Mountain Views News          Saturday, March 5, 2016

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Mountain Views-News Saturday, March 5, 2016 


Input Sought 
For New City 
Manager

One City, One Story Events

Council 
to Discuss 
Bicycle 
Action Plan

 
Chosen from a field of 
compelling nominees, the book 
selection for Pasadena’s 14th 
One City, One Story community 
reading celebration is Orphan 
Train by author Christina Baker 
Kline. 

 All events are free and open to 
the public.

 Thursday, 7 p.m., Central 
Library/Donald Wright 
Auditorium, 285 E. Walnut St. 
Family Activity - One Year Road 
Trip: Driving a Generation of 
Generosity The Webb Family 
presents lively and inspiring 
stories, videos and reflections 
from their One Year Road 
Trip: Generation of Generosity 
project. Learn about life on the 
road, young change-makers who 
are impacting foster children 
across America, and how 
questions posed in the novel 
Orphan Train permeated their 
life on the road.

 Saturday, March 12, 1-5 p.m., 
Central Library,285 E. Walnut St. 
Family Activity - One City, One 
Story Day, Model train display, 
Author Eve Bunting reads her 
book, Train to Somewhere, The 
Orphan Trains, A Documentary 
(2006), Author William Bradley 
discusses his book: Los Angeles 
Union Station: Tracks to the 
Future, Train sing-a-long led by 
Theatre Americana

 Thursday, March 17,1 p.m., 
Central Library/Law Room . 
285 E. Walnut St. Workshop 
- QuickLook: Adoption 
Introduction to Electronic 
Resources LA Law Library’s 
Austin Stoub presents an 
overview of adoption law, 
regulations, cases and other 
legal information available from 
LA Law Library’s Law Portal, 
a collection of electronic legal 
research databases.

 Thursday, March 17, 7 p.m., 
Central Library/Donald Wright 
Auditorium,• 285 E. Walnut 
St. Lecture - Pasadena in the 
1920s Christine Lofstedt wrote 
a master’s thesis in 1922 on “A 
Study of the Mexican Population 
in Pasadena,” covering the 
reasons for migration, housing 
conditions and musical 
preferences of nearly all of 
the Mexican and Mexican-
American residents. Roberta H. 
Martínez shares stories of what 
it was like in Pasadena in the 
early 1900s, during Lofstedt’s 
studies and when Vivian Daly 
rode the Orphan Train. 

 


 The city council is set Monday 
night, as part of their regular 
meeting, to hear an update to 
the Draft Bicycle Transportation 
Plan that includes a new bike 
share program with 34 kiosks 
and 490 bicycles available to the 
public. 

 The Pasadena bike share will be 
part of a large Metro countywide 
bike share-program.

 According to the council’s 
agenda report “It is Metro’s 
intent to implement a uniform 
program so that users can have 
access to the various bicycle 
stations regardless of the 
jurisdiction.”

 Downtown Los Angeles will 
be the first city to launch the 
regional pilot program with 
approximately 65 bike-share 
stations and 1 ,090 bicycles. The 
Downtown stations are set to 
open in summer. 

 Other projects within 
the Pasadena Bicycle 
Transportation Plan include 
“The Roseways Network,” areas 
of the city that have low-speed, 
low-traffic neighborhood 
streets including North West 
Pasadena, East Pasadena, areas 
near Glenarm Street and the 
Arroyo. The paths will be 
marked with bicycle icons that 
include chevrons stenciled on 
the roadway surface. Roseways 
signage will have a consistent 
theme and look the report states.

 The Bicycle Transportation 
Plan will also remove traffic 
lanes on five major streets 
including East Colorado Blvd. 
from Holliston Avenue to East 
City Limit, as part of a road diet. 
Other proposed road diet streets 
include, Cordova Street between 
Hill Street and Marengo Ave. 
and Union Street and Hill Street 
to Arroyo Parkway, and Orange 
Grove Blvd. from Columbia 
Street to Rosemead Boulevard 
and Washington Boulevard from 
Lincoln Avenue to El Molino 
Avenue and Altadena Drive to 
Sierra Madre Boulevard. Many 
of the streets will go from three 
to two lanes with new traffic 
signals installed.

 According to city staff the plan 
is estimated to cost as high as 
$7.5 million.

 The city council meets Monday 
at 6:30 p.m. Council Chamber, 
Pasadena City Hall 100 North 
Garfield Avenue, Room S249. 
The item is a report only and 
the council will not vote on the 
plan.

Christina Baker Kline

 As the City undertakes its 
search for a new City Manager, 
the public is encouraged to 
attend, the second of two 
meetings to be held this 
Tuesday to provide input about 
the most important qualities 
which potential candidates 
should have.

