Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, November 19, 2016

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Mountain Views-News Saturday, November 19, 2016 

Tournament Foundation Now 
Accepting Grant Applications


Crowell Library Holds Jazz 
and Swing from A to Z

South 
Pasadena 
Tree Planting 
Drive

 


 The wildly popular Dr. 
Thom Mason, USC Professor 
Emeritus of Jazz Studies at the 
Thornton School of Music, 
will hold Tuesday the last of 
six-session course “Jazz & 
Swing Today” at Crowell Public 
Library. 

 Mason riffs off the popular 
classes that he taught over the 
last two years, savoring the 
stories of Louis Armstrong and 
the New Orleans sound with its 
African roots, Big Band stars 
Charlie Barnet and Les Brown, 
up to Tony Bennett and the jazz 
stars of today.

 Thom Mason was chairman of 
the department of jazz studies 
at the USC Thornton School 
of Music from 1983 to 1996. 
During that period he created 
the bachelor of music, masters 
of music and doctor of musical 
arts programs in jazz studies. 
He is a saxophone, clarinet and 
flute specialist and has played 
with such notable artists as 
Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, 
Tony Bennett, Jack Sheldon, 
Louis Bellson, and Ernie Watts. 
His multimedia presentations 
are filled with music excerpts, 
rare photos, film clips, 
humorous stories and live 
demonstrations that stimulate, 
educate and entertain. Not to 
be missed. No reservations are 
required.

 

 In order to preserve our 
urban forest, South Pasadena 
Beautiful is hosting a tree 
planting drive with the goal to 
plant 50 trees by Arbor Day, 
March 2017. You can help by 
funding the planting of a tree 
through the South Pasadena 
Tree Dedication Program. 
Donors can work with the City 
Arborist to pick a location and 
specie of tree to be planted close 
to their business, residence, or 
where the need is the greatest.

 Each tree dedication is $195. All 
tree donations made through 
South Pasadena Beautiful are 
tax deductible and generate a 
one year membership to the 
nonprofit organization. For 
more information, contact 
South Pasadena Beautiful at 
southpasadenabeautiful@
gmail.com

 The Tournament of Roses 
Foundation is now accepting 
applications for its 2017 grant 
assistance program. In 2017, 
the total amount awarded to 
local charities will remain at 
$200,000. Since its inception 
in 1983, the Foundation has 
invested over $2.9 million 
in more than 180 Pasadena-
area organizations. Grants 
typically range from 
$1,000 up to $10,000 
per organization. The 
grant award maximum is 
$10,000. The grant awards 
in 2016 totaled $200,000, 
and the average grant was 
approximately $4,700. 

Eligible applicants are 
organizations with 501(c)
(3) status, as of the 2017 
submission deadline, that 
are based in and serving 
one or more of the following 
communities: Alhambra, 
Altadena, Arcadia, 
La Cañada Flintridge, 
Monrovia, Pasadena, San 
Gabriel, San Marino, Sierra 
Madre, South Pasadena, and 
Temple City. Grants will be 
given in the categories of 
performing and visual arts, 
sports and recreation, and 
volunteer motivation and 
leadership development. 
Forty-two organizations 
received grants last year 
including these six first-
time recipients: California 
Ladyhawks, Jackson PTA, 
Los Angeles County 
Community Development 
Foundation, Marshall 
Fundamental PTSA, 
Oakwood Brass-Outreach 
Project and The Theatre at 
Boston Court.

 To apply, eligible 
organizations should visit 
www.tournamentofroses.
com/foundation/grant.

 Applications will be 
accepted from November 8, 
2016 until 5 p.m., January 
26, 2017. All applicants 
will receive a status update 
the week of February 27, 
2017. The 2017 finalists 
will be notified the week of 
February 27, 2017 and then 
must submit the required 
additional background 
materials by March 13, 2017. 
The Foundation’s Board 
of Directors will make the 
final grant selections at its 
annual spring meeting, and 
applicants will be notified 
of their funding status via 
email in May 2017.

 The Tournament of Roses 
Foundation is a non-profit, 
public benefit corporation 
established in 1983 to receive 
and manage charitable 
contributions on behalf of 
the Tournament of Roses 
Association, its supporters 
and the general public.

 Giving Remains at 
$200,000 for Local 
Charities

South Pasadena to Hold 
Meeting on Urban Forest

South Pasadena High School 
production of ‘Our Town’

 Residents are invited to a 
presentation regarding the City 
forestry, street lighting, traffic 
signals and median landscaping. 
The City is in the process of 
updating the Landscape and 
Lighting Maintenance District 
which funds the operation and 
maintenance of all these items.

 South Pasadena is proud to 
be a part of Tree City USA, 
an Arbor Day Foundation 
program recognizing cities 
that support a healthy tree 
canopy. The benefits of a robust 
urban forest include cleaner 
air, improved storm water 
management, energy savings, 
increased property values, 
and commercial activity. 
Many of South Pasadena’s 
trees are in the later stages of 
their life cycle which requires 
more pruning, removal, and 
eventually replacement. While 
the maintenance cost has risen, 
the assessment rate has not 
changed since 1996.

