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Updated August 4th, 2011
Kiwanis Club Hears
From KNBC TV Anchor
With a smile as wide as her
native State of Texas where she
was born the daughter of a San
Antonio police officer, KNBC
Channel 4 News anchor Kathy
Vara shared her experiences as a
newscaster with members of the
La Cañada Kiwanis Club recently
at their regular luncheon meeting
held at Descanso Gardens.
 Vara said that she always
wanted to be a newscaster and
began her career at Mortech
College, where she hosted a 30-
minute newscast broadcast
throughout the campus. “I worked
to get into the news business early
because I always knew I wanted to
be one of those people on television
whom I watched every day,”
she said.
Now a successful anchor, Vara gets little sleep considering that
she has to be in the studio at 3 a.m.
for preliminary meetings and then
on the air from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m.
Asked what time she goes to bed
each evening, she said that she
should go to sleep at 7, “but with
the beautiful California evenings,
it is usually later.”
After she completed her college
education, Vara had stints in
Texas, Minnesota and
Washington, D.C., prior to landing
in Los Angeles.
Kiwanis Club President Bill
Watts presented Vara with a special
coffee mug, urging her to
keep it on her desk while on the
air. She promised to do so and the
day after her appearance told her
listeners about her visit to La
Cañada Flintridge and the fun
time she spent with members of
the local service club. While
telling about her experience, she
sipped coffee from her new
Kiwanis cup.
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