The final horn sounded, the sweaty and tired players trudged off the field and the first game for Granada Hills in 2014 ended, leaving Coach Tim Frost with one thought. “We’ve got a lot of work to do,” the coach said afterward. It was not just a reflection of the score — 45-17 in favor […]
Highlanders Have Things to Figure Out
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Study: Playing Music Helps Sharpen Kid’s Brains
LOS ANGELES — The founder of a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that provides free music lessons to low-income students from gang-ridden neighborhoods began to notice several years ago a hopeful sign: Kids were graduating high school and heading off to UCLA, Tulane and other big universities. That’s when Margaret Martin asked how the children in the […]
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Recycling the “Ride of a Lifetime”
The Epsom Salt tablets and tubes of liniment are back on the bathroom shelf. The riding clothes and riding shoes are packed away. The small town cheering has died down. The summer smells of roadkill and oily asphalt have receded into memory. It’s been almost two months since Tracy Draper and her team completed a […]
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Photo Hacking Rekindles Digital Privacy Worries
As the celebrity photo-hacking scandal has made clear, privacy isn’t what it used to be. Whether famous or seemingly anonymous, people from all walks of life put all sorts of things online or into cloud-based storage systems, from vital financial information to the occasional nude photo. Periodic cases of hacking fuel outrage, but there’s no […]
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San Fernando Man Victim of West Nile Virus
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — A San Fernando man has died from complications of West Nile virus, becoming the first person in Los Angeles County to die from the virus this season, health officials have announced. The victim was a man in his 60s, and he was hospitalized when he died,according to the county Department of […]
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Honoring Ruben Salazar
A plaque highlighting the legacy of slain journalists Ruben Salazar was unveiled at Salazar Park in East Los Angeles on Friday, Aug. 29. Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina, who organized the event with the county’s Department of Parks and Recreation, said she was 21 when she attended the Chicano Moratorium march in East Los Angeles, where Salazar […]
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Pacoima Remembers the Chicano Moratorium
George Gurrola considers himself a proud “Chicano,” and is worried that identification is being lost in today’s changing Latino demographics in the United States. “We need to bring more awareness to the Chicano community,” Gurrola said. “It seems like the term is a dinosaur, but we’re still here. Chicano identity is being lost; now it’s […]
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San Fernando, Other County Libraries are Open One More Day
Patrons at the San Fernando and other county libraries are getting an extra day to check out books, read or use computers. After several years of reduced hours of operations because of reduced budgets, county libraries began getting some of those hours back thanks to a $3.6 million increase in the library budget for the […]
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Money Being Raised to Help Franco Family
On Sunday, Aug. 24th, the Franco family lost their 23-year-old daughter, Mariana, in a senseless attack in the City of San Fernando that was part of a murder spree that claimed the lives of two other people in the Northeast San Fernando Valley. Mariana, had special needs and the brutal attack upon this family shocked […]
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Funeral Held for Gloria Tovar — Pacoima Victim of “Serial Killer”
Services were held this week for Gloria Espinoza Tovar, one of three victims killed during a gunman’s five-day shooting spree that began in West Hollywood and ended in the Northeast Valley. A rosary and funeral Mass was held for Tovar, 59, at Guardian Angel Church in Pacoima followed by funeral services at the San Fernando […]