This Week at LCIF All are invited to Lutheran Church in the Foothills on Sunday, June 30 at 9 a.m. for a time of education for all ages. Family worship begins at 10 a.m. and is led by Pastor Scott Peterson. This week there will be a time of prayers for healing and anointing with […]
By Mary O’KEEFE There have been a lot of lost hikers and rescues lately in the Angeles National Forest. The Montrose Search and Rescue team, along with search and rescue teams from around the state, as of Wednesday continue their active search for a missing 73-year-old hiker, Eugene Jo, near Mount Waterman. “[Jo] was hiking […]
CVCA Meets Tonight The Crescenta Valley Community Association will have its monthly meeting tonight, Thursday, June 27 at 6:30 p.m. The CVCA is a cross-jurisdictional, volunteer organization that encourages collaboration between community groups so that the Crescenta Valley can be represented with one voice. All are invited to the La Crescenta Library community room, 2809 […]
“Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.” ~ ‘Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness […]
Ahoy, Matey! Unlike any other time I can remember, the Goldsworthys have been solidly booked – we were in Pismo two weekends ago and last weekend we gathered with my Kiwanis family for a weekend getaway in Big Bear. Being fairly new to the Glendale Kiwanis family (I signed on a year ago), I was […]
Duck and Cover – The 1955 A-bomb Drill For a scant four years after WWII, the U.S. was the only nation with “the bomb.” That all changed in 1949 when the Soviet Union detonated its first nuclear device. We were shocked that they had caught up with us so quickly, and we raced ahead […]
Confronting the Threat of Deepfake Disinformation – in 2020 and Beyond For as long as recorded media has existed – whether print, photographs, or videos ¬¬– people have figured out ways to manipulate content to change its meaning. Sometimes changes are made for reasons that are perfectly benign: an artist modifying photos of public […]
Looking for our Flag I read with much interest the letter from Ms. Grace Chase published in the June 12 issue of the CV Weekly [Viewpoints]. Grace outlined in her letter how our Montrose-La Crescenta community, led by her father Vito Cannella, Bill Bailey and others, worked to establish Flag Week. Through their efforts we […]
By Lori BODNAR, intern Hundreds of girls gathered at Crescenta Valley Park last week to learn knot tying, fire safety, knife safety and various ways to cook outdoors as part of the annual Girl Scout Twilight Camp. The theme of Twilight Camp this year was “Back to the Basics.” For nearly three decades, girls have […]
Dunsmore Elementary School sixth grade parent volunteers Adrianne Allen and Hannah Greenberg were awarded the Character and Ethics Award on May 16 during the school board’s community awards ceremony. Both parents demonstrated a commitment to the guiding principles of cooperation, citizenship and compassion as they worked together to paint the handball court walls at Dunsmore. […]