Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, December 24, 2016

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SOUTH PASADENA - SAN MARINO

Mountain Views-News Saturday, December 24, 2016 


Gregory 
Pieschala 
Elected to 
Huntington’s 
Board of 
Trustees

South Pasadena Rose 
Parade Traffic Restrictions

Events at The Huntington


Ranch Open House - Jan 07 
- 29, Saturdays, 10 a.m.–1 
p.m.

Stop by The Huntington’s 
urban agriculture site during 
its weekly open hours and 
pick up some fresh ideas 
for sustainable gardening. 
Experts from the L.A. 
Master Gardener program 
will be on hand to answer 
questions and offer seasonal 
tips. From the Teaching 
Greenhouse, follow signs to 
the site. General admission. 
Ranch Garden

Japanese Teahouse 
Tours - Jan 09, 2017 
Monday, 11:30 a.m.–
3:30 p.m.

Take a peek inside 
the Japanese Garden’s 
ceremonial teahouse and 
learn the traditions behind 
its use. Informal tours 
are offered at 20-minute 
intervals on the second 
Monday of every month. 
No reservations required. 
General admission.

Garden Talk & Sale - Bare-
Root Roses Jan 12, 2017 
Thursday, 2:30 p.m.

Tom Carruth, The 
Huntington’s E. L. and Ruth 
B. Shannon Curator of the 
Rose Collections, shares tips 
for planting and growing 
one of the best rose bargains 
around: bare-root roses. 
With Southern California 
performance in mind, he’ll 
also review each variety 
offered in our annual bare-
root sale, which follows the 
talk. Free; no reservations 
required. Ahmanson Room, 
Brody Botanical Center.

The Huntington Library, Art 
Collections, and Botanical 
Gardens is located 1151 
Oxford Road, San Marino or 
call 626.405.2100.

 

 Excitement is building 
fast for Pasadena’s 128th 
Rose Parade on Monday, 
January 2. In order to ensure 
safe traffic conditions for 
the parade, Orange Grove 
Avenue will be closed north 
of the 110 Freeway from 7:30 
pm on Sunday, January 1, 
through to early morning on 
Monday, January 2.

 Local access will be 
available to residents 
of the 200 through 500 
blocks of Orange Grove 
Avenue and the 700 block 
of Orange Grove Terrace 
only. Residents living on 
streets to the east and west 
of Orange Grove Avenue 
who normally access their 
street via Orange Grove 
will be temporarily required 
to access their street via 
Grand Avenue or Meridian 
Avenue. The City of South 
Pasadena apologizes for any 
inconvenience that this may 
cause, and looks forward to 
lifting traffic restrictions as 
soon as feasible on January 
2, 2017.

 For residents and guests 
of residents along Orange 
Grove Avenue and Orange 
Grove Terrace:

Please complete passes 
received from the 
Tournament of Roses as 
requested and utilize them 
at all times in order to 
access your residence on 
the evening of January 1 
and throughout the day on 
January 2.

 Please obey all “No 
Parking” signs posted along 
local streets. Resident 
passes allow local access 
to streets but do not allow 
parking along those streets. 
All “No Parking” signs will 
be strictly enforced at the 
dates and times specified.

 Please contact the 
Tournament of Roses 
directly at (626) 449-4100 
to request additional passes 
for guests or if you have 
questions regarding the 
Rose Parade.

 Please contact the South 
Pasadena Police Department 
at (626) 403-7297 for 
questions regarding parking 
and parking restrictions in 
the City of South Pasadena.

 Gregory Pieschala has 
been elected to the Board of 
Trustees at The Huntington 
Library, Art Collections, 
and Botanical Gardens, 
Huntington President Laura 
S. Trombley announced 
Tuesday. A longtime 
supporter of the institution, 
Pieschala takes the place 
of Stewart R. Smith who 
is retiring from the board 
at the end of June 2017. 
Pieschala steps into that 
role on July 1. The Board 
of Trustees comprises five 
members, responsible 
for The Huntington’s 
financial sustainability and 
overarching direction.

 Led by chairwoman Anne 
Rothenberg, the Trustees 
are supported in their 
work by a 60-plus member 
Board of Overseers that 
helps advise on a range of 
specialized areas, including 
finance, research, education, 
art, library, and botanical 
collections. Pieschala has 
been a member of that group 
since 1999 and currently 
serves as its chairman.

 “I am delighted to have Greg 
join the Board in providing 
oversight and guidance 
to The Huntington,” said 
Trombley. “Greg has been 
tremendously engaged 
in helping to move the 
institution forward over 
the years. He has been 
extraordinarily generous 
with his time, intellect, and 
strategic leadership, and The 
Huntington is better for it. 
I look forward to working 
with him as we look to The 
Huntington’s future and its 
next 100 years.”

 Pieschala first came to 
The Huntington in 1993 as 
a consultant with McKinsey 
and Co., the global 
management consultant 
group, which had been 
engaged, pro bono, to help 
the Huntington leadership 
conduct strategic planning. 
The resulting report, led by 
Pieschala, turned out to be 
a watershed moment for the 
institution, putting in place 
a framework for securing 
The Huntington’s financial 
underpinnings through 
more robust audience 
engagement and more 
dynamic programming 
and outreach. The report 
also strongly suggested that 
The Huntington beef up its 
emphasis on K-12 education; 
today, the institution serves 
more than 20,000 school 
children and their teachers 
each year through field 
trips, special programs, and 
school partnerships.

