818 Roundup: Burbank Selects New Mayor, Glendale City Council to discuss Weaver comments on groping allegations
Good morning, readers! Today is Friday, May 2. Weather for the Glendale area is expected to drop slightly with a high of 94 and a low of 63 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
In the news from your area:
After eight years of serving on the Burbank City Council, David Gordon was selected – for the first time – to serve as the city’s mayor.
The Glendale City Council are scheduled next week to discuss comments made by one of their own, Dave Weaver, regarding groping allegations. Weaver is currently in out-of-court settlement negotiations with a woman, Lolita Gonzalves, who has accused the councilman of grabbing her breast at a restaurant last year.
A Glendale man attempted to steal and ride off on a child’s bicycle this week, but didn’t get very far after falling and injuring himself, police said.
In La Cañada, former mayor Steve Del Guercio, retired teacher and Boy Scout leader Harriet Hammons and Kyla Bradley, a high school student dedicated to making the area’s homeless feel loved, are among this year’s winners of the Les Tupper Community Service Award.
This Sunday, a coalition of bicycle enthusiasts, businesses and others hopes to make the San Fernando Valley motorless, with a Car Free SFV Earth Day planned along the Los Angeles River Greenway in Studio City, near Valleyheart Drive and Radford Avenue, the Daily News reports.
- Tax breaks offered by competing states and countries appear to have lured away California’s once-booming film and television industry, the Daily News reports, but responding with more subsidies won’t necessarily boost production in the Golden State, a new state report concludes.
-- Sameea Kamal, sameea.kamal@latimes.com
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