Weather in the Foothills

“Winter’s done, and April’s in the skies,    Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!”                   ~ Charles G. D. Roberts, An April Adoration, 1896 We have all heard the rhyme, “April showers bring May flowers.” This year I am thinking beyond just “May flowers.” After last summer, I waved my white flag of […]

from the desk of the publisher

Sobering Skits from CVDAPC A week ago, the CV Drug & Alcohol Prevention Coalition hosted “Scenes From Teens – What Every Parent Needs to Know,” a presentation that included skits and a debate all in an effort to educate parents and community members on the dangers of underage drinking. I was one of several performers […]

Weekend Fundraisers to Benefit Autistic Children

Weekend Fundraisers to Benefit Autistic Children

By Agnes CONSTANTE A local teenager and her uncle have organized two fundraisers this upcoming weekend to raise money to purchase iPads for autistic children. Dani Bowman, 17, is an autistic teenager who won an iPad in February after entering an animation contest. She decided to give the iPad to a non-verbal autistic child. Patrick […]

IN Brief

Beach Bus Schedule Announced Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich is again sponsoring the summer beach bus service from La Crescenta/La Cañada Flintridge to Santa Monica Beach. The summer beach bus service costs $3 per round-trip for children and adults. For senior citizens (age 60 and older) and people with disabilities, the service is $1.50 per round-trip. […]

Searching for Peace at Ocean View and Honolulu

Searching for Peace at  Ocean View and Honolulu

By Brandon HENSLEY Every Friday evening for an hour and a half, on the northwest corner of Ocean View Boulevard and Honolulu Avenue, stands Roberta Medford and her group, the Montrose Peace Vigil. They hold signs calling for peace, enduring the insults flung their way – gestures or verbal barbs – from drivers. “I can’t […]

Sunland-Tujunga Celebrates with Easter Carnival

Sunland-Tujunga Celebrates with Easter Carnival

By Sammi SLAYBACK After over 50 years of successful Easter carnivals, the Sunland-Tujunga Chamber of Commerce held yet another this past weekend, April 6 through April 8. Rides, games, food and live music held at Sunland Park kept families occupied on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Easter egg hunts were held for children on both Saturday […]

Three Arrested for Cellphone Robberies

Three suspects robbed three teenagers several minutes apart from each other as they were walking home from school on April 5 at about 3:30 p.m. in La Crescenta. The victims, all students at Crescenta Valley High School, were just blocks away from the school as they were approached separately by the suspects within several blocks […]

IBEW to the City’s Contract Offer: ‘No!’

By Ted AYALA Throngs of Glendale Water & Power workers – joined by their colleagues from Los Angeles’ DWP and numbering in the hundreds – loudly paraded outside of Glendale City Hall Tuesday evening, many of them filling the chambers and the lobby on the first floor. The reason for their grievance is the rejection […]

Montrose Search and Rescue Responds to Missing San Diego Hiker

Montrose Search and Rescue Responds to Missing San Diego Hiker

By Mary O’KEEFE Montrose Search and Rescue team members are assisting other search and rescue teams near San Diego for a missing desert hiker. Guillermo Pino, 24, has been missing since Sunday at about noon. He and his family were exploring the caves in an area called Arroyo Tapiado, two miles from the mouth of […]

Serge Kimack

Feb. 5, 1921 – April 1, 2012 Serge Kimack, longtime resident of Montrose, passed away in his sleep April 1. He was 91 years young. Serge was born in Sidliska, Poland on Feb. 5, 1921. At 19 he was drafted into the Soviet Army. After the war he escaped from the USSR and after a […]