GEF Presenting Film Screening The Glendale Educational Foundation will host the film, “Most Likely to Succeed” tonight, April 21, at the Alex Theatre in Glendale at 6:30 p.m. followed by a panel discussion moderated by GCC Trustee Tony Tartaglia. The film is about High Tech High School in San Diego – an innovative, hands-on model […]
Hometown Fun Well, the cold that I earned at the 24-hour, rainy Relay for Life April 9-10 arrived full steam. I am stuffy-headed and feeling bleh – but I carry on. Thankfully I wasn’t too pooped on Saturday not to take part in the 11th Annual Hometown Country Fair. I’ve been at just about every […]
Mysterious Woman “Lost” In Pickens Canyon I picked this up in old newspapers – a simple story of a woman lost in the mountains above CV. But the more I read, the odder it seemed. In January 1948, Mr. and Mrs. William Reed of 5725 Canyonside Road, high up on Briggs Terrace, were hosting their […]
CTTC HAVING PLANT AUCTION The Foothill Chapter of the California Turtle and Tortoise Club (CTTC) will be having its annual plant auction on Friday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Palm Room of the L.A. County Arboretum, 301 N. Baldwin St. in Arcadia. The mission of the CTTC is to promote the preservation, conservation, […]
By Charly SHELTON This Sunday marks the hundredth Comóradh Éirí Amach na Cásca, or the anniversary of the Easter Rising. (For those interested in the history of the 1916 Easter Rising, see page 6 in this paper for the history of the rebellion.) To commemorate this Centennial, events are being held in Ireland and around […]
The Knights of Columbus, Crescenta Valley Council 3254, recently held a spelling bee for the fourth through sixth grade students of St. Bede the Venerable and St. James the Less parishes. Council 3254, chartered in 1949 serves the catholic parishes in La Cañada and La Cresecenta. The spelling bee has been held annually for 20 […]
“I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Day of Sunshine” Wind … I have always loved the sound of the wind. There seems to be spiritual element interwoven within each gust blowing through […]
By Mary O’KEEFE “We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. The past is part of society and what society does with that knowledge is what defines it. Descendants of the Armenian community are keeping a piece of their tragic past alive, not only to remember and […]
By Dylan SYLVESTER Movie lovers and history fanatics alike would be surprised by some of the historical movie treasures that are hidden in local neighborhoods. At this month’s meeting of the Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley, held at the Center for Spiritual Living, some of these sites were revealed. Presenter Craig Durst, a movie […]
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