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Dinner, live band, dancing, live auction, 50/50 reverse raffle

La Canada Flintridge Country Club

www.glendalekiwanis/info

Committee for a Clean and Beautiful Glendale

Citywide Event

Contact Sandra Rodriguez: (818) 548-2877

Elks Club, 120 E. Colorado Blvd.

Contact Julie Shermer: (818) 550-4508

Committee for a Clean and Beautiful Glendale

Pacific Park, 501 S. Pacific Avenue

Contact Jaixen Webb: (818) 551-6933

Developers who had plans to develop Oakmont V and more recently the Verdugo Hills Golf Course must be secretly thankful for the opposition (thanks to V.O.I.C.E.) which prevented them from building hundreds of homes on local hillsides. I imagine Oakmont V would have come on the market just about now.

I just read a self-serving prescription for economic recovery (exerpted in Calculated Risk) offered by the National Association of Home Builders, with our local builders’ good luck in mind: (more…)

Our introduction to first grade math in the Glendale Unified School District began with the teacher’s request that parents drill students on addition facts at home. Our introduction to second grade math began with the same request by the second grade teacher. At the start of third grade, the teacher told parents many students hadn’t mastered subtraction facts (more…)