The Glendale Centre Theatre presents “Charley’s Aunt” continuing through Feb. 1. “Charley’s Aunt” is a fun farce written by Brandon Thomas. Originally published in 1892, this show has been adapted many times over the years. “Charley’s Aunt” follows two Yale undergraduates, Jack Chesney and Charley Wykeham, who prove that they will do just about anything […]
For the fifth concert in its 10th anniversary season, Le Salon De Musiques – Masters Rediscovered presents “Winter Journey,” an evening of chamber music featuring a program for voice and piano by Austrian master Franz Schubert. The concert is on Sunday, Feb. 9 at 4 p.m. at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, fifth floor. Introduced by […]
The Cañada Auxiliary of Professionals, known as CAP, has awarded four $1,000 scholarships to local high school graduates who are attending a two-year college or occupational program. CAP is an auxiliary of Assistance League of Flintridge (ALF). Two scholarship candidates and their families attended the September CAP meeting, during which they were introduced to the […]
In addition to scholarships available via CAP (see story on this page), the La Crescenta Woman’s Club is offering three types of scholarships to graduating seniors planning on attending a four-year college or university. Students must reside within the Glendale Unified School District. Four $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to students planning on studying in […]
The La Crescenta Hotel Disaster of 1887, Part 2 Last week we covered the setup for this terrible hotel collapse that happened in December 1887. The two-story hotel had just been built, dangerously tall and narrow, and with a flimsy foundation. A major Santa Ana had been blowing for three days, and many in the […]
The Crescenta Valley Chamber of Commerce welcomed the New Year with the 95th installation of its board of officers and directors on Jan. 9 at a lunch held at the Oakmont Country Club. In addition to the swearing in of the board, disbursement of grants was made from the Mary Pinola/Crescenta Valley Chamber Education Fund. […]
New Year, New Budget, New Priorities January 2020 Just six days after we rang in both a new year and a new decade, we returned to the hustle and bustle of Sacramento getting right to work on the year ahead. One of the first orders of business was the state’s 2020-21 annual budget. […]
The Glendale Police Dept. and the Community Services & Parks Dept. have partnered with WISE & Healthy Aging to host Smarter Than a Scammer, a free educational forum for seniors on Jan. 28 at the Glendale Police Dept., located at 131 N. Isabel St. in Glendale in the community room. The forum is from 9:30 […]
By Mary O’KEEFE In recent weeks Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. – Crescenta Valley Station has received reports of a scam that targets mostly the elderly and their love for family. The scam is not isolated to the La Cañada Flintridge – Crescenta Valley areas, not even to California, but has affected people throughout the […]
By Charly SHELTON Each year, medical scientists do their best to predict which strain of influenza virus will attack the population hardest then create a preemptive vaccine to combat it. Sometimes it’s the A strain that causes problems. The H1N1 virus can get out and cause an epidemic as it did with the 1918 Spanish […]