Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, April 8, 2017

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Mountain View News Saturday, April 8, 2017 

Free Events Roundup at the 
Pasadena Senior Center

Symphony Concludes 
Season with Beethoven

Rover Leader Peter Theisinger 
Receives National Trophy

 
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. 

 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.

 Citizenship Classes – 
Wednesdays through May 17, 
from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Make your 
dreams come true by attending 
these sessions to become a U.S. 
citizen! The first classes 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 cover more questions on 
the exam as well as strategies 
for completing the application 
for citizenship and having a 
successful interview.

 A Toast to the Joys of 
Music – Tuesdays, April 11, 18 
and 25, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. 
Tom Campbell will play guitar 
and sing songs in the Senior 
Center Lounge. Stop by and 
enjoy his covers of traditional 
country, country rock, blues, 
folk, gospel and classic rock 
originally made famous by 
Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, 
Vince Gill, Elvis Presley, B.B. 
King, Neil Young, The Grateful 
Dead, The Rolling Stones and 
many more.

 A Matter of Balance – 
Tuesdays and Thursdays, to 
May 23, from 1 to 3 p.m. Are 
you concerned about falling? 
Learn how to reduce the fear 
of falling and increase balance 
and activity levels during this 
interactive workshop that 
combines discussion, video 
and exercise. Reservations are 
required: 626-685-6732.

 Scenic Walkers Club – 
Wednesdays, April 12, 19 and 
26, at 10 a.m. Enjoy a series 
of leisurely walks in the great 
outdoors. Alan Colville will 
give you a list of items to bring, 
let you know what to expect, 
provide detailed itineraries and 
arrange transportation. For 
more information or to sign up, 
email alancolville@charter.net 
or call 626-221-3741.

 Memories in the Making 
– Thursdays, April 6 and 
13, at 11 a.m. This program, 
developed by the Alzheimer’s 
Association, helps people 
in early stages of dementias 
preserve memories through 
art. Reservations are required: 
626-685-6732.

 Friday Movie Matinees – 
Fridays, April 7, 14 and 21, 
at 1 p.m. Everyone enjoys 
movies and the pleasures they 
bring. April 14: “Jackie” (2016, 
R) starring Natalie Portman 
and Peter Sarsgaard. First Lady 
Jacqueline Kennedy fights 
through grief and trauma to 
regain her faith, console her 
children and define the legacy 
of President John F. Kennedy 
after his assassination. April 
21: “Arsenic and Old Lace” 
(1944, NR) starring Cary 
Grant and Raymond Massey. 
In this quirky comedy, a man 
learns on his wedding day that 
his beloved maiden aunts are 
homicidal maniacs and that 
insanity runs in the family.

 Safety Awareness – 
Thursday, April 13, at 10 a.m. 
Safety awareness is vital to help 
you minimize your chances of 
becoming a victim of crime. 
Sgt. Thompson of the Pasadena 
Police Department will provide 
tips for staying safe at home, on 
the street and in your car.

 LA Opera Talk: “Tosca” – 
Monday, April 17, at 1 p.m. An 
LA Opera community educator 
will take participants through 
Giacomo Puccini’s dramatic 
and melodic opera “Tosca.” 
Based on historic figures in 
1800 when control of Rome 
was threatened by Napoleon’s 
invading armies, the beloved 
opera is a tale of love, lust, 
loyalty and political intrigue.

 Estate Planning Basics, 
Part I – Thursday, April 20, 
at 10 a.m. Learn the basics 
about trusts, wills and probate, 
how to pass your assets to your 
family and loved ones, plus 
find out about issues related 
to incapacity. Presented by the 
Law Office of Geoffrey Chin.

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 in a 
welcoming environment. 

 

 The Pasadena Symphony 
closes out its 2016-2017 
Singpoli Classics Series with 
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 
on April 29 with both matinee 
and evening performances at 2 
p.m. and 8 p.m. at Ambassador 
Auditorium. This season 
finale will envelop audiences 
with voices from the Donald 
Brinegar Singers, the JPL 
Chorus, and the Los Angeles 
Children’s Chorus alongside 
four stellar solo vocalists: 
soprano Summer Hassan, 
mezzo soprano Tracy Van 
Fleet, tenor Arnold Livingston 
Geis and bass Steve Pence 
throughout the concert.

