The Week in Review

After the Japanese quake and tsunami,, as fears grew that radiation from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plan would reach California. The manager of the Van Nuys Army & Navy Surplus store said that he'd sold more gas masks in the last two days than he had in the last two years.

Patch contributor wrote about , and looked into its safety record.

City attorney Carman Trutanich was at to talk to the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association this week. Topics covered included his reserve city attorney program, noise pollution from helicopters, .

Also at Notre Dame High School, . Fifty new recycling bins on campus will not only improve community recycling efforts, but raise money for the team's travels.

Sherman Oaks Patch , who spoke of his memories of the neighborhood over the decades. Doling's coin and stamp shop on Van Nuys Blvd. has been open for 61 years.