Over 300 Crescenta Valley High School seniors and their guests attended the 2017 Prom Plus event held at the Crescenta Cañada YMCA. In addition to a full casino, guests had plenty to keep them busy from midnight to 5 a.m. Photos by Joe ALLEN and Charly SHELTON
By Charly SHELTON Long before the slow motion guys took to YouTube, and before the iPhone had a 240 frames per second slow motion camera, and even before the Mythbusters broke things at super slow motion to analyze the fracture of a skull, there was one name in slow motion photography that we all knew. […]
Everything from handmade crafts to unique gifts will be found on Honolulu during the annual Arts and Crafts Festival. By Charly SHELTON t’s that time of year again – time for handmade crafts and beautiful paintings, singers and dancers on every block and local fresh produce next to international delicacies. It’s time for the Montrose […]
By Charly SHELTON The Crescenta Valley Town Council held its monthly meeting last week to discuss issues pertaining to the area. The CVTC said goodbye to Lt. Col. David Worley of Crescenta Valley High School’s JROTC program, who will be retiring at the end of the school year on June 1. Worley has worked with […]
The Real Drink of the Irish: Guinness By Charly SHELTON hen Americans think of Ireland, thoughts are usually of leprechauns, four leaf clovers, pots of gold and green beer, as is evidenced by the crowds of amateurs out on St. Patrick’s Day in their 99 Cents Store attire. These are not quite real Irish. In […]
Community invited to celebrate military personnel. By Charly SHELTON This Saturday, May 20, is Armed Forces Day, a day of celebration that ends Armed Forces Week. Men and women from across the country who have served in the armed services are recognized, as are the branches of the military in which they served. Armed […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley High School is the only high school within Glendale Unified School District that has a JROTC (Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps) program – a successful and popular program. And, after 14 years, the program’s teacher/mentor Lt. Col. David Worley is retiring. “It’s a bit bittersweet,” he said after the JROTC’s […]
By Charly SHELTON It is past the 1997 deadline of Judgment Day as prophesied in “Terminator 2,” but machines still have the power to cripple our lives if they don’t behave the way they should. Bank records, tax documents, family photos, term papers, corporate presentations and the all important music library – all of this […]
By Charly SHELTON When one thinks of mammals, the characteristics that pop to mind are small, fuzzy, warm-blooded creatures that survived the K-T extinction that killed (most of) the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Mammals went on to become the dominant class on the planet, and these fuzzy little guys evolved to become fuzzy big […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Prom Plus Taste of Montrose was held on Sunday, made possible by the complete generosity of local restaurants. Prom Plus began over 20 years ago after a Crescenta Valley High School student was murdered while she slept at an unsupervised after-prom party. CVHS seniors had rented rooms in an Anaheim hotel. […]