The ninth annual summer basketball camp for kids opened June 21 at Pacific Community Center. The camp is open to boys and girls of all skill levels and will be held on Thursdays. The 4 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. class is for boys and girls ages 5 to 7 years. The 5 p.m. to 5:50 […]
By Jason KUROSU NASA’s Women in STEM High School Aerospace Scholars (or WISH) program selected 84 female high school juniors from across the country to take part in an intensive two-week program this June and July. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics and the WISH program is geared towards young women interested in […]
By Misty DUPLESSIS For most of her life you might say that Girl Scout Kate Linkchorst has had her head in the clouds – or at the very least, among the stars. Linkchorst’s father Fred is an aerospace engineer and early on the Girl Scout discovered her own fondness for gazing at the heavenly bodies. […]
The American Academic Competition Institute (AACI) released the results of the Inaugural National High School Sports Medicine Championships that took place on May 21. AACI’s goal is to give students from across the nation an opportunity to excel in their chosen areas of study through online competition and testing. To achieve this, AACI developed the […]
A group of students from Crescenta Valley High School recently conducted a survey regarding gender prejudice. The students – Philip Song, Jocelyn Chia, Kayleigh Carrillo, Marcus Monterroso, and Zoey Marroquin – wanted to spread awareness of gender prejudice to increase recognition of situations in which it is prevalent, and possibly help prevent it. They asked […]
Valley View principal Carla Walker had a unique way of congratulating the first grade students in Holly Woodward’s class who reached or surpassed their accelerated reader goals – she kissed a pig. This year the students chose a balloon launch for their reward if they achieved the first grade benchmark, and asked if their principal […]
Fireworks, Flags, Food and Freedom Well, toast my buns and bake my beans! Next Wednesday is already the Fourth of July. Seriously? How in the name of John Phillips Sousa did we get this far into the year this fast? Will somebody tap the brakes just a little, please? Be that as it may, the […]
Sanitariums in CV – Hillcrest Sanitarium, Part 1 Hillcrest Sanitarium was one of the larger sanitariums in the valley, housing from 50 up to nearly 200 patients in several buildings between the late 1920s until the late 1960s. Although they started as a tubercular sanitarium, they treated a wide variety of chronic illnesses, and morphed […]
Pension Reform Voter anger [at] the constant raising of property taxes to feed government needs came to an abrupt end with the passage of proposition 13 over 30 years ago. June 5, 2012 will also be remembered as the beginning of the long decline of the public sector unions brought about by voter anger. The […]
And Down She Goes I’m beginning to think that exercise is definitely over-rated. On Sunday, I had my day planned. Get up, take a walk (which up here in the foothills can be rather taxing), shower, head to church, then catch up on some work at the office. I got up okay, but then everything […]