Community Award Winners As we enter the New Year, the chamber is working hard to honor those who made 2014 a great year. Here are three more award winners the MVCOC is celebrating at our Annual Installation and Community Recognition Awards banquet on Jan. 22: Our Beautification Award winner is Arbitrage Realty and Esquire Law […]
QUESTION: I love this time of the year and I always go shopping taking my “Christmas spirit” with me; however, this year I had challenge after challenge with clerks who weren’t helpful. I called one store looking for a particular item and the person who answered the phone said she couldn’t check her computer. I […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The congregation of St. Luke’s of the Mountains Episcopal Church held a retirement party for Bryan Jones, vicar of the church for about the last five years. Jones was the man chosen by The Right Reverend J. Jon Bruno, Bishop Diocesan of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, to lead the […]
New Year, New Women’s Bible Studies at Montrose Church On Fridays from Jan. 9 through March 27 from 8:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. and on Wednesdays from Jan. 14 through April 1 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., Montrose Church is having a women’s Bible study focused on the book, “Seeking a Heart Like His” […]
By Charly SHELTON If there is one thing Disney’s “Frozen” hasn’t mastered, it’s subtlety. It has taken the world by storm, both overseas and here at home, in film and video and toys and costumes and you name it. The newest “Frozen” venture is theme parks. I, for one, am surprised it took them […]
By Steve ZALL and Sid FISH Here we are in January of a brand new year, and this is what our local theatres have to offer to us: OPENING “Blonde Poison”– Stella Goldschlag (1922-1994) had exquisite beauty, with the blue eyes, blonde hair and bone structure that marked her as a young Aryan goddess. But […]
Kiwanis Club of La Cañada immediate past president Tom Passanisi and his wife Dulce flew to the Philippines to hand- deliver a check for $500 from the La Cañada Kiwanis Foundation for the purchase of vitamins to combat malnutrition in the Antique area. The club donated a total of $2,000 during 2014 to the medical […]
By Ted AYALA Good things come in threes, so goes the saying. But when it comes to the Glendale Philharmonic, a strong case can be made for great things coming in fives. The orchestra will be inaugurating its fifth season on Saturday, Jan. 10 at the First Baptist Church in Glendale (209 N. Louise […]
A group of 50 gathered for the Las Candelas Annual Holiday Gala on Sunday, Dec. 21 at a private club in Pasadena. The festive evening included caroling by 20 members of the Towne Singers Chamber Chorale, one of whom was Las Candelas member Sharon Anderson. Enjoying the music and the prime rib dinner were Carolyn […]
The Sets in Step Square Dance Club is sponsoring a new beginner’s class for beginners or those who want to refresh their dancing. It begins on Thursday evening, Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. and lasts to 9:30 p.m., at the La Cañada Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge. The cost is $6 each week. Refreshments […]