SHOPPING: It’s official. Bloomies is coming to...
SHOPPING: It’s official. Bloomies is coming to the Valley (B1). And Fashion Square Sherman Oaks is getting the store synonymous with Manhattan fashion. If the city OKs the deal, Bloomingdale’s will be located where The Broadway is now. But it will be bigger. . . . The mall owners have asked for the OK to expand the Broadway space.
NATIVE SONS: Hamilton, Ohio, in the news as the birthplace of accused serial killer and former Van Nuys resident Glen E. Rogers, has other significance for the Valley. The city was also the birthplace of Charles Francis Richter, inventor of a widely used scale for measuring earthquakes. . . . Richter, whose scale we’ve come to know only too well, was born in 1900.
KNOW-IT-ALLS: Dale Shuger, above, top scorer in the LAUSD academic decathlon last year, will be competing again Saturday at Cal State Dominguez. Her presence is one reason the team at El Camino High School is strong. . . . But so is the Taft High School team. And don’t forget up-and-coming Grant High, says El Camino coach Dave Roberson. Saturday’s Super Quiz is the only decathlon event open to the public.
PAY UP: Former Valley lawmaker Alan Robbins made the Fair Political Practices Commission’s first “deadbeat” list Wednesday. . . . Though the convicted felon paid his debt to society, he still owes the watchdog agency $15,000. The commission hopes to collect from Robbins and a dozen other scofflaws. Robbins’ fine came from not reporting income on economic interest reports.
DREAM COME TRUE: When he coached football at CSUN, Bob Burt could only dream of taking his team to the playoffs. Now as coach at Lake Elsinore’s Temescal Canyon High School, the playoffs are no dream. His team, with a 9-1 record, finished second in its league and faces Mayfair at Bellflower High at 7:30 tonight.
