Another New Game in the Bag Not that I’m turning this into a regular column about alternative sports, but in addition to my newfound interest in disc golf which I wrote about last week, I also find myself involved in yet another new (at least to me) game this summer. Here’s how it happened: I […]
Sanitariums in CV – Rockhaven Sanitarium Part 1 After hearing about Hillcrest Sanitarium, one might get the impression that all the sanitariums were somewhat nightmarish. Not so. Hillcrest had a bumpy career, starting as a high-end sanitarium and slowly declining as its age began to show. It had that brief interlude during the war as […]
Addresses Concerns about GWP Recently, there has been a great deal written about Glendale Water & Power (GWP) in the press. Much of it has been controversial – smart meters, leadership changes, a budget deficit, proposed rate increases, poor public outreach, the revenue transfer to the City’s general fund. In the absence of straightforward […]
My New Summer Fling Okay, so who knew there was an exciting, fun, challenging and stupidly inexpensive sport with tens-of-thousands of devotees being played every day of the week around the world, across the country and even at two venues right here in the Crescenta Valley? For my birthday last month, my youngest son took […]
Sanitariums in CV – Hillcrest Sanitarium Part 3 Continuing with my series on Hillcrest Sanitarium, once located at the top of Lowell Avenue, we conclude with its post WWII career. It had a pre-war run as a high-end sanitarium for lung disease and various other chronic ailments, and its wartime function was basically as a […]
Clarity Offered for Chase Perhaps I can clear up a couple of the things Jim Chase is wondering about [“What A Wonder-full Summer,” My Thoughts Exactly, July 5]. There are several reasons military recruiters don’t belong on high school campuses. Recent studies show the brain isn’t fully developed until well into one’s 20s. Impulse control […]
What A Wonder-full Summer The smoke may have cleared from last night’s fireworks extravaganza in the skies above our bucolic valley, but now it’s time to fire off a barrage of mental-mortar rounds from my own smoke-filled mind. Wonder along with me, if you will: I wonder … why they give names to hurricanes (alphabetically […]
Sanitariums in CV – Hillcrest Sanitarium Part 2 As I wrote here last week, Hillcrest Sanitarium was a large, high-class sanitarium at the top of Lowell in what is now Markridge Estates. In 1942, the U.S. government set up 10 relocation camps in the western U.S., into which were crowded 120,000 U.S. citizens of Japanese […]
By Mary O’Keefe The search for missing hiker Ertug Ergun, 33, involved Los Angeles Search Dogs, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department Mounted Search and Rescue, LASD Air 5 and search and rescue teams from Antelope Valley, Sierra Madre, Santa Clarita and our own Montrose Search and Rescue. They spent hours searching in dense vegetation on […]
Fireworks, Flags, Food and Freedom Well, toast my buns and bake my beans! Next Wednesday is already the Fourth of July. Seriously? How in the name of John Phillips Sousa did we get this far into the year this fast? Will somebody tap the brakes just a little, please? Be that as it may, the […]