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Friday, May 5, 2006 THE SIGNAL A5 SCVCaufornia Charter School Soars High With Plan to Teach Students to Fly in or around the location where his friend died. Sheriff's deputies have also responded on occasion to incidents of public drunkenness in the area, he added. Lt. Steve Low, who recently started working at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff 's Station, said he has received calls from property owners, asking for assistance in responding to reported trespassing and vandalism. Patrol deputies will do extra patrols in the area to respond to the complaints.

Low said. residents walking into the store. Friends of the man found Thursday said he had a drinking problem, although sheriff's deputies could not confirm the cause of death. Local business owners said the area behind the stores is a common place for homeless people to congregate and some workers have noticed people passed out in the alley behind the building. Goonetilleke, who at one point was also without a residence, said people have been known to sleep Continued from page A1 "I knocked on the door, looking for him," Goonetilleke said.

"He was holding a bag in one of his hands but I noticed his skin color was black and purple." Another man died in front of the 7-Eleven, which is located on the same intersection, in January 2005, apparently due to alcohol-related complications, in front of Fine OAKLAND (AP) Hangar Five at Oakland International Airport is an unlikely place for a high school, but a charter school opening there this fall will give students on-the-tarmac training for careers as pilots, flight attendants and aircraft The Oakland Aviation High School is leasing office space at the airport for its first few years of life. The school will give students all the classes required for admission to a University of California campus, with a special emphasis on math and English. Teachers will pay visits to students at home to further emphasize core classes. But the school will also let students take classes toward certifications in the airline industry. "My educational vision is to create the renaissance thinkers of tomorrow, people ho are not only prepared for success in college but also have practical skills they can apply immediately upon graduation," said Jay Dun-lap, the new school's principal.

'The aviation track makes a lot of sense in Oakland in particular: there's a high level of poverty in Oakland, and a lot of under-serving schools, although there has also been a lot of positive change there," Dunlap said. Associated Press Student Torrence Hampton, 13, right, tours Oakland Aviation High School with principal Jay Dunlap, center, In Oakland on April 25. A new charter school will literally take flight this summer when Oakland Aviation High School students can prepare for a career in the wild blue yonder while getting a college preparatory education on the ground. limits for chloride discharge but the paperwork was not sent to officials in Sacramento for approval. "So basically our position is that because that never went into effect we had no limits during this time," Conway said.

Nitrate plus nitrite is a biological stimulant that increases the amount of biological activity in receiving waters. Bishop said. Conway said there was a "slight exceedance of our nitrate plus nitrite effluent limit one time." It was the result of a treatment system upgrade to reduce the ammonia concentration in discharges as required by the board. The process degrades the ammonia through a biological process and there was a "significant reduction" in ammonia discharged into the river afterward, Conway said. "It's not unusual you would have an exceedance during a startup of a new process because it's a biological process," Conway said.

A hearing on the alleged violations will be held sometime in July, when the board could increase the amount of the fine or dismiss the violations. Bishop said. of the test method. So this is not a threat to the environment at all." Sixty-eight of the violations were over the excess discharge of chloride. Bishop said the facility's discharges were in excess of permit levels that aim to meet a protective level of beneficial uses of ground and surface water resources.

Bishop said the permit at the time of the alleged violation was 100 milligrams of chloride per liter, but because a filial permit level for the discharge of chloride is undergoing studies, the district had been operating for the most part on higher interim levels. The excess discharge of chloride could potentially impact agricultural uses down the river. Bishop said, and added that it is under debate. "We believe that we're arguing over an administrative aspect of our permits," Conway said. The debate is "an interpretation of the administrative procedures," he said.

Conway attributes the violations to a "paperwork gap" in which the board approved new Continued from page A1 Valencia. Different statements regarding the alleged violations were made between officials with the County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County, of hich the local district is one out of 24 districts, and staff with the state board. At the time of the alleged violation, the district's level for the discharge of cyanide a toxic compound into the Santa Clara River was 5.2 micrograms per liter, said Jonathan Bishop, an executive officer with the state board. "You don't want to have cyanide in your receiving waters," said Bishop, who added that such waters are used for the recharge of groundwater and drinking water Vicki Conway, assistant manager of the technological services department for the county sanitation districts, said the 15 cyanide violations stemmed from a test method that had effluent discharged with a "precursor" of the compound. It would only produce cyanide under "very elevated" pH conditions, "which is not basically real life." "It's not cyanide present in our effluent going out our pipe into the river," Conway said.

