Erin Grycel | La Verne Magazine

Making the Home Grade With Mom

Feb 1, 2000 | Features

Alarm clocks ring, water rushes out of the shower nozzle, and the aroma of burnt toast lingers in the kitchen. In a last minute effort, a child searches for his favorite T-shirt to wear to school, while his father looks for a misplaced set of car keys.

An Alarming Household

May 1, 1999 | Features

September 6, 1996. A day that will go down in history, not in elementary school books but in the memoirs of the Benson family.

Thirty Days to Make It

May 1, 1999 | Features

As children in suburbia lay their heads down to sleep in a warm bed and have Dr. Seuss stories read to them, four not so fortunate children desperately look out of the windows of a Pinto, wondering where they will sleep for the night.

From the Editor

May 1, 1999 | From the Editor

At the age of 5, my definition of Thanksgiving was dinner at Mama’s house, my great-grandmother’s house, on Mar Vista Avenue in Pasadena.

How Time Has Changed the Lives of Five Bonita Alumni

Feb 1, 1999 | Features, Profiles

From bell bottoms to zoot suits, fads have come and gone. Karen Carpenter and roller skates are uncommon words, while the ringing of cellular phones and pagers have become familiar tunes in offices and classrooms.

Jaeger Helps Adolescents Through Wonder Years

Feb 1, 1999 | Profiles

Vivid surfing posters, a watercolor painting of sailboats and a plant stand — with a bright green fern — adorn one wall in a solitary office in San Dimas.

Students Reap Benefits of 20:1, Proposition 227 … Or Do They?

Feb 1, 1999 | Features

Silently ticking in the back of the classroom, the clock moves forward. Tick … Tick … Tick … Brrng! At 2:05 p.m, students scramble from their desks and are released from school, but, for teachers and administration at Bonita Unified School District (BUSD), the day seems to have just begun.

Treasures From Grandmother’s Attic

May 1, 1998 | Features

The former chicken ranch on White Avenue appears to be abandoned and almost lifeless. Creaking in the wind, a sign states “We sell, buy, or trade antique furniture.” The long gravel path, along with rickety antique furniture and looming cobwebs, evokes images of Boo Radley peering through a broken window at onlookers.

Making Masterpiece Signs Out of Metal

May 1, 1998 | Features

A gigantic, fabricated aluminum foot towers above the exterior entrance of the Nickelodeon headquarters in Burbank. In downtown Los Angeles, Arco Towers has more than 1,000 different room number, name piece and restroom signs. The upcoming aquarium in Long Beach consists of multiple evacuation maps mounted on the interior walls.