Bank of Hope recently announced that the Hope Scholarship Foundation application period is now open for the 2021-22 academic year. As a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting education, Hope Scholarship Foundation is funding $150,000 in scholarships to select college-bound high school students graduating in the current year. Hope Scholarship will be awarded to a total […]
USC-VHH WOMEN’S COUNCIL OFFERS HARMONIES FOR THE HEART The USC Verdugo Hills Hospital Women’s Council presents Harmonies for the Heart, a free online concert with The Mary Dyer Band. The concert is on Thursday, Feb. 11 at 5:30 p.m. To take part, ESVP to bit.ly/HarmoniesUSCVHH; Zoom log-in information will be sent. Admission is free, but […]
CV Housewives Beat Up Old Lady in 1956 In a twist on the reality show “The Real Housewives of (insert city here)” a group of “real housewives of La Crescenta” beat and robbed an old lady in Glendale then created a gossipy media frenzy. It was 1956 (i.e. “the good old days”) and three over-the-hill […]
Question: When the pandemic began, our two college age kids returned home and continued their studies on the internet. Although we love having them home, we have a problem. From the time they were very young, we had house rules: they were to keep their rooms clean and get their laundry to the laundry room […]
On Thursday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m., the La Cañada Presbyterian Church Parent Education program will be hosting its annual gala “A Night of Laughs – I Was a Great Parent Before I Had Kids” featuring Chris Erskine and John Cervenka with emcees Anne Bierling and Chuck Osburn. Participation in this virtual event is free, and […]
Katie Kim, a member of the Colgate University Class of 2022, has earned the spring 2020 dean’s award with distinction. Kim is an economics major from La Cañada Flintridge and is a graduate of Harvard-Westlake School. Students who receive a term grade point average of 3.6 or higher while completing at least three courses during […]
Election Fraud Could Be Real In response to Jackie Gish’s letter in the CV Weekly on Jan. 21: here is my experience with mail-in ballots. In 2007, after we retired, my wife and I registered for permanent absentee ballots because we expected to travel a lot. Because the 2020 election was so important my wife […]
Supporting Your Community . . . ‘Shop Small/Shop Local’ January was a “month for the ages” with COVID-19 vaccination confusion, election/political turbulence and the constant flow of Amazon, UPS, FedEx and USPS vehicles circling our streets. February is the month for each of us to take a deep breath, relax and concentrate on what’s really […]
Forest Lawn will mark Black History Month in a much-anticipated virtual celebration, Preserving Honor & Excellence. This performance of inspirational music, dance and readings will stream live via Facebook Live on Saturday, Feb. 13. The celebration honors Black culture with New Orleans-style jazz, a tap dancing and bucket drumming performance from the Broadway musical “Bring in ‘da Noise, […]
Unity In The Community I would be lying if I said the upheaval that took place in our country over the last year did not affect me. It did – in a big way. What a tumultuous year. I want so badly to stand on top of Mt. Lukens and scream about all the injustices, […]