By Charly SHELTON In Southern California we are known for many things: sunshine, movies, Disneyland, beaches. While we are “southern,” country music is not something that leaps to the mind when you think California. And though the industry is growing here – evidenced by a couple of popular country radio stations in the Los Angeles […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU At Saturday afternoon’s candidate forum held at North Valley Neighborhood City Hall in Tujunga, the four residents vying for the District 7 seat on the Los Angeles City Council presented their plan to preserve the Verdugo Hills Golf Course. Jesse “David” Barron, Nicole Chase, Krystee Clark and Felipe Fuentes will be […]
Julie Andrews will be at the Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse on Feb. 11 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. signing “The Very Fairy Princess Follows Her Heart.” Julie Andrews has been a beloved and much-honored star of stage, screen and television for more than half a century. Today’s film audiences most recently saw her as […]
April 5, 1919 – Jan. 28, 2013 Anita Rita Manfra passed away peacefully after several years of dementia/Alzheimer’s on Jan. 28. Anita was born in Revere Beach, Mass. in 1919 to Arthur and Ada Avallone who settled in Boston after leaving Italy. She is the second oldest of five children and graduated from Revere Beach […]
July 2, 1924 – Jan. 22, 2013 Paul was born July 2, 1924 in Glendale. He served with U.S. Marines, 1st Marines, 5th Battalion during WWII in the Pacific theater and received the Purple Heart in 1944. In 1948, Paul married Bobbe Jean Beeler. He worked for the City of Glendale for 37 years, 25 […]
By Ted AYALA Valentine’s Day is approaching and with it are myriad ways for musicians the world over to reflect upon love and sing its praises – literally. “If music be the food of love, play on,” the Bard of Avon famously wrote. Local musicians will be doing just that, presenting a dizzying array of […]
June 6, 1921 – Jan. 26, 2013 Harley Albert Bates was born and raised in Coldwater, Mich. He joined the Army in 1941 and married Verna Louise Coats on Oct. 6, 1943 in Tyler, Tex. They moved to California in 1947 where he continued his studies in accounting at UCLA. He worked at Forest Lawn […]
Sheriff’s detectives from the Major Crimes Bureau are looking for victims whose houses were burglarized while they were on vacation and had instructed the Los Angeles Times to hold delivery of their newspapers while they were gone. Investigators believe that Duane Van Tuinen, 51, of Azusa obtained the vacation lists and passed them on to […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Science fairs have always been a staple of Crescenta Valley schools. Volcanoes, magnets and models of the universe were common to see at local science events, but as the world advances so does education. Science fairs have evolved into science events with robots and, as an experiment at Mountain Avenue Elementary explored, […]
By Maddy PUMILIA It’s not unusual to find a treadmill or free weights in a fitness center. But at Glendale Memorial Hospital, one can usually find Carleton Ralston who still works out regularly despite turning 100 years old on Jan. 26. Ralston celebrated his milestone birthday with a party at the hospital’s Cardiac Fitness Center […]