Red-hot Falcons cooled by Buena

By Brian PARK After convincingly winning the first three games of the Annual Babe Herman Tournament, the Crescenta Valley Falcons (11-4 overall, 3-0 in league play) looked unfocused in the 6-3 loss to Buena High School (7-9 overall). The game on Tuesday, April 14, was a make-up game for the rained out game on April […]

Tired of the whining? Help found at parenting seminar beginning Sunday

The nationally recognized seminar based on the best selling book, “Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining, and Bad Attitudes…in You and Your Kids,” is coming to Crescenta Valley. Authors Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN, outline strategies and concepts to help build family relationships based on honor. Hosted by Crescenta Valley Community Church, the […]

Authors to visit Once Upon A Time bookstore

By Mary O’KEEFE Three authors will be visiting  Once Upon A Time bookstore in the upcoming days. One rides herd on the range,  one solves mysteries along Parisian streets and another survives the trials and tribulations of growing up. On April 23, beginning at 2 p.m. mystery novelist Cara Black will be at a book […]

Goings on around the town

I know I mentioned this in last week’s column, but thank you again to Masis’s Bakery, Fratelli’s Pizza, and Classy Cuts at 2064 Verdugo Blvd. for the wonderful mixer they hosted for us last week. Great food and the promise of a great haircut for yours truly later this week. I hope Classy Cuts can […]

Fair fare is beyond compare

Only two more days until “fun”! Please come out and have some fun at our 5th annual Hometown Country Fair this Saturday, April 17. There are 101 ways to have fun this Saturday: Watch a doggie parade, slide down the giant slide, eat delicious Korean barbecue, enter the pie eating contest, climb the rock wall, […]

Help needed for kit assembly

In response to the urgent need for hygiene kits in areas hit by recent earthquakes, the humanitarian services of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located at 1130 E. Wilson Ave in Glendale will be meeting this Saturday, April 17 from 8 a.m.to 11:30 a.m. to assemble additional kits. Once assembled, the kits […]

CALENDAR this

EXTENDED SPRING HOURS FOR DESCANSO’S BODDY HOUSE The historic Boddy House will be opened more days this spring for guests to enjoy the architecture, views and beauty of this 1939 Regency-styled home. Spring hours for the Boddy House will be 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays. Free docent tours take place only on […]

Recipe – Not Just Your Regular Egg Salad

Now that Easter has come and gone, what can we do, just what can we do, with all those hard boiled eggs? I say let’s make a lot of delicious egg salad! Anna Loutsos Ingredients: 2½ dozen hard boiled eggs, cleaned, roughly chopped and chilled 2 shallots finely chopped 6 celery stalks finely chopped 1½ […]

Taken out on a Date Night

By Charly SHELTON Fall in love, get married, have kids, become a boring couple from New Jersey, pose as mobsters, run from real mobsters, save the day, fall in love all over again. This is the course for Phil (Steve Carrell) and Claire Foster (Tina Fey) when they try to shake things up and break […]