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 […]
Not so Wonder-Full Call me “Meathead” but CV’s own Archie Bunker – a.k.a. Jim Chase – is showing his true colors (mostly white) once again [My Thoughts Exactly, What a Wonder-full Summer, July 5]. I wonder … does Mr. Chase actually try to determine the validity or truth of some of the inflammatory diatribes he […]
Loss that Sparks Somber Reflections Friday night’s mass killing at a theater in Colorado during a screening of the recently released “The Dark Knight Rises,” the latest in the Batman series, was shocking. Not unexpectedly, it has sparked debate over many a kitchen table, I’m sure, of the need for gun control, less violence in […]
“He listened to that most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets, coming in full choir upon the wind, and fancied that, if moonlight could be heard, it would sound just like that.” – ‘The Canterbury Pilgrims’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne The sound of crickets, for most people, is a soothing and welcoming reminder of […]
Ferraro Family Files Claim Glendale Unified School District spokesman Stephen Frasher has confirmed that the district received notice of a claim filed by John and Deanna Ferraro against the district. “We received the claim this week,” he said. The district had not been served with notice of a lawsuit as of Wednesday late afternoon. The […]