COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS TAKE BACK THE BIG-T!
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FRIDAY • NOVEMBER 13, 2015
TELLING THE TRUTH FOR OVER 11 YEARS!
VOLUME 11 • NUMBER 23
Community Declares War on Free Hip Hop Dopers, Trash and Arundo! Classes for Kids Story and photos by David DeMullé
The crisis finally came to a head with homeless vagrants defecating, setting fires in the Big Tujunga wash, fighting and passing out on Oro Vista in Sunland, but that was only the tip of the iceberg. When they began to threaten the residents of Riverwood Ranch and the shoppers in the town malls — not to mention leaving a woman’s body to rot in the sun — the writing was on the wall: THE VAGRANTS HAD TO BE RELOCATED! Two local residents, Art Miner and Brian Schneider, put the word out to the community using social media. They subsequently
INSIDE: California‘s Wild Fires ................
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American Legion Haunted House Photos! ................
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Foothills Fires ............
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DEPARTMENTS What Folks Are Doing........... 2 My Two Cents....................... 2 View from the Rock.............. 3 Letters and Perspectives........ 3 Chef Randy........................... 5 Pets Page............................. 6 S-T Crime Stats................... 10 Take My Card..................... 11
The Santa Monica Mountain Conservancy started their cleanup of the wild area below the Arizona Bridge leading into Riverwood Ranch. received more than a 1,000 responses. The time was now to clean out the rubbish and non-native plants in the Big Tujunga Wash, and remove anyone that was illegally on private property. Law enforcement agencies
were consulted, the Bureau of Land Management, the Santa Monica Mountain Conservancy, the Mountain Recreation & Conservation Authority and the Angeles National Forest were notified see Clean-up, page 12
Cheryl Griffith leads the kidz in hip-hopping! by Joan
Robinson
There is always excitement in the air as kids react enthusiastically to their hip hop dance classes held every Tuesday at the Sunland Recreation Center. Twenty five young people display genuine dance talent when they were perform in unison to hip hop routines
by the end of each class. The energy of their professional instructor spreads through the entire class as they dance, dance and dance the hour away. The class is open to all kids who “Just Wanna Dance.” They move, they sway, they kick, they play, they dance to see Hip hop, page 10
Homeless Person Gives LAPD a Hand Unclaimed hand marks third possible homicide in four weeks in the Sunland-Tujunga area by
David DeMullé
Investigators were looking for more body parts above Sunland-Tujunga early Monday afternoon, a day after camper Joey Washburn discovered a human hand in the “Green Hill” area of the Big Tujunga Canyon. The Foothills Paper responded to a caller from the Chapel of the Hills and went to Oro Vista Place to look at what was reported to be a human hand. The LAPD and the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department arrived on scene and after everybody looked at the hand, covered it with a piece of plastic and declared the area to be a crime scene. “I looked down and there it
was: a hand, a skeletal hand,” Washburn said. “The backside of the hand was laying up. I could see the fingernails, and I went ‘That’s a hand.’ It was white, and some of the skin was still on it.” Lt. Fred Corral of the L.A. County Coroner’s office made the determination that it was in fact human. As the day went on, more investigators arrived and searched the lower part of the wash. The discovery was just weeks after the body of Julia Moniz was found near a homeless camp in the same area under suspicious circumstances. The hand is the third incident in four weeks during which the coroner visited S-T to retrieve human remains.
Mummified hand found in the Big-T
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