Soggy Yet Satisfying

Last weekend, if you remember, was the annual Foothills Relay for Life event held at Clark Magnet High School. As I have for the last four years, I was onsite for most of the 24 hours. It was particularly important to me to be there to witness the survivors’ walk, the first lap on Saturday […]

Lacing Up My Walking Shoes

“I walk for my father.” “I walk for my aunt.” “I walk for my best friend.” This weekend is the 24-hour American Cancer Society’s Foothills Relay for Life event being held over at Clark Magnet High School. The Relay is a mega-fundraiser for the society, but more than that, it’s a way for our community […]

Painting the Town

By Robin GOLDSWORTHY The community received a colorful reminder that Foothills Relay for Life is fast approaching. On the morning of April 30, about 20 members of various Relay teams converged onto Honolulu Avenue armed with bright purple paint used to paint footprints onto store windows along the avenue. And the direction the footprints were […]

Some of My Favorite Things

I’m sure that it will surprise few to learn that I love the Crescenta Valley Weekly. It is satisfying that the amount of hard work and dedication that is poured into this paper every week by our writers, photographers, salespeople, designers and office management is rewarded by readers who enjoy it so much and advertisers […]

Taking Time to Reset

I know that I’m preaching to many in the choir when I say I’m weary of information overload. The TV and radio – I still listen to “free” AM and FM stations – of course are constantly blasting info at sometimes lightening speed. On a recent Saturday evening my 22-year-old son and I were watching […]

Take Me to the Fair

This weekend promises to be a gorgeous one with Saturday’s temperatures expected to be in the high 70s. It will be a perfect day to head to Crescenta Valley Park to enjoy the annual Hometown Country Fair. The Crescenta Valley Chamber of Commerce is hosting the annual event and it has everything one would want […]

Campaigns may have ended but the Race is Not Yet Done

Talk about a real nail biter. Steve and I spent election evening between the Measure S camp at the Overtime Bar & Grill in Glendale and with John Drayman supporters across the street at the Hilton. Soon after the polls closed it was apparent Measure S was going to pass and the crowd over at […]

So Many Reasons To Get Out

Where does one start? I guess by praising God that we are entering the final week of this torrid campaign season. I would like to first offer my thanks to those who have thrown their hat into the ring for city council or school board or community college. I’m sure that many of these candidates […]

Busy in the Valley

Wow! What a busy time in the valley. I remember growing up when all of a sudden, after weeks of an empty calendar, everything seemed to happen at once. My mom used to say, “Feast or famine!” Last weekend was certainly a time of feasting. Saturday morning was spent at the annual Arbor Day celebration […]

Car Trouble

As most of you know, I bragged that a couple of weeks ago I bought a new car – well, new to me anyway. It’s a 2000 convertible Toyota Solara and I lost no time in putting the top down, tying on my scarf and putting on my sunglasses (gifts from Mary O’Keefe and her […]