Train Station

GLENDALE — Police officials say they plan to step up patrols near the Glendale Amtrak/Metrolink train station after a 49-year-old bus rider was shot three times in an apparent robbery near a bus stop. The Police Department's Gang, Special Enforcement Detail and community lead officers will likely saturate the area surrounding the train station in the 400 block of West Cerritos Avenue as they continue to investigate Saturday's early-morning shooting, Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.

The following trains will operate with bus-bridge assistance: Ventura Lines 102, 104 and 106 depart from Montalvo and stop at the Burbank train station. From the Burbank train station, MTA buses will take passengers to the Glendale train station. Trains will then take passengers from Glendale to Los Angeles Union Station. Ventura Lines 113, 115 and 119 depart from L.A. Union Station and stop at the Glendale train station. MTA buses will then regularly transport passengers from Glendale to the Burbank train station.

All roads will be open Thursday with the exception of Chevy Chase Drive at San Fernando Road. The following trains will operate with bus-bridge assistance: Ventura Lines 102, 104 and 106 depart from Montalvo and stop at the Burbank train station. From the Burbank train station, MTA buses will take passengers every 30 minutes to the Glendale train station. Trains will then take passengers from Glendale to Los Angeles Union Station. Ventura Lines 113, 115 and 119 depart from L.A. Union Station and stop at the Glendale train station.

Gary Moskowitz SOUTHEAST GLENDALE -- You could hear the smooch echo inside Edmonds Chapel at Glendale Presbyterian Church when Philip Mansfield, 90, kissed his new bride, 85-year-old Ruth Sargent. The couple, after meeting last year through a mutual friend -- Glendale resident Edwin Filek -- fell in love and were married Saturday in front of a small group of friends and family. The couple, seated throughout most of the ceremony, gazed into each other's eyes as interim Pastor Brad Calhoun asked them to say their vows and place rings on each other's hands.

My 2-year-old son is obsessed with trains. The living room feels like a constant construction site with a mix of Lego parts, Thomas the Train pieces and all sorts of materials used to build the ever-expanding railway system in our house. He has also learned an Armenian nursery rhyme about trains that he's always murmuring. As real trains go through Glendale blowing their horns, the topic in the house inevitably turns to trains. So in November when I attended a special event at the Glendale train station, the meaning wasn't lost on me. With his recent passing, officials decided to dedicate the train station to former Glendale Mayor Larry Zarian to honor his contributions to the community.

A 13-year-old mentally retarded boy who was reported missing Monday when he left Roosevelt Middle School during recess was found at Union Station in Los Angeles after boarding a bus in Glendale, police said. Roosevelt school employees reported the boy missing about 10:15 a.m. after he failed to return to summer classes from recess, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said. The boy was new to the school and wasn't familiar with the area, he added. Police put out an alert for the boy and searched the area, but he was eventually found about two hours later in downtown Los Angeles, Lorenz said.

Halfway on funding for new library, thanks to many La Crescenta Library's circulation jumped from 28th to 24th out of 88 other libraries. Thanks goes to Rep. David Dreier (R-La Crescenta) for recognizing the need for a new library in the La Crescenta area. A new library is sorely needed. This funding initiated by Dreier, combined with L.A. County Supervisor Michael Antonovich's discretionary funds, brings the funding toward a new library to almost half.

Tim Willert SOUTHWEST GLENDALE -- Rows of evergreen trees and hedges designed to shield drivers from railroad tracks could begin appearing along San Fernando Road by the end of summer. The Redevelopment Agency today will consider approving the final design for the $2.5-million beautification project's first phase, and moving forward with construction bids. If approved, construction is expected to begin in September, according to staff reports.

Amber Willard SOUTHWEST GLENDALE -- Santa Claus will be substituting his reindeer for a 450-ton Metrolink train, at least for next week. The jolly fellow will be one of an entourage of characters arriving Friday night at the city's Metrolink station to collect toy donations. "We need people to bring gifts to the train station and the fire trucks will take them back to the fire stations," said Glendale Fire Engineer Bob Launius, who oversees the department's partnership with Metrolink for the Spark of Love program.

