Ann Young

MARTIN HENDERSON'S RANKINGS AND COMMENTS *--* Rk Team Div Comment 1. G.G. PACIFICA Div. I Two-time Division III champion steps up in class. 2. CORONA Div. I Brittney Bargar has Panthers eyeing No. 1. 3. ROSARY Div. I Kaitlyn Cochran should drive home the point, and runs. 4. MATER DEI Div. I Catcher Kristen Pocock had 27 RBIs for the Monarchs. 5. RIGHETTI Div. II Best offense and defense in school history, and Jenna Maiden. 6. COR. SANTIAGO Div. I No more Taryne Mowatt, but everyone else returns.

For some time, 13-year-old Deanna Young told Tustin police, she had suspected her parents were using drugs. The first hints, she told officers, were the odor of marijuana and furtive gestures by her parents. Then she found what she believed were marijuana seeds around the house and confronted her mother, police said Wednesday. There were also pleas to her father to quit using drugs, according to other authorities involved in the case. She began flushing marijuana down the toilet, they said.

Bobby Dale and Judith Ann Young, turned in to police by their teen-age daughter for alleged narcotics abuse, asked Tuesday to be placed in a drug education and rehabilitation program. The Tustin couple appeared in Central Orange County Municipal Court not only to ask Judge Manuel A. Ramirez's permission to apply for the diversion program but also to enter not guilty pleas to charges of possessing cocaine. With the agreement of Deputy Dist. Atty. James J.

There are comedians, there are comic actors and, in a class by themselves, there are the great clowns. Chaplin and Keaton come to mind at once, and a strong case can be made that Danny Kaye was the last of the great clowns in our time. (Kaye died in 1987 at the age of 74.) "Danny Kaye: A Legacy of Laughter," an "American Masters" biography airing Sunday at 7:30 p.m. on KCET, makes wonderfully clear why he was indeed a great clown.

Coach of the Year: Melissa Chavez, El Dorado Took over the program at mid-season after previous coach was arrested and guided it to the Division II finals despite defections by two starters. She also was honored in 2002 after guiding Golden Hawks to unexpected title before resigning to begin a family. *--* P Jordan Taylor, Valencia So.

A 53-year-old janitor at Kester Avenue Elementary School has been charged with molesting 11 girls in the fourth and fifth grades, authorities said Wednesday. William Lester Thompson, who has worked for the Los Angeles Unified School District since 1977, pleaded not guilty at an arraignment Tuesday to 11 counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a child, according to police and school district officials. Police said they began an investigation Friday after two girls complained to school officials.

The Salvage Sisters' Guide to Finding Style in the Street and Inspiration in the Attic Kathleen Hackett and Mary Ann Young Artisan, $14.95 The authors of this book present themselves as sisters by blood and in spirit, crusaders for home decor with an unconventional beauty. Based on their modus operandi, their moniker is apt.

Helen Rieder, director of Burbank Temple Emanu El Nursery School, will be honored June 5 at the temple's annual dinner dance. Born in the former Czechoslovakia, the Auschwitz survivor has served the congregation and the Burbank community for 30 years. From her beginnings as the oldest of nine children, to the loss of all but one relative in the Holocaust, to her stint in the Israeli army, Rieder has shown a remarkable spirit that inspires those around her, her friends say.

"Lerner and Loewe: Broadway's Last Romantics" (Channel 28, tonight at 9:05 p.m.) was completed prior to the death of Frederick Loewe on Feb. 14; the tape I previewed still referred to Loewe as living in seclusion in Palm Springs. Presumably this will have been fixed prior to tonight's broadcast. At any rate, Loewe's death adds a sad note of pertinence to this pledge-period scrapbook about the great musical-writing team.