By Ted AYALA Pacific Serenades brings its 27th season to a close on Sunday, June 3 with a program of chamber music for winds by Mozart, Poulenc, Saint-Saëns, and local composer Stephen Cohn. Southern California is enjoying an embarrassment of riches when it comes to chamber music. Pacific Serenades holds its own place of distinction […]
CASINO NIGHT BENEFITS LCFCC Tickets are now on sale for the La Cañada Flintridge Community Center Casino Night benefit that will be held on Friday, May 24 as the kick-off event for La Canada’s Fiesta Days. Online registration is available at www.CommunityCenterCasinoNight.eventbrite.org. The evening begins at 6:30 p.m. Early bird tickets cost $25. Party-goers will […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Unity was the theme of the Second Annual Crescenta Valley Prayer Breakfast, held on Tuesday morning at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints in La Crescenta. The event represented not only different churches, but also different faiths including Christian, Jewish and Islamic. Master of ceremonies Arick Gevorkian spoke of the diversity […]
Tuesday Table Talk On Tuesday, June 4, Bethel Church will show the film “African Cats.” This Disney-nature documentary is set on the plains of the African savanna where tight-knit animal families of lions and cheetahs reveal themselves to be a lot like the rest of us. The video will be preceded by a potluck […]
Montrose Summer Fun! Night blooming jasmine and geraniums abound as we head into summer in the Montrose Shopping Park. We have lots of festivities planned and invite you to visit often and meet your neighbors. Here are some good reasons to mark your calendars. For those on Facebook, you will want to keep up with […]
C’ing Your Way To Success “To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.” – Doug Conant, CEO of Campbell’s soup Is your workplace a winner? Are your employees working to the best of their abilities and in the best interest of your business? The five ‘C’s: clarity, connection, compliment, concern, and […]
Memorial Day Service Monday – Bring Flowers “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”~ John F. Kennedy Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 […]
The foothills host several Memorial Day ceremonies to remember those who died in service to their country. By Mary O’KEEFE Members of the community are invited to two local Memorial Day observances on Monday at 8 a.m., one at Two Strike Park at 5107 Rosemont Ave. in La Crescenta and the other at the Vietnam […]
By Charly SHELTON Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Mexican President Vincente Fox are two of the most influential people in the world. Both former world leaders, their post-public office lives are now occupied in philanthropic work. One example is the World Leaders series of lectures and debates, presented in part by President […]
Goddard On His Last Adventure School assemblies are notorious for being many things: boring, lame, tedious, unintentionally hilarious and other even less charitable classifications. But on rare occasions, students get to attend a presentation that is not only fun and fascinating, but it winds up being potentially life changing. Such was the case for untold […]