Joshua Lee, Freddie Ireland, Tate Harper, Jordan Gutierrez, Ryan Kinzel, Charles Ward, Griffith Burzynski and Quin Dodson of La Crescenta have earned Scout BSA’s highest advancement award, the Eagle Scout Award. All eight Scouts were recognized in a joint court of honor ceremony on June 5 at Verdugo Memorial Hall, provided by Troop 288’s chartered […]
La Crescenta Presbyterian Church invites families to register for “Jerusalem Marketplace,” a Vacation Bible School for children that will be held Monday through Friday, July 11-15, from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. All children from age 4 to incoming sixth-graders are welcome to come experience what it was like to live at the time of […]
The CIF Southern Section made its selections for the top coaches and players for 2021-22 lacrosse season. Four Crescenta Valley High School seniors earned spots among the top 10 in the Division 3 boys. Mason Daly, Hayden Lunt, Easton Caneva and Henry Kaufman placed fourth, fifth, six and seventh. Chosen as player of year was […]
In an afternoon scholarship presentation reception, the Crescenta Valley Lions Club awarded scholarships to four outstanding, community service-minded high school seniors – three from Crescenta Valley High School and one from Clark Magnet High School. 2022 marks the 27th year the local Lions Club has been awarding scholarships to deserving Crescenta Valley area high school […]
National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced over 2,600 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by U.S. colleges and universities. Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the finalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program who plan to attend their institution. These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up […]
Scholarship sponsor Jeanette Stirdivant, right, and her scholarship recipient Alexis Salazar were recognized at the Glendale Community College Donors & Awards Banquet held June 3 on the campus plaza. Salazar will transfer to Cal State Northridge and major in urban planning. More than 1,700 GCC students applied for scholarships during the 2021-22 academic year.
One hundred and fifty-eight young men from the Class of 2022 graduated on Saturday morning, May 28, on the campus of St. Francis High School in La Cañada Flintridge. Fr. Joseph Seraphin Dederick, OFM Cap., the Provincial of the Western American Province of the Capuchin Franciscan Order, represented his Excellency Bishop José Gómez, Archbishop of […]
After a two-year hiatus, the Kiwanis Club of La Cañada recently held its iconic “TERRIFIC Kids” ceremony recognizing at the LCUSD amphitheater 24 sixth-grade students. A sense of joy was audible as families and friends cheered the youth who had been selected by their classrooms for displaying such qualities as kindness, a positive attitude and […]
By Lori BODNAR Crescenta Valley High School (CVHS) Academy of Science and Medicine students performed well in Ontario, California at the SkillsUSA California Leadership and Skill Conference state championships. Thirty-one Academy students and four advisors attended. The advisors included Orenda Tuason, Susan Smith, Jacob Shaw and Lisa Pang. SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers […]
Miye Sugino, who attends La Cañada High School, has been designated a U.S. Presidential Scholar in Arts. As directed by Presidential Executive Order, the 2022 U.S. Presidential Scholars are comprised of one young man and one young woman from each state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and U.S. families living abroad, as well […]