A Common Place To Gather On Sunday, Aug. 17 at 9 a.m., community volunteers will gather to finally break ground on Crescenta Commons. With shovels and picks in hand, the trenches will be dug, bender board for the paths installed and rocks for the bench and monument sorted. For years the community has been hearing […]
Hi, CV! Hope your first week of school is going well. Here’s wishing you a terrific year! CV Alliance members have been busy putting together programs for parents, families, and kids. Here are a few: We are pleased to announce “Teen Trials & Tribulations: a Series of 4 Talks” resumes on Thursday, Sept. 11 in […]
Glendale Politics Some very interesting differences were recently published between the response times of Glendale Police Officers Association, which belongs to the pension plan of California Public Employees Retirement System (CALPERS), and the response times of Los Angeles County sheriff deputies who belong to the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) pension plan. Everyone […]
California Pepper Trees – An Icon of “Old California” Pepper trees are one of the more common yard trees in the Crescenta Valley, and have some history behind them as well. They’re easy to identify with their dense evergreen and lacy leaves, drooping boughs and clusters of pink and red aromatic “peppers.” The berries or […]
Being College Bound I remember being in eighth grade at my grandparents’ house when they suddenly asked me, “Marissa, where do you want to go to college?” At the time, I just shrugged and replied, “UCLA, I guess,” because that was the only college I really knew of. Now, five years later, after applying to […]
Hi CV! If you read this column, you know we attended a national convention in Orlando that brought together 1800 people working to prevent underage drug and alcohol use. It was a wonderful meeting, the best I’ve attended. I immersed myself in best practices, theories of prevention, ways to track data and share credit, and […]
The Rich Bounty of Old Briggs Terrace Doctor Benjamin Briggs is considered our founder having laid out our streets, founded churches and schools, and even coined the name “Crescenta.” He first established himself in 1881 on the shelf of land that sticks out high above the valley at Pickens Canyon – today a neighborhood known […]
The Do’s and Don’ts of Your Sewage/Wastewater System Water not only comes into our homes – water also goes out. While a lot of attention is paid to how we use – or do not use – our water, very little attention is paid to the water that leaves our home – our sewage or […]
This past week, four of the CV Youth Alliance’s teen members attended a conference in Orlando, Florida. The conference was hosted by the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America and built on the framework of the National Coalition Institute’s National Coalition Academy. At this conference, youth learned how to help community coalitions be more effective in […]
Calling Street Maintenance Clank – clank – clank goes the manhole cover, all day, all night at the intersection of Honolulu Avenue and Dunsmore. The neighbors have been calling street maintenance since April … they’ve been out a couple of times to try to fix it, but have failed to do so. Whenever a wheel […]