L.A. Dodgers icon Tommy Lasorda was on hand when members of the Orthopaedic Guild of La Cañada Flintridge brought along the CV Weekly for the groundbreaking ceremony for Orthopaedic Institute for Children’s (OIC) $10 million, 13,000 square foot ambulatory surgery center on May 30. CV Weekly loves to travel! Take us along on your next […]
Good News for Planetary Science and JPL In September 2003, the NASA mission Galileo plunged into Jupiter’s atmosphere after spending a decade orbiting the gas giant collecting data. With little fuel left, mission control sent the spacecraft on an intentional collision course with Jupiter to eliminate any possibility of the satellite contaminating one of its […]
By Mary O’KEEFE About 100 concerned residents from the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County/La Crescenta met with the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station Capt. Bill Song and Sgt. Cynthia Gonzales on Monday evening. Their purpose was to ask questions concerning what some have perceived as a radical increase in residential burglary in the last few […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The California Assembly is moving forward with legislation concerning criminal DNA testing [Proposition 69]. In December the California appeals court struck down the state law allowing the collection of DNA from anyone arrested on suspicion of committing a felony. Voters had originally approved the law in 2004. Collection is continuing after the […]
“How beautiful the rain! After the dust and the heat…. Across the windowpane It pours and pours; And swift and ride, with muddy tide, Like a river down the gutter roars… The rain, the welcome rain!” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Summer is only days old but already we have grown weary of the heat. […]
Catalina Bar & Grillwill present Broadway, film and television star Neile Adams in “An Evening With Neile Adams,” featuring popular show tunes. The show will be presented on Thursday, June 25 at 8:30 p.m. Broadway performer Adams (“Kismet,” “The Pajama Game,” “At The Grand”) was personally selected by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II to […]
See Something – Say Something At the CV Town Council meeting last Thursday there were two items that sparked interest. The first was a proposed communications tower that was to be installed at the sheriff’s station. This proposed tower prompted debate – sometimes heated debate – between those who felt that the possible exposure to […]
In April, the Governor issued an executive order calling for reductions in potable water use across the state. To accomplish reductions, irrigation of ornamental turf with potable water in city medians is no longer permitted. The City of La Cañada Flintridge took immediate action to comply with drought regulations and has turned off all irrigation […]
Tuesday Table Talk On Tuesday, July 7 Bethel Church will offer a showing of the film “Paddington” (rated PG). This family tale involves Paddington Bear, who’s rescued at a train station and taken home by a young boy. Paddington adapts quickly to city life, but there’s an evil taxidermist in town with her eye […]
On Thursday, June 18 at 1:45 p.m., Glendale Fire Dept. received reports of a brush fire at the Mountain Avenue exit off the 2 Freeway in the City of Glendale. Glendale units arrived on scene and discovered a brush fire on the south side of Mountain Avenue across from Glendale Community College. The fire was […]