It’s not every day a human being is made a saint, and equally rare when a film about a saint is made. Yet, last year, both events occurred. On Oct. 11, 2009, Father Damien de Veuster was canonized in Vatican City, and more than 6,000 miles back in La Verne, Calif., filmmaker Jennifer Hoge was putting [...]

Saint John’s Episcopal Church in La Verne offers Wednesday night Lenten Soup and Study at 6 p.m. This “Soup and Study” time is offered in addition to the Church’s year-round worship services: Sundays at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m., healing service Tuesdays at 10 a.m., and evening prayer service Sundays at 6 p.m. The Church wishes [...]

If the truth be told, it is not just the hand of God that worshippers feel when they attend church or synagogue. Man’s hand is also very present, and one hand, in particular, Jeff Tortorelli’s. For many year’s Tortorelli owned a liturgical art and design studio on Arrow Highway in San Dimas before moving his workshop [...]

The Rotary Club of La Verne adopted David & Margaret’s Home in La Verne for Valentine’s Day. The Club gathered on Thursday, February 11th to put together 50 personal care packages for the young women who reside at David & Margaret’s. The idea for the care packages came from Lyn Childress, chair of La Verne Rotary [...]

Saint John’s Episcopal Church now offers a Sunday Evening Prayer Service at 6 p.m., a time for quiet, thoughtful, candle-lit prayer service and communion, where worshippers can leave their worries at the altar and go into the new week in peace. The Service lasts 30 to 40 minutes.  Other services: Sunday 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.  Healing service Tuesday [...]

Johanna Louise Gruen passed away peacefully on Jan. 10, 2010. She is survived by her children and their spouses Joanne and Ed Morrissey; Gerry and Laurie Gruen; Linda Hall; Patti and Tim Silvera; Mary Smith; Rick and Kathleen Gruen; and Canice and Chris Barbone. She is also survived by 22 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren as [...]

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 [...]

The longest line in La Verne isn’t the one leading into a Bonita football or basketball game, to Target on Black Friday or Del Taco on Taco Tuesday. It’s the line of people, devastated by the long recession waiting for food to be distributed on the first and third Wednesdays of every month by Sowing [...]

Without Spot or Wrinkle Ministries has moved into the historic town of La Verne, Ca. from its previous location in Glendora, Calif. Church officials purchased the old Brethren Church on the corner of 3rd and E Street, which was first built in 1901. The “new” building, built in 1923, also served as a fabric store [...]