A Celebration Based on ‘Stone Soup’

By Natalie MAIER Paper-made turkey hats bounced up and down upon the children’s tiny heads. Their eyes were wide and full of curiosity as they entered into the school auditorium. In celebration of Thanksgiving, Karen Nagao’s kindergarten class at Dunsmore Elementary held its annual stone soup ceremony at 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 20 in the […]

Dance-A-Thon Raises Funds for YWCA

The NCL Glendale Chapter’s Class of 2016 held a dance-a-thon for the YWCA’s Adopt A Family program on Sunday. The dance-a-thon was held at the Glendale YWCA from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and raised $1,500 with the funds dedicated to women and children in need in the Glendale community. Each year, the YWCA’s Adopt […]

Rose Bowl Water Polo Club Members Competing in Championship

Devin Grab and Chancellor Ramirez of the Rose Bowl Water Polo Club’s (RBWPC) 18 & under teams at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center (RBAC) will compete on team USA in the 2012 FINA World Youth Water Polo Championships in Perth, Australia.  The men’s tournament will take place from Dec. 1 through Dec. 9. Teams from […]

Treasures of the Valley » Mike lawler

Home Tour Features Historic Buildings with Good Stories This Saturday the Crescenta-Cañada Heritage Home Tour will open seven historic buildings in La Crescenta and La Cañada. The tour is being called “Sites with a Story,” and at each location local historians have come up with some drama that will thrill those visitors who have enough […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Laying Out the ‘Sweet’ Facts Jim Chase is wishing a pox on the wrong house. It wasn’t the bakers union that caused the demise of the Hostess products he so loves. Union workers have been giving back benefits and accepting less pay for years while the company struggled with poor management. Meanwhile the executives gave […]

My Thoughts, Exactly » Jim Chase

The Dark Side of Black Friday Whoever “they” are, they finally did it. They figured out how to make the days between Halloween and New Year’s one long, seamless spending and shopping season without the interference of that bothersome little holiday known as Thanksgiving. How? By ignoring it. Specifically, what was previously a mostly un-marketable […]

A Black and White Friday

From discounts to snow, the Montrose Shopping Park offered something for everyone who came onto Honolulu Avenue. By Brandon HENSLEY and Jason KUROSU It snowed in Montrose last Friday evening. Well, sort of. The white stuff could be found in the 2200 block of Honolulu in the Montrose Shopping Park for its after-Thanksgiving event White […]

Help Needed to Find Missing Wife/Daughter/Mother

By Mary O’KEEFE The family of missing CVHS graduate Megan (Ganajian) Dipiazza, 33, is appealing for the wife and mother to return home. Dipiazza was last seen on the evening of Nov. 11. Earlier she had been at her home in Tujunga/Sunland talking to her husband Sal. She and Sal were separated and Megan had […]

Business Owners Stalled

By Ted AYALA Local business owners Chris and Stephanie McReynolds stepped to the Glendale City Council dais Tuesday night to voice their concerns about their new business. Their business, a Straw Hat Pizza franchise located in the La Crescenta area, has been mired in red tape due to parking issues related to qualifying for a […]

Assemblyman Gatto Forms Small-Business Advisory Commission

Seeks public input on regulatory and statutory reforms to improve the state’s business climate. Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles) is seeking applications from local business owners to serve on his District 43 Business Advisory Commission.  The commission will meet several times in the months ahead, with the goal of formulating one or more legislative proposals […]