Proud to be a “One Percenter” Last weekend, Americans celebrated their nation’s 238th birthday with family barbecues, trips to the beach and an evening of fantastic fireworks. We were celebrating the promises and privileges of the Declaration of Independence, signed on July 4, 1776. In the Declaration our Founding Fathers asserted that, “All men are […]
Greetings from CV Alliance! In the spirit of thinking globally, acting locally, here’s the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) World Drug Report 2014, available at www.unodc.org. Drug use prevalence is stable around the world. Around 243 million individuals, or 5% of the world’s population aged 15-64, used an illicit drug in 2012. […]
Famous Disney Director’s Home Was La Crescenta Hold onto your hats, Disney-philes! Ben Sharpsteen, director of “Pinocchio” and “Dumbo,” lived during the height of his career right here in La Crescenta in homes on El Sereno and Panorama, one of which is now owned and treasured by the Brines family. Michael Brines has collected memories […]
Pondering Politics This Friday marks 238 years since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, which led to the formation of our beloved United States of America. Could our founding fathers have foreseen the state of our nation’s current political landscape? Could they have predicted the polarization that exists today? This divide shows up in […]
Greetings from CV Alliance! Last Thursday, the Safe Family Task Force, of which we are members, hosted a panel discussion, “Demystifying Domestic Violence,” at Glendale Adventist Hospital. Nearly 50 people came out to hear the discussion including Mayor Zareh Sinanyan. The overarching message was domestic violence (DV) can happen to anyone. There are two forms: […]
Shares Her Love of Twilight Camp – and CV One of the reasons I love living in the comforting embrace of the Crescenta Valley is the yearly tradition of the Girl Scout Twilight Camp. For many years the Girl Scouts have conducted weeklong day camps in our valley. These camps have had various locations throughout […]
Trapped in a Snow Avalanche on Angeles Crest We have such a friendly familiarity with the mountains above us that we forget that nature up there can be deadly. Recently a reader sent me a newspaper clipping on her parents’ rescue from a snow avalanche up on Angeles Crest Highway in April of 1967. Nature […]
Preserving L.A. Open Space for Centuries to Come Residents along the foothills have a unique opportunity to take part in an effort to preserve open space and unique ecosystems for people to enjoy for generations to come. For more than a decade, I have been working with the National Park Service (NPS) to explore the […]
We had a very successful Strategic Partners meeting on June 6; over 80 people attended to hear GUSD Superintendent Dick Sheehan and John Furay, Director/Hearing Officer, Probation Department. Dr. Sheehan was asked about what happens when a student gets in trouble for drugs/alcohol, say comes to school under the influence. There is progressive discipline depending […]
Kudos to CVW When I was a features reporter for a major daily newspaper in Illinois, we had fact checkers. People were employed to ensure that what was printed was the truth. As a result, our newspaper was known as a credible source, much like the Crescenta Valley Weekly. Unfortunately, not all publications print the […]