Thank you for stopping by our booth at the Hometown Country Fair! It was terrific to meet so many of you and to hear what you have to say about our community. It was a wonderful event and many thanks to the chamber of commerce for including us. The big news this past week was […]
No Time Limit on Justice for Hit-and-Run Victims On Jan. 1, 2010, 49-year-old Joo Lee was crossing Montrose Avenue when he was struck by an SUV and thrown 70 feet down the road. Lee was crossing the street to pick up his daughter from a friend’s house. Despite a concerted effort by local authorities, a […]
The Foothill Boulevard Riot, Part 1 Cruising in cars, starting in the post WWII boom, became a standard part of life for American teens. All across the U.S., masses of teenagers were driving slowly up and down the main street of town, socializing, stopping for food, showing off their cars and occasionally racing each other. […]
Puppy Pandemonium I apologize for writing yet another column about canines, but great Danes-a-dancing – what was I thinking?! I’m up to my eyeballs these days in puppy pee, poop, ruined carpeting and gnawed-on furniture. Right now as I’m writing there is an explosion of brown fur over, under and all around the legs of […]
My board of directors thanks the 256 people (by my count) who attended our Community & Family Summit on March 14. We hope you got a lot out of it. Please let us know what you thought of the event through an anonymous survey on our website www.cvdapc.org. Clay Roberts trained people in the 40 […]
There Is Hope! Last Friday (Good Friday), my wife and I were driving on Montrose Avenue near Honolulu when we saw a man in a wheelchair that seemed to be talking to himself. While we were stopped for a red light, I rolled down the window to try and hear what he was saying. He […]
Countdown To Relay For Life It’s that time of year again…the American Cancer Society Foothills Relay for Life! The Crescenta Valley is a community-oriented place to live, and the Foothills Relay for Life is a community-based event. In recent years, through the generosity of those who live in the Crescenta Valley, we raised around $100,000 […]
A Gift from the Past I’ve reached that age when even normally insignificant things can wind up reminding me of how many years I’ve already been on the planet. Like using a gift certificate, for example. The other day, the simple, common act of buying something with a gift certificate left me rolling my eyes, […]
The ’71 Earthquake’s Affect on Montrose On Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1971 at 6 in the morning, an earthquake roared through the Crescenta Valley. Registering 6.6 on the Richter scale, it lasted about 60 seconds. The quake had been centered along the front face of the San Gabriel Mountains and focused much of its intensity on […]
May Not Be True American-Style, But… I was so excited to see the sign up where the original Shakey’s Pizza Parlor was that said future Straw Hat Pizza, and to see them finally tearing down the previous façade. [Straw Hat] may not be the “American style” restaurant that I had been originally hoping for, […]