Boutique at St. Luke’s St. Luke’s of the Mountains is having its annual holiday handcrafted gift boutique on Saturday, Dec. 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Sunday, Dec. 2 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jewelry, pottery, hand knitted items, hand made Christmas items, pottery and more! St. Luke’s, 2563 Foothill Blvd., […]
Gift Store Shopping Montrose Style! ’Tis the season to “shop ’til you drop” and have fun doing it. It’s guaranteed in the Montrose Shopping Park. One of our customers described it perfectly. She said, “Montrose really puts me in the Christmas mood. My friend and I had lunch at Portabello’s. As we dined, we watched […]
Celebrate Christmas with Us at Polkatots The Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce is having its December mixer at Polkatots on Wednesday, Dec. 5 at Polkatots in Montrose from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. There will be lots of great food and beverages, business networking, raffle prizes, holiday music, a special prize for the ugliest sweater […]
Where ‘Excellence is Expected’ “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” Steve Jobs Congratulations to Clark Magnet High School which, the U.S. Department of Education announced last month, has won for the second time the title of National Blue Ribbon School. Clark is a school with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]