Marvin Hamlish Is Gone by David DeMulle

Marvin Hamlish Is Gone. 

Michael Feinstein and Marvin Hamlish at the POPs

by David DeMulle'

It is with great regret that we announce the death of Marvin Hamlish at 68 yesterday.  At the Pasadena POPs presentation last month, Hamlish was seen to be having trouble moving about.  No one could have thought that he was ailing.

Hamlisch is best known for the song he wrote for Barbara Streisand "The Way We Were," In a music career that spanned over four decades, Hamlisch won every major music award: three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony, and three Golden Globes.

In his career, Hamlisch composed the music for more than forty motion picture scores, which included “The Way We Were” and “The Sting.”  Hamlish’s signature music was created to compliment the movie, and not his music.

In his Broadway productions, Hamlish created the smash hit “A Chorus Line” which still goes through my mind when times are stressful.

Michael Krajewski a Guest Conductor, will conduct La Dolce Vita next week at the Pasadena POPs.

Sunland-Tujunga Friends of The Library by David DeMulle'

Gather up and donate your gently used books, CD, DVD and videos.  If you have more than you can comfortably bring in yourself, call Bernice at 818-353-0904 to arrange a pickup.  They also accept sheet music and scores, as well as records.  Current magazines are welcome also.  No encyclopedias please!  The Friends are all unpaid volunteers, so every dollar you spend in the bookstore, and every dollar they earn from selling your donations, goes directly to your library.

Photo-1: Bernice Perrisehu and Deanna Wendel-Smith welcome your donations.

Photo-2: Happy shopper Ann looks through latest books for sale.

WORDS FROM A DISCOURAGED PATRIOT

WORDS FROM A DISCOURAGED PATRIOT 

as told to David DeMulle', Editor of The Foothills Paper

……..Cindy and Mark will have competed their campaign to get rid of 
all independent thinkers not under their control. Everyone knows 
this is the power grab game finally being played out right before 
everyone's eyes.

Dan McManus knew it, and kept them both in check. He always looked 
my way and made sure I was heard, even though Mark always made sure 
my mike was off. (It was a running joke. You may not have 
noticed. They kept you out of things.)

Everyone who sat near me on the Board was always astonished to find 
their mikes never worked. It is why I always made sure I had the 
wireless one. Think back on it. Nothing that happening in there was 
an accident. All my bills and money requests strangely never made it 
to the agenda. You know nothing of the games they played for 
years. Why do you think so many brilliant people left in disgust? 
Were is Elaine Brown? Steve Crouch? They used to fight them all the 
time! They wore them out, as they are me.

Cindy and Mark have finally created a bland white bread board in an 
image and likeness of themselves.

The city knows. I have already heard even this week from a current 
city employee, that the STNC is now a former shadow of itself, and 
soon will be a total joke. Now the city will no longer have to worry 
about the famous STNC.

It is becoming a nice shiny quiet polite empty shell -- one saying 
just the right things to keep just the right few in power.

It will finance fireworks and parades and do nothing else of 
substance that will rock their political boat.

Just what certain local petty powers want.

Cindy once said to me: "The purpose of the STNC is to serve the City 
Council member, and not the public!" She actually said this when I 
had an idea for helping the homeless before it got too big a 
problem. We argued furiously. She never spoke to me again -- except 
for curt nods.

Dr. David DeMulle' donates to local homeless organization

Last Monday, Dr. David DeMulle'  of The Foothills Paper donated a truckload of computer and office materials to the Hope For Homeless Teens foundation.  This organization provides shelter, home environment and job training to at risk youth who have become homeless in the San Fernando Valley

Mothership Beacons Vandalized

 Mothership beacons attacked in Tujunga.  Citizens angry at the rouge Scientologist lies and corruption in the land use committee and chamber of commerce.  Photos by David DeMulle'

http://youtu.be/XIXuPGEutqo

Alarcon is on top of it here in S-T. 

Editor David DeMulle received numerous calls that Councilman Richard Alarcon was taking a survey in Sunland-Tujunga.

A team of volunteer college students went door to door asking residents what they felt they needed to make S-T a great place to live. Questions on sidewalks, parking, trees, pot shops and street repair

s were the basics. Residents gave their own ideas, such as no food trucks, illegal parking, the K-Mart building etc. This is one of the first surveys of its kind in S-T and Councilman Alarcon made it happen. He is beginning to rank as one of the most interested councilman on record. Picture is of Alarcon volunteer Johnathon Jimenez making a call.

Sunland-Tujunga Liars are at it again

GET READY FOR A NEW RATION OF LIES!!!
by David DeMulle

As the S-T Neighborhood election comes closer, the local political
degenerates have started a new campaign of lies. So let's start
examining them one by one.

