Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, November 26, 2016

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Mountain Views-News Saturday, November 26, 2016 

Tournament Foundation Now 
Accepting Grant Applications

South Pasadena State 
of the City Address

South Pasadena Annual 
Breakfast with Santa

 
Throughout the past 
year, South Pasadena City 
Council and staff prioritized 
environmental stewardship 
and governmental efficiency. 

 Mayor Diana Mahmud and 
the City of South Pasadena 
(City) invite residents and 
community members to 
consider the results of this 
focus at the 2016 State of the 
City Address on Wednesday, 
December 14, at 6:00 pm, 
in the Library Community 
Room, 1115 El Centro Street. 
You are invited to honor 
some of those contributions, 
as we reflect on the year that 
was.

 The program will include 
a presentation by Mayor 
Diana Mahmud, with a 
short reception to follow. 
Free parking for the event is 
available in both the South 
Pasadena Unified School 
District Office parking 
lot, 1020 El Centro Street, 
and the Meridian Mission 
Parking Garage, 805 South 
Meridian Avenue. Street 
parking around South 
Pasadena Public Library, 
1100 Oxley Street, is also 
available on a first-come, 
first-served basis.

 For more information on 
the 2016 State of the City 
Address, please contact 
the Management Services 
Department at (626) 
403-7210 or cmoffice@
southpasadenaca.gov.

 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

Mayor Diana Mahmud

 Santa is coming to town. 
The annual Breakfast with 
Santa event will be held on 
Saturday, December 10, 2016 
from 9 am to 11 am at the War 
Memorial Building, 435 Fair 
Oaks Avenue. This event is 
fun for the whole family with 
arts, crafts, entertainment, 
and a tasty hot breakfast. 
Tickets are $15 per person, 
children under 2 are free. 
Pre-registration is now open 
and spaces are limited.

 Please plan to arrive early as 
doors will close at 9:30 am. 
Register at the Recreation 
Division office, 815 Mission 
Street, Monday through 
Friday from 10 am to 6 pm, 
or visit southpasadenaca.
gov/events to register on-
line. Spaces are limited and 
all sales are final.

South Pasadena Financial 
Transparency Portal

South Pas Parking Relaxed 
through Monday Morning

South Pasadena has 
launched its first Financial 
Transparency Portal, a web 
based financial intelligence 
and interactive tool that 
allows you to explore the 
city’s financial data through 
visualizations such as 
charts, graphs, and reports. 
You can explore the city’s 
expenditures, revenues, 
view departmental budgets, 
and run reports down to 
line item details. In an effort 
to provide a more inclusive 
and transparent budget 
presentation to our residents, 
the city is pleased to partner 
with OpenGov to provide 
this Financial Transparency 
tool. Visit the portal today, 
or for more information visit 
southpasadenaca.gov.

 South Pasadena overnight 
parking restrictions will be 
relaxed through Monday, 
November 28. All other parking 
restrictions will be enforced 
including preferential parking 
districts, timed-restrictions and 
parking a vehicle continuously 
for 72 hours.

 For day time parking options 
the Mission-Meridian Parking 
Garage is open to the public 
from 12:00 noon to 2:00 am 
daily and from 4:00 am to 2:00 
am on weekends and holidays. 
The relaxed parking is part of 
the Thanksgiving holiday that 
started Thursday.

 The public parking lot at the 
corner of Hope Street and 
Mound Avenue is the great 
place to park to shop at local 
business. There is two hour 
time-restriction parking 
from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm, and 
unrestricted parking from 6:00 
pm to 2:00 am. There is no 
overnight parking allowed in 
the public parking lots.


South 
Pasadena 
Tree Planting 
Drive

South 
Pasadena 
Drought 
Stage 1 
Reminder

 
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

 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

South Pasadena to Hold 
Meeting on Urban Forest

 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 
production 
of ‘Our Town’

 

 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.


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