By Charly SHELTON Clark Magnet High has done it again. The Lexus Eco Challenge offers high school students a chance to get environmentally involved and find practical ways of researching and improving the environment to make a better tomorrow. And, once again, the environmental geographic information system class at Clark Magnet High School entered and […]
Puzzling questions, fun skits and a great lunch await those who take part in Smart-A-Thon. By Charly SHELTON “The indigenous Paiute people called this mountain Tumanguya or ‘Too-man-goo-yah,’ which means ‘the very old man.’ They believed this Great Spirit who watched over them lived here. Where is Tumanguya?” If you answered Mt. Whitney, you have […]
By Charly SHELTON “The French Connection” is regularly listed on top movie lists as one of the finest films ever made. It was ranked the eighth most thrilling American film by the American Film Institute, right behind “The Birds” and “Alien.” And when the Alex Film Society decided to screen a 35mm print of the […]
By Charly SHELTON Though I review lots of new restaurants, I think restaurants that have been around for a long time are just as worthy of a good, thorough, deep-dive as any new place. Take for example La Cabañita. It’s a Montrose-Sparr Heights staple and, for nearly 30 years, the Jimenez family has been serving […]
By Charly SHELTON Door-to-door, it is 159 miles from the La Crescenta Presbyterian Church to the U.S.-Mexico Border in San Ysidro. Four members of the LCPC found out firsthand just how far that is during a round-trip three-day bike ride. Josh Horton, youth director at LCPC, his father David, and Duane and Ashley Fernandez, two […]
By Charly SHELTON In 2012, a visitor from Earth touched down on Mars. Landing in Gale Crater with a two-year mission to examine the geology of three-mile-high Mount Sharp located within the crater, the Curiosity rover has been driving up the side of the mountain since that time and is about to make a foray […]
By Charly SHELTON On Feb 22, 1913, a small development was founded in the foothills above Los Angeles by property developers Holmes and Walton. What once was ranch land became a small community with hearty citizens who scratched a town out of the rock-laden soil on a hillside. To commemorate the occasion, the citizens gathered […]
By Charly SHELTON Valley Village is a little way from the Crescenta Valley, but we’ve all been stuck there at some point during rush hour. Rather than sit on the freeway, get off and explore the area until the traffic dies down. I’ve found more good restaurants than I can remember because of rush hour. […]
Faith leaders and community supporters gather for a morning focused on local youth. By Charly SHELTON It’s time for pancakes, peacekeeping and prayer – all found at the Annual Prayer Breakfast. “The Prayer Breakfast has always been about the youth in our community and that’s what we emphasize – their well-being and their contributions […]
By Charly SHELTON On average, nearly 20 people a minute are victims of domestic violence, according to a U.S. Dept. of Justice special report on non-fatal domestic violence. Another report, the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, published in 2010 by the Center for Disease Control said that “more than 1 in 3 women […]