THE FOOTHILLS PAPER - FEBRUARY 16, 2018

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SUNLAND TUJUNGA: A REALITY SHOW is on Amazon!

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FRIDAY • FEBRUARY 16, 2018

TELLING THE TRUTH FOR 13 YEARS!

And Everyone Was Nice!

Arnie Abramyan faced off with Pati McArdel Potter about who was turning in local businesses for sign and building violations. by

David DeMullé

Wednesday’s STNC meeting was touted as being the showdown between the citizens and

INSIDE: The Korean Community ................ The STARS come out ................

the STNC, and it was, sort-a. Everyone showed up and there was only ONE BIG PIZZA, no coffee, no milk and little bitty bottles of water.

see STNC, page 12

The Roof! The Roof! The Roof is on...The Other Roof!

Firefighters from Station. 39 assess the collapse of the roof of the abandoned SCV Hydro Gardens shop on Commerce Avenue last Saturday. Owners of the shop next door reported hear-

ing “a loud boom” about 10 am but didn’t know where it came from. It was only that later in the day they realized that their air conditioner wasn’t working and there was cracks in their ceiling. They then called 911.

City Plays Games With Peoples’ Lives in Tujunga

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“A Raisin In The Sun” ............

This wasn’t looking good. AND THEN CAME DANA STANGEL, president of the neighborhood council.

VOLUME 14 • NUMBER 3

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DEPARTMENTS Community Help ................... 2 Happenings in The Hills ......... 2 Letters................................. 3 View from the Rock.............. 3 Social Security Matters ......... 4 Keller WIlliams Home Help.... 4 Chef Randy........................... 5 Crime Stats........................... 9 Take My Card..................... 11

The city thinks this is a solution to the problem. by

David DeMullé

Everybody knows that broken sidewalks are a major problem for the elderly and the handicapped, and it has been going on for so many years that people just take them for granted. Los Angeles’s sidewalks are in really bad shape. They’re so bad that, in 2015, in order to settle a neglect lawsuit about

sidewalks, in 2015, the city agreed to spend $1.4 billion repairing the thousands of miles of cracked and broken sidewalks that they are responsible for. And who is really to blame? The city engineering bureau who oversees the maintenance of our sidewalks estimate that they receive over 700 requests see Sidewalks, page 9

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