WHAT'S HIS NAME
Sometimes, the names you know best are the most likely to get mixed
up.
There are two names staffers at the campaign office for U.S. Rep.
James Rogan (R-Glendale) hear and say a lot -- Jim Rogan and Jason Roe.
"Jim Rogan for Congress" is the typical way they answer telephone
calls and Roe, the congressman's campaign manager, is the guy they see
all the time.
So, a News-Press reporter was surprised to call and hear a staffer
answer: "Jason for Congress."
When the mistake was pointed out, Roe and the confused staffer
couldn't help but laugh.
THE CLEAN LOOK
The first thing many people worry about when a News-Press photographer
wants to come over is whether their house is clean and tidy.
Barbara Kouri, president of the Jewel City Doll Club, wasn't sure she
was ready for her home to be pictured in a story about a doll show at the
Doctors' House. Instead, she suggested the photographer go to the home of
fellow doll club member Beatrice Dockter.
"I know her house is all clean," Kouri said.
PARTY ON
At Autumn Hills Health Care Center, if you're over 100 you become a member of a special group -- the Century Club. Center staff said the club
has been around for two or three years. Its members include Mae Enefer,
106; Olive Jones, 104; Florentine Griffin, 102, and Lorello Beaver, 100.
Apriar Missakian, 105, was a club member until his family took him home.
They recently lost another club member, Narisco Hernandez, who was 100
when he died. A lot of love and caring keeps our residents going,
Activity Director Shy Jester said.
LOST AND FOUND
The News-Press' new education reporter had a recent appointment to
visit a class at Horace Mann Elementary School to find out what the kids
were planning to do for their mothers on Mother's Day.
She consulted her trusty Thomas Brothers' guide and found the street
location of the school -- East Acacia Avenue. Once inside the school, she
announced her presence at the main office only to be greeted by blank
stares. After a few seconds of this, the reporter was told she was not in
Mann Elementary, but John Muir.
THROWN TO THE WOLVES
Glendale Senior Assistant City Atty. Carmen Merino got indoctrinated
to the joys of a media frenzy Friday outside the Burbank courthouse
Friday following a hearing on involving the "angel of death" case.
Merino was walking out of the building to the parking lot when a group
of reporters asked her to be next in line to be interviewed by a dozen
people. The reporters bombarded her with questions over a couple of
