Mountain Views News          Saturday, October 19, 2013

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Mountain Views-News Saturday, October 19, 2013 

Local 

Institutions 
Take Part 

in Shakeout 

Thieves Steal Rose Float 
Equipment from 

La Cañada Flintridge

PCC Extends 
President 
Rocha’s 
Contract

 
La Cañada Flintridge 
Tournament of Roses 
Association is asking for the 
public’s help replacing $7500 
worth of equipment after 
thieves broke into the float’s 
contrition site last Saturday 
night stealing a rage of stuff 
from the float’s power cables to 
food for the volunteers.

 According to association 
members and the LA Country 
Sheriffs, sometime between 
10 p.m. October 12 and 8 
a.m. October 13, the suspects 
cut through a fence from the 
Flintridge Preparatory School 
baseball field, next to where 
the float is being built, the then 
pried open one of the containers 
that contained bolt cutters. 

 “The bolt cutters were then 
used to remove 16 heavy-
duty padlocks protecting the 
material. They also opened a 
gate that then allowed a truck 
into the site to remove the 
stolen materials,” a statement 
from the association reads.

 Along with 1500 feet of 
power cables, insulated copper 
extension cords, welding cables, 
extra-large bolt cutters, and 
cordless screwdrivers were 
taken. 

 The La Cañada Flintridge 
float, “Dog Gone!” will depict 
a group of neighborhood dogs 
who have turned the tables on 
a dogcatcher and taken control 
of his truck. They are happily 
driving away from their New 
Year’s Eve party, while the 
dogcatcher runs after them. 

 Anyone with information 
about the theft is being asked 
to report it to the Crescenta 
Valley Sheriff’s Station: www.
CrescentaValley.lasd.org. 

 The all-volunteer organization 
is accepting tax deductible 
donations at www.lcftra.org. 
Also, anyone with an interest 
in decorating the float in 
December, online signups are 
being accepted at the same 
website.


By Dean Lee

 Caltech students and faculty 
joined the millions of people 
who practiced Drop, Cover, 
and Hold On, Thursday during 
the Great California ShakeOut 
earthquake drill. 

 More than 10 million people 
worldwide were estimated to 
have taken part in the 10:17 a.m. 
exercise designed as a way to 
help prepared people to survive 
and recover quickly from big 
earthquakes.

 “We sent out a message to 
the entire campus community 
inviting them to drop, cover 
and hold,” Jim Cowell, Incident 
Commander and Vice President 
of Facilities for Caltech, said. 
“Classrooms, offices, wherever 
they happen to be, you get under 
a desk, table or some kind of 
solid object and you stay there 
until the earthquake is over.”

 Cowell said the idea is to 
protect oneself from falling 
debris and glass. 

 He said there were a high 
percentage of people at Caltech 
that understand the background 
behind an earthquake, 
“obviously Caltech was the place 
where the Richter Magnitude 
Scale was invented, and 
obviously we have the seismo 
lab here.” 

 Cowell said there needs to 
be an emphasis on personal 
preparedness.

 “What are people doing to get 
their families ready, themselves 
ready?” he said. “If the campus 
is ready that’s one thing, but 
people aren’t at work all the 
time.”

 Ron Derderian with the 
city’s fire emergency volunteer 
support program said, “All 
kinds of things happen after an 
earthquake, building collapses, 
you’ve got search and rescue 
issues, but one of the more 
common after effects of an 
earthquake is fire whether its 
caused by electrical situation or 
broken gas main or something 
like that, we’re telling people 
how to turn gas mains off, when 
to turn them off, when not to 
turn them off.” 

 Nicknamed the Earthquake 
Lady, Caltech seismologist 
Kate Hutton was educating the 
public about the importance 
of amateur radio (ham radio) 
resources during a disaster. 

 “Ham radio operators are 
everywhere,” Hutton said. 
“They can talk to each other 
on solo power or backup 
power, batteries, so if the 
communication systems are not 
working, we are still able to take 
to each other and we can relay 
messages on behalf of someone.”

 Hutton said some “hams” work 
with local government, police, 
fire departments and college 
campuses as the last defense.

 “We are technically the 
last choice,” she said. “Every 
commercial system has to fail 
first before you get ham radio 
involved. We are used when 
infrastructure gets damaged.”

