By Charly SHELTON Members of the La Crescenta Woman’s Club are well known for their philanthropy. They host community events at their clubhouse, put on their own events, give student scholarships, donate to charities, help the environment with a recycling program … the list goes on. For their 100th anniversary, local Boy Scout Kevin Tom […]
CV Weekly Holiday Schedule CV Weekly will be closed on Monday, Dec. 26 and Monday, Jan. 2 for the Christmas and New Year holidays. Extensive Work Planned for 210 Freeway Caltrans engineers and construction units have been working to change some things on the EB 210 Lowell Avenue on-ramp. They will be adding arrows and […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Critters is a long time Montrose favorite. Its old-fashioned horse and motorcycle mechanical rides in front of the store bring nostalgia of small town USA to passersby. The music, the laughter of children and parents saying “hang on” that accompanies the mechanical rides are comforting sounds that bring to mind the magical […]
By Brandon HENSLEY The last Crescenta Valley Town Council meeting of 2016, held on Dec. 15 inside the La Crescenta Library community room, saw fresh faces introduced to council as well as familiar ones saying goodbye. Newly elected L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger swore in members Charles Beatty, Brandon Lee, Harry Leon, Aram Ordubegian, Kyle […]
By Charly SHELTON Last February, a sign was erected at the southwest corner of the park at New York Avenue and Honolulu Avenue. This park, historically and locally known as Hindenburg Park, is officially Crescenta Valley Regional Park. The sign erected read, “Wilkommen zum Hindenburg Park, The Historic German Section of Crescenta Valley Park.” There […]
By Nestor CASTIGLIONE The members of the Sunland Tujunga Neighborhood Council presided over a meeting on Wednesday night where the mood was spirited unto raucous. Over 75 people packed into the council chambers that night, all of them eager to give voice to their concerns over the future of the Verdugo Hills Golf Course. Last […]
By Charly SHELTON The end of the year is celebrated in many different cultures. But because each celebration is so all consuming, there is rarely an opportunity to see beyond our own traditions. Most Americans know the basics of Christmas and Hanukkah, regardless of religious affiliation, but the mysteries of Kwanzaa […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) is investigating an incident in which an EVA Air Boeing 777 flew north instead of south after departing from LAX early Friday morning. The flight number was EVA 015, according to Ian Gregor, FAA spokesman. “At the time aircraft were departing from LAX to the east. EVA […]
Dec. 11, 1925 – Dec. 10, 2016 Donald P. Duncan, son of Donald B. Duncan and Edith Studt, born in New York on Dec. 11, 1925, died peacefully in Northridge on Dec. 10 just hours before his 91st birthday. As a young boy Don’s family relocated to Los Angeles where he attended Verdugo Hills High, […]
May 2, 1937 – Dec. 10, 2016 Mary K DeLurgio, longtime La Cañada resident, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 10 after a protracted battle with cancer. Mary K was born in Mexico City on May 2, 1937. She was an accomplished author of two books and was a marriage and family therapist in La […]