By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale residents have been taking water conservation seriously, keeping their usage well within California state guidelines despite increased construction of multi-unit family residences. Single family homes decreased water usage by 3000 acre feet of water in 2013 and 2500 acre feet in the 2014-15 fiscal year. “The most drastic reduction is irrigation,” […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A child’s birthday, no matter the age, is a time to celebrate. It’s a time for family to be together; however, for Rosalie Blum it is another of her daughter’s birthdays that is filled with dread mixed with an ever-present hope. Today Kimberly Blum will be 47 years old and today marks […]
By Alessandra LUCKEY, intern On Thursday, the Crescenta Valley Community Association held its monthly meeting and discussed various topics that affect Crescenta Valley and Glendale stakeholders. Two of the items on the agenda were plans for Rockhaven Sanitarium and a boutique hotel that would be located on Brand Boulevard in Glendale. The Rockhaven Sanitarium was […]
Zipping Through Summer As I’ve grown older, I often give gifts of experience to family members and close friends. For example, after Steve and I had so much fun kayaking, we gave our son Patrick a kayak excursion for his birthday. For our son Andy’s birthday, we all went to the Magic Castle for dinner. […]
July 14, 1926 – May 18, 2016 Juanita Marie Peters Pearson, born July 14, 1926 in McFarland, California, passed away on May 18 in Glendale. As a teenager, “Nita” worked at Superior Dairy, then at Hanford Sentinel, and had a career with Pacific Bell (ATT) for 38 years. During World War II, she would dance […]
Dec. 11, 1933 – June 23, 2016 In loving memory of Castrense John Candido (CJ) who died at the age of 82 years and six months on June 23 in Mission Hills. John was welcomed into heaven to be with our Lord and was reunited with his father Candy, his mother Anita and his brother […]
Aug. 15, 1935 – May 6, 2016 Donald Earl Myers passed away on May 6 at the age of 80 after a difficult four-month battle with sepsis. Donald (known by friends and family as Don) is predeceased by his parents, Harry and Mary Evelyn Myers. Don is lovingly remembered and greatly missed by his wife […]
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Here, the volunteers working the radio waves for the Crescenta Valley Radio Club on Field Day make contact and exchange information with a ham radio operator in Arizona.
By McKenna MIDDLETON Three friends, Ryon Tanara, Raffy Mardirossian, and Paul Matevosyan, who together attended Rosemont Middle School, Crescenta Valley High School (class of ’07), and later Harvard’s graduate school, are working to design an innovative “super school” in the Los Angeles area. The XQ project challenges a “rethinking” of high school – one that […]