By Mary O’KEEFE For 13 years the Early Rodders car group has donated items for the firefighters’ Spark of Love toy drive. Early Rodders members are classic and hot rod vehicle enthusiasts who are seen at a lot of events throughout Crescenta Valley including the CV Chamber of Commerce Hometown Country Fair and the Montrose […]
Adventist Health Glendale to Celebrate Armenian Christmas Dozens of patients, staff and community members will gather on Jan. 3 at Adventist Health Glendale to celebrate Armenian Christmas. His Eminence Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, who leads the Western Diocese Armenian Church, will bless holy water and hundreds of gata bread, an Armenian sweet bread traditionally prepared at […]
“There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance.” ~ William Sharp, Scottish writer, 18550-1905 Happy New Year! Winter […]
Resolutions I’m sure you’ve heard many ways in which folks are incorporating into their vocabulary the launch of the new decade: 2020. They are looking ahead with “clear vision.” They’ll be “seeing clearly in 2020.” You get it. I think this desire to see clearly into the New Year – heck, the new decade […]
Whiting Woods’ First Residents Were Prostitutes I’ve written before about the lurid origins of Whiting Woods. For such a beautiful and placid neighborhood, it has a very dark history. The wealthy LA businessman Perry Whiting first bought the canyon known today as Whiting Woods around 1918 after it was seized by the County of Los […]
The Man Who Would Become Google-Able Every community has them, the town characters. People who, for whatever reason, dress a little differently and act a little differently than others. They add texture to the fabric of our lives while they are here and we remember them fondly when they are gone. I met one such […]
Message Written Not Expected Perhaps others started reading Mr. Kretz’s Dec. 26 letter “Stop the Hate” assuming it would go on to lambaste President Trump for so much divisiveness now in our nation. He even wrote, “Read the recent letter from Trump to Pelosi,” so of course we presumed he’s going to go on and […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Connor Choi is a 16-year-old student attending Clark Magnet High School and a Boy Scout with Troop 502, based out of La Cañada Flintridge. He has been working on his Eagle Scout project that will help those in need see life a little clearer. Choi has been a Boy Scout since he […]
The Crescenta Valley High School marching band was honored at a recent GUSD meeting. Photo courtesy of Rachel SIEGEL
By Brandon HENSLEY As everyone rings in the new year, Crescenta Valley High School will refamiliarize itself with teams from the Pacific League as both the boys’ and girls’ basketball squads will host the Muir Mustangs on Friday. The beginning of the new year and the return from winter break used to mean that the […]