By Mary O’KEEFE Meatball will not be moving to a wild life Colorado sanctuary as planned, said Andrew Hughan, spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Game. Meatball, the bear who received his name for his fondness for meatballs, had been a fixture in Crescenta Valley for several months. Though he had been […]
By Mary O’KEEFE UPDATE MONDAY 10 a.m.: Over 500 personnel including six heavy air tankers, eight water dropping helicopters, 30 fire engines, two bulldozers and over 25 ground crews are fighting the Williams Fire in the San Gabriel Canyon area of the Angeles National Forest. As of 7:30 a.m. the fire has burned 4000 acres. […]
Create A Memory at Color Me Mine It always fascinates me to meet the people who own a Montrose business and find out their story, namely how and why they do what they do. It’s always a discovery and I hope by sharing it in this column that you are inspired to check out a […]
How to Deliver Value to your Customers “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” ~ Peter Drucker As I discussed last week, one of the most important parts of marketing is “delivering value,” which includes the ability to pinpoint the […]
By Ashley FILIPEK On a warm Saturday morning in a little shop in Montrose called Needle in a Haystack, first-time author Sylvia Scott held a signing for her new book, “Wrapped in Love: Soft and Snuggly Prayer Shawls for Children.” “Wrapped in Love” contains 16 prayer shawl patterns that Scott designed so others could create […]
Tuesday Table Talk On Tuesday, Sept. 4, Bethel Church offers a screening of the film, “Places in the Heart” preceded by a potluck supper. The potluck starts at 6:30 p.m.; the video starts at 7:15 p.m. followed by dessert and discussion at about 9:15 p.m. In this film, a young widow living in Depression-era […]
FREE HEALTH TELESEMINAR OFFERED The Movement for Health Advancement is offering a free teleseminar today, Aug. 30 at 6 p.m. “How to start your day out to win in life” is about how to start your morning right so that you have more energy, focus and stamina for your entire day. To register for the […]
By Charly SHELTON During the first month that CV Weekly was in business back in 2009, I went to the fair. I had never been before and I gorged myself on fried food. I paid out of pocket for my deep fried Twinkie, my Krispy Kreme chicken sandwich and whatnot. But then something happened. Something […]
By Ted AYALA It was a fitting close to a year that has been one of the California Philharmonic’s most eventful – even controversial: the ecstatic, all-consuming affirmation of life that is the finale to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the “Ode to Joy.” The past year saw the orchestra abruptly leaving its former home at […]
By Ted AYALA Southwest Chamber Music’s retrospective of the music of France came to an end on Sunday at the Huntington Library in Pasadena with a program that highlighted charm and the sense of frivole in French music. There was plenty of the latter in Darius Milhaud’s “Le boeuf sur le toit,” a breezy love […]