The LA County Recovery in Focus: Speakers Bureau in the coming weeks will continue to feature experts on key wildfire recovery topics, including employment assistance, debris removal, housing assistance and resources for business owners, among many others. The next speaker is LA County Assessor Jeffrey Prang. He will be speaking on Friday, Feb. 28 from […]
Monte Vista Elementary School students who are part of the school’s Girls on the Run program will be holding a fundraising bake sale for La Crescenta Library. This event is a community project for Girls on the Run and will be on March 1 at 10:30 a.m. at the La Crescenta Library, 2809 Foothill Blvd. […]
Jazz Night at the Café, an evening of swing dance to live music provided by the award-winning CV jazz band, was a resounding success according to organizers. The event, which took place on Friday night at the school’s cafeteria, was “fabulous,” bringing the crowd to its feet and dancing for hours. “There were over 240 […]
Los Angeles County gratefully acknowledges $8 million in wildfire relief grants from FireAid, which will be used to support direct assistance to impacted residents, workers and small businesses. The grants include $2.5 million for the LA County Household Relief Grant program for residents displaced by the Eaton and Palisades fires. The online application period for […]
In the Feb. 11 and Feb. 18 meetings of the Glendale City Council we incorrectly identified the speaker of multi-modal transportation projects. It was actually the Assistant Public Works Director Sarkis Oganesyan who spoke on the issue.
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Five graduate landscape architecture students have partnered with the Los Angeles’ Emergency Management Department (EMD) and asked CV Weekly to post the QR code for their wildfire survey. According to an email received at CVW, the graduate students are “focused on speculative design work that builds social cohesion, strengthens connections to the local ecology and […]
Plan now to attend Jazz Night at the Café featuring the Crescenta Valley High School jazz band on Friday, Feb. 21 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. By Mary O’KEEFE Jazz Night at the Café is a long standing, or long dancing, tradition in the CV Instrumental Music program at the high school. The award-winning […]
By Mary O’KEEFE In the week ending on Feb. 8, 50,382 patients across the nation were admitted to the hospital with influenza. The deaths due to the flu in the same week increased 2.6% and is trending upward. There were 68 deaths in total thus far for the flu season, which lasts from October to […]
By Julie BUTCHER At the beginning of Tuesday night’s meeting of the Glendale City Council, three commission appointments moved forward in routine fashion by unanimous vote: Alex Fay was appointed to the board of the Glendale Water and Power; Daniel Paul was reappointed to the city’s Historic Preservation Commission; and Talin Shahbazian was appointed to […]