 Pasadena Mayor Terry 
Tornek said “the City Council 
feels it is important to hear 
from the residents and other 
stakeholders about the City 
Manager position.” 

 The next meeting will be 
Tuesday Noon-1 p.m. at the 
Villa-Parke Community 
Center, 363 E. Villa Street.

Anyone who would like to 
offer input but could not 
attend the meetings can do so 
online at www.cityofpasadena.
net/CityManagerRecruitment. 
The first meeting was held 
last Thursday at the Jackie 
Robinson Community Center. 

 The meetings are facilitated 
by the executive search firm of 
Bob Murray and Associates.

 The City Council anticipates 
applications for City Manager 
will be accepted beginning 
in March with screening and 
interviews taking place in May 
and June and an anticipated 
hire date in the summer.

 The Council’s Ad Hoc 
Search Committee for a 
new City Manager includes 
Mayor Tornek, along with 
Councilmembers Victor 
Gordo, Tyron Hampton and 
Margaret McAustin.

ArtNight Pasadena Events

Free Lecture 
on the Mars 
JPL Missions

 
Speaker Dr. Leslie Tamppari, 
MRO deputy project scientist 
for the Mars missions will 
discuss “In the Blink of the 
Eye: What 10 Years at Mars 
Can Tell Us About the Planet,” 
during two free JPL lectures 
March 24 and March 25.

 The Mars missions include the 
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, 
which has been orbiting Mars 
for 10 years. 

 On Aug. 12, 2005, the Mars 
Reconnaissance Orbiter 
(MRO) lifted off from Cape 
Canaveral Air Force Station. 
Seven months later, the orbiter 
arrived at Mars. Thus began a 
journey of exploration, guided 
by the Mars Exploration 
Program’s “follow-the-water” 
theme. 

 The orbiter has sent back 
thousands of high-resolution 
images and more data than all 
Mars missions combined.

 The MRO has logged more 
than a decade of science 
operations and support for 
surface missions. 

the talk will be held Thursday, 
March 24, 7p.m., The von 
Kármán Auditorium at 
JPL 4800 Oak Grove Drive 
Pasadena. Friday, March 25, 
7p.m.,The Vosloh Forum at 
Pasadena City College 1570 
East Colorado Blvd. Pasadena.

 For more information visit 
jpl.nasa.gov/events/.

Amina Hassan Civil Rights 
Attorney/Journalist to Speak

 
Pasadena Public Library’s 
Allendale Branch is pleased 
to welcome Amina Hassan on 
Today at 2 p.m. at Allendale 
Branch Library, 1130 S. 
Marengo Ave. 

 Biographer and award-
winning public radio 
documentarian Hassan will 
discuss her new book, Loren 
Miller: Civil Rights Attorney 
and Journalist. Miller (1903-
1967) was one of the nation’s 
most prominent and influential 
civil rights attorneys from the 
1940s through the early 1960s. 
He drafted most of the briefs 
in the landmark U.S. Supreme 
Court case Brown v. Board 
of Education, which ended 
public school segregation in 
America. Alongside Thurgood 
Marshall, Miller also argued 
the landmark civil rights case 
Shelley v. Kraemer before the 
U.S. Supreme Court, a decision 
that effectively abolished 
racially-restrictive housing 
covenants. Miller also fought 
the segregation of Mexican-
Americans in California’s 
schools, and the internment 
of Japanese-Americans during 
World War II.

 Hassan’s biography – based 
extensively on research from 
the Loren Miller Papers at The 
Huntington Library – recovers 
this remarkable figure from the 
shadows of history and reveals 
how he changed American law 
forever. A second generation 
Angeleno, Hassan has a diverse 
background in public radio and 
media activism. Her books will 
be available for purchase and 
signing.

 For more information, contact 
Jean Penn at (626) 744-7260.

Exhibition: Los Angeles Poverty Department, 1985-2016

 The city is set to hold a free 
evening of art, music and 
entertainment as Pasadena’s 
most prominent arts and 
cultural institutions swing open 
their doors Friday 6 p.m. to 10 
p.m. during this year’s ArtNight.

 Begin a journey at any one of 
our 18 participating cultural 
institutions, where free shuttles 
will be waiting to transport you 
to your next destination. Last 
fall, 28,000 people experienced 
the excitement of ArtNight. 
Don’t miss the fun this spring.

Exibits include; 

 Armory Center for the Arts 
145 N. Raymond Ave. Los 
Angeles Poverty Department, 
1985-2016: featuring archival 
material drawn from LAPD’s 
30- year history of performance 
and Skid Row advocacy.

