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First things first: I was reminded by an ad in Long Beach's Grunion Gazette that today is the day to take Mom out for a brew (see photo).
With a batting average of nearly .500, outfielder/pitcher Aaron Hicks has shown he is an impact player for Long Beach Wilson High -- in more ways than one.
For your unclear-on-the-concept file, the Star News, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department publication, reports the unusual case of a man who had been given a fix-it citation for a broken brake light.
Was it a coincidence or another unfavorable economic indicator? Ken Ayeroff of Beverly Hills notes that the Troubadour club recently announced the cancellation of a gig by a group called Big Business.
Police were summoned to a Claremont restaurant, where an inebriated customer was refusing to pay her bill.
You can imagine my delight when I learned that an area near my mother's house had been granted "national park" status (see photo). What an honor for West L.A.!
It was a motoring mystery. Several callers complained of backups in both directions on the San Diego Freeway approaching the Sherman Way exit the other night, said traffic reporter Richard Turnage of KFWB-AM (980).
Bicycle traffic was tied up at USC the other morning -- really tied up. Skull and Dagger, the school's mischievous honorary society, wrapped every rack on campus in industrial-strength cellophane, trapping hundreds of the machines (see photo).
Betty Ducharme's family has a sense of humor. When Ducharme, a fashion merchandiser, died the other day at the age of 79, her obituary in the Ventura County Star said: "Betty, you were right: Platforms came back and the bomber jacket never went out of style; as for double knit polyester -- well, no one bats 1,000."
On the Wilshire offramp of the Harbor Freeway, David Chan of L.A. saw a panhandler holding up a sign that said: "Having visions of an IHOP pancake."