By Mary O’KEEFE Tomorrow, Friday, Dec. 11 a toy and food drive will be held by Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music and Prom Plus Club, along with the Fire House youth center. Toys collected will benefit the Glendale Police Dept. and Glendale Police Officers Association and the food will benefit the Bailey Center in Tujunga. Each […]
Food Drive Benefits District Mountain Avenue Elementary Student Council is hosting a food drive for the GUSD food bank. The food bank supports families within the GUSD schools who are struggling during these hard times. There is an easy, contactless and socially distanced drop off box for donated items in the drive-through lane in front […]
How History Can Repeat Itself This is a true story. It was during the winter when city residents started to sicken and die. At first, the illness was confined to a few people in one neighborhood, but over the next few weeks spread to more people in more places. The municipal authorities, responsible for the […]
With All Best Wishes for the Holidays and New Year! Dear Crescenta Valley Friends, Let me start this month’s column by congratulating all seven candidates who ran in the Nov. 13-14 Crescenta Valley Town Council election. We had a tremendous turnout with 468 votes counted spread over 287 voters … so many in fact that […]
Bizarre Suicide Attempt Elicited A Harsh Sentence I came across an account of a strange incident that took place in our valley in 1965. The results of the event illustrate how much has changed since then. Malcolm, a young man who was deeply disturbed, was living in an apartment on Florencita Avenue in Montrose. In […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Most may not like it, but wearing a face covering – in addition to other key precautions – can prevent the spread of COVID-19. Americans were warned by several medical experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, that this winter would be “dark.” COVID-19 […]
By Julie BUTCHER Early in this week’s meeting of the Glendale City Council, Councilmember Dan Brotman pulled a routine item from the consent calendar to offer further comment on plans to upgrade the Montrose Community Park parking lot. “Replacing asphalt in the parking lot is problematic for a number of reasons; there’s potential for releasing […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The City of Hope is now in phase 1 clinical trials with a SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19] vaccine. “We started in February of this year, like many of the other [companies],” said Don Diamond, Ph.D., who is a professor with City of Hope’s Dept. of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. Diamond added the hospital’s […]
Holidays Come With More Lockdowns According to recent intensive care unit data, Southern California ICU bed availability is less than 15%, thereby triggering the additional Regional Stay-at-Home Order. Among those sectors shut down are bars, breweries, distilleries, and wineries (except for production, manufacturing and retail), hair salons and barbershops, and personal care services. The LA […]
“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never seen them dancing on a windy day.” ~ Shira Tamir Earlier in the week winds came howling out of the local mountain canyons. Temperatures jumped 20 degrees warmer within a day. We sat in our neighbor’s front yard (masked and six feet apart). While colorful leaves […]