The Y is Going Green for Summer Camp

  In an effort to reduce paper waste, the Y’s camp brochure can now be downloaded online. For the past several years, the Y has printed its camp brochure on nearly 60,000 sheets of paper per year. Not this year. In an effort to reduce paper waste, the Crescenta-Cañada and Verdugo Hills Family YMCAs have […]

La Crescenta Seniors Take Field Trip to Philippe’s

From L to R, John Beckman,Roger Young, Joe Lazara, Sam Campagna, Jim Ransford, Tony Smith and Ted Donaldson. On any given Wednesday morning you might find this group having breakfast at Hill Street Café in La Cañada, but on this day they jumped on the Metro Gold Line in Pasadena, took it to Union Station […]

Dunsmore PTA Hosts Second Annual Chili Cook-Off

By Misty DUPLESSIS On Friday, Feb. 17 Dunsmore Elementary PTA encouraged students to explore their culinary side for the second annual chili cook-off in celebration of Founder’s Day. The family event was open to all students and family and friends of the school looking to fill their crock-pots with a variety of chili. Many students […]

Crescenta-Cañada Lions Club Awards Local Students

By Misty DUPLESSIS The Crescenta-Cañada Lions Club hosted a speech contest on Feb. 15 when three students from local high schools competed for a chance to win scholarship money. Although the event was open to students from all high schools in the area, all three submissions received were from La Cañada High. The speakers included […]

Valley View Celebrates Korean Lunar New Year

By Misty DUPLESSIS The Valley View Korean Parents’ Association hosted an entertaining assembly on Friday, Feb. 3 that helped students understand and celebrate Korean Lunar New Year. Students were introduced to important facts of the holiday and able to see demonstrations of activities and games that are typically enjoyed during the three-day festivity. Many students […]

Tasting Bee Coming Up The Girl Scouts of Crescenta Valley and Glendale are hosting their 28th Annual International Tasting Bee in celebration of World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts Thinking Day 2012. Girl Scouts of all ages are busy learning about the culture, customs, and food of faraway lands, and the girls will […]

From 20 to One – Top District Spellers Compete at Bee

By Jason KUROSU The top spellers from each elementary school in the Glendale Unified School District assembled Monday night, Feb. 6, for the 36th annual Elementary School District-wide Spelling Bee Finals. Twenty students, one for every elementary school in the district, displayed why they were chosen amongst all of their peers in front of a […]

Local Youth Participate in Orienteering Meet

On Saturday, Feb. 11, several youth from Boy Scouts of America Troop 288 and Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles Troop 7161 participated in the Youth Orienteering Meet sponsored by the Los Angeles Orienteering Club. This year’s meet, scheduled annually on the second Tuesday in February, was held at Schabarum Regional Park in Rowland Heights. […]

Clark Magnet Robotics Team Prepares for FIRST

Like other high schools in the area – namely, Crescenta Valley, St. Francis and La Cañada – the robotics team at Clark Magnet High School – Team 696 – is working hard to design and engineer a robot to compete for the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Regional Competition in […]