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Glendale Councilman Zareh Sinanyan apologized for the first time from the dais at a council meeting Tuesday night for posting racist, homophobic and vulgar comments several years ago on YouTube. “It truly does not matter to me if you're Armenian or Latino or Anglo or Korean. It doesn't matter if you're gay or straight. It doesn't matter if you're Christian, Jewish, Muslim or Hindu,” Sinanyan said. “As my life experiences have shown, the only thing that matters to me is that I want to serve Glendale.” Last month, Sinanyan publicly confessed to making the comments , many of which were violent and centered around Armenia's geo-political enemies, to Glendale News-Press columnist Ron Kaye.

Robert Chacon After months of surveying area residents, La Crescenta Library has about 150 new titles geared toward a specific audience. A $5,000 state grant has allowed the library to boost its collection of books in Korean. Librarians and Korean-speaking volunteers spent months surveying the Korean community in La Crescenta and surrounding areas to see what titles they would like the library to buy with its $5,000 grant from the Library Services and Technology Act. Most of the books purchased were adult titles since most non-English reading Koreans in La Crescenta are adults, Librarian Vicky Guagliardo said.

Officials from the South Korean city of Go Seong toured City Hall on Thursday as part of their effort to establish ties with Glendale. If the delegation is successful, the town of 56,000 people would be the sixth foreign municipality to claim an official relationship with Glendale under the auspices of the Sister Cities International organization. The possible bond is being pushed by Planning Commissioner Chang Lee, a prominent Korean businessman in the Greater Los Angeles area, who said the relationship would be “mutually beneficial” between the two entities.

Darleene Barrientos Browsing the aisles at the Seoul Market in La Crescenta, 5-year-old Ashley Bayles picked out a bright pink bag filled with dried fruit, chips and cookies, labeled with Korean characters. "I think I'll get some of these," Ashley said casually, after her mother, Mary, told her the chips were shrimp flavored. "Let's see how they taste." Ashley and her classmates from the Center for Children preschool hunted for ingredients Wednesday common to Korean cuisine, but unfamiliar to the students, as a lunar new year activity.

Buck Wargo GLENDALE -- Korean War veterans from Glendale will be honored Thursday night at the annual dinner of the American Legion Post 127. The Glendale Daughters of the American Revolution will sponsor the pin presentation to veterans with a short ceremony to honor their service to the country. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the war. The U.S. Department of Defense has created commemorative pins to be distributed to Korean War veterans across the country.

City zoning administrator Edith Fuentes conducted a hearing Wednesday on a proposed conditional use permit and parking variance for a Korean barbecue restaurant at 3747 Foothill Blvd. She took the issue under advisement, and promised a written ruling. The proposed restaurant was applying for a CUP to sell beer and wine, and approval to operate in a center with 70 parking spaces, instead of the required 90. The owner, N. Paik, operates Sushi USA in the local area. The new restaurant will operate from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 7 days a week, and will have about 10 employees.

Yesterday we received the sample ballot for the April 2 Glendale Municipal Election. Is our household the only one puzzled by ballot being in English and Armenian exclusively? First, let's make clear that in our opinion one should understand the language of the land before voting. One has to be a citizen to vote, and to become a citizen, one needs to pass an English comprehension exam. If one cannot understand the candidates' positions and the issues discussed in English, the language of the land, where is the informed vote?

Marijuana. Hashish. Cocaine. These drugs, and others, and the paraphernalia that accompanies them were part of a recent drug seminar aimed at educating Korean parents of the number one problem in the community. The Drug Free Community Foundation, in association with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, held its 5th Drug Eradication Seminar on June 9 in the Crescenta Valley High School auditorium. The presentation was aimed toward informing the Korean community in La Crescenta about various drugs and indicators of their use. Attending were the parents and students of the Korean Institute of Southern California.