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Hospital officials and staff members at Glendale Adventist Medical Center took some time out to honor their doctors Thursday — offering them a free car wash in one of the hospital's parking lots. The service was in honor of National Doctors' Day, which takes place today and during which patients and hospital co-workers recognize and honor their physicians. "We do this almost every year and we also have a big luncheon with games," said Claudia Kanne, hospital director of medical staff and compliance.

Crescenta Valley High School's Junior ROTC members will hold a car wash this weekend to raise funds for a spring trip to Kitty Hawk, N.C. Members will wash cars from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot of Dilbeck Real Estate, 2943 Foothill Blvd. Each wash costs $5. The group's booster club is organizing the event. Funds raised by JROTC students will help pay for a trip to Kitty Hawk this spring to commemorate the centennial of the Wright brothers' famous first flight.

Glendale Community College's Save Our Classes Club will host a car wash from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Mobil Gas Station at 700 N. Glendale Ave. Cars cost $5 and trucks and vans are $8. All funds raised by the club go to the GCC Foundation. The club raised $1,006 last semester and hopes to raise about $2,000 this semester, said Patrick O'Green, the club's president. Students and faculty started the Save Our Classes Club last semester to raise money to return some of the 500 classes the college cut because of budget cuts in the past year.

Kids carried soapy sponges Saturday and grinned their way through a car-wash fundraiser for Glendale Bears, which is still struggling for funds after its treasurer stole from the group last year. After 40 years of serving community youth, the Glendale Bears Youth Football and Cheerleading organization is working from a negative balance trying to overcome last year’s embezzlement of more than $30,000 by Treasurer Louella Ragland. “We are definitely going to have to have more fundraisers,” said Glendale Bears President Tina Marquez.

La Bohn -- Moorehead Jessica Rose La Bohn and Jason Moorehead were married on the beach at sunset, on the island of Maui, Hawaii. The bride is the daughter of former Glendale resident Cynthia Tiniakos of Vancouver, Wash., and the granddaughter of Nick Glovata of Glendale. The groom is the son of Diane Blank of Temple City and Dennis Moorehead of Reno. The bride attended Mountain View High School in Vancouver, Wash., then went on to Southeast Missouri State University.

Fourth-graders from Carol Young's class went on a tasteful field trip last Thursday to Los Gingos Rapido on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Foothill Boulevard. Divided into three sections, the students got to take a tour of the kitchen and make their own tortilla, design their own dream Mexican dish and learn the proper method for washing hands before handling food. The third group learned how to wash their hands. It may seem like fourth graders should already know how to wash their hands, but Kim Chatham, director of operations for the Los Gringos Rapido company, teaches students the birthday method.

Jackson Bell Melissa Musson thought her horse must surely have died Friday morning after he stumbled into a wash that connected to the Los Angeles River. Musson was leading Pax, a 5-year-old thoroughbred, between the wash and a fence behind Silver Spur Stables on Riverside Drive just before 10 a.m. Friday when he got spooked while munching on a patch of grass and fell 7 feet onto stone slabs, she said. "I thought I killed him," she said. "His back could have been broken or he could have broken something else and had to be put to sleep.

Wilma Francis Martin, 96, of Bremerton, Wash. died on May 5, 2007. She was born Nov. 6, 1910 in Lancaster, Calif. to James F. and Pauline (Miller) Lichtenthaler. When she was 14, her family moved west and settled in Tujunga. She graduated from Glendale High School in 1928 and married Homer Lloyd Martin, whom she met in high school, on June 12, 1929 in Tujunga. They lived in Tujunga, where Homer practiced law until he entered the U.S. Navy in 1942. After World War II he returned to Tujunga to continue his law practice and they bought a home in La Cañada.

KATHERINE YAMADA Only a few homes had been built in the Rossmoyne area when Gladys and Harold Mosher purchased a house on East Glenoaks, near the intersection of Rossmoyne Avenue and Ethel Street, in 1924. The streets were paved, but it still looked like country with a large grove of apricot trees across the street and an unpaved Verdugo Wash running along the edge of their property. The Moshers had come from the San Francisco Bay Area with their daughter, Jane Mosher Usher, who was about 4, and their son, Frank.

Even though the following topic may be common, people do not like discussing it. But the emotions, anxiety and prayer that filled my previous week are just too "real life" to not write about. And the topic may amuse you, or strike a chord of affinity within. My kids came home from a weekend away with lice, one of my greatest repulsions. I went until my 30s before I ever experienced lice, and to this day, I have not had it myself. But the stress and exhaustion involved in getting rid of it this past week, and avoiding re-infestation, brought my mind, emotions and body to an exhaustion I have not experienced in a while.

