Chamlian Armenian School

They might not be old enough to apply for a license, but elementary-school-aged children can still do their part to promote safe driving at and around school sites, Glendale Police Officer Matt Bolton said Tuesday during a presentation at Chamlian Armenian School in La Crescenta. Looking both ways before stepping into the street, using crosswalks and observing traffic signs will all help to minimize the risk of a pedestrian accident, Bolton said. "Just last Thursday, we had a young kid going down to Lincoln Elementary in La Crescenta here on bicycle, with his helmet on, thank goodness," Bolton said.

The Planning Commission on Wednesday denied permits for a new 9,345-square-foot gym at Chamlian Armenian School after a dozen neighbors argued the addition would be intrusive. School officials want to construct the 35-foot-tall gymnasium — which would include a sports court, lobby, two locker rooms, bathrooms and laundry facilities — near the east perimeter of the lot at 4444 Lowell Ave. just south of Foothill Boulevard in La Crescenta. No changes to existing driveways were proposed.

Seda Batmanian, a counselor at Chamlian Armenian School, knows her students, and her students know basketball. So when she started talking about Miami Heat forward LeBron James and his first game back in Cleveland, where he would face his former Cavalier teammates, their attention was piqued. Cavalier fans donned T-shirts with angry messages printed on them and booed their former hero, Batmanian recalled. But one Cavalier player, Antawn Jamison, walked across the court and shook James' hand.

GLENDALE — Thirty-two public and private schools in Glendale will be among the 270 beneficiaries of an Americana at Brand donation program, company officials said. For much of December, customers at the Americana and sister development the Grove could opt to donate 5% of their receipts to a school of their choosing. Almost all schools in Ventura and Los Angeles counties were eligible. “Customers supported their schools,” said Jennifer Gordon, a senior vice president with Caruso Affiliated, which owns the two outdoor malls.

Unwrapping a Hershey’s bar, the first thing students noticed was that the bar is divided into 12 squares — four squares in three rows. Their first task of the assignment was to figure out how much candy was in one-third of a bar. Students in Tsolaire Aghamanoukian’s sixth-grade math class Monday morning at Chamlian Armenian School in Glendale worked in teams to isolate the correct portion of candy on their desks and write out the answer on their miniature white boards.

It began with eight students in 1975, but in the 35 years since, Vahan and Anoush Chamlian Armenian School has grown to accommodate 500 first- through eighth-graders. Its 35th anniversary celebration Wednesday drew religious and local government officials, including Mayor Frank Quintero, who lauded the school for its place in maintaining Armenian culture and traditions among Glendale’s youth. “It is not a celebration of 35 years of dedicated service, but the success of the present and expectations and visions of the future,” Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, prelate of Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church, said in an Armenian and English address.

Students across Glendale and Burbank heard the riddles and rhymes of Dr. Seuss on Monday, in honor of the famous children’s author and illustrator Theodor Geisel. Geisel, who wrote children’s books under the name Dr. Seuss, died in 1991, but Monday was his birthday, and teachers across the area took the opportunity to engage students in his work. Children at Chamlian Armenian School in Glendale heard a parent read “Green Eggs and Ham,” after which they ate green eggs and ham, and classes throughout the Glendale and Burbank unified school districts spent time reading some of Seuss’ most famous titles, including “The Cat in the Hat” and “Fox in Socks.

When the lunch whistle blew Wednesday some students at Chamlian Armenian School playfully pounded their fists on lunch tables as they eagerly awaited Thanksgiving fixings their mothers prepared for them. About 50 mothers in white chef’s hats decorated with a Thanksgiving cornucopia emblem appeared from the school kitchen holding trays of individual servings of corn, turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, cookies and pumpkin pie. The children geared up for the Thanksgiving lunch and wore feather headdresses or pilgrim hats made out of construction paper.

Glendale Zoning Administrator Edith Fuentes took under advisement on Wednesday an application from Chamlian Armenian School to renew its application to continue to operate at 4444 Lowell Ave. in La Crescenta. The school has been operated at the site by St. Peter?s Church since 1983. Prior to that, it was a public school established in 1960. Shoghig Yepremian, speaking for the applicant, said the school is looking to renew its variance to operate in an R-1 zone and is additionally seeking a permit to continue to provide 59 parking spaces instead of the code required 122. Fuentes read a number of complaints from neighbors about traffic congestion and parking issues.