Mountain Views News          Saturday, August 16, 2014

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Mountain View News Saturday, August 16, 2014 

Mosquito 
Control 
Update for 
Pasadena


Applications Available 
for 2015 Royal Court

97th Rose Queen to be 
announced and Crowned 
on October 23

 
Applications for the 2014-
2015 Tournament of Roses 
Royal Court are now available 
online at the Tournament’s 
website. Young women from 
the Pasadena area who meet 
the eligibility requirements 
are encouraged to apply 
and participate in one of 
the initial tryout sessions on 
September 13 or 15.

 To be eligible, an individual 
must be an unmarried female 
resident of the Pasadena 
Area Community College 
District; be a senior in high 
school or enrolled as a full-
time student in an accredited 
school or college in the 
Pasadena Area Community 
College District; possess at 
least a 2.0 (“C”) cumulative, 
non-weighted grade point 
average; be at least 17 years 
of age by December 31, 
2014, and not more than 21 
years of age before January 
5, 2015, with no children; 
and complete an official 
application and participate 
in one of the initial interview 
sessions.

 In recent years, as many as 
1,000 young women have 
participated in this Pasadena 
tradition, hoping to become 
an official ambassador for 
the Tournament of Roses 
and the city of Pasadena. All 
tryout participants receive 
two tickets to the Royal Ball, 
a semi-formal dance hosted 
by the Tournament of Roses 
at the Pasadena Convention 
Center on September 26.

 After the initial interview 
process, approximately 250 
individuals will be invited 
back to round two. From 
that group, about 75 young 
women will be asked to 
participate in the third round 
of interviews. On October 2, 
about 25 of the candidates 
will be announced as 
finalists, and then the seven-
member Royal Court will be 
announced on October 6. 
For the second consecutive 
year, the announcement and 
coronation of the Rose Queen 
will take place together on 
the evening of October 23. 
KTLA’s Rose Parade host 
and television personality, 
Stephanie Edwards, will 
emcee the event.

 The grand finale for the 
Royal Court will be riding 
a float in the 126th Rose 
Parade and attending the 
College Football Playoff 
Semifinal at the Rose Bowl 
presented by Northwestern 
Mutual on New Year’s Day.

 Currently, there are no 
locally acquired cases of 
viruses, including West Nile, 
Chikungunya and Dengue 
fever, transmitted from 
mosquitoes to humans in 
Pasadena. To protect against 
these diseases, it is important 
that Pasadena residents 
help prevent the breeding of 
mosquitoes by emptying all 
standing water in containers 
left outside, keeping swimming 
pools clean, and regularly 
checking for mosquito larvae 
in still water sources such as 
bird baths and ponds.

 The Pasadena Public Health 
Department also recommends 
protecting yourself by 
taking precautions to avoid 
being bitten by mosquitoes. 
Preventive measures include 
wearing repellants containing 
DEET, avoiding areas likely to 
be inhabited by mosquitoes at 
dawn and dusk, wearing long-
sleeved shirts and long pants 
when outdoors and checking 
your window screen for holes.

 If you find a dead bird on 
your property, please report 
all dead birds and squirrels to 
the West Nile Virus and Dead 
Bird Hotline at (877) 968-2473 
or online at http://westnile.
ca.gov.

 The Pasadena Public Health 
Department continues to 
proactively monitor its 
mosquito and overall vector 
control efforts to reduce the 
risk of West Nile Virus, which 
is spread to humans from a bite 
from an infected mosquito.

 To control the presence 
of mosquitoes, staff travel 
throughout the City at least 
once a week to treat gutters, 
puddles, pools, and other free-
standing water sources water 
that serve as prime breeding 
grounds for mosquitoes. 
Additionally, for more than 
a decade, the Pasadena 
Public Health Department 
has collaborated with the 
Pasadena Police Department 
to use police helicopters to 
help look for stagnant pools 
and green water sources.

 For more information on 
vector control, to receive 
free mosquito fish to prevent 
breeding, or to report a green 
pool or still water source, 
please call the Pasadena 
Public Health Department 
Environmental Health 
Division at (626) 744-6004.

Real Change Movement Unveiled

By Dean Lee

 The first repurposed parking 
“donation” meter that collects 
money, not for your car but 
to help end homelessness and 
panhandling in the city, was 
revealed Wednesday at Fuller 
Theological Seminary during a 
gathering of people who made 
the Real Change Movement a 
realism.

 Officials said the bright orange 
meter at 180 North Oakland 
Avenue was one of 12 planned 
throughout the city including 
at Pasadena City College and 
Art Center College of Design. 
The meters take cash, coins 
and credit cards. The minimum 
donation is $2.

 “This program demonstrates 
the capacity and commitment 
of the city of Pasadena to bring 
assistance to those who are less 
fortunate in our society,” said 
Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard. 
“It makes me tremendously 
proud.”

