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CWC Sings to Brazen Burglar A Full House Bungles Break-in A resident was inside her home on Monday when a man broke into her house on the 11300 block of Alethea. After a drawn out gun battle, the intruder was shot and killed by LAPD SWAT officers. The intruder, who may have lived in a homeless camp down the hill from Rim CanHome owner and neighbor talk with police while intruder shoots yon, had broken into the occuup house. pied house while the resident was sleeping. He confronted ing which she related the inci- at her about cookies, and of her but she escaped and called dent as told to her. course, it scared the life out of 911. her because she had just woke “She [the homeowner] told During the standoff, the res- me that she had awoken by up. And she went back into ident and her neighbor were her bedroom, but the door did hearing something, like a interviewed by LAPD detecmuffled sound,” Johnson said. not have a lock. So she then tives. The neighbor, Rosie escaped out of one of the back “And she went out and she Johnson, was also interviewed saw this man in her house. windows.” by a CBS-2 video crew durAnd he mumbled something see Break-in, page 8
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Concert 2017 Scholarship winners: Elizabeth Queen, Niko Murakami and Kali Hardwick. On Sunday, April 30, the California Women’s Chorus, Inc. (CWC) presented their 48th annual public concert at the Glendale Hilton Hotel, Glendale. Members of the ten CWC choruses in California came together to share their talent and to entertain in
the hotel grand ballroom which rapidly filled to capacity. Local choruses Verdugo Hills Women’s Chorus and Burbank Singers, both of which entertain independently in their own communities, joined together to sing at the see CWC, page 4
Passing of The Laurels 2017
On Sunday, April 23, at the McGroarty Arts Center a celebration of poetry took place: the ninth such event in 18 years. The local poetry and cultural community participated in the Passing of the Laurels 2017 Ceremony, with Elsa S. Frausto, the Eighth Poet Laureate (20142017) passing the laurel wreath and the poets’ heart to Pamela Shea, the Ninth Poet Laureate of Sunland Tujunga, selected to serve in this voluntary and prestigious post for the years 2017-2019. The Passing of the Laurels ceremony consists of crowning the new Poet Laureate with a “laurel” wreath - in our case it is a wreath of olive branches: olive for peace and for the oil of inspirationwisdom-anointing. After placing the new wreath’s on Shea’s head, Frausto gave
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Elsa Frausto presents the Laurel to Poet Pamela Shea. her the golden heart locket that contains dried leaves from all the past wreaths of all the past Poets Laureate. This locket has been passed on from one poet to the next since 1999 in an unbroken tradition. The name of the new Poet Laureate is then engraved on the plaque with all the poets’ names and kept at the McGroarty Arts Center.
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