell to host Ocean View, 22-25, 25-17, 25-18, 25-23, on Tuesday night in the opening round of the CIF Southern Section Division 3-A playoffs.

FRIDAY Football (3 p.m.) Garden Grove at Ocean View (scrimmage) Football (7 p.m.) Marina at Los Osos Edison at Kamehameha (HI) MONDAY Girls' Tennis (3 p.m.) Garden Grove at Edison Girls' Volleyball (3:30 p.m.) Cypress at Marina (scrimmage) TUESDAY Girls' Tennis (2:45 p.m.) Mater Dei at Marina Girl's Tennis (3:15 p.m.) Santa Ana Calvary Chapel at Ocean View Field Hockey (3:15 p.m.)

TODAY Girls' Golf (2:30 p.m.) Huntington vs. Marina (at Meadowlark GC) (3 p.m.) Edison vs. Fountain Valley (at Mile Square Park) Girls' Tennis (3 p.m.) Huntington at Fountain Valley Esperanza at Marina Ocean View at Costa Mesa Cross Country (3 p.m.) Saddleback vs. Ocean View (at Central Park) Field Hockey (3:15 p.m.) Huntington at Newport Harbor Fountain Valley at Marina Boys' Water Polo (3:15 p.m.)

THURSDAY, Sept. 8 Girls' Golf (1 p.m.) Edison at University Tourney (at Strawberry Farms GC) (2:30 p.m.) Marina vs. Downey (at Rio Hondo GC) Huntington vs. El Toro (at El Toro Marine Base) Girls' Tennis (2:45 p.m.) San Clemente at Marina La Quinta at Edison (3 p.m.) Irvine at Huntington Boys' Water Polo (3 p.m.) Ocean View at Buena Park Field Hockey (3:15 p.m.) Louisville at Marina Chaminade at Edison Huntington at Glendora Girls' Volleyball (5:30 p.m.)

The prep football programs at Marina and Edison already know what Hell Week is all about. This week, the programs at Huntington Beach and Ocean View are finding out what it's all about, as they continue to go through the rigors of two-a-day drills. The four local schools have begun preparations in earnest for the 2005 season, which for Marina and Edison begins on Sept. 2. Huntington Beach and Ocean View launch their seasons the following week. Edison and Marina began preseason drills 10 days ago, but Huntington Beach and Ocean View officially opened camp Monday "We've been going at it real hard, and we're excited to get the season started," said Romney Fuga, a 6-foot-2, 270-pound senior offensive and defensive tackle at Edison.

Name: Jody Stevens Position: Running back/ defensive back Height: 5 feet 11 Weight: 175 Year: Senior Game Highlights: Stevens rushed for 50 yards and a touchdown on offense as Laguna Beach rallied to tie Ocean View, 14-14, in nonleague action Sept. 16. Defensively, Stevens had several key tackles for losses, in addition to a few big hits. Coach's comments: "The kid played through a broken hand and never missed a play," Laguna coach Jimmy Nolan said.

The Laguna Beach High School football team experienced its first bump in the road of the 2005 season when it played host Ocean View to a tie last week. Tonight, the Costa Mesa Mustangs invade Guyer Field for a 7 p.m. nonleague matchup. The Mustangs, however, aren't galloping south -- the team is limping after opening the season with lopsided losses to Brea, Corona del Mar and Huntington Beach. Last year, Laguna edged Costa Mesa, 10-9. The Breakers bring a 2-0-1 record into tonight's meeting.

An apparent suicide closed off Waltonia Drive in Montrose, below the westbound Ocean View exit of the Foothill (210) Freeway, for a few hours Friday. Crescenta Valley Sheriff?s Station deputies were called to the scene at 8:04 p.m. to investigate. ?The fire department was here for awhile, then they left and the sheriff [deputies] stayed,? said a nearby resident, one of several who milled around on the sidewalk trying to learn what had happened in their neighborhood. According to Los Angeles County Sheriff?

