The La Crescenta Tournament Team rounded out its 2011 tournament season taking second place at Big League Dreams in West Covina. The team won three out of four games (mercying two of their opponents), but came up short in the championship match against Fountain Valley. The boys who played baseball in the CSA organization this […]
The La Crescenta Mustang division went undefeated in pool play in the Toluca Firecracker Tournament to advance to the championship game on Sunday, July 10. La Crescenta went head to head with La Cañada in a hard fought game to take the championship 7-5. La Crescenta will wind up its tournament season in the VCAA […]
Luncheon offers opportunity to celebrate local businesswomen, learn about legislative developments and progress. By Mary O’KEEFE The 12th Annual Women in Business luncheon was held on Friday at The Castaway restaurant in Burbank. California State Legislators, Senator Carol Liu and Assemblymembers Mike Gatto and Anthony Portantino presented the event. The women honored were from the […]
The members of the Kiwanis Club of La Cañada learned recently that there are 45,000 toxins in the air we breathe everyday. Barbara Spiegel, M.A. guest speaker at the Wednesday luncheon meeting of the club held at Van de Kamp Hall at Descanso Gardens, revealed some frightening statistics about toxins in our environment. “You must […]
Dear Phyllis, My home has been for sale for over a month. After the Realtor’s® open house, I had a few showings but that was it. Although I am on a quiet street with a lot of desirable upgrades, my Realtor® has yet to show my home. How do you suggest I motivate her? Frustrated […]
John Callow from La Cañada received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Whitman College at the 2011 commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 22. A total of 378 degrees were conferred at the ceremony in front of an estimated crowd of 4,000 students, faculty, staff and visiting guests. This year’s commencement speaker and recipient of an […]
Chuck & Jamie Holler celebrate their 10-year wedding anniversary with Mom (Barbara Holler) while on vacation in June in Ka’anapali, Maui. Thanks for taking us along! CV Weekly loves to travel. Take us along on your next trip and send us a picture and it might be published in a future issue.
By Charly SHELTON The dinos are back. After six years, they are finally back. For a paleontologist who will specialize in Mesozoic fossils, this is heaven. The new exhibit is in a different wing of the Natural History Museum and it is an amazing exhibit. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles has one of […]
By Ted AYALA The name of composer Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942), when it’s remembered – if it’s remembered at all – is usually as a footnote in the biographies of more famous musicians: as a close friend of Brahms in the elder composer’s final years, as teacher and brother-in-law of Arnold Schoenberg, as teacher – […]
By Ted AYALA Marvin Hamlisch, renowned composer and winner of three Oscars, will be conducting a program of his own music with the Pasadena Pops Orchestra on Saturday. Included in the program will be selections from the Broadway show “A Chorus Line,” the film “The Sting” (for which Hamlisch provided witty arrangements of Scott Joplin […]