By Mary O’KEEFE Two Glendale City Councilmembers were at the Montrose Shopping Park Assn. meeting on Thursday. Councilmember Vartan Gharpetian and Zareh Sinanyan attended the meeting to listen and discuss issues of concern to the merchants in the shopping park. “We talked about the closing of Citibank,” said Steve Pierce, Market Place manager. The Citibank […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Friday night the Friends of Rockhaven held a fundraiser that went back to the basics. Since the 1950s, Tupperware parties have been a fabric of America so it seemed a perfect way to raise funds for the historic woman’s sanitarium. Nurse Agnes Richards opened Rockhaven Sanitarium in 1923 exclusively for women […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A group of concerned community members met on Thursday at the Crescenta Valley United Methodist Church to discuss hate crimes and how to take a proactive step to protect neighborhoods from these acts. Rev. Steve Marshall, Marisol Medina and Kayli Blundell organized the evening. Recently several Jewish Community Centers and cemeteries across […]
A legacy of automobile sales and service reaches a milestone. By Mary O’KEEFE In 1917 Southern Californians enjoyed their third Rose Bowl and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated. In April, the United States declared war on Germany and entered WWI and Walt Disney graduated from Benton High School. In San Francisco the memory of […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Holy Redeemer-St. James the Less family is mourning the loss of Monsignor John Kieran Foley, 1935 to 2017, known to most as Father Jack. The church’s website passed along the sad news of his passing on Wednesday morning. “Our beloved Fr. Jack has gone to be with the Lord. Early on […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Local high schools’ robotic teams have been busy the last six weeks building robots to compete in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) competition. Each year the robotic team members of Crescenta Valley, Clark Magnet and La Cañada high schools sit in front of a computer, or television, […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Traffic is a way of life in Southern California and, unfortunately, Crescenta Valley has been experiencing more traffic than residents are used to thanks to the Foothill (210) Freeway construction. Mix with rain and there is the perfect recipe for traffic collisions. But even without the rain and traffic, there is another […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley High School JROTC recently took time off from color guard and drills to enjoy an evening of inspirational speeches, and a delicious meal that ended with a dance. The Military Ball is a time for JROTC students to celebrate and relax after a year of dedication and endless drill […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A study released last week found that emergency room patients treated by physicians who prescribe opioids are at a greater risk for long-term opioid use “even after a single prescription than those who see less-frequent prescribers,” according to a Harvard T.H. Chan, School of Public Health release. These findings may seem self-explanatory; […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Residents of the Crescenta Valley, including La Cañada, were warned in 2015 that the construction on the Foothill (210) Freeway would be ever increasing; however, it does not appear that anyone was prepared for the explosion of traffic that the construction has caused not only on the freeway but spilling onto Foothill […]