Girl Scouts visit Harvest Market for dog park

Girl Scouts visit Harvest Market for dog park

By Mary O’KEEFE Girl Scout Troop 680-1 was busy on Sunday working on its Bronze Award by helping to create a buzz for the proposed Crescenta Valley dog park. The fourth grade girls come from several elementary schools throughout La Crescenta and were given a choice of helping animals, humans or plants in the Crescenta […]

Running for fun and funds

Running for fun and funds

By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley elementary students are jogging to support their schools. Dunsmore Elementary held its annual jog-a-thon a few weeks ago and raised over $14,000 for the school. The funds from the PTA sponsored event will go toward enrichment programs, assemblies and similar activities according to Audra Magee, event chairperson. The fundraiser combines […]

St. James Catholic School

St. James Catholic School

Courtesy of Tricia Flynn St. James Catholic School was invited to participate in the annual Holy Childhood Association Mass celebrated on Oct. 26 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. The school was chosen to have students serve as altar servers and present the readings for the mass. It was an honor for […]

Stacked in their favor

Stacked in their favor

By Mary O’KEEFE In a blur of plastic in colors of pink, blue and black Monte Vista Elementary School students participated in the World Sport Stacking Association’s attempt to break the Guinness World Record for “Most People Sport Stacking at Multiple Locations in One Day.” On Nov. 12 the students joined other sport stackers from […]

Harvest fun at Valley View Elementary School

Harvest fun at Valley View Elementary School

Story and photos by Hyung Seok LEE CV Weekly intern On Oct. 24, Valley View kicked off the fall season with its Harvest Carnival. The event brought together Valley View students so they could enjoy each other’s company away from the day-to-day school schedule while providing fun activities for the attendees. “We just want the […]

Halloween in the Foothills

Halloween in the Foothills

Kids throughout Crescenta Valley showed off their ghoulish side at the schools’ Halloween Parades. Students at foothill schools transformed into everything from royalty to machines for the various elementary school Halloween parades and middle and high school campuses on Friday. The elementary schools hosted parades that gave students the chance to showcase their costumes which […]

CVHS is welcomed at Mt. San Antonio College Invitational

CVHS is welcomed at Mt. San Antonio College Invitational

CVHS cross country teams competed this past weekend, Oct. 23-24, in the Mt. SAC invitational meet where over 300 teams ran in the largest cross country contest in the country. Teams from California, Arizona and Nevada ran in over 118 individual races for the varsity, JV, soph and frosh categories for both boys and girls. Fifty eight of the 100 California state ranked teams were competing in sweepstakes races. Nine […]