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tHoSe GuyS are Good.....SIerra madre ColtS taKe SuPer reGIoN! ..Page 10 Inside this week: SIERRA MADRE Calendar Page 2 Sierra Madre News Page 3 PASADENA/ALTADENA SGV Journalist Janette Pg. 4Williams Dies AROUND SGV Pg. 5 FIRST ANNUAL HOMICIDE SUMMIT ARCADIA NEWS Pg. 6 Assemblyman Ed Chau To Speak MONROVIA/DUARTEWWI Medals Pg. 7 Returned To Family EDUCATION & YOUTHLocal Students In The Pg. 8Spotlight FOOD & DRINK Pg.9 SPORTS Pg. 10 SM Colts Take Super Region BEST FRIENDS Pg. 11 THE GOOD LIFE Pg. 12 Savvy Senior Senior Happenings Saturday, July 27, 2013 Volume 7 No. 30 CommuNIty emerGeNCy reSPoNSe team (Cert) reCeIVeS a GIFt Local government prepares for everyday emergencies. However, during a disaster, the number and scope of incidents can overwhelm conventional emergency services. The Sierra Madre Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) helps in those situations in three main ways. First, there is an education program in which the public is made aware of how to prepare for emergencies and be self-sufficient. Secondly, CERT conducts a FEMA recognized all-risks and all-hazards training program designed to help a person protect themselves, their family and their neighbors in an emergency situation. And lastly, Sierra Madre CERT, under the sponsorship and direction of the Sierra Madre Fire Department, directly supports the first responders when they are in need of further assistance. To help accomplish this mission, Gary Hood has generously donated a support trailer to the Sierra Madre CERT. Perhaps you saw it at the Fourth of July parade. The trailer will be furnished with an assortment of equipment, emergency supplies and also serve as an operational facility. To further educate the community the Sierra Madre CERT conducts monthly meetings is which there is a CERT training session. This Sierra Madre Resident and retired Firefighter Gary Hood (Center) gives the keys to the trailer to CERT President is on the fourth Thursday at 0700PM at the DeAlcorn. Photo by Dave Felt Hart Park House. All are welcome. Also the Sierra Madre CERT is conducting • Emergency Medical Operations-one • Fire Extinguisher Traininga basic CERT class. The class starts August 17 and victim • Course Review and Disaster Exerciseis open to all. • Emergency Medical Operations-Triage • Light Search and Rescue Operations For more information see the flyer elsewhere in The class covers: • CERT Organization today’s MVN or go to www.SierraMadreCERT.org • Disaster Preparedness • Disaster Psychology or info@SierraMadreCERT.org. • Fire Safety • Terrorism BUSINESS Pg. 13 HEALTHY LIVING Pg. 14 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Pg. 15 Left Turn/Right Turn/ Opinon Pg. 16 LEGAL NOTICES Pg. 17 PUBLIC NOTICES Pg. 21 FYI Pg. 22 www.facebook.com/ mountainviewsnews Sierra madre Search and rescue log The Sierra Madre Search and Rescue (SMSR) Team responded to eighteen individual calls for assistance in June with operations taking place not only in the local Sierra Madre area, but including the high Sierra and Thousand Palms. Injured Hiker, First Water Trail, Chantry Flat: On June 13th at 3:15 p.m., SMSR was paged for a cliff rescue at Chantry Flat. The team was joined by the Sierra Madre Fire Department and Los Angeles County Fire to rescue a hiker who had fallen off the trail and was stranded in steep terrain above the canyon bottom. SMSR personnel quickly established a high angle rope rescue system and sent rescuers approximately 120’ over the side to access the hiker. After determining that his injuries were minor, rescuers used the rope rescue system to lower the hiker and rescuers the remaining (approx.) 150’ feet to the canyon bottom. The rescue was completed at 5:40 p.m. Search, Thousand Palms, Riverside County: SMSR was requested at 9 p.m. on June 29th by the California Office of Emergency Services (OES) for a mutual aid call in Riverside County to assist in the search for a missing hiker. Daytime temperatures in the area were 120 degrees and officials planned to run search operations through the night. SMSR personnel responded and were deployed on initial search assignments by 11:30 p.m. Field crews worked throughout the night looking for the missing 71 year old hiker. The man was located mid-morning on the 30th, but unfortunately had not survived the conditions. The team expresses our condolences to his family and friends. Multiple Calls, Chantry Flat, Mount Wilson Trail and Eaton Canyon: June 30th would turn out to be a busy day for SMSR with a series of operations taking place throughout the day. The first call for the day came at 11:30 a.m. with reports of a hiker stranded over the side of the trail below Chantry Flat. A high angle rescue was executed to get the uninjured hiker back to the trail. As the rescue was concluding, SMSR received a request from Altadena Mountain Rescue (AMRT) to assist them in the search for two hikers who were lost in the Mount Wilson area and reportedly suffering from dehydration and exhaustion. Due to limited information about the specific location of the hikers, search crews were dispatched to multiple locations to hike the trails and locate the subjects. Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s deputies were able to locate the hiker’s car near the trailhead at Cobb Estates and teams began to focus their efforts in that area. While search crews were redeploying, a rescue call in Eaton Canyon was dispatched and 7 personnel from SMSR responded to Eaton Canyon to assist in the rescue of 3 hikers stranded near the 2nd waterfall. SMSR joined LA County Fire and LASD’s Air Rescue 5 on the incident. Two of the subjects were hoisted from their location by Air 5 and the third subject was lowered by rope rescue system to the canyon bottom by SMSR. The subjects were uninjured and escorted out of the canyon. During the Eaton Canyon rescue the missing Mt. Wilson hikers were successfully located. One of the hikers was transported to the hospital for treatment. The operations were secured by 4:30 p.m. Combined with the search in Riverside County, SMSR was in continuous operation for 17 hours on the 29th and 30th. Missing Hiker, Inyo County: SMSR assisted with the continued search for a hiker missing since October 2012 in the Sierra near Independence. The hiker’s camp was located along with evidence that he died nearby during the fierce winter storm that trapped him 7 miles from his car. For over 60 years the all-volunteer Sierra Madre Search and Rescue team has been responding to calls for help in the local mountains and beyond. Funded entirely by private donations, SMSR provides a range of public programs on wilderness safety in addition to its search and rescue activities. The Team never charges for any of its services. For more information, includinghow to arrange a wilderness safety demonstration for your school or group, visit www.smsr.org. tHe KING WaS Here! The “King”, aka Elvis, aka Harry Shahoian impersonating the original, left his throne in Las Vegas and, under the auspices of the Sierra Madre Rotary Club, performed at last week’s Concert In The Park. As always, he had the packed house rocking! Sierra Madre’s Concerts in the Park is sponsored this year by The Kensington - the assisted living facility being built on Sierra Madre Blvd. and local service organizations who sponsor the music. This week’s concert will feature Jane Fuller and company performing Pop Across the Decades. and is sponsored by Friends of the Library and The Sierra Madre Kiwanis Club. Photo by Fred Thomas/MVNews SIerra madre teeNS aNd treaSureS – Teen History Docents Sierra Madre local history will get a big boost with a new grant just received by the Sierra Madre Public Library. The grant of $7,500 will enable the Library to train teen volunteers as history docents using new Digital Storyboard technology at the Library’s Local History Room and at the Richardson House museum. Recruiting and training of teens will begin in September. The California State Library awarded funding of the grant titled “Sierra Madre, Teens and Treasures – Teen History Docents.” The grant will expand the Library’s summer teen volunteer program into a year-round program by training teens as docents. First step will be to hire a part-time coordinator who will recruit and train the teens. The volunteer docents will give “tours” of local history using the new Digital Storyboards. Five teens at a time will train and give tours during a five-week period. A total of 25 teens will be part of the program during the grant period, then the library will continue the program after the grant period ends. Library Director Carolyn Thomas said, “We are delighted to share our city’s rich local history collection with more people through the Digital Storyboards and are pleased that we can expand our summer volunteer program throughout the year. It’s a great combination of resources.” Saturday aFterNooN CaFe SouNdS Picture a lazy summer with Saturday Afternoon traci kato-kiriyama and afternoon with a cool Café Sounds at 4:00 p.m. musician Liane Tominaga. comfortable spot, soft Chill to light acoustic The Sierra Madre Public music, a little poetry, and music with the Summer Library is located at 440 W. a good book. Then picture Reading Program theme of Sierra Madre Blvd. in the yourself relaxing this Reading is So Delicious!city of Sierra Madre, 91024, Saturday, July 27 in the The programs will feature (626) 355-7186, www. Sierra Madre Public Library a spoken word artist cityofsierramadre.com. Read The Paper Online At: www.mtnviewsnews.com | |||||||||||||||||||||
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