We’re barely into summer and friends of mine with school-aged children are already hearing those dreaded words: I’m bored. These are the same children who, not a week ago, were doing the happy dance that school was out! Summer’s here! I can sleep in! Now it’s, “There’s nothing to do,” and “Can you take me […]
By Michael YEGHIAYAN Billy’s Boardshop Boarding for a Cure held its second annual event on Saturday, June 19. Held at the La Cañada Skate Park, the event was designed to increase cancer awareness among the community youth while raising money for cancer research. By combining skateboarding with cancer education, skateboarders of all ages were given […]
Group loans motorcycles The Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Support Group has agreed to lend two Suzuki Sport motorcycles and a transport trailer to the sheriff’s department for use for enforcement, search and rescue support. The agreement will be in effect for six years. The county will send a letter of thanks to the group and president […]
Board wants upgraded church design Glendale’s Design Review Board #1 wants the Christian Life Church of Montrose to upgrade its design for a new building at Montrose and Ramsdell. The new church will replace one destroyed by fire in 2006. The city ordered the 1920’s structure demolished because of the extent of the damage. Architect […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station recently opened its doors to community members allowing them to get an up close and personal look at the station and the men and women who serve there. There were several booths in the back parking lot of the station including one for CERT (Community Emergency Response […]
By Erna TAYLOR-STARK “For how quickly we got it together, it was a great success in my opinion,” said CHP Officer Ming-Yang hsu. He was referring to Summer Soiree and Casino Night, a fundraiser held for the CHP Widows and Orphans Fund, which benefit families of officers who lost their lives while on duty. The […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Residents have reported seeing a bear in the upper Briggs Terrace area on Monday night and early Tuesday morning. Roger Young president of the Crescenta Valley Fire Safe Council sent a notice via email to all residents of the sighting. According to Young a resident in the 5800 block of Irving Avenue […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man suspected of sexually assaulting a young woman while she was walking on Briggs Avenue. As reported last week in Crescenta Valley Weekly, a 21-year-old woman was walking southbound on Briggs Avenue near Altura Avenue about 6 p.m. on […]
June 20 4600 block of Lone Pine Lane in La Cañada Flintridge, a global positioning system and other items were stolen from two unlocked vehicles parked in the home’s driveway overnight. June 19 4700 block of Palm Drive in La Cañada, a global positioning system and other items were stolen from a locked vehicle overnight. […]
By Brandon HENSLEY The sign in front of the entrance on Markridge Road read, “Park Closed.” Except on this day, taped over the second word, there was a highlighter-green paper that read “Open.” And with that, the patchwork sign led up the long windy road to a place that’s also being put back together, slowly […]