A 13-year-old mentally retarded boy who was reported missing Monday when he left Roosevelt Middle School during recess was found at Union Station in Los Angeles after boarding a bus in Glendale, police said. Roosevelt school employees reported the boy missing about 10:15 a.m. after he failed to return to summer classes from recess, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said. The boy was new to the school and wasn't familiar with the area, he added. Police put out an alert for the boy and searched the area, but he was eventually found about two hours later in downtown Los Angeles, Lorenz said.

My 2-year-old son is obsessed with trains. The living room feels like a constant construction site with a mix of Lego parts, Thomas the Train pieces and all sorts of materials used to build the ever-expanding railway system in our house. He has also learned an Armenian nursery rhyme about trains that he's always murmuring. As real trains go through Glendale blowing their horns, the topic in the house inevitably turns to trains. So in November when I attended a special event at the Glendale train station, the meaning wasn't lost on me. With his recent passing, officials decided to dedicate the train station to former Glendale Mayor Larry Zarian to honor his contributions to the community.

Snippets of interesting conversation are the special dividends of travel. They result from the surprising openness, almost intimacy, of sojourners confined to the metal bubble of a plane, boat, cab or train. A flight to Miami, stops in Florida to see friends and a train ride up the East Coast to New York, last November, refreshed my sense of the human diversity that so enriches our great country. The focus of the trip was a reunion of the Navy junior officers I served with during the Vietnam War. The following are brief “outtakes” from conversations with those I met along the way. My seatmate on the plane was coincidentally a Vietnam War Army vet headed to a reunion of his old helicopter crew.

SOUTH GLENDALE — A man was shot multiple times early Saturday morning after arriving at the Glendale Amtrak and Metrolink Station, police said. The shooting occurred around 6:10 a.m. Saturday, police said, after the man arrived at the station to visit family in Glendale. The man, who is in his 50s, suffered three gunshot wounds. He was taken to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where his injuries were deemed non-life-threatening. Two men were likely involved in the shooting, police said.

GLENDALE — Police officials say they plan to step up patrols near the Glendale Amtrak/Metrolink train station after a 49-year-old bus rider was shot three times in an apparent robbery near a bus stop. The Police Department's Gang, Special Enforcement Detail and community lead officers will likely saturate the area surrounding the train station in the 400 block of West Cerritos Avenue as they continue to investigate Saturday's early-morning shooting, Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.

Louise Baffa Peebles grew up in Atwater, but she and her sister, Linda, were in and out of Glendale constantly since their father, Harry, operated a series of movie theaters here. In the late 1950s, they ran Temple Theatre in the Masonic Temple on Brand Boulevard. The box office was located in what is now the entry to A Noise Within. Tickets were 50 cents for three movies, with two changes of movies per week. "George Crittenden, who runs the films for the Alex Film Society, was a projectionist trainee under my father," said Peebles.

The following trains will operate with bus-bridge assistance: Ventura Lines 102, 104 and 106 depart from Montalvo and stop at the Burbank train station. From the Burbank train station, MTA buses will take passengers to the Glendale train station. Trains will then take passengers from Glendale to Los Angeles Union Station. Ventura Lines 113, 115 and 119 depart from L.A. Union Station and stop at the Glendale train station. MTA buses will then regularly transport passengers from Glendale to the Burbank train station.

All roads will be open Thursday with the exception of Chevy Chase Drive at San Fernando Road. The following trains will operate with bus-bridge assistance: Ventura Lines 102, 104 and 106 depart from Montalvo and stop at the Burbank train station. From the Burbank train station, MTA buses will take passengers every 30 minutes to the Glendale train station. Trains will then take passengers from Glendale to Los Angeles Union Station. Ventura Lines 113, 115 and 119 depart from L.A. Union Station and stop at the Glendale train station.

Halfway on funding for new library, thanks to many La Crescenta Library's circulation jumped from 28th to 24th out of 88 other libraries. Thanks goes to Rep. David Dreier (R-La Crescenta) for recognizing the need for a new library in the La Crescenta area. A new library is sorely needed. This funding initiated by Dreier, combined with L.A. County Supervisor Michael Antonovich's discretionary funds, brings the funding toward a new library to almost half.