BAILOUT: The President may have saved the...

BAILOUT: The President may have saved the county health-care system (A1), but Jess and Lucy Aldaz, who work at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar, aren’t letting down their guard quite yet. . . . “The money is here but people are still saying they are going to look for another job,” Lucy said. “Having a county job used to be a good job but maybe not anymore.” . . . “There is still tension here,” said Jess, “but I sense a little bit of hope in employees.”

AUTUMN CHILL? This is the first day of fall, and the weather feels like it’s turned oh, so cool. But that may only be because we’re used to it being oh, so hot. It’s cool at night but still up to the 80s and 90s during the day, which is pretty darned warm in some parts of the country. Expect the next few days to be about the same.

PUPPY LOVE: Four gray fox pups and their parents recently found their way into Joseph Denker’s back yard in Studio City. Denker said the adult foxes brought the young ones in and then turned them loose, leaving the yard’s “hunting ground” to their offspring. The gray fox is indigenous to the hills around Los Angeles, but there aren’t very many this close to the city. “I saw something fuzzy in the yard and I thought, ‘There’s that cat again,’ ” Denker said. “Then I saw a pointed nose and all of a sudden there’s a fox. Then I saw all six.” The babies pass through the yard every night now.

BOW WOW: The first professional hockey game to be played in the Valley is set for Sunday at 5 p.m. at the Iceoplex in North Hills. The Los Angeles Ice Dogs, who moved here from San Diego to play at the Sports Arena in L.A., will play an exhibition game against the Phoenix Roadrunners. Team spokeswoman Ann Victor said it only gets weird playing hockey here when it’s real hot outside. Still, she said, “the San Fernando Valley is a real hotbed of hockey.” No pun intended.