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Week in Review: 'Parking Credits' Approved, 'Protect Plummer Park' Gains Ground and Missing Boy Found

In other news, an LA ponzi scheme fugitive is booked on $1.9 million bail and teachers and parents march in the name of "Occupy LAUSD."

This week in West Hollywood, discussed their city-commissioned works for the new West Hollywood Library at an art talk, the Planning Commission approved , and the was booked.

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A crowd of several hundred people that included parents and teachers from the Los Angeles Unified School District held a rally Tuesday at Los Angeles City Hall, then marched to LAUSD headquarters on Beaudry Avenue near downtown. Patch got it all on video.

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A after getting off a plane at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank Wednesday was located in West Hollywood. The teen reportedly walked into The Abbey, ordered an alcoholic beverage, then fled into a nearby pizza restaurant before airport police arrived.

A half-dozen residents came to speak during public comment time at Wednesday's Transportation Commission meeting, that would see the majority of Plummer Park closed for two years starting in early 2012.

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Patch reporter James Mills offered . Turns out that cost is connected not just with the library, but with the entire project. In addition to the construction of the 32,000-square-foot library, that $64 million includes the new parking deck behind the library, the creation of additional parkland and demolition of the old library.

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on Monday for a couple democratic campaign fundraisers and to tape an appearance with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show. He is scheduled to leave Tuesday mid-morning from LAX.

The National Council of Jewish Women is hosting a free Breast Cancer Educational Forum on Wednesday from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. The panel discussion will be moderated by West Hollywood City Councilwoman Abbe Land.

Also on Wednesday, the city's Disabilities Advisory Board is holding its 13th annual Disability Service Awards Presentation in Council Chambers of the new West Hollywood Library beginning at 6 p.m.

Saturday is Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day in West Hollywood. Festivities include an amateur Go-Go Dancer competition on Larrabee Street, north of Santa Monica Boulevard, with celebrity judges and prizes in six categories. Eleven Nightclub will also feature a choreographed show titled, Evolution of Go-Go.

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Which kid in America has the most creative Halloween costume in the pumpkin patch? That's what we intend to find out with your photos and the help of celebrity judge Heidi Klum, who will select the Grand Prize winner of the .

Oct. 24 through Oct. 28, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the between Queens Road and Kings Road, and the northbound lane on Doheny Drive, south of Sunset Boulevard, will be shifted toward the center lane.

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