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Airport to install charging units

AIRPORT DISTRICT -- The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport

Authority on Tuesday reached an agreement with Southwest Airlines to

install electric charging units at all Bob Hope Airport aircraft

gates by the end of the summer, according to a press release.

The authority will pay $500,000 to install the charging units,

giving Southwest incentive to switch to electric-powered ground

equipment, Airport Authority President Charles Lombardo stated in the

release. The new units will help reduce air pollution, Lombardo said.

Southwest will replace about 40 diesel baggage tugs, air stairs,

baggage loading conveyors and pushback tractors with battery-powered

equipment by 2005, the release stated. Southwest carries nearly 70%

of airport passengers annually, and operates two-thirds of all

ground-service equipment at the airport.

Jackson Bell

Mixer to feature jackpot drawing

BURBANK -- The Burbank Chamber of Commerce will play host to a

mixer from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at BJ’s Brewhouse, 107 S. 1st

St.

The mixer will include a $75 cash jackpot drawing. Admission is

$10 for members, $15 for guests.

For more information, call 846-3111.

Ryan Carter

Post-production school accredited

NORTHWEST DISTRICT -- Burbank-based Video Symphony Institute of

Entertainment Post Production has received national accreditation

from the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training in

Washington, D.C.

Video Symphony is a local television and film college and career

center that specializes in audio and video editing. The school is

celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Ryan Carter

Unions launch fund for strikers

BURBANK -- Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse

Union launched a campaign Tuesday to raise a health-care defense fund

for striking and locked-out grocery workers, including those in

Burbank.

The goal is to raise more than $1 million for the fund, officials

said.

The unions will immediately make a payment of $155,000 to help the

families most in need keep their health care. Workers at Vons,

Albertsons and Ralphs have been picketing since Oct. 11.

Ryan Carter