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Girl Scouts go for the gold
La Caņada Flintridge is Girl Scouts country, and on Sunday the most recent class of accomplished young women took the stage at Lanterman Auditorium in acknowledgment of their accomplishments. This year 29 young women received the Gold Award, a high honor...
Tags: Youth Organizations, Charity, Social Organizations
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Take Five: Interpreting the Commencement Address my way
The best commencement speech I never heard was Steve Jobs’ Stanford University speech given on June 7, 2005. I urge you to Google it and commit it forever to your brain. In about eight minutes Jobs presented a practical, realistic, and candid...Tags: Google Inc., Steve Jobs
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Floyd phenomenal against Spartans in final inning
LA CAŅADA FLINTRIDGE — Michelle Floyd turned on a pitch and sent it soaring over the left-field fence, but it was well foul to the disappointment of the San Marino High softball team. On the very next pitch, Floyd sent a screaming line drive just...Tags: Sports, Baseball
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St. Francis Drumline donates toys to City of Hope
Members of the St. Francis High School Drumline passed up their usual secret Santa gift exchange this year, deciding instead to spread holiday cheer by collecting and donating toys to the children at City of Hope’s pediatric ward. Working with the...Tags: Toy Industry
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The Valley Line: A night of fine food, great wine
Oh, what a night it was! The grand kickoff dinner for the fourth annual Pasadena PinotFest was held Sunday, with proceeds benefiting the in-need children and families served by Hathaway-Sycamores. The event was sponsored by Noir Food & Wine and Pasadena...Tags: Emergency Health Procedures, Entertainment, Dining and Drinking, Emergency Health Procedures, Restaurants
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Life is a team sport
I am a lecturer of some renown — passionate, articulate and persuasive — my audience glued to their seats. Plus they have their seat belts firmly in place (clear evidence of an effective lecture) and I hold them captive. At least until they...Tags: Suicide, Facebook, Heart Attack, Xbox 360
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All Health's Breaking Loose: Pumpkins are full of surprises
Pumpkins are dotting the countryside, in every yard and on every front porch. They’re a lovely splash of fall color, but more than being decorative, pumpkins are an amazing super fruit. We often call them a vegetable, but this nutritionally dense...Tags: Kidney Beans, Onions, Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Disease, Garlic
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Providing a support system for cancer patients
When La Caņada Flintridge resident Nancy Illian went to the doctorseven and half years ago with concern over an issue with her menstrual period, she knew she wasn’t just wasting time. Forty-eight at the time, Illian had been the opposite of a...Tags: Medical Specialization, Human Body, Medical Research, Labor Legislation, Health and Medical Professionals
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In Theory: Should we be allowed to choose to die?
Q. British author Sir Terry Pratchett recently presented a BBC documentary called “Choosing To Die,” about assisted suicide. Pratchett, the bestselling author of the “Discworld” series of fantasy novels, was diagnosed with...Tags: Jack Kevorkian, U.S. Supreme Court, Health and Medical Professionals, Death and Dying Customs, Abortion Issue
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In Theory: Have you questioned your faith in God?
Q. A recent posting on CNN's Belief Blog discusses how people can lose faith when faced with traumatic events. The article relates former First Lady Laura Bush's experience after being involved in a fatal car accident in 1963. Bush missed a stop sign...Tags: Indiana, Motorvehicle Accidents, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Interest, Judaism
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Piece of Mind: Reflections on losing a sister
Until Monday the worst thing facing me this week was a root canal.
And then my sister Tris, my personal idol, died.
There is nothing I can write that would do justice to her, but she is at the top of my mind and I can't seem to wrestle with any...Tags: Surgery, Root Canal, Health and Medical Professionals, Diseases and Illnesses, University of California, Los Angeles
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Mother Nature is her lab partner
The vehicle for all of life’s variety and complexity has found a new driver in La Caņada’s Frances Arnold. In her laboratories at Caltech, Arnold is harnessing the evolutionary process to create new proteins and enzymes that have the...
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Science, DNA, Material Science, Plant Openings
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