By Demi DUENES Mountain Avenue Elementary School chess club won the first place trophy at the Glendale area chess tournament on May 31. The event was held at Lincoln Elementary School and drew more than 20 chess clubs representing schools from as far away as Orange County. Mountain Avenue’s chess club players could be found […]
The Glendale Elks honored 21 seniors attending local high schools with $34,400 in scholarships during its 83rd annual awards ceremony held on May 22, at the local lodge. This year’s honorees and their college destination (in parenthesis) are: Campbell Hall Conner Calabro (Tufts University); from Clark Magnet David Khachatrian (UCLA), Guy Burstein (Georgetown), and Stanimira […]
By Misty DUPLESSIS On May 29, the decorations of the Mountain Avenue Elementary School auditorium harkened back to the days of George Washington. The stage was reminiscent of a Broadway theater, under the direction of longtime teacher Margo Ewing. It was not the first time that Ewing presented her vision of the bygone era. For […]
Students of Incarnation School in Glendale conducted a garden planting project in its campus on May 28 with assistance from the Glendale Community Development Dept. and the Committee for a Clean & Beautiful Glendale. The garden planting was at the site of a large tree the school lost during the November windstorms in 2011. Through […]
Students and families at Mountain Avenue Elementary came together at the school on the evening of May 17 to enjoy an evening of art hosted by the PTA’s visual art program. Live jazz, refreshments, the ever-popular “wacky hat” table and over 500 pieces of student artwork were on display – one piece from every student […]
First Steps School in La Crescenta is the first school in the area to partner with the Armenian Educational Foundation (AEF) to provide tangible assistance to students in Armenia. For over 60 years, AEF (aefweb.org) has provided financial assistance to Armenian students and educational institutions in Armenia and Diaspora. One of AEF’s many educational related […]
A Firestorm of P.R. Being a lifetime Southern California resident, I’ve always been extremely appreciative and regularly in awe of the dangerous work done by our many thousands of wildfire fighters when faced with blast furnace temperatures, hellacious Santa Ana winds and thousands of acres of tinder-dry brush that cover our Southland. Fighting out-of-control fires […]
“City of La Crescenta” Voted Down in 1964 La Crescenta had talked about becoming its own city from its very inception in the late 1800s, but had never seriously given it a shot. In 1951 that issue was clouded when half the valley, including the business district of Montrose, annexed itself to Glendale to take […]
Getting Kid Ready for Summer From “Preparing for Summer with Teens” by Amity Chandler, former ED, Drug Free Charlotte County, Fl. Throw out the left-over liquor bottles from holiday parties. If they’re going to experiment, it will be with the stuff you’re least likely to look at or touch. Since teens say when they drink […]
Seeking Teachable Moments As the director of a childcare center that serves children up to sixth grade, I am always looking for those teachable moments. One came my way during that last week of school. The word petition was given on a spelling list for several of the students coming to the Center for Children […]