Holiday Quakes Shake the Southland – and the Crescenta Valley

Holiday Quakes Shake the Southland – and the Crescenta Valley

Despite epicenters that were miles away, the Crescenta Valley was not immune to the shaking caused by the Ridgecrest earthquakes. By Charly SHELTON At 10:33 a.m. on July 4, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck just outside of Ridgecrest, California, in the China Lake area of the Mojave Desert. The next morning, a M 5.4 aftershock […]

Independence Day Parade in Sunland-Tujunga

Independence Day Parade in Sunland-Tujunga

By Mary O’KEEFE Fifty-three entries walked, drove and rode down Foothill Boulevard on Thursday for the annual Sunland-Tujunga Fourth of July Parade. The event, which is hosted by the Sunland-Tujunga-Shadow Hills Rotary Club, brought out everyone’s patriotic spirit. The parade began with Los Angeles Police Dept. flying overhead in an LAPD helicopter then motorcycle officers […]

Another Great Fourth of July Show

Another Great Fourth of July Show

By Mary O’KEEFE “It went fabulous,” said Robert Wollenwebber, president of the Crescenta Valley Fireworks Association, summarizing how well the annual fireworks display went. Fireworks lit up the sky over Crescenta Valley as full dark came upon the valley. Wollenwebber said the July 4th show had the largest participation in the event’s history, he thinks […]

Behind the Scenes of a Large Scale Search

By Mary O’KEEFE From June 22 to June 29, Montrose Search and Rescue led one of its biggest operations when team members searched for a 73-year-old man who was missing. The incident had a happy ending when the hiker, Eugene Jo, was found alive and well after spending a week in the Angeles National Forest […]

NOTES & NODS

This Week at LCIF All are invited to Lutheran Church in the Foothills on Sunday, July 14 at 9 a.m. for a time of education for all ages. Family worship time begins at 10 a.m. led by the women of LCIF who will be sharing “The Modern Parable of the Good Samaritan” based on the […]

Rally Precedes Council Meeting

By Julie BUTCHER Glendale resident Madeline Frey, 12, addressed the crowd of approximately 370 children and adults outside Glendale City Hall Tuesday night to oppose the repowering of the Grayson power plant with gas of any amount. “We have to fix this environmental crisis to fix the only place we call home,” she said before […]

Prodigy Returns From European Concert Tour

Prodigy Returns From European Concert Tour

By Mary O’KEEFE It was an orchestral world tour that included Budapest, Vienna and Prague. Any musician would feel honored to be part of such an exciting tour but for an 11-year-old girl the experience was especially awe-inspiring. Eyla Najafi, a local violinist, performed for these European cities with students from her music school Classical […]

Hatch Named President of JLP

The Junior League of Pasadena, Inc. (JLP) announced that Sara Hatch has been named 2019-20 president of the local 93-year-old women’s volunteer and leadership organization, which has more than 500 active and sustaining members in the San Gabriel Valley area. Members of the JLP are looking forward to her leadership. The JLP takes an issue-area-focused […]

Shadow Hills Gets a Clean Up from United Groups

Cynthia Urias, the Shadow Hills Property Owners Association (SHPOA) volunteer organizer, organized a cleanup of neighborhoods in Shadow Hills on Sunland Boulevard on Saturday, July 6. Among those who lent a hand were volunteers with The Scientology Volunteer Ministers (VMs). VM Barbara Cordova offered to help with other VMs she knew, including Shadow Hills resident […]

People Making News

Pureum Lee of La Crescenta graduated from Whitworth College with a Bachelor of Science in nursing. Lee graduated with cum laude honors. Located in Spokane, Washington, Whitworth is a private liberal arts university affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. The university, which has an enrollment of more than 3,000 students, offers more than 100 undergraduate and […]