You Can’t Take It With You I have many friends and relatives who live a minimalist lifestyle. Their houses are immaculate and there is no clutter in any of the rooms. Everything has its place, which is out of view, most of the time. Yeah, that’s not me. The truth is, I like my […]
Fire and Flood in 1889 A confounding aspect of our natural ecology in the Crescenta Valley is the overlap of fire season and flood season that happens at this time of year. Our fire season extends from late summer well into December (and sometimes beyond) while our flood season begins in November with our first […]
Climate Change Observations: Part 2 In the spring of 1970, P. Gunter, a professor at N. Texas State, predicted that by 1975 famines would begin in India, Pakistan, China and Near East Africa. By 2000 or sooner, Central and South America would be in famine conditions. He went on to predict that, by 2000, with […]
The House Will Never Again be Silent on the Armenian Genocide Ever since I was first elected in 2000 to represent our community in Congress, I’ve had the privilege of representing one of the largest Armenian diaspora communities anywhere in the world. And in my many years of working closely with Armenian-Americans, I have been […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – A Rescue During the Mill Fire I’ve written before about how the members of the Montrose Search and Rescue team (MSAR) often are called during natural disasters. Such was the case during 1975’s Mill Fire. This story comes from MSAR team member Fred Koegler, a team member in 1975 […]
Tackling the Issue of Homelessness Homelessness. It is one of our state’s greatest challenges. Every night, over 130,000 Californians sleep on our streets. Homelessness has become a full-on crisis, one that has rightfully been the focus of policy discussions throughout the state. In response, we’ve put unprecedented resources and energy towards finding real and […]
Mill Fire of 1975 – The Community Helped Each Other Through all the images of fear and destruction from the Mill Fire of 1975 there were some funny sights as well. A llama peacefully grazed on the lawn of one La Crescenta house, having been evacuated from its fire-threatened home. A photo that made […]
Climate Change Observations: Part 1 Prior to computers, the predictions for climate changes and earth resources were made by humans using charts, graphs, data tables, slide rules and so on. Now with the computer age the predictions are faster to calculate and generate. These predictions are now called “models.” After the predictions or models […]
Kudos for Article – More Info Wanted I wish to thank Brandon Hensley, one of your contributing writers, for his excellent article on 5G protesters in the Sept. 26 issue. I was elated to see it! I too have been doing research in this area and, from the numerous articles I have read, I have […]
Congratulations for a Race Well Run I want to congratulate all six candidates who ran for the Crescenta Valley Town Council (elections were held last Friday evening and all day Saturday). It’s a responsibility taken seriously. Everyone who ran won a seat as there were, as usual, three regular three-year terms and three alternate […]