By Mary O’KEEFE The Community Foundation of the Verdugos is expanding its outreach to a broader community by joining with Glendale and Burbank police departments as part of the “Glendale-Burbank DNA Justice Project.” The CFV board wanted the foundation to do more impactful projects in the community, said Edna Karinski, chief executive officer of CFV. […]
Though the economy is on the rebound, nonprofit organizations are still feeling a financial pinch. While this is stressful, it also allows the organizations to rethink their goals and perhaps stretch their creative muscles. On Monday afternoon, CV Weekly hosted coffee and conversation with Assemblymember Mike Gatto at Montrose Bakery. We were delighted to pack […]
by Sue KILPATRICK “The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature.” ~ John Steinbeck John Steinbeck wrote of our coastline. His impressions apply to a specific place and time. Now beach homes, hotels, restaurants […]
Claessens Voted onto CVWD Board In a special public meeting on Nov. 5, the Crescenta Valley Water District (CVWD) board of directors interviewed four prospective candidates for the vacancy left by the resignation of director Kathy Ross. Director Ross will move to the Division 5 Foothill Municipal Water District board of directors seat on Dec. […]
By Isiah REYES Glendale Galleria and DreamWorks have partnered to bring “Adventure to Santa,” an interactive magical journey for kids to search for Santa at the North Pole. Located in the JCPenney Court at the mall, Santa’s cottage is a 2,000 square foot attraction that includes 15,000 LED lights and 300 watts of concert stereo […]
The Montrose Christmas Parade volunteers are busily working to get everything ready for tonight. Coordinators are monitoring the winds, however as of 1:15 p.m. the parade was a go. “You might be in a for a little luck,” said Stuart Seto, weather specialist at the National Weather Service in Oxnard. The winds appear to be dying […]
During the early morning hours of Monday, October 31, 2011, multiple suspects entered various classrooms on the campus of La Canada High School, in La Canada Flintridge. The theft was discovered by school staff members later that same day as several teachers were unable to locate computers in their classrooms. The school soon learned that […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A helicopter landed in the parking lot of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 4500 block of Raymond this morning as a medical transport for a child involved in an early morning accident. The accident occurred at the intersection of Mountain and Briggs avenues in La Crescenta […]
By Mary O’KEEFE While most were enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon, Montrose Search and Rescue Team members took a trip to Big Tujunga and rappelled out of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Air Rescue 5 helicopter. In Crescenta Valley it is usually Air Rescue 5 that flies overhead on its way to help search for a […]
By Mary O’KEEFE At about 10 a.m. Sunday morning Glendale police responded to a call to assist California HIghway Patrol concerning an 11-year-old boy that was alone on the southbound Glendale (2) freeway near the 2 and Foothill (210) freeway interchange, said Lt. Ian Grimes. The call came from a motorist who observed the child […]