KANG AT SOPAS GALLERY La Cañada resident Chang Paul Kang is currently exhibiting his paintings at the SoPas Gallery in Pasadena. The earth gives birth and buries. The earth breathes, speaks, cries and smiles. The earth hides sorrow and pain. The earth silences yet roars. The earth comforts yet destroys. At last the earth forgives […]
To begin this month’s column, I would like to extend my thoughts and prayers to all of those affected by last week’s Boston Marathon bombings, and explosions in Texas, especially the victims and their family and friends. No doubt we will be reeling from these events for a long time to come. I hope that […]
Tuesday Table Talk On Tuesday, May 7, Bethel Church in Sun Valley will show the film “The First Grader.” Based on a true story, this inspirational drama profiles the amazing determination of 84-year-old Kenyan Kimani N’gan’ga Maruge, a Mau Mau freedom fighter who wants to take advantage of a new universal education decree by […]
Wags-n-Whiskers and Kids-n-Kritters Sunday, May 5 is a day you will definitely want to spend in the Montrose Shopping Park. It seems all of the stars have converged at the same time and the activities and entertainment are boundless. Of course, it’s prime time for our weekly neighborhood reunion, the Sunday Harvest Market. That is […]
College Scholarships Available Also coming up is golf classic and scholarship fundraiser. If you are a graduating senior from either Crescenta Valley or Clark Magnet high school, we have scholarship opportunities for you! As a local chamber, we look forward to the opportunity to give back to our community, and helping our students is one […]
Celebrating Mother Earth “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Albert Einstein Are you honoring Mother Earth this week? Even if each of us made small changes in our lives, the Earth would be a better place, especially for our children and our children’s children. Here are five small ways you […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Boston Mayor Tom Menino’s Twitter came across about 6 p.m. (EST) It simply read: “We got him.” An FBI release confirmed “Dzhokar Tsarnaev, suspect in bombing investigation, is now in custody.” Suspects Dzhokar, 19, and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, were identified by law enforcement as suspects of the Boston Marathon bombing. […]
By Ted Ayala How is musical excellence defined? Does a composer’s willingness to go against the grain of his times and fight for his personal convictions bespeak of “greatness?” When considering the latter question, one usually thinks of composers like Beethoven, Mahler, Stravinsky, Webern, and Cage for starters; all of them composers who struggled […]
By Mary O’KEEFE One of the perks of living in Crescenta Valley is all of the trees that line the streets and parks. Maybe it is because CV is at the base of a national forest, but there is a natural respect in the area for nature. A law was passed to protect oak trees. […]
Mountain Lions and Whirlybirds Look, up in the sky, it’s a … slow news day! You know there aren’t a whole heckuva lot of newsworthy things happening when the skies above the Crescenta Valley suddenly fill with helicopters. Typically, it’s due to yet another traffic nightmare on the section of the 210 Freeway that bisects […]