By Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Toy and Food Drive, sponsored and organized by the station’s volunteers, is off and running – literally – with help from the La Cañada Flintridge Thanksgiving Day Run and Food Drive. “La Cañada [Run officials] contacted all the elementary schools and they all participated in food [donations],” said […]
A fatal vehicle accident occurred on Monday about 6:45 a.m. on La Tuna Canyon, south of the Foothill (210) Freeway in Tujunga. A white Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck traveling eastbound on La Tuna Canyon apparently lost traction on the wet pavement and slid sideways into the westbound lanes. A red Scion was travelling westbound and […]
A Bushel of Thanks I’ve written on this page before about a cherished tradition my family once had of putting up a Thanksgiving tree on our living room wall in mid-November each year. My wife is uniquely gifted when it comes to creative handicrafts (and cooking, too, but I don’t have room for that topic […]
Logging in the Crescenta Valley? Last week I described the dense forests of 100-foot tall Big Cone Douglas Fir trees that once covered the canyons of the San Gabriel Mountains above our valley and current efforts to replant. But now I’d like to talk about the logging operations that removed those forests in the first […]
Fear of Speaking Up in La Cañada Flintridge Every community has a culture that governs what people feel comfortable talking about publicly. La Cañada Flintridge is so much different from the open culture of the town where I served as a member of the board of education back in a New York suburb. That school […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Third graders from Mountain Avenue Elementary received an academic treat last week when members of the Glendale Elks Lodge 1289 gave each of them a new student dictionary. The Glendale Elks Lodge joined The Dictionary Project five years ago, said Joe Allen, Glendale Elks member. Allen along with fellow Elks member Marc […]
By Aimee YEGHIAYAN On Saturday, the CV High School Robotics classes participated in the 14th annual JPL Invention Challenge. Each year the challenge changes. This year, the objective is to create a device that kicks a regulation football over a two-meter wall into a trashcan five meters away within three attempts. Sinking the football in […]
Three ROTC branches at the University of Colorado where La Cañada Flintridge resident Nick Koeppen is a leader in the U.S. Air Force ROTC marked Veterans Day by taking part in a 24-hour vigil run honoring service men and women who went missing in action and those who were prisoners of war. The run was […]
The Village Christian Elementary students in Sun Valley experienced a Harvest Festival in the school’s new teaching garden, hosted by the PTF (Parent Teacher Fellowship). They ate harvest snacks of pumpkin and corn, wrote on a decorative leaf what they were thankful for, made bracelets to remind them of the first Thanksgiving and built a […]
Matadores’ Dallis Shipp has three touchdown catches as La Mirada overcomes early deficit to eliminate Falcons. By Maddy PUMILIA It all came down to one touchdown and one onside kick. Down by five points after a failed two-point conversion with a minute and a half in the fourth quarter, the Crescenta Valley Falcons needed to […]