Our Year in Review December 2018 We did it! After a whirlwind year for our district and state, we find ourselves at the close of 2018. While there have definitely been some downs, we also have so much to be grateful for. And as I prepare to represent you for another term, I would like […]
Only in the Crescenta Valley – What is more fun for a 5-year-old than a trip to Disneyland? It is having a visit from the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station at your birthday party! Our grandson, Peter Badigue, for his fifth birthday party, held at Hello Pizza, received a visit from Community Relations Deputy Alex Covian […]
Benjamin Briggs’ 49er Diary – Part 1 Dr. Benjamin Briggs is considered the founder of La Crescenta. He came here in 1881 because of the healthful clear air and purchased the entire Crescenta Valley. He named it La Crescenta, and divided it into saleable lots. What many don’t know is that Briggs originally came […]
With All Best Wishes for the Holidays and New Year! Dear Crescenta Valley Friends, Let me start this month’s column by congratulating all seven candidates who ran in the Nov. 16-17 Crescenta Valley Town Council election. We had a tremendous turnout with 567 votes counted among 287 ballots. So many, in fact, that we had […]
Questions CVTC Motives In the Nov. 15 article about the Crescenta Valley Town Council general meeting, Councilmember Mike Claessans attempted to discourage residents from speaking about the Briggs Avenue AT&T small cell appeal by reportedly saying such speeches would be “inappropriate, confusing and will not help,” based on the prior approval of the project in […]
Crisis? What Crisis? California leaders, from the governor on down to municipal city councilmembers, appear to be in “panic mode” as they scramble to do something about the so-called housing shortage. I am pretty sure that we are not on the brink of a market crisis as they claim. California’s high rents did not […]
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 […]