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5 Things You Should Know: June 15

Each morning, Encino Patch presents a collection of announcements, events and reminders to help you organize your day.

  1. A new study by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Students Against Destructive Decisions reveals 68 percent of the 2,294 high school students surveyed admitted to have narrowly avoided a crash. When asked what they were doing in the car at the time of the incident, teens admitted to a rash of distractive or dangerous behaviors, including speeding, texting, talking to passengers and changing songs on their MP3 players. However, the young drivers were more apt to blame external causes such as other drivers or the weather.

  • There is going to be construction and traffic reconfiguration on the Mulholland Bridge this weekend. See our story here for more details.

  • Crespi and Birmingham high schools have finished their spring sports seasons. To see how the teams ranked in baseball, softball, volleyball, track, swimming and lacrosse, click on the or the

  • Find out what's happening in Encino-Tarzanawith free, real-time updates from Patch.

  • Today is the 21st anniversary of the brutal 1990 clubbing by Los Angeles police officers of low-wage janitors protesting in Century City. According to PRNewswire, janitors will lead or participate in protests calling for economic justice in 15 U.S. cities this week, including L.A., as part of the Justice for Janitors movement.

  • The National Weather Service is predicting a mostly sunny day with a high of 84 degrees. The low will be around 56 degrees.

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