Qualifying at all contests, CV now looks ahead to league finals this weekend. By Leonard COUTIN The Pacific League prelims got underway on Arcadia’s nine lane track last weekend, which will also serve as the location of the finals competition on Friday. Field events will start at 5 p.m. and running events at 6 p.m. […]
By Alan der OHANNESSIAN It was a sad, if not unexpected, loss suffered by CV Falcons tennis when they fell to the Arcadia Apaches 15-3 on April 26 in the final game of the season. “They’re the number one team in the league,” said Coach Sarah Wiggins. The Falcons failed to win any matches in […]
Falcons Beat Burbank, Upset Burroughs to Revenge Previous Losses By Timithie NORMAN While the Crescenta Valley girls’ softball team won both Friday’s home game against Burbank and Tuesday’s match on the road against Burroughs by a margin of three runs, that’s where the similarities between the two games end. On Friday, four crucial errors on […]
By Ted Ayala It’s the epic battle that has raged on through the ages. Or at least since the advent of the automobile. Motorists versus bicyclists. A seemingly innocuous enough debate—but one that can result in frayed tempers, insults flung, and other examples of unseemly behavior from usually well behaved citizens. The matter has been […]
Chamber History and Its Impact on Communities “A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.” Rudolf Steiner The Crescenta Valley Chamber of Commerce has been serving the foothill communities since […]
By Sammi SLAYBACK Autistic animator and La Cañada resident Danielle Bowman, 17, received the Golden Goody Award last week for her efforts to raise autism awareness in her community. The Golden Goody Award represents the highest praise of all Goody Awards. Its purpose is to honor individuals who show excellence by doing “social good” every […]
La Cañada Armstrong Nursery manager Tom Purcell hosted a planting session at Lanterman Garden on April 7. The nursery donated the vegetables and fruit trees that were planted this spring by Scouts from Cub Den 519. The boys planted tomatoes, carrots and lettuce.
The Crescenta Valley High School Jazz Band’s “Spring Fling” brought back the music, and dance, of the 1940s. Saturday night’s event inside the school’s cafeteria had both kids and parents dancing to World War II era dancing styles including the Lindy Hop and the Eastern Swing. The tunes of Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey – […]
Students at Crescenta-Cañada Cooperative Nursery School (CCNS) uncovered “dinosaur bones” hidden in the sand on their playground and created a volcano. For over a decade, director Nita Imm has taught her Busy Bears students a lesson about paleontology, teaching how the dinosaurs may have become extinct. After classroom time, Imm took the lesson outside and, […]
Her Reason for Being There Thanks to the CV Weekly for reporting on the Montrose Peace Vigil [“Search for Peace at Ocean View and Honolulu,” April 12]. It’s helpful for the people who drive by to know more about the background of the weekly demonstrations. As a person who has stood for peace on the […]