Vietnam Memorial Names – Callen Courtemanche, Richard Ramsey, Michael Sheahan These three men all died in the famous Tet Offensive, in which the North Vietnamese attacked military bases in the south in an all-out effort. These three locals died within a month of each other, and it was this heartbreaking loss that probably inspired […]
Vietnam Memorial Names – Norman Kidd, Greg Kelly, John Lee This continues our review of the lives of the men on Montrose’s Vietnam Memorial. Norman Richard Kidd, May 26, 1967 – Norman grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He was active in high school, captain of the basketball team, and vice president of the senior […]
Vietnam Memorial Names – Patrick Quinn, Stephen Burlingame, Robert Chapp This continues our review of the lives of the men on Montrose’s Vietnam Memorial. Patrick Owen Quinn, Nov. 25, 1966 – Patrick Quinn was well known in the community. Two people have already contacted me who knew him personally. Patrick attended La Crescenta Elementary […]
Preparing for Disaster In the Golden State, we are known around the world for many things: our sun, our beaches, our leading role in many different industries, our forests, our deserts and, unfortunately, our wildfires. Every year, across the state, we brace for potential infernos that could devastate the lives of hundreds – if […]
Vietnam Memorial Names –Michael Najarian, Fred Beckermann, James Bauder This continues our review of the lives of the men on Montrose’s Vietnam Memorial. Michael Anthony Najarian, June 18, 1966 – Michael Najarian, known to his friends as Tony, was a La Crescenta resident, growing up on the 3700 block of Altura Avenue, and working after […]
March Madness Leads to April Showers (Lots of Wonderful Activities!) The CV Chamber of Commerce held its annual fundraiser Smart-a-Thon on March 7 and the Crescenta Valley Town Council once again sent Councilmembers Lisa Griffin, Mariam Barnes, Desiree Portillo-Rabinov and me to compete as a team. It was great to mix, mingle and compete […]
Sick and Tired of Taxes I am so sick and tired of hearing of how our government in Sacramento needs to increase our taxes. [As if] we, working or retired Californians, are not paying our fair share to help keep this state going. They have already added more to our gas tax (the highest in […]
Vietnam Memorial Names – William Hail, Jerry Murphy, Gary Nelson “Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.” These words are on the Montrose Vietnam Memorial, and that is what we will do in the next few weeks. We will give you the stories behind each name on […]
Scholl Canyon Project Garners Comments Area residents continue to appear at Glendale City Council meetings to express their opinions of the Scholl Canyon landfill gas power generation and Grayson Repowering projects. They are concerned about the environmental effects and costs to taxpayers of these longterm infrastructure maintenance efforts and are lobbying for more sustainable approaches […]
Not Impressed with Portantino Senator Anthony Portantino touted his newly written bills that would authorize suicide prevention hotline numbers on student identification cards and raise the age limit for purchase of long guns to 21 (“Portantino’s SB 972 Passes Committee,” March 22). Laudable as these bills may be, do you know that then-Assemblyman Portantino voted […]