Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, February 18, 2017

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Mountain View News Saturday, February 18, 2017 

Free Events Roundup at the 
Pasadena Senior Center

Symphony presents 
Musical Tour of Europe

Pasadena Chamber 
Adds Member Benefit

 

 There is something for 
everyone in February at the 
Pasadena Senior Center, 85 
E. Holly St. You do not have 
to be a member to attend. 
Some events require advance 
reservations. 

 Citizenship Classes – 
Wednesdays to May 17, 
from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Make 
your dreams come true by 
attending this eight-week 
session to become a U.S. 
citizen! The first four weeks 
will cover some of the 
American history and U.S. 
government questions on 
the citizenship exam along 
with discussions about the 
rights and responsibilities 
of citizenship. The four 
remaining classes will cover 
more questions on the exam 
as well as strategies for 
completing the application 
for citizenship and having a 
successful interview.

 Tax Time – Wednesdays 
and Fridays, through 
April 14, from 9 to 10:30 
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. Please note 
there is no age limit for this 
service.

 Diabetes Empowerment 
Education Program – 
Thursdays, Through 
March 2, from 2 to 4 p.m. 
Whether you or someone 
you care about is diabetic 
or pre-diabetic, this series 
will encourage you to make 
lifestyle changes while 
learning more about your 
diabetes and how it affects 
your health. Workshop 
topics include diet, exercise, 
medication issues, managing 
complications and the 
impact of diabetes on eyes, 
teeth and feet. Reservations 
are required: 626-685-6732.

 Elder Abuse – Thursday, 
Feb. 21, at 10 a.m. Elder abuse 
is a crime, and all seniors 
should know their rights. 
Protect yourself by learning 
what to do in the event 
you or someone you love is 
being abused. Presented by 
Adult Protective Services, 
Pasadena Office.

 LA Opera Talk: “Salome” 
– Monday, Feb. 27, at 1 p.m. 
An LA Opera community 
educator will lead guests 
through the opera “Salome,” 
a Biblical tale of lust and 
betrayal set in ancient 
Judea. “Salome” is based on 
Oscar Wilde’s scandalous 
play with revolutionary 
music composed by Richard 
Strauss.

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

 Founded in 1960, the 
Pasadena Senior Center is 
an independent, nonprofit 
organization that offers 
recreational, educational, 
wellness and social services 
to people ages 50 and older.

 

 The Pasadena Chamber of 
Commerce has partnered 
with new member 
ZipEdTech, to offer its 
members quality workforce 
online education/training. 
The Pasadena Chamber 
of Commerce will have its 
unique branded page where 
members can access relevant 
training for themselves, as 
the business owner and their 
employees. ZipEdTech 
has curated a vast library 
of online trainings that are 
relevant and affordable. 
The Chamber will provide 
this benefit to Chamber 
Members, and has secured 
Member only pricing. 
This is yet another great 
benefit to being part of 
the Pasadena Chamber 
of Commerce. This new 
Program has launched and 
can be accessed at Pasadena 
Chamber University. 

 Businesses now report that 
eLearning is the second most 
valuable training method 
that they use. eLearning 
has the power to increase 
information retention rates 
by up to 60%. Over 41.7% 
of Fortune 500 companies 
now use some form of 
technology to instruct 
employees during formal 
learning hours, and this is 
going to steadily increase in 
future years.[1] The Beverly 
Hills Chamber is bringing 
the power of eLearning to its 
membership.

 ZipEdTech (ZET) is an 
educational technology 
company located in Los 
Angeles, CA. ZET is a 
full-service provider of 
digital eLearning solutions. 
It provides turnkey 
solutions for professional 
development and corporate 
training. End-to-End 
Services include Needs 
Assessment Consultation, 
Curriculum Planning and 
Development, Learning 
Management System, and 
Distribution Platform & 
Portal. The platform allows 
for businesses to easily 
assign and track trainings 
for its employees.

 The Pasadena Chamber 
of Commerce is a business 
service organization 
that works to ensure the 
prosperity of its members 
through a variety of 
offerings including referrals, 
networking, workshops and 
seminars, events and much 
more. The Chamber serves 
1450 member companies.

 
Principal Guest Conductor 
Nicholas McGegan returns to 
lead the Pasadena Symphony 
at Ambassador Auditorium 
on Saturday March 18 with 
a European tour of musical 
masterpieces featuring Felix 
Mendelssohn’s Scottish 
Symphony, inspired by the 
picturesque and romantic 
landscapes of the north along 
with Schubert’s Overture in 
the Italian Style. Virtuoso 
violinist Rachel Barton Pine 
will transport you to the 
exotic with Mozart’s Turkish 
Violin Concerto No. 5 with 
performances at 2 p.m. and 8 
p.m. 

