Seniors Surrey, Murray and Mulcahey get big recognition for successful season. By Brandon HENSLEY The postseason awards piled up for members of the CV baseball team this week. Pitcher and first baseman Elliot Surrey was named to the All-CIF Division II First Team for the 2012 season, and teammate Troy Mulcahey was named to the […]
In the 2012 MLB first year player draft, which began on Monday, six members of the Glendale Angelenos were selected. These six make a total of 15 Angelenos drafted in the two seasons the ball club has been established. The drafted players were Alonzo Gonzalez, Chad Nacapoy, Steven Gallardo, Matthew Young, Randall Fant and Alex […]
By Misty DUPLSSIS On Friday, June 1 the fourth grade students of Valley View Elementary wrapped up this year’s social studies lesson on California’s history by participating in a daylong reenactment of what life was like for early California miners. The fourth graders began the year learning about Native Americans, the state’s early settlers, California […]
The CCY Dynamite Gymnastics Team recently brought home its first state championship banner in the history of the Crescenta-Cañada Family YMCA. The California State Gymnastics Competition was held on May 19 and May 20 and featured teams from Los Angeles, the Inland Empire and Orange County. The Y’s team is composed of 17 girls between […]
La Crescenta Girl Scout Elizabeth Hakes ended her senior Scouting career with a Gold Award project that started in Los Angeles and ended in Nairobi, Kenya. Elizabeth’s project assisted many young African women in understanding their menstrual cycle by bringing and teaching them how to use cloth feminine sanitary kits, thereby enabling these young women […]
Glad I’m Dad At our house, Father’s Day has always been one of those holidays that sneak up on us. That’s because, somewhat like that kid we all knew in school whose birthday happened around Christmas every year, both my and my youngest son’s birthdays are always right smack dab on or near Father’s […]
Sanitariums in La Crescenta In my writings I’ve often referred to sanitariums as being one of the main industries of our early community. Today we generally think of sanitariums as being lockup facilities for the insane, but that was not the case in the early days of sanitariums. They were facilities to care for any […]
Sad Adieu to Dominick’s Yes, Dominick’s is a great loss to our area [“From Sad to Mad in Two Blocks,” My Thoughts Exactly, May 17]. We have lost many good restaurants over the past 10 years. I now have to go to Casa Bianca in Eagle Rock to get good pasta and pizza at a […]
In this series we will look at the chemical affects of drug use, both long and short term, the legal issues of drug use, the approach by law enforcement, state and federal officials, the price paid by some who have made it through addiction and those who are still struggling, what parents can do and […]
Time of Transitions Today is graduation for our local high school seniors. For many of the kids, it is a day of mixed emotions. On the one hand, graduation represents the completion of years of study, and just one step toward achieving a degree in higher education. On the other hand, graduation will bring the […]