Photo by David Laurell / Burbank Leader
Charles “Chuck” Cusumano will receive Family Promise’s 2021 Impact Award at the organization’s “Shake, Rattle and Roll at the Bowl” drive-in fundraiser.Photo courtesy Pat Patterson
Pat and Laurie Patterson will receive Family Promise’s Hands On, Hearts In award during the organization’s April 10 event at the Starlight Bowl.Photo courtesy Family Promise
Albert Hernandez meets with Family Promise staff members Carrie Prado and Chaquitta Boyce.
On the evening of Aug. 10, 2019, when John Waite performed his 1984 hit “Missing You” as a finale to the Starlight Bowl’s summer concert series, little could anyone have imagined just how prophetic the words of that song would be. In just over six months, Burbank would join the rest of the world in missing everything and everyone by taking shelter from a novel virus.
While the “missing” of those who have fallen victim to the virus is the paramount heartbreak, the pandemic has also precipitated missing myriad things, from businesses who couldn’t hang on, social gatherings and classroom schooling, to so many things we love and have taken for granted. Among those things are traveling, visiting museums, dining in restaurants, going to plays and films, and the Starlight Bowl’s 2020 Summer Concert Series.