NO CLINTON: President Clinton has chosen the...

NO CLINTON: President Clinton has chosen the crisis in Haiti over the campus in the Valley, canceling his Sunday visit to Pierce College (B1). The President was also to meet with the Northridge Little League team and the Taft High Academic Decathlon winners. . . . “We’re disappointed,” said Mary Lee, Pierce’s president, estimating about 2,000 people would have shown up for his visit.

FIVE MORE YEARS: The Paramount Ranch near Agoura Hills has scored another success with Hollywood. CBS Entertainment Productions signed a new five-year agreement with the National Park Service to continue filming the TV show, “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” at the ranch. . . . “It’s a wonderful place to be able to work,” said Jane Seymour, the show’s star.

SENTENCED: Mary Ellen Samuels (above) got the death sentence Friday, becoming only the fifth woman on the state’s Death Row. Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Michael R. Hoff sentenced Samuels for orchestrating the murders of her husband and the man she hired to arrange his death (B1). . . . Susan Conroy, Robert Samuels’ sister, blamed his murder on “greed. She must now face the consequences of her actions.”

BIRTHDAY GIRLS: Don’t call the Happy Birthday Girls of Leona Valley sexist. Call them practical. “We’ve never gotten around to inviting the men,” says member Gloria Bryant O’Brien. “Of course, they never outlive us, so that may have something to do with it.” (B22) . . . The women, “approaching their 70s” or beyond, meet every four months to mark birthdays and trade gossip.

HOME COOKING: After being blown out 40-19 in Boise last week, Cal State Northridge’s football team hopes to turn things around in tonight’s home opener against UC Davis. But it won’t be easy. . . . “They have a bunch of guys stockpiled in the program,” says Matadors Coach Bob Burt. (C15).