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STRAWBERRY FIELDS: Beware, motorists, if you’re traveling...

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STRAWBERRY FIELDS: Beware, motorists, if you’re traveling on Chapman or Euclid avenues in Garden Grove this morning. The city stops about everything for its annual Strawberry Festival Parade. New this year, to keep in step with the times: street line dancing preceding the parade. Biggest parade celebrity: Michael Fishman; he’s the son “D.J.” on TV’s “Roseanne.” . . . The Strawberry Festival, in the Village Green, runs through Monday night.

FANTASY LAND: If you’re enamored of science fiction, there’s 100,000 square feet of it to revel in today and Sunday at the Anaheim Convention Center. The Sci-Fi Mega show will feature comic books, collectibles, CD-ROM games and movie science fiction celebrities (such as Mark Hamill, “Star Wars’ ” Luke Skywalker). . . . Special star: The Youngblood Battlecruiser, a massive space vehicle display housing games and videos. . . . Tickets prices: $10-15.

NEW FAME: Long before Alfredo Amezcua was a graduate of Western State University College of Law in Fullerton (1985), he was a Latino gang member. Since becoming a lawyer, Amezcua, 44, has immersed himself in gang issues, often serving as a mediator between gang members and others. . . . Sunday, Western State will honor Amezcua by placing him in its Hall of Fame during graduation ceremonies. . . . Says Amezcua: “It reaffirms that the American dream is attainable by any member of our society.”

GOAL ZERO: Villa Park is the only city here without a single recorded case of tuberculosis in 1994, according to the county Health Care Agency. And its City Council wants to keep it that way. . . . It has passed a resolution urging residents “to become more informed about the disease to better safeguard their health.” . . . Says Mayor Bob Patchin, who points out that Villa Park residents travel worldwide and can easily come in contact with communicable diseases: “One way to prevent it is through awareness and education.”

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