Community invited to celebrate military personnel. By Charly SHELTON This Saturday, May 20, is Armed Forces Day, a day of celebration that ends Armed Forces Week. Men and women from across the country who have served in the armed services are recognized, as are the branches of the military in which they served. Armed […]
Valley View Educational Foundation held its annual jog-a-thon in March. Students helped raise money for campus beautification. The students were encouraged to begin “training” by jogging (not sprinting). Students asked friends and family to sponsor them on a per-lap basis or for a flat pledge. Everyone, including Dr. Reynolds, the teachers and the parents, […]
Friends and Family Remember Daniel Chaney The pews of Glendale City Church were packed on the afternoon of Saturday May 6 by friends, family, and colleagues honoring the memory of Daniel Chaney, who had passed away from a long battle with cancer on April 6. His lyrical tenor, effortless musicianship and blithe spirit are […]
Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy’s Vocum Veritas took home a first place trophy at the World Strides Choral Festival and Competition in San Diego during the weekend of April 1. The competition featured 19 different schools and various types of groups attended – concert choirs, chamber choirs, show choirs, men’s choirs and women’s choirs. Vocum Veritas […]
Mountain Avenue Elementary School held its 2017 variety show in late April. The theme was Somewhere Over the Rainbow and, out of the 60 acts that auditioned, 16 were chosen to be a part of the show. The show included bands, dance, instrumental performances and poetry reciting. Principal Jaclyn Scott said she was “thrilled” with […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – Four Days in a Crashed Car Often the tales of survival by accident victims are as fascinating as the stories of their rescues. In 1984 a young woman miraculously survived for nearly four days after crashing her car. She was within earshot of the Angeles Crest Highway, and was only […]
The Power of Community Involvement In my 2012 State of the City speech while serving as the mayor of Glendale in a time when much of the country was still struggling to recover from the recession, I addressed a key reason as to why Glendale was able to weather the financial crisis. While many cities […]
Giving Credit Where Due I want to disagree with the statement in last week’s article “The council’s decision to fully restore the Rockhaven Sanitarium late last year marked a significant victory for the Glendale Historical Society” [May 11, Council Makes Historic Proclamation]. TGHS had absolutely nothing to do with saving Rockhaven. It was saved by […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley High School is the only high school within Glendale Unified School District that has a JROTC (Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps) program – a successful and popular program. And, after 14 years, the program’s teacher/mentor Lt. Col. David Worley is retiring. “It’s a bit bittersweet,” he said after the JROTC’s […]
By Mary O’KEEFE In an April meeting, just before the national March for Science, Congressman Adam Schiff hosted a forum on climate change at Caltech in Pasadena. It is important to note the difference between the terms “global warming” and “climate change.” According to NASA pmm.nasa.gov, global warming is the increase in Earth’s average surface […]