What a Grand Parade! Last Saturday leaders of the Montrose Shopping Park thoroughly enjoyed the pleasure of riding in the 38th Annual Montrose Glendale Christmas Parade. The excitement level was high as we met together at Cucina Rustica to share a delicious spread of antipasti, grilled salmon, pasta, meatballs and gourmet Italian cookies. We mingled […]
2015 Community Recognition Awards and Installation Banquet Walk the red carpet at the 96th Annual Installation and Community Recognition Awards Banquet on Jan. 22 at the beautiful Oakmont Country Club. We are going all out at the social event of the season that brings together Glendale, Montrose and the unincorporated areas of La Crescenta for […]
By Isiah REYES Fremont Elementary School singers held a “Dreaming of Snow” Christmas choir performance on Dec. 4 to get everyone in the holiday spirit. The performance included classics such as “Frosty the Snowman” as well as contemporary songs such as “Hip-Hop Turkey.” This year, all the kids who participated did so because they wanted […]
By Lisa PAREDES Students from the Glendale Unified School District’s four middle schools were honored for their prize-winning essays on Dec. 8. Students, school and city officials and local business leaders gathered to recognize the outstanding work. Students at Roosevelt, Rosemont, Toll and Wilson Middle Schools wrote on the topic of “The Importance of Education […]
Helen Jean Taylor is a treasure, especially as far as the Ceramics Dept. of the Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge is concerned. On a recent Sunday, the community center offered a workshop where interested potters could learn Taylor’s celebrated approach to glazing. An expert in the complexities of glaze formulation and their reactions/inter-reactions under […]
Glendale Healthy Start, a program within Student Support Services of the Glendale Unified School District, prepared 100 food baskets, which included a $30 Vons’ gift card, that were distributed to families for Thanksgiving. The mission of Glendale Healthy Start is to assist families in need. The food baskets consisted of an assortment of cereal, beans, […]
Ask Phyllis! Selling Options Dear Phyllis, We have a very unique home which has been on the market for several months. The asking price is $1,500,000. We finally have the home in escrow but the buyer can’t get a mortgage because his bonuses are a substantial part of his income; the lender requires another […]
CV Weekly certainly gets around! Santa Speas at Crescenta Cañada Pet Hospital took a break from “petarazzi” duty to catch up with local news with his favorite newspaper. Santa Speas and his band of merry elves hosted the annual pet portraits event at Crescenta Cañada Pet Hospital giving pet parents the chance to have their […]
I’ll be honest with you – the pressure of the holidays can be overwhelming. There are more things to do but no additional hours in the day to get them done. Take for example the Christmas parade on Saturday. For CV Weekly this is a big deal. Not only were we busy assigning a writer […]
Crescenta Valley Rocks! You may be thinking that this column will be about geology – about the many rocks one finds in the Crescenta Valley – but it is not. When I say “rocks,” I mean the slang verb and, yes, the pun is intentional. This town rocks! I love it here, and I have […]