The Pains of Disco On Friday night, after returning from three glorious days on vacation in Cambria (ah, the wine tasting, the smell of fresh pines, the wine tasting) I shopped in my closet to find appropriate garb for the annual Disco and Diamonds fundraiser benefitting the Glendale Educational Foundation. (Sadly I found everything I […]
“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.” ~ Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat The rest of the country may scoff at Southern California shivering in 50- and 60-degree weather, but this has indeed been one of the […]
By Julian MITCHELL If you were to walk into the College View School, it would be relatively quiet. Students may be playing and instructors may be teaching, but all-in-all the halls remain quiet. That is until Mrs. Julie Kay Stallcup comes to teach her dance class. The halls are then filled with her music, her […]
Off-ramp Cleanup The monthly cleanup of the La Crescenta Avenue 210 freeway off-ramp is Saturday, March 9. Volunteers meet at the 2700 block of Altura Avenue at 8:30 a.m. for instructions, safety vests and tools. VETERANS HOST MONTHLY BREAKFASt Local veterans host a monthly breakfast at the Verdugo Hills Memorial Hall on the second […]
Celebrating Agnes Richards, RN March is Women’s History Month. Although there are so many women who have done so many amazing and important things, for this month CVW will be focusing on women who have helped shape the future, often defying social norms. In the 1920s, the approach to mental health was often barbaric, […]
By Mary O’KEEFE In 1957, actors Spencer Tracy and Kathryn Hepburn starred in “Desk Set,” a film about computer expert and inventor, Tracy, bringing his masterpiece – EMERAC [Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator] into the reference library in a large company that is managed by Hepburn. Although there was a love story mixed in, […]
Rest in Peace, Crescenta Valley Rotary Club Recently my friend Joe Kroening (owner of Andy’s Transfer in Montrose) sent me a write-up of the Crescenta Valley Rotary Club’s history in order to ask me a question about one point in the group’s history. The piece he sent me was fascinating! Here was this local […]
Verdugo Hills Golf Course Update A couple of weeks ago, I took the opportunity to attend a Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council meeting. I was interested in the presentations related to 6433 La Tuna Canyon Road, the former Verdugo Hills Golf Course property. Many in attendance expressed sadness at the loss of recreational space and frustration […]
Excessive Taxes Killing Small Business, Middle Class It’s my opinion that excessive taxes hold back a healthy economy. Glendale’s recent sales tax increase of 3/4% will generate $30,000,000. That brings our local sales tax effective April 1 to 10.25%, which totals $410,000,000. If only 50% of the $410 million was spent on taxable goods ($205,000,000) […]
ALFie Company of the Assistance League® of Flintridge (ALF) Drama Program will present “James & the Giant Peach JR.” at Lanterman Auditorium on Friday, March 8 at 7 p.m. This charming tale is a musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s offbeat adventure of a boy and his insect friends. It is a story about courage and […]