By Ted Ayala The Glendale City Council removed control of the creative process for the city’s 2012 Rose Float from the beleaguered Rose Float Assn. during Tuesday’s council meeting. The Council’s move followed months of blistering criticism from animal rights activists concerning this year’s entry – a circus elephant – which, they claim, tacitly condones […]
Changes for the Holidays It’s already the second week of November – holy cow! One can’t help but think ahead to Thanksgiving taking place in just two weeks and on the heels of that is Christmas and all the wonderful things that entails. I’m eager to share some changes that are going to take place […]
“One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction ever for a few days ahead is impossible.” – Albert Einstein If one of the greatest minds all time, Albert Einstein, was perplexed over weather predictions, is there a chance us “science-mortals” will ever get it right? Here was a man who formulated […]
Free Electronic Waste Recycling First Baptist Church La Crescenta is hosting its fifth free electronic waste collection event on Saturday, Nov. 12 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Electronic devices that can be collected include TVs, phones, tape players, photocopy machines, household batteries, computers, monitors, printers, cords and other computer hardware. It will be safely […]
By Agnes CONSTANTE Eight weeks in Argentina was all it took for Paul Dean’s perspective on the world to change. “[This trip] made me think I’m pretty small in the world, and I can affect how countries view each other,” said the St. Francis High School senior. And now, after having gone to South America, […]
By Jason KUROSU The conference room usually occupied by Glendale’s city officials hosted some additional company on Students in Government Day on Thursday, Nov. 3. Students from Crescenta Valley, Clark Magnet, Glendale and Hoover high schools took their seats around the conference room table, encircled by city officials. The students, most of which are members […]
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 […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A helicopter landed in the parking lot of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 4500 block of Raymond Monday as a medical transport for a child involved in an early morning accident. The accident occurred at the intersection of Mountain and Briggs avenues at 7:15 a.m. The female […]