SIGN-OFF: A Chatsworth billboard for a North...

SIGN-OFF: A Chatsworth billboard for a North Hollywood strip club has been, uh, stripped of its scantily clad model. . . . Meanwhile, two smaller signs for Industrial Strip have popped up nearby. Activist and parent Michele DeGaetano complained that the signs were unfitting for a place where kids walk by daily. She’s now working on the smaller, less explicit signs and has been promised they’ll come down, too.

FREE SPEECH: Over at Industrial Strip, co-owner Kevin Wasko is annoyed but philosophical about the billboard brouhaha. “She’s entitled to complain, the same way I’m entitled to advertise,” he said. “Unfortunately, she believes she should dictate what everyone should look at.” . . . Others agree with DeGaetano: Similar billboards were recently removed in West Hills. And Friday, Wasko said, someone painted over yet another sign. “It tells me the ads are working.”

TURKEY TRAVEL: Flying home for Thanksgiving out of Burbank Airport this week? You’ll be joined by about 31,000 Thanksgiving travelers angling for a parking spot, skycap or aisle seat. . . . That’s roughly 30% more fliers than are usually at the airport. To make your way through the crowd, see Valley Briefing (B2).

SOLDIERING ON: In North Hollywood, a play about Vietnam War veterans called “Welcome Home Soldier” is going strong after more than four years. It focuses on their harsh U.S. reception. “There are veterans who have come to see it 40 and 50 times,” said Playhouse West theater owner Robert Carnegie. “It becomes like therapy for them.” The play runs the first Saturday of each month. Proceeds go to veterans’ causes and vets get in free. For info: (818) 441-8670.

WORSHIP: The good word out of North Hollywood? Pope John Paul II has named Joseph Younan, founder of Jesus Sacred Heart Syriac Rite Catholic Church, to head a new archdiocese to serve the 25,000 Syriac Catholics in North America. . . . Younan will base his missionary and educational group in Newark, N. J. B3