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    PHOENIX - Ann Palaruan, a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, talks with a young attendee during the Tres Rios Nature and Earth Festival held Oct. 27. The Corps joined with other exhibitors for the one-day event to celebrate the project and raise awareness of the recreation opportunities available.

    LA District participates in Tres Rios festival

    Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District joined with exhibitors and vendors at the Tres Rios Nature and Earth Festival held Oct. 27 at the Base Meridian Wildlife Area. The festival celebrates the recreational and educational opportunities available in Phoenix's West Valley and throughout the area.
  • Lindsay Gordon, a pharmacy resident with the Los Angeles Medical Center, was the keynote speaker Oct. 24 for the Los Angeles District Special Emphasis Committee’s Disabilities Awareness Month program. Gordon’s topic was the alarming trend in Americans, especially our young people concerning diabetes.

    District Disabilities Awareness Month: Focus On Diabetes

    The CDC notes that if the current trend continues, one in three American adults will have diabetes by 2050.
  • Col. Mark Toy, Los Angeles District commander welcomed Corps employees to the Special Emphasis Hispanic Employment Program Committee's celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month Oct. 15. Special guests from Taller San Jose spoke about the work they are doing with young people from Santa Ana, Calif. TSJ offers four different career academies including construction and green technologies.

    Hispanic Heritage Month Observance

    Col. Mark Toy, Los Angeles District commander welcomed Corps employees to the Special Emphasis Hispanic Employment Program Committee's celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month Oct. 15. Special guests from Taller San Jose spoke about the work they are doing with young people from Santa Ana, Calif.
  • Col. Mark Toy, Los Angeles District commander speaks during an event at North Atwater Park along the Los Angeles River Oct. 9. The city received a donation of $970,000 to fund the District’s Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study.

    Donation funds feasibility study

    A private company donated funds to the non-profit group Friends of the LA River who, in turn, donated $970,000 to the city for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study.
  • PHOENIX - Kevin Thomas (left), chief of the Construction Support Branch at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s Arizona/Nevada Area office in Phoenix and Nick Erwin, a District intern, speak with high school students about opportunities with the Corps during the 2012 Arizona Construction Career Days held Oct. 4 at the Papago Park Military Reservation in Phoenix. The District joined area construction firms and schools to give students information on educational and career opportunities in the construction field.

    District participates in Arizona Construction Career Days

    Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District joined with construction firms, schools and other exhibitors to be a part of the Association for Construction Career Development to participate in the 2012 Arizona Construction Career Days held Oct. 4 at the Papago Park Military Reservation in Phoenix.
  • PHOENIX - The Tres Rios Phase III Flow Regulating Wetlands, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, received the 2012 Crescordia award from the Valley Forward Association in the Site Development and Landscape: Public Sector category. As part of Phase III, the District removed invasive plants along the river in order to help bring back a riparian corridor populated by more native vegetation.

    Tres Rios project wins Valley Forward award

    The Tres Rios Phase III Flow Regulating Wetlands received the 2012 Crescordia award from the Valley Forward Association in the Site Development and Landscape: Public Sector category. The awards program is the benchmark in Phoenix for promoting livability, conserving natural resources and sustaining the valley's desert environment for future generations.
  • Rep. Darrell Issa (center) cuts the ribbon to symbolically open the Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Station in Bisbee, Ariz., following a dedication ceremony Sept. 18. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District constructed the station which was named for the Border Patrol agent killed in the line of duty Dec. 15, 2010.

    New Border Patrol station named for Brian A. Terry opens

    Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District joined with state and national representatives along with family and friends to honor Brian A. Terry, a border patrol agent who was fatally shot while on duty Dec. 14, 2010, during the dedication ceremony of the Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Station held Sept. 18 in Bisbee, Ariz.
  • DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB, Ariz. - Dr. Christine Altendorf, USACE Headquarters Chief of Environmental Division, pauses for a photo with Air Force Col. Kevin E. Blanchard, the commander of the 355th Fighter Wing Aug. 30. Altendorf visited the base to tour military and Corps projects in the Southern Arizona area to see how the USACE Los Angeles District is implementing sustainaibility initiatives and how they could be taken to a Corps-wide level.

    USACE Environmental chief visits southern Arizona

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District hosted Dr. Christine Altendorf, the USACE Environmental Division chief during a two-day visit Aug. 29-30 to the southern Arizona area. Her visit focused on sustainable projects by the District and other agencies on and around military and federal properties.
  • Fran Firouzi, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District project manager for Formerly Used Defense Sites, looks at the surface of a property near Kingman, Ariz., for signs of hazardous material. The District is working on a plan to contact residents about a Time Critical Removal Action for the site which was used as a skeet range when the area was part of the Kingman Ground-to Gound Gunnery Range.

    District readies FUDS work for Kingman area

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District is preparing for work at the Formerly Used Defense Site just outside of Kingman, Ariz. The District has approved the Time Critical Removal Action for the former Skeet Range, which is referred to as Munitions Response Site 03, of the former Kingman Ground-to-Ground Gunnery Range.