By Mary O’KEEFE The immigration issue has divided people but one local business hopes to unite communities using a method that is as American as apple pie – an old fashioned quilting bee. Dating back to Colonial times women within communities would gather and help each other make quilts for their families. Many used leftover […]
Fireworks Tickets Available Tickets are on sale for the annual 4th of July fireworks celebration at Crescenta Valley High School. Pre-sale tickets are $7 and available through July 3 at CV Insurance, CV Weekly, J’s Maintenance and Bob Smith Toyota. Kids 7 and under and active military are always free. Tickets on July 4th are […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Local ham radio operators spent the night at Verdugo Park over the weekend as they participated in the annual Field Day. As reported in the June 15 issue of CV Weekly, Field Day is a 24-hour time period when hams, as amateur radio operators are commonly known, from across North America contact […]
By Mary O’KEEFE “Pathfinder was the first successful mission to the surface [of Mars],” said John Callus, project manager for MER at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Now landing on Mars seems easy, right? With each successful landing, rovers have become larger and have more equipment. It seems like a walk in the park – well, it’s […]
By Mary O’KEEFE From July 31 to Aug. 31 last year, the Montrose Search and Rescue team searched for three teens from Fontana who were reported missing after they told family and friends they drove to “the mountains.” The team searched for two days before finding a vehicle over the side and, unfortunately, the three […]
Praise for the Hometown Paper Pictures, words, stories, ads and articles could describe what goes into a newspaper. Well, maybe for a lot of newspapers; however, our local hometown CV Weekly includes all of the aforementioned and so much more! I include heart, empathy, compassion, inclusion, caring and goals. In our terrific small town, we […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On June 23, homicide investigators arrested Aramazd Andressian Sr., 35, for the murder of his son, 5-year-old Aramazd Andressian. The young boy, who was known to family and friends as Piqui, was last seen at 1 a.m. on Friday, May 21 after spending the day with his father and his father’s family […]
The Big Boom For many people, Memorial Day is the kick-off to summer. But many times the hangover of Gray May slips into June Gloom seeming to delay the arrival of the new season. Instead, we look to July 4th as the real beginning of summer fun. Rarely does the holiday not live up to […]
On Tuesday, June 13 at 5:25 a.m., suspects smashed the glass front door to the B&D Tobacco Shop at 923 E. Broadway in Glendale and gained entry. Suspect No. 1 took cash from the register while Suspect No. 2 took hookah tobacco products. The suspects fled the store on foot westbound Broadway. No vehicle was […]
“One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.” ~ Mahavira, 600 B.C. Indian Prince & Philosopher In last week’s column I mentioned something about the temperatures going from hot to hotter. I hesitated to pass this information on as it […]