1. It is true that Mark Seigel is a thief working under orders of  Cindy Cleghorn. He stole the Best of S-T ballots and gave them to Cindy Cleghorn and Tomi-Lyn Bowling to dispose of.


2. Cindy supporter Joe Barrett did not start the No To Home Depot (N2HD) grass roots program. Nina Royal, a TFP staff member, started  it on Feb. 5th 2005 and made the first formal demand to Wend Greuel at the Glendale Bakery on Feb. 19, 2005.

3. Cindy Cleghorn has gotten rid of every opposition voice in the
STNC, refused to pay STNC bills and uses Joe Barret as her
personal hit man to attack community activists. When she
"Inadvertantly, Misplaced, some of the ballots", we knew that
the community was in trouble. But when she stated that the
ballot could not be shown to anyone because it would violate the
Health Insurance Portability Act (HIPA), we knew that she was
just building bigger and better lies.

4. And the story that I called the Post 377 Legionnaires a bunch
of drunks, you just have got to stop and think about where you
 are hearing this from. I am a Legionnaire myself. Have you ever
seen me drunk?

CD-7 Councilman Richard Alarcon holds open house. Photos by David DeMulle'

http://youtu.be/V9mBN61Liqg

Councilman Richard Alarcon held an Open House at the North Valley City Hall to introduce himself and his staff to local residents.  Alarcon has gone out of his way to make sure that the voice of the people is heard.

PASADENA POPs photos by David DeMulle

http://youtu.be/KF9tB_bMZJ8

Pasadena POPs outdoes itself

It was a wonderfully nice evening last Saturday at the Arcadia Arboreum with peacocks calling in the background.  The shuttle system worked flawlessly and the crowd was brought to the grounds without a hitch.  It was fun seeing old friends and making new friends as we sat at one of the tables.

What I didn’t understand was how Hamlisch could not handle playing the National Anthem, even if it was out of the ordinary for the POPs, it is still our National Anthem and with times as bleak as they are, a reinforcement of our American values.

Sounding like a junior high school band practice, it took a few moments for the symphony to get up to speed.  Hamlisch didn’t take that too well. “I’m pretty upset,” Hamlisch said, and “let’s try this introduction again!”  He left the stage and to a triumphant round of applause, he returned.

With people filling the venue from stage to hillcrest, this was one of the largest POPs audiences that I have ever seen.  Nothing could stop the momentum that Hamlisch and entertainer Michale Feinstein built.

The evening program covered twelve of the songs and 33 shows that Cole Porter created in his 60 year songwriting career.  This is the second of four concerts in the summer series.  Starting with his piano renditions of “Day and Night”, “I Get A Kick Out Of You”; and “It’s All Right With Me” Hamlisch made it all right again.  One of the things I liked about this concert was Hamlisch taking the time to explain how these songs were created.  Even to explaining how important the musical “Can Can” was to him and his wife and their aspirations to life in Paris.

After the intermission, Michael Feinstein an accomplished entertainer himself  accompanied himself on the piano as he sang the intricate Cole Porter songs. A young protégé, Nick Ziobro, who won this years Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Initiative, wowed the audience with his rendition of “All of Me.”  It was a really great experience, and one I recommend to one and all.

RESCUE on Hofstetter Fire Road, Photos by David DeMulle'

This morning was beautiful and people were hiking the Hofstetter Fire Road in Tujunga.  One hiker suffered a seizure and her friends requested paramedic assistance


http://youtu.be/6G5yT9u5gMs

Wreck of the day by David DeMulle

 
Accident at Tujunga Cnyn. and Altagracia today at 5:00 pm.  Distracted drivers stop suddenly when they encounter a stopped vehicle in their lane.  Photos by David DeMulle'


http://youtu.be/gjsJSuUHnZQ

Fire Closes Glendale Freeway by David DeMulle

The Glendale Freeway was closed for 90 minutes today because of multiple fires on the 2 freeway at Mountain St. On ramp.  It was later disclosed that the fire was not arson, but the carbon cake blown from a passing diesel truck.

http://youtu.be/SaokYz8ioHw

Robin Siegel-Meares is a Hero by David DeMulle

Robin Siegel-Meares is this weeks unsung hero for fighting off the disarranged president of the S-T chamber of commerce, Sonia Tatulian.  On July 18th, Ms. Tatulian unlawfully entered the Meares property, banged on the front door and proceeded to yell and swear at Ms. Meares.  All because of a post that Ms. Meares made on facebook about the food trucks in Sunland-Tujunga.  This attack on Ms. Meares is just one more incidence of the Tatulian chamber of commerce attacking local residents or anyone that tries to speak the truth.

Keep up the good work Robin, the truth will prevail!

Walden Pond - 2 In Sunland, CA by David DeMulle

FIRE_today 6400 Woodley, Van Nuys, CA by David DeMulle

Train Trip to Santa Barbara by David DeMulle

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