Warm smiles and laughter, big hugs and lively chatter. Celebration. Thus defines The Journal's 20th Anniversary, and much more. Commemorated by all as a gift to the community, The Pasadena/San Gabriel Valley Journal Newspaper has brought together and unif...

Joe and Ruthie Hopkins could be considered one of Pasadena's prominent couples. On Friday evening, November 20, 2009, some of Pasadena's leading business, political and community leaders came together and celebrated the 20 Anniversary of the Pasadena Jour...

PASADENA - The Pasadena Senior Center is open on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26, to extend a warm welcome to seniors, their family and friends and hold its special Thanksgiving Day celebration. The Center, located at 85 East Holly Street in Old P...

The Jackie Robinson Seniors, Inc. organization will hold a Christmas Party featuring a delectable dinner and delightful music at the Jackie Robinson Community Center at 1020 N. Fair Oaks Avenue on Friday, December 4 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.The evenings' fest...

Lena Kennedy is passionate about her community and she makes no apology about it. Recently she was the keynote speaker at the YWCA Pasadena Foothill Valley's "Women of Leadership Forum. She chose to address the audience in a talk show style format featuri...

Pictured (L-R): Rick Cole, Hunt Salembier, Suzanne Berberian, Socorro Manzanilla, Tom Selinske, Greg Apodaca, Gerda Govine, Thelma Vickroy, Phil Hawkey, Ann Erdman, Tom Coston, Sarah Smith Orr, Jane Wetzel, Robert Pacheco, Steve Ralph, Rick Kiel.  Hono...

"Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:" (Psalms 50:14)"I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving" (Psalms 69:30)Everyday I will praise him!As long as I have breath I will praise!My hand, ...

WILL THIS GAME BE NORM CHOW'S REVENGE?It seems like only yesterday that the Pete Carroll and Norm Chow were living in USC paradise. Their team was usually competing for the national championship. Everyone was happy, or at least they appeared to be. Carrol...

I don't know if Ralph Lawler is a bigot or not.  He says he isn't.  But the longtime voice of the L.A. Clippers and his analyst sidekick Michael Smith sure behaved like bigots when they went out of their way to mock Memphis Grizzlies rookie Hamed Haddad...

As the debonair escorts from the new John Muir High School await the arrival of the Queen and her court, their varsity football team routed Pasadena High School 34 - 12 in the 62nd Annual Turkey Tussle at the Pasadena Rose Bowl on November 13, 2009....

Pasadena, CA -- Students applying for college scholarships were able to take advantage of a free college scholarship workshop hosted by the Eta Lambda Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. on Saturday, November 14. The workshop, "Their Wallet,...

Interview with Author Stephanie Covington Armstrong.  Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat:  A Story of Bulimia. Background: "Bulimia is also known as bulimia nervosa, an eating disorder characterized by episodes of secretive excessive eating (binge-e...

The West Coast Black Publishers Association (WCBPA) held their annual meeting last week in Pasadena, CA.  The main purpose for the meeting was to elect new officers.  The 2010 - 2012 officers are President, Vernon Whitmore, The Globe, Oakland/Richmond, ...

So here we are again, staring the Thanksgiving holiday in the face.  Seems it was just a few months ago that we last gave thanks - or did we, give thanks that is...? Yeah we may have given thanks for the food, for family, for the time off from work or sc...

"For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints." (1 Corinthians 14:34)Ok!  So, why are you taking drugs?I thought you were in a profession you loved?So, tell me, why are you tipping out on your wife?You vowed to l...

20TH ANNIVERSARY COLUMN!I can recall attending a function at Hopkins Village, and being served delicious food made by "The Little Chef." He was about 12 years old at the time, and it was easy to see that he was quite precocious. He had learned that it was...

There have been rumors of sightings of 24-year-old Mitrice Richardson, missing in Malibu-Lost Hills, Calif. for two months. But so far, there has been no firm leads as to her whereabouts. Missing since September 16,  Richardson disappeared from the Malib...

The Jackson Five have a song on their Christmas album of yesteryear, titled "Christmas Won't Be The Same This Year."  Michael Jackson sings the solo and the lyric continues: "without her loving arms holding you so near."   He is singing about a break u...

Pasadena residents, business owners and other stakeholders are invited to provide input on the search for Pasadena's next police chief during a series of community meetings in November.City Manager Michael J. Beck, who will make the final selection, encou...

Twenty youths who attended Villa-Parke Community Center's day camp created something unusual in their arts and crafts class: a lasting work of public art. On the south side of Pasadena Water and Power's groundwater well building near the basketball courts...