Paul Clinton

Paul Clinton SOUTH SAN FERNANDO DISTRICT -- A former defense firm's plan for cleaning up toxins on an 11-acre property straddling the Burbank-Glendale border has made a favorable first impression on state regulators. Clean water officials at the California Water Quality Control Board said the plan submitted by ITT Industries on June 19 appears to fit the bill, although several questions remain unanswered. "It does look like it could be effective," said Dixon Oriola, senior engineering geologist at the board.

Paul Clinton BURBANK With no pomp and circumstance and nary a voice of dissent, the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority elected officers Wednesday for the coming year. Instead of electing new officers, the authority voted unanimously to reinstall the same ones from last year. Glendale Airport Commissioner Carl Meseck will serve another term, his second, as president. Pasadena Commissioner Chris Holden will continues as vice president and Burbank representative Charles Lombardo stays as secretary.

Paul Clinton GLENDALE -- It wasn't all child's play Saturday at the United Community Church's Kids Rally Day. Organizers of the children's carnival worked in nonsectarian lessons about character, ethics and safety, United Ministry Director Lonnie Brown said. To educate children, the church asked California Highway Patrol officers to give safety tips on how to avoid troubles with strangers. To provide some basic information for their files, CHP officers fingerprinted children.

Paul Clinton GLENDALE -- Movie cowboys got off their horses over the weekend to raise money for battered women. Reel Cowboys, a group of former Western actors and stuntmen, spurred the event -- a benefit for the YWCA Domestic Violence Project. The symbolism of the Father's Day weekend jamboree -- a rummage sale fund-raiser with square dancing, Country Western music and a pancake breakfast -- was not lost on organizers. "The message is so powerful on the day we celebrate dads," YWCA Board President Suzanne Savary said Sunday.

Paul Clinton GLENDALE -- A Staples The Office Superstore has opened its doors on North Glendale Avenue. The store, which opened Saturday, is the first in the city and the 145th in the state. In addition to a full range of office supplies, Staples also offers computer tech support, payroll processing, telecommunications services and Internet services. Staples Inc. owns 1,100 stores worldwide and is worth $9 billion. The company is based near Boston, and employs more than 48,000 people.

Paul Clinton GLENDALE -- Police launched a murder investigation Sunday after finding a 65-year-old woman dead on her front lawn, a police spokesman said. Glendale police spokesman Rick Young would not release the woman's name, since her family had not been contacted, but said she died from blunt force trauma to the upper body. The woman's husband, Allen Reich, found his wife on the lawn of the couple's 192 Wonderview Drive home Sunday morning, shortly before he reported the death at 6:16 a.m., Young said.

Paul Clinton BURBANK -- Hailed by state Sen. Adam Schiff as a "boundless optimist," longtime News-Press Burbank Leader and Foothill Leader columnist Bob Young Sr. was honored during a brief but heartfelt ceremony at Burbank City Hall. Schiff (D-Glendale) presented Young with a state Senate resolution honoring his service to Burbank, Glendale and the foothill communities at the Jan. 18 Burbank City Council meeting. Young, who laid down his pen in November after 17 years of reporting good deeds, also received a commendation from the City Council.

Paul Clinton BURBANK -- Toting office-supply boxes filled with petitions, Assemblyman Scott Wildman (D-Glendale) appealed to Gov. Gray Davis Monday to support a bill that seeks to stem the flow of film and television jobs to Canada. Against a backdrop of departing jets, Wildman stepped to a podium Monday morning outside Burbank Airport's Southwest Airlines terminal to announce he has collected nearly 100,000 signatures supporting a bill that would offer tax incentives to movie and television producers to use California locations to produce their shows.

Paul Clinton GLENDALE -- Not long after the Japanese surrendered to end World War II in September, 1945, the city's streets were swinging with the sounds of jazz. With 82,000 residents, Glendale joined Hollywood, Central Avenue in Los Angeles and other regional hot spots as a major destination for those who wanted to hear big band in the years following the war. Cozy clubs thick with smoke popped up on the landscape. Before long, the Silver Slipper, Melody Room, Round Robin and Pike's Verdugo were all offering up hot jazz played by cool cats.

Paul Clinton BURBANK -- Burbank has agreed to pay a Glendale woman $13,000 to settle her personal injury claim stemming from a car accident, the city attorney said. Shortly after a city transit van backed into her car in August 1998, Armine Grigorian filed suit against Burbank in Glendale Superior Court, Burbank City Attorney Dennis Barlow said. Grigorian, 41, and her children Kahren, 18, and Nune, 16, suffered minor neck and back injuries in the collision, Barlow said.