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www.smdailyjournal.com Friday Sept.17,2010 Vol XI,Edition 29 LIVING ON $2 A DAY LOCAL PAGE 3 NINERS IN SHAMBLES SPORTS PA GE 13 CENSUS: ONE IN SE VE N IN PO VE R TY NATION PAGE 7 HILLSDALE HIGH STUDENTS RAISE AWARENESS OF WORLD POVERTY DIANA CLOCK/DAILY JOURNAL Anthony Campos stands with his children,Nicolas and Kalina,at a vigil honoring Jacqueline and Janess Greig at St. Cecilia's Catholic Church in San Francisco on Thursday. By Juliana Barbassa THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — One week after a gas pipeline explosion ripped through a quiet neighborhood and the liv es of it s residents, mourners gathered Thursday to remember a mother and daughter who died in the blast. A vigil fo r Jacque line Gr eig, 44, a longtime California Public Utilities Commissi on analy st, and her 13 - year-old daughter, Janessa, was held at St. Cecilia Church in San Francisco. The church is connected to the school where Janessa attend- ed eighth grade and wrote for the school paper. The pipeline blew up just behind from their home, obliterating it and nearly 40 others in the hilly neigh- borhood of 1960s-era homes over- looking San Francisco Bay. Greig had spent the last few months looking into PG&E’s pro- posal to replace out-of-date pipes — with no idea that one of those pipes ran through her own neighborhood Vigil held for two killed in San Bruno gas line blast In memory STAFF AND WIRE REPORT Portola Elementary School’s 280 students were evacuated off its San Bruno campus yesterday morning after the smell of gas was reported up the hill from last week’s deadly gas pipeline explosion. Pacic Gas and Electric crews and San Bruno fire- fighters were on scene quickly and determi ned it was a false alarm, said PG&E spokesman Jeff Smith. “The initial indication is there is no evide nce of a gas leak, Smith said. Sometime between 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m., the smell of gas was rep orted at the school that sits atop the Portola Highl ands, about a mile west of the Gl envie w neighbo rhood, the site of last week’s 10-acre re that destroyed 40 homes and left four dead. Students were evacuated to Parkside Intermediate School on Niles A venue just off Crystal S prings Road. Portola Principal Charles Rohrbach stayed with his students at Parkside until the last of the evacuat- ed children were picked up after 1 p.m. School evacuated by reports of gas leak 280 students cleared from campus BILL SILVERFARB/DAILY JOURNAL Ed Alonso picked up his daughter from Parkside Intermediate School in San Bruno after the Portola Elementary School was evacuated yesterday morning.The smell of gas was reported on the campus,about a mile from the scene of last week’s re and explosion.  Jacqueline and Janessa Greig Elizabeth Torres , Jessica Morales DAILY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT Investigators from the National Transporta tion Safety Board posted a prelimi- nary report this week outlining the facts known about a small plane crash into a Redwood Shores Lagoon earlier this month. On Thursday , Sept. 2, a Beech 65 Queen Ai r crashed at 11:58 a.m. shortly after takeoff from the San Carlos Airport. The crash’s cause is not yet known, howev er it did result in the death of thr ee peopl e: 91-ye ar- old Robe rt Borrmann, the found er of R.E. Bor rmann’s Steel Co. in East Palo Alto; 57-year-old Daly City resident Adelina Urbina-Suarez; and 73- year-old William Heinicke of San Francisco. This week’s report found no ight plan had NTSB files pr eliminar y findings on plane crash By Michelle Durand DAILY JOURNAL STAFF The candidate pool for county supervisor has been whittled down to two but the pair still remaining are no less invested in convincing voters they are the best choice to represent District Three. Candidates Don Horsley and April Vargas face off Nov. 2 , having both nab bed the top votes in the June primary but neither received more t han 50 percent, necessita ting th e November runoff. In-of ce interviews with each individually were held to help the Daily Journal determine endorsements. To allow each candidate a forum to express their opinions on the issues Supervisor hopefuls talk issues See page 5 Inside • Strong charges for fi re ‘vermin’ • Donations pour in for victims See opinion 9 Inside Daily Journal’s endorsement See ELECTION,Pa ge 12 See CRASH, Pa ge 12 See PORTOLA, Pa ge 23 See VIGIL, Pa ge 31

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