 The Caltech Amateur Radio 
Club took part in a campus 
personal preparedness fair that 
followed the Great California 
ShakeOut earthquake drill.

Members of the Caltech Search and Rescue 

 At its meeting earlier this month, 
the Pasadena Area Community 
College District Board of 
Trustees voted unanimously 
to extend the contract of Dr. 
Mark Rocha, Superintendent-
President, to June 30, 2017. Dr. 
Rocha was first appointed as 
Superintendent-President of 
Pasadena City College on July 
1, 2010. 

 “This will insure that we will 
have Rocha’s effective leadership 
through our reaccreditations 
effort, the full implementation 
of our Educational Master Plan 
and the development of our 
facilities Centennial Master 
Plan,” said Board President, 
John Martin. “The entire Board 
is grateful to Dr. Rocha for 
guiding PCC safely through 
the state budget crisis and 
maintaining PCC’s high student 
success outcomes.”

 During Dr. Rocha’s tenure, the 
PCC Foundation has raised over 
$7 million in private donations 
for student scholarships and has 
been awarded over $26 million 
in external grants. Last year, 
Pasadena City College won 
the State Chancellor’s Award 
for Student Success for its 
innovative First Year Experience 
Pathways Program that has 
significantly increased student 
retention and persistence and 
has grown to serve over 1,500 
students. “I am very grateful 
to the Board for its support, 
and the opportunity to serve 
Pasadena City College,” said 
Rocha. I am more optimistic 
and hopeful about PCC’s future 
than ever.”

 The Board also granted the 
superintendent-president the 
same pay raise of 4.79% over 
two years recently approved by 
the Board for all classified staff 
and administrators. The Board 
has also offered a pay raise to 
the faculty. Negotiations on 
a new contract continue with 
the PCC Faculty Association, 
the collective bargaining 
representative of PCC teachers.


Michaela 
Pereira to 
Emcee 
Rose Queen 
Coronation

Art Center Gets $15 Million


La Cañada Flintridge float, “Dog Gone!” Sept 28th

New Music Director David 
Lockington welcomed 

 
Flower power abounds 
when the City of Roses 
welcomes the Pasadena 
Symphony’s new Music 
Director, David Lockington, 
at a complimentary special 
reception open to the public 5 
p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 
29, at the beloved Pasadena 
icon, Jacob Maarse Florist, 
655 E. Green St., Pasadena. A 
City of Roses Welcome invites 
the community to mix and 
mingle with Lockington, while 
enjoying light refreshments 
from Claud & Co., cash wine 
bar, live string quartet, and the 
beautiful ambience at Jacob 
Maarse Florist.

 “It is especially fitting for 
the community to come out 
for a City of Roses Welcome 
for David at Jacob Maarse 
Florist. Jacob was an avid 
music lover, long-time Board 
member of the Pasadena 
Symphony Association, had 
family musical roots, and grew 
the most beautiful roses in 
the entire world - the iconic 
symbol of his business and the 
City of Pasadena,” said Paul Jan 
Zdunek, CEO of the Pasadena 
Symphony Association.

 Guests at the special event will 
also enjoy a 10 percent discount 
off of all in-store purchases 
during the event, and Jacob 
Maarse Florist will also donate 
10 percent of proceeds back to 
the Symphony. The reception is 
free and open to the public. To 
attend the event, please RSVP at 
http://bit.ly/1gkDMAZ.

 A City of Roses Welcome 
celebrates the commencement 
of Lockington’s tenure as the 
fifth music director in the 
Symphony’s 86-year history. 
Lockington and the orchestra 
will open the 2013-14 Singpoli 
Classics Series with Stravinsky’s 
“The Rite of Spring” 2 p.m. 
and 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at 
Pasadena’s famed Ambassador 
Auditorium. Powerhouse 
violin virtuoso Anne Akiko 
Meyers brings Bernstein’s rarely 
performed “Serenade” - a work 
in praise of love to celebrate the 
occasion.

 Tickets to “The Rite of Spring,” 
the opening concert in the 
Pasadena Symphony’s 2013-
14 Singpoli Classics Series 
at Ambassador Auditorium, 
begin at $35, and may be 
purchased by visiting www.
PasadenaSymphony-Pops.org, 
calling 626.793.7172.

