The New Year’s Flood and the Taste of Maple The New Year’s flood of 1934, 80 years ago this New Year’s Eve, was a defining moment in the history of our valley. It was at midnight, New Year’s Eve, when the year changed from 1933 to 1934 and our community changed overnight from peaceful neighborhoods […]
Today’s theme is effective communication strategies. New Website: CV-Alliance.org! Our new website rocks, and will improve as I master its functions. This website is your place for information. Please visit, sign up for mailings, offer information we can share with others, and consider making an end-of-the-year donation. New Program in 2014: Teen Trials & […]
Updates on Twelve Oaks and Rockhaven I’ve been asked by several readers to give an update on what’s happening at Twelve Oaks now that everyone has been kicked out. As most of you remember, the Twelve Oaks Lodge, an old-folks home that had been part of CV for 80 years, was suddenly closed by its […]
Barking Up The Christmas Tree It’s official: My dogs think I’m crazy. Since we brought the two of them home as newly weaned pups last February, it’s been a constant battle to keep them from dragging all sorts of branches, pine cones, sticks, bark, twigs, pine bows, palm fronds, potted plants, roots and assorted other […]
My name is Makayla and I am a 10th grader at CVHS. I have lived in La Crescenta my whole life going through both La Crescenta Elementary and Rosemont Middle schools. In general, I have seen that La Crescenta is a loving community. Of course, we are not perfect but we can try to strive […]
Now Accepting Applications for the 2014 Small Business Advisory Commission Last January, I organized my first Small Business Advisory Commission. The result was momentous. The Commission voted unanimously to ask me to introduce AB 227, a bill which would reform Proposition 65 to protect small businesses from meritless lawsuits. Gov. Brown signed AB 227 into […]
New Local Film – “The Trails of La Cañada” I’ve often written about the mountains surrounding us and the wonderful hiking opportunities near the Crescenta Valley. Surprisingly, the highest concentration of hiking trails is right next door to us, within the small city of La Cañada Flintridge. La Cañada, which many of us view as […]
Christmas by Choice It often seems as if Christmas time is all about making choices. See? I just made one right there – choosing to use the traditional name of the holiday instead of the secularly sanitized euphemism, “Holiday season.” But this column is not an update from that battlefront. The Christmas choices I’m thinking […]
Greetings from CV Alliance! Thanks to the 12 insightful teens from CV Alliance’s Youth Alliance, ASB, Fire House and Prom Plus who read and discussed topics raised by Jim Smiley’s students in their letters from CV kids to CV adults. Eighty attended this forum on Thursday night. The CV Alliance Youth Alliance meets on Dec. […]
The Young Get It On Friday night, a man robbed the Rite Aid at the Ralphs market plaza at the corner of Rosemont Avenue and Foothill Boulevard. There were some intense moments as the gunman had barricaded himself in the [nearby] Verizon store and for a time it was not known his state of mind […]