Civil War

Adrian Chia won the Rosemont Golf Tournament, a fundraiser for the American Freedom Tour. Every year, Rosemont Middle School students have an opportunity to discover history up close and personal as they trace the steps of the Union and Confederate soldiers of the Civil War or, like this year, retrace the birth of the United States. Students will be traveling to Massachusetts in the “Boston Birth of the Revolution” tour during spring break next year. The trip is exciting, educational and expensive.

The Rosemont Middle School cafeteria was transformed into a time machine on Thursday evening, May 31 as students in Stacy Fox's eighth grade history classes presented their Civil War research projects. Students' families and friends were invited for the presentations which included in depth information on subjects such as Civil War medicine, weapon technology and prison systems. The event was the brainchild of Fox, who adapted the idea from "Math Night," an evening spotlighting mathematics that used to be held at the school.

The recent tide of support for the residents of the war-torn nation of Uganda is culminating in a multi-cultural festival this weekend. On Saturday, June 2, the public is invited to "Invisible Children, Visible Change" an event at Crescenta Valley High School that will benefit two organizations, Life in Africa and Invisible Children. Life in Africa (lifeinafrica.com) serves war-affected families in northern Uganda with many programs, including micro-finance and craft production enterprises aimed at creating sustainable incomes for families displaced by the war. They also provide sleeping accommodations, breakfast, and activities for up to 400 children daily.

Zarian to talk to Armenian rappers "The Larry Zarian Forum" television show Larry will host Glendale hip-hop group Pentagon tonight. Zarian will discuss with the group's lives, music and goals. Pentagon consists of rapper R-mean, singer Ras Teo and producer Blind. The show airs at 7 p.m. on Charter Communications Channel 26. The live call-in number for the show is (818) 547-3668. CVHS plans Uganda benefit for Saturday Inspired by an April school-wide assembly on the effect of civil war in Uganda, Crescenta Valley High School students, teachers and staff will throw a one-time, all-day fundraising event at the campus from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

Forest Lawn-Glendale is celebrating the 92nd anniversary of its first Memorial Day program. The event will be held on May 28, beginning at 1 p.m., and will feature a memorial march at the Little Church of the Flowers and proceed to the burial site of a Civil War soldier. Civil War re-enactors from the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry-Company K will be featured. A civil war band, The Band of the California Battalion, will supply patriotic music. Amusket and cannon salute will complete the event.

The Foothill region will once again host several services commemorating Memorial Day. All services listed will take place on Monday, May 28. Here is a list of options in the area. Two Strike Park The first ever Memorial Day service at Two Strike Park on Rosemont Avenue will be presented by the Veterans of Foreign Wars 288 and American Legion Post 1614. Those who attend can expect a simple and solemn event. Crescenta Valley High School Jr. ROTC will serve as color guard and GCC student Mary Garcia will be singing "God Bless America."

Students at Rosemont Middle School rediscovered the Civil War last Friday, May 4. The life and times of the bitter national conflict was not found in school books, however, but on the school's upper field as the history department hosted it's 7th Annual Civil War Assembly. The assembly, organized by 8th grade history teachers Lynn McGinnis and Chris Collins-Cross, consisted of six stations that gave students the opportunity to discover how the war affected the nation as a whole and individuals on a personal level.

EVENTS — Saturday, May 19 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Kiwanis Club of Glendale and the California Highway Patrol are sponsoring "Child Seat Checkup Day." Participants will have their child's car safety seat inspected to determine whether it is installed and being used properly. Individuals with unsafe car seats will have a new safety seat installed in their vehicle at no charge. The event will be held at Edison Elementary School, 435 S. Pacific Ave. Open to all L.A. County residents.

GLENDALE — Sudanese genocide survivor Valentino Achak Deng talked about a life that seemed to be always at the heels of war Tuesday at the Glendale Public Library. Deng walked several hundred miles after he was separated from his family in the second Sudanese Civil War in the mid-1980s. He witnessed corpses, killings and tragedy and even came into contact with the murahaleen — which is the same type of militia massacring people in Darfur today. As Deng journeyed from his hometown in Sudan to a refugee camp in Ethiopia, he found that war had come to plague Ethiopia as well.

As about 30 eighth-grade Rosemont Middle School students settled into their chairs Thursday, Abraham Lincoln prepared them for what they were about to hear. "I'm here to talk about how I got shot," he said. Lincoln, played by school history teacher Mike Anker, then launched into the story of how the 16th U.S. president came to pull the country through its bloodiest fight — the Civil War. Anker was one of six teachers and community members who had stations set up around the school's soccer field for most of the day as about 700 eighth-graders moved from one character to the next for an up-close and personal take on the war. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a Union soldier, a housewife, a social director and field doctor Mary Edward Walker — the only woman ever to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor — were also out on the field.