Having Halloween fun in the foothills
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
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 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 […]
A Red Ribbon production
By Mary O’KEEFE CV High School students from the cinematography class were busy filming around campus the last few weeks preparing for Red Ribbon Week. Teacher Peter Kim set the stage with a few questions that centered on the positive side of not doing drugs. Kim and principal Linda Evans decided to take a positive approach to Red Ribbon Week, empowering students to […]
College View school celebrates 25th anniversary
By Shana LiVIGNI “We are celebrating back-toschool night and our silver anniversary – 25 years of our school becoming a school,” boasted College View school principal Ms. Jay Schwartz at the jubilee last Friday night. “In 1970, it started as a program to educate children with special needs. Then it became the Glendale Developmental Center […]
Beating breast cancer – sweetly
The Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy basketball players teamed up to beat breast cancer by holding a bake sale which raised over $750 for breast cancer research. The girls sold homemade cookies, cakes and brownies. Shown here are (back row from left) Kate Russell, Ivy Fitzgerald, Juliet Hook, Savanna Willliams, Bridget Fitzgerald, Melene Agakanian, Amber Casillas, […]
They’re more than just cookies
For many, cookies and crafts are all that come to mind when we see a Girl Scout, an image that Carol M. Dedrich, the chief external relations officer of the Greater Los Angeles Girl Scout Council, has been trying to dispel. As Dedrich explained, the Girl Scout program is about promoting l e a d […]
Falcon marching band’s winning ways
Crescenta Valley High School’s Falcon marching band is just about halfway through its marching/competition season and has already received a first place trophy. The West/El Camino Field Tournament, where CV took first place in its division on Oct. 3, is one of dozens of competitions throughout the fall marching season at which bands (along with […]