The following students receive Fort Lewis College Foundation scholarships: Catherine Adams and Maia Shields, both of La Crescenta, each received an Edith McPherson Scholarship for the 2013-14 academic year. Adams received $1,000. Adams’s major is English – writing option. Shields received $750 for. Shields’s major is psychology. Lucas Rowton, of La Cañada Flintridge received the […]
By Ted AYALA Members of the La Cañada Flintridge Chamber of Commerce (LCFCC) were hoping to channel some of the thunder of the hammer-wielding Norse god Thor – all for a good cause. The chamber held a movie premiere night on Nov. 7 at the UA La Cañada 8 on Verdugo Boulevard organized around the […]
By Charly SHELTON It may be beginning to look a lot like Christmas. But despite the plastic snowmen on every lawn and mall Santas in full swing, the 95-degree weather forbids it from feeling even a little bit like Christmas. Perhaps more like Independence Day. Regardless, Disney has put up Christmas decorations and brought out […]
By Ted AYALA Confronted with the music of Beethoven leaves one with the temptation to paraphrase Herbert von Karajan’s remarks about the symphonies of Jean Sibelius being like erratic glacial blocks: It is there, it is colossal, it is of another age and nobody knows how it got there. Thorny, wild, endlessly inventive, strange, cryptic […]
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD NATIONAL COLLECTION WEEK Impact a child’s life with a simple shoebox gift. Fill a shoebox with school supplies, toys, necessity items and a note of encouragement for a child overseas suffering due to disaster, disease, war, terrorism, famine or poverty. Local drop-off location is at First Baptist Church at La […]
Christian Life Church will be holding an official groundbreaking ceremony on Sunday, Nov. 24 at 10 a.m. at the site of the future construction of a new worship center located at 3013 Montrose Ave. (at Ramsdell Ave.), La Crescenta. The public is invited to join community and church leaders who will be present to break […]
International religious lecturer and peace activist Man Lee addressed students and religious leaders at the Bovard Auditorium at USC on Saturday to share the method of peace hidden in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. To a packed auditorium of diverse attendees, Lee explained the books of Matthew 13, 24, 25 and Revelation calling […]
Tuesday Table Talk On Tuesday, Dec. 3, Bethel Church in Sun Valley we will show the film “Pay it Forward.” In this gentle drama, young Trevor McKinney responds to a school assignment with a plan to help three people who will, in turn, help three more, and so on, in an ever-widening circle. But […]
Thanksgiving Shop & Dine Winter Wonderland Weekend! To all of our readers, friends, and customers: Get ready to immerse yourself in an old fashioned, hometown, Thanksgiving shopping weekend like no other! Snow, tree lighting, music, singing, store specials, free prizes, pony rides, Santa and more! We have it all in the beautiful Montrose Shopping Park […]
With Taste Behind Us, Bring on the Holidays Last Wednesday eve, the Crescenta Valley Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual Taste of the Foothills event at the Ralph’s Shopping Market in La Crescenta. Aside from the little gusts of wind that surprised us from time to time, the weather was ideal for such a night. […]