By Geghard ARAKELIAN Students and event coordinators gathered in the Glendale High School auditorium on Wednesday, April 21 for the ninth annual commemoration of the Armenian genocide. In the audience were officials from the school district who attended to watch students from district schools perform. The program, “We are all Survivors,” is an event that […]
CITY wrap Two homes returned for redesign The city’s design review board #2 sent back two local home projects for redesign last week. One, 3803 Pennsylvania, is classified as a new home because of the amount of construction, though it is in fact a renovation of an existing home which dates back to 1961. The […]
By Seth AMITIN For the second year in a row, Crescenta Valley High will host 150 Special Olympians in track and field and bocce ball for the CV CAN Games, a Special Olympics event in the Tri-Valley region, this Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the campus. Both times the event was organized […]
In the April 8 issue of Between Friends, the article From the Ashes should have read that the bowls were made, glazed and fired at Glendale Community College under the direction of Mark Poore.
By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale Unified School District administrators invited parents and community members to a meeting at Crescenta Valley High School on Monday, April 26 to discuss their “wish list” for a new principal. Long time principal Linda Evans announced her retirement as of the end of the school year. Evans will actually be at […]
April 25 4900 block of El Sereno in La Crescenta, a purse was stolen and the front passenger window was smashed on a vehicle while it was parked in front of a home overnight. April 23 4700 block of Hayman Avenue in La Cañada, the front driver’s window was smashed and nothing was reported stolen […]
obituary Narlene “Skip” Boss Born Nov. 19, 1928, completed her life here on March 19, 2010. Narlene Wallace Barr was born in Fayetteville, Ark. to Harold and Faye Dearing Barr. The family later made their home in Baton Rouge, La. While attending LSU Skip was a member of the PHI MU sorority, served on the […]
On the Friday before the last Saturday of any given April, the northbound freeways out of southern California are choked with SUVs and pickup trucks towing boat trailers and loaded to the gills with work-weary fishermen headed for the same general destination – the streams, reservoirs and lakes of California’s Eastern Sierra mountains. If you […]
Teddy Roosevelt in his famous “Man in the Arena” speech comments on the duties of citizens in a democracy: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who […]
Contributed by Lisa MARRIOTT Monte Vista Elementary School first grade students of Shirley Sycamore performed “Three Piggy Opera” on Thursday, April 22. The first graders worked hard to memorize their lines, make their costumes and prepare for the arrivial of the Big Bad Wolf. Sycamore, who announced her retirement this year, has done a spring […]