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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]