Congratulations and Condolences

Well, the hard-fought battles are over for local elections that included seats on the Glendale City Council, Glendale Unified School District board of education and Glendale Community College board of trustees. The City Council will see one new face –Vrej Agajanian – grace the dais; incumbents Ara Najarian and Zareh Sinanyan will retain their seats. While I applaud the victors in this contest, I will wait anxiously – but positively – to see how the choices of the people will benefit the foothill area. As I mentioned in an earlier column, I prefer having a north Glendale representative on the council; however, the five members are sworn to represent the entire city so hopefully the La Crescenta portion of Glendale won’t be forgotten when it comes to the delegation of services and funding.

The battle for all of these seats was indeed tough. On Tuesday night I had the chance to stop by the “viewing parties” (watching as the results started coming in) for local Glendale City Council candidates Rick Dinger and Grant Michals. Both expressed relief that this race was over but who knows? Perhaps we’ll see the names of one or the other (or both) on future ballots.

While I may not have agreed with the tenets of all the candidates, I admire that they all had the gumption to throw their hats into the political fray. It is not a decision made lightly. There are financial and emotional costs to running a campaign and I thank those who gave it a shot.

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For those who need to drown their sorrows – or at least dampen them – there’s the Montrose Food and Brewfest on Sunday. Hosted by the Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce, this afternoon along Honolulu Avenue includes craft beers and delicious nibbles of tasty food among other treats. CV Weekly has been at the previous Brewfests and we plan to be on the avenue again on Sunday. Stop by our booth and say hi, pick up a paper, get information on the upcoming bingo games and Taste of Montrose benefitting Prom Plus and grab some goodies. Learn more about the event by reading Charly Shelton’s article on page 6 and Melinda Clarke’s article on page 22. You can learn about who will be pouring, what ticket prices are and the times for the event.

  robin goldsworthy