Key Club

Glendale Kiwanis Club is sponsoring a huge, 12-hour jazz and big band festival Saturday and it's all for the love of children. Club Secretary Victor Legerton said the club is always approached by organizations seeking financial support for community programs and projects. The club lends support to those that the Kiwanis believe are worthy and consistent with their mission statement, which is primarily serving the children. "And particularly in Glendale making our resources efficient and as effective as possible, reaching as many children in the community as possible," he said.

Kiwanis program in the mountains aims to train local children to be leaders at home.GLENDALE -- Despite summer's passing, local children are still going to camp. That's what 16 students from Rosemont Middle School will be doing this weekend in the San Bernardino mountains as part of a Kiwanis International leadership program. "The Key Leader program is really for youth who take school and community service seriously," said Laura Rivera, co-advisor of the Rosemont Middle School Builders Club.

Five Foothill-area high school seniors-Artia Moghbel of Clark Magnet High School, Seong Jin Moon of Crescenta Valley High School, and Michael Caswell, Katherine Hurlbutt, and Jessica Luttkus, of La Cañada High School-will be presented as the 2004 recipients of the Christopher A. Burrows Memorial Scholar-ship at a dinner following the foundation's annual golf and tennis tournament May 18. These students were chosen because of their high level of...

Members of the Don José Verdugo Chapter, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, honored five local students at its annual Good Citizen Award ceremony held recently at the La Cañada Flintridge Country Club. The Good Citizen Award is presented to students for the outstanding work they do for home, school, community and country. The students are selected by school faculty based on the qualities of dependability, service, leadership and patriotism. This year’s recipients represent five local high schools and were selected for this prestigious award.

Five area students were recently honored as “Good Citizens” at a luncheon held by the Don Jose Verdugo Chapter of The Daughters of the American Revolution. Presiding over the program was Liz Craven, regent, and Barbara Rogers, “Good Citizen” chairwoman. The luncheon and award ceremony was held at Beckham Place Restaurant in Pasadena. The students were accompanied by their school counselors and their parents. Honored that day were Estrella Sainburg, who attends La Cañada High School; Jason Bunn, Flintridge Preparatory School; Alanna Pires, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy; Stephanie Patton, Crescenta Valley High School; and Anahit Shahbazyan, Clark Magnet High School.

Robert Chacon Carly Naples is no stranger to the spotlight. As a dancer, the La Canada High School junior has appeared on stage, screen and in music videos with the likes of Will Smith, Fiona Apple and The Wiggles. Her latest role, however, is a little closer to home. She was crowned last month as Miss La Canada Flintridge by the La Canada Flintridge Chamber of Commerce. The 16-year-old doesn't dance professionally anymore, opting instead to devote more time to her school work and social life.

Judy Seckler HOOVER HIGH -- Sometimes brilliance comes in compact packages. In a light blue Gap shirt and jeans with brown locks framing his slender features, Hoover student Vaheh Shirvanian dresses in the uniform of a typical high school senior. His ability to focus his striking gaze on a speaker may be the only visible clue to Shirvanian's intellect -- the kind of intelligence that earned him a 4.72 grade-point average and the honor of class valedictorian.

    Richard Godbold passed away quickly and quietly in his sleep on Friday, May 27, 2011 from heart failure at age 84. Richard Travis Godbold was born in Los Angeles on November 8, 1925 to Henry Travis Godbold and Ruth E. Godbold, he graduated from Burbank High School in 1944 and then served his country in the Navy during World War II.  He spent his life in the automobile business, starting with his father at the Pasadena Hudson...

When Back Pocket Memory was setting up on stage July 18 at the Emergenza Festival?s Battle of the Bands competition, the Burbank band began to feel the energy from the crowd as more than 200 fans came to their feet and started chanting. ?All of a sudden, I start hearing a chant of our band?s name getting louder and louder,? said lead singer Chris Pennington. ?At that moment, I realized I could care less if we win or lose. This is why we play music, it?s to interact with our family and friends.

Gary Moskowitz Anna Arutyunyan's favorite pastime of watching the television show "ER Trauma" on the weekends is her one escape from an extremely busy senior-year schedule. The 16-year-old Glendale High School Associated Student Body president, in addition to keeping up with leadership roles in half a dozen school clubs, has been named the student representative on the board of education for the 2002-03 school year. "I have a twisted passion for medicine, what can I say?"