Thanks to All The success of this year’s 2011 Montrose Christmas Parade is a tribute to the volunteer “can-do” spirit we find in all corners of our community. Despite near hurricane force winds during the days just prior to the parade, including a few strong gusts just hours before the start, we managed to clean […]
Season to be Merry? Not for Everyone With tunes imploring us to deck the halls and fa-la-la-la-la, it seems that the joy of the holiday season is in everyone and that all are ready to celebrate. Unfortunately, however, not everyone is mentally ready – or able – to jump onto the holiday bandwagon. For someone […]
The Spring at Indian Springs Still Flows Many old timers remember the Indian Springs swimming pool that was just east of Montrose on Verdugo Road. The big pool was wildly popular to the youth of the valley between its 1929 opening until its closure in the mid-’60s. It was then that the little canyon the […]
Getting the LED Out At Christmas It’s beginning to look a lot like … uh, Vegas? Am I the only one who cringes at the glaring, glowing sight of all the new LED-type Christmas lights on houses throughout the neighborhood? They may be more energy efficient (or to put it in the mantra of the […]
Special Item on his Christmas List Dear Santa Claus, As more of the public learns about the headaches, heart palpitations, ear ringing, insomnia and pacemaker problems with our new Smart Meters, will the GWP (Glendale Water and Power) and city council members, who approved these meters, continue to stick their heads in the sand and […]
After the Wind Comes … a Parade! I think I’m finally defrosted from last Saturday night’s Christmas parade – but despite the cold I wouldn’t have missed the night for anything! Thanks to Steve Pierce who did a stellar job of pulling together an event that right up to the first banner marching down Honolulu […]
That’s it. I’ve officially changed the lyrics of the classic Christmas song, “Let It Snow” to “Let It Blow”! I’m mean, chill out, Mutha Nature. That Santa Ana event our county weathered last week was nothing short of epic. In my many years here in Southern California, we’ve made the national news several times due […]
As I outlined in last week’s column, Whiting Woods, one of CV’s most sedate neighborhood, had its origins in vice and crime and was the stage for perhaps CV’s only racially charged murder. The story is given to us in an autobiography of Perry Whiting, founder of the Whiting-Mead building supply company, still in business […]
Activism is Alive and Well in CV I was at the Fire House [youth center] on Tuesday night, Nov. 29 when high school and middle school kids discussed the possible closure of their Crescenta Valley High School campus for lunch with Glendale Unified School District Deputy Superintendent Dr. John Garcia. First, let me say if […]
The Season Is Upon Us On the heels of a fantastic White Friday in Montrose we prepare for the big event – the Montrose Christmas Parade! I don’t think there could have been a better prelude to the parade than the lighting of the “main drag” of Montrose and its huge Christmas tree on Friday. […]