 Bogaard went on to say that the 
program is also designed to raise 
the general consciousness about 
the importance of supporting 
homeless service agencies in 
lieu of making contributions to 
individuals that are panhandling 
on the street.

 Pasadena’s Housing and Career 
Services Director, William 
Huang said there are three parts 
to the real change campaign.

 “Public education, there is 
the call to action and there 
are the donation meters…” he 
said. “With respect to Public 
education, “We can’t arrest 
or enforce our way out of the 
homeless problem, it’s not illegal 
to be poor, to be homeless but 
we can end homelessness one 
person at a time by providing 
permanent housing, with 
services.” 

 Huang said the homeless are 
frequent users of high cost 
systems such as emergency 
rooms, jails, courts, police and 
fire services. He said the meters 
provide a way to fund alternative 
services to those. 

 As for panhandling, he said, 
“we want people to know not 
all panhandles are homeless… 
studies have shown that some, 
if not all, the money that 
panhandlers get goes to drugs 
alcohol or Tabaco.” 

 The program is supported 
by The Flintridge Center, Art 
Center College of Design, 
United Way of Greater Los 
Angeles, East West Bank, Fuller 
Seminary, and LA County 
Supervisor Antonovich’s office. 

 

Meeting on 
Cycling In 
Pasadena

 
Do you enjoy riding your 
bike in Pasadena, if so, 
what improvements would 
you like to see to the City’s 
bikeways? 

 The public is invited to 
participate in an Open 
House community meeting 
Monday sponsored by the 
Pasadena Department of 
Transportation to gain 
the community’s input 
on setting priorities for 
future bikeway installations 
throughout the city.

 The meeting will be held 
from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., 
at the Jackie Robinson 
Community Center, 1020 
N. Fair Oaks Ave.

 City Transportation staff 
will share the results of a 
study that was conducted 
to determine the feasibility 
of installing Cycle Tracks, 
Buffered Bike Lanes and 
Bicycle Boulevards on 
major corridors in the City.

 Come and be a part of 
the future of cycling in 
Pasadena.

 


 

 Join the Sheriff Support Group 
of Altadena at Farnsworth Park 
Amphitheater tonight for a 
free concert with The Delgado 
Brothers Band. 

 The Delgado Brothers deliver 
a mighty musical expression of 
artistic soul, rhythm and blues 
all spiced up with a fiery blend 
of hand crafted original music. 
Beloved for their live shows and 
renowned for their signature LA 
sound, the Delgado Brothers are a 
delicious fusion of soaring guitar 
virtuosity, melodious harmonies, 
and rock solid musicianship. 
Yet the main reason their music 
strikes such a universal chord is 
their message in the music lyrics 
reflect and reveal the ethos and 
pathos of our common humanity. 
Native Angelenos, recording 
artists and the subject of a feature 
length Rockumentary film, ”In 
Time”, The Brothers, Joey D 
on guitar, Steve on drums, big 
brother Bob on bass and David 
Kelley on Hammond B3 all out 
on stage performance promises to 
delight, inspire dance, uplift and 
maybe even bring a tear to your 
eye. Critically acclaimed for their 
Greek Theater performance, and 
their volume of all original songs 
featured on three self-produced 
cd’s, “Let’s Get Back”, “ A Brothers 
Dream”, and “Learn to Fly”.

Free SSGA 
Concerts in 
the Park

Finalists for the 2014 Tournament of Roses Royal Court 

Free Tours of Tournament 
House to end this Month

 Free tours of Tournament 
House, part of the operating 
headquarters of the Pasadena 
Tournament of Roses 
Association, which oversees 
the annual Rose Parade and 
the Rose Bowl Game, will 
conclude for the year at the 
end of this month. The last 
tours of 2014 will be offered, 
at no cost, on August 21 
and 28, at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. 
Reservations are not required 
except for groups of 15 or 
more.

 Located at 391 S. Orange 
Grove Blvd., the house was 
once the home of chewing 
gum magnate William 
Wrigley Jr. and his wife, 
Ada. After Ada’s death in 
1958, the Wrigley family 
presented the property to 
the city of Pasadena, with 
the request that it become 
the base of operations for 
the Tournament of Roses 
Association. The Wrigley 
family had long enjoyed the 
Rose Parade as it unfolded 
just beyond their front yard.

 Guided tours allow visitors 
to see the 21-room Italian-
Renaissance-style mansion 
designed and built by architect 
G. Lawrence Stimson and his 
father George W. Stimson. 
Tournament of Roses 
volunteers from its Heritage 
Committee, well-versed in 
the organization’s history as 
well as in the details of the 
house itself, conduct the 
tours.

