TUDOR TREAT HOUSE TOUR TO AID HOOVER STUDENTS.Byline: Donna Huffaker Staff Writer GLENDALE - After 23 years, curious passers-by may follow the winding brick driveway and go right inside the posh English Tudor at Hillcrest hill·crest n. The summit line of a hill. Avenue and Cumberland Drive. Eileen and Richard Nahigian, owners of the 51-year-old Glendale home, finally accepted the invitation from the Hoover High School Hoover High School may refer to any of the following:
This year, association volunteers began preparing in the summer for Saturday's event, which will run 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and fund scholarships for Hoover seniors. Tickets are $10 in advance, or $12 at the door. ``They've asked us for 23 years, and I just kept saying no because I didn't want 100 people traipsing through the house. But the invitation said money raised helps the children, so I figured it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a we give back to the community,'' said Eileen Nahigian, who on a recent afternoon had just returned from wrapping 400 holiday presents for the Children's Burn Foundation. ``I do a lot of charity work,'' she said, ``but really, it needs to start at home.'' The two other homes on this year's tour belong to Jeff and Ellice Sines at 301 Cumberland Road Cumberland Road: see National Road. and Pam and LeRoy Smith at 900 W. Kenneth Road. Local florists adorn the houses with flowers and Christmas decorations and student volunteers guide guests through the homes. Chairwoman Grace Ananian helped organize previous tours, and said the event is very labor-intensive. ``This is a lot of work. You can't pull this off with just a month or two of preparation. You have to get people committed and keep them committed,'' she said. Visitors to Pine Ridge Pine Ridge is the name of several places in the United States and Canada, including:
Perhaps most striking in the living room are the near-lifesize oil paintings of the Nahigians and their three children, now grown. The brightly lighted room offers views of the manicured front lawn and the backyard gazebo gazebo Lookout in the form of a turret, cupola (small, lanternlike dome), or garden house set on a height to give an extensive view. Few late-18th- and 19th-century rustic gazebos survive, but 17th-century turrets built up in an angle of the garden wall are not uncommon. and Italian tile tile, one of the ceramic products used in building, to which group brick and terra-cotta also belong. The term designates the finished baked clay—the material of a wide variety of units used in architecture and engineering, such as wall slabs or blocks, floor pool. Despite the pristine pris·tine adj. 1. a. Remaining in a pure state; uncorrupted by civilization. b. Remaining free from dirt or decay; clean: pristine mountain snow. 2. condition of the room's rug, Eileen Nahigian laughed when a visitor asked if she should remove her shoes. ``Are you kidding? I've raised three children in this house,'' she said. Nahigian is looking forward to Saturday's tour. And the idea of strangers roaming The ability to use a communications device such as a cellphone or PDA and be able to move from one cell or access point to another without losing the connection. through the house is far less frightening since Hollywood folks came in and roamed around for three weeks a few years ago to shoot scenes from Dolly Parton's holiday film, ``Unlikely Angel.'' ``If I can say yes to Hollywood, and be up until midnight every night, I can certainly say yes to Hoover,'' she said. To Ellice Sines, being part of the tour puts her right into the holiday spirit. The Glendale resident feels it's her duty to the community to participate - and someone might pick up some decorating ideas by checking out other people's houses People's Houses (Turkish: Halk Evleri) is the institution established in 1932, founded on Atatürk's ideas, which was developed to give formal education to adults (Adult education) in Turkey. . Pam Smith thought it was an honor to be asked. ``It's really something special when someone else thinks your house is worthy of strangers walking through, plus it's a wonderful cause.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Eileen Nahigian will open up her 51-year-old Glendale home Saturday for a Hoover High scholarship fund-raiser. Eric Grigorian/Special to the Daily News |
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