Boys’ soccer undefeated season means high ranking in playoff brackets. By Timithie NORMAN Though Pacific League play ended last Thursday, the players on the Crescenta Valley boys’ soccer team hope they are just getting started. With a 16-0-6 overall and 12-0-2 league record and third consecutive league championship, the Falcons have enjoyed a successful season […]
Youth for Human Rights International and Tim Bowles, its director for International Development, are the latest recipients of the City of Pasadena’s prestigious Models of Unity award. Conferred by Mayor Bill Bogaard and Nat Nehdar, chair for the Commission on Human Relations, at the City Council’s Jan. 30 meeting, the award recognizes Youth for Human […]
Verdugo Hills Hospital (VHH) announced the appointment of Robert E. Develle as chair of the VHH board of directors for a one-year term. A resident of Pasadena, Develle has served on the VHH board since 2005 and has also served as chair of the VHH Strategic Planning Committee. “VHH is a valuable asset to the […]
St. Francis High School announced the selection of Dr. Thomas P. Davis ’69 as the 2012 Distinguished Alumnus during the Second Quarter Academic Awards Night on Jan. 31. The St. Francis community welcomed Davis “back home again,” presenting him with the annual Distinguished Alumnus Award. Davis was selected for this honor because of his exemplary […]
Denis and Margie Brumm of Glendale have announced the engagement of their daughter Elise Marie to Brian Alan Marrero, the son of Victor and Cathy Marrero of La Crescenta. The couple will be married in May. Elise and Brian are both 2005 graduates of Crescenta Valley High School. Elise is a 2010 graduate of California […]
Questions About Today’s Real Estate? Ask Phyllis! Selling a cosmetic fixer Last year my mother passed away. I have four siblings and am the executor of her estate. Two of my siblings have financial difficulties and want to sell the home immediately, but I and two others feel that we should fix it up a […]
Loyola Marymount University has announced the students named to the dean’s list for the fall 2011 semester. Among them are several local students: From Tujunga are Shirley Drange, Elwina Grigoryan, Sanan Mehserdjian and Nareh Nazaryan. From La Crescenta are Karina Alvarez, Zily Burstein and Michelle Lara. From La Cañada are Ian Balisy, Kristine Cato, Hunter […]
By Charly SHELTON I dressed like Han Solo at Comic Con this year. I made my girlfriend dress as Slave Leia. I operate a website based around a Stormtrooper toy. I have beaten “Star Wars Battlefront” campaign time and again. Even now, as I sit in my office at the Crescenta Valley Weekly, I am […]
By Ted AYALA There they were, standing on opposite ends of last Sunday’s Santa Cecilia Orchestra (SCO) program: Antonin Dvorak and George Gershwin. The former represented by his moody “Symphony No. 7;” the latter by his jazzy and brash “Piano Concerto in F.” Though each work couldn’t be more different from the other, it was […]
Beethoven will be in La Crescenta Feb. 24! The Crescenta Valley Arts Council is paying homage to the master Ludwig van Beethoven and his extraordinary compositions with Beethoven Bash 2012. In our fifth annual music Bash, professional musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Opera orchestra will perform with outstanding student musicians from […]