🌱 Toriumi Plaza Cleanup Planned + Hansen Dam Brush Fire Is Out

Good morning, people of Los Angeles; today is National Shoe The World Day! It's me again, Sylvia, your host of the Los Angeles Daily.

Fencing will go up, and a homeless encampment has to move. Also, there was a brush fire. Finally, a murder victim has been identified in a Woodland Hills motel.

First, today's weather:

Warm with clouds and sun. High: 79 Low: 55.

Here are the top five stories today in Los Angeles:

1. On Thursday, the City intends to fence in Little Tokyo’s Toriumi Plaza. Councilmember Kevin de León says the plaza belongs to the Transportation Department and will receive “hundreds of thousands of dollars of much-needed repairs” However, there is currently a homeless encampment, and some are hesitant to accept housing offers from the city. Activists are demonstrating. And some unhoused determine to set up their tents outside the fence on the sidewalk, which is not DOT-owned. (Spectrum New 1)
2. The area near the Hansen Dam was the scene of a brush fire. It broke out Sunday night around 9:30 p.m. More than 120 LAFD personnel battled the blaze and were able to knock it down before it exceeded four acres. (CBS)
3. A 42-year-old male murder victim was found handcuffed in his motel room on Thursday. The motel is “in the 20200 block of Ventura Boulevard, near Taft High School in Woodland Hills.” If you have information, please call LAPD Valley Bureau Homicide at 818-374-1925. (Patch)
4. Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Monday the “long-awaited grand opening of the Taylor Yard Bicycle & Pedestrian Bridge.” It now joins the Red Car Pedestrian and North Atwater Bridges in allowing residents to safely cross the L.A. River. (@MayorOfLA)
5. There is a youth climate strike planned March 25. Organizers bill it as “one of the most consequential climate strikes in Los Angeles.” It takes place on the south lawn in front of City Hall at 12:30 p.m. “We're calling on the California teachers association to stand with us and vote against big oil,” organizers say. (@ycstrikeLA)

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Today in Los Angeles:

• Fourth Wall Comedy Café Mic Runs (1 PM to 10 PM)
• Judas Priest at the Shrine Auditorium (8 PM)
• The Lil Smokies at the Lodge Room (8:30 PM)
• DJ Printz at the Dime (10 PM)
• Revel Tuesday at Liaison Restaurant + Lounge (10 PM)

From my notebook:

• A Helms Neighborhood resident saw, at McManus Park, what they believe was a loose cockatiel flying over the parking lot and screeching. (Nextdoor)
• Our View Heights neighbor is calling any civic-minded community activist who wants to be a voice and make a difference in the neighborhood. PMHCC will soon have an opening for an Angeles Mesa Representative. (Nextdoor)

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— Sylvia Cochran

About me: Sylvia Cochran works out of sunny Southern California and has been freelance writing full-time since 2005. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays Best Fiends (don't judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live out Micah 6:8.