Zooh Corner Rabbit Rescue has the right variety and shade of rabbit waiting for you to take home.
It may be the Year of the Rabbit, but if you’re a rabbit that happens to reside at the San Gabriel Valley Humane Society Shelter in San Gabriel Valley, the year isn’t shaping up the way you’d like. You see, all the bunnies are getting the boot, as of May 31, 2011, so that the […]
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It wasn’t the Oscars or the Grammies, but La Verne did a pretty good job Monday night of recognizing three citizens – Marcia Townsend, Dave Perrin and Lindsey Kunisaki — for their outstanding service to their community. An overflow audience, including what appeared to be 411’s entire troop of Boy Scouts, watched Mayor Don Kendrick […]
Whether you aspire to reach Carnegie Hall in New York City, as the old jokes goes, or NBC studios in Burbank, Calif., the directions are the same: “Practice, practice, practice.” Weathercaster Elita Loresca, who lives in La Verne and now can be seen Monday through Friday mornings on NBC4’s “Today in LA” and the “Midday […]
Killer Kirby! How could such a bright-eyed teenager be so deadly? Forget the ’27 Yankees. She constitutes her own murders’ row. Just two days ago, she had 17 kills against Diamond Bar. In another match, she had 32 kills. Some of the balls she strikes with the palm of her lethal right hand exceed the […]
Wisconsin may boast the Cheeseheads, but California has the Cheese Girls, two La Verne, Calif. sisters, Lydia and Marnie Clarke, who opened the Cheese Cave this past June in the heart of the Claremont village. Lydia, 33, and Marnie, 26, are actually part of dairy royalty. Their grandfather was one of the founders of the […]
Walk into the superintendent’s office at the Bonita Unified School District, and count on getting an education. On Dr. Gary Rapkin’s desk are books, lots of them: “Lincoln on Leadership,” by Donald Phillips; “The Inner Game of Tennis,” by W. Timothy Gallwey; “The Leadership Challenge,” by James Kouzes and Barry Posner; “The Six Secrets of […]
The operatic stage and the battlefield.
One stage represents the highest form of artistic expression, the other a theater where man’s basest and most primitive instincts are vented.
Duncan MacLeod is that rare human being who has played on both.
Winning a basketball championship, La Verne Lutheran certainly knows how to deal with the “highs” of sports. Now they’re dealing with the lows. Over the last several days, the team and the school have been mourning the loss of three beloved individuals close to the program. They are: Kevin Payne, Sr., father of LHS senior shooting […]
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.
Unless you’re a hard core fan you probably missed it, but on Dec. 8, 2009, a 36-year-old rookie stepped on the floor and saw his first action in an NBA game. LeBron James and his supporting cast of Cleveland Cavaliers were in town to play the Memphis Grizzlies. Naturally, it was a sell-out. The aging […]
