Author: Karagyozian Lena

Crescenta Valley Water District
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News from Crescenta Valley Water District
PRESS RELEASE
August 30, 2005:
NOVEMBER ELECTION
CVWD will not be on the ballot this November 8th. The three Directors,
whose terms were expiring, Mr. Vasken Yardemian, Mr. Richard, Atwater,
and Mr. Ernest Webber, will all serve another term.
The filling period for this election was July 18th through August 12th
and besides the incumbent Directors, there were no other applicants.
Consequently, the Board of Supervisors will appoint each Director to
another term. Not taking part in the election will save the District
approximately $40,000.00.
CVWD is pleased to have all three of the Directors back for another four
years.
Director Webber has already served two terms on the CVWD Board, has been
a resident of the Crescenta Valley for 40 years and has over 45-years of
experience in the water industry working primarily in Geology,
Hydrology, and water quality improvement.
Director Atwater, one of our newer members, joined the Board in late
2003. He brings great knowledge and experience with his career in the
water industry, where he is currently General Manager of one of the
larger wholesale water agencies. Director Atwater served as a member of
the California Water Commission from 2000 to 2004 and has received
awards from EPA for environmental management.
Director Yardemian, who has served one term on the CVWD Board, has been
active in the La Crescenta community for the last ten years. He served
on the Crescenta Valley Town Council for five years and was also Council
president. Director Yardemian has worked for the South Coast AQMD for
the last 17 years as an environmental engineer and holds an
undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering and an M.S. in Environmental
Science.
The Directors are scheduled to be sworn in at the December 13th Board
Meeting, and will serve a 4-year term.
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ARMENIAN CHILDREN PREPARE FOR LIFE WITHOUT THE MELKONIAN
By Jean Christou
Cyprus Mail, Cyprus
Sept 6 2005
AS SCHOOLS around the island prepare for the new school year, the doors
of the Melkonian Educational Institute were firmly closed yesterday
as Armenian parents gave up an 18-month battle to save the secondary
school from being shut down.
It appears the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU), which
administers some 22 Armenian schools worldwide, has won, at least
temporarily, its campaign to shut down the school, founded by the
Melkonian brothers nearly 80 years ago.
The case has now moved to the US courts where the school~Rs future
will ultimately be decided, but this could take a number of years,
by which time the island~Rs Armenian children will have integrated
mainstream schools.
Armenian parents yesterday began registering their children in private
secondary schools. According to Shavasb Bohdjalian, the chairman of
the Melkonian Alumni, most of the Armenian pupils will be going to
the American academy in Nicosia, ~Sbut there are a sizeable amount
at other schools,~T he said.
Bohdjalian said there were no protests planned. ~SThe whole thing
is in the courts now and they are delaying the dates and the judges
are giving new dates,~T he said. ~SWe keep going and coming back. We
just want the children to continue to get whatever education they
can and we are continuing the fight in the courts. Unless we manage
to pull the Melkonian out from under the control of the AGBU, there
is nothing we can do about it.~T
He said the school was just sitting idle at the moment, and that the
AGBU had moved their administration to a side building.
As a, parent Bohdjalian said having to register his child at a
new non-Armenian school had been difficult. ~SToday my wife went
to register my daughter at the American Academy. It was a terrible
feeling and there were so many others from the Melkonian there. It
was terrible after so many years at the Melkonian to have to move
somewhere else,~T he said. ~SThe kids are all unhappy but kids adjust
quickly in life and many of them are still together. They are sad
about it but kids are kids and they will adjust.~T
Bohdjalian said it was the same for the Melkonian teachers. He said
either they were still unemployed or were going to work at other
schools. Sixty of the Institute~Rs 200 or so pupils were from Cyprus
but the Melkonian also catered for Armenian students from Greece,
Lebanon, Syria, the US, Canada, Bulgaria, Romania and Albania,
among others. Around 60-65 per cent of Armenian students in Nicosia
attended the Melkonian, while another 25 per cent attend the English
School and a smaller percentage other private schools.
~SIt~Rs not the end of the world. The fight continues. Our main
objective was to make it to the opening of the school but the
fact that chance has gone now moves the fight to the courtroom,~T
Bohdjalian added.
Earlier this year, Archbishop Mesrob Mutafyan, Patriarch of all
Armenians in Turkey, filed suit in Los Angeles against the AGBU in
an attempt to prevent the closure of the MEI.
The action is being co-ordinated and mediated by the California group
on behalf of the Patriarchate, a beneficiary of Garabed Melkonian’s
Deed of assignment. Garabed Melkonian was one of the two sibling
founders of the school, 78 years ago.
The 3,000-strong Armenian community, the school~Rs alumni and other
friends of the Melkonain believe the true motive of the closure is
financial, given that the school is sitting on some £40 million worth
of commercial real estate in the capital.
–Boundary_(ID_Qh4mpMzMKp+g5A8SRV3dtw)–
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ARMENIAN AND AZERI FOREIGN MINISTERS MAY MEET IN OCTOBER
DeFacto, Armenia
Sept 5 2005
Armenian and Azeri Foreign Ministers’ recurrent meeting may take
place in October. “We’ll try to organize the meeting”, stated the OSCE
Minsk group Russian Co – Chair Yuri Merzlyakov during the interview
for Freedom Radio Station. According to the Russian mediator, the two
countries’ Presidents’ August meeting was useful. In his words, the
negotiations proceeded in very favorable atmosphere. “They discussed
what we had proposed”, said Yuri Merzlyakov.

