By Mary O’KEEFE Recently Crescenta Valley High School’s PTSA and administration hosted Myron Dembo, Ph.D. at the school to discuss a variety of issues facing students today. Dembo is the emeritus professor of educational psychology at the University of Southern California where he has taught for 41 years. His credentials also include being a fellow […]
Cinco De Mayo May Business Mixer Please join us on Wednesday, May 3 for our Cinco de Mayo mixer hosted by Jenkins Properties. This is going to be a fabulous mixer. Jenkins Properties always pulls out all the stops on their mixers so you really don’t want to miss this one. Here is what Executive […]
Sponsors are such an important part of the Chamber’s activities. For instance, we couldn’t put on the Hometown Country Fair this Saturday at CV Park if it weren’t for sponsors. They make it possible for us to offer this event to local families for free. Here’s a little background on some of the businesses and […]
Taste, Dance and Just Say ‘Thank you!’ Can you feel it? Are you getting excited? We’re getting close now! Just 10 days more and on Sunday, May 7 the Montrose Shopping Park Association will be throwing one of its most popular parties of the year! The name is rather long, but that’s because there is […]
This review was revised on April 27 It is human nature to wrest light and hope from tragedy, however painful and inexplicable. The enigmatic yet resigned line from Samuel Beckett’s “The Unnamable” –”You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on” – tersely sums up the need to eke out even a meager […]
The Church and Climate Change A presentation on the Church and Climate Change will be given on Saturday, May 13 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at La Crescenta Presbyterian Church. What do a psychotherapist, a climate scientist, and a Navy Admiral do with their spare time? They devote themselves to convincing people, and especially […]
By Leonard COUTIN The final Pacific League dual meet for the Falcons was hosted by the Apaches at Arcadia on their state-of-the-art facility on April 19. Facing one of the strongest competitive meets of the season, the Apaches won both the boys and girls divisions by a wide margin. This brought the Falcons’ team standings […]
By Néstor CASTIGLIONE In an era where the ostentatious and vulgar, where naked careerism and self-obsession dominate culture, the single-minded devotion to cultivating the beautiful can be a revolutionary act. “Pleasure is the only law,” the young Claude Debussy once retorted to his teacher. Taking inspiration from disparate sources – the rich chromaticism of Wagner, […]
The Junior League of Pasadena Inc., (JLP) will hold its annual Simply Speaking silent auction and dinner on April 29. Proceeds from the event will support the JLP’s community outreach initiatives and charitable efforts in Pasadena and the surrounding communities. During the evening’s program, the JLP will present awards to two local women who have […]
On April 24, the world recognized the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, a campaign of murder, rape and forced displacement carried out against the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire. There is no historical doubt that the Genocide occurred. It took the lives of 1.5 million men, women and children and obliterated the Armenian […]