By Misty DUPLESSIS Valley View Elementary School families were in for a treat on Friday afternoon when they gathered to enjoy their annual back to school celebration on the school grounds. The Fall Family Picnic, hosted by the Valley View Education Foundation, was a social highlight that brought families together for a night of fun […]
Several club members at Crescenta Valley High School took the opportunity this week to share with their fellow students what it is they do during Club Expo held on the school campus. Tables were set up in the quad area that highlighted the various activities that each club focuses on, whether it’s volunteering in the […]
Photos by Charly Shelton TOP: Students played in kickball tournaments for the cause. CENTER: Games took place on the upper and middle fields, with several teams competing. BOTTOM: For those not playing the game, food trucks parked all around the field to provide cool treats for the hot day.
GPO Holding Auditions The Glendale Pops Orchestra is holding auditions for The Glendale Pops Youth Chorus. This all student/all city choir will perform under the direction of Choral Director Rod Yonkers and Artistic Director/Conductor Matt Catingub at the Dec. 7 HolidayPOP! performance at the historic Alex Theatre in Glendale. Audition information can be found online […]
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 […]