THE WAITING GAME: Ten weeks after the...

THE WAITING GAME: Ten weeks after the quake, many small-business owners still don’t know when they’ll get help from the feds. The SBA has approved more than $600 million in low-interest loans, mostly for homeowners, but barely $2 million has reached small-business owners (D1). . . . “We’re still waiting,” said Burbank real estate broker Don Ivone. “Still waiting.”

UP WITH THE DAWN: The Valley has a rich history of Easter sunrise services, and there will be plenty of scenic sites to choose from (B11). . . . In Westlake Village, the Rev. Robert Bos, who will take part in his last Easter service before retiring, recalls that “in the first few years we would see deer and long-eared rabbits near the hill.”

LITTLE AMELIA: She’s only 14, but already Tammy Dodd (above) has flown helicopters, gliders, balloons and aerobatic planes. Now you can add fighter jet to her resume (B2). . . . Tammy, accompanied by an ex-Vietnam fighter pilot, took off from Van Nuys Airport on Friday. . . . “I loved it,” Tammy said. “We did some rolls! I’ve never felt that many Gs.”

UNITED MATADORS: It threatened to tear apart the CSUN volleyball team. Instead, the showdown for a starting job between longtime pals Gary Reznick and Chris McGee has done just the opposite. Reznick won, and has played very well. McGee leads the cheers from the bench. . . . CSUN, which played UC San Diego Friday night, could make it back to the Final Four (C12).

THE BARE FACTS: A Los Angeles group won permission from the state this week to collect signatures for a 1996 ballot measure allowing increased nudity by both sexes on public beaches and parks. “Wow, that’s marvelous,” said Ed Lange, executive director of Elysium Fields, a Topanga Canyon nudist resort that’s been around since the late ‘60s. “We’re 20 years behind Europe.”