SAN DIMAS, April 3, 2018 — Holy Name of Mary Church will host its annual family festival on Friday, April 27, through Sunday, April 29.  There will be dozens of carnival rides and games for the entire family. Delicious food such as Mexican, Filipino, Mediterranean, pizza, baked goods, hot dogs, hamburgers, garlic fries, and many […]
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LA VERNE, California, January 17, 2018 — Have caregivers responsible for communicating with people who have dementia, which includes Alzheimer’s Disease, been carrying on the wrong conversations? If any center is qualified to answer, let alone address, that question, it’s Hillcrest, which as one of the nation’s leading continuing care retirement communities, offers residents not […]
LA VERNE, California, December 7, 2017 — ‘Tis the time of year when mere mortals don the robes of Santa Claus, with his cheery, red velour suit and cap with white fur trim and black belt and boots.   But dressing like Santa Claus, it turns out, is the easy part.   How to actually […]
LA VERNE, California, November 29, 2017 — Look for the next great screenplays to come not out of Hollywood, but La Verne, where biologists and gerontologists, acting more like script supervisors than clinicians, are helping college students collect amazing stories of lives well lived by some of the town’s most senior citizens.   The University […]
LA VERNE, California, September 3, 2017 — In Washington D.C., The Hill is both a leading print and online source for political news, so when the must-read outlet recently listed La Verne’s Courtney Webb among its list of the “50 Most Beautiful” for 2017 (alongside Melania and Ivanka Trump), more than a few people took […]
Walking home from Bonita High School, along the streets and alleyways of lower La Verne, Ruben Guajardo, like a lot of 18-year-old kids about to graduate into the world in 1973, didn’t know exactly where life would lead him that summer. He had signed up for fall session general education courses at Mount SAC, but […]
Galen and Doris Beery, who were killed in an automobile accident on Oct. 11, were eulogized at a Saturday memorial service at La Verne’s Church of the Brethren on Oct. 29. Doris’ daughter Tonya Tyler shared how Galen had covered the couple’s bedroom ceiling with a depiction of the Milky Way galaxy as a tribute […]