California Roads and Rail: One Step Closer to Being an Energy Source Shortly after being elected, I had a conversation with a friend who had just returned from Israel. Expecting to hear emotional descriptions of religious sites, I was surprised to hear my friend rave instead about a road that produced energy. After researching the […]
CV Alliance executive director Suzy Jacobs is on vacation this week. I have been thinking a lot lately about how I am one of the luckiest people on the planet because my relationship with my 17-year-old daughter is rock solid. We always get along wonderfully. But I have worked very hard to make sure this […]
The Death of a Young Mother – Part 1 I’ve often written that the founding industry of the Crescenta Valley was the treatment of lung diseases, starting with Dr. Briggs in 1881. Soon after, those afflicted with lung problems, particularly tuberculosis, flocked to our valley for the clean dry air, at that time the only […]
Crossing Invisible Borders For the past two years as president of the CV Town Council one of my priorities was to focus on outreach to the entire foothill community. As many of you know the lines on a map that create our invisible borders between our neighboring communities of Glendale, La Cañada and Sunland-Tujunga do […]
Crescenta Valley Water for Today and Tomorrow Earlier this month Mike Lawler’s Viewpoints articles provided a brief history of water development in CV and the events that led to the formation of the Crescenta Valley Water District including the inheritance of pipelines and wells dating back to the 1930s. Since the formation of CVWD in 1950, […]
Hi, CV! According to the latest Gallup poll, 58% of Americans favor legalization of marijuana, a record high. The only group opposing recreational use of marijuana are people 65 and older, and even their support has increased. It should come as no surprise that the group with the highest level of support is younger generations. […]
Angeles Crest Highway – Our Backyard Paradise One of my favorite drives is to climb up Angeles Crest Highway from La Cañada and explore some of the most spectacular scenery in Southern California. Any visitor from out of town, any dynamics in the weather – heck, any couple of free hours – provides an excuse […]
It was so nice to see such a great article on Fred Koegler and his long career as a Yosemite National Park ranger (“Still Riding High After 50 Years,” Oct. 15). I was a student of his at Verdugo Hills High School when he taught a semester-long forestry class in 1979. I loved that class […]
Hi, CV! We are having a fun, family-friendly fundraiser on Saturday at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, 102 E. Magnolia. Each ticket is $30 – and in addition you have to purchase two items (drinks, food) during the show – and you can buy the tickets online at flapperscomedy.com/Calendar/October 24. Free parking across the street […]
Famous Women of Rockhaven Sanitarium – Peggy Fears Rockhaven Sanitarium today stands as a monument to powerful and dynamic women. As a successful business run by powerful women, it attracted powerful women as patients. Besides the businesswomen and academics who spent their last years at Rockhaven, a number of show business ladies were patients as […]