Veterans Corner

By Andy Gero Camp Lejeune vs. Water U.S. Marines who were stationed at Camp Lejeune between Aug. 1, 1953 and Dec. 31, 1987 for more than 30 days may have been exposed to the drinking water that was laced with fuel and dry-cleaning fluid. The 30 days may be consecutive or non-consecutive. If in fact […]

Questions About Today’s Real Estate? Ask Phyllis!

Selling By Owner         Dear Phyllis, Our elderly mother lived in her home for more than 30 years and just passed. Her next door neighbor was very kind and did a lot of nice things for her such as taking trash cans out and in. This neighbor wants to buy her home […]

Poet Laureate Reflects On Her Service

Since April 2014, local resident Elsa Frausto has served as Sunland-Tujunga’s poet laureate – a post that she considers the crowning point of her decades of writing and publishing career. “The Poet Laureate program was established to honor and continue the legacy of John Steven McGroarty, a man of his time. Aspirations change but at […]

CV Weekly on the Move

  Crescenta Valley High School robotics students enjoyed traveling with the CV Weekly to the FIRST Robotics Competition – Regional in Ventura. They were joined by members from surrounding teams including La Cañada High School’s FRC 2429 Blockheads. CV Weekly loves to travel! Take us along on your next trip and send us a photo. […]

LA County’s Annual Air Show Celebrates Red, White and Boom!

LA County’s Annual Air Show Celebrates Red, White and Boom!

By Susan JAMES In a 2007 Ferrari F430 I was doing 170 mph down the runway with driver Eric’s casual hand on the wheel while above us crack aerobatics pilot Rob Harrison, aka “The Tumbling Bear,” was rolling around in the sky in his Zlin 142C airplane. It was the 4th annual LA County Air […]

CV Weekly on the Move

Charly and Sabrina Shelton are on their whirlwind trip around Ireland and they took CVWeekly along with them. Here they are in front of Blarney Castle, the famed castle THAT houses the Blarney Stone. The current keep was conceived and built by the MacCarthys of Muskerry in 1446 on the site of a former wooden […]

A Conversation with Serena McKinney

By Nestor CASTIGLIONE “The future is female,” a slogan with roots in the 1970s, was one among many that captured the imaginations of many in peculiarly slogan-rich 2016. But we forget that the past, too, has been female – though that story sometimes has been forgotten, if not deliberately buried. Case in point: The music […]

Calendar This

BINGO TO BENEFIT USC-VHH WOMEN’S COUNCIL A bingo game is being held at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital council rooms on April 1 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. that benefits the hospital’s Women’s Council. Tickets cost $75 with profits earmarked for the hospital’s Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit. The USC-VHH Women’s Council has made a […]

Spiritually Speaking

Spiritually Speaking answers personal questions and concerns from a spiritual perspective. Local religious leaders taking part in the discussion include Rev. Elaine Cho/La Cañada Methodist Church; Pastor Jon Karn/Light on the Corner Church; Rev. Kimberlie Zakarian/Holy House Ministries; Rabbi Simcha Backman/Chabad of Glendale; Rev. Steve Marshall/Crescenta Valley United Methodist Church; Levent Akbarut/ Islamic Congregation of […]

Church of Scientology Celebrates New Facility

Church of Scientology Celebrates New Facility

On Sunday, March 19 of its newest church. Located adjacent to the North Hollywood junction of Burbank and Lankershim Boulevards, the Valley Church is the most expansive addition to Scientology’s expanding universe of Ideal Churches, now numbering 19 in the Western United States and 57 internationally. About 5,000 Scientologists attended the ceremony. For the Valley […]