Ask Phyllis! Preparing For A Future Home Sale Dear Phyllis, I am retiring in September and will be selling my home and moving. What can I start doing today so that come September I can get my home on the market before the holidays? We have lived here for 30 years […]
By Samantha SLAYBACK fter being postponed a month earlier, Montrose finally received a proper 102nd birthday celebration on Sunday. Though the Founder’s Day awards ceremony, part of the birthday celebration, was initially rescheduled on account of poor weather, the “102nd-plus-a-month” birthday bash took place on a warm, sunny day representative of the spring season. Early […]
In January, the San Gabriel Valley District Woman’s Clubs had their annual craft contest. Sally Benson, an eight-year member of the La Crescenta Woman’s Club, not only won first place in the embroidery category, but also took home Members’ Choice and the Best of Show ribbons. Her work of art was titled, “3 Sisters Flying […]
Kaelin King of La Cañada Flintridge has been named to the 2014 fall semester dean’s list at Lafayette College for outstanding academic achievement. To qualify for dean’s list, a student must achieve at least a 3.60 semester grade point average on a scale of 4.0. King is a graduate of Flintridge Preparatory School. Lafayette is […]
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women in the United States but education about prevention can be the difference between life and death. As a cost-free service to the local community, USC Verdugo Hills Hospital (USC-VHH) will host a lecture, “Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Understanding the Risk Factors,” featuring cardiologist Helga Van […]
Whether they came out for the horses, the food or the silent auction, everyone was a winner at the 7th Annual Crescenta Valley Day at the Races held at Santa Anita Race Track on Sunday. The fundraiser benefitted the Montrose-Verdugo City and CV chambers of commerce and the CV Sheriff Support Group. Participants paid $25 […]
The Don José Verdugo Chapter, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, presented exceptional local high school seniors with the organization’s prestigious Good Citizen Award at a luncheon held in their honor recently. The award, created in 1934, is presented to students selected on the basis of their outstanding qualities of leadership, dependability, service and […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Saturday the American Legion Post 288 celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with a lot of green and a lot of corned beef. “We had 170 [dinner reservations],” said Mike Baldwin of Post 288. Post 288 has had a St. Patrick’s Day dinner for years, however until about two years ago it was […]
Ask Phyllis! Can I Afford To Move? Dear Phyllis, I look forward to reading your real estate news because you discuss a lot of timely topics. If you have answered this before my apologies. We recently learned that I am pregnant with our third child and can’t imagine another baby in our small three […]