This post was updated to include more information. A 59-year-old Altadena man was fatally injured Monday evening after he apparently jumped from the bridge at Ocean View Boulevard onto the Foothill (210) Freeway in La Crescenta-Montrose , officials said. The man, whose identity wasn't released pending notification of his family, was taken to a local hospital, where he died just after midnight Tuesday, according to Det. Gary Sica with the Homicide Bureau of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

A police pursuit Saturday that started in Los Angeles ended in La Cañada Flintridge after police used a beanbag gun to shoot out the window of the driver's car on a dead-end street just off Ocean View Boulevard, officials said. The pursuit began about 9 p.m. when Los Angeles police officers responded to a call regarding a suspicious person in a vehicle in the 5200 block of College View Avenue, just off Colorado Boulevard, said LAPD Sgt. Fernando Carrasco. "We got a call regarding somebody with a car at the location," Carrasco said.

Charles Woodhouse awoke early Saturday morning to the roar of rushing water. Debris was snaking down Angeles Crest Highway and spilling into his Arroyo Summit Drive cul-de-sac. Mud filled the street, overwhelmed his driveway and seeped into the house, Woodhouse said. But once the rain stopped, carloads of community members, most of them fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, began arriving to help. Armed with boots, gloves and shovels, more than 100 volunteers worked to remove mud from Woodhouse’s and his neighbors’ properties.

GLENDALE — For the first time in four seasons, the Flintridge Prep girls’ volleyball team made it to the CIF postseason. The stay was a short one, however, but still not enough to diminish the journey in getting there. “For us to make it back to the playoffs ... I think was a huge success,” said Rebels Coach Sean Beattie after his team fell to host Ocean View, 22-25, 25-17, 25-18, 25-23, on Tuesday night in the opening round of the CIF Southern Section Division 3-A playoffs.

    A major business advisory firm is proposing to move into Montrose, and has requested a zoning variance from the city of Glendale. Edward Jones Brokers would take over a vacant first floor space at 370l Ocean View Blvd., establishing a two-person office. Peter Gonzales, representing the company, told zoning administrator Edith Fuentes that the office was proposing to relocate from La Cañada. The staff would meet clients by appointment and maintain normal business hours days a week.

Next Thursday, families and friends all across the nation from Barrow, Alaska, to Key West, Florida; from Lubec, Maine, to Kailua, Hawaii; and all across the Crescenta Valley will sit down to feasts of turkey, mashed potatoes and, most importantly, pumpkin pie. This caloric excess will, of course, be in celebration of one of two uniquely American holidays, Thanksgiving (the other being 4th of July). Every year at this time I marvel that the mega-marketers still haven’t found a profitable way to commercialize this annual event.

Now this is what I’m talking about! This is what Montrose has wanted all along. And it isn’t down the Verdugo corridor or on restaurant row in the shopping park. It’s a block up the hill, away from the hustle and bustle, on the corner of Ocean View and Florencita. The new Ocean View Bistro took over the spot where Ocean View Bar and Grill resided for many years, and created a haven — a relaxing spot of peaceful elegance and amazing food. The place is bright inside and features a high ceiling lined with white crown molding.

Ten Years Ago The first magnet school in the Glendale Unified School District opened its doors in September 1998 with a ceremony and ribbon-cutting at the site of the former Clark Junior High. The new Clark Magnet High welcomed approximately 500 ninth and 10th grade students on the first day of school.   Twenty Years Ago A raccoon that had run afoul of a high-voltage power line at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was responding to treatment and doing very well, according to a spokeswoman for the Wildlife Waystation in Little Tujunga Canyon, where the 10-pound animal, nicknamed “Voltage,” was being cared for.     Thirty Years Ago All-American wide receiver Rick Fry, fresh from a three-year football career at Occidental College, joined Falcons’ head coach Dennis Gossard at Crescenta Valley High where he had once played as a student.

The Glendale Design Review Board #1 on Sept. 4 approved a proposed redesign for an office building at 3501 Ocean View Boulevard, after complimenting architect Alen Melekian on the work he had done to redesign the structure. The building, former site of Bowman Cleaners, sparked considerable community opposition and an initial DRB rejection last May. The building totals 4,350 square feet, and is a single story structure with a canopy up front. Work was started on the project with a design review exemption, and then a stop work order was issued when community members raised concerns on a number of issues, among them the appearance that a second story was being added.