 Additional featured works 
on the program are Vaughan 
Williams’ Serenade to Music for 
chorus and orchestra, written 
for Henry Wood’s golden 
conducting anniversary and 
was premiered at The Proms 
in 1938; and Holst’s Choral 
Hymns from the Rig Veda, 
which will showcase Music 
Director David Lockington 
on cello and the Los Angeles 
Children’s Chorus conducted 
by Anne Tomlinson. Holst was 
intensely interested in Indian 
texts and music, an inspiration 
evident in several of his works 
from the first decades of the 
20th century.

 The Pasadena Symphony 
provides a quintessential 
experience combining great 
music with a festive social 
atmosphere. To learn more 
about the music join us 
for Insights – a free pre-
concert dialogue with David 
Lockington, 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, yet 
another addition to the carefree 
and elegant concert experience 
the Pasadena Symphony offers. 
A posh setting at Ambassador 
Auditorium’s beautiful outdoor 
plaza, the 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 Classics concerts 
take place at Ambassador 
Auditorium, 131 S. St. John 
Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91105 
with matinee and evening 
performances at 2:00 p.m. and 
8:00 p.m. Tickets start at $35 
and may be purchased online at 
pasadenasymphony-pops.org 
or by calling (626) 793-7172.

 Parking: Valet parking is 
available on St. John Ave 
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. 

Sierra Auto Symphony 
Lounge: Located on the plaza 
at Ambassador Auditorium. 
Opens at 12:30 pm before the 
matinee and 6:00 pm before the 
evening performance. 

 Pre-Concert Discussion: Pre-
concert discussions with David 
Lockington begin one hour 
before curtain and are available 
to all ticket holders at no cost.

National Air and Space Museum Trophy for Lifetime Achievement 
was handed to Peter Theisinger, left, by Gen. J.R. “Jack” Dailey, 
the museum’s director, on March 29 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory.

 

 Peter Theisinger, who led 
the projects that developed 
the NASA rovers Spirit, 
Opportunity and Curiosity 
and successfully placed 
them on Mars, received 
the 2017 National Air and 
Space Museum Trophy for 
Lifetime Achievement.

 Theisinger has worked on 
spacecraft missions to six 
planets since joining NASA’s 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 
Pasadena, California, in 
1967. He is now a special 
assistant to the laboratory’s 
director. Previous leadership 
roles included managing 
JPL’s Engineering and 
Science Directorate and 
JPL’s Spacecraft Systems 
Engineering Section.

 Theisinger was named as 
one of Time magazine’s 100 
most influential people in 
the world in 2013, paired 
with JPL colleague Richard 
Cook. At different times, 
Theisinger and Cook 
each managed the Mars 
Exploration Rover Project, 
which built Spirit and 
Opportunity, and the Mars 
Science Laboratory Project, 
which built Curiosity. 
The former project still 
operates the golf-cart-size 
Opportunity, which landed 
with air-bag-cushioned 
bounces in 2004. The latter 
project operates the car-size 
Curiosity, which landed 
with a sky-crane maneuver 
in 2012.

 Theisinger will receive 
the lifetime achievement 
honor Wednesday evening, 
March 29, at a ceremony at 
the Smithsonian’s National 
Air and Space Museum 
ceremony in Washington.

 The museum presents 
this trophy annually to 
recognize past and present 
accomplishments in the 
management or execution of 
a scientific or technological 
project, a distinguished 
career of service in air 
and space technology, or a 
significant contribution in 
chronicling the history of 
air and space technology. 
Previous recipients include 
astronauts James Lovell, 
Neil Armstrong and John 
Glenn; scientists James Van 
Allen, Harold Masursky 
and Stamatios Krimigis; and 
engineer-managers Norm 
Augustine, John Casani, 
Burt Rutan and Simon 
Ramo.

 Theisinger was born 
in Fresno, California, in 
1945 and now lives in La 
Crescenta, California. He 
graduated from Caltech in 
Pasadena, California, with 
a degree in physics. His 
career at JPL began with 
the Mariner 5 mission to 
Venus and has included 
contributions to the Voyager 
mission to the outer planets 
(launched in 1977 and 
still going) and the Galileo 
mission to Jupiter (launched 
in 1989 and concluded in 
2003). His Mars experience 
dates back to the 1971 
Mariner 9 orbiter mission to 
Mars.


