The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 685

I Cos Angelas fflmes Feb. 10. i960 7 'GREAT WALL OF LOS ANGELES' Work on the giant Tujunga Wash mural will be continued after additional funds are received. Coldwater Canyon Avenue and Valley College are in background. Timet photo by Harry Chs VAI I FY VAPIFTY Creative Cooking Class L-L.

I -IIL. I I NORTH HOLLYWOOD-A creative cool NORTH HOLLYWOOD-A creative cooking class will Funds Granted for Artists to Paint 400 More Feet of Tujunga Wash Mural be offered at the South Valley YWCA, 5703 Laurel Canyon Blvd. The class will cover the preparation of gourmet meals, including Spanish eggplant, vegetable curry, spinach-mushroom quiche and stir-fried sesame vegetables. Classes will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays for four weeks.

They will begin when enough people register. Expectations for Children TARZANA-'Setting Guidelines and Expectations for Your Child An Act of Love" will be discussed at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at St. Paul's Church, 5619 Lindley Ave.

turn fw Vallty Variety may malM to Pest Office Sra 7457, Ven Nuys 10. Even mint be epen te the public end publicity releeset must contain data, time, places name ef tpemerlM organization end a phono number whore (omeene can bo reached fw additional Information. Material thou Id bo mailed at least two weeks I advance. Boutique, Auction Scheduled STUDIO CITY-The Ballina Hills chapter of Women's American ORT hold a "Have a Heart" luncheon, boutique and auction Tuesday, Feb. 12, at the Sportsmen's Lodge, 12825 Ventura Blvd.

The boutique will be held at 10 a.m. and the luncheon will begin at 11:30 a.m. Cost for both is $15. rue Natural Childbirth Programs Birmingham Uass Reunion van Nuvs-Movies. and kctu about VAN NUYS Movies, slides and lectures about By JOHN MITCHELL Tlmtj Staff Wrltw For a while it seemed that after the 1920s California had simply run out of history.

Work on a massive Tujunga Wash mural telling the state's story was canceled last summer because funds ran out. But this summer the young artists involved will resume their work. Money already has been granted the Social Public Artists Research Center (SPARC), at 681 Venice Blvd. in Venice, to paint an additional two decades of history or 400 feet on its colorful mural. The ultimate goal is a one-mile mural depicting scenes through the year 2000.

The mural is 12 feet high. Often described by center artists as the "Great Wall of Los Angeles," the mural is flanked on two sides by a small park with walkway and bike path, and runs along the west wall of the Tujunga Wash Flood Control Channel adjacent to Valley College, between Burbank Boulevard and Oxnard Street in Van Nuys. It is the longest mural in the city, covering 13 chapters natural was the same," she said. The mural about California's history "gave us the opportunity to bring all of them together so they could learn about each other. The Valley represented a neutral site." In the first year of the project, SPARC hired 80 youths and completed 1,000 feet of mural.

The summer that work resumed 40 youngsters completed 360 feet. Ms. Baca said scenes portrayed in the mural are carefully researched by scholars and artists before representations are drawn. One depicts the Chumash Indians, a local tribe that worshiped the porpoise and inhabited the Santa Monica Mountains. "They were wiped out by the missionaries and are extinct now," she said.

"But they had a population of over a million." Another curious segment illustrates "Tomas (Thomas) Alva Edison," the famous American inventor whom some researchers believe to have been of Chicano descent, said Ms. Baca. "They say there is evidence he was adopted by Americans and his name changed," she said. The work this summer will cover the Great Depression with the Oklahoma migration and the Dust Bowl; the black battalions of World War II; the Japanese relocation camps and the zoot suit riots of 1943. VAN NUYS The Birmingham High School class of childbirth are presented from 7:30 to 10 p.m.

every other Wednesday at Valley Presbyterian Hospital, 15107 Van-owen St. Summer-1970 is planning its 10-year reunion. Louis Ramirez at the school is coordinating. Project Area Panel Election Travel Talk for American ORT NORTH HOLLYWOOD-There will be an election for STUDIO CITY Anne Speigel, community organizations vice president of the San Fernando Valley Women's Conference, will discuss her recent European trip at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb.

14, at the monthly luncheon meeting of the North Hollywood chapter of Women's American ORT at Progressive Savings Loan, 12175 Ventura Blvd. Please Turn to Page 8 13 of 25 seats on the project area committee that guides North Hollywood redevelopment. The election will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, at St.

David's Episcopal Church, 11605 Magnolia Blvd. Nominees must be resident owner occupant, resident tenant, absentee owner, business owner or tenant and representative of a community organization. It is the longest (1 ,360 -foot) mural in the city. (FINE SPECIALTY FURNITURE) Who hey clearance gives you great ideas for places to go stepping out for less than the cost of a shoeshine? in California's history with emphasis on the contributions by various ethnic groups. Each chapter illustration is approximately 100 feet long.

They progress from prehistoric times and the gold rush through the 1920s. Along with work on the scenes this year, the muralists will provide guided tours in honor of the Los Angeles bicentennial. Work on the mural began in the summer of 1976, was continued in 1978 and will start again this summer on scenes of the 1930s and 1940s, said Judy Baca, SPARC'S director. She said she has received assurances from the city that the project will be continued. The young workers will be provided by the city's summer youth programs.

The center has received $20,000 from Project HEAVY and 500 gallons of paint from the Army Corps of Engineers. Ms. Baca said that she hopes to raise an additional for this summer's project from private and public sources. Much of that money will buy equipment such as roller brushes, scaffolding and a truck, she said. SPARC'S goal is to provide work and an educational experience for 40 unemployed youngsters between the ages of 14 and 21, including some who have had minor brushes with the law, Ms.

Baca said. They will work a five-day week and make $3.10 an hour the minimum wage. "They are going to learn some skills, such as how to use a slide rule and work a scaffold, but most important, how to work together," she said, adding that they will be assigned to work with each other in "multi-ethnic crews of 10," mixing youngsters from different neighborhoods, gangs and races. Ms. Baca, who said she considers the project "my special baby," is a veteran in the art of painting murals.

Former director of the Los Angeles Street Mural Program, she was responsible for organizing and helping paint more than 100 murals around the city from 1974 to 1977. Before taking on this project, she supervised a 500-foot mural on 2nd Street in Boyle Heights and another at the Venice Pavilion. But at that time few murals had multicultural themes, she said. "In black neighborhoods, the kids worked on themes about blacks, in Chicano communities the kids worked on murals about Chicanos, and in Japanese neighborhoods it I gaM ij 95 '214 an esf in i-Jis: Good looking, handsome, versatility and thoroughly practical, Ea. unit IB" deep, 50" wide and 72" high with adjustable shelving.

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