Churches and community organizations pull S-T together! FREE FRIDAY • APRIL 14, 2017 TELLING THE TRUTH FOR 12 YEARS! VOLUME 13 • NUMBER 8 White Cross Has Blessed The Valley Since 1923 BY DAVID DEMULLÉ (next to the Travel Inn). The service will begin promptly at The Annual Easter Sunrise 6 a.m. and conclude by 7 a.m. Service, (Sunday, April 16) The worship will be led by as coordinated through the the New Hope Worship Band, Verdugo Hills Ministerial along with musicians from Association (VHMA), will be many of the local churches. a beautiful experience and a The Verdugo Hills Ministerial dramatic reminder of Christ’s Association has coordinated promised resurrection after his the service with several of the death. This service has been area pastors participating. a Sunland-Tujunga Easter In 1992, the Los Angeles Tradition since 1926, and will Times religion editor John be held at The Cross of San Dart wrote that old newspaper Ysidro on McGroarty Peak in clippings indicate that a cross Tujunga. was first erected on the peak Vans will begin to transport in 1923 and was dedicated in people to the cross starting at a ceremony led by a Catholic 4:30 a.m., from the corner of priest. The sunrise service, Foothill Blvd. and Hillhaven see Sunrise, page 9 The Cross of San Ysidro overlooks Sunland-Tujunga. INSIDE: Hey, Herb Wesson! Neighbor Perishes; Bad Ass Boxes! Please Help ................ 2 Local poet’s book reviewed! ................ 2 Verdugo Hills Women’s Chorus ................ 4 Don’t forget Tranquil Place. Firefighter calls for more water as apartment explodes in flames DEPARTMENTS All fires are tragedies, but flames and watched in horror Community Help ................... 2 Pet Etiquette this April 1 apartment fire on as the apartment and every- the 7000 block of Greeley St. thing in it was destroyed. She View from the Rock ............. 3 was more so. not only lost her husband but for Hotel Stays Jesse Arelleno was in the her home, two cats and her Movie Review ..................... 4 With the summer travel during the summer are happy his kitchen when the fire beloved bird, Sunshine. Chef Randy .......................... 5 season in full swing, many and safe ones. broke out. He had been Her nephew has set up a families are planning their For many, summer travel released from the hospital the GoFundMe account to help Legion Post Calendar ............ 7 travels...and bringing along means staying at a pet friend- day before after having had with the funeral costs. Please their pets to stay with them ly hotel. It’s important to brain surgery. do what you can by logging Foothills Happenings ............ 8 at pet friendly hotels. Be sure make sure that you and your The fire burned with such on to: Crime Stats .......................... 9 to plan ahead and take all pet are prepared. Following intensity that he was not able www.gofundme.com/ejrbt6- the necessary precautions to some simple tips will help to to escape. His wife made it ease-the-financial-burden- Take My Card .................... 11 ensure that your pets’ travels see Pets, page 2 out though the smoke and for-lelah. GET THE DAILY NEWS BY JOINING THE FOOTHILLS INSIDER! Write to: [email protected] 2 — FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2017 • THE FOOTHILLS PAPER www.thefoothillspaper.com • VOLUME 13 • NUMBER 8 Pets, from pg. 1 If your pet travels with a crate or kennel, place them in ensure that your hotel stay it when leaving the room. In Bad Ass Boxes Has with your pet is an enjoyable addition, place a note on the one. hotel door indicating that your Some Bad-Ass Chicks It’s recommended to book pet is in the room. BY ALEJANDRO MAGALLANES a room on the ground floor Don’t leave any pests be- and by an exit. This will hind. Before leaving home be The hostess of the comedy make it much easier for sure to give your pet a good show at the Legion Hall an- you to take your pet out for cleaning and de-flea & de-tick nounced that we would be tak- bathroom breaks. them. This means a good ing a five minute break. It was Make sure to always clean flea and tick bath along with a much needed break. Sitting up after your pet. A good rule utilizing preventative flea and through comic after comic and of thumb is to bring along tick control. Leaving behind a literally laughing until it hurt your own poop bags so you stinky smell,or worse, fleas or was starting to take its toll. I will always be prepared. ticks is the kind of thing that stepped outside for a breath of Be sure to exercise your makes pet