Religion

As a member of the Atheists United crew who picks up trash along the Glendale (2) Freeway every month or so, I’d like to thank the Rev. “Skip” Lindeman for his acknowledgment of our efforts (“How do you handle atheists?” In Theory, Saturday). It has been my privilege to have met Lindeman several times over the past few years and to have been a guest at La Cañada Congregational Church, where I was made to feel most welcome and treated with hospitality and friendship — just as I was last Saturday afternoon at St. Cyril of Jerusalem in Encino, where we got to hear some magnificent organ and choir music at the mass, thanks to some talented and dedicated musicians, conductors and singers.

Family History Fair is at 9 a.m. Jan. 24 Connecting families, both locally and globally, is the primary focus of the Family History Fair hosted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, La Crescenta Stake , from 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 24. It will be held at the Latter-day Saints Church, at 4550 Raymond Ave. in La Crescenta. The fair is free and open to the public. The Family History Fair Keynote Speaker will be Brentnall Turley of Culver City. An attorney by profession and a graduate of UC Berkeley School of Law, Turley has a passion for personal and family history and will be sharing the fruits of that passion with the audience.

Theater is a community treasure What a treat to read Joyce Rudolph’s super article about the Glendale Centre Theatre and the new season of fantastic plays (“A play for all seasons,” Saturday). I have enjoyed the theater since being introduced to it by my parents some 50-plus years ago. Although she mentioned that this will be its 62nd season, I’m sorry she didn’t mention what an outstanding part of the community the theater is — along with the third generation of the Dietlein family.