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 […]
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 […]