Pet of the 
Week

 

 Energetic, playful and 
loving, Gonzaga (A412995) 
is living proof that age doesn’t 
have to slow you down. This 
9-year-old, neutered male, 
Chihuahua mix walks well 
on a leash and has gotten 
along well with other dogs 
at the shelter. Gonzaga has 
been the star of the show on 
field trips with our Wiggle 
Waggle Wagon. After he has 
a chance to meet visitors, 
he’ll happily hop up on their 
laps for snuggles and sweet 
face kisses. Gonzaga has a 
medical issue with one leg 
that occasionally causes him 
to limp. Our veterinarian 
has decided it doesn’t need 
treatment at this time, but 
Gonzaga’s adopters will 
need to monitor his leg 
with their veterinarian in 
case treatment becomes 
necessary.

 The adoption fee for 
dogs is $125, but as part 
of our Slam Dunk for the 
Animals event, Gonzaga’s 
adoption is free thanks to 
generous donors! All dogs 
are neutered, microchipped, 
and vaccinated before being 
adopted.

 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 
A412995, 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.

County to Explore Ways to 
Treat Homeless Mentally Ill

Feral Cat Trap-Neuter-
and Release Program

 

 A motion by Supervisor 
Kathryn Barger, approved 
unanimously Tuesday by 
the Board of Supervisors, 
directs county agencies to 
investigate and report back 
with recommendations on 
ways the County can expand 
treatment opportunities to a 
larger population of homeless 
mentally ill. 

 “Within the County’s 
chronically homeless 
population, there is a significant 
segment of individuals who 
refuse treatment – but are 
clearly in need of care,” said 
Barger. “Their condition 
prevents them from accepting 
treatment or providing for 
their own basic needs – yet they 
don’t meet the nebulous 5150 
threshold of “being a danger to 
themselves and others.”

 Section 5150 of the California 
Welfare and Institutions Code 
authorizes a qualified officer 
or clinician to involuntarily 
confine a person suspected to 
have a mental disorder that 
makes him or her a danger to 
themselves, a danger to others, 
and/or is gravely disabled.

 “I strongly believe that if 
someone’s mental disorder 
prevents them from providing 
for their own basic needs 
then they are in fact, “gravely 
disabled,” and in need of 
intervention and care,” added 
Supervisor Barger.

 With today’s action, the county 
will review California’s mental 
health laws to determine the 
county’s role in providing 
mental health care for the 
most hard-to-reach portion 
of the county’s homeless 
population and evaluate the 
72-hour hold duration period. 
The analysis by County 
Counsel and the Department 
of Mental Health should 
include recommendations for 
amendments to existing laws, 
if necessary, and report back in 
45 days.

 Do you have free-roaming 
cats in your neighborhood? 
The Pasadena Humane 
Society has received a grant 
from PetSmart Charities 
to subsidize the cost of 500 
spay or neuter surgeries 
for feral cats. PHS offers 
free spay/neuter, vaccines 
and ear-tipping for all feral 
cats in our eleven service 
cities. Spaying or neutering 
feral cats stabilizes the 
colony population and 
reduces nuisance behaviors 
such as spraying, yowling, 
roaming and fighting. For 
more information or to 
make an appointment, 
visit pasadenahumane.
org/tnr or email snip@
pasadenahumane.org.

Caltech Students and 
Alumni Get Graduate 
Research Fellowships

ALTADENA POLICE BLOTTER

 Twenty current students 
and eight alumni have been 
selected to receive funding 
for graduate studies.

 This year, the National 
Science Foundation (NSF) 
has selected 20 current 
Caltech students and 
eight alumni to receive 
its Graduate Research 
Fellowships. The awards 
support three years of 
graduate study within a 
five-year fellowship period 
in research-based master’s 
or doctoral programs in 
science or engineering.

 The NSF notes that 
the Graduate Research 
Fellowship Program (GRFP) 
“is a critical program in NSF’s 
overall strategy to develop 
the globally-engaged 
workforce necessary 
to ensure the nation’s 
leadership in advancing 
science and engineering 
research and innovation.” 
The selection criteria used to 
identify NSF fellows reflect 
the potential of the applicant 
to advance knowledge and 
benefit society.

 Caltech’s awardees for 
2017 are seniors Alexander 
Anferov, Daniil Lukin, 
Stephanie Moon, Anjali 
Premkumar, Gerri Roberts, 
and Sasha Zemsky; and 
graduate students Mary 
Arrastia, Stephanie Breunig, 
Ivanna Escala, Riley 
Galton, Phillip Helms, 
Kari Hernandez, Celeste 
Labedz, Ethan Pickering, 
William Poole, Alexander 
Sorum, Alvita Tran, Krystal 
Vasquez, Zachary Wu, and 
Lealia Xiong. The graduate 
student awardees join 135 
current NSF fellows enrolled 
at Caltech.

