Thanks Vets, Community [On Sept. 29] we were invited by Mike Baldwin to attend the rededication of the Two Strike War Memorial at Two Strike Park. Mike has been keeping us up to date on how things were going with the fundraising and the progress that they were making. It was our pleasure to attend […]
Swept Away By Imagination Growing up in La Crescenta, one of my most vivid memories is of a huge, smoke-belching monster that would crawl along the gutter of the sleepy street where I lived. The glow from its sickly yellow, predatory eyes would slice through the pre-dawn mist and darkness on my street. If I […]
Tuna Camp’s Historical Status Threatened The internment of America’s Japanese-descended population during WWII is still highly controversial today. It was one of the darkest chapters in America’s history. Many don’t realize that a key element of this episode took place right here in the Crescenta Valley. “Tuna Camp” was a Civilian Conservation Corp camp on […]
The Twelve Oaks Debacle – CV Betrayed! My column usually concentrates on history, but this one is slightly different as we’re currently seeing history made right before our eyes. We’re seeing corporate greed and chutzpa on a scale the valley has never experienced before. There are many layers of greed to this story, but let […]
Everyone Knows It’s Windy (Especially in So Cal) Is it just me, or has anyone else had the song, “Windy” blowing around in their head lately? I realize I’m dating myself (something I do all too often, unfortunately), but that song by the ‘60s group, “The Association” was at the top of the pop charts […]
A Dose of Prevention: Protecting Our Teens from Medicine Abuse As parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, teachers, and other concerned adults, we spend a lot of time helping teens circumvent the challenges that could ground them for life. Perhaps one of the biggest challenges teens face is substance abuse. While we may talk to them about […]
Chastises Chase Regarding Jim Chase’s Oct. 3 article, “To The Tall Twerp I Almost Ran Over” [Viewpoints, My Thoughts Exactly]: I too travel the street next to CV High regularly and have often had close calls with students stepping off the curb. Just recently a teenage girl stepped off 10 feet in front of me. […]
The Czechoslovakian Hall of La Crescenta To recap last week’s article, Slovakian immigrant Henry Biescar, after prospering in Los Angeles around the turn of the century, retired to La Crescenta in 1915. The Slovakian community in Los Angeles was vibrant, and several cultural organizations for both Czechs and Slovaks thrived here. In 1928 several LA […]
To The Tall Twerp I Almost Ran Over I don’t know your name and can only make a logical guess at your age given that you are a Crescenta Valley High student. But your smug face and stupidly reckless actions are hard to forget. You are tall, with an average build and longish, blondish hair […]
Enthusiastic Response by Public On Wednesday, [Sept. 18] during the Chamber of Commerce Community Expo at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital, as a community service, we offered a document shredding service to residents and businesses. Everyone was so grateful to have a local secure method to dispose of old financial records to avoid documents falling into […]