"It's an artifact "A lot of students are not' prepared for college nor looking at college as an option." With its dearth of skilled workers, the Oakland airport must also import employees from other regions a situation the new school could help turn around, he said. Oakland Aviation will be one of only a handful of such schools tailored to careers and furthering education in the airline industry. Program director Leah Casey said she knew of only two others in the nation, one in New York, the other in Seattle. j-- SIPJ rrrTTTrrrr? Rates Continued from page A1 Water Quality Control Board proposed a chloride discharge level of 100 milligrams per liter into the river as part of a settlement reached between involved parties. It's a tough standard to meet, said Steve Maguin, assistant manager with the sanitation districts.

It's so tough that a $350 million reverse-osmosis treatment facility upgrade would be necessary to meet that proposed level, Maguin said. Should that project be necessary, Maguin said household wastewater treatment rates would triple or quadruple by hundreds of dollars, possibly in the $500 to $600 annual range should it have to be pursued. Maguin labeled the 100 mil districts be held to the same standard as everybody else," Laird said. "We feel that there is a real risk of rendering the water within the Santa Clara River watershed unusable by agriculture." Maguin said the studies should yield a chloride discharge limit level acceptable to all parties. "The whole point of the studies is to have a scientifically valid number as a regulatory number" Maguin said.

"We want to know we have the right number before we spend taxpayer dollars to meet it." A public hearing on the proposed rate increase will be held June 13 at 4 p.m. at City Council Chambers by the SCV Sanitation District's board of directors. The board consists of the mayor of Santa Clarita, a second council member and Fifth District Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich. ligram level as scientific basis." Studies are being conducted to determine a level.

They should be completed by 2010 and are part of a 13-year process: four years for studies, one year for review by the board and eight years for construction of a reverse osmosis system, should it be necessary. "We'll actually know by (May of) year four what's really going on for us," said Vicki Conway, assistant manager of the technological services department for the county sanitation districts. Rex Laird, chief executive officer of the Farm Bureau of Ventura County, said the 100 milligram level should be adhered to by the sanitation districts and that it is in effect in Fillmore and Santa Paula, which pay higher household rates. "All we're simply asking is that the Los Angeles sanitation Eternal Valley Memorial Park Mortuary 23287 North Sierra Hwy. Newhall, CA 91321 661-259-0800 l' 26536 Ruether Ave.

604 818-365-3292 FD 1 163 Santa Clarita, CA 91350 i mi ucul If Newscast Continued from page A1 dent Bali Bock, who produced the school's first live cable television newscast from SCVTV Channel 20, available to Comcast and Time Warner Cable subscribers throughout the Santa Clarita Valley. "We made a mistake. It was really frustrating. On camera it was only three or four seconds. We kept going.

It didn't stress us out or freak us out." For the live shoot, the crew of 11 students comprising anchors, control room personnel and camera operators moved their operation from the COC studio to the professional cast was a huge step for RTVF, Brill said. "We. never had an opportunity to do an actual live broadcast. The buzz created by that will be a positive thing, and we'll have more students come through the program," he said. "At zero-zero (hour) it didn't matter if they flubbed a line, if their mic wasn't turned on.

I never saw them that nervous before a show. Once we got finished, they asked 'When are we going to do this The next live broadcast of COC cable television news a mix of college and community nen's will be May 31 at 8:30 p.m. and it will be replayed June at 7:30 p.m. Normal taped airings can be viewed each Thursday at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 20.

SCVTV Channel 20 studio in Newhall, which has the capability of broadcasting live. There were two other "hiccups," said COC instructor Dave Brill. "Three mistakes in a 26-minute show is less than when the shows are being taped," Brill said. In taped shows the crew just does another take, but then the excitement and nervousness of going live is absent. Four years ago, there was barely a radio, television and film department at COC, Brill said.

As the digital technology for television has begun to converge with the technology for filmmaking, more students are entering the field, Brill said. Wednesday night's live broad a Changing vfjorid 1 5:50 a.m. p.m. Golden Valley High School mm 27051 Robert C. Lee Parkway fC- I Newhall, California 1 I sponsored btj Vic's Auto Salon Jl sponsored by William S.

Hart Hi School District A JatJiiciv Skew Antonio, TX and numerous grandchildren. He is also survived by his brothers, Nicholas Pike of Victorville, CA; Thomas Pike of Castaic, CA and David Pike of Isleboro, MA. Services will be held on Sunday, May 7, 2006 at 12:00 p.m. at Eternal Valley Memorial Park, Chapel of the Oaks, 23287 N. Sierra Newhall, CA.

His family wrote, "We'll miss you, The Signal, Santa Clarita, May 5. 2006 sponsored by Castaic Union Schobl District James Edwin Pike James Edwin Pike, 56, died on April 29, 2006 in Los 'Angeles, CA after a long illness. He was born on September 25, 1949 in Fillmore, CA. James resided in Rosamond, CA, after being a long time resident of Santa Clarita, CA. He graduated from Hart High School.

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