By Samantha SLAYBACK Citizens of Pasadena and surrounding areas, including La Crescenta, take pride in one of the world’s annual traditions: the Tournament of Roses Parade. Situated close to famous Colorado Boulevard, members of the foothills community can often be found each year decorating floats or perched along the boulevard to cheer parade participants. This […]
The Crescenta Valley Youth Town Council (CVYTC) continues to run like a well-oiled machine. Its seven members remain dedicated to their roles, despite the distractions of college applications, AP classes, and busy high school lives. The team is quickly filling up its schedule with a myriad of fun activities for the community. In recent news, […]
By Samantha SLAYBACK Last year, Monte Vista Elementary School implemented a book club for students. Since its beginning, the book club has taken off. Currently, students of the book club are reading the Brixton Brothers series, a children’s mystery series by bestselling author Mac Barnett. Barnett, 32, currently resides in Oakland, California. Along with his […]
By Joyce LEE GirlTech, a new but growing club at Crescenta Valley High School, is garnering attention for its inspiring theme. Kortney Casanova and Anushka Sagar founded the club with the purpose of exposing young women to the career possibilities that coding has to offer. By equipping them with basic skills and knowledge on how […]
Annie Blood, a sophomore at Crescenta Valley High School, recently completed her Girl Scout Gold Award of organizing 2,000 pieces of music in the CVHS music library. Her initial task was moving 2,000 folders of music to the choir room. From there, 50 music and community members spent over 500 hours alphabetizing and sorting […]
By Isiah REYES For the third consecutive year, students from Mountain Avenue Elementary attended a docent-led field trip at the Rosemont Preserve to learn more about plate tectonics, faulting, soil erosion and the shaping of Earth’s surface and its various types of rocks. This year’s group consisted of 40 sixth graders who visited the Rosemont […]
Crescenta Valley High School held its homecoming this past weekend. On Friday, the homecoming football game against Hoover was a victory for the Falcons. It was there that this year’s homecoming court was introduced: Grady Schilling, Tyler Hill, Jake Eggena, Thulani Kachingwe, Brett Klein, Brian Gadsby, Roxy Raad, Hannah Weingarten, Savannah Baum, Vanessa Young, […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Oct. 8, Glendale Unified School District students joined children across the world for International Walk to School Day. All the GUSD schools and several private schools joined in the walk. It is estimated that throughout the United States over 5,000 schools participated in the healthy event. The International Walk and Bike […]
Students in Kathy Markarian’s German classes at Crescenta Valley High School had the opportunity to exchange language skills and celebrate cultural differences as part of an exchange program between students of German at CVHS and their counterparts studying English at Gymnassium Phillippinum in Marburg, Germany. The 12 students traveling from Marburg were welcomed by their […]
On Sunday, Sept. 21, family and friends participated in Chamlian Armenian School’s Family Fun Day Carnival, organized by the school’s Parent Support Committee. Students, parents and extended family members enjoyed a festive day filled with carnival-style rides, booth games, food, music, special musical performances by Heibert Sarian and Laura Melody, and a dance performance by […]