Oakdale

Oakdale Market, believed to be the city's oldest business, is closing its doors, unable to keep up with competition from a growing wave of chain stores that offer high volume and discount prices. After 60 years as a grocery store, the 6,500-square-foot building will be leased to antique dealers beginning in July, owner Charlie Weiss said. "It's sad," Weiss said. "We're sitting on what was my house for eight years. It's nostalgic--part of the family history."

Hostages in the 12-day takeover at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary will get $1,000 bonuses, extra pay and vacations, officials said, while the total cost of two Cuban uprisings was put at tens of millions of dollars. Abdul-Saboor Rushdan, a guard who was one of four hostages released Dec.

On a warm May weekend in this Central Valley town, the irony was as thick as melting fudge. As usual, the annual Chocolate Festival was drawing hordes of fun-seekers. However, they were streaming in by the thousands just two weeks after Hershey Co. -- Oakdale's biggest employer and the nation's biggest candy company -- announced its plan to close its sprawling plant, eliminate all 575 jobs and open a new factory in Monterrey, Mexico.

If it's lunchtime at Gardena Serra and 6-foot-7, 360-pound offensive tackle Emerald Faletuipapai walks into a room, everyone hides his or her food. "I eat anything and everything," he said. Said Coach Scott Altenberg : "If there's food anywhere, it must be protected. He's in constant grazing mode. " Faletuipapai is so big that Serra had to order a special helmet to fit his head. "It looks like a flowerpot," Altenberg said. He also wears size 18 shoes. Two of Faletuipapai's brothers played football for Serra.

Watt Investment Properties has started construction on the 72,000-square-foot Oakdale Corporate Center, the final building in the 50-acre Northridge Business Park in Chatsworth. When completed early next year, the $6-million structure will be Watt's 19th building in the business park.

Epstein, Rose, 88, of Thousand Oaks, retired secretary for the Thousand Oaks Medical Group. Groman-Eden Mortuary, Mission Hills. Logsdon, Hazel Enola, 96, of Modesto, formerly of Santa Paula, retired dietitian with Oakdale Valley District Hospital. Skillin Carroll Mortuary, Santa Paula. Information on Ventura County deaths is provided by cooperating mortuaries.

Four industrial buildings, valued at $19 million, will be built by Santa Fe Pacific Realty Corp., Pasadena, at the 160-acre Northridge Business Park in Northridge. Situated at the southwest corner of Oakdale Avenue and Prairie Street, the free-standing concrete tilt-up structures will range from 36,781 to 60,282 square feet. Oltmans Construction Co., Whittier, is general contractor, and the Nadel Partnership, Santa Monica, architect.