TIGRAN MANSURIAN. STRING QUARTETS. ROSAMUNDE QUARTET. ECM NEW SERIES
by Stephen Pettitt
Sunday Times (London)
September 4, 2005, Sunday
Tigran Mansurian
Both the first and second string quartets by the Lebanese-born Armenian
composer Tigran Mansurian are predominantly slow and mournful pieces,
each completed in 1984 and written in memory of a recently dead
friend. The language is direct, but Mansurian is not of any formulaic
minimalist school. Rather, his structures are built on a richness of
harmony and melodic expression that allies him to late Beethoven. Both
works – each cast in three movements -and the eloquent and dark single
movement Testament, dedicated to Manfred Eicher (the man behind ECM)
and composed just last year, are played with miraculously sustained
poise by the Rosamunde Quartet.

MINISTER OF DEFENSE TO LEAVE FOR LATVIA FOR AN OFFICIAL VISIT
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Sept 5 2005
YEREVAN, September 5. /ARKA/. The Armenian delegation headed by the
Secretary of the National Security Council at the RA President,
Minister of Defense Serge Sargsyan will leave for Latvia for an
official visit. According to the public Relations Department of
the RA Ministry of Defense, in the framework of the visit meetings
with the Latvian Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, Head of the
Main Headquarter of the Armed Forces, as well as with the Chairman
of the parliamentary commission on national security and defense
are expected. In the framework of the visit it’s planned to sign an
agreement on military cooperation between the Ministries of Defense
of Armenia and Latvia. A.H.–0–

HAKOB BEGLARYAN APPOINTED
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| 14:48:21 | 05-09-2005 | Official |
By the decision of the RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan, Gagik
Khachatryan has been resigned from the post of the head of the “State
Purchase Agency” state non-commerce organization.
By another decision of the Prime Minister, Hakob Beglaryan was
appointed head of the “State Purchase Agency” state non-commerce
organization.

NO ARMENIAN WORDS
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| 13:11:41 | 02-09-2005 | Politics |
In Azerbaijan the broadcasting of Armenian TV programs has been
prohibited. In Aghsou a tower has been erected which will not allow the
broadcasting of Armenian TV Channels in the territory of Azerbaijan,
day.az reports.
The same fate expects Irani TV programs. Another tower will be erected
in Larik to prohibit their broadcasting.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT CONDOLED ON CONSEQUENCES OF HURRICANE IN US
Pan Armenian News
03.09.2005 03:27
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian President Robert Kocharian has sent a
telegram to US President George Bush, condoling upon the consequences
of Katrina hurricane, reported the Press Service of the Armenian
leader. The message specifically notes, “With a deep pain I got to know
about Katrina destructive hurricane, that swept the US eastern coast,
resulting in destruction and ripping apart many lives.” “Sharing your
pain I condole with the families and friends of the victims on behalf
of the Armenian people and myself,” the telegram says.