Calendar Listing:

 
Art Center College of Design 
announced, this week, they 
received a $15 million gift to 
the College from Southern 
California philanthropists and 
classic car enthusiasts Peter and 
Merle Mullin. The donation is 
the largest ever to the college 
in its 83-year history. The 
commitment will help fund 
construction of a new industrial 
and transportation design 
facility, fuel campus growth and 
support future creative leaders. 
The proposed site of the new 
facility is on the five-acre Art 
Center South Campus located 
on the corner of Glenarm Street 
and Raymond Avenue, near the 
entrance to the historic Arroyo 
Seco Parkway.

 The couple’s gift, says Peter 
Mullin, an Art Center trustee, is 
“a chance to make a difference. 
I’ve been luckier than I ever 
expected in business and in 
my life. Los Angeles has been 
a great place for me. I was born 
here, stayed here, never left 
and I don’t have any intention 
of leaving. So our gift is also 
an expression of gratitude to a 
great city that provided me with 
great opportunity.”

 He notes the robust 
concentration of talent in 
Southern California, where 
every major carmaker in the 
world has established a design 
studio. “The fact that all of 
these studios are populated 
by graduates of Art Center is 
impressive and really means 
that Art Center is a jewel,” he 
says, “a worldwide center of 
elegance and excellence.”

 “We are extremely grateful 
to Peter and Merle for their 
extraordinary philanthropic 
investment,” says Art Center 
President Lorne M. Buchman. 
“Their gift will make a 
transformational impact at 
the College for generations to 
come.”

 Peter Mullin co- founded the 
Mullin Automotive Museum 
in Oxnard, Calif., with his wife 
Merle and serves as chairman 
of the Petersen Automotive 
Museum in Los Angeles.

 Fifteen Million 
Donation from Peter 
and Merle Mullin will 
Enhance Industrial and 
Transportation Design 
Programs, Fuel Campus 
Growth and Support 
Future Creative Leaders

 The Pasadena Tournament 
of Roses Association today 
announced that Michaela 
Pereira, news anchor of the 
CNN morning show “New 
Day,” will emcee the 2014 
Rose Queen Announcement 
and Coronation on October 
24 at First Church of the 
Nazarene of Pasadena. 
Tickets are now available for 
purchase by the public from 
Sharp Seating Company. 
The event is sponsored by 
Citizens Business Bank 
with support from Macy’s 
and Mikimoto.

 Before working at CNN, 
Pereira co-hosted the 
KTLA Morning News for 
nine years and also co-
hosted the station’s coverage 
of the Rose Parade. She is 
an active member of many 
community organizations 
within California.

 The Queen and Royal 
Court will attend more 
than 100 community 
and media functions, 
acting as ambassadors of 
the Tournament and the 
Pasadena community at 
large. Their reign over the 
2014 Tournament of Roses 
festivities will culminate 
in the 125th Rose Parade 
presented by Honda and 
the 100th Rose Bowl Game 
presented by VIZIO.

Pet of the 
Week

 
Gertrude is an extremely 
friendly, five-year-old bulldog. 
She loves to sit in chairs and 
give kisses. She went out on 
our Mobile Unit and charmed 
everyone she met. She also 
knows some basic commands. 

 Gertrude’s normal adoption 
fee is $125, which includes 
her spay surgery, a microchip, 
the first set of vaccinations, as 
well as a free follow-up health 
check at a participating vet. She 
also qualifies for our Seniors 
for Seniors program in which 
her adoption fee is waived for 
adopters 60 years old and older. 
All that is required for this 
program is a $20 mandatory 
microchip fee. New adopters 
will receive complimentary 
health and wellness exam 
from VCA Animal Hospitals, 
as well as a goody bag filled 
with information on how 
to care for your pet. Ask an 
adoptions counselor for more 
information during your visit. 

 Call the Pasadena 
Humane Society & SPCA at 
626.792.7151 to ask about 
A340419, or visit at 361 S. 
Raymond Ave. in Pasadena. 
Adoption hours are 11-4 
Sunday, 9-5 Tuesday –Friday, 
9-4 Saturday. Pets may not 
be available for adoption and 
cannot be held for potential 
adopters from phone calls or 
email. Directions and photos 
of all pets can be found at 
www.pasadenahumane.org.

