By Erna TAYLOR-STARK “For how quickly we got it together, it was a great success in my opinion,” said CHP Officer Ming-Yang hsu. He was referring to Summer Soiree and Casino Night, a fundraiser held for the CHP Widows and Orphans Fund, which benefit families of officers who lost their lives while on duty. The […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Residents have reported seeing a bear in the upper Briggs Terrace area on Monday night and early Tuesday morning. Roger Young president of the Crescenta Valley Fire Safe Council sent a notice via email to all residents of the sighting. According to Young a resident in the 5800 block of Irving Avenue […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man suspected of sexually assaulting a young woman while she was walking on Briggs Avenue. As reported last week in Crescenta Valley Weekly, a 21-year-old woman was walking southbound on Briggs Avenue near Altura Avenue about 6 p.m. on […]
June 20 4600 block of Lone Pine Lane in La Cañada Flintridge, a global positioning system and other items were stolen from two unlocked vehicles parked in the home’s driveway overnight. June 19 4700 block of Palm Drive in La Cañada, a global positioning system and other items were stolen from a locked vehicle overnight. […]
By Brandon HENSLEY The sign in front of the entrance on Markridge Road read, “Park Closed.” Except on this day, taped over the second word, there was a highlighter-green paper that read “Open.” And with that, the patchwork sign led up the long windy road to a place that’s also being put back together, slowly […]
As I was in La Perla (2315 Honolulu Ave.) recently a woman walked up to the counter with the cutest little thing in her hand. What was it? Turns out the customer’s name was Jill Pfieffer and she was buying a salt dish with a tiny little spoon. It was exquisite, done in metal and […]
“The EPA estimates that of over 20 million personal computers discarded in 1998, only 13% were reused or recycled. Of those that were recycled, over 112 million pounds of valuable materials were recovered including steel, glass, plastic and precious metals” Donna Schwartz Mills, from “It’s Easy to Be Green: Earth Day Solutions for Your Home […]
Have you felt your artistic sensibilities tingling as of late? If so, it’s probably because our second Artwalk of the year is coming soon. In less than a month, the MVCC will be holding its summer Artwalk on Saturday, July 10. From 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., the sidewalks of Honolulu Avenue, from Oceanview Boulevard […]
By Shari EMAMI For those who fretted that Gourmet A Go Go was Gourmet A Gone Gone, worry no longer. Gourmet A Go Go owner Gail Connell has relocated to long time family owned Cordon’s Ranch Market further west on Honolulu Avenue. Restaurant and wine bar Gourmet A Go-Go was opened for four years in […]
By Hyung Seok LEE CV Weekly Intern In May, customers walking into the newly opened pizzeria Hello Pizza were greeted by a warm handshake and the traditional Korean bow by owner Brandon Tak. Tak and his family live in Koreatown from where he and his wife drive every day to open their restaurant. He worked […]