Mountain Views News          Saturday, October 20, 2012

WAYNE FAULKNER, 388 S.CORBIN RD., 
POST FALLS, ID. 83854. This Business is 
conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: 
GREGORY WAYNE FAULKNER. This 
statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los 
Angeles County on 09/28/12. The registrant(s) 
has (have) commenced to transact business under 
the fictitious business name or names listed 
above on May, 1988. NOTICE- This Fictitious 
Name Statement expires five years from the date 
it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A 
new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be 
filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement 
does not of itself authorize the use in this state 
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the 
rights of another under Federal, State, or common 
law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and 
Professions Code)Publish: Mountain Views News 

Dates Pub: Sept. 29, Oct. 6, 13, 20, 2012 

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. 2012-190171

The following person(s) is (are) doing business 
as: SOLAR SYSTEM SCIENCE AND 
EXPLORATION 457 GRANITE AVENUE, 
MONROVIA, CA. 91016. Full name of 
registrant(s) is (are) THOMAS R. SPILKER, 
457 GRANITE AVENUE, MONROVIA, CA. 
91016. This Business is conducted by: AN 
INDIVIDUAL. Signed: GREGORY WAYNE 
FAULKNER. This statement was filed with the 
County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 09/24/12. 
The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to 
transact business under the fictitious business 
name or names listed above on 9/18/12. NOTICE- 
This Fictitious Name Statement expires five years 
from the date it was filed in the office of the 
County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name 
Statement must be filed prior to that date. The 
filing of this statement does not of itself authorize 
the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name 
in violation of the rights of another under Federal, 
State, or common law (See section 14411 et 
seq. Business and Professions Code)Publish: 
Mountain Views News 

Dates Pub: Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2012 


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Legal Notices 

 Mountain Views News Saturday, October 20, 2012 

Dear Editor:

I want to thank all those that showed up for my 90th birthday 
party. If you didn't get invited it is because the Lodge is limited 
to only 88.Also I want to thank those that have congratulated me 
on the street.

The headline had it, right but the story in one paper had my age at 
107. When I read that I went home and looked in the bathroom 
mirror, didn't think I looked that old until I tiurned on the light. 

George A. Maurer, Sierra Madre

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

City of Sierra Madre

Public Hearing Notice

From: The City of Sierra Madre

Subject: ORDINANCE TO AMEND MUNICIPAL CODE RE: SPECIAL EVENTS, 

 TEMPORARY USE PERMITS, ENCROACHMENT PERMITS, AND 

 EXCAVATION PERMITS 

Applicant: City of Sierra Madre

Project Location: Properties in the City of Sierra Madre, County of Los Angeles, State of California

The City of Sierra Madre gives notice, pursuant to State of California law, that the City Council will conduct a public 
hearing to consider an Ordinance adding Chapter 12.34 to the Municipal Code to regulate special events occurring on 
public property and amending the following Chapters of the Municipal Code: Chapter 17.88 relating to temporary use 
permits, Chapter 12.12 relating to encroachment permits, and Chapter 12.16 relating to excavation permits. 

DATE AND TIME OF HEARING PLACE OF HEARING

City of Sierra Madre City of Sierra Madre

City Council meeting City Council Chambers

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 232 W. Sierra Madre Blvd.

6:30 p.m. Sierra Madre, CA 

All interested persons may attend this meeting and the City Council will hear them with respect thereto.

ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: The project qualifies for a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) 
Exemption pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Review for Exemption) of CEQA, as the there is no possibility that the 
proposed Ordinance would have a significant impact on the environment. 

Danny Castro

Director of Development Services

Dear Editor: MY FEELING ABOUT THE DEBATES

 I wrote the following article after the first debate and it was never 
published. Everything in it still seems to apply to today’s town hall 
debate; in fact it was worse this time. All the pundits are scurrying 
around wondering who won the debate while the most important 
question was never asked. WHY THE HELL SHOULD WE TRUST 
THESE GUYS ? If you noticed there might have been one or two 
Black People in the crowd and probably just a couple of Hispanics. 
The crowd looked nothing like the America I know. There was no 
discussion of global warming, water shortages, impending nuclear 
was, or terrorist threats within the cyber world. Wars are still going on 
that were never discussed while the candidates bickered about their 
imaginary tax plans and discussed issues like abortion which were 
settled thirty years ago. Remember the concerns about transparency 
or the fact that we have a grid-locked legislative system which 
everyone agrees does not work. Finally, why is there no discussion 
of the archaic electoral college that allows the whole election to be 
decided by the indifferent or, at least, undecided voters of a few swing 
states. Below you will find my article written after the first debate. It 
is most disturbing that everything written still seems to apply. 

 It’s the morning after and I awoke thinking about the Debates 
involving the Presidential Candidates. I t is disturbingly clear 
that these Harvard suit-wearing success stories are not representative 
of the America I know. The whole thing reminds me of the Battle 
of Bull Run where the Washington party-goers went out after their 
luncheon to watch the boys fighting. It was so exhilarating.

