Mountain Views News          Saturday, February 7, 2015

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Mountain Views-News Saturday, February 7, 2015 

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2015

 

AROUND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY


ART ON PALM RAISES $5,000 FOR THE 

CREATIVE ARTS GROUP OF SIERRA MADRE

Art on Palm, an Altadena art and fine crafts 
show, presents $5,000 to Kristin Naran, 
Executive Director of the Creative Arts Group 
of Sierra Madre, in the canyon garden of show 
hosts, Maryrose Smyth, Mark Pickett and Beth 
Overhuls. 

 In 2014, the artists of Art on Palm raised 
$5,000 for Creative Arts Group. Art on Palm is 
a one-day-only show that occurs each spring and 
fall. The upcoming 2015 spring event is set for 
Saturday, May 9, 2015.

 The Creative Arts Group of Sierra Madre 
provides free art instructions to the grade school 
students of Sierra Madre and affordable art classes 
to children and adults.

 “We choose to support the Creative Arts 
Group because they enrich our community with 
quality instruction for students—who otherwise 
would not receive it—, in addition to presenting; 
gallery exhibitions and festivals that are lively, 
engaging, and fun” said Catherine M. S. Cowles, 
co-producer, Art on Palm. 

“Creative Arts is thrilled to benefit from Art on 
Palm. It is an honor to be affiliated with this high 
caliber show and their talented, generous artists. 
We truly appreciate Art on Palm and all those 
who support art in our community,” states Kristin 
Naran, Executive Director, Creative Arts Group. 

MAYOR ANTONOVICH AND BEA COHEN

LOS ANGELES COUNTY — Mayor Michael D. 
Antonovich recognized Bea Cohen, California’s 
oldest living female World War II Veteran, on her 
105th Birthday. An immigrant from Romania, 
Bea served honorably in the Armed Forces during 
World War II and is one of a few people who 
witnessed the beginning of World War I in 1914. At 
the start of World War II, she worked at Douglas 
Aircraft Company, becoming a “Rosie Riveter,” 
before enlisting in the U.S. Army Women’s 
Auxiliary. Her husband Ray, was a prisoner of war, 
which inspired her to serve our nation’s veterans. 


CADETS TRAINED IN WILDLAND FIREFIGHTING 
GRADUATE IN SUNDAY CEREMONY

Explorer cadets trained in wildland firefighting 
will graduate in a ceremony set for noon Sunday 
(Feb. 8) at the Biedebach Regional Training Center, 
12371 N. Little Tujunga Canyon Road, Angeles 
National Forest. The event is about five miles north 
of the 210 freeway.

 The 46 cadets of the Angeles National Forest 
Wildland Explorer Academy #21 have met both 
physical and academic challenges, completing 
a rigorous 120-hour program. Training areas 
included firefighter training, fire behavior, land 
navigation, live-fire and hose-laying drills, and 
wildland fire investigation and prevention.

 In addition to the Angeles, the cadets represent 
the Ventura County Fire Department, Costa 
Mesa Fire Department, Oxnard Fire Department, 
Montebello Fire Department, Riverside County/
Cal Fire, Los Angeles County Fire Department and 
the Kern County Fire Department.

 Established in 1995, the Angeles National Forest 
Explorer Academy for men and women ages 16 to 21 
is the only Explorer program in the nation specific 
to wildland firefighting. The program introduces 
its trainees to wildland-firefighting techniques and 
the potential for a career with the Forest Service or 
similar agencies in Southern California. Graduates 
have been placed in temporary and permanent 
jobs all over the nation.

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SAN GABRIELS TO THE SEA: 

HOW HAHAMONGNA FITS IN

Altadena Heritage is excited to offer this public 
forum that will put Hahamongna Watershed 
Park — and Los Angeles County’s controversial 
sediment-removal plan for Devil’s Gate Reservoir 
— into a larger context: its significance within 
the Arroyo Seco River System. Because of 
Hahamongna’s location between the sediment-
producing San Gabriel mountains and the lower 
Arroyo Seco and Los Angeles River, which flows 
to the Pacific, it plays a vital role in the continued 
well-being of our most important local river 
system.

 Two dynamic speakers will help us understand 
the geology, hydrology, history, and important role 
of this rich regional resource, and how the project 
as planned will impact the greater environment of 
Altadena, Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge.

 Dr. Dave Douglass is a geologist who earned his 
PhD at Dartmouth College and currently serves 
as a professor and Dean of the School of Science 
and Mathematics at Pasadena City College. Dr. 
Douglass will sketch out the geological big picture 
that is often poorly understood or completely 
omitted from public discussions of large public 
works undertakings such as the Devil’s Gate 
Reservoir Sediment-Removal and Management 
Project.

 Tim Brick is Executive Director of the Arroyo 
Seco Foundation and former chair of the 
Metropolitan Water District Board of Directors; he 
represented Pasadena on MWD’s board for 30 years. 
Mr. Brick will fill us in on his foundation’s efforts to 
mitigate the current plan so that beyond protecting 
public safety, it also takes into account modern 
best practices of integrated resource management 
and taps opportunities to restore our region’s 
natural hydrology. Such an approach would benefit 
multiple users, communities, and the environment 
in and around Hahamongna Watershed Park.

 There will be ample time for Q&A from the 
public. Civic and L.A. County Public Works leaders 
and water agency representatives have also been 
invited to participate.

 This free event — open to the public — is part 
of Altadena Heritage’s continuing Sustainability 
Series, and will take place Thursday, February 
19, at the Altadena Community Center (730 E. 
Altadena Dr.) from 7 to 9 pm. Light refreshments 
will be served. You must RSVP: altadenaheritage@
earthlink.net.