The Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station sent out a notice to businesses warning owners and their employees of the distribution of fake $100 bills in the area.
On Feb. 19, three counterfeit $100 bills were used to make a purchase at the Sport Chalet in Town Center. On March 4, another counterfeit $100 was used for a purchase at the Kentucky Fried Chicken on the 2200 block of Foothill Boulevard.
The Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge will attempt to build the world’s largest Rice Krispie treat this week.
The event will be filmed as the pilot for a new television program on TLC, called Mega Bites, with the treats being sold on Sunday as part of a fundraiser.
“The Center has to get $100,000 every year [through fundraisers and grants],” said La Crescenta resident Wendy Alane Smith, whose two children have attended classes and camps at the center. They have to do everything they can to keep it open.”
“The show came about by Beyond Productions,” said TLC Director of Productions Eric Black. “They do ‘Mythbusters’ for Discovery Channel. They were fascinated by large food stunts that pop up every once in a while.”
Happy Strays Rescue, a pet rescue service that operates in La Cañada, is in need of charitable donations to help care for abandoned or homeless cats.
Happy Strays will host a fundraising bake sale at 11:30 a.m. on April 3 at the Petco in La Cañada.
To make a donation, contact Jan at jan@happystrays.org or mail it to PO Box 12, La Canada, CA 91012.
La Canada's Brandon Nguyen swims the 200 freestyle against Burroughs on Thursday. (Roger Wilson/Valley Sun)
From the La Cañada Valley Sun
Freshman Brandon Nguyen is a hot commodity this year.
“I want you, Shane Chung, Christian Renfro and Alex Campbell in the boys’ 400-yard freestyle relay,” La Cañada’s head swim coach, Art Lopez, said to Nguyen after their match against Burroughs. “I think we can win [that event] again this year in CIF.”
Nguyen, whose brother Andrew (a star in the 200-yard freestyle) and sister Tasha both swam in their time at La Cañada High, politely nodded and said he’d rather not do the 200-yard freestyle, perhaps the breaststroke portion of the 400-yard medley relay.
“I want to do my own thing,” Nguyen said.
From the La Cañada Valley Sun
Here he is, the new coach, wearing a “Club West Volleyball” T-shirt, snap pants and some shiny Nikes, a clipboard from the varsity game in hand, sitting front row to watch the La Cañada boys’ junior varsity volleyball team get off to a hot start against Burroughs, 8-2, in the first frame of their first match on March 1.
Only minutes earlier, his varsity team didn’t fare so well, receiving a beat down by Burroughs’ varsity squad, 13-25, 14-25, 20-25.
While a loss like that in the first match of the year would be demoralizing for some coaches, La Cañada’s new head coach, David Woo, was quite optimistic.
From the Cañada Valley Sun
A rash of vehicle break-ins late February on Foothill Boulevard prompted the La Cañada Flintridge Chamber of Commerce to send out an e-mail Tuesday asking local businesses and residents to be increasingly vigilant.
Capt. Dave Silversparre of the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station noted the recent rise in burglaries at the City Council meeting Monday night, requesting the chamber use its contacts to get the word out.
“We’ve had a series of burglaries in the past, but this series has occurred at gyms and businesses on Foothill Boulevard,” said Capt. Silversparre.
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Opening day for the La Cañada Junior Baseball Softball Assn. will be held at the La Cañada High baseball field this Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
A parade of the teams will start at 1 p.m. and La Cañada Mayor Laura Olhasso will throw out the honorary first pitch.
La Cañada High's Matt McKenzie reacts to the 0-1 overtime loss to Salinas High School during the CIF playoff game on Thursday. (Leah Thompson/Valley Sun)
From the La Cañada Valley Sun
The end came suddenly for the La Cañada High boys’ soccer team Thursday. Some players collapsed face down on the turf, others put their hands on their head and simply walked off the field.
The quarterfinal playoff game had been played even throughout — a 0-0 tie through the first 80 minutes — until the fourth-seeded Salesian High Mustangs extinguished the fifth-seeded Spartans’ playoff hopes 10 minutes into sudden death overtime.
La Cañada senior Tia Chen, right, during a recent game.
From the La Cañada Valley Sun
La Cañada girls’ basketball fell to Atascadero in the second round of the CIF Southern Section Division IV-AA playoffs, 53-51, on Saturday night.
The loss meant an early exit for the Spartans, who were ranked No. 4 in Division IV-AA heading into the playoffs and were expected to get to at least the quarterfinals.
The bodies of La Canada residents Joni and Skip Tillman were found 10 years ago this month in a case that remains unsolved.
From the Valley Sun
It was 10 years ago this month that a man in Yucaipa walking his dog early one evening discovered the bodies of two La Cañadans, in an infamous case that remains unsolved.
Harold and Joni Tillman were abducted from their home on Bramblewood Road on Feb. 6, 2000, and murdered. Their bodies were found near Oak Glen Drive and 5th street in Yucaipa the next evening.
“It was a frustrating case,” said Assistant Police Chief Rick Ells of the Highland Police Dept.; Ells was one of the four detectives with the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department who worked the case when it was reopened in 2008. “It was unusual and I always felt like we were lucky to just have found their bodies.”
Fresh fruits and vegetables and a variety of other items like flowers and sprouts are available at the Glendale Farmers Market on Brand Blvd. on Thursdays.
Toll Middle School students held signs outside the Glendale school after class in support of their teachers. The students do not want their teachers to be laid off at the end of the year.
Burbank Leader reporter Max Zimbert appeared on CNN’s Headline News Wednesday to talk about Amy Beck, a teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student.
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Third-graders at Valley View Elementary School in La Crescenta on Wednesday learned about evacuation and safety techniques from the Kid’s Safety House.
Awards were handed out Tuesday night to volunteers from throughout La Cañada Flintridge schools by the PTA at La Cañada High School.
From the Burbank Leader
[DEVELOPING] A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Wednesday postponed the arraignment of a Burbank Unified teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student so that she can continue to work with authorities, her attorney said.
Amy Beck, a 33-year-old teacher at Jordan Middle School, will remain in jail and is [...]
The La Cañada High School PTA has endorsed legislation introduced last month by State Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada) designed to encourage teens to call for help in emergency situations.
The bill, AB1999, would protect a minor from criminal prosecution if he dials 9-1-1 and remains with a friend during a medical crisis. The bill is [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case involving employee background checks at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The Supreme Court justices will review an injunction issued by the 9th Circuit Court in January 2008 that barred NASA/JPL from requiring “low-risk” employees —those who do not handle classified material — to submit to extensive [...]
A singer from the pop group Girlicious was arrested Tuesday night after police allegedly found more than a dozen individual packages of cocaine in her Gucci purse, officials said.
Natalie Mejia, 21, of Diamond Bar is being held today in Glendale City Jail in lieu of a $30,000 bond, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s [...]
From the Los Angeles Times
Actor Corey Haim, who starred in some popular movies in the 1980s and recently tried to relaunch his career with a reality TV show, has died.
The Los Angeles Police Department said Haim, 38, was pronounced dead after 3 a.m. at a Burbank hospital. He had been living in the San [...]
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