By Brandon HENSLEY When you play for the CV Crush Little League team, big things can happen. Things much bigger than, say, winning games with teamwork and commitment. Because when you play for the CV Crush, Dee Gordon will sign your face. At least, that’s what happened to one Crush player recently at Dodger Stadium […]
Juniors Played for District Championship On Tuesday, Crescenta Valley Little League boasted two wins for District 16. The 10-Year-Old All-Star Team move on to Sectionals on Saturday at 9 a.m. in Northridge and the 12-Year Old All-Star Team will move on to Sectionals on Saturday at 6 p.m. in Quartz Hills. The Juniors played […]
Girl Scout Gold Award focuses on the community youth center. By Brandon HENSLEY Perhaps it’s not worthy of being featured on “Extreme Makeover,” but the Fire House youth center in the 2500 block of Foothill Boulevard is looking much improved thanks to the efforts led by a local Girl Scout. Mithra Bhadha recently completed her […]
The Kiwanis Club of La Cañada recently took time from its regular weekly noon meeting to honor eight young students from Palm Crest and La Cañada elementary schools. The event was held at Van de Kamp Hall in Descanso Gardens. Kiwanis member Tom Slaughter regularly works with elementary school teachers in selecting young people who […]
A teen screenwriting class with author/screenwriter Kathy McCullough for kids 12 years and up teaches the fundamentals of creating a screenplay. Class meets daily July 16 to July 19 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Fee is $100. Class is limited to 12 students. Sign up at the bookstore. Creative writing is for kids 10 […]
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 […]