CV’s First Inhabitants – What Happened to the Wiqangna Village Site To wrap up our series on the Native Americans who lived in our valley for perhaps thousands of years before we arrived, let’s examine what has happened to the village site. As written before, we are assuming the village was located at the far […]
Looking at Who Contributes to CALPERS It is very unfortunate how people attack our police officers, council members or city staff regarding their retirement, or pensions, while not once mentioning the fact that our civil servants contribute to their own pensions from every single one of their paychecks. Aside from the fact that our officers […]
CV’s First Inhabitants – Life After the Mission The plan the Spanish missionaries had first laid out for California was to establish the missions, Christianize the natives and, after 10 years, hand the missions and their lands over to the natives. That would free the missionaries to move further north and east and establish more […]
Saving Cents … and Making Sense … of Your Monthly Water Bill All right, so you’ve just received your most recent water bill from CVWD and it’s a bit higher than what you normally pay. This may indicate that there is a water-related issue, either inside or outside your property. The good news is that […]
Three Strikes and They Should be Out What once seemed like just a silly branding stunt on Foothill Boulevard in the form of two concrete median islands reading “Welcome to Glendale” has taken a darker turn as the Lowell Avenue site was demolished in a traffic accident. For the third time. These sites are inherently […]
CV’s First Inhabitants – Life at the Mission I have written for several weeks about the life of the Native-American village of Wiqangna, located near La Tuna Canyon, most likely on the land that is now the (defunct) Verdugo Hills Golf Course. After hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years of existence, the village and its […]
Get Covered, Californians Comprehensive health coverage, and the peace of mind it brings, is fundamental. When the Affordable Care Act was enacted, California chose to develop and operate its own state exchange – Covered California – to ensure that as many Californians as possible could have access to affordable healthcare. Covered California’s mission was simple […]
Questions the Goals of the CVTC Who does the Crescenta Valley Town Council serve – local residents or big business? Residents concerned about the proposed AT&T small cell on Briggs Avenue had the following experiences with CVTC: 1. Land Use Committee meeting where the decision was made to recommend approval/disapproval was pushed forward from Thursday, […]
Reminds that We Are All Americans Has anger and hate replaced love and respect in our country? Have we forgotten that we are all Americans? Why have we allowed our political parties to divide us? It doesn’t take long to realize that all energies are devoted to getting control of our Congress. Who are they […]
CV’s First Inhabitants – The Abandonment of Wiqangna As I’ve written before, we know next to nothing about our local Native-American village other than it did exist. I’ve been using William McCawley’s fine book “The First Angelinos” as reference, and filling in some blanks with my own scattered knowledge. When the Europeans first touched […]