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 […]
The Montrose Vietnam War Memorial For 50 years now, a solitary volunteer has each day carefully swept the ground around the Vietnam War Memorial, tended the flowers planted there, and taken care of the American flag that flies over the northwest corner of Honolulu Avenue and Ocean View Boulevard in the Montrose Shopping Park. […]
Applauds Schiff Congressman Adam Schiff is thorough and thoughtful in identifying the risks and offering guidance for President Trump’s meeting with Kim Jong-Un to discuss North Korea’s denuclearization (“A High Stakes Gamble by the President on North Korea,” March 22). Mr. Trump, already counterproductively impulsive and bellicose (Rep. Schiff’s words), has now made his inner […]
A High Stakes Gamble by the President on North Korea It may have left the front pages for the moment, but the most consequential event of President Trump’s term of office could come within the next few months: a meeting between Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un to discuss the denuclearization of North Korea. […]
The ’34 Flood – An 11-year-old Girl Saves Her Family The recent rain should remind us that, just like Montecito, death and destruction visited our valley, but that was back in 1934. Many stories came out of that disaster. In honor of Women’s History Month, let’s look back at one the most amazing stories […]