Mountain Views News          Saturday, March 8, 2014

Mountain View News Saturday, March 8, 2014 

Holden 
Seeks 
Second 
Term 

 Assemblymember Chris 
Holden filed paperwork 
last week officially seeking a 
second term representing the 
41st Assembly District which 
includes Pasadena.

 “Our petitions, we got the 
required number of signatures 
and we have been raising 
money,” Holden said. 

 During his first term he had 
seven proposed measures 
signed into law include 
providing more funds for 
domestic violence shelters, 
ensuring tax breaks for 
military personnel, helping 
small businesses and creating 
economic opportunity 
for pioneering start-up 
companies.

 Holden also serves on the 
Appropriations Committee; 
Business, Professions and 
Consumer Protection 
Committee; Labor and 
Employment Committee and 
the Assembly Committee 
on Legislative Ethics. Asm. 
Holden also sits on the 
Transportation Committee 
where he continues his efforts 
in promoting light rail to 
connect the Foothills region 
and Los Angeles.

 The 41st Assembly District 
includes the communities of 
Altadena, Pasadena, South 
Pasadena, Sierra Madre, 
Monrovia, La Verne, San 
Dimas, Claremont, San 
Antonio Heights, Alta Loma 
and Upland.
The primary elections are on 
June 3 and general elections 
on November 4. 


Chris Holden 

Pet of the 
Week 
Frasier is an eight-year-old 
gray domestic shorthair cat. 
He enjoys roaming around 
and exploring new places. 
He’s very gentle and sweet. 
He even likes to talk! 
Frasier’s regular adoption 
fee is $70, which includes 
his neuter surgery, a 
microchip, the first set of 
vaccinations, as well as 
a free follow-up health 
check at a participating vet. 
Frasier also qualifies for our 
Seniors for Seniors program 
in which his adoption fee is 
waived for adopters 60 years 
old and older. 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 
A349662, 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. 
Survey; Stores PromoteUnhealthy Products


Ninety-seven stores in Pasadena 
were surveyed last summer as 
part of a new statewide survey 
on unhealthy products at nearly 
7,400 businesses offering retail 
sales of tobacco. The results 
were announced Wednesday 
by the California Department 
of Public Health in conjunction 
with city health department 
officials from Berkeley, Long 
Beach and Pasadena. 

 “We’ve made a lot of strides 
in recent years but this survey 
shows that tobacco and other 
companies offering unhealthy 
products continue to find new 
ways and new products to 
entice our youth, many times 
in stores just a few blocks from 

Robinson Park Renovation Approved

schools,” said Dr. Eric Walsh, 

 The city council voted Monday 
night to approve an $802,000 
contract for Phase II of the 
Robinson Park Recreation 
Center Renovation Project. 
The new agreement with local 
architectural firm GKKworks 
includes Schematic design 
services, Design development 
services, community 
engagement and outreach 
among other things.

 The renovation will increase the 
current facility at 1081 North 
Fair Oaks Ave to approximately 

Pasadena 
Media Holds 
Soft Opening

 After being closed to the public 
for almost a year, the local public 
access cable television station 
Pasadena Media held a soft 
opening Tuesday —showing 
off their brand new studios on 
South Los Robles Ave.

 The occasion was marked with 
a cake cutting. Members of the 
public were also given tours 
of the facility which includes 
a large and small studio and 
training areas. 

 Executive Director Keri 
Stokstad told about 25 
community producers, which 
attended the ceremony; an 

St. Patrick’s Tea Dance at 
Pasadena Senior Center 

 The cost is only $2 per person; 

 Shamrocks, leprechauns and reservations must be made at 
pots of gold will be in abundance the welcome desk or (626) 795Sunday, 
March 16, from 2 to 4 4331 no later than March 13.

p.m. in the Scott Pavilion at Sure and begorrah, this event 
Pasadena Senior Center when is generously sponsored by the 
tea sandwiches and sweet treats National Charity League San 
will be served.Marino Chapter and Humana. 
The Great American Swing Founded in 1959, the Pasadena 
Band will perform musical Senior Center is an independent, 
favorites for listening pleasure nonprofit organization that 
and dancing, whether guests offers recreational, educational, 
want to dance cheek to cheek wellness and social services to 
or break out in lively jigs! people ages 50 and over in a 
People with limited mobility friendly environment. Services 
are encouraged to sway to the are also provided for frail, 
rhythm as they enjoy the music low-income and homebound 
from their tables.seniors. 