 This concert marks Pine’s debut 
with the Pasadena Symphony. 
Heralded as a leading 
interpreter of the great classical 
masterworks, international 
concert violinist Rachel thrills 
audiences with her dazzling 
technique, lustrous tone and 
emotional honesty. With an 
infectious joy in music-making 
and a passion for connecting 
historical research to 
performance, Pine transforms 
audiences’ experiences of 
classical music. Her informed 
historical approach to musical 
interpretations makes a 
perfect pairing with Nicholas 
McGegan’s brand as the 
definitive interpreter of the 
Baroque and Classical style.

 To learn more about the 
music join us for Insights – a 
free pre-concert dialogue with 
Nicholas McGegan, which 
begins one hour prior to each 
performance. Patrons who plan 
to arrive early can also enjoy a 
drink or a dinner in the lively 
Sierra Auto Symphony Lounge, 
offers uniquely prepared 
menus from Claud &Co for 
both lunch and dinner, a full 
bar and fine wines by Michero 
Family Wines, plus music 
before the concert and during 
intermission.

 All Symphony Classics concerts 
take place at Ambassador 
Auditorium, 131 S. St. John 
Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91105 
with matinee and evening 
performances at 2:00pm and 
8:00pm. Subscription packages 
start at $99; regular individually 
priced tickets start at $35 and 
may be purchased online at 
pasadenasymphony-pops.org 
or by calling (626) 793-7172.

 Valet parking is available 
on Green Street for $15. 
General parking is available 
in two locations: next to the 
Auditorium (entrance on 
St. John Ave) at the covered 
parking structure for $10 and 
directly across the street at the 
Wells Fargo parking structure 
(entrance on Terrace at Green 
St). ADA parking is located at 
the above-ground parking lot 
adjacent to the Auditorium 
(entrance on St. John Ave.) for 
$10. Parking purchased onsite 
is cash only.

Chamber CEO Paul Little

NASA funded Website Lets the 
Public Search for New Worlds

Schiff Makes Statement on 
Resignation of Michael Flynn

Pet of the 
Week

 Hiro (A412002) is an 
11-year-old, neutered male, 
cameo tabby cat looking for 
a new home after his owner 
was no longer able to take 
care of him. This friendly 
guy loves people. He adores 
head rubs and snuggling. 
He is easy to pick up and 
enjoys sitting on your lap 
while you lavish him with 
love and affection. Hiro has 
had a hard time adjusting 
to the shelter environment, 
losing his appetite and 
some weight after arriving. 
Hiro has begun eating more 
regularly, but we would love 
to find him a forever home 
where he can be comfortable 
as quickly as possible.

 The adoption fee for cats is 
$70, which includes the spay 
or neuter surgery, microchip, 
and vaccinations. Hiro 
qualifies for our Seniors 
for Seniors program, so his 
adoption fee is just $20 for 
adopters age 60 and up.

 New adopters will receive a 
complimentary health-and-
wellness exam from VCA 
Animal Hospitals, as well 
as a goody bag filled with 
information about how to 
care for your pet.

 Call the Pasadena Humane 
Society & SPCA at (626) 
792-7151 to ask about 
A412002, or visit at 361 S. 
Raymond Ave. in Pasadena. 
Adoption hours are 11 a.m. 
to 4 p.m. Sunday; 9 a.m. 
to 5 p.m. Tuesday through 
Friday; and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
Saturday.

 Pets may not be available 
for adoption and cannot be 
held for potential adopters 
by phone calls or email. 
Directions and photos of 
all pets can be found at 
pasadenahumane.org.

 


 NASA is inviting the public 
to help search for possible 
undiscovered worlds in the 
outer reaches of our solar system 
and in neighboring interstellar 
space. A new website, called 
Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, 
lets everyone participate in the 
search by viewing brief movies 
made from images captured 
by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared 
Survey Explorer (WISE) 
mission. The movies highlight 
objects that have gradually 
moved across the sky.

 WISE scanned the entire 
sky between 2010 and 
2011, producing the most 
comprehensive survey at mid-
infrared wavelengths currently 
available. With the completion 
of its primary mission, WISE 
was shut down in 2011. It was 
then reactivated in 2013 and 
given a new mission assisting 
NASA’s efforts to identify 
potentially hazardous near-
Earth objects (NEOs), which 
are asteroids and comets on 
orbits that bring them into 
the vicinity of Earth’s orbit. 
The mission was renamed 
the Near-Earth Object Wide-
field Infrared Survey Explorer 
(NEOWISE). 

