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May 1, 1993 | JILL LEOVY
The Deering Business Watch, a Canoga Park anti-crime group, is sponsoring a field trip to the Merle Norman museum in Sylmar on Saturday for about 50 at-risk teen-agers. Byron Matson, curator of the Merle Norman Cosmetics Classic Beauty Collection, a museum of antique cars, furniture and musical instruments, said he is planning to make some allowances for teen-agers who do not meet the museum's formal dress code--a code which bans, for example, blue jeans.
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June 1, 1993 | KURT PITZER
Keep Youth Doing Something (KYDS) is gearing up for two summer softball leagues for 13- to 18-year-olds from low-income families and those at risk of becoming involved in gangs. Starting next week, games will be held at 7 Friday nights at Reseda Park, 18411 Victory Blvd., with a party afterward, including food and, possibly, dancing until about 10 p.m., said Sandy Kievman, an aide to Los Angeles City Councilwoman Joy Picus.
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April 12, 1996 | FRANK MANNING
Seeking to prevent teenage pregnancies and the cycle of poverty that often results, a nonprofit organization has launched a program to offer at-risk girls a way out. The program, "Las Amigas," will be based at Lanark Park in Canoga Park and be run by the nonprofit organization Keep Youth Doing Something, or KYDS. Las Amigas will provide education and counseling to about 15 girls, focusing primarily on pregnancy prevention, said Sandy Kievman, executive director of KYDS.
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April 18, 1997 | CLAIRE VITUCCI
Neil, a Chatsworth High School senior, learned on Thursday what it takes to be a carpenter. Ramon, a Canoga Park High 10th-grader, found out about cable television. The two students were among those "at risk" teenagers who were treated to a day in the business world to give them goals to strive for in life.
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September 27, 1994 | ERIC SLATER
Concerned that the controversial Proposition 187 would damage their community for years to come, a group of Latino activists in Canoga Park called a town hall meeting to discuss the measure. Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block will be among the speakers at the forum, to be held Tuesday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church, 22021 Gault St. in Canoga Park.
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August 15, 1993
An unavoidable side effect of the electoral process is that pet projects are often jeopardized when veteran officeholders are defeated. Unfortunately, the KYDS program, the west San Fernando Valley's largest private nonprofit gang intervention effort, faces just such a situation.