818 Roundup: Trail to bear name of late Burroughs High student, hiking enthusiast; Hit-and-run fatality

Nancy and Bill Proffitt, of Burbank, with a photo of their son Shane, at the Stough Canyon Nature Center on Friday, March 6, 2015. The Proffitts are standing on a roughly 130-foot trail that the Burbank City Council voted to rename the Shane Colin Proffitt Trail for their autistic, trail-loving, 17-year-old son who died recently.

March 9, 2015 7 AM PT

Good morning, 818! Today is Monday, March 9, 2015. Temperatures for today are expected to reach a high of 81 degrees and a low of 51 degrees with mostly clear skies in the evening, according to the National Weather Service.

In case you missed them, here are your local headlines from the weekend:

Nancy Proffitt hopes hiking will be her late son Shane’s legacy. Last week, after a discussion that was at times agonizing for Shane’s parents, the Burbank City Council approved naming a hiking trail at Stough Canyon Park in his memory.
The hit-and-run suspect who fatally struck a 4-year-old girl who ran into oncoming traffic turned himself in to police on Saturday, authorities said.
A small group of Burbank area residents met with officials from the California High-Speed Rail Authority to discuss plans for a bullet-train section running from the Palmdale Transportation Center to a proposed station near the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank.
The number of passengers traveling through Bob Hope Airport declined in December and January, compared to the same months a year prior, but passenger traffic for the 2014 calendar year, as a whole, was essentially flat, according to the latest statistics.
In his latest column, editor Dan Evans comments on the low voter turnout in the Burbank primary election, suggests a change that could improve civic participation, and previews some of the forthcoming changes to the Burbank Leader and Glendale News-Press.