By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) conducted a training drill at Monte Vista Elementary School on Saturday. The scenario: the Newport-Inglewood Fault ruptured with a 7.6 earthquake at 8:30 on a Monday morning while team members are at work. Team members are able to get home and, after checking on their […]
By Mary O’KEEFE John Drayman was released from custody of the Los Angeles County jail system on May 19. Drayman was sentenced on April 7 and released from jail on April 15 with an ankle monitor and restricted to home confinement. “He was released under AB109,” said Nicole Nishida, L.A. County Sheriff’s spokeswoman. In April […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The public is invited and encouraged to attend the Glendale Police Explorers’ fundraiser on Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Glendale Police Dept. Community Room. The Explorers are middle and high school aged kids, some who are interested in a career in law enforcement and some who are not. […]
Students learn some quick math maneuvers and parents are given strategies on how to raise kids to succeed. By Jason KUROSU Monday night featured a set of events at Crescenta Valley High School designed to educate kids and parents in ways both fun and informative. It began with “Mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin, a mathematics professor at […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The general public typically has a love/hate relationship with law enforcement. Trying to get to work on time and having to go just a little faster (honestly just a little) than the posted speed limit and then seeing the red and blue lights appear in the rearview mirror – that is when […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Last week La Crescenta lost another piece of its history. The Bonetto home (seen below) was demolished to make room for three new homes on the location that once housed a stone cottage and swimming pool. In 1905, Tommaso and Josephine Bonetto purchased acreage at the corner of Manhattan and La Crescenta […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a teen suspected of burglarizing the Chamlian Armenian School. On April 24 between 7:54 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., the boy – described as between the ages of 14 and 16, 5’8″ to 5’10″ tall, weighing 130 to 145 pounds – entered the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE CV Alliance and Rosemont Middle School invite community members to a special evening of math amazement and insight into the pre-teen mind. That may sound like a large bill to fill, but Dr. Arthur Benjamin and Clay Roberts promise an evening that will be one to remember. Benjamin is a world famous […]
By Mary O’KEEFE In 2008, the Glendale City Council purchased Rockhaven Sanitarium from Ararat Home of Los Angeles, Inc. for $8.25 million. At the time it was thought the property would be used as the new site for the Montrose Library. Once vacated, Glendale Fire Station 29 would then expand to the library location that […]
By Joyce LEE een girls in the Crescenta Valley community had the opportunity of being the attendees of the first ever Teen Girl Empowerment Day, which was held on May 10 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Fire House youth center on the property of St. Luke’s of the Mountains. The event, aimed […]