By Sammi SLAYBACK Autistic animator and La Cañada resident Danielle Bowman, 17, received the Golden Goody Award last week for her efforts to raise autism awareness in her community. The Golden Goody Award represents the highest praise of all Goody Awards. Its purpose is to honor individuals who show excellence by doing “social good” every […]
La Cañada Armstrong Nursery manager Tom Purcell hosted a planting session at Lanterman Garden on April 7. The nursery donated the vegetables and fruit trees that were planted this spring by Scouts from Cub Den 519. The boys planted tomatoes, carrots and lettuce.
The Crescenta Valley High School Jazz Band’s “Spring Fling” brought back the music, and dance, of the 1940s. Saturday night’s event inside the school’s cafeteria had both kids and parents dancing to World War II era dancing styles including the Lindy Hop and the Eastern Swing. The tunes of Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey – […]
Students at Crescenta-Cañada Cooperative Nursery School (CCNS) uncovered “dinosaur bones” hidden in the sand on their playground and created a volcano. For over a decade, director Nita Imm has taught her Busy Bears students a lesson about paleontology, teaching how the dinosaurs may have become extinct. After classroom time, Imm took the lesson outside and, […]
~Personal Perspective~ By Olympia HATZILAMBROU Olympia Hatzilambrou is a 10-year-old student at Montrose Christian Montessori School. With her mother, she made the trek across the Atlantic following the path the Titanic would have taken had it not sunk. As a student, I love to learn about history every day, but I’ve never been a part […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Luckily for the Crescenta Valley High School band, what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas. The band brought back a myriad of awards after their Las Vegas festival weekend trip. “We took 99 students with us, along with eight chaperones and myself,” said band director Mathew Schick. The jazz, orchestra and […]
The Crescenta Valley High School mountain bike club came in a strong sixth out of 24 teams on the grueling course at Vail Lake on April 15, beating out St. Francis High School, a San Gabriel Valley composite team and teams from San Marino, Eastlake, Bakersfield and elsewhere. In the individual events, Lucas Rowton placed […]
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By Sammi SLAYBACK Since the Girl Scouts of the USA was founded a century ago, the organization has thrived and now boasts a membership of over three million girls and adults throughout the nation. The girls of Crescenta Valley’s Troop 391 have carried on the Girl Scout tradition of community involvement by participating in preservation […]