Annette as “Cha Cha”

(Fox news) LOS ANGELES – TMZ has reported today that "Grease" actress
Annette Charles, who played Cha Cha in the iconic film, has died in Los Angeles.
 
Charles passed away Wednesday night at age 63 from complications from cancer.

She had acted in several minor TV roles before she played Charlene "Cha-Cha" DiGregorio, the girlfriend of the leader of the Scorpions gang, in the 1978 movie.

(AP) -Comedian Jerry Lewis is no longer serving as the Muscular Dystrophy
Association’s national chairman and won’t be appearing on this year’s Labor Day
telethon, according to an announcement made Wednesday night by the nonprofit
agency.

Lewis, 85, has been the MDA’s national chairman since the early 1950s and has
hosted the Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon since 1966.

He announced in May that he was retiring as host of the telethon that has become synonymous with his name. But Lewis added that he planned to make his final appearance on this year’s Sept. 4, show and planned on continuing to serve as
MDA’s national chairman.

MDA Chairman of the Board R. Rodney Howell said in a statement that Lewis
"will not be appearing on the telethon" and "we will not be replacing him as MDA
national chairman." The statement did not provide any further explanation for
the moves.

Lewis has in recent years battled a debilitating back condition, heart issues
and the crippling lung disease pulmonary fibrosis.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dan Peek, a founding member of the popular 1970s band
America and singer of high harmonies on hits that included “A Horse With No
Name” and “Ventura Highway,” has died, his father Milton said Tuesday. He
was 60.

Peek’s wife, Catherine, found him dead Sunday in bed in his home in Farmington,
Mo., about 60 miles southwest of St. Louis. The cause of death was not known,
and an autopsy was planned.

Robert Cabot "Bobby" Sherman, Jr. was a singer, actor and occasional
songwriter, who became a popular teen idol in the late 1960s and early
1970s. He eventually left the public spotlight and became an Emergency
Medical Technician (EMT). He soon volunteered with the Los Angeles
Police Department, working with paramedics, and giving CPR and first
aid classes. Sherman officially became a technical reserve officer with
the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1990s, a position in which he
still holds today. Sherman was named LAPD’s Reserve Officer of the
Year in 1999. 

”Easy Come, Easy Go” Charted at #9 on Billboard Hot 100 in 1970,
and #2 on Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a government-run
military veteran’s benefit system. It is the U.S. government’s second largest
department, after the U.S Department of Defense. The establishment of the
Veterans Administration came in 1930 when Congress authorized president
Herbert Hoover to "consolidate and coordinate Government activities affecting
war veterans." The three component agencies became bureaus within the
Veterans Administration. Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, who directed the
Veterans Bureau for seven years, was named as the first Administrator of
Veterans Affairs, a job he held until 1945. The VA health care system has
grown from 54 hospitals in 1930 to include 171 medical centers; more than
350 outpatient, community, and outreach clinics, and 126 nursing home care
units.