Questions About Today’s Real Estate? Ask Phyllis!

Issues With The Seller’s Disclosures My daughter is in escrow on a home in West Hollywood. There were three bids, and hers was selected. After she completed her inspection, she was given the disclosures provided by the home seller. In addition to the defects discovered by the inspector, she learned that someone had died in […]

Calendar This

GLENDALE KIWANIS The Kiwanis Club of Glendale invites the community to its “holidaze” celebration on Friday, Dec. 16. Meetings are held on Friday at noon. The cost to attend, which includes lunch, is $15. The Club meets Friday afternoons at the Elks Lodge, 120 E. Colorado St. in Glendale.   E-RECYCLING EVENT On Dec. 17 […]

LA Comic-Con a Fan Favorite

LA Comic-Con a Fan Favorite

By Keaton KUGLER The 11th Annual Los Angeles Comic-Con was held from Friday, Dec. 2 through Sunday, Dec. 4 at the LA Convention Center. Welcoming more than 126,600 guests, the convention’s attendance this year increased by over 30% from last year, according to dorkaholics.com. This means 2022 is LA’s biggest Comic-Con to date. Besides the […]

Cellist Isaac Pastor-Chermak Featured Artist for Glendale Noon Concerts

On Wednesday, Dec. 21 at 12:10 p.m., the Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts program will be streamed on Facebook and YouTube. Cellist Isaac Pastor-Chermak will perform J.S. Bach’s “Suite No.5 for Solo Cello,” BWV 1011. Isaac Pastor-Chermak leads a diverse and active musical life at home in northern California and around the United States. A […]

Holiday Fun Found at La Crescenta Woman’s Club

Holiday Fun Found at La Crescenta Woman’s Club

  By Robin GOLDSWORTHY and Sofia LOPARDO, intern On Saturday, the La Crescenta Woman’s Club hosted Movie with Santa, a spin on the club’s classic Breakfast with Santa. The Club has hosted the holiday event for as long as anyone can remember; however, during the pandemic clubmembers adapted by hosting a drive-through version of the […]

Treasures of the Valley » Mike Lawler

Supermarket Shootout   Our giant Ralphs supermarket on Foothill Boulevard was originally divided in half and hosted two stores. On the west side was Builders Emporium while the east side was Food Giant, a supermarket. It later became Alpha Beta until the Ralphs moved from La Cañada and took both store sites. In 1965, it […]

NEWS FROM SACRAMENTO » Assembly member Laura FRIEDMAN

It was just two years ago when I was asked by a group of advocates and scientists to help California become an official observer at the United Nations 2022 Convention on Biological Diversity, known as COP15. COP stands for Convention of Parties, with the “parties” being the nations who are signatories to the treaty. The […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Failure of GUSD Glendale Unified School District failed to even put a school bond measure on the ballot. This past November, the Long Beach School District got $1.7 billon from school bond Measure Q to keep improving the school sites for their students to be prepared for college and careers. And just six years before, […]

Mufid (Muneer) Faddoul Kawar

Mufid (Muneer) Faddoul Kawar

Aug. 22, 1938 – Dec. 11, 2022   On Sunday, Dec. 11 , at 11:26 a.m., Mufid passed away from complications of stroke while surrounded by his wife, daughters and family at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. He was 84 years old. Mufid was born in Haifa, Palestine on Aug. 22, 1938. He was the […]