Annual mayor's prayer breakfast set
NORTHWEST GLENDALE -- The 40th Glendale Mayor's Prayer Breakfast
will take place at 6:30 a.m. March 20 at the Hilton Glendale, 100 W.
Glenoaks Blvd.
The event will feature Mayor Rafi Manoukian and keynote speaker
Peter Vidmar, captain of the 1984 U.S. gold-medal winning men's
gymnastic team. TV personality Stephanie Edwards will serve as
mistress of ceremonies.
Musical entertainment will be provided by soloist Eli Gunnell,
Glendale High School's chamber choir and Hoover High School's studio
jazz orchestra.
Parking is $1. Doors open at 6:15 a.m. Tickets cost $10 and will
be available at the door, but can be purchased at the Glendale
Chamber of Commerce, 200 S. Louise St., the city clerk's office at
City Hall, 613 E. Broadway and four other locations.
For additional locations and phone numbers, call 540-4000.
Tim Willert
GCC union endorses board candidates
NORTHEAST GLENDALE -- The California School Employees Assn.
Chapter 76 has endorsed Anita Quinonez Gabrielian, Robert Holmes and
Kathleen Burke-Kelly for the Glendale Community College Board of
Trustees.
The association is a classified professional union at the college.
The three candidates are among five running for three open seats on
the board. Two of the seats are four-year terms and the third seat is
a two-year term. The election is April 1.
The union has announced its promise to provide time, talents and
dollars to the election of Gabrielian, Holmes and Burke-Kelly.
Gary Moskowitz
Music Center spotlights local students
GLENDALE -- Seven students from Glendale and La Canada Flintridge
were awarded recently as semifinalists in the Music Center's 2003
Spotlight Awards.
The students were selected from more than 800 students from Los
Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara
and San Diego counties at the 15th annual event.
Award recipients included Colin Kupka of Hoover High School, Yumi
Man of Crescenta Valley High School, Brook Speltz of La Canada High
School and Glendale residents Gregory Arakelian, Reid Colton, David
Ettedgul and Corinn Kopczynski.
Gary Moskowitz
Former priest released on bail
GLENDALE -- A former Holy Family Church priest arrested last
week in Fresno was released after posting bail.
Donald Farmer, 65, was arrested on 14 counts of felony child
molestation, but was no longer being held at the Fresno County Jail
as of Thursday, a Fresno Sheriff's Department recording said.
Farmer's bail was set at $100,000.
