San Dimas

The Puddingstone Channel between Bonita Avenue and Arrow Highway will be widened and rebuilt under a $643,609 contract awarded by county supervisors to Belczak & Sons Inc. of Orange. Work on the channel, which runs near the La Verne-San Dimas border, is scheduled for completion within six months.

Wild Rivers' endless summer is finally over. The Orange County water park that had been living on borrowed time for the last five seasons is now just a memory. After more than a quarter of a century of water slides and wave pools, Wild Rivers failed to secure another lease extension from the Irvine Co., which owns the land and plans to build apartments on the property. A post on the Theme Park Review fan site features two dozen photos showing the progress of the ongoing demolition work.

A hillside near the heavily traveled 10 and 57 freeways in San Dimas collapsed during rush hour Thursday morning, sending tons of dirt and boulders tumbling onto traffic lanes and shutting down two transition roads. The transition roads will probably remain closed for at least a week while work crews clean up debris, repair the road and shore up the hillside. There were no reports of injury, but the landslide reduced traffic to a bumper-to-bumper crawl for commuters traveling west on the 10 Freeway and north on the 57, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Three women were killed Saturday afternoon in San Dimas when their jet ski crashed into a powerboat, injuring four others, authorities said. The collision between the Sea-Doo watercraft and the boat occurred about 4:30 p.m. in Puddingstone Reservoir at Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park, said Matt Levesque, a Los Angeles County Fire Department inspector. "It was a pretty severe accident in the middle of the water," Levesque said. The three people killed — ages 25, 35 and 60 — were not identified, he said.

More than 500 San Dimas High School juniors and seniors will pledge at a Friday morning rally not to drink or take drugs and drive during their prom on Saturday. Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block and former Los Angeles Dodger Tommy Davis will speak during the 8:50 a.m. gathering in the school gymnasium. The event is sponsored by the San Dimas sheriff's station.

Three women were killed Saturday afternoon in San Dimas when their jet ski crashed into a powerboat, injuring four others, authorities said. The collision between the Sea-Doo watercraft and the boat occurred about 4:30 p.m. in Puddingstone Reservoir at Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park, said Matt Levesque, a Los Angeles County Fire Department inspector. "It was a pretty severe accident in the middle of the water," Levesque said. The three people killed — ages 25, 35 and 60 — were not identified, he said.

A 34-year-old San Dimas man has been charged with burglary, assault with a deadly weapon and receiving stolen property in connection with his alleged attempt two weeks ago to run over a San Dimas city councilman who tried to stop the man by firing warning shots. Raymond Gordon Lewis, who authorities said was found in possession of saddles stolen from a neighbor of Councilman Sandy McHenry, remained in county jail Thursday in lieu of $25,000 bail. On Sept.

The City Council has called for a historical evaluation of a 100-year-old house built by San Dimas developer William Johnston. The resolution was prompted by a developer's proposal to build an 80-unit townhouse complex on the property in the 400 block of San Dimas Road, south of Arrow Highway. The resolution passed 5 to 0, even though developer Donald Reese told the council that he does not intend to tear down the house.

A public forum will be held today to gather input on a proposed San Dimas 2000 Learning Center. The center would reflect President Bush's America 2000 educational goals, in which business and community leaders band to help restructure education. Planners envision a learning center that would be open to children, adults and senior citizens and contain the latest high-tech learning programs. To accomplish this, community and business leaders would work closely with existing San Dimas schools.

Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar, a casual-dining restaurant chain, will open its first Los Angeles-area outlet in San Dimas in late July. Construction will start soon on the 5,346-square-foot restaurant, which will seat 198.

In the quiet San Dimas office park that is longtime Rep. David Dreier's local headquarters, the Republican's staff members gamely tried to ignore the headlines from Sacramento. It was business as usual in the stately suite despite just-released maps of proposed new electoral districts. Dreier was in Kyrgyzstan, a staffer said, leading a bipartisan delegation. But southwest of San Dimas, in El Monte — part of the proposed new district that includes Dreier's San Dimas home — the commenting on the Citizens Redistricting Commission's maps had already begun.

Montana's Where: 657 W. Arrow Highway, San Dimas When: Friday and Saturday 6 p.m.-2 a.m.; dance lessons, 7 p.m. (Friday partner dances; Saturday line dancing) Price: $5 before 9 p.m.; $10 after Info: (909) 592-2211; http://www.dancingatmontanas.com

"Cowboy Cha Cha!" DJ Rick Siana calls over the loudspeaker, indicating the dance on deck. Gentlemen in head-to-toe western garb put down their Coors Lights and politely invite women in cowgirl getups to be their partners. The couples find spots on the dance floor beneath a bedazzled horse saddle that hangs in place of a disco ball. Soon enough, the dancers fall into perfect unison to the twangy country beats, maneuvering tricky turns without so much as disturbing the cowboy hats on their heads.

Different lives Re "Four walls and a bed," series, and "'Shop and tell' videos bring girls clout, swag," Aug. 1 The juxtaposition of these two stories could not have been more striking. In Sunday's Times, we read a cover story about homeless, hopeless people on Skid Row trying merely to survive — and a selfless, dedicated angel devoted to helping them. We also read a story about teen "haulers," who use Mommy and Daddy's credit cards to bring home mall merchandise to tout or bash for online subscribers.

Yvonne B. Burke, who left office as a Los Angeles County supervisor in 2008, has returned to the Hall of Administration as a registered lobbyist. Burke recently filed paperwork showing that she accepted $10,000 in January to represent East Shore RV Park, a company that leases county land to operate a campground on the banks of Puddingstone Lake near San Dimas. The company is seeking to expand the camping area into an area with a sensitive wildlife habitat, as well as extend the timeframe of its lease.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is conducting an internal investigation into allegations that a lieutenant in San Dimas went to the home of a co-worker and sexually assaulted her. The accused lieutenant, Michael Rodriguez, has been reassigned to the Cerritos station as a result of the investigation. According to a complaint filed with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the woman alleges that she was sexually harassed for more than a year, accusing the lieutenant of sending her inappropriate text messages and hugging her at work "in order to rub himself against her breasts."

The San Dimas City Council has voted 3 to 2 to deny a permit for the sale of wine and beer at a proposed AM-PM mini-market on the northwest corner of Arrow Highway and San Dimas Avenue. The vote came after residents said the area already has too many liquor outlets, although a city staff report stated that the state Office of Alcoholic Beverage Control had said the concentration of liquor licenses in the area is not high. Although the market is owned by Atlantic Richfield Co.

The California Highway Patrol closed off the transition road from the westbound 10 Freeway to the northbound California 57 on Sunday morning after a 100-foot section of a San Dimas hillside came down. Motorists traveling near the hillside reported the landslide around 9 a.m. "We received several calls from motorists who either saw dirt coming down or saw that a large amount of it had come down," said Officer Francisco Villalobos of the California Highway Patrol. "Officers went out to inspect the hillside, and sure enough, a portion of it had come down, so the transition road was closed off."

A hillside near the heavily traveled 10 and 57 freeways in San Dimas collapsed during rush hour Thursday morning, sending tons of dirt and boulders tumbling onto traffic lanes and shutting down two transition roads. The transition roads will probably remain closed for at least a week while work crews clean up debris, repair the road and shore up the hillside. There were no reports of injury, but the landslide reduced traffic to a bumper-to-bumper crawl for commuters traveling west on the 10 Freeway and north on the 57, according to the California Highway Patrol.