 The new website uses the data 
to search for unknown objects 
in and beyond our own solar 
system. In 2016, astronomers 
at Caltech, in Pasadena, 
California, showed that several 
distant solar system objects 
possessed orbital features 
indicating they were affected 
by the gravity of an as-yet-
undetected planet, which the 
researchers nicknamed “Planet 
Nine.” If Planet Nine -- also 
known as Planet X -- exists and 
is as bright as some predictions, 
it could show up in WISE data.

 The search also may discover 
more-distant objects like brown 
dwarfs, sometimes called failed 
stars, in nearby interstellar 
space.

Unlike more distant objects, 
those in or closer to the solar 
system appear to move across 
the sky at different rates. 
The best way to discover 
them is through a systematic 
search of moving objects in 
WISE images. While parts 
of this search can be done 
by computers, machines are 
often overwhelmed by image 
artifacts, especially in crowded 
parts of the sky. These include 
brightness spikes associated 
with star images and blurry 
blobs caused by light scattered 
inside WISE’s instruments.

 Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 
relies on human eyes because 
we easily recognize the 
important moving objects 
while ignoring the artifacts. It’s 
a 21st-century version of the 
technique astronomer Clyde 
Tombaugh used to find Pluto 
in 1930, a discovery made 87 
years ago this week.

 On the website, people 
around the world can work 
their way through millions of 
“flipbooks,” which are brief 
animations showing how small 
patches of the sky changed over 
several years. Moving objects 
flagged by participants will be 
prioritized by the science team 
for follow-up observations 
by professional astronomers. 
Participants will share credit 
for their discoveries in any 
scientific publications that 
result from the project.

 Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 is 
a collaboration among NASA, 
UC Berkeley, the American 
Museum of Natural History 
in New York, Arizona State 
University in Tempe, the Space 
Telescope Science Institute in 
Baltimore, and Zooniverse, 
a collaboration of scientists, 
software developers and 
educators who collectively 
develop and manage citizen 
science projects on the internet.

 NASA’s Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory in Pasadena 
manages and operates 
WISE for NASA’s Science 
Mission Directorate. The 
WISE mission was selected 
competitively under NASA’s 
Explorers Program managed 
by the agency’s Goddard Space 
Flight Center. The science 
instrument was built by the 
Space Dynamics Laboratory 
in Logan, Utah. The spacecraft 
was built by Ball Aerospace & 
Technologies Corp. in Boulder, 
Colorado. Science operations 
and data processing take place 
at IPAC at Caltech, which 
manages JPL for NASA. 

 For more information about 
Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, 
visit: http://backyardworlds.org

 Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the 
following statement Tuesday:

 “General Flynn’s decision to step down as National Security 
Advisor was all but ordained the day he misled the country about 
his secret talks with the Russian Ambassador. In fact, Flynn was 
always a poor choice for National Security Advisor, a role in 
which you need to be a consensus builder, and possess sobriety 
and steady judgment. It is certainly no role for someone who 
plays fast and loose with the truth. 

 “But Flynn’s departure does not end questions over his contacts 
with the Russians, which have been alleged to have begun well 
before December 29. These alleged contacts and any others the 
Trump campaign may have had with the Kremlin are the subject 
of the House Intelligence Committee’s ongoing investigation. 
Moreover, the Trump Administration has yet to be forthcoming 
about who was aware of Flynn’s conversations with the Ambassador 
and whether he was acting on the instructions of the President or 
any other officials, or with their knowledge.”

Black History Parade, 
Special Events Announced

 Celebrate Black History 
Month by attending the parade 
and other special events, 
lectures and activities in 
Pasadena now through Sunday, 
March 19. Pasadena’s Black 
History Month Parade has been 
canceled. it is one of the largest 
and oldest in the U.S. Another 
special highlight this year is the 
Community Groundbreaking 
Celebration for the Robinson 
Park Recreation Center project 
will tack place at 1 p.m. 

 All events are free unless 
otherwise noted.

 Saturday, Feb. 18

 Canceled: Due to weather, 
public safety concerns

Pasadena City Officials today 
announced they have canceled 
the 35th Annual Black History 
Month Parade scheduled for 
today citing public safety 
reasons due to the significant 
storms moving through 
the area, including possible 
lightning strikes in or near the 
parade route. 

“The public’s safety, including 
those who would watch 
the parade and the parade 
participants, was the deciding 
factor to cancel the parade,” 
said Public Information Officer 
William Boyer.

 City officials are looking to 
re-schedule the parade to an 
alternative date, but no decision 
has been made yet for a new 
date and time.

City staff said the parade is 
one of the oldest, longest-
running parades of its kind in 
California.

 The Robinson Park 
Recreation Center Community 
Groundbreaking Celebration, 
1 p.m. in front of the Robinson 
Park Recreation Center, 1081 
N. Fair Oaks Ave. Join local 
dignitaries and the Robinson 
Family in breaking ground for 
a major rehabilitation project. 
The existing structure will be 
demolished and completely 
reconstructed to better serve 
the recreational needs of the 
community.

