By: Contributing Writer Christina Toroyan
Members of Andasol Avenue Elementary School’s PTA hosted a BMX Bicycle Stunt Show and Safety Fair on June 6 in hopes of raising money for the school’s Physical Education Department for the 2008-09 school year.
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By Contributing Writer Mary Wang
San Fernando Valley residents are expressing deep concern about the rise in violent crime after fifteen homicides
rocked the area from late May to early June. These deaths brought the murder rate up 6 percent from last year, prompting the Los Angeles Police Department
and the mayor’s office to ramp up efforts to prevent further violence.
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By Contributing Writer David MacNeal
Come this July, California will painfully
forgo an addiction that has terminally infected the culture of Los Angeles for the past twenty years.
Yes, Valley road warriors, it’s time to go “hands-free.”
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By Amanda Branam
Getting the pool re-opened at Northridge Park was no minor goal to Councilman Greig Smith.
Smith said that when he was elected to office in 2003—at which point the pool had been closed for four years—it was at the top of his to-do list.
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By Amanda Branam
At theSFVnews, we wanted to recognize some of the outstanding graduates of our area. Many of the schools in the L.A. Unified School District give any students the title valedictorian if the student earned a cumulative grade-point average of 4.0 or higher. All the students profiled here are valedictorians, but not necessarily the only one in their class. So here is a handful of the cream of the crop for the class of 2008 in the Valley. Be ready to be impressed.
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By Amanda Branam
Yahaira Kolb, owner of Goddess Salon and Spa in Granada Hills, saw what participating in beauty pageants did for her and wants to return the favor.
Kolb is putting together a pageant for San Fernando Valley women from 18-25 years old who have earned a high school diploma by September 2008. The event is scheduled to happen in the Fall and is free to the participants.
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By theSFVnews
theSFVnews would like to introduce the merchants of Knollwood Plaza located north of Rinaldi Street on Balboa Avenue in Granada Hills. There's a diversity of stores at the center to meet your shopping needs.
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