Woodbury University

On the eve of her retirement, Sue Georgino strolled a hallway of the Community Services Building, pointing to photographs of volunteers, smiling families and newly minted residential and business developments. In one, city officials unveil a housing project. In another, children play. “I have said over and over again how lucky we are that our mission statement is two words and it’s the name of our department: Community Development,” she said. “That has given us the opportunity to create such value for this community and this city.

Car Plays makes its Burbank debut The Car Plays will make its Burbank debuts Thursday through Sunday at Woodbury University. Car Plays strives to capture Los Angeles? car culture by showing performances in actual cars. The work is the brainchild of Paul Nicolai Stein. The audience views a series of plays while seated in vehicles with the actors. At the conclusion of each 10-minute skit, carhops open the doors, and the audience is led from one car play to the next.

CITY HALL — Parks officials on Tuesday presented four options for replacing swimming pools at Verdugo and McCambridge parks totaling some $16 million as the City Council explores an expanded aquatics season. Options for Verdugo range from $7.33 million to $6.1 million, with an additional $3.7-million option to permanently or temporarily enclose a portion of the facility. Option A calls for a 50-meter swimming pool, 2,800-square-foot activity pool and complete remodel of the existing bathhouse building.

SOCIETY PLANS ANTIQUE WEDDING DRESS LUNCHEON Burbank Historical Society is having an Antique Wedding Dress Fashion Show and Luncheon featuring gowns from the museum’s collection at 11 a.m. June 20 at the Gordon R. Howard Museum. A highlight will be “Friends” character Phoebe Buffay’s purple wedding dress that will be displayed on a mannequin. It is on loan from Warner Bros. Studios. Committee members are Chairwoman Maggie Thomas , and historical society members Penny Rivera, Barbara Bartman, Sue Baldaseroni, Myriel Tyree, Lorraine White and Betty Penrod . Museum founder Mary Jane Strickland is mending and ironing the gowns that will be modeled by community volunteers.

Tango stars perform for ballet event Media City Ballet, in association with Woodbury University, will present tango stars Miriam Larici and Leonardo Barrionuevo in ?Tango, Tonight!? from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. May 28 in the New Woody?s Café at Woodbury University, 7500 Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank. Bon Appétit will cater the event with an Argentine- themed dinner, which will also feature a no host bar, silent auction, raffles and free parking. This event is a fundraiser for Media City Ballet.

High school students who have been pioneers this semester in a university-level art class will get a taste of the limelight when their work is unveiled today in a culminating exhibition at Woodbury University. Twelve students from John Burroughs and Burbank high schools have been learning how to prepare for acceptance to universities and art schools during the Portfolio Workshop taught by Doug Post, a Woodbury instructor. Three of the participants were 12th-graders Hannah Yonce, 18, and Angelica Magno, 17, and 11th-grader Andrew Chavez, 17, all Burroughs students.

LOCAL GRADUATE RECEIVES MUSIC ASSN. HONOR Burbank High School graduate Doris Au MacDonald (Class of 1973) of the songwriting duo “The Braeded Chord,” was handed her third Wammy at the recent 23rd Annual Wammies award ceremony hosted by the Washington Area Music Assn. in Virginia. The Wammies are a celebration of up-and-coming as well as nationally known musicians from the Greater Washington, D.C., area. The awards were held Feb. 15 at the historic State Theater in Falls Church, Va.   WOODBURY STUDENT DESIGNS HEALTH LOGO Woodbury student Mindy Bortz will have at least one professional logo in her portfolio when she graduates this May. The Burbank HealthCare Foundation will be adopting a new logo designed by Bortz on all its marketing and presentation materials including their letterhead, brochure and website.

Thousands packed the Woodbury University quad Sunday for an Armenian cultural festival that featured song, dance and Middle Eastern food. Teen dance groups wore traditional costumes while performing a set of routines that left older visitors peering over the shoulders of onlookers who crowded around a dance floor to watch with pride. Visitors browsed vendor booths from local businesses, ate kebabs, ice cream and cotton candy, and mostly spent time chatting with family, friends and strangers while listening to Armenian hits echo through the outdoor area.

Celebrities packed the Woodbury University auditorium Sunday night to celebrate the end of the weeklong, inaugural Burbank International Film Festival and to award film makers, legendary actors and musicians. Glendale resident and Academy Award-nominated film composer John Debney got the ceremony’s first award of the night for Achievement in Music after he performed live on stage with his ensemble. “I hope to be making music for the next 20, 30, 40 years, if I am lucky,” he said.