Appreciates the Digitizing Project
The Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley wishes to thank both the Los Angeles County Library and the Friends of the La Crescenta Library for doing the heavy lifting on digitizing the old Crescenta Valley Ledger newspaper. In particular, we want to thank our branch librarian Marta Wiggins, Friends President Elaine Sylvestro, and Fred Hoeptner, who is a member of the both the Friends and the Historical Society.
The Crescenta Valley Ledger covered every aspect of life in the Crescenta Valley – from bowling scores to murders. Looking at the pages of the old newspaper gives a colorful view of our heritage, personifies past events and tragedies, and provides us with the stories that make our history so very entertaining. Soon the community will have computer access to the ancient pages in a word-searchable format. Interested in Indian Springs swimming pool? The old car dealerships? How about the history of your current house? [You will be able to] type in your address and find out what happened in your own home over the years.
Thanks to the Friends of the La Crescenta Library and the Los Angeles County Library, ¬our community will soon have nearly unlimited access to our local history.
Get ready for some great stories!
Michael Morgan, President
Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley
La Cañada/Montrose/La Crescenta Safety
With summer winding down into back-to-school, it is even more relevant to practice safe driving in areas where children frequent. Case in point, La Granada Avenue has somehow become a thoroughfare, to say the least, between Foothill and the Montrose area during early evening rush hour as a detour route for the freeway. Not only is there speeding up and down this stretch, but it is near a park frequented by small children and tennis players, among others. Between the hours of (roughly) 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. weekdays, it is a thoroughfare with some speeds matching freeway speeds. This is all the more dangerous with Glenhaven Park being right there where a child or anyone else might be going out to a parked car. Just today I was nearly in a head-on collision with a car that was going at a high rate of speed around a moving truck at the curve. That was today but soon there will be more kids at the park later in the day, coming home from school or after school classes. Today’s close call prompts me to finally address this neglected area as a real danger whether you are a pedestrian, park patron or driver.
Gloria Cotton
La Cañada