For the third consecutive year, Hayden Dinger, an eighth grade student at St. Bede School in La Cañada, will be running his canned tuna drive that he calls Love and Fishes. He started the campaign when he learned that roughly 1,200 people in his hometown of Glendale went to bed hungry each night and of […]
By Joyce LEE, intern Participants in the annual Foothills Relay for Life will take to the Clark Magnet High School field on April 12, repeating a history that all didn’t want to have to do: walk for a cure of cancer. Since 1985, the year in which Dr. Gordy Klatt initiated the beginning of the […]
An Old Vineyard Trail Reopened in Deukmejian Park Just a couple months ago, the all volunteer Crescenta Valley Trail Crew re-cut an old trail out of the sagebrush on the east side of Dunsmore Canyon. It had previously been called the Boy Scout Trail in honor of an Eagle Scout who created the trail over […]
The Status of Our Students Before I get into the subject of my first column, I’d like to thank publisher Robin Goldsworthy for inviting me to write for the CV Weekly. I am honored to be in the esteemed company of CV Town Council President Robbyn Battles, Assemblyman Mike Gatto, and Congressman Adam Schiff. The […]
Greetings from CV Alliance! “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.” James Baldwin April is Underage Drinking Prevention Month and we’re having the last of our four planned Teen Trials & Tribulations talks on Thursday, April 10 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. […]
What the UUT and GFT Do for You There has been a lot of discussion around town regarding the alphabet soup of City [of Glendale] finances – GFT, UUT, etc. To date, there are two lawsuits filed against the city regarding the General Fund Transfer, or GFT, from Glendale Water & Power. There is also […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU A powerful early spring storm moving through the area on Wednesday afternoon was responsible for two incidents of downed power lines in Sunland, causing about 744 Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power customers to lose power. In one incident, lightning struck power lines in the 10500 block of N. Woodward […]
By Jason KUROSU The Crescenta Valley Armenian Community & Youth Center hosted an event Tuesday night detailing the most common forms of identity theft and strategies for protecting against becoming a victim to this ever-increasing crime. Matt Zakarian, detective with the Glendale Police Dept. Financial Crimes Unit, spoke to a small audience about his experiences […]
By Charly SHELTON With the recent rash of earthquakes to rock Southern California, not to mention around the world, many are asking what to expect next. Southern Californians live in earthquake country, and know that a big quake is on the horizon. CV Weekly had a chance to ask an expert about the recent earthquake […]
Republicans Rally at Convention By Alexander KELEDJIAN In 1966, California GOP Chairman Gaylord Parkinson stated (even though Ronald Reagan gained fame for saying it), “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.” At the recent state Republican Party convention in San Burlington, over 1,000 Republicans broke this historic commandment. As a California Republican Party […]