ANTELOPE VALLEY : Activist Appointed to Parks Panel

Elaine Macdonald, a homeowner activist and head of a private Antelope Valley trails group, has been appointed to fill a vacancy on the Lancaster Parks, Recreation and Arts Commission.

The City Council this week ratified Macdonald, 46, as Mayor George Root’s representative on the five-member advisory panel. She is the president of the Antelope Valley Trails, Recreation and Environmental Council and an officer in the Lancaster Coalition of Neighborhood Organizations.

Macdonald is employed by the Eastside Union School District as a computer instructional aide and narrowly missed winning a seat on the district’s school board in November, 1991. She replaces Monroe Pederson, who resigned to pursue a private, parks-related project.