Ken Martinet, a long time La Cañada resident and director of Catholic Big Brothers and Sisters for the past 17 years, was the guest speaker at the Kiwanis Club of La Cañada at a recent weekly luncheon meeting held at Descanso Gardens Van de Kamp Hall. “Kids would be much better off if there was […]
When three local residents got together at a recent networking event, they realized that they had something important in common: their concern for the welfare of senior citizens. From this meeting an idea was born, a senior healthy living expo that could bring services together in one location for an afternoon of fun and education […]
La Crescenta resident Greg Martin is a Los Angeles County assistant district attorney by day and an accomplished actor with Actors Guild in Hollywood weekends. Recently, Martin was the guest speaker at the Kiwanis Club of La Cañada telling about his work as a county prosecutor of cases of sexually violent predators to an […]
Surrounded by young students from local southern California cities including La Cañada Flintridge, Pasadena, and Altadena, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich lashed out at President Obama and offered a five-point program in his campaign for the presidency. Gingrich was the invited guest of TeaPAC, the national Tea Party organization, and the local Pasadena Patriots. His […]
Youth Group members from St. Bede the Venerable Roman Catholic Church have been conducting a Coats for Love drive over the past several weeks. Pictured from left are Sonja Cwik, Megan Wammack, Kirsten George, Colby Koklas, Brett Rahtz, and Louisa McNicoll showing a few of the coats and sweaters collected for the less fortunate. Collected […]
“A bunch of cowards got on planes on Sept. 11, 2001 and killed thousands of innocent Americans, so I reenlisted in the U.S. Army and went off to the Sunni Triangle in Iraq to fight these enemies.” So began the tale shared with Kiwanians by First Sergeant Norberto “Norbie” Lara who lost his right arm […]
Members of the local Kiwanis Club-sponsored Key Club at La Cañada High School hit the streets on Saturday to collect books as part of a project for their Key Club Halfwayers After Club at LCHS. The books being collected from La Cañada Flintridge homes will be given to the Los Angeles Unified School District for […]
Father Gregg Dongklore, a priest of the Diocese of Waa in Ghana, West Africa who spent five years in La Cañada Flintridge at St Bede the Venerable Roman Catholic Church while studying for his doctorate at Claremont College, is shown above surrounded by several members of the Italian Catholic Federation at St. Bede. While at […]
Three ROTC branches at the University of Colorado where La Cañada Flintridge resident Nick Koeppen is a leader in the U.S. Air Force ROTC marked Veterans Day by taking part in a 24-hour vigil run honoring service men and women who went missing in action and those who were prisoners of war. The run was […]
California Superior Court judge and former local Congressman James E. Rogan told an audience of local Republicans of the behind the scenes events of the Clinton impeachment hearings and Senate trial in the 1990s. Rogan appeared at the summer social of the La Cañada Flintridge Republican Club held at the home of Mary and Leonard […]