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TURBULENCE AHEAD: L.A. City Councilman Joel Wachs...

TURBULENCE AHEAD: L.A. City Councilman Joel Wachs will ask fellow council members to appeal a judgment allowing the Burbank Airport to expand. . . . A judge last month paved the way for the project, which would triple the size of the existing terminal. But Wachs said North Hollywood residents’ concerns were unheeded. Said Wachs: “Burbank gets all the economic benefit from the airport, and Los Angeles gets all the noise.”

FRAGMENTED MEMORY: In one terrible instant, Diane Karpel’s family heritage fell apart. . . . Her late grandmother’s crystal punch bowl, which had survived Nazi raids, shattered in the Northridge earthquake, leaving Karpel with two broken shards. But Karpel’s sense of duty remained unshaken. “For months and months, I tried to figure out how I could allow my family to get a piece of this,” Karpel recalls. “Then I had a dream” (B1).

SUNDANCE KIDS: Watch out, Robert Redford. . . . Kristyn Abbadini, above, is coming to town. Abbadini and nine other students from Pacoima Middle School’s Media Magnet are headed to Redford’s Sundance Film Festival in Salt Lake City. The teen-agers will spend a week pitching a script they wrote. Do they have a snowball’s chance in Hollywood? See Valley Life!, Pg. 3. More on the festival itself in Calendar (F1).

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AERIAL VIEWS: It’s the next best thing to flying. . . . From picnic tables to parking lots, there are places to watch airplane takeoffs and landings. All three Valley airports have prime viewing areas where people can observe B-25 bombers or even Boeing 737s. See Valley Life!, Pg. 9.

ENGLISH LESSON: It’s a good thing for the Matadors that Oliver Heitmann needs work on his English. . . . Cal State Northridge’s men’s volleyball star was a question mark for this season, but a spat with the coach of the German national team and a desire to improve his English brings Heitmann back to CSUN, where he should lead the team (C8).

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