Sheriff's Log: Jan. 28 to Feb. 9
Conference room
availabl : fo:r
of domestic violence
The following is the Avalon
Sheriff's Station significant inci-
dents report for the week of Jan. 28
to Feb. 9. "It is important• to note
that no assumption of criminal
guilt or affiliation should be drawn
from the content of the infor-
mation provided in this report,"
said Capt. Doug Fetteroll, station
commander. "Many people who
get arrested do not get convicted
or even charged with crimes for
which they have been arrested."
past the sta-
tion jail,
the dispatch
center or the
other for-
malities of
the Sheriff's
Station.
Deputies
m a d e
a r r a n g e - Capt. Doug
ments to Fetteroll
have soft Station commander
leather
chairs and a couch for everyone's
comfort.
Children are given the opportu-
nity to play board games, color or
watch cartoons on TV and depu-
Station Conference/ ties will always make sure our
Comfort Room visitors have something to eat and
The personnel assigned to drink while they are here.
Avalon Sheriff's Station are very
empathetic towards victims of Jan. 28 to Feb. 5
domestic violence, whether it be • On Jan. 30 an Avalon resi-
children or adults. We realize that dent was arrested on suspicion of
police stations can be intimidating alleged crimes committed on a
or at least uncomfortable places child under 14 years of age.
for many people in the community
to visit. Feb. 6
Assuch,wehavecreatedamulti- • An Avalon resident reported
purpose conference room that was being the victim of a petty theft
designed to provide station visitors after unattended property was sto-
with a discreet, safe and comfort- len from the porch of her residence
able place to speak with Sheriff's in the 100 block of Olive Street.
detectives, social workers or other
involved parties. The room can be Feb. 7 to Feb. 9
accessed without having to walk • No significant incidents.
Avalon PTA update Citizenship Information
• Last week Avalon schools Session on island
launched a new Respect AwarenessU.S. Citizenship and
Program for students K-12. Immigration Services will present
• The next PTA is Tuesday, Feb. an Immigration and Citizenship
16, at 3:15 p.m., in the library. Information session from 5 to 7
• Please fill out the Parent Survey p.m., on Friday, Feb. 26 at St.
at www.lbavalon.schoelloop.com to .Catherine of Alexandria Catholic
share your feedback on how our Church. This Session is an effort to
school is doing! help immigrants gather important
• Feb. 17 is the date of "Theinformation about immigrating,
Love Factor" school talent show in naturalizing and even ask immigra-
the auditorium tion officials questions.
Research
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ic and historic environments of
Catalina Island. Specimens from
herbarium also are the basis for
"The Flora of Catalina Island,"
a book the Conservancy is creat-
ing to document the Island's plant
life. Matt Guilliams, the Tucker
Plant Systematist and curator of
the Clifton E Smith Herbarium at
the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden,
is writing the book documenting
more than more than 700 different
kinds of Island plants.
The Conservancy's herbarium
is indexed under the code "CATA"
in the Index Herbariorum, a global
directory of public herbaria. The
Conservancy has recently worked
to input information about all
of CATA's vascular plant speci-
mens in a searchable database that
already contained more than 2 mil-
lion specimen records.
Inclusion in the database made
information about Catalina Island
plant life available to researchers
around the world. This extensive
cataloguing of Catalina's preserved
plant specimens also secured
the Conservancy membership
in the Consortium of California
Herbaria.
Catalina's herbarium was
founded in 1971, one year after the
Wrigley Memorial Garden opened
as a botanical garden. The Wrigley
Memorial Garden Foundation
operated the botanical garden and
herbarium until it merged with the
Conservancy in 1996.
The herbarium was originally a
greenhouse, which accounts for the
slanted walls and general odd shape
of the building. Since 1970, two
additions have been built onto the
building: First, an office was built
on the east side for Mark Hoe&,
the former director and curator of
the Wrigley Memorial & Botanical
Garden. Soon after, a bathi 06m
was attached to the office. More
recently, the Conservancy has been
Researchers study
specimens at the
Catalina Island
Conservancy's
=Herbarium" col-
lection of Channel
Island plant life in
order to preserve
and protect Island
resources. Courtesy
photo
updating the building by repairing
the roof and installing new win-
dows and doors.
The herbarium is only possible
because of the work of many col-
lectors who collected the specimens
and preserved them. NoteWorthy
collectors include Steven A. Junak
of the Santa Barbara Botanic
Garden, Dr. Robert F. Thorne of the
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden,
and Hoefs, who collected about 70
percent of the specimens in the
herbarium.
With their work and the
Conservancy's ongoing collection
and preservation of plant speci-
mens, we can increase our under-
standing of the Island's plant life
and improve our efforts to restore
and protect Catalina's valuable
resources.
Amy Catalano is the
Conservancy's conservation
operations coordinator. To pro-
tect these valuable specimens,
the herbarium is only open to
researchers by appointment.
Contact Catalano at ACatalano@
CatalinaConservancy.org. For
more information, visit www.
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