Walk this Way at 2253 Honolulu Ave. in Montrose had a ribbon cutting on Friday sponsored by the Montrose Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce and supported by the Montrose Shopping Park Association. The ribbon cutting welcomed Walk this Way’s new owner Edna Baghoumian. Edna, a longtime customer of Walk This Way, was excited to take […]
By David JONES Home ownership has long been called “The American Dream” for various reasons, including the freedom to make home improvements. Now home ownership is more powerful than ever, literally and economically. Check out what happens when you combine home improvement with today’s renewable energy technologies: You Can Own a Power Plant! Everything in […]
Call me “star struck” but it’s always thrilling when the movie trailers pull into town. Out of all the places in the world, major motion picture studio Fox Searchlight chose Faye’s in our quaint little town of Montrose to film some scenes for an upcoming blockbuster movie. The news has been all over town but […]
How to See the Best Meteor Showers of the Year: Tools, Tips and ‘Save the Dates’ Whether you’re watching from a downtown area or the dark countryside, here are some tips to help you enjoy these celestial shows of shooting stars. Those streaks of light are really caused by tiny specks of comet-stuff hitting […]
The Crescenta Valley High School mountain bike club came in a strong sixth out of 24 teams on the grueling course at Vail Lake on April 15, beating out St. Francis High School, a San Gabriel Valley composite team and teams from San Marino, Eastlake, Bakersfield and elsewhere. In the individual events, Lucas Rowton placed […]
May-Lane Motel Memories There are many buildings along Foothill Boulevard that echo the past, and the La Crescenta Motel on the corner of Foothill and Briggs is one of the best. Built in the late ’40s as the May-Lane Motel, it was one of several small motels strung along Foothill, then State Highway 118, the […]
Still Being Blown Away It’s been two months since Hovasnnes Dongelyan wrote about the noise, air pollution and disruption of neighborhood serenity caused by irresponsible use of leaf blowers and over a month since I presented the Glendale Homeowners Coordinating Council resolution to the Glendale City Council asking them to agendize regulation of the devices. […]
Round, Brown & 400 Pounds If you were out of town with no access to television or the Internet, you could be forgiven for not knowing that the Crescenta Valley had a 400-pound, fur-covered, dumpster-diving visitor of the bear persuasion in the early morning hours the Tuesday after Easter. During the morning in question, multiple […]
Celebrating a Life Less Known This past Friday, the 13th – just past midnight – my mother-in-law’s husband passed away. Frank was 88 years old and married to my mother-in-law for 10 years. Obviously, he wasn’t my husband’s father. John Goldsworthy died in 1989 at the too young age of 56. After mourning for many […]
“One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin.” ~ William Shakespeare Last Friday afternoon, driving home from Pasadena during the monsoonal thunderstorm, Shakespeare’s “One Touch of Nature” almost got the best of me. After reading the CV Weekly for the past two years, you have probably figured, besides summer evenings and Santa […]