Hillcrest - A Remarkable Retirement Community in La Verne, CA
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Behind every tattoo, there's a story, according Ink'd Chronicles owner Terry Dipple
Terry Dipple, owner of Ink’d Chronicles, will host the 3rd annual Tattoos for the Cure – a breast cancer charity event on Saturday, October 9, 2010. From noon until midnight, artists will be tattooing pink breast cancer awareness ribbons and other color ribbons, as requested, with all proceeds going to the Breast Health Program at [...]
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Imagine every day tasting fresh, fabulous food prepared by an outstanding French chef. For residents of Hillcrest in La Verne it isn’t a dream. Their executive chef is Christian Laire, who was born in Lyons, France, and was educated in the French system of culinary education known as Culinary Aptitude.
It was the long Thanksgiving 2008 holiday weekend. Both Jeremy Poincenot of Carlsbad, Calif. and Mark Prophet of La Verne, Sigma Phil Epsilon fraternity brothers and roommates at San Diego State, were headed home. Mark was eager to reconnect with family, see old friends, catch some football and TV and just enjoy some downtime. Meanwhile, Jeremy’s [...]
      The other day I was watching “This Property Is Condemned”, circa 1966, one of my favorite Robert Redford movies.   It is also one of my favorite Natalie Wood movies.   Also one of my favorite Sydney Pollack movies.       Yes that’s right; “This Property Is Condemned” stars Robert Redford and Natalie Wood, and is directed by [...]
Vons wants everyone to get into the swing of things by participating in the Vons District 52 Golf Tournament to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association on Aug. 30, 2010, at the beautiful Western Hills Country Club in Chino Hills. As usual, Vons is bringing you great value. For 18 holes of golf and a full-course dinner, [...]
A few years back, I worked in Laguna Hills, a city that rims Interstate 5 and is best known for being the address of Leisure World and home to lots of nondescript mortgage and auto design firms. There wasn’t one thing remarkable about the town or my job. Then one day, I wandered and wound my [...]
Chae-Mireles Gamboa spends a lot of time on her feet. On Mondays, in the La Verne Community Center she teaches dance classes, including tap, ballet and hip-hop from early afternoon into the evening. Then on Wednesday, she’s right back, teaching cheer to about 45 students, ages 5 to 14.
Shortly before 1 p.m. on Friday, pockets of people slowly started filing out of their offices and homes from D Street and Bonita Ave. in La Verne all the way to Cataract and 4th St. in San Dimas – and Lindsay Lohan was nowhere in sight. This curious confection of patriotic paparazzi on a hazy dog [...]
Move over William Sonoma! Get out of my way, Sur Le Table! The Village Kitchen Shoppe may not be as mighty or as well known as either specialty retailer of quality kitchen ware, but the 2,500-square-foot neighborhood store in the heart of Glendora’s gumdrop-shaped, ficus tree-lined shopping district knows its way around the kitchen, thank you [...]
Outdoor Elegance in La Verne is Southern California’s most elegant showroom to shop and enjoy outdoor patio furnishings. On Thursday, after closing hours, the classy showroom opened its doors to help fight Lupus, a not-so-elegant autoimmune disease in which the immune system is unbalanced, causing inflammation and tissue damage to virtually every organ system in [...]