FIREWORKS OVER THE 4th OF JULY — AGAIN?
FRIDAY • APRIL 27, 2018
TELLING THE TRUTH FOR OVER 13 YEARS!
VOLUME 14 • NUMBER 8
An Immediate Solution to Provide Housing For Sunland-Tujunga’s Homeless! David DeMullé, PhD
years when scavengers began to sneak in during THREE miles from the the night and strip out the city limits of Sunland-Tu- air conditioners and junga, there sits an abanmoveable items, ransackdoned LACo inmate fire ing the facility and taking camp that used to hold 90 all the small items like inmates with a maximum fire extinguishers, canned of 140, both male and fe- food supplies and teachmale. ing aids. The camp ran for about The county would send 12 years and was shut a security guard about down in 2009 with the of- once every 6 months to ficers and staff closing make sure that the main and locking their office gate was locked. doors and leaving the The camp had 5 main building. As Director buildings that were comRichard Simms stated at prised of officers’ quarters the time “we have done with kitchens and rec this drill many times beroom, inmate barracks, fore and this is just a tem- cafeteria(s) and training porary closure. We’ll be buildings. There were an back in a couple of additional 9 buildings that months when the budget were used as training gets fixed.” buildings, assembly build The budget never got ings, medical care and fixed and the camp was storage areas. There is an left abandoned for about 4 emergency generator and by
a self -contained water well making the facility self-reliant. There is a latrine that requires dumping monthly. I spoke with Supervisor Michael Antonovich and his aid Jarrod Degonia over the years requesting that the facility be turned into a re-training housing camp for homeless. So much so that I was asked not to come back to Antonovich’s office. The camp has been Welcoming sign for Fire Camp 15, Camp Louis Routh trashed but the buildings (for the most part) are still SURE YOU CAN. structurally sound. With a and mobile homes with I don’t know of a single minimum amount of reall the hook-ups. homeless person that habilitation, the camp In the past, people who hasn’t received a loitering, could be re-configured in- didn’t want to hear of to a working housing/rehomeless being housed in camping, unlawful assemhabilitation site that could Tujunga would repeat the bly or drunk in public citation. comfortably hold 120 mantra “You can’t make You only have to give homeless. There is an ad- them go into housing of the homeless notification ditional 2 acres that can rehabilitation!” be used for parking RVs see Solution, page 6
Military Maneuvers came to Sunland-Tujunga Last Week!
Sikorsky Blackhawk helicopter over Tujunga
Last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday saw military helicopters equipped with radiation monitoring gear flying across the Big-Tujunga Canyon and Sunland-Tujunga in training exercise that brought in land and air forces practicing
the monitoring and evacuation of personnel, both civilian and military from a possible nuclear zone. The first incident was called in by reader Chris Paepack reporting that there were 4 military vehicles parked in the Auto
Zone parking lot and then by Ray Cooke who reported spotting Blackhawk & Chinook helicopters flying over Tujunga. This could give the conspiracy people some fodder for calling Camp Louis Routh a “Containment Camp.”
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book drive for La Cañada Flintridge elementary school libraries, and lots of give-aways, and a drawing to win a tote bag full of books! Independent Bookstore On Saturday, April 28, Day is a nationwide from 10 AM – 5 PM, event created in 2015 to Flintridge Bookstore & show support for local Coffeehouse celebrates booksellers and a special Independent Bookstore time for them to reach Day with activities for all out to their communities. ages, including a reading Approximately 500 in conjunction with Nabookstores throughout tional Poetry Month and the country have excitauthor appearances in ing events planned for conjunction with Earth this celebration. Day, plus other author Flintridge Bookstore & signings and special story Coffee House, 1010 times with visits from Foothill Boulevard La therapy and rescue dogs. Cañada, CA 91011 (818) They are also having a 790-0717.
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