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 […]
Join us for the 1st Annual YMCA of the Foothills Life Walk for Safe & Healthy Youth Life Skills this Saturday at 10 a.m. Walkers start at either La Cañada City Hall (1327 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada Flintridge) or the Verdugo Hills YMCA (6840 Foothill Blvd., Tujunga) and walk to Rosemont Middle School (4725 Rosemont […]
On Friday afternoon Nov. 8, I met with a member from the L.A. County Parks Dept. in front of the new war memorial in Two Strike Park. As we were talking about the Veterans Day service, we noticed that someone had scratched three of the bronze name plaques. I have a very hard time trying […]
During the annual ceremony at Two Strike Park, local veterans shared their thoughts on how to honor service personnel. By Mary O’KEEFE “Veterans’ Day is to celebrate people who fought for America.” That was how fourth grader Mikael Sakaroff, a Fremont student, described Nov. 11. Mikael was at the ceremony at Two Strike Park on […]
By Ted AYALA Residents who awoke Monday morning to see the sight at Glendale’s Brand Park may have done a double take. One hundred mules were gathered there on the final leg of a journey that began last month, ending at the Brand Library. The parade of mules – known formally as “100 Mules Walking […]
Nov. 9 700 block of Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge, a 24-year-old La Cañada woman was arrested for public intoxication after deputies responded to a call in the area. 1900 block of Verdugo Boulevard in La Cañada, the window of the rear driver’s side door was shattered and a briefcase was stolen from a […]
By Mary O’KEEFE In the late 1990s, Mark Yeager wanted an idea on how to help a club at Crescenta Valley High School called Students Against Destructive Decisions. “It was a new club and we were thinking of ways to get them some recognition,” he said. Yeager came up with the idea to offer a […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU Religious leaders from the Crescenta Valley and neighboring communities and about 200 guests gathered on Thursday at the YMCA of the Foothills in La Cañada for the 2013 early-morning Community Prayer Breakfast. As is common practice, the program gives community religious leaders an opportunity to offer prayers in their native tongues. […]