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THE RIALTO 
THEATRE UP 
FOR SALE

Planetary Society to 
Launch LightSail Project

 

 The Planetary Society, the 
world’s largest and most 
influential space interest group, 
based in Pasadena, has said that 
its LightSail solar sail spacecraft 
will reach space on a SpaceX 
Falcon Heavy launch in 2016. 
The announcement was made 
Wednesday.

 “It’s fantastic that at last we 
have a launch date for this 
pioneering mission,” said 
Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye 
The Science Guy. “When I was 
in engineering school, I read the 
book about solar sailing by my 
predecessor, Society co-founder 
Louis Friedman. But the dream 
of sailing on light alone goes 
back much further.” 

 LightSail Project is the first 
solar sail to be entirely funded 
by Planetary Society members 
and other citizen supporters. 
Technologies developed for 
LightSail may enable other 
small, interplanetary spacecraft 
to achieve success. The creation 
and launch of CubeSats is 
within reach of universities and 
other organizations that could 
once only dream of flying their 
own missions.

 CubeSats utilize a standard 
design based on 10-centimeter 
(about 4-inch) cubes. LightSail 
is three cubes, or just 30 
centimeters long. Tucked 
inside this tiny package are 
four ultra-thin Mylar sails that 
will be deployed a few weeks 
after orbital insertion. These 
brilliantly reflective wings will 
expand to 32 square meters 
(344 square feet), making 
LightSail easily visible to naked 
eye observers on Earth.

 LightSail will reach Medium 
Earth Orbit (MEO) stored 
inside another innovative 
spacecraft: Prox-1. Prox-1 has 
been developed by the Georgia 
Institute of Technology to 
demonstrate new technologies 
enabling two spacecraft to 
work in close proximity. After 
ejecting LightSail, the largely 
student-built Prox-1 will track 
and image LightSail, including 
the sail deployment.

 Carrying Prox-1 and LightSail 
to MEO will be the new Falcon 
Heavy, the most powerful 
rocket ever built by SpaceX of 
Hawthorne, California, and the 
largest since the Saturn V that 
delivered Apollo astronauts to 
the Moon.

 A test flight of LightSail on 
a smaller rocket may also be 
conducted in 2015. 

Bids, on the iconic 
South Pasadena 
landmark, to close 
Wednesday.

 After shutting down in 
2007, and red-tagged four 
years ago for safety, the Rialto 
Theatre went on the market 
last month —the first time 
the theater has been for sale 
since it was built in the late 
1020s.

 The building at 1023 Fair 
Oaks Avenue is registered as 
a national landmark.

Neighbors have pushed to 
save the 1,200-seat movie 
theater hoping any new 
owners will too. There are 
no preconditions for bids so 
the building could become 
anything. Historic status 
does not dictate what type of 
business can be there, only 
that the property stays in 
good condition.

 The Jebbia Family Trust, long 
with its trustee, Wells Fargo 
Bank, have partnered with 
the city of South Pasadena to 
find a buyer. 

 In a statement, Josh Levy, 
senior managing director 
of Newmark Grubb Knight 
Frank capital markets said, 
“The area’s residents are great 
backers of the arts and the 
city remains supportive of 
redevelopment plans that are 
not only thoughtful of the 
theater’s rich history but also 
create viable and sustainable 
uses onsite,”

 The theater has survived 
numerous fire including 
1933, 1938 and 1971, the last, 
which led to the removal of 
the pipe organ.

 The last movie shown at 
the Rialto was “The Simpson 
Movie” on August 19, 2007 
and on December 29, 2007, 
the theater held a farewell 
performance of “The Rocky 
Horror Picture Show.”

 In 2010, after heavy rain 
a piece of the building 
façade fell onto the sidewalk 
prompting fire officials to 
deem the building unsafe.

Officials Look at Citywide Bike Plan

 To ease bicycling conditions 
on city streets, the Municipal 
Services Committee Monday 
heard a plan to install 38 miles 
of cycle tracks or buffered bike 
lanes and bicycle boulevards, 
off-limits to vehicles, similar to 
the bike path along Marengo 
Avenue, from Orange Grove 
Boulevard to Washington 
Boulevard. 

 If implemented, the Bikeway 
Analysis and Feasibility Study 
also looked at the possible 
elimination of thousands of 
parking spaces including 602 
spaces to accommodate a 
proposed buffered bike lane 
along Villa Street from Los 
Robles Ave to Altadena Dr.