 Artcenter College of Design 
Williamson Gallery, 1700 Lida 
St. Perceptions are changing 
of how cities and wilderness 
interact. Experience how 14 
Los Angeles city-bred artists 
are reconsidering the meaning 
and boundaries of nature, in the 
exhibition “Urbanature.”

 City Of Pasadena–City Hall 
Side Street Projects 100 N. 
Garfield Ave. The City’s NEA-
funded Our Town Project “My 
Pasadena” with partner Side 
Street Projects continues. Visit 
the mobile outpost, then check 
out the sound installation 
Lions, Tigers, and …, musical 
performances by Robert Hilton 
and Hands On’Semble, and 
video projections by Freewaves.

 Kidspace Children’s Museum 
480 N Arroyo Blvd. Enjoy a 
night of weird and wacky art at 
Kidspace Children’s Museum! 
Transform yourself into a piece 
of living art, become a unicorn 
and paint a masterpiece with 
your horn, and create colorful 
explosions by making your own 
art rockets.

 Light Bringer Project @ 
Day One 175 N. Euclid Ave. 
Masterpiece Menagerie: See 
classical and contemporary 
artworks come to life in 3D. 
Be a part of the art experience, 
with Room 13 creative studios, 
music, edibles and lights galore. 

 Norton Simon Museum 
411 W. Colorado Blvd. Enjoy 
Duchamp to Pop, an exhibition 
that examines Marcel 
Duchamp’s potent influence on 
Pop Art and its leading artists, 
among them Andy Warhol and 
Ed Ruscha.

 And more, visit 
artnightpasadena.org for a 
complete list on participants 
and free shuttles or call the 
ArtNight Pasad hotline at 
626.744.7887,

Pet of the 
Week


Free March Events at 
Pasadena Senior Center

Hawaiian 
Music class 
and More

 There is something for everyone 
in March at the Pasadena Senior 
Center, 85 E. Holly St. All events 
listed are free.

 You do not have to be a 
member to attend. Some events 
require advance reservations as 
noted.

 Parkinson’s Education Group 
– Tuesdays, March 8 and 15, 
from 1 to 2:30 p.m. This three-
week support group will explore 
diagnosis, treatment, mobility 
and quality of life. Speakers 
will include occupational, 
physical and speech therapists. 
Registration is encouraged by 
calling 626-685-6730. Walk-ins 
will be welcomed. Presented by 
Huntington Hospital Outpatient 
Rehabilitation Department.

 Stay Connected with 
Social Media – Tuesdays and 
Thursdays, March 10 to March 
31, from 9 to 11 a.m. Learn 
how to keep in touch with 
family and friends via email, 
Skype, Facebook and other 
forms of social media during a 
30-minute, one-on-one meeting 
with an instructor. You’ll choose 
which applications you want to 
learn. Bring a laptop or use one 
of the onsite computers. If you 
have an email address, bring 
it and your password. Sign up 
with Edison at the Welcome 
Desk.

 Smart Phones, Tablets and 
Computers – Any Questions? 
– Tuesdays and Thursdays, 
March 8 to 31, from 10 to 
11 a.m. Get the answers you 
need about technology devices, 
whether you own them already 
or are considering a purchase. 
Learning how to text, check 
voicemail, set an alarm, navigate 
the Internet and download apps 
is easier than you may think!

 Tax Time – Wednesdays 
and Fridays, March 2 to 
April 15, from 9 to 10:45 
a.m. Representatives from the 
AARP Foundation’s Tax-Aide 
program will assist low- to 
middle-income seniors ages 
50 and older in preparing their 
federal income tax returns. 
Appointments are required: 
626-795-4331.

 Cardmaking Workshop – 
Monday, March 7, from noon 
to 2 p.m. Surprise a special 
someone with a personalized, 
handmade greeting card. 
Whether it’s a happy birthday, 
happy holidays, thank you, 
thinking of you or other 
sentiment, you’ll create a 
decorative card in your own 
unique style and have fun 
discovering your creativity 
while workshop leaders help 
you bring your ideas to life. All 
materials will be provided.

 Friday Movie Matinees – 
March 11, and 18. Everyone 
enjoys watching movies and 
the pleasures they bring. March 
11: The Martian (2015, PG-
13) starring Matt Damon and 
Jessica Chastain. An astronaut, 
presumed dead after a fierce 
storm and left behind on Mars 
by his crew, has actually 
survived and must draw upon 
his ingenuity, wit and spirit 
to subsist and find a way to 
signal Earth that he is alive. 
March 18: Grease (1978, PG-
13) starring John Travolta and 
Olivia Newton John. A good 
girl and a bad boy who fell in 
love over the summer discover 
when fall rolls around that they 
go to the same high school and 
venture awkwardly to rekindle 
the romance.

