CONGRATULATIONS

WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN LIBRARY CONTEST

The Glendale Public Library has announced the winners of its 31st annual Bookmark Contest.

The winning bookmark designers are Zara Alam, Carl Cedrick Altoveros, Mourein Cielo Altoveros, Magy Avedissian, Tiedra Baghoomian, Aly Beckner, Zareh Dermenjian, Alanis Galang, Kirah Harris, Ani Hovasapyan, Taleen Janian, Julia Jarkassian, Erin Lamb, Max Luna, Narek Mkrtchyan, Nicole Muradyan, Hyunju Park, Mary Kate Pasco, Geovanny Quintanilla, Andrea Ramirez, Michael Sais, Lorie Seuylemzian, Joy Shin and Sharon Shin.

For the contest, adults and children of all ages were invited to create a bookmark design based on the library’s upcoming summer reading program theme “Catch the Reading Bug.”

More than 500 people entered the contest, and 24 designs were chosen to be made into Glendale Public Library’s official bookmarks of the year.

The winners were honored at an awards party in April at Central Library, which featured an art presentation conducted by local artist and author C.J. Metzger.

DOCUMENTARY RECEIVES DEBUT SCREENING

“Desperately Seeking Paul McCartney,” featuring News-Press society columnist Ruth Sowby, will have its Los Angeles debut at the 2008 Mockfest film festival at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Vine Theatre, 6321 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood.

The comedy documentary is the story of Ruth Anson, who in 1965 was a teenage reporter for KABC-TV in Los Angeles. While doing an interview with The Beatles at Capitol Records, she asked Paul McCartney if he had any plans for marriage. His on-camera response was . . . “Only if you’ll marry me.” More than 40 years later, now married, a mother and a college professor, Ruth contemplates, “What if I had said yes?”

Sowby pitched the story to screenwriters, and director/producer Marc Cushman took on the project.

“Dear Paul” was written by Cushman and Jeff Toczynski. It was screened at the first Fallbrook Film Festival. BRI is the broadcast and international licensing agent, and Music Video Distributors is scheduled to release the DVD this summer.

For ticket information and full festival schedule, log on to www.mockfilmfest.com. For more information on “Desperately Seeking Paul McCartney,” log on to www.myspace.com/ dearpaul.

GLENDALE STUDENT NAMED TO DEAN’S LIST

Joon Sang Park, son of Seung Hae Hahn of Glendale, was named to the winter term dean’s list at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Conn.

AREA ARTISTS IN EXHIBIT AT CALIFORNIA ART CLUB

Eight artists living in the Glendale/Burbank area are participating in the California Art Club’s Gold Medal Exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, 490 E. Union St., Pasadena. The show ends Sunday.

They include Gayle Garner Roski, Gerald Brommer, Sunny Apinchapong-Yang, Karen Ann Cope, Conchita O’Kane, Donald Hildreth, Cindy Jackson and Paulette Lee.

The exhibition casts the spotlight on new works from fine artists throughout the nation, which will include plein-air landscapes, portraits, still life and sculpture.