Altadena Crime Blotter

Sunday, October 6th 

 Between 12:00 PM and 10:30 
PM (Saturday) – A residential 
burglary occurred in the 2400-
blk of N. Lincoln Av. Suspect(s) 
entered the residence via 
unknown means. Loss: PS3 and 
computer equip. 

Monday, October 7th 

 6:19 PM – An attempt grand 
theft of a vehicle occurred in 
the 2200-blk of Oakwood St. 
Suspect described as a female, 
506, 130, red hair, wearing a 
yellow dress. Suspect last seen 
walking away from the victim’s 
vehicle and entering a dark blue 
coupe, occupied with a male, 
Middle Eastern, black/gray hair, 
and a moustache. 

 10:42 PM – A discharge of a 
firearm occurred in the 100-blk 
of W. Altadena Dr. No injuries, 
no victims or suspects found. 

Tuesday, October 8th 

 Between 8:00 PM and 7:00 AM 
(Wednesday) – A commercial 
burglary occurred at Ponci 
Burrito Express, 2291 N. 
Lincoln Av. Loss: currency. 

Wednesday, October 9th 

 Between 10:00 AM and 4:00 
PM (Friday) – A residential 
burglary occurred in the 
3100-blk of N. Highview Av. 
Suspect(s) entered the residence 
by prying the rear window 
screen. Loss: none. 

 Between 5:30 PM and 7:00 AM 
(Thursday) – A petty theft from 
an unlocked vehicle occurred 
in the 100-blk of W. Woodbury 
Rd. Loss: GPS, cellphone. 

Thursday, October 9th 

 Between 6:00 PM and 7:30 PM 
– A vehicle vandalism occurred 
in the 2200-blk of Glenrose Av. 

Friday, October 11th 

 Between 9:00 PM and 8:00 
(Saturday) – A vehicle burglary 
occurred in the 1700-blk of N. 
Allen Av. Suspect(s) entered 
the vehicle by shattering the 
passenger side window. Loss: 
cellphone charger. 

 9:43 PM – An assault with a 
deadly weapon occurred in the 
2900-blk of N. Glenrose Av. 
Suspect described as a male, 
Black, 507-511, medium build, 
wearing dark clothing. Two 
victims sustained gunshot 
wounds to the leg. No further 
info at this time. 

Saturday, October 12th 

 4:55 PM – An assault occurred 
at Woodbury Rd. & Fair Oaks. 
The victim exited a convenience 
store and was confronted by a 
male, Black, 20 yrs, 508, 150, 
black hair, brown eyes. During 
an altercation, the suspect 
removed a small pocket knife 
and cut the victim in the elbow. 
Suspect was observed leaving 
the area in a black Mercedes 
C-class.

Learn How to Produce 
Your Own TV Show

 In anticipation of Pasadena 
Media opening new studios at 
150 S. Los Robles Ave, they are 
offering free television-training 
program for producers. Plan 
to attend an orientation to 
discover the right classes for 
you. Producers’ Training 
teaches how to produce shows 
for The Arroyo Channel. Studio 
Production/Equipment training 
is also offered to volunteer 
crewmembers. In addition, 
on-going training will soon be 
available in citizen journalism 
and digital film groups. Call the 
office (626) 794-8585 or go to 
PASADENAMEDIA.ORG and 
explore what Pasadena Media 
has to offer.


Levitt Pavilion 
to Hold Annual 
Online Auction

 The Levitt Pavilion LA 
and Pasadena will be 
hosting its annual online 
auction to help raise funds 
for the Summer Concert 
Season. The Auction begins 
Monday. 

 You’ll have the chance 
to bid on some incredible 
items including a 
Hawaiian vacation, a set 
walk-on for the hit show 
PARENTHOOD, a day with 
GLEE Casting Director 
Robert Ulrich and much 
more.

 For more information go 
to levittpavilionpasadena.
org, or call; 626-683-3230

Class Offerings 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Nightly

Studio Orientation Training

Monday, Oct 21 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Studio Camera Training

Tuesday, Oct 22 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Audio Training

Wednesday, Oct 23 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Field Production Training

Thursday Oct 24 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 

Producer Training

Monday Oct 28 at 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 

Citizen Journalism coming soon

Digital Film Group coming soon