Helping Our Children See the Future As parents, and as a community, we strive to ensure that every child has a chance to succeed, and that starts with good schools. Yet for many kids, when they look at the blackboard, they don’t see mathematics or the alphabet – they just see a blur. A great […]
CV’s First Inhabitants – Warfare As I continue my series on our local native people, the Tongva, I’m hitting the particular subjects that I personally am interested in, and hopefully my readers find those interesting too. There’s just too much to cover, so I’ll wrap it up soon. I think we tend to imagine […]
Solutions For All Of Us 63,632. That’s how many people the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported suffered overdose deaths in the United States in 2016 – the number is rising. The statistics make it clear that addiction is becoming more prevalent and deadly every year. In response, there has also been a dramatic […]
CV’s First Inhabitants – Hunting As I have mentioned in previous columns, the Tongva people of the Los Angeles area enjoyed a rich and nutritious diet. Besides the variety of plants they ate, they had a wide array of high-protein meat available. While the coast natives were awash in seafood (pun-intended), the inland natives […]
Dear Robin, I wrote a few weeks ago to clarify that LA County does not require owner consent to designate a property a historic landmark (“Info on Historical Preservation,” August 16, 2018, p. 9). Thank you for publishing my letter. I want to address potential confusion that may arise from the Editor’s Note, which stated […]
“Coffee with Council” at Two Strike Park took place on Sept. 8 from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. We provided updates on Council business and answered questions about the medians on Foothill, which began construction last month, and on the Two Strike Park tree project, among other items of community interest. Speaking of the tree […]
CV’s First Inhabitants – What Did They Eat? Let’s imagine ourselves in the pre-European Crescenta Valley, walking up the dusty trail (today’s Honolulu Avenue) that ran between the villages strung along the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. We’re walking on the edge of a large oak forest (that is today Crescenta Valley Park) […]
CVIM Foundation Hosts Tasty Fundraisers A dine-out supporting the Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Dept. is being held at Panda Express in La Cañada on Tuesday, Sept. 18 between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. Twenty percent of the event sales will be donated to the CVIM. Bring a print or digital version of the flyer (available […]
CV’s First Inhabitants – What Did They Look Like? I’ve been writing about the Tongva people and their likely village in the Crescenta Valley, the village of Wiqangna (Wi-Kong-Na). Imagine a group of Wiqangna villagers chattering cheerfully as they walked down the dusty trail that is today Honolulu Avenue, heading east to visit their […]
How Full is Your Cup? Have you ever been sitting in a meeting and one of the attendees indignantly complains about an issue saying, “Someone should do something about this” but when asked if they could help with the problem, they have 101 excuses why they can’t? Fortunately for the rest of us, there are […]