Sunland-Tujunga Celebrates Winterfest 2011

By Jackie HOUCHIN The joy of the Christmas season was evidenced in the many activities available in Sunland-Tujunga on Saturday. Residents started the day at the McGroarty Arts Center’s annual Holiday Boutique and Chili Bowl Sale. Students from a dozen ceramics classes donated hundreds of bowls in all colors and shapes. Holiday visitors could choose […]

New Equine “Parking Lot” at Golf Course

ANGC now features unique hitch and dine. By Jackie HOUCHIN On Friday, the new community-built horse corral at the Angeles National Golf Club was officially opened in a ribbon-cutting ceremony that featured champagne for the human guests and apples and carrots for the 15 horses that attended. Certificates of Appreciation were awarded to the ANGC […]

Watermelons Featured at S-T’s Golden Anniversary Festival

By Jackie HOUCHIN More than 1,600 watermelons were sliced and served at the 50th Annual Sunland-Tujunga Lions Club Watermelon Festival last weekend, providing free refreshment and entertainment for thousands of visitors. “It’s basically a fun family place to relax and have fun,” said Corey Crabtree, who was working the ticket booth. “People are happy to […]

Sunland-Tujunga’s Golden Anniversary Watermelon Festival

By Jackie HOUCHIN The Sunland-Tujunga Lions Club welcomes Southern California to its 50th Annual Watermelon Festival this Friday through Sunday at Sunland Park, 8651 Foothill Blvd. in Sunland. The fun begins on Friday from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. and continues Saturday from noon to 11 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 10:30 p.m. Admission […]

Community Takes Part in National Night Out

By Brandon HENSLEY, Jackie HOUCHIN, Maddy PUMILIA and Charly SHELTON Several foothill neighborhoods either hosted or attended Tuesday night’s National Night Out – NNO – festivities. The event started in 1984 and has grown to 37 million people participating in 15,110 communities across the United States. It’s a way to fight crime while getting to […]

Artist Danielle Eubank Offers a Reflection in Waterscape

By Jackie HOUCHIN “Water, water, everywhere …” is your first amazed impression upon entering the Tujunga home and studio of artist Danielle Eubank. Large canvases of liquid beauty grace the walls in blues and aquamarines with swirls of beige, black, ochre, burnt orange and brick. To the uneducated eye, the paintings seem abstract, even fanciful. […]

Banners to Honor Sunland-Tujungas Hometown Heroes

By Jackie HOUCHIN On Friday, July 1, L.A. Councilman Paul Krekorian conducted a dedication ceremony for 28 “Honor our Hometown Heroes” banners that had been hung on city light poles along Foothill Boulevard the evening before. The personalized banners honor military men and women from Sunland-Tujunga who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and who […]

By Jackie HOUCHIN Despite firecracker-hot weather, Sunland-Tujunga locals lined Foothill Boulevard from Mt. Gleason to Sunland Park on Monday to applaud more than 60 entries in the community’s 29th Annual 4th of July Parade. A fly-over by police helicopters got the parade rolling promptly at 10 a.m. Local music teacher Graham “Genius” Allen, dressed in […]

Independence Day Parade Marches in Sunland-Tujunga

by Jackie Houchin The Rotary Club of Sunland-Tujunga/Shadow Hills and the Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council (STNC) welcomes the Foothills communities to the  29th Annual 4th of July Parade and Family Fireworks Festival. The parade will begin at the “elbow” of Foothill Blvd (at Mount Gleason) at 10 a.m. on Monday July 4, and travel two miles […]

Heaven Found at All In 7-Stop Pizza

By Jackie HOUCHIN Shara Babakhanian and Armond Tarverdyan say diners will be in “seventh heaven” when eating at their All In 7-Stop Pizza in Montrose because they’ve given it 100% (“all in”) to make their pizzas the best in town. What makes their pizzas so special? The thin, tender, sesame seed-coated crusts made from scratch […]