When A Hollywood Star Was Our Mayor Dennis Morgan is a movie star mostly forgotten today, but in the biggest years of his career, the 1940s, he was one of the top stars. He was born as Stanley Morner in a small town in Wisconsin, where he married his high school sweetheart. He had the […]
By Jozette KARAGUOZIAN Most people think of indoor play facilities as a positive arena to showcase a child’s freedom of play. Although Wonderland Indoor Playground on Foothill Boulevard in La Crescenta offers many opportunities to enhance imagination and freedom of play, the owners are expanding on this concept. Armine Sargsyan, the owner of Wonderland, wants […]
The aquatics program at Crescenta Valley High School has been enjoying much success, with recent CIF championships in girls’ water polo and boys’ swimming in recent years. The CV boys’ water polo team almost made it another banner year, but fell in the Division IV CIF championship game Nov. 14 in Irvine to Righetti High […]
Ask Phyllis! Lines Of Communication Dear Phyllis, Over the years, I have bought several homes with the same real estate agent. Recently, my agent went out of town for several weeks, and I didn’t want to bother him while he was on vacation. I had a very simple question and contacted the seller’s agent. […]
November 28: Small Business Saturday The CV Chamber supports all businesses in our community, large and small. One day a year, we join in a national movement to support the smaller businesses among us. It all started in 2010. Small Business Saturday encouraged people across the country to support small, local businesses. In 2011, the […]
The Benefits of Thankfulness and Having an Attitude of Gratitude Don’t you just feel happier when you are around someone who is full of gratefulness and thanksgiving? Someone who always has something positive to say, even when things don’t appear that way? I know I do. As we approach the time of year when many […]
By Andy Gero ‘Agent Orange’ After the Vietnam War the Dept. of Veterans Affairs decided that for veterans who were presumably exposed to Agent Orange disability benefits would be limited to only those who actually set foot on land. For those veterans, the VA developed a list of presumptive illnesses – among them peripheral neuropathy, […]
Requests Promise be Kept I would like to clarify my position regarding Rockhaven. My first understanding of the Rockhaven situation occurred when I attended the meeting at the La Crescenta Library recently. At that time I had not visited the actual site; I’d only seen it from the street. I’ve since had a tour and […]
Dignity Health Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center is the first facility in Glendale to implant a new miniaturized, wireless monitoring sensor to manage heart failure (HF). The CardioMEMS HF System is the first and only FDA-approved heart failure monitoring device that has been proven to significantly reduce hospital admissions when used by physicians to […]
“Yes!” exclaimed over 500 Sunland Elementary School students at a recent all-school assembly when asked, “Do you like to read?” School Principal Lisa Dachs-Ornelas announced that more than 300 books would soon be on the school library shelves, and thanked the members of Assistance League of Flintridge (ALF) who had voted to organize a book […]