May 18, 2002
Gary Moskowitz SOUTHEAST GLENDALE -- Students, teachers and staff at Cerritos Elementary School will officially move into their new facilities Monday. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be at 8:20 a.m. and mark the transition from portable classrooms into permanent classroom facilities. The student body will carry American flags and gather on the new playground for the ceremony. School staff, faculty and district officials will attend the event. The total cost of the Cerritos project is $13.7 million.
November 7, 2001
Karen S. Kim Best Buy to open Friday MEDIA DISTRICT NORTH -- Best Buy -- offering 45,000 square feet of electronics, computers, audio and video equipment, appliances, gadgets and gizmos -- will host its grand opening Friday. The new store, 1501 N. Victory Place, is part of the new Empire Center project, which already boasts a Target Greatlands and Lowe's home improvement store. The store will include more than 17,000 compact discs, 800 videos, 2,000 computer software titles and 2,900 DVD titles.
December 7, 2006
Enterprise Services opens officially Members from city government and staff, as well as Glendale Police officials, joined community members Wednesday at the Grand Opening of Enterprise Services, a new city facility located inside the former police station. Enterprise Services provides passport applications, does Live Scan fingerprinting and provides notary services. While it has been operating since September, the ribbon was officially cut Wednesday. "This is a great example of adaptive re-use," said City Councilman Ara Najarian.
February 9, 2009
Throngs of onlookers celebrated the Chinese New Year on Sunday with drum performances, ribbon dances and, of course, red envelopes. Chinese and Korean dance troupes took their turns on the Americana at Brand green Sunday in celebration of the annual turn, also known as the Lunar New Year, which fell on Feb. 7 this year. Brightly dressed Chinese ribbon dancers took their turns among calm, synchronized Korean drummers and the requisite lion dance while hundreds watched. The holiday is hugely popular in mainland China, proliferating into the cultures of neighboring countries, including Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and others.
February 13, 2009
“So many fail because they don’t get started — they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.” W. Clement Stone Thank goodness the following people got started! We are welcoming two new businesses to the Crescenta Valley this month. We hope you join us at their upcoming ribbon cutting/grand opening celebrations. On Thursday, Feb. 26, Modella Uniforms will be hosting a ribbon-cutting at their new location at 3115 Foothill Blvd.
September 4, 2006
The Soussana Family Jewish Chabad Center of Burbank was opened Sunday with both a hair- and a ribbon-cutting. Rabbi Shmuly Kornfeld and his wife, Elana, were not only celebrating the opening of the Chabad Center but they were also celebrating their son Mendy's third birthday. In the Jewish tradition, a boy's hair is not cut until he has reached his third year, making his first haircut a significant occasion called an Upshernish. The ribbon-cutting took place about a half hour after the Upshernish ceremony to a large crowd on Magnolia Boulevard.
November 25, 2002
Gary Moskowitz The arduous task of making his bed every morning gave 13-year-old Ali Rafatnia an idea. The Wilson Middle School eighth-grader went to work immediately to create the "Easy Bed," an invention that uses zippers and Velcro to attach the bed sheet to the blanket. The result: making the bed just got easier and Ali walks away from Saturday's annual Invention Convention with a second-place ribbon for his idea. "Anybody could use it," Ali said.
December 6, 2001
Karen S. Kim SOUTHWEST GLENDALE -- It's been a little more than a year since a car heading east on Magnolia Boulevard in North Hollywood jumped onto the curb and killed crossing guard William Hooper, 60, of Tujunga. But a little tribute to his memory, and to his service as a major in the U.S. Navy and Air Force, could be seen hanging on the Touched by an Angel Tree in Glendale Memorial Hospital's lobby Wednesday. "He was our friend," said Glendale resident Judy Davis, who bought the angel ornament in Hooper's memory.
June 8, 2002
Janine Marnien LA CRESCENTA -- Some fifth-grade students at La Crescenta Elementary School hit the wagon trail Friday, as part of Pioneer Day. Students in Ginger Dotson's class made covered wagons, clothespin dolls, beaded jewelry and ate food similar to what pioneers would have eaten on the trail West. They even take their covered wagons around the field to test the stability of them. The activities were meant to teach the students about what it would have been like to be a pioneer.