JOB OPPORTUNITY: Psssst! Want a coaching job...

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Psssst! Want a coaching job in the Valley? Plan a buffet lunch with Debby DeAngelis (C9). . . . As the Cal State Northridge athletic official responsible for personnel matters, DeAngelis has her hands full: CSUN currently has 22 coaching vacancies.

WHERE’S BARB?: Challengers for the 5th District City Council seat are accusing rival candidate Barbara Yaroslavsky of ignoring the public and trying to win the election on money and name recognition (B1). Yaroslavsky, blaming scheduling conflicts, has missed 10 candidate forums in the past month. Better make that 11. . . . There’s another tonight at the Valley Cities Jewish Community Center in Burbank . . . but organizers say Yaroslavsky will send a replacement.

FOWL PLAY: Six weeks ago, Yentl flew the coop. . . . The $18,000 prize performing cockatoo disappeared from Terry Rusheen’s Studio City home. When animal-control officers recovered Yentl, Rusheen thought his search was over. He was wrong. They refused to release the bird because Rusheen could not prove ownership. A Mt. Washington man purchased Yentl for $3,000. Fortunately, police who had worked with Rusheen and the bird at benefits for sick children persuaded the new owner to turn over the bird to Rusheen, above. Both men plan to sue the animal-control office in a case that’s definitely for the birds.

ADD ANIMALS: A Sunland resident is due in court today after animal-control officers discovered 15 steel-jawed traps scattered around his home. Authorities believe many of the traps were intended to keep animals out of his garden . . . where marijuana seedlings were growing (B4). “I feel sorry for the poor squirrel who might have got into that stuff,” said Lt. Annetta Vernon of animal control. “He’d have been high for a long time.”

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