What is a Red Flag Alert and What To Do When One is Issued

By CVReady & CVFSC Fire season used to be a summer and fall phenomenon. But now it can be almost anytime, depending upon conditions: primarily heat, humidity and wind, which are all factors that the National Weather Service uses as a basis for declaring a Red Flag Alert. The draught Southern California has experienced over […]

CRIME BLOTTER

Oct. 14 4500 block of Fairlawn Drive in La Cañada, a purse was stolen from a vehicle between 4:13 a.m. 2100 block of Foothill Boulevard in La Crescenta, a wallet was stolen from a shopping cart between 1:50 p.m. and 2:10 p.m.   Oct. 11 2900 block of Community Avenue in La Crescenta, a cellphone […]

Keeping Your Health in Check

Keeping Your Health in Check

By Mary O’KEEFE October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Though all medical experts don’t agree as to how often a person should have a mammogram, all agree that regular mammograms are an important part of a healthy regimen. Stories are too common of women who found a lump in their breasts and delayed going to […]

From the Desk of the Publisher

A Measured Look at Measure S   On the November ballot, Glendale voters will be asked to vote yes or no on raising their city’s sales tax by .75%, or ¾, of a cent. Called the Glendale Quality of Life and Essential Services Protection Measure, Measure S is written to “expand funding to protect essential […]

IN Brief

CV Town Council Meeting The community is invited to attend the CV Town Council meeting planned for tonight, Oct. 18, at the La Crescenta Library. On the agenda is a presentation by the LA County Public Works Dept. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. of the library in the community room. La Crescenta Library, 2809 […]

Joe Walker

Jan. 14, 1963 – Oct. 4, 2018 Joseph Howard Walker of La Cañada passed away from prostate cancer on Oct. 4 surrounded by his loving family. He is survived by his wife Gina; daughter Brielle; sons Chase and Weston; brother Bryan; sister Donna Schroeder; and a large extended family in California, Nevada, South Dakota and […]

Janet Hall Mauk

Nov. 27, 1930 – Oct. 2, 2018 Janet Teya Hall was born on Thanksgiving Day in 1930 to parents Earl and Stella Hall. It was fitting that she arrived on a holiday that celebrates faith, family and food prepared with skill and love, because those three things remained important to her for the rest of […]

Louise Jackson

Nov. 10, 1924 – Sept. 14, 2018 Louise grew up in Hollywood where her father was a writer for Walt Disney. She served as a WAV in World War II at the Long Beach naval hospital and at El Toro. She married her childhood sweetheart, Donald Jackson, who was a career officer in the army. […]

Weather in the Foothills

“Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in undercover.” ~ St. Frances De Sales Blame it on the weather! This past week has been a wild, wet and windy one. It began on Friday night. Clouds moved in during the day, rather unremarkable in appearance, […]

Treasures of the Valley » Mike Lawler

CV’s First Inhabitants – First Contact   The village of Wiqangna in the Crescenta Valley would not have been in the path of the first Spanish explorers to venture north into the Los Angeles area. However, they would have been touched hard by the successive waves of disease that followed them. Smallpox, measles and influenza […]