Monday, Feb. 20

Black History Month 
celebration and luncheon, 
11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., 
Pasadena Senior Center, 85 E. 
Holly St., including soul food 
and jazz music representing 
the pride, dignity, grace 
and inspiration of African-
American heritage. Sponsored 
by the Pasadena Senior Center 
Ebony Ladies of Distinction. 
Tickets are $7, available at 
the Welcome Desk. For more 
information call Dr. Malika 
D. Henry, (626) 840-4493, or 
hendrymalika7@gmail.com, 
Pasadena Senior Center,or at 
pasadenaseniorcenter.org.

Wednesday, Feb. 22

 Jungle-Drum Circle with 
Chazz Ross, a whimsical safari 
for young people with 26 
African djembe drums, 1 p.m., 
La Pintoresca Branch Library, 
1355 N. Raymond Ave.

Thursday, Feb. 23

 The 20th annual Black 
History Breakfast sponsored 
by the National Organization 
of Black Law Enforcement 
Executives (NOBLE), San 
Gabriel Valley Chapter, along 
with the Pasadena Police and 
Fire departments, 7:30-10 a.m., 
Pasadena Senior Center, 85 E. 
Holly St. Call (626) 744-4551 
or 744-7656 or dscott-jackson@
cityofpasadena.net for info.

Friday, Feb. 24

 “Senior Night Out” Enjoy 
good food, conversation and 
upbeat fun at the Pasadena City 
College Community Education 
Center, 3035 E. Foothill Blvd., 
7-10 p.m.

 A delightful afternoon 
of storytelling and village 
building, featuring stories 
authored by and/or about 
African-Americans, followed 
by a chocolate treat, led by Dr. 
Ayesha Randall for ages 3+, 
4 p.m., La Pintoresca Branch 
Library, 1355 N. Raymond Ave.

ALTADENA POLICE BLOTTER

Sunday, February 5th

10:30 AM – A petty theft 
from an unlocked vehicle 
occurred in the 700 block of 
E. Altadena Drive. Stolen: 
black wallet and credit cards. 

9:28 PM – Jesse Rivera, 33 
years old of Altadena was 
arrested in the 100 block of 
E. La Flores Drive for public 
intoxication. 

Monday, February 6th

10:00 AM – A residential 
burglary occurred in the 
200 block of E. Altadena 
Drive. Suspect(s) entered 
the residence via unknown 
means. Stolen: gray luggage 
and tools. 

Tuesday, February 7th

4:28 PM – Denise Davis, 
43 years old of Los Angeles 
was arrested in the 600 
block of W. Altadena Drive 
for taking a vehicle without 
owner’s consent. Vehicle 
was reported stolen from 
Downey PD.

Wednesday, February 8th

4:30 PM – A petty theft 
from a locker occurred in 
the 2100 block of N. Lincoln 
Avenue. Stolen: black wallet 
and currency. 

5:26 PM – Braeuna Carter, 
28 years old of North 
Hollywood was arrested 
in the area Altadena Drive 
and Galbreth Road for 
possession of narcotics. 

8:30 PM – A residential 
burglary occurred in the 
2900 block of Zane Gray 
Terrace. Suspect(s) entered 
the residence by shattering 
the sliding door. Stolen: 
unknown. 

Thursday, February 9th

10:12 AM – Philip Saravia, 
27 years old of Pasadena 
was arrested in the area of 
Washington Boulevard and 
Wesley Avenue for being 
under the influence of a 
controlled substance. 

6:00 PM – A petty theft 
occurred in the 2600 block 
of Lincoln Avenue. Stolen: 
green and white Huffy 
mountain bike. 

Friday, February 10th

11:00 PM – A vehicle was 
reported stolen from the 200 
block of W. Terrace Street. 
Vehicle described as a blue 
2015 Volkswagen Passat. 

Saturday, February 11th

4:07 PM – Jonathan Torres, 
30 years old of Pasadena was 
arrested in the area of Santa 
Anita Avenue and Woodbury 
Road for possession of drug 
paraphernalia. 

Library to 
Show Film 
‘Young Mr. 
Lincoln’

 Enjoy a showing of the film 
Young Mr. Lincoln, which 
follows the future president 
through his early law career, 
including his defense of two 
brothers unjustly accused of 
murder, and traces Honest 
Abe’s budding political 
consciousness. Afterward 
there will be a discussion of 
the film by Paul Bergman, 
Professor of Law Emeritus, 
UCLA School of Law.

 Thursday, Feb. 23 at 6:30 
p.m. at Central Library/
Donald Wright Auditorium 
285 E Walnut St. 

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