 Pieschala, 59, is president 
of BrightView (formerly 
ValleyCrest) Golf 
Maintenance. Originally 
from Indiana, he attended 
Stanford University and 
graduated in 1979 with a BA 
in economics. He earned his 
MBA, with distinction, in 
1986 from Harvard Business 
School. He is past chairman 
of the board of the Weingart 
Center Association and 
current director of the Los 
Angeles Children’s Chorus. 

Analyses of the Library Strategic 
Plan Survey Now Available

 

 Public response to South 
Pasadena Public Library’s 
online Strategic Planning 
survey has been very strong 
with about 700 community 
members completing the 
survey. The online survey was 
utilized to collect opinions, 
suggestions, and thoughts about 
the Library from the public. The 
Library’s Strategic Planning 
Consultant Joe Matthews also 
conducted a Strategic Planning 
Community Forum on 
October 22 in the Community 
Room. It was attended by about 
20 individuals, comprised of 
members of the public, the 
Friends of the Library, the 
Library Board of Trustees, and 
the Library staff. The Library 
is very appreciative of all the 
input from the public from 
both the Community Forum 
and the Online Forum.

 Mr. Matthews has recently 
published four new easy-to-
read documents that offer 
analyses of the public’s Library 
Strategic Planning responses: 
“Analysis of Online Survey—
‘Inspiring Ideas,” “Analysis 
of the Community-Related 
Questions,” “Online Survey 
Appendix, and “Online Survey 
Related Questions”. The 
documents can be found under 
“News” on the homepage of 
the South Pasadena Library 
Website and southpasadenaca.
gov/library.

South Pasadena Holiday 
Parking Restrictions Relaxed

 Overnight parking 
restriction will not be 
enforced from the morning 
of Friday, December 23, 
through the morning of 
Wednesday, January 4. All 
other parking restrictions 
will be enforced including 
preferential parking 
districts, timed-restrictions 
and parking a vehicle 
continuously for 72 hours. 

 The Mission-Meridian 
Parking Garage is open to the 
public from 12 noon to 2 am 
daily, and from 4 am to 2 am 
on weekends and holidays. 
This year the holidays fall 
on the weekends but the 
Rose Parade is on Monday, 
January 2, and parking will 
be free in the parking garage 
that day.

Haaga Lecture 
- The Value 
of Patents: 
A Historian’s 
Perspective


San Marino Crowel Library 
Rose Pruning Workshop

 The Huntington Library 
will hold the lecture Jan 09, 
Monday, 7:30 p.m.

 Naomi R. Lamoreaux, 
Stanley B. Resor Professor 
of Economics and History 
at Yale University, discusses 
the important ways in which 
patents have contributed to 
technological innovation 
over the course of U.S. 
history. Free; no reservations 
required. Rothenberg Hall. 
1919 (café) will be open until 
7:15 p.m. before the start of 
this event. The Huntington 
Library, Art Collections, 
and Botanical Gardens is 
located 1151 Oxford Road, 
San Marino. For more 
information 626.405.2100.

 
Ron Serven, (pictured) 
Environmental Services 
Manager/City Arborist for 
the City of San Marino, will 
conduct his 24nd annual 
rose pruning workshop on 
Saturday January 7 at the 
Crowell Public Library, 
and give even the most 
inexperienced gardeners 
the knowledge to promote 
healthy, beautiful rose 
blooming when spring 
comes around. Learn the 
techniques in one two-hour 
session and be ready to work 
in companionship with 
nature.

 A former City Parks 
Division Manager, Ron’s 
expertise with roses is still 
visible throughout the city, 
particularly at beautiful Lacy 
Park. Many rose lovers have 
benefited from and attended 
repeat performances 
of Ron’s workshop at 
Crowell Library. He will 
demonstrate optimum rose 
pruning techniques and 
answer questions from the 
audience, such as what to do 
in cold weather, or how to 
deal with irregular rainfall. 
Those who attend will be 
ready to go out into their 
own yards the very same day 
to get the job done. Rose 
pruning promotes healthy 
roses and abundant blooms 
in the spring. Increasing air 
circulation can help prevent 
disease. 

 Attendees will get a better 
sense of how Mother Nature 
works and will soon be 
spending some enjoyable 
time in their home gardens, 
armed with the knowledge 
to keep it thriving and 
beautiful.

 The workshop is free 
and runs 9:00-11:00 a.m., 
reservations are not required, 
questions, please call the 
library (626) 300-0777, 
extension 579. The library 
is located 1890 Huntington 
Drive, San Marino.

San Marino 
10th Annual 
Bookmark 
Design Contest

The City of San Marino is 
set to hold its 10th Annual 
Bookmark Design Contest. 

There are three Three age 
categories: 8 and under 9 to 
13 and 14 to 18.

Each entrant needs to have a 
library card.

Each winner will receive a 
$100 gift card.

Entry forms available in the 
Children’s area, YA area, 
Lifelong Learning Center, 
library entry and Adult 
Reference Desk.

You can enter more than 
once. Names are hidden 
from judges.

Winning bookmarks will be 
distributed for 2 months as 
limited edition bookmarks.

Winners notified on January 
7, 2017.

Winners will be recognized 
on January 21, 2017.

San Marino Snow Day is Jan. 14

 

 Bring your family for a day of 
fun in “Snow Marino!” 

 Fifty tons of snow will be 
delivered at Lacy Park 10 am 
- 2 pm for sledding, throwing 
snowballs, and making 
snowmen. Parents are invited 
to watch their children play in 
the snow! Pre-sale Wristbands 
will be available starting 
December 12 at the Recreation 
Department 

(open Monday-Thursday, 8 
am-5 pm) for ages 2 yrs. to 
adults for $7 each. On the day 
of the event, wristbands will be 
$9 each. Children 1 and under 
are free. Wristband sales are 
final.


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