Glendale News Press, CA
Nov 3 2006
POLITICAL LANDSCAPE:
Krikorian starts campaign
More than 200 people showed up at Oakmont Country Club on Oct. 26 to
watch Glendale Unified School District Trustee Greg Krikorian
officially kick off his campaign for City Council.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich spoke at the event.
Other dignitaries attending included former Glendale Mayor Larry
Zarian, Burbank City Councilwoman Marsha Ramos and Glendale City
Council Bob Yousefian. Crescenta Valley Town Council members Steve
Pierce, Sharon Hales, Krista Smiley and Charles Beatty also attended.
Krikorian’s goals include getting the city to stick to its hillside
ordinance more closely.
The election is April 3.
Montrose Shopping Park Assn. President John Drayman has also
officially announced he will run for a spot on the council.
Board moves drug program forward
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved Michael
Antonovich’s motion to direct county staffers to pursue the
possibility of expanding a pharmaceutical disposal program to the
entire county.
The "No Drugs Down the Drain" program informs residents about the
hazards of throwing away medications in places where they can reach
surface waters and negatively affect the environment.
Research has shown that medications in surface waters complicates
human growth and reproduction.
The program encourages county residents to either dispose of medicine
waste at hazardous-waste collection centers or seal them in sturdy
plastic containers before putting them in trash cans.
Group inaugurates new headquarters
The Armenian National Committee of America – a national advocacy
organization that promotes the role of Armenian Americans in U.S.
policy – has inaugurated a new national headquarters in Washington,
D.C.
Armenian-American dignitaries and religious leaders from throughout
the country joined Armenia’s Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian for the
inauguration on Oct. 21.
Oskanian stressed the importance of cooperation between Armenians in
the states and the Armenian government in working on issues of
economic and democratic development in Armenia, and in strengthening
the relationship between the United States and Armenia.
Schiff to speak on Darfur genocide
Rep. Adam Schiff will be holding a Town Hall meeting to discuss the
genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan at 9:45 a.m. today at Alhambra
High School.
Schiff, whose district covers Burbank and Glendale, has held previous
meetings on this topic in Glendale and Pasadena and sponsored
legislation to help get funds for victims.
Among those joining Schiff at the meeting will be Mabior Isaac Amol,
a former Sudan resident who helped start an orphanage in Darfur, and
Father Vazken Movsesian, of In His Shoes Ministries in Glendale,
which is raising money to provide aid to the people of Darfur.
Alhambra High School is located at 101 S. 2nd St., Alhambra, and
visitors must sign in at the school office.