JPL March Events Calendar

MARCH 13-14: FREE 
LECTURE – MEASURING 
ATMOSPHERIC CARBON 
DIOXIDE FROM SPACE 

– NASA’S ORBITING 
CARBON OBSERVATORY 
2 
Fossil fuel combustion and 
other human activities are 
now emitting more than 35 
billion tons of carbon dioxide 
(CO2) into the atmosphere 
each year. The ocean and plants 
on land emit more than 20 
times as much CO2 into the 
atmosphere as humans do, 
but they reabsorb almost as 
much, along with about half of 
human-produced emissions. 
Ground-based measurements 
accurately record the global 
impact of these processes 
on Earth’s atmospheric CO2 
budget and its trends. However, 
their resolution and coverage 
is not adequate to identify the 
“sources” emitting CO2, or 
the natural “sinks” absorbing 
this gas. The Orbiting Carbon 
Observatory – 2 (OCO-2) is 
NASA’s first satellite designed to 
measure atmospheric CO2 with 
the accuracy needed to identify 
these sources and sinks. After 
its launch in July 2014, its 
spectrometer instruments will 
record more than 100,000 CO2 
measurements each day.
Free lectures on March 13 at 
JPL; March 14 at Pasadena City 
College; both at 7 p.m.
http: //w w w. jp l . na s a.gov/
events/lectures_archive.
php?year=2014&month=3

MARCH 15: OCEAN 
SCIENCE BOWL 

30,000 square feet and will also 
expand recreational activities. 

 Some councilmembers, 
including Steve Madison, 
Margaret McAustin and Victor 
Gordo were troubled with the 
idea of changing the bidding 
process midway, although, the 
original architect Gonzalez 
Goodale chose to opt out. The 
Council voted in September 
against entering into a $750,000 
contract with Gonzalez 
Goodale amid community 
complaints.


official ribbon cutting by 
Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard 
would take place April 2. 

For more information visit 
pasadenamedia.tv or call (626) 
794-8585. 

JPL, in association with USC, 
will co-host the 15th annual Los 
Angeles regional competition 
called the “Surf Bowl”. The 2014 
JPL Regional Ocean Sciences 
Bowl will be held on Saturday, 
March 15, at JPL in Pasadena. 
Twenty-four teams of students 
and coaches from local high 
schools will participate. The 
winner of the Regional Ocean 
Sciences Bowl “Surf Bowl” 
will have the opportunity to 
compete in the National Ocean 
Sciences Bowl finals in Seattle. 
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/
nosb.cfm 

MARCH 20-22: 
FIRST ROBOTICS 
COMPETITION 

The FIRST Robotics 
Competition is a national 
engineering contest that 
immerses high school students 
in the exciting world of 
engineering. Teaming up with 
engineers from businesses, 
universities and research 
institutions, the students get 
a hands-on, inside look at the 
engineering profession. In 
January, student teams across 
the country received the same 
box of parts and have six weeks 
to design, construct and test 
their robot. The teams then 
compete in a spirited, no-holdsbarred 
tournament complete 
with time clocks, referees and 
cheerleaders. 
The next Los Angeles Regional 
FIRST Robotics Competition 
will be held at the Long Beach 
Arena. 
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/
first.php 

 The total budget for phase II 
will also increase to $9.3 million 
from $8.3 million according to 
city staff. The needed funds wills 
go to furniture, fixtures and 
equipment they said. 
GKKworks will hold the first of 
36 planned community meeting 
over construction plans at the 
end of this month. City staffexpects construction to begin 
winter 2016 and be completed 
in spring of 2018. 
Pasadena Police 
Department Traffic Unit 
will be conducting a DUI/
Driver’s License Checkpoint 
on Friday, March 14, at an 
undisclosed location within 
the city limits between the 
hours of 8:00 p.m. to 3:00 
a.m. 
In California, this deadly 
crime led to 802 deaths 
in 2012 because someone 
failed to designate a sober 
driver. Nationally, the latest 
data shows nearly 10,000 
were killed by an impaired 
driver. “Over the course of 
the past three years, DUI 
collisions have claimed 
4 lives and resulted in 63 
injury crashes harming 83 of 
our friends and neighbors,” 
said Pasadena Police Chief 
Phillip L. Sanchez. 
Officers will be looking for 
signs of alcohol and/or drug 
impairment with officers 
checking drivers for proper 
licensing delaying motorists 
only momentarily. When 
possible, specially trained 
officers will be available to 
evaluate those suspected 
of drug-impaired driving. 
Recent statistics reveal that 
30 percent of drivers in fatal 
crashes had one or more 
drugs in their systems. A 
study of active drivers 
showed more tested positive 
for drugs that may impair 
driving (14 percent) than 
did for alcohol (7.3 percent). 
Of the drugs, marijuana 
was most prevalent, at 7.4 
percent, slightly more than 
alcohol. 
Drivers caught driving 
impaired can expect the 
impact of a DUI arrest to 
include jail time, fines, 
fees, DUI classes, other 
expenses that can exceed 
$10,000 not to mention 
the embarrassment when 
friends and family find out. 
DUI/Driver’sLicense 
CheckpointPlanned 
Guest Curator Chip 
Tom will speak about the 
exhibition, The Other 
Side: Chinese and Mexican 
Immigration to America at 
a special lecture Saturday 
at 2 p.m. The exhibition 
Guest 
Curator to 
Speak aboutExhibition
Class Offerings 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Nightly 
narratives about the Chinese 
and Mexican immigrant 

presents a collection of visual 

Producers Training 

experiences. Through the 

Monday March 10 at 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm 

works of five contemporary 

Orientation Training 

artists, the exhibition explores 
the recurring issues of 

Monday March 17 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 
immigration, border relations 

Introduction to Field Production 

and labor practices that have 

Wednesday March 19 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 

persisted throughout U.S. 

