L a Crescenta-based solar power company PHAT Energy is joining the non-profit American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and hundreds of solar specialists and grassroots organizations throughout America to collectively showcase more than 5,000 solar-powered homes, schools and businesses, including the Pasadena Foothills region and across North America, for the 15th Annual National Solar Tour, the […]
Crescenta Valley Weekly celebrated its first year anniversary last Thursday with family, friends and supporters. St. Luke’s of the Mountains graciously offered to have the event in their courtyard. Guests dined on an assortment of cuisine provided by Frank’s Famous and topped the meal off with an ice cream dessert donated by Paradis ice cream […]
The La Crescenta Woman’s Club, a philanthropic group that has been giving to deserving individuals and organizations for almost a century, will turn 100 years old in 2011. Its clubhouse, one of the oldest buildings left standing in La Crescenta, will be 86. (Its image in stained glass may be viewed at the new La […]
Harkening back to the 1940s and 1950s, John Peters and Andrea Barricklow exchanged wedding vows on Sept. 4 at the La Crescenta Presbyterian Church with Pastor Andy Wilson presiding. The wedding and reception, which followed at La Cañada Country Club, had a vintage theme with bride and groom, as well as the wedding party, clad […]
A little known Labor Day destination is a short boat (or air) trip across the sea. Camp Fox Labor Day Family Camp has been operated by the Glendale YMCA since 1969. Many a family has traveled the 26-mile ocean channel to step foot on the shores of Camp Fox, Catalina. Parents and children alike have […]
By Doug KILPATRICK Welcome to At Home in the Foothills, a regular CV Weekly column featuring tips and information about maintaining and enjoying your home. Now that the kids are back in school and summer vacations are over it’s time to make a top-to-bottom inspection of your home. While not a substitute for professional inspections […]
By Brandon HENSLEY They are not long, the days of wine and roses. And so, as the summer days dwindle, residents gathered at Deukmejian Wilderness Park Sunday evening to enjoy what the park’s vineyard had to offer in the form of grape picking and wine making. The Stonebarn Vineyard Conservancy, a group whose roots are […]
Photo by George H. LEE Some members of the La Crescenta Woman’s Club recently had some fun camping it up in fashions typically worn by members during past decades of the almost 100-year-old club. Top row from left are Carol Huntwork, Danette Erickson, Deanna Alfeld, Jeanne Long and Marianne Jennings. Middle row are Ellie Pipes, […]
The Assistance League of Glendale once a year clears out its Thrift Alley store with a 50% off sale on everything. That sale is tomorrow, Friday, Aug. 27 at 314 E. Harvard in Glendale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nothing in the store is held back. The Thrift Alley is staffed entirely by volunteers […]
Join with the Stone Barn Vineyard Conservancy as it celebrates the “fruits” of its labors amongst the grapevines in Deukmejian Wilderness Park. Led by Stuart Byles, vice president of the Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley, the Stone Barn Conservancy has used the vineyard owned by the City of Glendale to provide the community with […]