Counting Our Blessings – Isn’t Too Hard to Do “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” Eric Hoffer With weather like we have had this week in the Crescenta Valley, it is a little easier to count our blessings that we live in this great community. One place […]
Enjoying SPA PURA Many of us equate the month of January with newness, clean homes, a time to start diets and do things that are good for us. It brings to mind Spa Pura, who for the second year in a row was named “Best Day Spa In Glendale.” For such a quaint, little town, […]
Building a Community Can Start With One “I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.” George Bernard Shaw Do you want to help make the Crescenta Valley a better place? I found these eight […]
Installation Dinner Tonight Highlighting the final four Community Service Award winners. The installation dinner is tonight and we are looking forward to honoring all of our award recipients and installing our 2012 board of directors. Our Educator Of The Year award goes to an educator who contributes her talents above and beyond expectations, showing exceptional […]
The MSPA Welcomes A New Year Just a few days into the new year, the board of the Montrose Shopping Park Association assembled early in the morning for our first meeting of the year. As vice president, I had the pleasure of presiding over the beginning of the meeting as this is the time of […]
Investing in the Community Pays Well “I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don’t look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.” Paul Newman There are so many people in this community that continually make an investment into it. There are many people […]
Highlighting More Community Service Award Winners I would like to highlight more of our Community Service Award Winners. These businesses and organizations have gone above and beyond in the last year to make our city a great place to be in. Giuseppe’s Pizza has supported numerous organizations like the Glendale Police Department, Rosemont Middle School […]
Welcome Baked! Calling all pastry and bread fans! You are in for a major treat! We now have an instructor from Le Cordon Bleu, Gena Lora, and her pastry-loving student Sharon Kenneally who have decided to open their bakery right in the heart of the Montrose Shopping Park. Newly remodeled, just opened, “Baked” has several […]
Highlighting our Community Recognition Award Winners Trader Joe’s, Harriet Hammons and the Vons Shopping Center at Indian Springs are award winners. The Montrose-Verdugo City area had many changes in the year 2011, and the Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce is going to honor just a few of the people and organizations that brought positive change […]
Event Cleans Up Your Home Without Burdening Landfills “Due to ongoing technological advancement, many of electronic products become obsolete within a very short period of time, creating a large surplus of unwanted electronic products, or ‘e-waste.’ Disposing of e-waste in landfills has the potential to cause severe human and environmental health impacts.” -Department of Toxic […]