Leticia Gonzalez, sales partner with Dilbeck Real Estate Real Living, La Cañada office, is making a difference in her neighborhood. Gonzalez joined Adopt¬-a-Block Program in July 2007. She recruited some of her neighbors to help pick up littler in their neighborhood in the city of Glendale. They named their group “Pride of Buckingham,” a reflection […]
Plans to organize a continuing education program for physicians and to enhance communication among medical staff at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital are well under way, less than one month since the University of Southern California (USC) purchased the local hospital. Credit for the program is given, in part, to USC interventional neuroradiologist Donald W. Larsen, […]
Jenkins Properties welcomed back Melissa Hatef as she returned to the company as a full-time realtor. Hatef, a fourth-generation Californian, is a true local who grew up in Sierra Madre and Pasadena areas and raised her two sons in La Crescenta. She began working in commercial and residential property management after her children were born, […]
Questions About Today’s Real Estate? Ask Phyllis! Home Buying Blues Dear Phyllis, We have been on and off looking to buy a home for a while. We have made a handful of offers but none have been accepted. Our first offer was on a bank foreclosure (two years ago). There were more than 10 offers […]
Are you a veteran making between $45,000 and $83,650 a year combined family income and dream of owning your own home? Habitat for Humanity San Fernando/Santa Clarita Valley, the local Habitat for Humanity affiliate for North Los Angeles County, in collaboration with the California Dept. of Veterans Affairs, is building homes for veterans in Sylmar […]
McGroarty Arts Center welcomed Candace Sorensen to the center as its new executive director. Sorensen has over 30 years experience in the non-profit sector including managing director of the Maryland Shakespeare Festival, executive director of ALSO Out Youth (a social service organization for at-risk teens in Sarasota, Fla.), executive director of Theatre Charlotte, director of […]
Jordan Wen Ing of La Cañada was named to the dean’s list for the spring 2013 semester at Washington University in St. Louis. Ing is enrolled in the university’s College of Arts & Sciences. To qualify for the dean’s list in the College of Arts & Sciences, students must earn a semester grade point average […]
Never far from work, CV Weekly reporter Mary O’Keefe brought the paper with her when she and her daughter Molly traveled cross-country to take Molly back to college. The pair took time from their travels to shoot this photo at the Grand Canyon. CV Weekly loves to travel! Take us along on your next trip […]
By Michael YEGHIAYAN Dozens of golfers descended on the La Cañada Country Club on Monday, participating in the 30th annual golf classic benefitting two local non-profits. The fundraising event, organized by the CV Sheriff’s Support Group and the Desi Geestman Foundation, provided a day of golf for 76 participants while raising money for the worthy […]
Thomas McAfee, M.D., dean of clinical affairs at UC San Diego Health Sciences, has been appointed the CEO of the newly forming Keck Medicine of USC Medical Foundation. He begins his new role on Sept. 3. A key initiative identified as part of the clinical enterprise-wide strategic plan was the development of a community medical […]