Embracing Autumn

Embracing Autumn

Despite temperatures fluctuating from cool to cold to warm again, the kids a Crescenta-Cañada Cooperative Nursery School embraced autumn with traditional fall activities including enjoying a class picnic, taking a field trip to a pumpkin patch, and at the end of October, creating Halloween masks. Fall activities continue as the “Darling Ducklings” and the “Busy […]

Clark seniors visit Catalina

Clark seniors visit Catalina

By Celia BURSTEIN CV Weekly intern On Nov. 14, two buses loaded with 120 Clark Magnet High School seniors took off to  the Long Beach Harbor, then onto a boat destined for Catalina Islandand the annual senior trip. Seniors spent the day making use of the island’s arcade and mini-golf vouchers, as well as designing […]

The Watts Towers of La Crescenta

The Watts Towers  of La Crescenta

Dunsmore Park on Dunsmore Avenue above Foothill Boulevard contains a fascinating example of folk art, very similar to the famed Watts Towers. On the sloped acreage of the park are miles of decorative retaining walls snaking through the landscaped grounds. The low walls are built of a myriad of materials mortared in place to create […]

Thankful I’m not a turkey

Thankful I’m not a turkey

At this time of year, my family often participates in a ritual we started when our kids were little. We make a “Thankful Tree” for our living room wall. Its trunk and branches are made from rolled up brown paper shopping bags. We cut out leaves from red and yellow construction paper. Then family members […]

Stroke patients received higher than normal radiation scans

By Mary O’KEEFE Ten stroke patients at Glendale Adventist Medical Center received a higher than normal dosage of radiation during a specific CT procedure.The Los Angeles County of Public Health Department discovered the findings after they conducted an audit of the hospital’s CT protocols. It was found that these patients received about three to four […]

Angeles Crest Highway to reopen

By Mary O’KEEFE Los Angeles County Public Works and Caltrans have scheduled the reopening of Angeles Forest Highway and Angeles Crest Highway at the end of November. “We are planning to open the Angeles Forest Highway at 5 a.m. on Nov. 30,” said Bob Spencer, chief, public affairs, L.A. County Public Works. Patrick Chandler, spokesman […]

Damaged line delays work

The installation of a new irrigation meter for The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints on Raymond Avenue ran into a snag on Tuesday evening, Nov. 17 when CV water district workers punctured an unmarked gas line. The project, supervised by CVWD Wastewater Supervisor Dennis Maxwell Jr. and Water Supervisor Bryan Jones, was stalled by […]

Four perish on a dangerous Sunday on the 210

By Mary O’KEEFE Two separate vehicle accidents on the Foothill (210) Freeway claimed four lives on Sunday. The first accident occurred about 5 a.m. near the Sunland Boulevard exit on the Foothill freeway. “A 2007 GMC SUV traveling eastbound at the Sunland Boulevard exit, for yet unknown reasons, veered to the right onto a concrete […]

California State Assemblymember Anthony Portantino visits class

California State Assemblymember Anthony Portantino visits class

By Mary O’KEEFE California State Assemblymember Anthony Portantino took time out of his schedule to visit the classroom of Clark Magnet High School Advanced Placement Government history teacher Nick Doom last week. Doom invited Portantino to speak with his students about the reality of the political system. “We sent him a set of questions including […]

Crime Blotter

Nov. 19 4300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue in La Crescenta, it appeared that someone attempted to enter a locked vehicle. Chrome trim on the driver’s and passenger side window was missing, from a Lexus overnight. 4800 block of Oakgrove Drive in Pasadena, Ara Badashian, 35, of Altadena was arrested after a JPL security police officer […]