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LAWN CHOKERS: Most people who want pretty...

By Jerry Hicks, Helene Elliott and Davan Maharaj
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LAWN CHOKERS: Most people who want pretty lawns make a common mistake, landscape experts say: Too much water. To teach people how to save water and also improve their lawns, the Yorba Linda Water District is sponsoring a “Fight the Drought” seminar next Saturday afternoon at the city’s Education Center Forum Theater. . . . “Most home landscapes are overwatered by 30 to 50%,” says spokesman Mike Robinson, “and half of all drinking water (in the county) is used to irrigate landscape.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

Davan Maharaj

As editor of the Los Angeles Times Media Group from 2011-17, Davan Maharaj oversaw the largest daily newsgathering organization in the West.

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