Victory Dance
Hoover's A.J Pule dances across the goal line to score his team's first touchdown of the game against Burbank on Friday, October 23, 2009. (Roger Wilson/News-Press)
Hoover's A.J Pule dances across the goal line to score his team's first touchdown of the game against Burbank on Friday, October 23, 2009. (Roger Wilson/News-Press)
Burbank's Cole Hazlewood and Jackson Diamond celebrate after Hazlewood completed a pass for a touchdown against Hoover on Friday, October 23, 2009. (Roger Wilson/Leader)
Glendale mixed martial arts fighter Karen Darabedyan will fight for World Extreme Cagefighting when he debuts for the organization on Nov. 18 as part of WEC 44 in Las Vegas at the Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort.
Karen Darabedyan (Courtesy of Hyefighters.com)
Darabedyan (8-1) will make his debut against former WEC lightweight champion “Razor” Rob McCullough (17-5, 8-3 in WEC).
Much of the action from the Homenetmen Ararat Glendale Friendship Games will take place on Saturday and Sunday at various venues around Glendale.
Thirteen high school-age girls’ basketball teams will compete in a tournament at the Ararat Center on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Sunday from 11a.m. to 2 p.m.
The volleyball tournament, featuring nine boys’ and girls’ squads, will take place at the Pacific Community Center Saturday from noon to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Enrollment is still open for tennis, which will be Oct. 31-Nov. 2 at Glorietta Park
If you want to do something in the final week of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, here’s a chance to pitch in.
City of Hope is hosting a “Walk for Hope” this Sunday, a 5k run (or 2K walk, if you want to take a more leisurely route) in Duarte near the City of Hope campus. Their goal is to reach $1 million in fundraising.
As their website says:
Walk for Hope is a national breast cancer walk series that raises millions of dollars in support of breast cancer research, treatment and education programs at City of Hope.
Walk for Hope is about action. It is a statement from our community that no one will ever fight this disease alone. Our Walkers are advocates for those who turn to City of Hope for help when they need it most. The money raised saves lives. Join the fight against breast cancer and walk with us toward a world without breast cancer.
The start location is at the City of Hope’s campus (here). Free parking is at Santa Anita Park (here) with shuttles going to and from the starting/finishing line.
Parking opens at 7 a.m. Registration costs $40 and opens at 8 a.m. The race will start at 10 a.m.
From the Glendale News-Press:
A Massachusetts woman living with multiple sclerosis who has scaled six of the Seven Summits — and is attempting Mt. Everest in 2010 — will speak to patients in Burbank next week about her experiences living with and combating the disease through her climbs.
Wendy Booker, who was diagnosed in 1998, will be joined at Acapulco restaurant Monday by Dr. Regina Berkovich, an assistant professor of clinical neurology at the MS Comprehensive Care Center at USC’s Keck School of Medicine. They will give patient and physician perspectives, answer questions, discuss treatment and rehabilitation options and challenge other MS patients to follow through with their goals.
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The La Cañada High School homecoming parade marched through the streets of downtown La Cañada on Friday afternoon. The Spartans play their homecoming game against Blair High School Friday evening. (Photographs by Michael J. Arvizu/Valley Sun)
From the Glendale News-Press:
Local home foreclosure rates have continued to rise, led by a baffling eight-fold jump in La Crescenta filings during the month of September, compared with a year ago, according to experts and a report prepared for the Glendale News-Press by real estate tracking firm RealtyTrac.
A total of 133 La Crescenta homes last month entered into foreclosure, up from 55 in August and dwarfing the 16 from a year ago, according to the report.
One in 46 La Crescenta homes were foreclosed upon between July and September, more then triple the national average of one in 136 homes, according to the report.
The average foreclosure rate in California was one in every 53 housing units, the Irvine-based firm said.
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Singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Paul Tracey encourages children to learn by reading.
Kindergarten students listen closely to "The Wandering Minstrel" Paul Tracey during musical presentation by Tracey at Verdugo Woodlands Elementary School in Glendale on Friday, October 23, 2009. Tracey encourages children to read through his musical stories.(Raul Roa/News-Press)
The Monster Engine’s Dave DeVries showed 4th- and 5th-graders how to draw their fears and laugh at them at Emerson Elementary School in Burbank on Friday, October 22.
Illustrator/artist Dave DeVries puts the finishing touches on a blown-up rendition of a sketch by 5th grader Miguel Sardinos during assembly at Emerson Elementary School in Burbank on Friday, October 23, 2009. Devries, who has done artwork for Unviersal Studios and Marvel and D.C. Comics, showed students how to laugh at their fears by creating monsters with paint. (Raul Roa/Leader)
The Glendale Police Department took a Glendale News-Press photographer on a helicopter ride for an aerial view of the the Station fire burn areas.
Burbank resident and Former Dodgers outfielder Willie Davis, 69, died this morning, police said.
Authorities continue to investigate and are waiting for the coroner’s report detailing cause of death, Burbank Police Sgt. Robert Quesada said.
Davis, who made his debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1960, was a speedy outfielder during his baseball career, with 20 [...]
From the Burbank Leader
A Burbank Unified School District teacher turned herself in Monday for having sex with a 14-year-old student from March to September last year, police said.
Amy Beck, 33, a sixth-grade teacher at Jordan Middle School, surrendered Monday afternoon to Burbank police with her lawyer, and was being held on $400,000 bail, Burbank Police [...]
From the Glendale News-Press
Three candidates vying to fill a vacant seat in the 43rd Assembly District faced off in a bilingual forum Sunday that featured perspectives on the state budget, the economy and the Armenian Genocide.
The Assembly hopefuls were non-confrontational while expressing their often starkly different takes on solving state challenges, with one calling [...]
From the Glendale News-Press
CITY HALL — The mayor of Topeka, Kansas, signed a proclamation renaming the city “Google” for the month of March. The mayor of Duluth, Minn., jumped into icy Lake Superior to proclaim his love for the Internet giant in a video posted on YouTube.
Glendale officials this week joined the fray — [...]
Soroptimist International of Glendale is welcoming colorful and innovative creations for its seventh annual Bras for a Cause fundraiser on April 10 at the Embassy Suites Hotel.
Participants can decorate a bra with this year’s theme in mind “Bras for a Cause Salutes Television, ” or create their own theme. The entry fee is $100 and [...]
A Noise Within surpassed the $10 million mark Sunday night in its capital campaign to raise $13.3 million for its new Pasadena theater, it was announced in a press release tonight by company Co-Founders/Co-Artistic Directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott. The goal was reached weeks before the groundbreaking, the duo added.
A board challenge, which matched [...]
Clouds opened up from time to time Saturday in La Crescenta. In La Cañada Flintridge, residents inspected the Mullally Debris Basin on Manistee Drive in the Paradise Valley neighborhood after a short but strong downpour with lightning and small hail.
Flitridge Prep High School played at home vs. Santa Paula High School at home Friday.
Lonnie Kauppila will likely generate a great deal of attention during his senior season with the Burbank High baseball team.
Having already signed with Stanford, college coaches are no longer hounding the senior shortstop. Instead, it’s the professional scouts who have been coming out of the woodwork to take a look at Kauppila.
“We have a lot [...]
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