Bringing Business Back to Your Door in 2020 Okay, we’re each going through a very difficult time. Our businesses are closed, many of us are either laid off or out of work, we’re “trapped” in our homes and/or apartments, and the medical experts are telling us it’s going to get even worse. So what […]
CV Street Name Origins – Part 6 Last week we were naming the streets of La Cañada. We were moving east to west across the top of the valley and were just approaching Angeles Crest Highway. Wiladonda Drive – According to a local historian: “Wiladonda Drive was a combination of four names, Wilbur & […]
‘Essential’ Essential – a keyword for all of us this last month. It is the difference between your business being able to remain functioning daily or shutting down. It is the difference between leaving your home these days or not. The very definition of essential is “absolutely necessary; extremely important.” And yet what is […]
Back To Basics Spring usually means new hope but this month has been downright agonizing. Dealing with never-ending news reports about the coronavirus, plus the panic that ensued, has been unbearable for me. Grief is hard enough to manage without this added layer of hysteria. I never want to hear these phrases again: “shelter in […]
The Southern California Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association has released their picks for top basketball coaches and players. For the all CIF-Southern Section/SCIBCA 2019-20 Boys Basketball Team, Division 2AA Todd Wolfson from St. Francis High School in La Cañada was named coach of the year and Andre Henry, a senior at St. Francis was named the […]
Using Care in Disposing Masks, Gloves Within three blocks of our home in Montrose I recently saw four medical gloves and one mask discarded on sidewalks, parkways and in gutters. Littering is always bad, particularly the huge numbers of cigarettes butts dropped everywhere that the rains wash into storm drains and to the ocean, but […]
Unfortunately, all theaters throughout Southern California are now closed through at least the end of April on official orders from state and local authorities due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. So we have nothing to list in our event column for this month. Hopefully, this mandate will be lifted soon and things can return […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The REAL ID Act, passed by Congress in 2005, was enacted via the 9/11 Commission’s recommendation that the federal government “set standards for the issuance of sources of identification, such as driver’s license,” according to the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS). Due to the COVID-19 response requiring the Dept. of Motor Vehicles […]
The California Dept. of Education State Superintendent Tony Thurmond and Governor Gavin Newsom have not ordered but suggested that students may not be able to return to school campuses before the end of the school year. Glendale Unified School District announced that it will not be reopening schools in its district for the current school […]
Update March 31 By Mary O’KEEFE “Thirty days to slow down the spread,” said Vice President Mike Pence at a press conference today as it was announced that social distancing guidelines will be expanded until April 30. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID [National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases], said that data shows that […]