For the record - March 7, 2011
Frank Chirkinian: The obituary of sports television producer Frank Chirkinian in the March 5 LATExtra section said that Chirkinian produced the first PGA Championship in 1958. It was the first televised PGA Championship. The first PGA Championship was held in 1916.
L.A. school board elections: An article in the March 6 LATExtra section about Los Angeles Board of Education elections referred to Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary as a new school. The campus opened in 1925, according to district records, and was later renamed after the late track star, who grew up nearby.
Goat grazing: An article in the March 6 Section A about the use of goats to clear invasive weeds in the Palos Verdes Nature Preserve referred to boar goats. The correct term is Boer goats.
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