By Mary O’KEEFE “I feel guilty if I smile.” That is how Susan Park has felt for 44 days. That is how long her daughter Elaine has been missing. Her normal routine has changed; now every morning she wakes up and her first thought is of Elaine and that maybe this will be the day […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Local high school robotic teams are gathering at various areas around the nation, including Los Angeles and Ventura counties, and internationally to compete in the annual FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) competition. Each year FIRST challenges students to build a robot to compete in a specific game, which […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Saturday, Boy Scout Ash Ghiya, with his friends and family, helped create a garden with features specifically for those in the special education program at Crescenta Valley High School. Ghiya is with Boy Scout Troop 391 and is a junior at CVHS. The garden is part of his Eagle Scout Project. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The first female Glendale police officer was Pauline Copeland. According to GPD historian Officer Teal Metts, “policewomen,” as they were called, were a hybrid between the community service officer and a police officer. Their duties were limited and they were not in the field often. Copeland began with the department in the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE For about two decades the Glendale Police Dept. has reached out to the community during the holidays to bring toys, clothes and other forms of support to local families in need. Officers make Christmas easier for these families by first delivering a Christmas tree and then bringing gifts to go under the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE After a local meeting that involved parents from Crescenta Valley High School, Laurie Dunkin mentioned that she had recently discovered that Walgreens at the corner of Ramsdell Avenue and Foothill Boulevard was now selling vapor (vape) cigarette supplies. Vaporizers, vape pens and electronic cigarettes are types of electronic nicotine delivery systems. The […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Two Glendale City Councilmembers were at the Montrose Shopping Park Assn. meeting on Thursday. Councilmember Vartan Gharpetian and Zareh Sinanyan attended the meeting to listen and discuss issues of concern to the merchants in the shopping park. “We talked about the closing of Citibank,” said Steve Pierce, Market Place manager. The Citibank […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Friday night the Friends of Rockhaven held a fundraiser that went back to the basics. Since the 1950s, Tupperware parties have been a fabric of America so it seemed a perfect way to raise funds for the historic woman’s sanitarium. Nurse Agnes Richards opened Rockhaven Sanitarium in 1923 exclusively for women […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A group of concerned community members met on Thursday at the Crescenta Valley United Methodist Church to discuss hate crimes and how to take a proactive step to protect neighborhoods from these acts. Rev. Steve Marshall, Marisol Medina and Kayli Blundell organized the evening. Recently several Jewish Community Centers and cemeteries across […]
A legacy of automobile sales and service reaches a milestone. By Mary O’KEEFE In 1917 Southern Californians enjoyed their third Rose Bowl and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated. In April, the United States declared war on Germany and entered WWI and Walt Disney graduated from Benton High School. In San Francisco the memory of […]