Where We Are Now and Where Are We Going? As the year draws closer to an end and everyone starts to switch their minds to holiday mode, I wanted to take this opportunity to bring you up to date on some old business and let you know where we are going with some new business […]
Hi, CV! CV Alliance’s first fundraiser is on Saturday, Oct. 24 from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Flappers Comedy Club in beautiful downtown Burbank (Magnolia and First). The club is easily accessible, Burbank has lots of free parking, and the comics are teen-friendly. Throw in support for prevention efforts in our community and there […]
Early Development of Crescenta Valley’s Water When we choose a home site in CV today, we think of schools, traffic, proximity to stores or views. But in the late 1800s, the earliest settlers had only one consideration to keep in mind when choosing their home site – availability of water. Thus when the first American […]
I’ve written previously about La Crescenta’s failed attempt at cityhood in ’64. There are many locally who wonder why we don’t try it again. La Cañada Flintridge went through its own failed attempts at self-governance before finally achieving success in 1976. It strikes me as ironic that La Cañada should achieve cityhood before La Crescenta. […]
Hi, CV! We want to thank everyone for coming out to the Rx Drug Take-back on Saturday. Officer Joe Allen, GPD, got a text saying we removed 28 boxes of unwanted medicines from our community! That’s great! Big thanks to everyone who volunteered from the DEA, Glendale Police, CV Sheriff’s Station Volunteers, and the Community […]
As you head south on the 2 Freeway into Glendale you may have noticed a small orange colored structure on a ridgeline to the east in the San Rafael Hills. My husband had been wondering what it was. I learned at the Sept. 17 Crescenta Valley Town Council meeting that it’s a dip tank set […]
After a week of Pope Francis, I feel a letdown that he has flown away but so grateful that he came to inspire us. I would love to encourage Congressman Adam Schiff to nominate Pope Francis for the Nobel Peace Prize. Rep. Schiff plans to ask the Nobel Committee to consider Pope Francis for the Nobel Peace Prize. The letter […]
Hi, CV! Please remember to clean out your medicine cabinet this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for safe and anonymous disposal courtesy of the DEA, Glendale police and CV sheriffs. And us. Drop-off sites include CVS Montrose, Rite Aid La Crescenta and La Cañada, and the CV Sheriff’s Station at 4554 Briggs Ave. […]
The Story of Glendale High’s Legendary Track Coach Recently my good friend Art Cobery expressed to me the admiration he had for one of the greatest athletes and running coaches that he knew of: Glendale High’s Ranier de Mandel. Remember that Glendale and Hoover were our high schools until CV High was built in 1960, […]
More Needs to Be Done to Help Syrian Refugees Over the past four years, the world has watched in horror as Syria has descended into chaos. The clash between Bashar Al-Assad’s brutal regime, assorted rebel groups and militant Islamic extremists has left the country a nightmarish war-zone and helped produce the biggest refugee crisis since […]