 Of course that’s closer than most of us now get to the experience 
of war. I think it’s fair to say that in many middle and upper class 
homes no one has ever even met a person who has participated in 
our on-going wars in the Middle East. The killings continue while we 
live in our bubble of continued ignorance. Fortunately, I still work as 
Criminal Lawyer, a task which puts me into daily contact with people 
of a different class. Often these are returning veterans, or struggling 
immigrants, or disabled people, or eighteen and nineteen year olds 
unemployed and getting into trouble with the laws.

 Often I am appointed to represent jailed Prostitutes worried about 
the welfare of their kids while they languish in jail. My mornings 
are often spent in Courtrooms waiting for my clients to appear. 
Frequently they do not get there. Why? Because their cars don’t 
run or they have no cars or they have to be somewhere else or they 
overlooked the date or some family emergency has kept them away 
on that very morning.

 It’s hard to talk about this because you and I and people who read 
newspapers and watch the news generally have developed habits 
that enable them to keep track of dates and to get places on the right 
days and near the right times. Unfortunately, these are skills that 
many people never seem to develop. If they are talented or unusually 
intelligent these deficiencies can be overcome; if they lack these 
special gifts life can be very difficult. Really that’s part of the whole 
problem for me. 
Our President and Mr. Romney and all the newscasters and pundits 
possess the gifts to varying degrees. Everyone is properly showered 
and fed and comfortable. It all looks so civilized as the candidates 
debate the merits of their legislative plans to aid the poor and the 
disappearing middle class and to make the super-rich pay their fair 
share or more or less than their fair share. The whole thing makes 
me sick. These “Debates” should be held in the ghettos, on the 
battlefields, in the Unemployment Lines, in the hospitals among the 
undernourished and the dying. Americans need to feel the pain, the 
stench of the suffering of a huge percentage of its People.

 Very few people are moved or even interested in a recitation of 
statistics by our ever so smart politicians. We need to FEEL the horror 
of our lost abundance. We are facing possibilities of droughts, water 
shortages, and ecological disasters along with our failed economies. 
Have the debates on melting glaciers or disappearing coral reefs. 
Somehow this all reminds me of the governmental policy to avoid 
showing the returning bodies of soldiers killed overseas. If we don’t 
see them we don’t feel the pain.

 If meaningful changes are to be made in the governance of this 
country all Americans must be exposed to the desperation that exists 
all around us but, as yet, not in our homes. Sadly the debates and 
almost everything else that the media presents to us obscures reality 
and substitutes fantasy. It is a fantasy that cannot go on much longer. 
Today’s addition: BUT IT DOES

Stuart Tolchin, Sierra Madre

City of Sierra Madre

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

From: The City of Sierra Madre

Subject: MUNICIPAL CODE TEXT AMENDMENT 12-01 (MCTA 12-01) 

Applicant: City of Sierra Madre

Project Location: Properties in the City of Sierra Madre, County of Los Angeles, State of California

The City of Sierra Madre gives notice, pursuant to State of California law, that the Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing to consider a text amendment to 
Municipal Code Chapter 5.56 relating to baths and massage establishments, and Chapter 17.36 relating to permitted uses in the Commercial Zone. The purpose of the 
amendment is 1) to conform the City’s massage regulations to State requirements pursuant to Division 2 of Chapter 10.5 of the Business and Professions Code, and 2) 
allow massage therapy as a stand-alone permitted use in the City rather than as an accessory to a permitted use. The proposed amendments will establish one regulatory 
scheme for massage services to create a consistent and clear process for applicants and will enable consumers to identify legitimate massage workers, thus protecting the 
health, safety, and welfare of the City.

DATE AND TIME OF HEARING PLACE OF HEARING

City of Sierra Madre City of Sierra Madre

Planning Commission meeting City Council Chambers

Thursday, November 1, 2012 232 W. Sierra Madre Blvd.

(Hearing begins at 7:00 p.m.) Sierra Madre, CA 

All interested persons may attend this meeting and the Planning Commission will hear them with respect thereto.

ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: This ordinance is exempt from CEQA pursuant to CEQA Guidelines § 15061(b)(3), 15301 and 15303 for numerous reasons. 
First, only a limited number of massage therapist businesses have ever applied to do business in the City, and this is not expected to change. Thus, the impact of this 
ordinance will affect only a handful of parcels at most. Second, if any massage therapy uses are authorized, they would be for facilities that meet the requirements of 
15301 or 15303, as such uses are typically small in size, and would be expected merely to update the interior of existing structures, or to build a very small new structure. 
Third, massage therapy uses are not significantly different in the impacts that they create from other uses already authorized in the commercial zone, such as nail salons, 
barber shops, and day/health spas (which already authorized accessory massage therapy uses), and such uses are already authorized via home occupation permits. Fourth, 
revising the procedures by which certification is issued to massage therapists does not affect traffic, noise, or have any other environmental impact.

APPEAL: The decision of the Planning Commission is subject to a 10-day appeal period to the City Council. If in the future anyone wishes to challenge the decision of 
the Planning Commission in court, one may be limited to raising the issues that were raised or presented in written correspondence delivered to the Planning Commission 
at, or before, the scheduled public hearing. For further information on this subject, please contact the Development Services Department at (626) 355-7138.

DATES TO 
REMEMBER

October 22, 2012 
Last day to register 
to vote

October 30, 2012 
Last day to apply for 
a vote-by-mail ballot 
by mail

November 6, 2012 
Election Day

 
Polls are open 

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m