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

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Next South Pasadena 
Community Focus Group


New South Pasadena Assistant 

July Events at Kidspace

Library Director Cathy Billings

 Cathy Billings’ love of 
libraries goes back to before 
she won the Boise Public 
Library’s Summer Reading 
Program Grand Prize as a 
youth. She has either been 
using or working in libraries 
ever since. Years later, 
Cathy earned her Master’s 
in Library and Information 
Science at the University of 
Washington in Seattle.

Cathy came from the 
Glendale Library, Arts & 

 Free Family Night: Teddy Bear Bebé Y Yo, Mondays and 

Culture’s Brand Library & 

 Join South Pasadena officials Room--1115 El Centro Street. Picnic,Tuesday, July 11, 4:00-Sundays, July 17 to September 

Art Center where she has 

for the next focus group This group will review, discuss, 8:00pm: Join Kidspace for a 10, 9:00-10:30am: During this 

been the Senior Library meeting - The “Our Natural and develop General Plan Teddy Bear Picnic at Kidspace 8 week class, your child will 
Supervisor. Prior to that, she Cathy enjoys being active Community” focus group and Specific Plan strategies to celebrate local parks and participate in activities that 
was the Librarian Specialist in professional library and the “Our Healthy/Safe to protect the environment, their citizens. “Eat like a bear,” foster cooperation, boost social 

for the visual arts. What organizations, and has Community” focus group will increase awareness of hazards play picnic games, make bear development, and strengthen 
at Brand, Cathy helped served on the ARLIS/NA meet jointly on Thursday, July and emergency preparedness, ears, and get to know some of motor skills. Instructors 
lead the library through its Finance Committee, and as 13th, 7:00 p.m., in the South and create a healthy and safe our North American wildlife communicate to both children 

Pasadena Library Community 
city. neighbors at 6:00pm in the and adults entirely in Spanish. 

reopening after a historic 
Programs Co-Chair for that 

Stone Hollow Amphitheater. 
Onesies (12 to 24 months) 

renovation. The library 
organization’s 41st annual 

Don’t forget to bring a meal 
sessions available Mondays 

implemented new art and 
conference, which was Senior Center and Library 

and your favorite Teddy Bear and Twosies (24 to 36 months) 
music themed programs held in Pasadena in 2013 Open as Cooling Centers(or other stuffed animal) guest sessions available Sundays. 
and collections for children and hosted more than 700 to picnic in Arroyo Adventure! Fee is $215 per child. Register 
and adults, activated new attendees from 17 countries. The South Pasadena Senior 5:00 pm. Admission to Kidspace is free online at kidspacemuseum.org.
branding and social media Cathy has also presented Center and Library will be South Pasadena Public Library only during these hours. Early Learner Programs: 

on public art-librarianship open as cooling centers due to is located 1100 Oxley Street and Early Learner Programs: Garden Buds -Seeds &

outreach, and added 

excessive heat warnings. Both 
the Senior Citizen Services is at Baby & Me, Weekdays, July Sprouts, Saturday, July 22, 9:30


special gallery exhibitions 
topics at California Library 

facilities offer cold water and 
1102 Oxley Street.11-September 1, 9:00-10:30am: 11:00am: This garden class will 

and archival local history 
Association, College Art 

air conditioning to the public. The Cooling Centers are During this 8 week class, your provide your budding botanist 

collections. Cathy 
Association, and ARLIS/NA 

Facility hours are as follows: announced when temperatures child will participate in activities with hands-on experiences previously worked in private conferences.Senior Center - Thursday and reach 96° or higher.that foster cooperation, designed to cultivate their 
and institutional libraries, In her spare time, Cathy Friday: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm; For questions contact the boost social development, relationship with plants and 
including as Administrator enjoys getting outdoors - Library - Thursday: 11:00 am South Pasadena Senior Center and strengthen motor skills. nature. Participants will plant 
of the Mercantile Library of especially in California’s high - 9:00 pm, Friday: 10:00 am - at (626)403-7360, or the Public Onesies (12 to 24 months) in the Harvest Corner, create 
New York (The Center for desert and the mountains 6:00 pm, Saturday: 10:00 am - Library at (626)403-7330. sessions available Wednesdays art with nature, practice 
Fiction), and as a cataloger of Idaho. She is also a or Fridays, Twosies (24 to 36 scientific observations, and 
at C.E.R.N., the European fan of reading, watching South Pasadena summer months) sessions available taste some healthy snacks. For 

Tuesday or Thursdays, and children ages 30 to 42 months. Center for Nuclear Research independent and foreign Sundays Concerts in the ParkSaturday Combo (19 to 30 Fee is $30 per child. Register 

in Geneva, Switzerland. In 
films, gardening with native 

 Free live music returns to Concerts in the Park series with months) available Saturdays. online at kidspacemuseum.org.

