The Assistance League of Glendale is gearing up for its biggest sale of the year, Christmas in July, at Thrift Alley, 314 E. Harvard St. in Glendale. Sylvia Kowal and Claire Collins are preparing all the silver to make holidays most elegant. The entire front building will be filled with lighted trees, wreaths, fur coats […]
Cornell University’s Jean Van Buren of La Cañada has been placed on the dean’s list of the College of Arts and Sciences for Excellence in Scholarship for the spring 2012 semester. The College of Arts and Sciences is Cornell University’s largest undergraduate college. __________________ The following students have graduated from Loyola Marymount University, joining more […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Plant a seed and let it grow. It’s a basic metaphor that has frustrated soccer fans in the U.S. for decades: Plant all the seeds they want, the sport still lags behind others in sheer popularity. But here comes another season of the American Youth Soccer Organization, and maybe it’s fitting that […]
The La Crescenta Monarchs 9U Tournament baseball team took their La Crescenta pride to the Central Coast Showdown Baseball Tournament in Pismo Beach last weekend, winning the championship by going undefeated in five games over two days. This victory qualifies the team to compete next in the Triple Crown Sports National Tournament in Las Vegas […]
By Leonard COUTIN As the temperatures cooled on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 25, runners gathered at Crescenta Valley Park cross-country course for the second all comers Run in the Park. CV High coach Mark Evans welcomed the cross-country girls from Arcadia, and the West Torrance boys and girls runners, who were led by the […]
The Crescenta-Cañada Family YMCA Dynamite gymnastics team recently competed at the National 2012 USAIGC championships in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. There were 76 USAIGC clubs represented from the United States, Bermuda, Canada and South Africa and over 750 gymnasts competing. In the Copper Level, the local Y placed second in the nation. Twelve local girls from […]
By Brandon HENSLEY With one last gentle strike of the gavel, Aimee Yeghiayan said goodbye to her presidency of the Crescenta Valley Youth Council on July 26, giving way to new board members ready to usher in the council’s second year. Inside the community room of the CV Sheriff’s Station, present board members Yeghiayan, James […]
By Lillian BOODAGHIANS The I Have a Dream Foundation, Los Angeles, held its annual “Summer College Boot Camp” for its students at Glendale Community College in mid-July. The foundation provides long term, comprehensive support and programming for at risk youth, sponsoring classes from early grade school years through high school graduation. “We provide not just […]
A Mob of Help I love to dance. Until this darned ankle slowed me down (which is still giving me grief since I fell about five weeks ago now), I’d prance around like a fairy looking I’m sure ridiculous, but having fun. In fact, before the end of the 2011, I had signed up to […]
“The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.” ~Pierre de Coubentin, founder, International Olympic Committee, Organizer of 1896 Olympics in Athens Let the Games begin! And they did, under the dark ominous skies of London. But first, Queen Elizabeth needed to catch a ride to the games. She sat at her […]