Reseda Rebirth

MAKING THE MEDIA: The Daily News Editorial Board is for it ... :

Community members are pinning a lot of hope on the Reseda Theater as they seek the economic resurrection of the surrounding Sherman Way commercial district.

But why not? It happened just down the road in Canoga Park with the renovation of the Madrid Theatre.

Indeed, if any one thing can spark the revival, it would be the reopening of the theater after nearly 20 years. It will take a lot of work, and some serious
investment by the city, which owns it. But the payoff - a renewal of the Reseda neighborhood's commercial core - would be well worth it.

... in their own soft-peddled way.

Daily News gives Reseda update

MAKING THE MEDIA: Daily News gives Reseda an eye.

More will appear here later

Photos by Tina Burch

Mom grabs molester

CRIME: From the L.A. Times comes a story of a mom getting proactive:

A mother's trip to a Reseda laundromat ended in her capturing a man suspected of sexually assaulting her son in an alley behind the coin-op, police said.

The suspect, Rafael Manguia Magana, 40, of Reseda, was arrested about 9 p.m. Sunday behind the laundromat in the 7600 block of Reseda Boulevard, said Kevin Maiberger of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Magana, who has no prior record, was booked on suspicion of lewd acts upon a child, and remained in custody Monday on $100,000 bail.

Report includes detail of a 13-year-old grabbed, an 11-year-old hiding, the boy's escape, then both telling the victim's mom and other boy's guardian, then the adults capturing the suspect.

Google satellite pic shows there's no alley behind that stripmall with the coin laundry in the 7600 block of Reseda Blvd.