My New Summer Fling Okay, so who knew there was an exciting, fun, challenging and stupidly inexpensive sport with tens-of-thousands of devotees being played every day of the week around the world, across the country and even at two venues right here in the Crescenta Valley? For my birthday last month, my youngest son took […]
Sanitariums in CV – Hillcrest Sanitarium Part 3 Continuing with my series on Hillcrest Sanitarium, once located at the top of Lowell Avenue, we conclude with its post WWII career. It had a pre-war run as a high-end sanitarium for lung disease and various other chronic ailments, and its wartime function was basically as a […]
Clarity Offered for Chase Perhaps I can clear up a couple of the things Jim Chase is wondering about [“What A Wonder-full Summer,” My Thoughts Exactly, July 5]. There are several reasons military recruiters don’t belong on high school campuses. Recent studies show the brain isn’t fully developed until well into one’s 20s. Impulse control […]
Fireworks, Ballots and a New Face at CV Weekly The rockets’ red glare and the boom of the bombs bursting in air – also known as the CV fireworks show – are just a fond memory but boy were they fun! If you made your way to La Crescenta Elementary School on July 4th, you […]
“How languid ’neath the sun’s fierce ray… On this hot, sultry, summer day.” – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, 19th Century Canadian poet CV Fireworks Association outdid themselves this year. Perhaps my imagination … did I see more colors and 3D styles added? The evening cooled down, but La Crescenta Starbucks graciously provided free hot coffee. Our […]
Historical Society Offers Birds Eye View For those who have wondered what their house looked like 50, 70, or even 90 years ago, at its next meeting the Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley will present a series of highly detailed aerial photos of the Crescenta Valley ranging from 1922 to 1969. These images are […]
Annual collection event is being held Saturday at La Crescenta Ralphs parking lot. By Lillian BOODAGHIANS On Saturday, July 14, the Crescenta-Cañada Lions Club will hold its third annual Kases for Kids event, an effort to collect suitcases and backpacks filled with toiletries and school supplies for children in the transitional stages of foster care. […]
By Brandon HENSLEY He said he enjoys relaxing at Coffee Bean once in a while, and you don’t want to believe him, because when was the last time you saw Mike Baldwin take a break? But here he was on a July afternoon in the Montrose Shopping Park with his wife Carolyn, leaning back in […]
By Timithie NORMAN A five-year campaign to raise money to update the war memorial at Two Strike Park in La Crescenta is gaining momentum, with the fund at 50% of its $70,000 goal and the hope to begin construction by the close of 2012. The campaign originated in 2005 with local American Legion Post 288 […]
Around 2 a.m. on Monday morning, Meatball returned to the MacDonald home in Upper Briggs Terrace. After enjoying a hearty meal, he apparently took out the trash. Meatball was banished on April 11 far into Angeles National Forest, but apparently not quite far enough. He was seen by Kelly MacDonald on June 21 as he […]