Debris basins tour coming up On Saturday, Sept. 18 at 9:00 a.m. Los Angeles County Public Works will be offering the community a tour of the Pickens Debris Basin, which is being enlarged and improved, the Dunsmore Debris Basin, which performed admirably in last winter’s floods, and the sediment placement site at Deukmejian Park, a […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Earl Cox knows the mindset, because he’s been there. He knows what it’s like to drive a classic American muscle car, or the big SUVs, with engines that rev-up with such ferocity as if it’s warning others that the true king-of-the-road has arrived. But these days, Cox isn’t buying it; either the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Wednesday, Sept. 15, the Glendale Police Department and the Crescenta Valley Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition will be hosting a town hall meeting. The meeting will educate parents on drugs and other issues that their children could be facing and provide resource information. To better serve their communities, the Glendale police […]
By Charly SHELTON Yesterday, two asteroids passed within Lunar distance of Earth. Lunar distance, being the distance from the Earth to the Moon, is roughly 238,854 miles. The two asteroids that passed by Earth were even closer than that. Near-Earth asteroid 2010 RX30 is estimated to be 32 to 65 feet (10 to 20 meters) […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Although not exactly an ocean-side town, many Crescenta Valley residents go “sale-ing” on the weekends. That is yard sale-ing to be exact and this Saturday is the king of all yard sales: The Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station Volunteers Rummage Sale. Over the past 11 years the rummage sale has become well known […]
“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put this plan into action” — Napolean Hill Have you made plans to attend or made your booth reservation for the biggest networking event in the Crescenta Valley? On Wednesday, Sept. 8 from 5:00 p.m. to […]
Next week is Labor Day weekend. Time to kick my feet up, sit in the backyard, sip a crisp lager, and let my 200 pound Rotweiler “Pinky” run riot in my neighborhood. Ah, relaxation – how I long for your languid embrace! But as much as I would like to sit idly by and let […]
Throughout the year I keep a journal. In the back of that journal I like to record highlights of the year as they happen. It’s fun to look back and get a quick glimpse of what that year was like. As I look back to this time last year I remember the very first time […]
If the kids can go back to school, we can go back to church. A special day to meet new people, like Andrew spending a day with Jesus, then bringing his brother to meet the Lord. Philip met Jesus by the roadside, then found his friend Nathaniel, and brought him to meet Jesus. Like Andrew […]
La Crescenta Presbyterian Church announced its new director of Student Ministries Cameron Hackett. Hackett, a native of Portland, Ore., has been working for Intervarsity serving as a campus pastor at Claremont McKenna College for the past four years. Prior to his work at Claremont he served as a campus pastor at Occidental College also for […]