Producer’s Meeting 

history and remain timely 

Thursday March 20 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 

today. Artists featured are 
Andrea Bowers, Margarita 

Citizen Journalism coming soon 

Cabrera, Tony de los Reyes, 

Digital Film Group coming soon

Zhi Lin and Hung Liu. 

healthy products. 

 Averages both statewide and 
throughout Los Angeles County 
indicated about 71 percent of 
the stores surveyed showed 
unhealthy product advertising 
and just 12 percent had healthy 
product advertising according 
to the survey.

 The survey then looked at 
the product marketing and 
the availability of healthy and 
unhealthy options offered for 
sale such as alcohol, junk foods, 
sugary beverages, sodas, fresh 
fruit, vegetables and milk.

 The survey showed that many 
of the stores sell tobacco within 
1,000 feet of schools. In Los 
Angeles County, nearly 40 
percent of the businesses were 
within the 1,000-foot radius 
while statewide the percentage 
was about 27.5 percent and 32 
percent in Pasadena. In Los 
Angeles County, less than half of 
those businesses surveyed sold 
any fresh fruits and vegetables. 
Statewide, the number was 
about 42 percent and about 38 
percent for the Pasadena-based 
businesses surveyed.

 Full statewide and local 
survey results are on the 
website, www.HealthyStores 
HealthyCommunity.com.
For more information about 
the Pasadena Public Health 
Department vist ci.pasadena.
ca.us/publichealth. 

the City’s Public Health Officer 
and Director of the Pasadena 
Health Department. “We need 
healthier stores for a healthy 
community. Consumers 
have a right to select and have 
healthier food options available. 
As health officials, we want to 
work with retailers, partners 
and parents to protect our kids 
to achieve this health goal.”

 None of the stores were 
identified by name. Of those 
97 stores, almost 58 percent 
displayed some form of exterior 
advertising or signs that 
promoted unhealthy products 
while only about 13.5 percent 
featured similar advertising for 


Artnight Pasadena Returns 


 Come celebrate the best of 
Pasadena’s creative, artistic 
community as ArtNight 
Pasadena returns from 6 p.m. 
to 10 p.m., Friday, March 14, 
2014 with free admission to 
16 exciting, world-class arts 
and cultural venues. There’s 
something for everyone during 
this exciting, family fun, four-
hour cultural extravaganza 
featuring a wide array of dance, 
music, visual arts and other 
activities. Free shuttle buses 
will help provide transportation 
to each location. 

Among the many highlights 
on March 14 for ArtNight, 
www.artnightpasadena.org, are:

 Reinvigorate your senses with 
Light Bringer Project’s Sensory 
Overload of creative edibles and 
installations at 175 N. Euclid 
Ave.

 Relive your artistic youth 
with PUSD’s student artwork 
exhibition “No Boundaries 9” 
at Paseo Colorado or revisit 
centuries past with the Norton 
Simon Museum’s exhibition of 
masterpieces. 

 Revive your dance grooves 
at Lineage Performing Arts 
Center, 89 S. Fair Oaks Ave. or 
with Muse/Ique at the Pasadena 
Civic Auditorium, 300 E. Green 
St.

 Reexamine the lifelong artistic 
pursuits of design icon Ray 
Eames at Art Center College 
of Design, 1700 Lida St., or 
recognize reoccurring themes 

Learn How to Produce 
Your Own TV Show 

of immigration by artists’ 
work at the USC Pacific Asia 
Museum, 45 N. Los Robles Ave.

 Kids can create with the 
MobileMuralLab at Kidspace 
Museum, 480 N. Arroyo Blvd., 
or experience new media at 
artWORKS Teen Center, 2914 

E. Walnut St. Both kids and 
adults alike will get a lift from 
the unique aviation exhibition 
at the Pasadena Museum of 
History, 470 W. Walnut St. 
Remember, admission to all 
venues is free and free shuttle 
buses are provided by the City 
of Pasadena to and from all 
locations using City Hall as the 
primary hub. Several venues 
also will feature co-located food 
trucks offering for-sale meals 
and treats.

 For those interested 
in providing their own 
transportation, try ArtNight by 
bicycle! Visit www.cicle.org/
event/artnight-pasadena-bybike 
for details. Make sure your 
bike is in good repair and has all 
appropriate lights and reflectors 
for a fun night ride.

 ArtNight is produced by the 
City’s Cultural Affairs Division, 
Planning & Community 
Development Department, 
in collaboration with the 
participating arts and culture 
institutions. For accessibility 
assistance to the venues or 
shuttle transportation, or for 
information in braille or large-
print format, call (626) 7447062. 


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. 

 In anticipation of Pasadena 
Media opening new studios at 
150 S. Los Robles Ave, they are 
offering free television-training 
programs 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