By Mary O’KEEFE On Tuesday it was all about LeBron James coming to the LA Lakers at Blaze Pizza locations across Southern California. The basketball star has been awarded Most Valuable Player four times, has three NBA championships and now joins the Los Angeles Lakers for a four-year contract that is reportedly worth over $153 […]
There is a Choice It befuddles me how South Pasadena citizens were able to stop the 710 Freeway from going through their community. They claim historical exemption, which is unfounded. Many communities in Los Angeles County claimed historical sites when the freeways were constructed. The 710 completion through South Pasadena was part of the freeway […]
‘Chasing History’ Postponed Due to this summer’s record-breaking heat, the Bolton Hall Chasing History event, scheduled for July 14, has been postponed. The Bolton Hall board has made the decision to postpone Chasing History and the awards dinner at McGroarty Arts Center and are considering re-scheduling Chasing History later this year. Veterans Host Monthly […]
For many, summer means camps, beaches, amusement parks and a whole load of fun. At Girl Scout Twilight Camp, held June 18 to June 22 at Crescenta Valley Park, girls learned leadership, made new friends, created fun crafts and also touched ocean animals from tide pools in a mobile aquarium exhibit from The Aquarium of […]
YWCA Glendale is offering Camp Rosie free of charge to all participants as a part of a long-anticipated relaunch of the girls empowerment program, co-sponsored this year by Glendale’s Commission on the Status of Women and Soroptimist International of Glendale. Named after Rosie the Riveter, Camp Rosie is a two-week summer day camp that provides […]
CV Volleyball Star, Olympian Gail Wolze By Brandon HENSLEY In the early to mid-1970s, Crescenta Valley High School received great fanfare when it came to the football and boys’ basketball teams, but Gail Malone was a volleyball star without a proper platform. P.E. teacher Jan McCreery and others within Glendale Unified School District began the […]
Ron Bularz took CV Weekly along when visiting the castle in Neuschwanstein, Germany. CV Weekly loves to travel! Take us along on your next trip and send us a photo. You may find yourselves on the pages of the community’s favorite newspaper.
Members of the La Cañada Flintridge Orthopaedic Guild (LCFOG) are taking a break since their June meeting and the group will convene again in September. That does not mean that everything comes to a halt for the summer, though. Many members of the Guild will be working through the summer to have everything in place […]
Twin brothers Justin and Daniel Cohen, Class of 2018, graduated summa cum laude on May 20 from Notre Dame University with degrees from the Mendoza School of Business. They graduated from La Cañada High School in 2014 and will be employed by Ernst and Young of Boston and San Jose respectively. Their younger brother, Sam […]
A 2016 Verdugo Hills High School graduate and Tujunga native celebrated America’s 242nd year of independence as part of a hand-picked Navy crew serving on the world’s oldest commissioned warship afloat, the USS Constitution. Seaman Sydney Donovan, an operations specialist, serves aboard the 220-year-old Boston-based ship named by President George Washington to honor the Constitution […]