Despite crushing Arcadia last week and going 8-2, CV football misses the playoffs and will have to say goodbye to season that ended too soon. By Brandon HENSLEY 2013 Season Record: 8-2, tied for second in the Pacific League Playoffs: Surprisingly, no. Best moment: An overtime win over previously undefeated Burbank in the homecoming game. […]
CV Weekly introduces Crescenta Valley Sports, a webcast designed to highlight teams, individual players and coaches throughout the foothills. From youth sports to high school and beyond, CVW Sports is a way to widen our coverage on local athletes in a visual package that is both informational and exciting. The first episode, about Rosemont Middle […]
CV’s Gabe Collison takes third following Apache leaders. By Leonard COUTIN Despite running one of his best races of the year, CVHS senior Gabe Collison (14:13.47) couldn’t catch Arcadia’s Phillip Rocha (14:02.12) or Estevan de la Rosa (14:02.47) at the Pacific League cross country finals on Thursday. Rocha and de la Rosa held the lead […]
JR. GREMLIN FLAG (Teams do not keep score) No report received. Quarterfinal Playoffs – First Round Gremlins La Cañada 14, Pasadena Panthers 6 On Sunday morning, November 10, 2013, the undefeated Gladiators confronted the ones-beaten Pasadena Panthers at John Muir High School. Both teams led the Gremlin Division in scoring and defense. This year […]
As part of its Silver Award project, Girl Scout Troop 9231 of La Crescenta held a special event for autistic children that provided the experience of spending an afternoon with horses. Horses Helping Humans was a concept that the troop of eight Girl Scouts created that focused on introducing younger autistic children (4-10 years old) […]
By Charly SHELTON Master’s Taekwondo Club, located in the Montrose Shopping Park, celebrated its first year in Montrose by raising funds for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. On Oct. 19, MTC hosted friends and families of its taekwondo students to join in a “break-a-thon.” “As martial artists,” said Master Ahn, head instructor for MTC, “we understand […]
Boy Scout Troop 317, based in Montrose, received the Lord Baden-Powell Award at the Verdugo Hills Camporee event on Oct. 12 at Camp Tecuya near Frazier Park. The Lord Baden-Powell Award recognizes one troop that represents the finest of Scout principles within the Verdugo Hills Council and exhibits the basis of all scouting: selflessness, community […]
Scouting for Food Local Boy Scouts will be picking up filled bags of food this Saturday as part of the annual Scouting for Food event. The Scouts left empty paper bags at area homes in the hope that the bags will be filled and left out for pick up. The food that is collected will […]
Name Origins for the Peaks Around Us – Part 2 Continuing my series on name origins for the peaks and geographic features along the San Gabriel Mountains above us, we move east from Mt. Lukens. At this point, let’s drop over the top of Lukens to Big Tujunga Canyon just behind. The “Big” is to […]
A Reunion with High School Angst The 40th reunion of the Crescenta Valley High School Class of 1973, my class, was held last month at the Chevy Chase Country Club. I didn’t go. It’s not that I was out of town. I didn’t forget to put it on my calendar. I wasn’t in bed with […]