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 […]
The Nudist Camp in La Tuna Canyon One of the first nudist camps in the U.S., dating back into the 1930s, had its home close to CV, just over the Verdugos in La Tuna Canyon. In 1934, pioneers in the phenomenon of social nudism, Hobart and Lura Glassey, established one of the first nudist camps […]
A Common Sense Solution for Midday and Late-Night Traffic It’s happened to anyone who lives in Southern California. A late-night accident or mysterious slowing clogs the rightmost freeway lanes, while the carpool lane sits empty – a situation that seems to defy common sense. There is no reason why drivers should have to continue to […]
“There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.” ~ Goethe and Jacobs family mantra. Today is eighth grade promotion day in Burbank. Throughout middle school, our daughter’s peer group has become increasingly important to her. As such, I am uncool, a terrible dresser, not funny and worst of all: I […]
By Jason KUROSU Foothill Boulevard received a tidying-up on Saturday morning thanks to the Foothill Boulevard Spring Clean-Up, sponsored by the Clean and Green Committee of the CV Town Council. Volunteers from First Baptist Church-La Crescenta, CV Robotics and the Fire House turned out for Saturday’s clean-up effort and could be seen along Foothill from […]
By Ted AYALA The Glendale Fire Dept. (GFD) will soon be getting a little tech savvier in their future fire code inspections. Glendale City Council – with Councilmember Laura Friedman away – approved a plan that would allow fire code inspectors to use iPad technology to input and process the results of their inspections. According […]
Honoring and Being Honored As you know, after producing the paper I’m dog-tired. Some Wednesday nights, I am barely able to drag myself home to plop in bed, asleep it seems before my head hits the pillow. Understandably, my Thursdays are precious as I catch up on phone messages, mail and general business. Last Thursday, […]
“On thy graves the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! Long as the sun doth shine upon it … Long as the stars do gleam on it … Shall memory come to dream upon it,” ~ Thomas William Parsons 1816-1892 It’s Memorial Day weekend and considered the “unofficial beginning of summer” […]
By Tyler BIDDLE On Saturday, the Onondarka riding club celebrated the 60th reunion of its famous original drill team and many of its students who once rode and trained there. The Onondarka trails and stables have been a part of Montrose history for about 80 years and have seen three generations of the Simington family […]