Canyons

HILLSIDE DISTRICT — A man who police said appeared to have been stabbed several times was found dead Tuesday morning on the porch of a home on Joaquin Drive, leaving neighbors on the quiet street shocked as details of the incident remained murky. A neighbor called police, who found the man at about 10 a.m. with several stab wounds, Sgt. Travis Irving said. Police are investigating the incident as a homicide. The identity of the man, who was about 50 years old, was not released pending notification of his next of kin, Irving said.

A partnership has developed between local artists and Chevy Chase Country Club that offers artists a venue to show their work and also provides artwork for empty walls of the Glendale club. Glendale resident and oil painter Dahl Delu knew there were several local artists in his neighborhood. He also knew how hard it was to find a place to show one’s work. “I noticed the country club’s restaurant, ballroom, bar and lounge have bare walls,” he said. “I asked them about us doing a group show there, and they said yes.” He called seven of his neighbors who are artists, and in three weeks they put together their first show in October.

Duncan Blanchard took one look at a demented, drooling clown figure standing 10 feet tall in the darkness near the Stough Canyon Nature Center’s entrance and decided he would not go in. It was Terror Under the Big Top at this year’s Haunted Hike at the Stough Canyon Nature Center on Friday and Saturday. Pasadena residents Karen Decano, her son Benjamin Bowen, 11, and his friend Duncan 10 came out on Friday night to see the nature center converted into a circus gone wrong.

GLENDALE — In a matchup pitting College of the Canyons’ potent offense against the stingy defense of Glendale Community College, one would figure that something would have to give during Saturday’s meeting. While it was the defense that forced five turnovers and arguably upstaged the Cougars’ aerial attack on this night, it was not enough to secure a victory. As the Vaqueros’ offense stuttered and offered little support for the defense, Glendale college fell, 19-10, in the Western State Conference inter-divisional game between two of Southern California’s top teams.

As a result of a gift of 100 acres of canyon land in Stough Park in the mid-1950s from Joseph DeBell, the city of Burbank started development of the DeBell Municipal Golf Course. The city agreed to develop the course and name it in the donor’s honor. It also agreed to rezone, to multifamily, a hillside property DeBell owned far up on what was to become an extension of Walnut Avenue. Massive earth movement started to shave off ridge lines to fill in canyons for fairways and greens, but only after extensive surveying and core sampling had been done.

BURBANK — City leaders and Burbank Water and Power officials waited anxiously this week for news on the well-being of six coal workers trapped inside a collapsed Utah mine. Burbank, and several other Southern California cities, rely on coal-driven plants for some of their energy needs. The city has an investment in Utah-based Intermountain Power, which purchases coal from Crandall Canyon, where underground rescue operations were underway during most of last week. Participants in the Intermountain Power Project — which also includes Los Angeles, Pasadena and Riverside — acquired an interest in the Crandall mine to hedge coal prices as a protection against rising energy costs, said Ron Davis, general manager of Burbank Water and Power.

From a crawling display of regional reptiles to an electrical safety demonstration, parents and children were treated to a hair-raising array of Earth-first workshops at the Stough Canyon Nature Center on Saturday. Tucked high up in the canyon and surrounded by walls of rugged hillside, the center provided a natural classroom for the city's celebration of the 37th annual Earth Day, which was on Sunday. A reptile and amphibian exhibit provided by the Southwestern Herpetologist Society drew the gaze of many.

ShelFOOTHILL LEAGUE: Bulldogs' offense sputters and team drops opener against host Cowboys, 45-10.CANYON COUNTRY -- If a team can't stop the run, the pass, or its opponent on special teams, it probably isn't going to win the football game. Burbank High found that out the hard way Friday night against host Canyon in a Foothill League opener for both teams. The Bulldogs gave up 364 total yards -- 229 coming in the first half -- and allowed a 57-yard punt return to set up an early touchdown, en route to a 45-10 loss to the Cowboys.

This is the second of two parts. The Burbank City Council should absolutely take a position against the Whitebird development for many reasons, including concerns with the slope density formula, detriment to nearby equestrian properties, and protecting natural areas for outdoors enthusiasts. Here are other reasons: DESTRUCTION OF THE RARE RIPARIAN FOREST The developer proposes to completely destroy the two-mile long Riparian Forest at the base of La Tuna Canyon, uprooting hundreds of large trees.

Edgar Melik-Stepanyan People sometimes ask Glendale Community College women's basketball Coach Dyan Miller what the difference is between her program and College of the Canyons. Her response is direct: It's the players like Kaipresha Price and Gracie Coronado who make the disparity between a constantly successful team and a squad that always seems like its on the brink of becoming an elite team, but usually falls a step or two short. The predicament Miller faces is that those types of standout athletes opt to attend her Western State Conference Southern Division rival instead of helping the Vaqueros take that next step.