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Have a Happy Easter Sunday Happy Easter! While many will spend Easter scoffing Many Christians will go to church for a special chocolate eggs and hunting for the Easter bunny, Easter sermon. Many Christians and non- millions will be celebrating Jesus coming back from the Christians exchange Easter eggs, and a lamb dead. For Christians around the world, Easter is one of roast is common on Easter Sunday. Oh yes, and the most important dates in their religious calendar. of course there’s the egg hunt. And Easter Sunday is the day when Jesus emerged from his tomb after his crucifixion, proving (for Christians) there is life beyond death. Easter Sunday – also known as Resurrection Sunday – is a happy day for Christians, as they believe that Jesus rose from the dead, and that this resurrection symbolises that death is not the end. The week previous to this is known as the Holy Week, and it contains Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. Jesus’s resurrection was on the third day after his crucifixion by the Romans. This was discovered on the Sunday after his death, when Mary Magdalene visited Many of us are familiar with the chocolate his tomb and found that not only had the stone been aspect of Easter. Eggs symbolise new life, as moved, but that the body of Jesus had gone. Jesus was Jesus began his new life after his resurrection seen later that day by Mary, and other disciples and for on Easter Sunday, and cracked eggs are 40 days by many others. The actual word ‘Easter’ does symbolic of an empty tomb. Eating eggs was not appear in the Bible, and there aren’t any early forbidden during the Holy Week. Instead, they church celebrations mentioned. It appears that Easter, were saved, decorated and gifted to children. It like Christmas, developed later in church history. In the wasn’t until the 19th century that the first UK, and other parts of the world, Easter Sunday is a chocolate eggs appeared in France and national bank holiday, and most shops will be closed. Germany, and this tradition has now carried on. TALK OF THE TOWN . Los Angeles councilman wants to look at getting he believes strongly in the objectives of RecycLA," out of city's new recycling program Graham-Caso said. RecycLA was created to expand By DAVID ZAHNISER recycling, improve workers' pay and conditions, and put FEB 13, 2018 | 5:35 PM cleaner burning refuse trucks on the street. It was Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander, established by the council in a series of votes over the said Tuesday that the RecycLA program is failing to last six years. Englander and two colleagues — then- provide reliable trash pickup. (Katie Falkenberg / Los Council Members Bernard C. Parks and Jan Perry — Angeles Times) Los Angeles City voted in 2012 to oppose the plan for carving the city Councilman Mitchell Englander called Tuesday for into 11 commercial refuse zones, with a single hauler his colleagues to look at what it would take to pull operating in each zone. Four years later, Englander out of the city's troubled waste franchise system, voted with the rest of the council to award 10-year known as RecycLA. Englander said the program, contracts — valued at a combined $3.5 billion — to which serves roughly 70,000 businesses, apartment seven haulers, giving each the exclusive right to pick up buildings and condominium customers, is "failing to trash in their respective areas. City officials expect to deliver the basic city service of reliable trash pickup." receive $15.6 million in franchise fees from the His proposal, which heads to a council committee for program this year, and nearly $36 million in 2018-19. review, instructs city lawyers to show the steps RecycLA was launched in July and soon afterward, needed to exit the initiative. "There comes a time customers began bombarding the city with when we must recognize that the fault lies not with complaints about uncollected garbage and bills that the service providers but with the program itself," doubled or even tripled. The biggest increases were Englander said in a statement. The proposal, attributed to a series of extra fees contained in the introduced as a motion on the council floor, comes haulers' contracts, which were vetted by Garcetti nearly a week after council members complained appointees and approved by the council . Haulers have during a six-hour hearing about soaring bills, missed charged extra fees for opening locked garage gates and collections and other problems with RecycLA. One pulling trash bins more than 100 feet to the curb. called the program "an embarrassment," while Nevertheless, one advocacy group said it would be another said the rollout was "a hot mess.“ Englander, "reckless" for the council to end a program that diverts who represents the northwest San Fernando Valley, is waste from landfills, improves air quality and recovers the first on the council to broach the possibility of tons of food for needy families. Under the terms of pulling out of RecycLA. But other council members RecycLA, the city's Bureau of Sanitation recently are signaling that they want to retain the program, gained the power to impose fees and fines on haulers which has drawn huge support from labor leaders, that fail to meet the city's requirements, said Robert environmental groups and Mayor Eric Garcetti. Nothoff, director of waste and recycling campaigns with Councilman Paul Krekorian, who signed Englander's the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, proposal on Tuesday, said he is not looking to exit the which spearheaded passage of RecycLA. "We are initiative. In an interview, the councilman said he already seeing improvements," he said in an email. Still, signed it to obtain options for ending the contracts of some customers are continuing to deal with missed trash haulers who offer poor customer service. "My collections. Vahe Sargsyan, who manages a 35-unit perspective is, everyone who has a franchise needs to apartment building in Tujunga, said one of the city's be held accountable," Krekorian said. haulers failed to pick up recycling at his property Friday Councilman Mike Bonin intends to vote for — a scheduled collection day. "I called them on Friday, Englander's proposal "to hear if exiting the program they promised they would come. They didn't," he said. is a viable option," according to his spokesman, "I called them Saturday morning, they promised they David Graham-Caso. But he too expressed doubts would come. And they didn't." about pulling the plug. "While he wants all options on Sargsyan said a sanitation inspector came to the the table, [Bonin's] strong preference would be to fix property Monday and told him the hauler would be the problems with the program instead of killing the fined. The recyclables were picked up the same day, he program entirely, because said. [email protected] Twitter : @DavidZahniser MORE COMMUNITY California Headed Super Bowl Success Back To Drought, Not only did the Eagles take it to the Pat’s with a Report Says 41 to 33 win on Super Bowl Sunday but this was The Drought Monitor said one of the most exciting games in Super bowl Los Angeles County is in a history. The annual party held at Horace Heidt severe drought, while Estates in the Aloha Room was by far an other regions are in a extraordinary event. Traditional hamburgers and moderate drought. hot dogs were served along with a hint of LOS ANGELES, CA -- California is headed back to a Brooklyn sausage and pepper heroes. drought. At least three counties —Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara —are in a severe drought, while nearly half of the state is in a moderate drought. The dry conditions, which also parts of Nevada and Arizona, are detailed in the latest report by the U.S. Drought Monitor, research compiled by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Drought Monitor said the West Coast is experiencing weather that is more typical for spring than mid-winter. "Reports from drought wells in the southeast part of the state show declines more rapid than experts have ever seen down there, although some of the decline may be due to increased demand as ponds are drying up," researchers wrote. "Temperatures during the last three months have been well above average for much of the Southwest, including California, and this has increased evaporative demand which tends to dry out vegetation, soils, and water resources faster than under normal temperature conditions. The increased Horace Heidt, Jr. Big Band evaporation, combined with low precipitation, has helped expand drought in the Southwest.“ Although the state is able to handle droughts "reasonably well," the state is experiencing "long-term precipitation deficits" in southern California, researchers said. State officials also reported that California's snowpack conditions are at 4.9 inches, 27 percent of the Feb. 1 average. The state of California ended the drought state of emergency in April 2017, about three years after residents were asked to reduce water usage. HH HH They say it’s your Birthday March April 2 – David Ricard 2 – Reecie Compton 3 – Eva Szoboszlai 5 – Ethan Davison M-F 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM 3 – Edgar Carr 8 – Bob Lanning 5 – Damaso Solario 10 – Michael Rodrique Sat 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM 7 – Judy Barton 18 – Ted Holland Please respect our office hours as well as the 8 – Malcolm Burman 19 – Lorraine Sharkey manager’s quality time.