Kimball Sanitarium Part 6 – Kimball’s Becomes Ralphs Supermarket By the late ’50s it appeared Merritt Kimball, owner/operator of Kimball Sanitarium, was ready to get out of the sanitarium business. A full size community hospital was being planned for the growing Crescenta Valley, and Merritt Kimball had put his property at Rosemont Avenue and Foothill […]
Ask Not For Whom The Bell Tolls. I’ll Get It. As my kids will attest, I have three immitigable personal quirks (okay, at least three). One: I can’t walk past a light switch without turning it off if no one’s in the room. Two: An outside door left open during the winter while our […]
Meet Congressman Adam Schiff By Mary O’KEEFE Congressman Adam Schiff is back in La Crescenta. Not that he was ever that far away, but due to redistricting if elected this November he will once again represent the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County, La Crescenta. Since he began serving as a congressman in 2001, he […]
There’s still time to take part in Saturday’s event. By Mary O’KEEFE soccer try-outs were this week for Rosemont Middle School kids. The soccer teams of both boys and girls are part of an afterschool sports program that is supported by donations and volunteers from the community. The afterschool sports program has several opportunities for […]
Family Bowling Tonight Tonight, Thursday, Sept. 20, the Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce is hosting the 1st Annual Family Bowling Night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Montrose Bowl. The cost is $20 per player, which includes bowling and food. It is $10 for kids 6 to 12 and non-bowlers. Register as a team […]
“So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of the lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees….” ~ John Muir That face … on the front […]
Festival, 5K and Finest Without a doubt, Saturday was one of the hottest days I’ve spent outdoors in some time. But I couldn’t resist heading down to Crescenta Valley Park for the inaugural Korean Armenian Cultural Festival. It was, after all, the only one of its kind in the nation if not the world. Attendance […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley was able to do something last weekend that several countries in the world have not been able to achieve – cultural unity and true respect for diversity. The first Korean Armenian Festival was held on Saturday and Sunday at Crescenta Valley Park. It was a unifying sight with rows of […]
By Mary O’KEEFE At Tuesday’s Glendale Unified School District board meeting the discussion of the open lunch campus policy at Crescenta Valley High School was an agenda item. The discussion was an update on the issue that had been approached last year by the district. The thought at the time was to change the policy […]
By Jason KUROSU The proposal for a 4½ mile long tunnel connecting the 710 and 210 freeways continues to generate controversy, as those living near the proposed extension have expressed their opposition to the tunnel with various concerns about increased traffic, pollution and health issues. A forum was held at the Pasadena Convention Center Tuesday […]