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THERAYOGA HOSTING GRAND OPENING TheraYoga invites the entire community to celebrate their grand opening with ribbon cutting today, June 21, at 1 p.m. They will also be hosting a free community party on Saturday, June 23 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. with live music, a henna artist and door prizes. Class passes will be […]

He Said, She Said

Discovering Van Halen By Charly SHELTON I don’t like music. I have been listening to the same Disneyland album since 2005. Granted, I have added to it as new attractions arise, but it is largely the same. I have never really enjoyed music, so I don’t have new albums – or anything else – of […]

New Adventures Found at DCA

By Charly SHELTON In 2001, Disney’s California Adventure park opened across the way from Disneyland. It had maybe three good rides – Soarin’ Over California, Grizzly River Run and California Screamin’. The rest either broke constantly or were bad rides or just didn’t make any sense as to why it was in a Disney park, […]

A Little Bit of Everything Amazing: 9th Annual Ceramics Invitational and Student Sale at McGroarty Arts Center

The Annual Ceramics Invitational at McGroarty Arts Center is, as expected, an impressive showing of hand selected artistic works, expressing the depth and complexity of the ceramic process. “I wanted to create an eclectic collection of works,” explained exhibition curator Brian Peshek, MFA, who chose a variety of works that demonstrated several techniques. “The show […]

Free Dive-In Movie at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center 


The Rose Bowl Aquatics Center invites all members of the community to beat the heat and attend the first free Dive-In Movie Night of the summer on Saturday, June 23. Doors open at 7:45 p.m. and the movie starts at 8:15 p.m. (sunset). The yet-to-be announced PG-rated family movie will be projected onto a big […]

Questions About Today’s Real Estate?

Ask Phyllis! Can the REO seller require the buyer to get prequalified by a specific lender? Dear Phyllis, My wife and I have been seriously searching for homes for more than six months. We got our pre-approval months ago and have made unsuccessful bids for two homes. Our real estate agent showed us a foreclosed […]

Currie Shines Against Village Christian

Senior guard is helping lead CV to an impressive summer league effort – so far. By Brandon HENSLEY Imagine if this game was held last season. The talent on the court might have been too much for the gymnasium to hold. As it was Tuesday, the Falcons and Village Christian Crusaders boys’ basketball teams did […]

Mustangs Close Season

The 2012 CSA Mustang (10 & under) league championship game between Rountree Glass and Jason’s Honda took place on June 12 at Montrose Park. Jason’s came onto the field undefeated through the playoffs, hoping for the win. Rountree had lost only a single game in the playoffs, and needed to beat Jason’s to stay alive. […]

2012 List of Graduates

2012 List of Graduates

Valley View Alexis Abboud Anthony An Jacqueline Armenian Jennifer Bae James Baek Talin Bakalyan Kevin Bedrosian Kristen Cassel Joel Chang Esther Chin Yena Cho Chris Choi Mina Choi Won Suk Choi Yena Chung Eric Cleenewerck Sylvie Damargi Natalie Di Nicola Jacob Eichensehr Nathan Eichensehr Diego Enslow Robert Gallarza Isabela Gallegos Justin Galvan Susan Gasparyan Kiya […]

Treasures of the Valley » Mike lawler

Treasures of the Valley » Mike lawler

Sanitariums in CV – Dr. Briggs, Utley’s, Kimball’s and Dunsmore As I said last week, there were many sanitariums in the early history of CV, mostly for the treatment of lung diseases. The valley’s pure air quality of the late 1880s and early 1900s brought them here and the foul air quality of the later […]