By Hanna WRIGHT As of Tuesday, the Crescenta Valley High School softball team is 7-0 in the Pacific League. Last week, the Falcons beat one of their toughest competitors, Arcadia, 2-0, and easily defeated Hoover on Tuesday to stay in first place in the Pacific League. The Falcons began the league season with a bang, […]
Gladiator Youth Football Signups Continue The La Cañada Gladiators Youth Football program is open for registration for the 2018 football season. Registration and payment are online. Football applications are available on the Gladiator webpage at www.lcgladiators.org. The Gladiator program is open to girls and boys ages 6 to 14. The Gladiators field one flag team […]
By Susan JAMES On April 3, Professor Ted Stern’s class in the history, understanding and appreciation of music celebrated its 500th meeting. The organization doesn’t have a fancy name and participants just call it “the music class,” but it has been full to overflowing since it began in the spring of 2001. Meant as a […]
By Charly SHELTON There is no doubt that the ship Queen Mary is haunted. There are resident spirits, including Jackie, the little girl who haunts the first class pool, John Pedder, who was crushed by a watertight door, Senior Second Officer William Eric Stark, who accidentally drank dry cleaning fluid instead of gin, and The […]
By Néstor CASTIGLIONE America has had a long love/hate relationship with classical music – mostly love – in the years leading into the mid-20th century, reversed by the 1960s “counterculture” to a collective feeling of indifference that sometimes can be roused to “hate.” One thinks of the writings of various pop music critics over the […]
By Charly SHELTON May Day is fast approaching and, for many, it still remains a mystery. Many Americans know there’s something about a pole, but that’s about it. May Day stems from Beltane, an ancient Gaelic festival celebrating fertility. While its celebration had dropped off in popularity by the mid-20th century, it has since been […]
This Week at LCIF All are invited to Lutheran Church in the Foothills on Sunday, April 22 at 10 a.m. for the fourth Sunday of Easter. Be a part of the new Children’s Gathering at 9 a.m. that coincides with youth and adult book study. Pastor Scott Peterson will preach on the topic “It’s Not […]
Sept. 7, 1931 – April 3, 2018 Celia Rueda De Leon, devoted wife, extraordinary mother, and treasured grandmother and great-grandmother, passed away peacefully on April 3 surrounded by her family. She was 86 years of age. Celia was born in Mexico to Ramon and Ignacia Aguilar. She married her high school sweetheart, Manuel Rueda De […]
1961 – 2018 Lori Marlett passed away recently after a courageous battle with ovarian cancer. After her diagnosis and emergency surgery in early 2017, she continued to live her life with the same enthusiasm and passion she always had enjoying and bringing joy to every minute of every day. She believed in living life […]