friendly accom- fresh air. The man next to me pet; this means walks. Ask modations change their pet I’ll bet you can’t guess what is in this bag! lit up a cigarette, smiling. I hotel personnel about the best friendly policies. In addition, smiled back, “These women places to walk your pet. if a deposit is required, these are hilarious, aren’t they?” He and the real woman inside ex- est gift of Bad Ass Boxes is Treat the hotel room with types of things could very nodded, responding, “It’s plodes at 40 and 50, scream- their President, Andrea. respect; this means covering well prevent you from getting about time we get something ing, “No more!” What you’re Where the female comics she any furniture and beds that it back. good in this town!” left with is the genuine beauty works with call themselves your pet may be allowed on. Accidents happen! Even That’s the way it felt at The of a real woman, with enough the cougars of comedy, An- If traveling with a cat, pets that have never had an Cougars of Comedy show joy, rage, and creativity to drea is certainly the cougar place their litter boxes in the “accident” indoors may do so held two Saturdays ago at the lead an entire crowd of people cub: young, beautiful, energet- bathroom. This will make under stress. Bring along a American Legion Hall. It was into uproarious laughter. ic, and sharp. When I asked clean-up much easier. disinfectant as well as a rag a night of side-splitting laugh- What was best about this her about how this organiza- It’s recommended that you in the event that you have to ter. The ad in this paper stated evening of risqué comic de- tion started, she blatantly ex- not leave your pet unattended clean up after your pet. Not that it could make you “pee in bauchery was fund-raising for plained that she was drunk at in your hotel room. Even the doing so could also cause a your pants” and I wouldn’t be a good cause. Correction. A a whiskey bar, talking to a best behaved pets can bark loss of deposit. surprised if someone actually great cause. This comedy couple handsome servicemen and become destructive when To ensure that you’re wel- did. show was brought to us by a who were being deployed the in new surroundings. If you comed back, keep your pet on There’s something about local, non-profit organization next morning. After hearing must leave your pet alone, be a leash and avoid taking them women in their forties and fif- called Bad Ass Boxes. This this, she excitedly exclaimed, sure that it’s for a very short into dining rooms and other ties. It’s as if all the beauty family-run organization deliv- “I’m gonna send you some- time. Alert the front desk that restricted areas. magazines, asshole boyfriends, ers boxes of essential items to thing!” One hangover and two your pet is alone in the room Following some common and judgements from mother our Special Operations troops aspirin later, Andrea realized, and try putting on the TV or a sense rules this summer will they had to absorb in their deployed all over the world, “Aww, shit. I told those guys I radio to make your pet more help ensure that you and your teens, twenties and thirties fi- one platoon at a time. was gonna send them some- comfortable. pet have a happy and safe trip. nally reach a boiling point, I have to say that the great- see Bad Ass Boxes, page 11 Book Review: Clocks & Water Drops by Marlene Hitt, Poet BY DAVID DEMULLÉ As a longtime fan of the wit and wisdom of Marlene Hitt, I had overlooked the possibility of her penning a work of art that transcends the everyday realities of our little vortex. Over the years, I have glee- fully read and enjoyed the ri- valries of the different authors attempting to lay out what Sunland-Tujunga really was at the time of its founding. Au- thors such as Mary Lee Tiernin, Mary Lou Pozzo and Sara Lombard called out in detail the trials and tribula- always with the touchstone of having participated in both her tions of our forbearers into a those objects that are still here growth and the growth of our stark Reality of facts. Facts to be seen in one form or an- community, leads the reader melded with conjecture, sto- other, I felt the relationships of on and on, until at last, you ries woven together through all the characters that she not can let out your breath and re- the researches of these es- only allows to present them- lax – from the wondrous jour- teemed ladies. selves, but to reveal their sto- ney that has made you feel And then, I discovered the ries and diversities in a natural wise, worn and petulant.