By Misty DUPLESSIS A very cloudy and slightly wet morning greeted Mountain Avenue Elementary runners last Friday, Nov. 19. The weather didn’t appear to dampen spirits of the student body, however, as students prepared for the school’s fourth annual jog-a-thon. The event is traditionally held this time of the year due to the cooler temperatures. […]
Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy raised over $50,000 at its annual golf tournament at Oakmont Country Club in Glendale on Oct. 11, according to golf chair Sunder Ramani. The funds go toward scholarships at the all-girls Catholic high school in La Cañada Flintridge. The grand hole-in-one prize of the day was a 2010 Prius, sponsored by […]
Special to CVW by Helen KANTOR The 2009-2010 mock trial team at Crescenta Valley High School made history Nov. 17 by advancing to the quarterfinals in the Constitutional Rights Foundation’s Mock Trial Program. To date, no other team at CVHS has made it this far. The prosecution and defense teams had the opportunity to argue […]
The Crescenta Valley Crush went 4-0 to earn gold in a 10-team 11U travel baseball tournament sponsored by USSSA this past weekend in Chino Hills and West Covina. Strong pitching by Scott Vinceri, Ty Langford and Will Overstreet helped propel the Crush to their first large-scale tournament win since forming in August 2009. Home runs […]
By Seth AMITIN It was a long season, filled with brutal injuries for Crescenta Valley High’s football team, that ended on a sour note. An overwhelming number of injuries to the team’s core cost them and after starting 4-1 on the season, the Falcons limped to the finish line with five straight losses, their final […]
Some little known facts about plastic bags: they take around 1,000 years to decompose due to being made from petroleum, 100 billion of them are used every year in the United States and 95% of them are never recycled. These are the kinds of facts that Sienna Hill wants to bring to light. She is […]
Members of Delphi Academy’s Troop 555 will be stationed outside Sport Chalet in La Cañada to provide gift wrapping throughout the holiday season beginning on “Black Friday,” Nov. 26 and from Dec. 13 every day through Christmas Eve, Dec. 24. The schedule will be posted at Sport Chalet La Cañada. This is the ninth year […]
Glendale Elks Lodge No. 1289 invites all boys and girls ages 8 through 13 to participate in its annual Hoop Shoot basketball competition at 8 a.m. on Dec. 11 10 at Hoover High School gym, located at 651 Glenwood Road inGlendale. Winners who qualify will go on to represent their respective schools at district, regional […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Mountain Avenue Elementary School campus came alive with historical figures on Tuesday – well, sort of. Harry Houdini shared a table with Elvis Presley, and Lucille Ball sat across from Lucille Ball. The occasion was the school’s annual wax museum exercise, which has sixth graders choose a person from history who has […]
With one more competition left in the season, the Crescenta Valley High School Falcon Marching Band has enjoyed an outstanding winning streak. In its first competition this fall, the Band earned its highest score ever for a first competition in a season. And it keeps racking up more “best ever” achievements. Last Saturday at the […]