2003 Cathy was the recipient 
plants, and traveling in the 

Garfield Park, 1000 Park the support of local businesses Fee is $215 per child. Register National Dance Day, Saturday, of the Art Libraries Society United States and to far-Avenue, this summer Sundays and organizations who have online at kidspacemuseum.org.July 29, 10:00am-2:00pm: It’s 
of North America (ARLIS/flung destinations.in July and August 2017 at 5:00 generously sponsored this Outer Space Odyssey, Sunday, National Dance Day 2017! 
NA) Wolfgang M. Freitag The South Pasadena Public p.m. to 7:00 p.m.family event.July 16, 10:00am-5:00pm: Join Kidspace for this annual 
Internship Award, which Library 1is located 100 Oxley The South Pasadena Bring your blankets and low Look to the skies during a day celebration founded by the 
she carried out in the library Street. For more informstion Community Services sitting beach chairs and enjoy devoted to space exploration. Dizzy Feet Foundation to 
of the National Gallery of visit ci.south-pasadena.ca.us Department and the Parks & the music and fun. There will Prototype a design for a future embrace dance as a fun and 
Art in Washington, D.C.or call (626)403-7330. Recreation Commission are be a variety of delicious food Martian Habitat and make a positive way to maintain good 

please to present the annual 
available for purchase.mini rocket in the Imagination health and fight obesity. Learn 
July 16, The Fabulous Esquires Workshop. Planetarium star and practice the official routine 
Band. Big Band / Hornsgazing programs will be held in at 10:30am or 11:30am in the 
July 23, TBA the Kidspace Discovery Dome Stone Hollow Amphitheater. 
July 30, Robert Sarzo, A Salute every half hour (first-come, At 12:30pm, put the practice 
to Santana, Santana Tributefirst-serve basis). Activities free to good use for an all-Kidspace 
August 6, Opa Opa, Latinwith admission.dance party! Activities free 
August 13, City Beat Band, Early Learner Programs: with admission. 
R&B / Soul 

710 Rent Freeze Bill Passes

L.A. County 
Transportation Committee

Budget Takes 

to be sold. Earlier this Balanced The California State month, Portantino, working 
Assembly Transportation with the county assessor’s ApproachCommittee voted last week office, Caltrans and the 
12-1-1 to pass SB 400. SB Brown Administration, 

 Supervisor Barger Applauds 

County’s High Credit Rating, 400 is a bill authored by inserted language into the 
Rainy Day Fund and Says State Senator Anthony state budget to ensure a fair 
Measure H Strategies Should Portantino, La Cañada property tax assessment to 
Employ Cautious ApproachFlintridge, that requires facilitate the affordability 

 On a unanimous vote, the Caltrans to freeze the rent of these homes. SB 400 
Board of Supervisors have for the homes located in the continues the shared 

authorized a $30 billion budget 

710 corridor. Decades ago, 
mission to make these 

for Fiscal Year 2017-1018.

Caltrans purchased these 
homes affordable and to 

 “CEO Sachi Hamai and 

homes to pave the way for 
give current tenants every 

her team have developed a 

balanced budget that addresses the 710 freeway. Caltrans opportunity to purchase 
the County’s priorities while is currently in the process their homes.
still taking a fiscally cautious of selling the homes. After SB 400 passed with 
approach to the use of taxpayer hearing concerns from bipartisan support and is 
funds. This dedication to fiscal renters in the corridor now headed to the Assembly 
prudence will be especially that rising rents may force Appropriations Committee. 
important as we begin to tenants to move just as the It places a 2-year moratorium 

allocate Measure H revenue to 

prospect of selling the homes 
on rent increases for the 400 

implement homeless strategies 

is approaching, Portantino 
Caltrans parcels that will 

in the most effective and 

agreed to write legislation to 
soon be sold. The bill was 

efficient manner.

give these tenants certainty 
supported by the mayors of 

 Additionally, the county 

budget includes a $27.4 and relief. Los Angeles, Pasadena and 
million allocation for the “I am extremely grateful South Pasadena. Earlier in 
Rainy Day Fund which is vital to my friends in the State the year, Portantino held 
to ensuring the continued Assembly who voted to bring a town hall with Caltrans 
provision of services in the peace of mind and financial and the tenants in an effort 
face of unanticipated economic relief to these long-standing to create a more efficient 

challenges. I look forward to 

tenants. SB 400 is an 
process for home purchases 

the supplemental budget phase 

attempt to provide certainty 
in the 710 corridor.

when we will be able to further 

and opportunity to put Portantino represents 

augment the Rainy Day Fund.

these homes in their rightful 
nearly 930,000 people in 

 For their collective efforts to 

educate credit rating agencies place, the private ownership the 25th Senate District, 
on the county’s fiscally of long-standing tenants,” which includes Altadena, 
prudent financial management commented Portantino.Atwater Village, Bradbury, 
practices, I commend the LA County Metropolitan Burbank, Claremont, 
Chairman, Supervisor Mark Transportation AuthorityDuarte, Glendale, Glendora, 
Ridley-Thomas, the CEO, (MTA) recently voted on a La Cañada Flintridge, La 

Auditor-Controller, Treasurer 

measure that recommends 
Crescenta, La Verne, Lake 

and Tax Collector, and DHS 

an alternative approach to 
View Terrace, Los Feliz, 

whose efforts lead to a recent 

the region’s transportation 
Monrovia, Montrose, 

upgrading of the county’s bond 

needs other than building 
Pasadena, San Dimas, San 

rating – we achieved the highest 

possible short-term ratings, the 710 tunnel. MTA’s action Marino, Shadow Hills, Sierra 
and our long-term credit rating is the de facto end to the Madre, South Pasadena, 
was upgraded to the highest it’s threat of the 710 tunnel and Sunland-Tujunga, and 
been in a decade.” clears the way for the homes Upland. 


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