GLENDALE KIWANIS The Kiwanis Club of Glendale meets on Fridays at noon. On Aug. 4, a craft talk will be given by Kiwanian Sheldon Eskin. The cost to attend Friday meetings, which includes lunch and program, is $20. All are welcome. The Club meets Friday afternoons at the Elks Lodge, 120 E. Colorado St. in […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The well-known musical “The Sound of Music” will be performed at the Highlands Theatre at the Highlands Church, 4441 La Crescenta Ave. in La Crescenta. Local resident and longtime thespian Carter Thomas will step from the stage to direct this musical. “I love this story. It is timeless,” he said. There is […]
By Steve ZALL and Sid FISH August 2023 It’s been really hot lately, so a good way to beat the heat is to see one of these great live shows playing in our local theaters where they have air conditioning! COVID protocols continue to be dictated by each individual venue, so bring a facemask to […]
Hundreds of goats tasked with clearing local brush to prevent fires. By Ruth SOWBY Many people might not know it takes at least 300 goats more than three hours to chomp 10 acres of vegetation and brush. The reason people need to care about such a detail? Goats are being used to clear brush in […]
By Mary O’KEEFE, Melody SCOTT, Ruth SOWBY and Mikaela STONE On Tuesday, communities greeted and met with members of safety personnel in a fun and casual manner. Throughout the nation, neighborhood residents gathered to meet their local law enforcement and safety personnel as part of National Night Out (NNO). Held since the 1970s, NNO […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Glendale City Council voted to ban the use of gas-powered leaf blowers at its meeting of July 25; the Aug. 1 meeting was canceled so councilmembers could visit the various National Night Out events. This ban will be in place but the punitive citations will be rolled out slowly providing an […]
Being … Barbie I was among those who plunked down (in my case) $18 to see the Barbie movie. My measly dollars were added to the over $770 million already collected by movie goers who either were curious as to what the hoopla is all about or wanted to drift down Memory Lane, visiting those […]
By Mary O’KEEFE I start each week with a clear idea of what I will write and more often than not that will change in a minute as I see something that starts my mind wandering. And that happened Tuesday morning. I was walking my dog in the park around 6:30 a.m. It was wonderful. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Chief Manuel Cid is going into his seventh month as the City of Glendale’s chief of police, and he has settled into an area where he has a bit of family history. “My uncle, my dad’s brother, was a Glendale police officer in the ’80s,” he said in a recent interview with […]
Food Distribution Event this Saturday Boy Scout David Green from Troop 319 is hosting his Eagle Scout project, a food distribution event, at the Crescenta Valley High School (CVHS) parking lot at the southeast corner of Ramsdell and Community avenues on Aug. 5 from 9 a.m. to noon. Anyone who would like to receive food […]