Montrose …Your Valentine Place How blessed we are to live in the beautiful mountains of sunny Southern California and to have a quaint little town like Montrose where we can get away from it all and relax. I was reminded of this on Saturday as both couples and women visited my store as part of […]
Connecting in Crescenta Valley “Realize that everything connects to everything else.” Leonardo Da Vinci If you have lived in the Crescenta Valley for any length of time, you realize this is a very small town and everything and everyone does connect to something or someone else. I would bet just as there are the six […]
Clark Magnet Robotics Team – To Infinity and Beyond! By Contributing Writer Todd BLACK As America continues its economic recovery, it is critical that we consider the importance of making things. We cannot rely solely on jobs in finance, software and healthcare. We need engineers. We must innovate and create physical objects – the […]
Montrose … Take Two The next time you are watching your favorite TV series you might see something that looks very familiar. It seems the film industry has a renewed interest in the Montrose Shopping Park these days as several prominent series are being shot on our streets and in our stores and cafes. Just […]
Community Partnerships I got back from an event yesterday called Glendale Outlook 2012 where the new Glendale City Manager Scott Ochoa spoke. He gave an update on the status of the city, told of his vision for Glendale, talked about all the “financial concerns” in the city and then confidently let us all know that […]
Counting Our Blessings – Isn’t Too Hard to Do “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” Eric Hoffer With weather like we have had this week in the Crescenta Valley, it is a little easier to count our blessings that we live in this great community. One place […]
Enjoying SPA PURA Many of us equate the month of January with newness, clean homes, a time to start diets and do things that are good for us. It brings to mind Spa Pura, who for the second year in a row was named “Best Day Spa In Glendale.” For such a quaint, little town, […]
Building a Community Can Start With One “I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.” George Bernard Shaw Do you want to help make the Crescenta Valley a better place? I found these eight […]
Installation Dinner Tonight Highlighting the final four Community Service Award winners. The installation dinner is tonight and we are looking forward to honoring all of our award recipients and installing our 2012 board of directors. Our Educator Of The Year award goes to an educator who contributes her talents above and beyond expectations, showing exceptional […]
The MSPA Welcomes A New Year Just a few days into the new year, the board of the Montrose Shopping Park Association assembled early in the morning for our first meeting of the year. As vice president, I had the pleasure of presiding over the beginning of the meeting as this is the time of […]