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First Baptist, La Crescenta All invited to ‘Labor of Love’ on Dec. 27 First Baptist Church, La Crescenta presents a men’s breakfast the fourth Saturday (the next is Dec. 27) each month at 7 a.m. Enjoy a great breakfast and devotion. The cost for breakfast is $5. After breakfast there will be an opportunity to do odd jobs around the houses of those who need it.   Church offers ‘Mom’s Day Out’ “Mom’s Day Out” is offered Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at First Baptist Church, La Crescenta . For more information or to sign children up, call the church office at (818)

Elementary school hosting yard sale Verdugo Woodlands Elementary School is hosting its first Yard Sale for Education on Saturday, Oct. 18 and Sunday, Oct. 19 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the school’s upper playground at 1751 Verdugo Road. Parking is available in Lot 34 off Cañada Boulevard. The community is invited to join the VW family in donating their good quality stuff (no junk, please!) for a deductible donation on Friday, Oct. 17 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Dad’s Club, 1728 Cañada Boulevard.

PCC Student Ambassadors Pasadena City College has launched a new program designed to familiarize high school and middle school students with the many educational opportunities and resources available at PCC. In the driver’s seat of the newly formed President’s Student Ambassador Program are the ultimate experts: Thirty-two current PCC students who have graduated from local high schools. These students were chosen to serve as honorary representatives of Dr. Paulette J. Perfumo, superintendent/president of the college.

Teachers nominated for Bravo Awards GLENDALE -- The Music Center announced this week that three local teachers are among 60 exemplary teachers nominated for the 22nd annual Bravo Awards. The Music Center's Education Division annually presents Bravo Awards to a school, an arts teacher and a general classroom teacher. Jin Do, a music specialist at Crestview Preparatory School in La Canada Flintridge, Stan Hatanaka, a music specialist at Toll Middle School, and Mary Anna Pomonis, Hoover High School's visual and performing arts department chairwoman, were nominated for Bravo Awards.

Baseball, softball registration Aug. 5 The Crescenta Sports Assn. will hold Fall Ball registration from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 5 at the Glendale Sports Complex. The cost is $100 per player for baseball or softball. Children 7 through 14 as of April 30, 2007, will be eligible for baseball and children 9 through 16 as of Jan. 1, 2007, will be eligible to sign up for softball. For more information, call the Crescenta Sports Association at (626) 568-4297 or go to www.eteamz.

Doughnuts, jazz and fanfare at GHS SOUTHEAST GLENDALE -- The Glendale High School Instrumental Music Department tonight will host a festival concert that is open to the public. The concert will be at 7 p.m. in the auditorium at Glendale High, 1440 E. Broadway. There is a suggested donation of $3. Krispy Kreme doughnuts will be sold after the concert. The performance will feature the school's jazz band, string orchestra, concert band, symphonic orchestra and several chamber-music groups.

Gary Moskowitz Harout Gagulyan won't graduate from Hoover High School until 2005, but the 16-year-old did graduate as a certified computer technician from Mashdots College this weekend. Harout started taking computer courses at Mashdots last summer and, during his junior year of high school this year, he took enough night classes in computer technology at Mashdots to earn a certificate from the college. Harout was one of 250 students to walk at Mashdots College's 2004 graduation ceremony Saturday at Calvary Presbyterian Church, 610 N. Glendale Ave. Approximately 372 students were eligible to graduate this year, but 60 graduated last semester and some graduates could not or chose not to attend the graduation ceremony, officials said.