 A Community Meeting 
is being held on Tuesday, 
November 29 at 6:00 p.m. in the 
City Hall Council Chambers 
located at 1424 Mission Street. 
This meeting will provide 
information regarding the 
function of the District, as well 
as the proposed assessment 
updates. Please plan to attend 
to learn about the assessment 
update.

 


 South Pasadena High School 
Drama Department is proud 
to present what playwright 
Edward Albee called “the 
finest play ever written by an 
American”: Thornton Wilder’s 
“Our Town”. The play will run 
December 2 through Dec. 10.

Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” 
is an American classic, not just 
because of its long performance 
history, but because its timeless 
lessons about life resonate now 
just as strongly as they did 75 
years ago.

 “Our Town” drops us into 
Grover’s Corners, a small town 
in rural New Hampshire. We 
meet the Webbs’ and Gibbs’ 
families and jump through 
time with them and the other 
townsfolk as we watch first-
love, marriage, and eventually, 
death. Grover’s Corners is, Mr. 
Webb says, a “very ordinary 
town.” But in this ordinariness, 
Wilder is able to show us the 
absurd things, the tragic things 
and the majestic things that 
happen to us all every day. As 
Alexander Woolcott in the New 
Yorker said it: “no play ever 
moved me so deeply.”

Our Town (directed by Daniel 
Enright) runs two weekends: 
Fri Dec. 2 & Sat Dec. 3, 7pm. 
Sun Dec. 4, 2pm. Fri and Sat 
Dec. 9 & 10 at 7pm. The Little 
Theater, South Pasadena High 
School, 1401 Fremont Ave. 
South Pasadena. General 
Admission is $12. Tickets may 
be purchased at SPHS Main 
Office, SPHS student bank or 
online at sphsasb.org.

The Huntington Exhibit to 
Showcase History of Whiskers 


South 
Pasadena 
Drought 
Stage 1 
Reminder

 


 The Huntington newest art 
exhibit History of Whiskers: 
Facial Hair and Identity in 
European and American Art, 
1750-1920 is set to run Nov 19 
- Mar 06.

 Facial hair has always been 
more than a matter of fashion. 
Impeccably coiffed or wild and 
unkempt, a beard or mustache 
says a lot about a man and who 
he aspires to be. This exhibition 
explores how facial hair styles 
were used to craft the identities 
of historical figures and 
fictional characters. Presidents, 
generals, industrialists, and 
aristocrats relied on facial hair 
to influence how their peers 
perceived them. Some styles 
were meant as statements 
of power, while others were 
supposed to indicate wisdom, 
piety, or even a whimsical 
disposition. For those seeking 
to rise in the ranks, the 
appropriate choice of whiskers 
could be an effective means 
of imitating, and perhaps 
flattering, one’s superiors.

 Artists also used facial hair 
in constructing characters and 
conveying vital information 
to viewers. Beards and 
mustaches provided a visual 
shorthand, signaling anything 
from a personality trait to 
an occupation. Featuring 
16 prints, drawings, and 
photographs from The 
Huntington’s library and art 
collections (including two 
early photographs of our own 
institution’s founder, Henry E. 
Huntington), the artworks in 
this exhibition depict a range of 
facial hair styles, some of which 
are still in fashion today, while 
others have become relics of 
the distant past.

 The Huntington is open 10 
a.m. Wednesday to Sunday 
and closed Tuesdays. The last 
ticketed entry time is 4 p.m. 
The library and art galleries 
close at 4:30 p.m. and guests are 
encouraged to begin exiting at 
this time.

 Admission to The Huntington 
is free to all visitors on the first 
Thursday of every month with 
advance tickets. Hours on Free 
Day are 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

The Huntington Library, Art 
Collections, and Botanical 
Gardens is located 1151 
Oxford Road, San Marino, 
CA. for more information call 
626.405.2100.

 In response to new state 
regulations that allow water 
providers to determine 
their own water reduction 
targets based on local water 
supply, the South Pasadena 
City Council approved 
transitioning to a Stage 1 
Water Supply Shortage at a 
September Council meeting. 
The changes took effect last 
month.

The following prohibitions, 
per SPMC 35.42 enacted in 
1991, remain in effect: 

• Water leaks or breaks must 
be fixed within 72 hours.

• No overhead watering 
between the hours of 9 am 
and 5 pm.

• No runoff of irrigation 
water.

• Hoses must have shut 
off nozzle when washing 
vehicles.

For more information 
about what you can do to 
conserve water or contact 
Jenna Shimmin at (626) 
403-7311 or jshimmin@
southpasadenaca.gov


THANKSGIVING DINNER IN THE PARK Thursday, November 24 Pasadena Central Park 
(Corner of Del Mar and Fair Oaks)

 This uplifting community event provides thousands of holiday meals and hope for all who 
attend, including homeless men, women, children, seniors, very low-income families, and 
those with no place to go during the holidays. The impact of the event in the community is 
large because of your help!


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