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May 7, 1992 | BLAINE HALLEY
A McDonald's restaurant manager has been appointed to the Lancaster Planning Commission and a Rockwell International project engineer has joined the city's Parks, Recreation and Arts Commission. Newly elected Councilman George Runner named Ken Mann, 39, to the Planning Commission and Bill Behnke, 41, to the parks panel. The appointments were unanimously confirmed by the full council on Monday night.
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August 13, 1991 | DAVID COLKER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Lancaster, once a sleepy desert outpost, is now a city of 100,000 with a burden of big city problems--drugs, the homeless, overdevelopment, corruption, crowded schools and even gangs. Just when it seemed Lancaster had confronted all the usual metropolitan woes comes a new one: art wars. Lancaster's first attempt to institute a public art program to put donated paintings in city-owned buildings has broken down amid battles over who controls the program and chooses the art.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 13, 1991 | DAVID COLKER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Lancaster, once a sleepy desert outpost, is now a city of 100,000 with a burden of big city problems--drugs, the homeless, overdevelopment, corruption, crowded schools and even gangs. But just when it seemed that Lancaster had confronted all the usual metropolitan woes comes a new one: Art wars. Lancaster's first attempt to institute a public art program to put donated paintings in city-owned buildings has broken down amid battles over who controls the program and chooses the art.
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November 16, 1990 | JOHN CHANDLER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The tumblin' tumbleweeds of Western song and lore, now becoming suburban pests, met the machine age Thursday. It was Machines 1, Weeds 0. As about three dozen county officials and area residents looked on with delight, a pair of large tractor-borne mowers plowed through one of the toughest tumbleweed fields the Antelope Valley had to offer, converting the pesky plants into desert mulch.