 For more information visit 
www.pasadenaseniorcenter.org 
or call 626-795-4331.

 Learn how to play the ukulele 
or guitar and sing traditional 
songs at the USC Pacific Asia 
Museum with Charles Kiaha 
and Ilima Lei Russell. This 
class is taught in a 12-week 
series and is open to musicians 
of all levels. Instrumental 
students must provide their 
own instruments (guitar and/
or ukulele). Students under 15 
years must be accompanied 
by an adult. Space is limited. 
Pre-register at the museum 
front desk or by calling Visitor 
Services at (626) 449-2742 ext. 
10. $200 per 12 week series.

 Classes are held every Sunday: 
10:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.

Crime Blotter for Altadena

 Pecas (A392709) is a 
nine-month-old, female, 
white and liver American 
Staffordshire terrier mix. 
She is one energetic and 
playful girl! She loves going 
on walks and hanging out 
with you in the park. If you 
sit on the ground, she will 
try to be a lap dog and give 
you lots of face kisses. She 
knows her "sit" command, 
but she would love to learn 
a few more. Pecas is spayed 
and ready to go home with 
you!

 The regular dog adoption 
fee is $125 which includes 
the spay or neuter surgery, 
microchip, vaccinations, 
and 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 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. 

Sunday, February 21st

12:08 AM – Domingo Nieves, 
62 years old of Pasadena was 
arrested in the area of Lake 
Avenue and Washington 
Boulevard for possession of a 
controlled substance. 

3:31 PM – Kevin Eldridge, 
53 years old of La Puente was 
arrested in the 200 block of 
Altadena Drive for taking a 
vehicle without the owner’s 
consent. 

8:45 PM – A shooting at an 
inhabited dwelling occurred 
in the 2100 block of N. Lake 
Avenue. No injuries. 

Monday, February 22nd

12:05 AM – A residential 
vandalism occurred in the 300 
block of E. Sacramento Street. 
The suspect(s) shattered the 
living room window. 

6:03 AM – An armed robbery 
occurred at Arco AM/PM, 1880 
N. Lake Avenue. The suspect 
was described as a male, Black, 
508-510, 170-180, wearing 
a black mask, black hooded 
sweatshirt, and black pants. The 
suspect proceeded to the rear of 
the counter, opened the register 
and demanded more money. 
The suspect fled then fled the 
location. 

6:32 PM – Charles Graves, 
52 years old of Altadena was 
arrested in the 2600 block 
of Tanoble Drive for vehicle 
vandalism. 

Tuesday, February 23rd 

No significant incidents to 
report. 

Wednesday, February 24th

6:20 PM – Nicholas Judson, 
34 years old of Altadena was 
arrested in the 2200 block of 
E. Crary Street for domestic 
violence. 

7:00 PM – A petty theft from 
an unlocked vehicle occurred 
in the 4400 block of Rising 
Hill Road. Stolen: GPS, black 
leather briefcase. 

Thursday, February 25th

12:21 PM – An attempt robbery 
occurred in the area of Fair 
Oaks Avenue and Woodbury 
Road. The suspect was 
described as a male, Black, 
20–21 yrs, black hair, brown 
eyes, wearing a blue shirt, blue 
shorts, and white long socks. 
The suspect struck the victim 
in the neck while boarding the 
bus and demanded the victim’s 
cellphone. The victim turned 
around and the suspect struck 
the victim a second and fled the 
area. 

Friday, February 26th

2:30 PM – A petty theft from 
an unlocked vehicle occurred 
in the 2000 block of Skyview 
Drive. Stolen: beach canopy. 

9:00 PM – A burglary from an 
unsecured garage occurred in 
the 1200 block of Meadowbrook 
Road. Stolen: K2 silver 
mountain bike, black Pacific 
bicycle. 

9:30 PM – A petty theft from an 
unlocked vehicle occurred in 
the 900 block of Athens Street. 
Stolen: tent, snow discs, first aid 
kit, flashlight. 

Saturday, February 27th 

11:45 PM – Darryl Thompson, 
54 years old of Altadena was 
arrested in the 3300 block 
of Canyon Crest Road for 
domestic violence.

Appraisal 
Day at 
Pacific Asia 
Museum

 The USC Pacific Asia 
Museum will hold an appraisal 
day March 25, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

 Do you have something in 
your home that you have been 
dying to know the value? 

 Take advantage of this unique 
opportunity to meet with 
experts from Bonhams Los 
Angeles auction house and get 
your items appraised!

 Limit 5 items per person. $5 
per object charge for appraisal. 
Southeast & East Asian art 
only. 

Included with General 
Museum Admission. The 
Museum is located 46 North 
Los Robles Avenue Pasadena.

 For more information call 
(626) 449-2742.

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