Crimes that Occur in Schools Must Be Taken Seriously Recently, several California colleges have been accused of covering up on-campus sexual assaults because of concerns that higher crime statistics would lead prospective students to choose elsewhere. While the full circumstances of these accusations is under investigation, one thing is clear: Victims of crime should not […]
Who Says CV Doesn’t Have Great Modern Architecture? I think most people would agree that the Crescenta Valley’s architecture is fairly traditional – some might even say boring. Our native architectural style of stone and wood framing, like St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at Rosemont and Foothill, is gorgeous, but certainly not innovative. Save for the […]
Territory Transfer, Beautification Project & More On July 8, the Glendale Unified School District board of education postponed the vote to authorize Superintendent Sheehan to draft a Memo of Understanding regarding the territory transfer between Glendale and La Cañada school districts. During the discussion board member Armine Gharpetian requested additional outreach to our community be […]
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 […]