Amy Choi of La Cañada won top honors at the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Junior Woodwind Competition. Choi, 13, is an eighth-grader at Rosemont Middle School in La Crescenta. A student of Christina Yoo, she has been playing flute for four years. She has been involved in the Southern California School Band and Orchestra […]
Recently, 10 members of the Crescenta-Cañada Family YMCA National Swim Team headed to North Carolina for the YMCA Nationals meet. There were nearly 200 teams represented by 1,500 swimmers from around the country competing at the highest level of competition for those under the age of 18. The local Y team finished 47th out of […]
Boys & Girls Club Hosting Summer Camp The Boys & Girls Club is having its summer camp at Crescenta Valley Park. The day camp will be filled with fun activities, arts and crafts, sports and weekly fieldtrips. Camp starts June 3 and runs through Aug. 9; closed Independence Day. Hours of operation are Monday through […]
Mastering PC Speech Back in September of 2005 during a briefing with reporters, Army Lt. General Russel Honore had reached his limit answering foolish questions about Hurricane Katrina evacuations. “Don’t get stuck on stupid,” he admonished the mouth-breathing media monkeys chattering at him. Well, I’m sorry to report that more of our fellow Americans are […]
A Wild American Graffiti on Foothill Boulevard I’ve written a lot about 1975’s short-lived Foothill Cruise Night. It was an amazing social anomaly for our normally quiet and conservative valley. In one last memory from Craig Baker, we get a glimpse of how out of control things got, and why Cruise Night just couldn’t last. […]
With a Grateful Heart “In every community there is work to be done, in every nation there are wounds to heal, in every heart there is the power to do it.” Last Saturday, April 27 at CVHS, it was a beautiful day on the high school track. CV CAN (Crescenta Valley Committed to Athletic Needs) […]
It was all about communication and cooperation during this multi-agency training. By Michael YEGHIAYAN The Los Angeles County firefighters and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Dept. joined other agencies on Angeles Crest Highway last weekend to run a number of rescue exercises and build inter-department relationships. Exercises began on Friday and continued through the weekend. The […]
By Tyler BIDDLE The Verdugo Mountains 10K is back again this Sunday and the two-time champion Lilianna Hernandez is bringing a new group of runners with her this year. The Griffith Park Bobcats, a local running club for kids, will make their first appearance at the 10K this year and Hernandez has been preparing them […]
By Ted AYALA Faced with a budget gap and the need to find new streams of revenue for Glendale, the Glendale City Council voted on Tuesday to allow the serving of alcoholic beverages on city property. Deukmeijian Wilderness Park and the Brand Library will be among the sites where visitors can order themselves a drink […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Montrose is now painted purple, thanks to a group of volunteers, shoe stencils and lots of purple paint. The annual Paint the Town Purple was held on Saturday morning along Honolulu Avenue in support of the upcoming Foothills Relay for Life on May 11-12. Purple shoe prints were painted on storefronts of […]