YOUTH NOTES

End-of-Year Giving Opportunity   Crescenta Valley High School Crescenta Valley Theatre Arts Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports the Crescenta Valley High School Performing Arts Dept. The Foundation encourages end-of-year tax-deductible donations to help reach the department’s annual budget of $30,000. Donations can be made by mailing a check to the school (CVHS, 2900 […]

Young Entrepreneurs Come to Harvest Market

Young Entrepreneurs Come to Harvest Market

By Mary O’KEEFE Webster Dictionary defines an “entrepreneur” as “one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.” But a group of kids from La Cañada are expanding that definition to include one who is fearless, confident, well-spoken and respectful – thanks to an after-school program called School X. Developers of […]

Holiday Spirit Shared at Cerritos Elementary

Holiday Spirit Shared at Cerritos Elementary

  On Tuesday, Dignity Health-Glendale Memorial Hospital staff and volunteers provided holiday cheer to the students at Cerritos Elementary School. Each child at Cerritos Elementary School received a special gift-wrapped holiday present from the staff and volunteers at Dignity Health-Glendale Memorial Hospital. Presents included Legos, science kits, soccer balls, games, art supplies and other requested […]

PPC Hosts A Swinging Good Time

PPC Hosts A Swinging Good Time

The Prom Plus Club and Crescenta Valley High School Jazz Band combined efforts to support Prom Plus on Saturday, Dec. 10 hosting a swing dance at the La Crescenta Woman’s Club. The success of the event was in part due to the dedication and contributions of the La Crescenta Woman’s Club, LCWC Juniors, dance teachers […]

Partnership Yields Award

Partnership Yields Award

This year, students from La Cañada and Crescenta Valley high schools joined students from the University of La Verne to participate in a collegiate level competition in synthetic biology at the iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) Jamboree. The students designed and built a genetically engineered machine to produce biofuels more efficiently. They spent nine months […]

No Losers at VV Game Night

No Losers at VV Game Night

Valley View Elementary School held its Family Game Night, which promotes the annual PTA toy and book drive to help children from the district. Attendees were treated to the sixth grade’s homemade waffle bar, hot chocolate and fun games. Families were encouraged to bring a new unwrapped toy or book to receive bonus raffle tickets […]

Valley View Students Gather Toys, Books

Valley View Students Gather Toys, Books

The students and families of Valley View Elementary School donated more than three large boxes of toys, books and games for GUSD families as part of the school’s annual donation drive. Contributed by Vie NAZARIAN  

YOUTH NOTES

End-of-Year Giving Opportunity Crescenta Valley High School Crescenta Valley Theatre Arts Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports the Crescenta Valley High School Performing Arts Dept. The Foundation encourages end-of-year tax-deductible donations to help reach the department’s annual budget of $30,000. Donations can be made by mailing a check to the school (CVHS, 2900 Community […]

More Than A Game

More Than A Game

  By Nestor CASTIGLIONE Fads come and go – and games are no exception to this axiom. Witness this summer’s mania over Nintendo’s “Pokémon Go” and the subsequent sharp paring away of interest in it. But one game has tenaciously held its own for millennia, eliciting the interest and even obsession of laymen and philosophers, […]

Principal Pelted with Water Balloons – All in Good Fun

Principal Pelted with Water Balloons – All in Good Fun

  Valley View concluded its yearly Campaign for Excellence: Mission Possible by giving the class that raised the most donations the opportunity to throw water balloons at principal Dr. Brook Reynolds. Kathryn Gonzalez’s first grade class won the challenge. Prior to the school’s Halloween parade, Principal Reynolds stood by the handball wall and dodged the […]