By Mary O’KEEFE Luckily for the Crescenta Valley High School band, what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas. The band brought back a myriad of awards after their Las Vegas festival weekend trip. “We took 99 students with us, along with eight chaperones and myself,” said band director Mathew Schick. The jazz, orchestra and […]
The Crescenta Valley High School mountain bike club came in a strong sixth out of 24 teams on the grueling course at Vail Lake on April 15, beating out St. Francis High School, a San Gabriel Valley composite team and teams from San Marino, Eastlake, Bakersfield and elsewhere. In the individual events, Lucas Rowton placed […]
By Sammi SLAYBACK Since the Girl Scouts of the USA was founded a century ago, the organization has thrived and now boasts a membership of over three million girls and adults throughout the nation. The girls of Crescenta Valley’s Troop 391 have carried on the Girl Scout tradition of community involvement by participating in preservation […]
On Saturday, 16 members of the St. Francis High School Mountain Bike Team joined 50 other high school mountain bikers for a hard yet rewarding day of trail work in the Angeles National Forest on a segment of trail that was damaged during the Station Fire. Under the guidance of local trail advocates Banner Moffatt […]
By Misty DUPLESSIS Each year the fourth grade students of Valley View team up with partners to test hypothesis, conduct experiments and form scientific conclusions as they explore different aspects of science. Although it was mandatory for fourth graders to participate, 50 students in grades one through five enthusiastically chose to take part in this […]
Photo by Charlotte BOWEN In Sun Valley, the elementary PTF (Parent Teacher Fellowship) at Village Christian Schools hosted a hoe down for its families. They enjoyed a barbecue dinner and dancing to a country-western band in a festive setting. Everyone had the chance to learn the Electric Slide line dance and being together for a […]
Students at Crescenta-Cañada Cooperative Nursery School (CCNS) celebrated Easter by dying eggs then hunting for them in a traditional Easter egg hunt. Students awaited the arrival of the Easter bunny for weeks with director Nita Imm preparing arts and crafts, reading Easter stories and teaching Easter songs to the Darling Ducks (3-year-old program) and the […]
By Sammi SLAYBACK Rosemont students could be seen racing all over campus on Thursday in competition for a number of possible prizes. In order to qualify for the festivities, students had to individually raise money for Heifer International, a non-profit organization that focuses on ending hunger and poverty throughout the world. The Heifer projects give […]
On March 18, the Armenian Engineers and Scientists of America (AESA) held its 11th Annual Science Olympiad at Woodbury University’s main campus in Burbank. The competition, organized by AESA’s Science Olympiad Committee, promotes engineering and sciences to middle and high school students through mentoring programs and the annual Science Olympiad. Eleven Chamlian Armenian School students […]