Crescenta Valley High School

CRESCENTA VALLEY— About 16% of Crescenta Valley High School students have enrolled in a voluntary drug testing program, which could expand into other Glendale Unified School District campuses, officials said. The program was announced in December as part of a communitywide push to keep drugs out of the La Crescenta school, and to facilitate conversations between families and their children. Of the 2,946 notices sent out, 1,444 were returned. Of those, 473 students chose to sign up for the testing program.

Region 88 registration AYSO Region 88 will be holding its 2010-2011 fall registration from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Clark Magnet School, 4747 New York Ave., La Crescenta. For pre-registration and all questions concerning registration, go to www.ayso88.org/reg. Soccer club tryouts set Tryouts will be held for the Crescenta Valley Soccer Club under-12 boys’ team from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through April at Crescenta Valley High School, 2900 Community Drive, La Crescenta.

Former mayors to mull results Former Mayor Carl Raggio is scheduled to appear live Thursday on ?The Larry Zarian Show? to discuss the results of Tuesday?s special election for the 43rd Assembly District. Zarian, also a former Glendale mayor, and Raggio will discuss the negative campaign mailers that went out and how they may have affected the election and voter turnout. They will also likely discuss what it means for the election in June, and then in November, for the same seat.

Michelle Kosta and former La Crescenta resident Graham Houser have announced their engagement and will be married in August. The bride-to-be is the daughter of John and Cathy Kosta of Chino Hills. She graduated from St. Lucy?s Priory School in Glendora in 2002 and received her bachelor?s degree in religious studies at the University of San Francisco in 2007. She is an enrollment specialist with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America in Portland. The groom-elect is the son of former La Crescenta residents Jerry and Lyndsey Houser of Salem, Ore. He graduated from Crescenta Valley High School in 2003 and received a bachelor?

Senior Kevin Tiqui lay motionless atop the hood of a busted van while Los Angeles County firefighters sawed the roof off a totaled sedan. A few yards away, the county coroner pronounced junior Amelia Demery dead on impact, while the whole junior and senior class of Crescenta Valley High School class looked on. Ramsdell Avenue was transformed into a scene of reenacted death and destruction Wednesday, the first half of a two-day event that organizers...

CITY HALL — All drug-related offenses in January investigated by Glendale police in the Crescenta Valley were attributed to heroin, an increasingly popular opiate among youth in the region, Police Chief Ron De Pompa said Tuesday. Heroin use has been escalating in the Crescenta Valley in the past five years as more high school students and young adults have become hooked, he said during a presentation on drug use in north Glendale to the City Council. “For years and years, La Crescenta seemed to be untouched by a lot of the big-city ailments that we started experiencing in the rest of the community, and we are starting to see a change in that now,” he said.

LA CRESCENTA — Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich fielded some probing questions from Crescenta Valley High School seniors Friday during a planned event that happened to take place days after a Los Angeles Times article highlighting his discretionary spending. The students, all in government class this semester, had reviewed recent stories by The Times that spotlighted some of the millions of dollars that the five county supervisors can spend at their discretion every year without a public vote or discussion.

Four Boy Scouts earn Eagle rank Aaron Broberg , Jonathan Malmrose , Porter Bent Hansen and Samuel Clark will be presented at a Court of Honor at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Latter-day Saints Church building at 4550 Raymond Ave., La Crescenta. Aaron, a 14-year-old eighth-grader at La Cañada Junior High School, has earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. He is a member of Troop 398, associated with the La Cañada Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

LA CRESCENTA — A team of roughly a dozen Crescenta Valley High School seniors this week applied to host a commencement speech by President Obama. As part of its education reforms, the White House and U.S. Department of Education have offered a presidential graduation to public schools that can prove themselves a model for the nation. Winning schools will demonstrate they have robust college- and career-readying academic classes, extracurricular activities, graduation rates, daily attendance and college enrollment rates, according to the White House.

LA CRESCENTA — Students from more than a dozen Crescenta Valley High School clubs and organizations came together Saturday to raise money for the family of a classmate whose dad was killed by a hit-and-run driver. Cars streamed in and out of the high school’s overflow parking lot on Ramsdell Avenue early Saturday morning for a waterless carwash to raise money for the Joo Lee Memorial Fund. Lee was struck by a hit-and-run driver in Montrose on New Year’s Day and later died from his injuries.