Hanukkah in the Foothills

By Charly SHELTON At this festive season of the year, everyone follows their own traditions for a winter holiday. For African-Americans celebrating Kwanzaa, it is a time to light the kinara candles. For Christians celebrating Christmas, it is a time for gift giving and celebration in commemoration of Christ’s birth. For pagans following Anglo-Saxon, Germanic […]

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Christmas Concert La Cañada Congregational Church presents a Christmas concert on Sunday, Dec. 17 at 4 p.m. There will be a selection of choral carols and Pinkham’s “Christmas Cantata” for mixed chorus, brass quartet and organ. Soloists include soprano Vera Lugo, mezzo-soprano Christina Thomas, tenor Russell Smith and baritone Paul Keilbach. Joseph Klice is organist […]

Spiritually Speaking

QUESTION: I’m a successful hairdresser with a large clientele. I carefully schedule my appointments so I have adequate time with each person. My problem is clients who show up as much as a half hour late, with lame excuses I might add, and expect me to still do their hair. When this happens, it throws […]

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  Explore Bethlehem at CV Church CV Church is again hosting the free Explore Bethlehem event on Sunday, Dec. 10 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Food, sponsored and donated by Seasoning Alley in Montrose, will be available. Activities, including leather-working, metal-working, perfume-making, camel riding and a petting zoo, will be on-site. Roman soldiers will […]

Christmas Concert Welcomes Holidays

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/La Crescenta Stake, with the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church of Montrose and the Lutheran Church in the Foothills of La Cañada, is hosting a Community Christmas Concert and Crèche Display on Sunday, Dec. 10. The Crèche Display begins at 6 p.m., and the concert begins at 7 p.m. […]

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Bethel Church Hosting Choir Concert   Bethel Church will be hosting the Men’s Chorale of California Baptist University on Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. Under the direction of Steven Dahlgren, M.M., this 95-member choir promises to inspire and uplift with songs of praise and Christmas music. Free and all are welcome! Bethel Church, 10725 Penrose […]

Spiritually Speaking

QUESTION: Is it possible for one person help another person to forgive? I have a dear friend who tells me she knows she should forgive a certain person but just doesn’t do it. She speaks of him in disgust, which makes me sad. All the guy wants is her approval and she won’t give it. […]

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Bethel Church Hosting Choir Concert Bethel Church will be hosting the Men’s Chorale of California Baptist University on Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. Under the direction of Steven Dahlgren, M.M., this 95-member choir promises to inspire and uplift with songs of praise and Christmas music. Free and all are welcome! Bethel Church, 10725 Penrose St., […]

Love Spread at Local Laundry

Love Spread at Local Laundry

By Julie BUTCHER The evening of Wednesday, Nov. 8 was crisp outside for Southern California, preternaturally dark due to the recent time change, but inside the Tujunga Speed Wash, it was nothing but warm. Volunteers and clergy from St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Glendale and St. George’s Episcopal Church in La Cañada Flintridge welcomed families […]

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Christmas Concert La Cañada Congregational Church presents a Christmas concert on Sunday, Dec. 17 at 4 p.m. There will be a selection of choral carols and Pinkham’s “Christmas Cantata” for mixed chorus, brass quartet and organ. Soloists include soprano Vera Lugo, mezzo-soprano Christina Thomas, tenor Russell Smith and baritone Paul Keilbach. Joseph Klice is organist […]