By Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Toy and Food Drive, sponsored and organized by the station’s volunteers, is off and running – literally – with help from the La Cañada Flintridge Thanksgiving Day Run and Food Drive. “La Cañada [Run officials] contacted all the elementary schools and they all participated in food [donations],” said […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Third graders from Mountain Avenue Elementary received an academic treat last week when members of the Glendale Elks Lodge 1289 gave each of them a new student dictionary. The Glendale Elks Lodge joined The Dictionary Project five years ago, said Joe Allen, Glendale Elks member. Allen along with fellow Elks member Marc […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Montrose Shopping Park Association will be spinning Black Friday into White Friday on Nov. 25 – snow white, in fact. The old town Montrose shopping park is a small town in the shadow of large cities. The charm of the area has been its reflection of a time forgotten and longed for, […]
With the holidays fast approaching, local food banks are experiencing unusually high requests for kitchen staples. By Mary O’KEEFE A week away from Thanksgiving and thoughts of turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie are in the minds of most, but some folks are just hoping they can feed their family any type of dinner. And […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale Police are continuing searching for two or three African-American men who are suspected of robbing a Montrose jewelry store on Saturday. At about 11:30 a.m. a man impersonating a Federal Express employee entered Honolulu Jewelry store at 2250 Honolulu Avenue. When the employee, 53, went to sign for a package the […]
A review by Mary O’KEEFE There is one word to describe “Bring it On – The Musical” and that is energy. Opening last week at the Ahmanson Theatre and continuing through Dec. 10, the 2000 film starring Kirsten Dunst inspired the production. From the time the lights are brought up through curtain call, this cast […]
By Mary O’KEEFE “Whereas the 11th of November 1918 marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and far reaching war in human annals and the resumption by the people of the United States of peaceful relations with other nations, which we hope may never again be severed.” With those words the United States Congress […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale police are asking for the public’s help with a missing man who suffers from mild retardation. Tyler Henson, 22, reportedly walked away from an adult facility in Glendale sometime Wednesday morning. He was reported missing at 6 a.m. Henson is described as having black hair, brown eyes, 5’ 10” tall weighing […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Citing safety concerns, Gov. Jerry Brown issued a decision this week to reverse convicted murderer Paul Crowder’s June 2010 grant of parole. Crowder was convicted of second-degree murder for the shooting death of Crescenta Valley High School senior Berlyn Cosman (shown at right) in 1991. In 2010, the California Department of Corrections […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Mountain Avenue Elementary students were asked to start a chain reaction of kindness at an assembly on Friday. The Rachel’s Challenge program was presented to the elementary school kids as part of Red Ribbon Week and a year-long, district-wide anti-bullying campaign. Rachel Scott was the first person killed at Columbine High School […]