Good Fences Make … For Exhaustion When we moved into our house, the property came with an aging wooden fence along one side of the backyard. It was dry, splintered and cracked, with missing pieces here and there, knotholes had become portholes, and the entire fence was in general need of serious renovation or […]
Black Work Crews Rejected by CV In the pre-WWII years, racially exclusive Crescenta Valley soundly rejected the establishment of an all-black CCC camp locally not once but twice, in 1935 and again in 1941. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was part of President Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” designed to lift America out of the Great […]
No Oktoberfest Refuse was Found Early Sunday morning I headed to Montrose to do my daily caretaker chores at the Vietnam memorial [at Honolulu and Ocean View]. This was the morning after Oktoberfest. Over 35,000 revelers had been celebrating along Honolulu Avenue just a few hours before. I was not looking forward to what I […]
In recognition of October being Drug Abuse Awareness Month, the Crescenta Valley Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition has collaborated with its strategic partners, The CV Weekly and performing arts instructors to deliver a message promoting healthy lifestyles. By Joe ALLEN Father of three I am father of three children, each different in their interests, […]
Racial Discord Boils Over in 1941 The Crescenta Valley today is not as ethnically diverse as many other communities. We have a big immigrant population of Korean and Armenian Americans, but people of color – black and Latino – not so much. Some of that has to do with our history of regulating ourselves as […]
In recognition of October being Drug Abuse Awareness Month, the Crescenta Valley Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition has collaborated with its strategic partners, the CV Weekly and Crescenta Valley Little League, with a message of promoting healthy lifestyles. Youth Sports – The Building Block of Success By Stu MEYER As president of Crescenta Valley Little […]
Mutt-friendly Montrose Like many parents, some of our favorite books to read to our young children were in the Beginner Books collection. One title in particular, “Go Dog, Go” by P.D. Eastman, was high on the repeat reading list for our kids’ bedtimes. My wife, being an enthralling storyteller (I’ve always thought she should narrate […]
The Who, Baba O’Riley, and La Crescenta In May I wrote “The Utopia at the Top of La Crescenta Avenue” about a spiritual center that was established on the old Bissell High-Up Ranch, the neighborhood above Markridge Avenue we now know as Pinecrest. I wrote that followers of the Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba had […]
When She Flew, We Soared I refer to last week as “geek week,” not only because that’s when Apple began selling their new, highly coveted iPhone 5, but also due to the spectacle of a low-altitude flyover of much of Southern California by the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Not to be outdone, my lovely and talented […]
Mourns Loss I could cry when I read about the demise and ruination of places like the Kimball Sanitarium property and Indian Springs, both demolished for shopping centers. What were they thinking when they tore out magnificent sycamore trees and large avocados and pines? And imagine an 11 room Victorian mansion being replaced with Builders […]