Hula Dancers: Three Santa Clarita girls will...
Hula Dancers: Three Santa Clarita girls will be appearing in the Hula Bowl, an annual college football all-star game in Maui, but no grass skirts are involved. Lauren Greenberg, 8; Jillian Jennings, 8; and Kaitlyn Shipley, 10, will join about 70 other dancers at the Jan. 18 game. They are experienced dancers who simply said they wanted to go and could pay their own way.
* STRINGS ATTACHED: Keyshawn Johnson never played CSUN football, but the former USC All-American and first player chosen in the 1996 National Football League draft says that he would love to help the Matadors raise money. One catch: Johnson wants CSUN to first hire his former junior college coach. C13
* SECESSION MAP: Organizers of a movement to pull the San Fernando Valley out of Los Angeles released a map of their proposed new city, making Mulholland Drive a municipal boundary. B1
* GARBAGE OUT: El Nino storms and dumps--a bad combo. About 15,000 tons of garbage a day goes to eight local landfills, such as Sunshine Canyon in Granada Hills, above. Operators labor to keep rains from washing away trash, littering the landscape and polluting waters. B1