The culprits were lurking in a
corner of the room. They were fuzzy
black spots speckling the plaster
wall in a corner of Ted and Terri
Dearman’s home at the top of Ocean
View Boulevard. They began to
appear about the time the last shovelful
of mud was pitched out of the
house.
Mold.
La Cañada Flintridge residents
who survived the harrowing river of
mud and debris that tumbled out of
the mountains before dawn on Feb.
6 are now facing fresh challenges:
digging out, drying up and rebuilding.
And according to contractors
who do the work, reconstruction
after a flood or a mudslide presents
unique perils.
“After you remove the mud, you
open up the walls......Full Story
Community Kiwanis Club Helps
Mudslide Victims
Kiwanis Club Of La Cañada
took the lead in coordinating volunteer
efforts to help recent mudslide
victims.
Working with La Cañada
Flintridge City Hall, Los Angeles
County Sheriff’s Department and
Community Emergency Response
Team (CERT), Kiwanis President
Nick Berkuta organized a
Command Post at Descanso
Gardens West Annex parking lot
where volunteers could check in for
assignments. An outpouring of volunteers,
including hundreds of local
residents and Kiwanians, showed up
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
grabbed shovels and T-shirts and
were bused up the hill in vans provided
by the City of La Cañada
Flintridge. Working in groups of
three and four, volunteers removed
mounds of mud “4 feet......Full Story
We are an amazing school district
that never settles for status quo,
that continues to improve program
and the daily school life of our students.
What are recent details of the
behind-the-scenes progress that
make the ongoing successes in La
Cañada Unified School District
possible?
To improve curriculum, instruction
and assessment at the elementary
schools, all site administrators
are making 15-minute classroom
visits for at least three hours per
week giving specific feedback to
teachers about their visits. This is in
addition to normal formal evaluations.
Addressing........Full Story
Sports - High School Basketball Flintridge Prep Boys’ Basketball
Wins League; Girls Earn CIF Berth
The Flintridge Prep varsity boys’ basketball
team clinched the Prep League
championship after defeating visiting Rio
Hondo Prep, 76-46, last Friday.
Prep senior Chris Cynn netted a careerhigh
19 points in his first game as a starter,
and teammate Kenyatta Smith added 11
points. Jonathan Woo chipped in 10 points,
Jared Norsworth finished with nine,
Jedrick Eugenio tallied six, Edmund Chow
had five, and Phillip Montoya, Kory
Hamane, Sam Honch and McKay
Anderson contributed four each.
The Rebels (18-6 overall, 7-1 in
league) hosted Oxnard Santa Clara in the
first round of the CIF Division V-AA playoffs
on Wednesday.......Full Story
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