“KING & QUEEN OF HEARTS” CELBRATES 17 YEARS In honor of National Heart Month, the Heart Center at Glendale Memorial celebrates cardiac patients, their families, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons and the community by honoring the king and queen of hearts for 2012. This event will include several free screenings, informative presentations by Heart Center physicians, as […]
QUESTION: The suicide at CV High totally caught me off guard. Our entire family is deeply saddened. We have two teenagers who we love dearly. We attend church together, and my wife and I attend all of their sports functions in addition to having regular family time together. I’ve begun to worry if we’re doing […]
Day of Recollection in La Cañada Sister Deborah Lorentz, Sister of Social Service, will lead a day of recollection at Descanso Gardens today, Thursday, Feb. 23 from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the Oak Room at Descanso Gardens. The event is sponsored by the St. Bede the Venerable Roman Catholic Church Council of Women. All […]
From the GUSD To the Glendale/La Crescenta Community: On Friday, Feb. 10, Crescenta Valley High School (CVHS) and the La Crescenta and Glendale communities were devastated by the suicide of a 10th-grade student. The community has come together to support the family, the students, the staff and each other. On behalf of the board of […]
Iron Eyes Cody’s Secret Katherine Yamada, longtime columnist for the Glendale News Press, does a wonderful weekly Glendale history column called “Verdugo Views.” I’ve been reading her column faithfully for years now, as I hope you have. She and I have collaborated many times, even before I started this column, exchanging info about local history. […]
Pumping It Up – And Up Alright, this is getting ridiculous. On Sunday morning two weeks ago I filled the tank in my truck before driving down to visit our son in San Diego. I was more than a bit peeved that the lowest price I could find along Foothill was $3.79 a gallon. Silly […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A town hall meeting will be held on Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Rosemont Middle School’s cafeteria to share information concerning the future of the newly acquired Rosemont Preserve. The Arroyos and Foothills Conservancy is in the process of purchasing the 7.75-acre property at the top of Rosemont Avenue in Goss Canyon […]
By Jason KUROSU This Sunday’s Montrose Shopping Park Harvest Market will feature a few alterations, primarily a change to the Thieves’ Market, now to be called the Montrose Harvest Marketplace. According to Montrose Shopping Park Association president Ken Grayson, the name change was made to stray away from what was perceived as a negative image […]
Win for California doesn’t translate to local budget relief By Timithie NORMAN On Dec. 16, it was announced that California was one of nine winners of one of President Obama’s Race to the Top grants awarded by the Department of Education to encourage innovation and reform in K-12 education. Unfortunately, the Glendale Unified School District, […]
Learning Together The Crescenta Valley community has stepped cautiously on a path of healing in the wake of the suicide at CV High School on Feb. 10, but the path that moves us forward will have detours that cause us to look back. The question that is uppermost in all of our minds is “Why?” […]