"I don't relates Toads Place CT think anyone toad's place ct defines can support the project in its current iteration," Alarcon said. "Councilman Smith is certainly entitled to express his opinion of the project, but my fear is that if Los Angeles does not seize control of this project, the city of Santa Clarita will, and that could lead to negative consequences for" Los Angeles. Santa Clarita officials, however, have said that the plan is far too dense and have shown little interest in supporting it. Alarcon did not rule out supporting the project in some form, but he said that it would have to, at the least, greatly expand protections of wilderness. His motion cleared the planning panel but still needs to go before the budget panel and the full council. Smith has maintained that the city should not process the application because the project is widely opposed and lies outside Los Angeles. "There is not a single elected official anywhere who supports the project," said Mitchell Englander, Smith's chief of staff. Matt Klink, a lobbyist with Cerrell Associates and a spokesman for Las Lomas, declined to comment, saying he had not seen Smith's letter. steve. hymon. As the Diocese of Orange's written pledge of transparency was burned to ashes by protesters outside an Orange County courthouse, a judge unsealed testimony Thursday revealing that Bishop Tod Brown had been accused of molesting a boy early in his priesthood. The allegation was privately denied by Brown when it was lodged 10 years ago, dismissed as baseless after an internal investigation by church officials, and a short time later found not credible by police and prosecutors who looked into the complaint. But lawyers representing a woman suing the diocese in a sex-abuse case argue that Brown's decision to keep the accusation from the public contradicts a central tenet of his "Covenant With the Faithful" promising openness with followers. They say his suppression of the information also raises questions about his leadership and about what else he and church officials might be hiding. "Given that you've asserted your innocence did you ever consider simply making this allegation public.

so if it ever came out, you wouldn't look like you were trying to hide something?" attorney John Manly asked Brown on Monday during his deposition in the abuse case. No, Brown responded, explaining that he kept it secret because he "knew it wasn't true" and "it was very embarrassing and very painful toads place in ct . And to be very honest, I think that kind of an allegation is difficult to deal with regardless of how innocent a person may be. "Brown's testimony, which marked the first time he has ever spoken under oath in a sex-abuse case, was taken as part of the lawsuit accusing a former assistant basketball coach at Mater Dei, a Roman Catholic high school in Santa Ana, of sexually abusing a 16-year-old student. Lawyers for the student want to find out what Brown knew about other sex-abuse complaints made against the diocese during the 10 or so years that coach Jeff Andrade worked at the school. Parts of Brown's deposition were unsealed against the wishes of diocese attorneys, who sought to protect what they characterized as private medical information about Msgr John Urell The monsignor, now a pastor at St toads place . Norbert's Catholic Church in Orange, investigated many sex-abuse complaints against the diocese and has been accused by alleged abuse victims of covering up some of them. In July he abruptly walked out of his own deposition in the case, in tears. Brown testified that Urell was sent last week to the Southdown Institute in Canada, a facility that treats Catholic priests. Brown said he did not know the specifics of Urell's medical condition, only that he "was obviously not well. ""He was very emotionally and psychologically distraught by those who worked with him and knew him, and that's what I think brought this about," he said. The student's lawyers insinuated that the diocese intentionally removed Urell from the country, out of the jurisdiction of the courts, to keep him from testifying. "What the diocese wants to do is what they've been doing for a hundred years toad's place . which is hide it, conceal it, and don't let anybody find out," Manly said. Brown acknowledged that he had been accused in 1997 of molesting a boy 30 years earlier while he served as a priest in Bakersfield ct nightlife . When the allegation was lodged, he was the bishop in Boise, Idaho. He testified that he was "shocked by the accusation," which he learned of in a phone call from Bishop John T Steinbock of the Diocese of Fresno Toads Place CT - toadsplace .

He said he was never interviewed by church officials or criminal investigators. "Steinbock told me about the accusation, and I told him immediately that [the alleged abuse] never happened," Brown testified Toads Place CT . "That was it. "Brown said he called Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M hula hanks . Mahony that day and told him the same thing. Kern County Dist Atty Edward R toad's place ct . Jagels said he and some of his supervisors vaguely remembered reviewing the case and believed "it amounted to a completely uncorroborated allegation. ""I remember someone telling me [Brown] was absolutely furious," Jagels said "I remember we looked into it toads place . I doubt we have our reports anymore. "During his career, Brown said, he has been aware of at least six priests who were accused of molesting children -- two while in Boise and four in Orange County -- but has never reported any to police. In the Idaho cases, Brown said, he did not inform police because the accusers were adults when they reported it to him and "it was my thought that they should call the police if they wished to do that. "Brown took over the Diocese of Orange in 1998 Toads Place CT . --christine. hanley. Mickey Gustin Hardman, who as director of the Public Art Program for the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency helped bring public artworks to the Flower Market, the Central Library and other locations around the city, has died. She was 74. Gustin Hardman died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, according to Julie Silliman of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

The cause was cancer. In almost 20 years as the city's public arts planner, Gustin Hardman shepherded projects by such artists as Betye Saar, Lita Albuquerque and Jud Fine to neighborhoods undergoing an upgrade. Public art was a way to "bring artists into the design of our cities," she said . It "transforms spaces, gives them context and relevance, making them places of community interest and pride," Gustin Hardman said in a statement on the Community Redevelopment Agency website. One of her favorite projects was Biddy Mason Park, behind the Bradbury Building on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles toad's place . Works by Saar and graphic designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville illustrate the life of Mason, a former slave who settled in Los Angeles in the mid-1800s, worked as a nurse and bought herself a house. Fine created "Spine," consisting of pools of water, for a garden outside the Central Library ct nightlife . At the Flower Market, artists Elizabeth Garrison and Victor Henderson created the mural "Fifty-One Bees Toads Place CT - toadsplace . "Gustin Hardman brought poets and artists together for "Poet's Walk," a series of vignettes set in granite at Citicorp Plaza in downtown L. A . Toads Place CT tickets One pairing combines poet Robert Creeley and artist Lawrence Weiner. She also commissioned film director Catherine Hardwicke, whose credits include "Thirteen" in 2003, to create "Hollywood La Brea Gateway," a gazebo with larger-than-life silver statues at the intersection of the two streets. "Mickey shaped some of our neighborhoods, using art and history," said Silliman, a longtime colleague. "That's an important legacy. "Born Marian Gooch in Salt Lake City, she graduated from the University of Washington before beginning her career as a public art advocate in Seattle in 1975. She later worked as project director of the public art program in Dallas for two years before becoming public art program director for Los Angeles in 1988. She was married twice.

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