Local resident Patrick Present, in his third season of coaching ice hockey, has taken his team the Valencia Express Peewee B (boys ages 11-12) to the state championships in San Jose in April. After ending the regular season with a 14-1-1 record, they went on to win the state championship title with a 4-0 record, […]
By Alan der OHANNESSIAN The deep budget cuts that the City of Glendale parks and open space departments are experiencing may get some healing attention from the inaugural Glendale City Golf Championship tournament taking place Aug. 22 and Aug. 27. Proceeds from the event will be earmarked for local parks that are in financial dire […]
Six members of the Kiwanis Club of La Cañada recently attended the Kiwanis International convention in New Orleans to join forces with Kiwanis members from around the globe in an effort to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT). This painful disease kills one baby every nine minutes. The disease is typically contracted through unhygienic childbirth […]
On April 14, the wedding of Jessica Sherman to James Present was celebrated on the Queen Mary of Long Beach. The bride’s mother is Kim Van Ausdal of Glendale. The bride went to the Art Institute for Graphic Design and later received a degree as a gemologist and a degree in Applied Jewelry Arts. Susan […]
For almost 30 years, Verdugo Hills Hospital (VHH) plastic surgeon Dr. Bruce Ascough has traveled to La Piedad, Mexico three times a year with Interface, a large medical volunteer team. The group performs 60-80 operations in two days – mainly cleft palates, cleft lips and other deformities. “Here in California, we rarely see patients with […]
Local concert on the golf course benefiting mental health services. Residents from the Crescenta Valley and other neighboring communities will enjoy the tunes of local cover band FM Radio on the fifth hole of the Verdugo Hills Golf Course on Saturday, July 28 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. – all in the name of […]
On July 10, the Glendale Arts board of directors announced the appointment of Elissa Glickman as the organization’s new chief executive officer. Glickman has been serving as the organization’s interim CEO since Feb. 1, 2012. She has been with the organization since 2004, first as the non-profit’s director of Marketing and Resource Development and later […]
Sanitariums in CV – Rockhaven Sanitarium Part 2 I wrote last week about the brutal nature of the treatment of mental illness during the ’20s, particularly for women, and how one woman, Agnes Richards, thought she could do a better job. She believed that with humane, caring treatment, in a home-like setting, some minds would […]
A Dark Night for Dark Knight At three-something-o’clock in the morning last Friday my son and I were among the absurd crowd of sleep-deprived (depraved?) people at the Arclight Theater in Old Town Pasadena. We were there to see the premier of “The Dark Knight Rises,” the third and final installment of the Batman movie […]