 The interior of the house 
features richly paneled 
rooms, inlaid marble floors 
and an ornate molded plaster 
ceiling - a design element 
that Stimson would later 
become famous for. Displays 
related to Rose Bowl Games, 
Rose Queens and Royal 
Courts, Grand Marshals and 
Tournament Presidents also 
are part of the décor.

 Groups of 15 or more may 
call (626) 449-4100 for 
reservations for one of the 
remaining tour dates.

Pet of the 
Week


Motorcycle 
Safety 
Operation 
Aims at 
Motorists

NASA Carbon Counter 
Reaches Final Orbit

 Just over a month after 
launch, the Orbiting Carbon 
Observatory-2 (OCO-2) -- 
NASA’s first spacecraft dedicated 
to studying atmospheric carbon 
dioxide -- has maneuvered into 
its final operating orbit and 
produced its first science data, 
confirming the health of its 
science instrument.

 Atmospheric carbon dioxide 
is the leading human-produced 
greenhouse gas responsible 
for warming our world. It is a 
critical natural component of 
Earth’s carbon cycle. OCO-2 
will produce the most detailed 
picture to date of sources of 
carbon dioxide, as well as their 
natural “sinks” -- places on 
Earth’s surface where carbon 
dioxide is removed from the 
atmosphere. The observatory 
will study how these sources 
and sinks are distributed 
around the globe and how they 
change over time.

 Following launch from 
California’s Vandenberg Air 
Force Base on July 2, OCO-2 
underwent a series of steps to 
configure the observatory for 
in-flight operations. Mission 
controllers established two-
way communications with 
the observatory, stabilized 
its orientation in space and 
deployed its solar arrays to 
provide electrical power. The 
OCO-2 team then performed 
a checkout of OCO-2’s 
systems to ensure they 
were functioning properly. 
With the instrument’s optical 
system and detectors near their 
stable operating temperatures, 
the OCO-2 team collected 
“first light” test data on Aug. 
6 as the observatory flew over 
central Papua New Guinea. 
The data were transmitted from 
OCO-2 to a ground station 
in Alaska, then to NASA’s 
Goddard Space Flight Center in 
Greenbelt, Maryland, for initial 
decoding, and then to NASA’s 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 
Pasadena, California, for further 
processing. The test provided 
the OCO-2 team with its first 
opportunity to see whether the 
instrument had reached orbit 
with the same performance 
it had demonstrated before 
launch.

 “The initial data from OCO-2 
appear exactly as expected -- the 
spectral lines are well resolved, 
sharp and deep,” said OCO-2 
chief architect and calibration 
lead Randy Pollock of JPL. “We 
still have a lot of work to do 
to go from having a working 
instrument to having a well-
calibrated and scientifically 
useful instrument, but this was 
an important milestone on this 
journey.”

 Over the next several weeks, 
the OCO-2 team will conduct 
a series of calibration activities 
to characterize fully the 
performance of the instrument 
and observatory. 

 For more information, visit: 
http://www.nasa.gov/oco2

 The Pasadena Police 
Department will be conducting 
a specialized Motorcycle Safety 
Enforcement Operation on, in 
an effort to lower deaths and 
injuries. 

 Extra officers will be on duty 
patrolling areas frequented 
by motorcyclists and where 
motorcycle crashes occur. 
Officers will be looking for 
violations made by drivers 
and riders alike that can lead 
to motorcycle crashes. They 
will be cracking down on 
both those operating regular 
vehicles and motorcycles who 
are under the influence of 
drugs or alcohol, speeding, 
making illegal turns, or any 
other dangerous violation. 

 Motorcycle fatalities saw 
a phenomenal drop of 37 
percent from 2008 to 2010, but 
then rose 23 percent by 2012. 
Operations like this are aimed 
at curbing any more rises in 
motorcycle deaths and sending 
the numbers back downward. 

 California collision data 
reveals that primary causes of 
motorcycle-involved crashes 
include speeding, unsafe 
turning and impairment due 
to alcohol and other drugs 
by both riders and drivers 
alike. The Pasadena Police 
Department is also reminding 
all motorists to always be alert 
and watch out for motorcycles, 
especially when turning and 
changing lanes.

 Biscuit is a is two-year-
old Cairn Terrier/Shih Tzu 
mix. He can be a bit shy at 
first, but warms up quickly. 
He loves treats and enjoys 
going for walks. 

 Biscuit’s adoption fee 
is $125, 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. 
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 
A361961, 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

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.


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

Station Schedule 

Orientation & Tour

Monday Aug. 18 at 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Producers’ Training

Wednesday Aug. 20 at 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Intro to Field Production

Wednesday Aug. 20 at 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Citizen Journalism Training

Wednesday Aug. 20 at 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. 

Studio Camera & Floor Manager

Wednesday Aug. 20 at 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.