Mary O’KEEFE If the long lines and happy pancake faces were any indication the Crescenta Valley Town Council Annual Pancake Breakfast was very successful. “We served well over 800 breakfasts,” said councilmember and pancake chair Dennis Van Bremen. Tickets were only $5 for pancakes, eggs, sausage, orange juice and coffee. Tickets were sold by councilmembers […]
By Brandon HENSLEY The Nov. 6 Crescenta Valley Town Council elections are drawing nearer, and last Thursday the council held a candidates’ forum during its meeting, as the public heard each candidates’ position on topics ranging from mansionization to the expansion of the 710 Freeway. Held inside the La Crescenta Library community room, eight of […]
By Jason KUROSU The fourth annual Passageways Homeless Connect Day was held on Oct. 19 at the Salvation Army facility in Pasadena and each year the turnout increases. Pacific Clinics, the event planners for Homeless Connect Day, notes on its website that 2009’s event offered 2,900 free services to 405 individuals. Of those numerous services, […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A birthday party for a local homeowner turned tragic on Saturday night when her home caught fire. The Moradkhanian family had invited a few guests to their house in the 2900 block of Hopeton Avenue for homeowner Adrienne Moradkhanian’s birthday celebration. A couple of hours into the party, the house lights began […]
A week ago Steve and I traveled up north in a motorhome with our son, his wife and our granddaughter who is just 7 months old. The baby was a good traveler, rarely fussing about being on the road so many hours. But while it is rewarding to have a content child, there is a […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A vehicle struck a seventh grade Rosemont student Wednesday morning as she crossed Rosemont Avenue to get to the middle school. “The [girl] was not in a crosswalk,” said Officer Christian Cracraft, California Highway Patrol. The girl’s mother was driving north on Rosemont Avenue when she stopped to drop her daughter off. […]
By Jason KUROSU Crescenta Valley High School hosted a meeting last Thursday night to educate parents on two issues that are of particular interest: school funding and adolescent wellbeing. Measure K, a bond measure that was approved in 1997 to increase funds for GUSD school facilities, has been a key issue for parents who would […]
B y Mary O’KEEFE A string of local burglaries may have come to an end with the arrest on Sunday of a La Crescenta resident. On Sunday at about 4:40 p.m. Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station received a call from a witness who had recognized a man, later identified as Anders Goodman, 24, of La Crescenta, […]
FLIRTING WITH DISASTER IN MONTROSE There seems to be a growing trend in the Montrose Shopping Park that has me very concerned for the safety of local residents. I have lived within a block of Honolulu Avenue for nearly eight years and my family and I walk through the shopping park several times a week. […]
Every Sunday morning starting at 9:30 a.m., people begin to gather on the large patio outside the main building at Saint Luke’s of the Mountains Episcopal Church on the corner of Foothill Boulevard and Rosemont Avenue in La Crescenta. There is a table set out with coffee, tea, fruit and sweets. There are other tables […]