 Other heavily impacted areas 
would include a buffered bike 
lane on Washington from 
Lincoln Ave to Hill, possibly 
eliminating 358 parking spaces, 
and a buffered lane on Orange 
Grove Blvd, from Columbia 
Street to Green Street, possibly 
eliminating 390 parking spaces.

 Strong opposition, to 
eliminating parking, has come 
from Paul Little President 
of Pasadena Chamber of 
Commerce who said there 
needed to be a balance between 
businesspeople, where parking 
is vital to retail success and 
cyclists. 

 The plan divides the city bike 
paths into north-south corridors 
and east-west corridors. 

 East-west streets include 
Washington, Orange Grove, 
Villa, Union, Green Street, Del 
Mar and Colorado. 

 North-south streets include El 
Molino Ave., Wilson Ave., Sierra 
Bonita Ave., and Craig Ave. 

 The study looked at three types 
of corridors, Bike Boulevard, 
Cycle Track and Buffered Bike 
Lane calling for cycle tracks or 
buffered bike lanes on east-west 
corridors and bicycle boulevards 
on north-south corridors.

 “Cycle tracks are bikeways 
located in roadway right-of-way 
but separated from vehicle lanes 
by physical barriers,” according 
to the study.

 Bike Boulevard shares the 
roads with some preferential 
treatment for bicycles.

 Construction cost estimates 
topped $10 million.

 The study will again be heard at 
a future Transpiration Advisory 
Committee meeting the next, of 
which, is July 24. 

La Pintoresca 
Library to 
Close for 
Repairs

 
La Pintoresca Branch 
Library will close Monday, 
July 14 through Friday, 
July 18 for building repairs. 
The branch will reopen on 
Saturday, July 19 at 9 a.m. 

 Library customers are 
directed to two nearby 
library sites; Santa Catalina 
Branch Library and Central 
Library while the building 
is closed. Santa Catalina 
Branch is located at 999 
E. Washington Blvd. and 
is open Monday through 
Thursday and Saturday 
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 
Friday from 2 to 6 p.m. 
Central Library is located 
at 285 E. Walnut St. and 
is open Monday through 
Thursday from 9 a.m. to 9 
p.m., Friday and Saturday 
from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 
Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. 

Book holds for delivery to 
La Pintoresca customers 
may be picked up at Santa 
Catalina Branch during the 
brief closure. 

 La Pintoresca Branch 
Library is located at 1355 
N. Raymond Ave. For more 
information, call (626) 744-
4066.

LightSail, image by the Planetary Society

City Holds Social Media 
Photo Contest ‘At My Park’

Adaptive Art Show to Open 

 
Pasadena residents can join the 
fun with the City’s “At My Park” 
photo challenge to win prizes 
by submitting your best park-
themed photos through July 31, 
2014. 

 The family friendly social 
media campaign challenges 
residents ages 16 and older 
to share their Pasadena park 
experiences creatively through 
photos submitted to the City 
via its Twitter, www.twitter.
com/PasadenaGov, and 
Facebook, www.facebook.com/
CityofPasadena sites. 

 The “At My Park” social media 
campaign celebrates Parks Make 
Life Better Month, which occurs 
every July in California. The 
photo contest revolves around 
the City’s six park themes, two 
of which are being announced 
every Monday through the end 
of July; including Play, Nature, 
Exercise, Positive Spaces, 
Gathering Places and Forever. 

 To enter, participants must 
tweet their photos to @
PasadenaGov using the 
#AtMyPark hashtag on Twitter, 
or post their photos to the City’s 
Facebook event page with the 
#AtMyPark hashtag. The park 
theme must be mentioned in 
each post. Contest rules are 
at www.cityofpasadena.net/
AtMyPark.

 Winning photos will be 
announced weekly on the City’s 
Twitter and Facebook pages 
and online at the city’s website.

