Tag: hollygrove
Travels around the world led Sheri Weller back home
A professional public speaker, with a degree in business and broadcasting, Sheri Weller traveled 300 days a year during the dot.com days and later for Nissan and other company conventions and trade shows. After the birth of her son, Teddy, now 5, she continued her life on the road, with her son and her own […]
‘Anyone can be a hero’ at Norma Jean Gala May 18
Matt Bomer and Simon Halls would drive by Hollygrove, the Los Angeles division of Uplift Family Services, on their way to take their three boys to school, and have long wanted to get involved with the nonprofit agency that supports 1,200 area at-risk children and teens and their families. “Our family is the centerpiece of […]
Hollygrove’s Norma Jean Gala is set for May 18
Uplift Family Services at Hollygrove will hold its sixth annual Norma Jean Gala Thurs., May 18 at the W Hollywood Hotel. Dinner, entertainment and inspiration are on the bill. Hollygrove’s most famous alumna, Norma Jean Baker, was under the agency’s care as a child before she came to be known as Marilyn Monroe. Celebrating 150th […]
Share joy of the season with others: Hollygrove, Big Sunday, local groups abound
As the two gentlemen appealing to Mr. Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol” pointed out, this is the time of year “when want is keenly felt and abundance rejoices.” If you feel the holiday spirit move you to give from your own abundance, here are several volunteer and donation programs. Hollygrove, 815 N. El Centro Ave., […]
Around the Town with Patty Hill
Behind the bold, white letters in the 200 north block of Larchmont Blvd., a new and fresh space opened with revelers enjoying gourmet cheeses and martinis to welcome New York-based owners Andrew Goetz and Mathew Malin. Guests admired the spare and chic architecture not to mention Malin and Goetz’s famed “cures” for all that ails […]
