by Samantha Bushman | Oct 28, 2024 | Closeup
Flip the Narrative Norman Del Rosario In that dreamless moment between sleeping and waking, Norman Del Rosario experiences a vision. It’s not his first, and it won’t be his last. He is hovering above a two-story apartment building, a birds-eye view of the property...
by Samantha Bushman | Aug 27, 2024 | Cover Story
A Century of Grace: Bobbie Stephens’ Remarkable Journey Bobbie Stephens met her now-husband, John, at church in 1995. At that time, both were happily married with children, leading fulfilling lives. Bobbie had recently embarked on a quest to find a specific Queen Anne...
by Samantha Bushman | Jun 24, 2024 | Closeup
From Diver to Legend: The Journey of Jeff Stabile When Jeff Stabile moved from Illinois to California with his family in 1979 he was devastated to learn that the high school he would soon enter had no springboard diving team. A diver since age 12, he joined the...
by Samantha Bushman | Feb 16, 2024 | Looking Back
Cajun’s Aviation Dream: The Legacy of Stephen Del Bagno On the morning of April 4th, 2018 the life of Stephen Del Bagno was suddenly cut short during a routine training mission, when his F-16 Thunderbird Jet crashed over the Nevada Test and Training Range. As an...
by Samantha Bushman | Dec 21, 2023 | Spotlight
Mission Opera – Classical Music for a New Generation Growing up on a horse farm in the southeastern part of Ohio, across the river from West Virginia, Josh Wentz didn’t have many opportunities to be exposed to opera. He listened to country music and planned on...
by Samantha Bushman | Oct 12, 2023 | Cover Story
A Conversation With Chief Patrick Sprengel The year is 1996, a young Patrick Sprengel, along with his partner, received a distress call about an apartment fire nearby. This incident occurred amidst the tumultuous backdrop of the Whitewater Clinton scandal and the...
by Samantha Bushman | Oct 12, 2023 | Spotlight
39th Annual Rampage Presented by William S. Hart Regiment If you happened to be in Valencia last November 5th, you might remember the thundering noises coming from the College of the Canyons all afternoon. Like an earthquake making the ground rumble, thirty-two...
by Samantha Bushman | Oct 12, 2023 | Closeup
Building Confidence through Athletics with Jason Gordon Imagine for a moment, you are playing baseball in the American League Division Series. The stadium falls silent as you shift your weight from one foot to the other. With one white sneaker on a dusty third base,...
by Samantha Bushman | Aug 17, 2023 | Cover Story
Marie Wise-Hawkins Brings Country To California As a two-year old toddler, little Marie Wise-Hawkins was the loudest child you could imagine. She wasn’t annoying, her voice carried through her mother’s home in Canyon Country in beautiful melodic tunes when she began...
by Samantha Bushman | Aug 17, 2023 | Closeup
Fold or Flop? Firefighting and Fortune with Steven Genovesse Steven Genovesse (aka ‘Vito’) has seen his fair share of controlled burns. As a retired LA County firefighter, Vito (nicknamed in 1977 while working at the Burbank FD), has spent thirty-four long years both...
by Samantha Bushman | Jun 26, 2023 | Cover Story
Cultivating Their Combined Passions – LA North Studios When John Prabhu and Anthony Syracuse first met in 2018, they could see a great partnership between two unlikely allies. While Prabhu had spent the majority of his life working in real estate, Syracuse had...
by Samantha Bushman | Jun 26, 2023 | Closeup
The Middle School Mathematician Aakash Ahuja Jr. When asked about his goals for the future, the young Aakash Ahuja Jr. is humble, unlike most pre-teens his age. Being an intelligent child, he understands that not all kids possess such an innate understanding of math...
