Rancho Park

Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in nine L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of Los Angeles Police Department data by the Los Angeles Times' Crime L.A. database . Six neighborhoods reported a significant increase in violent crime. Valley Glen (A) was the most unusual, recording nine reports compared with a weekly average of 2.8 over the last three months. Rancho Park (G) topped the list of three neighborhoods with property crime alerts.

Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in nine L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of Los Angeles Police Department data by the Los Angeles Times' Crime L.A. database . Six neighborhoods reported a significant increase in violent crime. Valley Glen (A) was the most unusual, recording nine reports compared with a weekly average of 2.8 over the last three months. Rancho Park (G) topped the list of three neighborhoods with property crime alerts.

I was very upset to read Edward J. Boyer's article about the plight of the golf teachers at Rancho Park Golf Course ("The Wise Man of Rancho Park," Dec. 14). Removing them strikes me as wrong. Having a PGA card is not a prerequisite for being a good teacher. I hope steps will be taken to keep them employed. Josh Goldstein Via the Internet Editor's note: Representatives from the office of L.A. City Council member Jack Weiss and the Department of Recreation and Parks recently met with the management at Rancho Park Golf Course.

If you drive through Cheviot Hills and Rancho Park and see the orange-and-black signs peppering front lawns, you might get the impression that these neighborhoods solidly oppose the coming of the Expo light-rail line. "Kids and Trains Don't Mix," they shout, and "Don't Let the Train Block the Road. " But the reality is quite different. Every weekend for the last couple of months, a group of us have been walking door to door, talking to our neighbors about the Expo Line that will soon connect our community to downtown Los Angeles, Santa Monica and points in between.

Construction is scheduled to start next month on a system of storm drains along and near the southern edge of Rancho Park Golf Course. The system, designed to prevent flooding during winter storms, will take two to three months to complete, according to an announcement from County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn's office. Four streets in the area--Lorenzo Drive, Cresta Drive, Monte Mar Drive and Cresta Place--will be closed to through traffic some of the time while the work is being done.

The yearly Jewish Festival will be held Sunday at Rancho Park, with attractions including a chicken soup-making contest whose winner will be awarded free round-trip tickets to Israel. Organizers said the Los Angeles Jewish community's campaign to raise $36 million to help resettle Soviet emigres in Israel will be featured during the daylong event, which begins at 10 a.m.

Notre Dame Academy, a private Catholic girls' school in Rancho Park, is one of 222 schools nationwide to be named a Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. The schools were selected from 490 nominated schools and were evaluated on leadership, teacher growth, a "rigorous core curriculum" and strong parent and community support. Schools were asked to report their progress toward achieving national education goals adopted by President Bush and the nation's governors.

Raymond Floyd tried the Ralphs Senior Classic on for size and it was a perfect fit. Floyd, breaking out of the pack with three birdies on the first five holes Sunday at Rancho Park, held off the challenge of Isao Aoki to win the $600,000 tournament by three shots. In his sixth appearance on the Senior PGA Tour, Floyd set a tournament record with a final-round nine-under-par 62 and a 54-hole total of 195, 18 under par and a record by five shots.

John Edmond Jr., a popular longtime instructor at the storied Rancho Park Golf Course in West Los Angeles whose threatened job loss in 2003 sparked a flood of protest, died Monday at a West Hills hospice. He was 67. The cause was complications of lymphoma, said his daughter, Victoria Edmond-Davis. Edmond, who trained hundreds of players during his 37 years as a teaching pro at the city-owned course, was known for his ability to instill confidence and improve his students' games with hands-on instruction, uncomplicated advice and a buoyant outlook about life as well as about golf.

The U.S. Postal Service has approved plans to build a new Rancho Park post office at 11214 Exposition Blvd., near the intersection of the San Diego and Santa Monica freeways. Construction is scheduled to start in October, 1990, and be completed a year later. The new facility will provide customer services for the Rancho Park area and will also serve as headquarters for letter carriers for the Rancho Park and West Los Angeles post offices.

John Edmond Jr., a popular longtime instructor at the storied Rancho Park Golf Course in West Los Angeles whose threatened job loss in 2003 sparked a flood of protest, died Monday at a West Hills hospice. He was 67. The cause was complications of lymphoma, said his daughter, Victoria Edmond-Davis. Edmond, who trained hundreds of players during his 37 years as a teaching pro at the city-owned course, was known for his ability to instill confidence and improve his students' games with hands-on instruction, uncomplicated advice and a buoyant outlook about life as well as about golf.

THANK YOU, Joe Robinson, for your extremely relevant and perceptive "When Parking Gets Personal," March 20, on the quandary of community social relations and the volume of cars in most of Los Angeles. I have, thus far, not been too bedeviled by this, but my dear mother who lives close by has indeed. It is a constant concern of hers. Her immediate neighbor, who is a very decent woman otherwise, turned her garage into a bedroom, I believe, and her cars et al.

I never thought it would happen, but here we were, driving away from our house and garden for the last time, leaving our beloved California, moving to a new state. After friends and neighbors, I suppose what I'll most miss is the dirt. Gardeners will understand. Good soil is hard to come by, and this neighborhood had good soil to begin with -- what's called sandy loam, easy to dig in yet rich enough to make plants grow big and fast.

Glenn Bunting 9 HANDICAP Torrey Pines (San Diego): SoCal's Pebble. Where else can public walk on and play U.S. Open course? Worth every penny. Great views. Stay at the lodge and play South & North. Rancho Park (Los Angeles): Great history. Great track. The gem of LA munis. Green fees under $30 won't last forever. Par threes all tough. Don't miss Arnie's plaque on No. 18 tee. Rustic Canyon (Moorpark): A touch of Scotland in Simi Valley. Terrific bargain. Friendly staff.

Shop like a star, or possibly with one, at F&S Fabrics. The 50-year-old institution spreads its silk, satin, chenille, Belgian linen and assorted fine fabrics from Italy, France and Germany like a fabulous patchwork quilt on the walls and shelves of four different shops--all within a block of each other. One shop is dedicated to apparel and contains a button department and a room full of colorful ribbons. The other three specialize in fabrics for upholstery.

Six thousand feet up Cuyamaca Peak, more than a month into springtime, a frigid wind blew fog around giant blackened conifers. Ice pellets clicked down through the trees' naked boughs as Michael Wells crouched amid a scattering of second-year pine seedlings. He had begun to wonder whether a new generation of pines could get a foothold here.

Wells Fargo Bank has announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those involved in the robbery of the bank's Rancho Park office on Jan. 9. Bank officials said the robbery occurred about 10 a.m. when two gunmen entered the branch, at 10789 Pico Blvd., herded customers and employees into a vault, loaded cash into bags and fled. There were no injuries.

Bosnian food? Bosnia has been in the news for years, but its cuisine is something most of us have never known. The closest we came was in the 1980s, when there were a fair number of Yugoslav restaurants around town and one of them announced it was going to add a Bosnian room. At the time I assumed it would serve the same dishes as the rest of the house (shish kebabs, stuffed vegetables, strudel-like pastries), only in a room with a more Turkish decor, since most Bosnians are Muslims.

"Ex-Enron Chief's Legacy Takes Especially High Toll on Smaller Companies" (James Flanigan, July 11) makes brief reference to the depredations of Kenneth Lay and the other managers of Enron, then goes on at great length to bemoan the fact that the very inadequate remedy that Congress applied will have costs associated with it. How typical of this country's economic philosophy these days -- that nothing must interfere with the making of money, not...