The Los Angeles County board of supervisors welcomed the 2013 Rose Queen and Court during the weekly meeting on Tuesday. Pictured from left are Tournament of Roses President Sally Bixby; Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich; Nicole Cherie Nelam, 17, Pasadena High School; Sonia Marie Shenoi, 17, San Marino High School; Madison Michelle Barili Teodo, 17, La […]
Playing My (Christmas) Cards Right It’s that most wonderful, horrifying time of the year: time to decide who gets a Christmas card and who doesn’t. Do we send a card to everyone in our address book, or just close friends and relatives? Do only those people who sent us a card last year get one […]
A Hike Through Crescenta Valley in 1910 In 1910, a writer for the Los Angeles Times wrote about a hike he and a friend took from Glendale to Tujunga one January day in a piece titled “A Walk With Bill Through La Crescenta Valley and On To Sunland.” At that time the Crescenta Valley was […]
Suggestion to Vons The letter [in the Nov. 29 issue] about the interaction between a customer and Vons corporate loss prevention folks highlights two problems: 1) there is an big theft issue at that store, so prices are increased for all of us to compensate for the losses and 2) most shoppers are honest, pay […]
“What joy! For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth and, joining hands with the winds, we felt ourselves divine!” – The recollections of tobogganing in the winter ~ Helen Keller, “The Story of My Life” Oh yes … feelings such as Miss Keller’s abound this time of year. […]
The Joy of … The other night I was watching a PBS special on artist Bob Ross, known as The Happy Painter. Bob, who died in 1995, hosted a show called “The Joy of Painting” that was broadcast for more than a decade on hundreds of PBS channels. His followers praised everything from the simple […]
By Mary O’KEEFE and Michael ARVIZU Really there is nothing to it. You simply slip into the harness, hook up the ropes, sit on the top of the bridge and go over. Yes, crawl over the top of the bridge and dangle from the end of one rope while you rappel down about 120 feet. […]
GCC Holds Annual Performances The annual Glendale Community College Faculty/Alumni Dance production will be held over three days with four performances on the Auditorium Mainstage beginning Friday, Dec. 14. Performances are on Dec. 14 at 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 15 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 16 at 2 p.m. Admission is […]
Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles) was presented with the Legislator of the Year Award on Monday from the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (CRNG), a not-for-profit group that represents renewable natural-gas producers throughout the country. Renewable natural gas is an alternative, renewable energy, derived from the natural decomposition of waste from landfills and organic sources […]
If you missed the 36th Annual Montrose Glendale Christmas Parade, it will be broadcast on Charter Communications AMGA channel 380 today, Dec. 13 and Saturday, Dec. 15 from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.; Friday, Dec. 21 from 10:30 a.m. to noon; and Sunday, Dec. 23 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. For information on purchasing […]