 Caltech alumni in the 2017 
class of Graduate Fellows 
are: Oliver Chen, Linda 
Chio, Anne Davis, Connie 
Hsueh, Anna Liu, Aleena 
Patel, Madeleine Youngs, 
and Leonardo Zornberg.

In total this year, the NSF 
selected 2,000 GRFP 
recipients from a pool 
of more than 13,000 
applicants. Caltech’s 
Fellowships Advising and 
Study Abroad office works 
with current students and 
recent Caltech graduates 
interested in applying for an 
NSF fellowship; sponsoring 
a panel discussion of 
previous winners each fall 
and offering one-on-one 
advising.

Sunday, March 26th

9:00 PM – A petty theft from an 
unlocked vehicle occurred in 
the 200 block of Laurel Drive. 
Stolen: black iHome speaker. 

10:00 PM – A grand theft from 
an unlocked vehicle occurred 
in the 1700 block of N. Harding 
Avenue. Stolen: black Chanel 
sunglasses, brown fur coat, and 
black Chanel purse.

10:30 PM – A grand theft from 
an unlocked vehicle occurred 
in the 1700 block of Coolidge 
Avenue. Stolen: brown Gucci 
sunglasses, black Marc Jacobs 
sunglasses, and orange/red 
Chanel sunglasses.

Monday, March 27th

12:15 PM – A residential 
burglary occurred in the 
1200 block of Morada Place. 
Suspect(s) entered the residence 
by shattering the glass door. 
Stolen: unknown.

6:30 PM – A vehicle burglary 
occurred in 1700 block of N. 
Altadena Drive. Suspect(s) 
entered the vehicle by shattering 
the window. Stolen: unknown.

8:30 PM – A vehicle vandalism 
occurred in the 100 block of 
E. Woodbury Road. Damage: 
shattered window and dents.

Tuesday, March 28th

10:00 AM – A vehicle burglary 
occurred in the 2300 block of 
Pinecrest Drive. Suspect(s) 
entered the vehicle by 
shattering the window. Stolen: 
black purse.

12:30 PM – A residential 
burglary occurred in the 
3100 block of La Corona 
Avenue. Suspect(s) entered 
the residence by shattering the 
window. Stolen: gray padlock 
safe, jewelry, handgun, and 
currency.

6:00 PM – A petty theft from 
a vehicle occurred in the 400 
block of Crosby Street. Stolen: 
catalytic converter.

7:20 PM – Tanya Alcazar, 23 
years old of Pasadena was 
arrested in the 3700 block 
of Canyon Crest Road for 
possession of a controlled 
substance.

Thursday, March 30th

5:43 PM – A vandalism 
occurred in the 2700 block of 
Glenrose Avenue. Suspect has 
been identified.

Friday, March 31st

4:50 AM – A residential 
burglary occurred in the 
2000 block of Santa Rosa 
Avenue. Suspect(s) entered the 
residence via unknown means. 
Stolen: checkbook, jewelry, and 
personal documents.

8:00 PM – A robbery occurred 
in the 2200 block of N. Lincoln 
Avenue. Suspect has been 
arrested.

The History of Food Will Be 
Explored at Senior Center

 The spring term of The 
Masters Series is scheduled 
Tuesdays, now to May 23, 
from 2 to 4 p.m. at the 
Pasadena Senior Center, 85 
E. Holly St.

 The Masters Series, which 
embraces lifelong learning, 
is open to members of the 
Pasadena Senior Center. 
Register for individual classes 
at $15 or the entire term for 
$100.

 “Food History in Eight 
Tasty Bites” is the theme 
of the spring term. Classes 
will be taught by Dr. 
Carlo Coppola, a culinary 
historian, food writer, former 
chef and teacher of chefs.

 April 11 – What 
Christopher Columbus 
Didn’t Know About New-
World Foods

 April 18 – Passover and 
Easter Foods Around the 
World

 April 25 – Four Major 
Movements in History:

An Italian Wedding Feast in 
France

A Sandwich for a “Loser”

A Candy Maker Invents 
Canning

The Queen Eats Pizza

 May 2 – How Foods Got 
Their Names (BTW, who 
was “Tootsie” of the Tootsie 
Roll?)

 May 9 – How Sweet It Is! A 
Short History of Cake

 May 16 – Strange, Unusual 
Foods with Strange, Unusual 
Names

 May 23 – A Brief History of 
Wine and How to Decode a 
Wine Label

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

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