A 13-year-old girl attempted to commit suicide Wednesday when she jumped 35 feet into the Verdugo Wash and sustained non-life-threatening injuries, Glendale police said. The girl, whose name wasn't released because she's a minor, was taken to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where she was treated for a herniated disc, police said. Police received calls about 4:30 a.m. that the girl was screaming for help after she jumped into the wash at Jackson Street and Monterey Road, police said.

The Glendale woman who drove her Mercedes up the Verdugo Wash at freeway speeds Thursday before getting trapped in the concrete-lined waterway will not face criminal charges because she broke no laws, officials said. The 53-year-old woman, whom police declined to identify, apparently used a public works maintenance entrance to enter the channel after confusing it for a subterranean church parking lot, which she was visiting for the first time at Glenoaks Boulevard and Kenilworth Avenue, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.

Engineers have decided to bring in a crane to remove a Mercedes sedan that got trapped in the Verdugo Wash today after the driver reportedly mistook a concrete water channel for a freeway on-ramp. Officials are preparing to temporarily close San Fernando Road between Doran Street and Kenilworth Avenue as they remove the car. The driver, a 53-year-old Glendale woman, entered the wash about a mile up and reached speeds of up to 70 mph, whizzing by maintenance crews who attempted to flag her down, officials said.  After barreling down several 3-foot long steps, she stopped before reaching a steep drop-off in the channel near San Fernando Road.

Officials were at a loss to explain how a 53-year-old Glendale woman drove her Mercedes about a mile up a concrete Verdugo Wash channel Thursday before barreling to a stop just short of an 8-foot drop-off into the L.A. River. The woman, whom police didn't identify Thursday, entered the wash about 11 a.m. at Glenoaks Boulevard and Kenilworth Avenue after reportedly confusing the concrete-lined channel for a freeway on-ramp, officials said. About a mile later, and after reaching speeds of up to 70 mph, the woman finally stopped after barreling down about nine, 3-foot long steps.

The following are odds and ends from the local sports scene. RAIN POSTPONES LOCAL EVENTS Several soccer matches were postponed Monday because of rain. A Mission League girls' soccer match between rivals Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy and Harvard-Westlake will now be played at 5:15 p.m. Feb. 10 at Occidental College, according to Flintridge Sacred Heart co-Coach Frank Pace . The match will remain as the Tologs' senior night. Hoover High and Burroughs had two soccer matches postponed, as well, and both will be made up next Monday, Hoover Athletic Director Jack Van Patten said.

CITY HALL — Citing reservoirs that have been engorged with above-average rainfall, Glendale became the latest city this week to lift mandatory irrigation restrictions, although officials appealed to residents to keep conserving. Customers will still be required to adhere to water waste rules, including a ban on outdoor watering during daytime hours and the washing down of driveways. The City Council on Tuesday lifted the nearly two-year-old mandatory water conservation rules that had restricted outdoor watering to three days a week in 2009 to ensure Glendale Water & Power stayed within strict limits imposed by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

GLENDALE — The St. Francis High and Hoover baseball teams planned to board buses for their respective CIF Southern Section Division II wild-card road games Tuesday afternoon. After rain fell early Tuesday and caused unplayable field conditions, those plans were quickly quashed. Instead, St. Francis and Hoover will participate in their postseason games today — weather permitting. St. Francis (14-13) will face Peninsula (19-8-1) and Hoover (9-16) will meet Bellflower (16-8)

Even though the following topic may be common, people do not like discussing it. But the emotions, anxiety and prayer that filled my previous week are just too "real life" to not write about. And the topic may amuse you, or strike a chord of affinity within. My kids came home from a weekend away with lice, one of my greatest repulsions. I went until my 30s before I ever experienced lice, and to this day, I have not had it myself. But the stress and exhaustion involved in getting rid of it this past week, and avoiding re-infestation, brought my mind, emotions and body to an exhaustion I have not experienced in a while.

GLENDALE — When rain started to fall early Tuesday afternoon, St. Francis High tennis Coach Ron Zambrano began to inspect the courts at Fremont Tennis Center. Zambrano, who also serves as the center’s professional, saw the courts had become slick. That proved to be the prevailing factor in Zambrano postponing a Mission League match between St. Francis and Crespi. “If it rains, you can’t play tennis,” Zambrano said. “The court lines become too slippery and the balls are too wet. “Plus, you can twist an ankle.