DIE TURKEI UND IHR STOLZ
von Orhan Pamuk
Die Welt, Deutschland
1 sept. 2005
Als Befurworter des turkischen EU-Beitritts kommt man sich manchmal vor
wie ein Hundebesitzer, der um die Qualitaten seines Tieres weiß und
angstliche Passanten trotzdem immer wieder vor dem Klaffer beruhigen
muß: “Der will nur spielen.”
Vor zwei Monaten erst meinte der turkischstammige deutsche Autor
Feridun Zaimoglu zu den Anfeindungen, denen sich der Schriftsteller
Orhan Pamuk in seinem Land ausgesetzt sieht: “Man muß den Turken Zeit
lassen”, in wenigen Jahren sei “ungeheuer viel in Bewegung” gekommen,
“man sollte einiger durchgeknallter Kreispolitiker wegen die Turkei
nicht an den Pranger stellen.” Er hat recht.
Jener Staatsanwalt, der jetzt Klage gegen Pamuk wegen “Herabsetzung
des Turkentums” eingereicht hat, ist nicht viel mehr als ein
nationalistischer Beitrittsgegner, dem ein bewundernswerter Mediencoup
gelungen ist. “Verunglimpfungsparagraphen” hat jeder Staat (in
Deutschland ist es § 90 des Strafgesetzbuches), ein hoherer Richter
hatte die Klage zuvor abgelehnt, zur Verhandlung wird es auch jetzt
kaum kommen, selbst Pamuk gibt sich gelassen. Und doch: In der Turkei
ist es also moglich, angeklagt zu werden, weil man sagt: “Man hat hier
30 000 Kurden umgebracht. Und eine Million Armenier.” Pamuk ist alles
andere als ein Radikaler, das Wort “Genozid” nimmt er wohlweislich
nicht in den Mund. Er hat nur eine Zahl genannt.
Aber an dieser Zahl hangt ein Jahrzehnte altes, muhsam aufrecht
erhaltenes Konstrukt. Ataturk trennte sein Land mit einem radikalen
Schnitt von der osmanischen Vergangenheit und der islamischen Welt,
indem er den Turken einen Nationalstolz aufoktroyierte, der auf den
festen Glauben an ein einziges, einiges und unfehlbares turkisches
Volk baut. Und so wird das turkische Geschichtsbewußtsein bis heute
nicht vom Verstand gelenkt, sondern von Emotionen, und eine kritische
Geschichtsschreibung steckt noch in den Kinderschuhen. Das ist
eine Erklarung, keine Entschuldigung. Die Turkei bewegt sich zwar,
und einzelne Krafte auf dem Niveau “durchgeknallter Kreispolitiker”
sollten den Marsch gen Westen nicht aufhalten konnen. Aber klingt
dieser Appell nicht langsam wie ein Hundebesitzer, der Passanten
ermutigt, seinen Liebling doch erst einmal besser kennenzulernen?
Nein, erst muß der Koter aufhoren zu klaffen.
–Boundary_(ID_hUuVIjmmDNyngVK0xM3b8Q)–

AS IT WAS EXPECTED
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| 14:30:59 | 01-09-2005 | Politics |
Today, after the three-day discussions the Armenian National Assembly
has adopted in the second reading the constitutional amendments with 98
votes “for”, 0 – “against” and 1 abstainer. The opposition did not take
part in the voting thus saying “no” to the constitutional amendments.
To all appearances, the draft constitutional amendments will be given
the third reading on September 12.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress