That is why I was so happy to attend a meeting recently where parents and community members came together to form the group “Standing up for our Children” to discuss, among many items, concerns about the increasing amount of heroin being made available to our youth and to talk about finding an available building with the possibility of opening a youth center for all children of not just one particular group.
I wish the Armenian population congratulations and hope that the center is well used. I also wish success for “Standing up for our Children” and pray that they too will find a center.
It is good to be proud of our heritage and where we have come from, but we are all now Americans with the freedoms and opportunities our home countries were unable to give us.
This is where we begin our new lives, but not without forgetting about our old ones.
AILEEN BRISTOW
Montrose
Officer at sheriff’s station stepped up
I would like to let the community know what an amazing law enforcement department we have in La Crescenta after the experience our family had with Deputy Troy Jackson of the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station. For many years we have had a potentially dangerous situation with a neighbor that escalated over the weekend. Jackson was there for us in a way that I did think was possible. He gave us the sense that we are protected by law enforcement, and that justice does prevail.
Our family would like to publicly thank Jackson for his amazing work, his sense of fairness and for being the officer that restored our trust in the community we live in.
DEBBIE BACINO
La Crescenta
Communication is key at meetings