 Week 2: Photos must be 
submitted from 12 a.m. July 14 
until 11:59 p.m. July 19 

 Exercise 

 Positive Spaces 

 Week 3: Photos must be 
submitted from 12 a.m. July 21 
until 11:59 p.m. July 26 

 Gathering Places 

 Forever 

 Week 4 Grand Prize: Photos 
must be submitted from 12 a.m. 
July 28 until 11:59 p.m. July 31 

 One photo best representing 
all six themes 

 The GRAND PRIZE includes 
two tickets to the One Direction 
concert Sept. 11 at the Rose Bowl 
Stadium and an autographed 
football by 11 Heisman Trophy 
Winners, including Ricky 
Williams, Billy Sims, George 
Rogers and “RGIII.” Photos for 
the Grand Prize Challenge must 
be submitted by 11:59 p.m. 
July 31. No late entries will be 
accepted. The decisions made 
by the City are final.

Pet of the 
Week


Image is from this year's art booklet by Alan League.

 The City’s Adaptive 
Recreation Art Program 
debuts artwork created by 
local artists with disabilities 
beginning today, at the 
Armory Center for the Arts. 
The public is invited to a free 
opening reception 3-5 p.m., 
at the Armory Center for the 
Arts Community Room, 145 
N. Raymond Ave. 

 The “Rain or Shine” exhibit 
will be on display at the 
Armory Center for the Arts 
through Sept. 7, with “Rain 
or Shine”-themed poems 
and pictures illustrating the 
artists’ day-to-day hopes and 
challenges. 

 “Rain or Shine” art booklets 
will be available at the event 
for a $10 donation. Donations 
are tax deductible through 
the Pasadena Recreation and 
Parks Foundation.

 The City of Pasadena Adaptive 
Recreation Program, part of 
the City’s Human Services 
and Recreation Department, 
provides weekly art activities 
for artists with disabilities 
who live in the Pasadena/
Altadena area. 

 For more information, please 
contact Jackie Scott, adaptive 
recreation specialist, at (626) 
744-7257 or jackiescott@
cityofpasadena.net.

Speeders to 
be Targeted 
by Police

 
Larry is a six-year-old red 
tabby. He’s very friendly and 
loves to purr. Larry’s front 
paws are declawed so he 
would do well as an indoor 
only cat. 

 Larry’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. Since 
Larry is 6 years old, he also 
qualifies for our “Seniors 
for Seniors” program in 
which the adoption fee is 
waived for 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. 

 Call the Pasadena 
Humane Society & SPCA at 
626.792.7151 to ask about 
A358598, 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.

Learn How to Produce 
Your Own TV Show

 

 
Pasadena Police Department 
Traffic Unit will be conducting 
a DUI/Drivers License 
Checkpoint on Friday, July 25 at 
an undisclosed location within 
the city limits between the 
hours of 8:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. 

 The deterrent effect of DUI 
checkpoints is a proven 
resource in reducing the 
number of persons killed and 
injured in alcohol or drug 
involved crashes. Research 
shows that crashes involving an 
impaired driver can be reduced 
by up to 20 percent when well-
publicized DUI checkpoints 
and proactive DUI patrols are 
conducted routinely. 

 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 69 injury 
crashes harming 95 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. 

 DUI Checkpoints are placed 
in locations based on collision 
statistics and frequency of DUI 
arrests affording the greatest 
opportunity for achieving drunk 
and drugged driving deterrence. 
Locations are chosen with safety 
considerations for the officers 
and the public. 

 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/Drivers 
License 
Checkpoint 
Planned

 New Citizen Journalism 
training starts 
Wednesday nights, learn 
how to report news using 
social media skills.

 With the opening of the new 
Pasadena Media 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 
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.

 
The Pasadena Police 
Department will conduct 
a Speed Enforcement 
Program Monday. This 
operation will commence at 
6:00 a.m. and will continue 
throughout the morning 
hours according to police.

 They said, speeding is the 
third highest cause of traffic 
deaths and the number one 
cause of serious injuries 
on California’s roadways. 
The Pasadena Police 
Department is committed 
to reducing the number of 
traffic collisions and injuries 
resulting from excessive 
speed. The program has 
shown to be an effective 
tool in educating the public 
in regards to safer driving 
habits. 

 Funding for this program 
is provided by a grant from 
the California Office of 
Traffic Safety, through the 
National Highway Traffic 
Safety Administration.

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

Producers’ Training

Monday July 14 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Advanced Studio Lighting

Wednesday July 16 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Citizen Journalism Training

Wednesday July 16 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Basic Editing

Thursday July 17 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Orientation and Tour

Monday July 21 at 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.