Several club members at Crescenta Valley High School took the opportunity this week to share with their fellow students what it is they do during Club Expo held on the school campus. Tables were set up in the quad area that highlighted the various activities that each club focuses on, whether it’s volunteering in the […]
Meet Congressman Adam Schiff By Mary O’KEEFE Congressman Adam Schiff is back in La Crescenta. Not that he was ever that far away, but due to redistricting if elected this November he will once again represent the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County, La Crescenta. Since he began serving as a congressman in 2001, he […]
There’s still time to take part in Saturday’s event. By Mary O’KEEFE soccer try-outs were this week for Rosemont Middle School kids. The soccer teams of both boys and girls are part of an afterschool sports program that is supported by donations and volunteers from the community. The afterschool sports program has several opportunities for […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley was able to do something last weekend that several countries in the world have not been able to achieve – cultural unity and true respect for diversity. The first Korean Armenian Festival was held on Saturday and Sunday at Crescenta Valley Park. It was a unifying sight with rows of […]
By Mary O’KEEFE At Tuesday’s Glendale Unified School District board meeting the discussion of the open lunch campus policy at Crescenta Valley High School was an agenda item. The discussion was an update on the issue that had been approached last year by the district. The thought at the time was to change the policy […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale Unified School District official kicked off its solar project at Crescenta Valley High School on Monday afternoon. With the flip of a switch, Marco Galang, a junior at CVHS, moved his school into a new solar future. Galang said solar power was an important green step for the school. “Our [Earth] […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Paul Crowder, the man convicted of murdering Crescenta Valley High School student Berlyn Cosman almost 20 years ago, was scheduled to go in front of a parole hearing on Wednesday in Orange County. Crowder, 40, is currently being held at Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy. He was sentenced on Nov. 1, 1999 […]
By Mary O’KEEFE It is time once again for the Annual Crescenta Valley Town Council Pancake Breakfast on Sept. 29 from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. The CVTC Pancake Breakfast is held at Crescenta Valley High School, 2900 Community Ave., La Crescenta, and is a fundraiser to help the council’s scholarship program. Each year the […]
Call to action to raise funds for living quarters for foothills bear. By Mary O’Keefe Crescenta Valley Weekly and Prom Plus have joined with Lions, Tigers and Bears, an exotic animal sanctuary in east San Diego, to help Build A Bear … Habitat for Meatball. The fundraising has begun to help Meatball remain a California […]
Republican kick-off party and a meet and greet with a Democratic senator highlight the week. By Jason KUROSU “Hickory dickory dock, in 2012 we’ll be rid of Barack” read signs which lined the path outside the Jeffers Estate in La Cañada, site of the local Republican Campaign Kickoff Party on Sunday. Despite the shade the […]