GOBS OF JOBS: As many as 1,000...

GOBS OF JOBS: As many as 1,000 jobs will be offered by Northridge Fashion Center merchants at a Saturday job fair. . . . All types of sales positions paying $5 an hour and up need to be filled before the quake-wracked mall’s July 17 reopening. The job fair runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Satellite Student Union at Cal State Northridge. For more information, call (818) 596-4476.

PASSING THROUGH: When Rep. Howard P. (Buck) McKeon (R-Santa Clarita) tours CSUN’s financial aid office today, he’ll be considering whether to pass the buck back to students. . . . The House subcommittee headed by McKeon is considering whether to end a government subsidy program that pays the interest on federal student loans while students are enrolled. Cutting the subsidy would save taxpayers billions of dollars and cost the average student $21 a month over 10 years.

TAGGED OUT: A Van Nuys Municipal Court judge sentenced tagger David Hillo, above, to 905 days in jail Wednesday for crimes ranging from vandalism to grand theft (B1). . . . Hillo stepped into the limelight in January when a passerby, William Masters II, shot him and killed his friend while they were tagging in Sun Valley.

FAMILY WAVELENGTH: Jim and Melissa Sharpe are so proud of their new family that they broadcast their lives. . . . Two weeks after Melissa gave birth, the disc-jockey couple was back on the radio: Jim from KYSR studio in Burbank and Melissa from their Topanga home with baby Marina (F1).

BRIEF EXPOSURE: Fireworks weren’t the only thing generating surprise on July 4. . . . A technical failure at Cablevision Industries in Chatsworth accidentally sent the Playboy Channel to about 50,000 West Valley homes for 15 minutes Tuesday afternoon. The cable service received few complaints, but spokesman Tom Schaeffer called the first-ever glitch “very much of a concern.”