Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, September 16, 2017

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SOUTH PASADENA - SAN MARINO

Mountain Views-News Saturday, September 16, 2017 

Huntington Drive Safe 
Streets Corridor Survey

South Pasadena Library 
Offers ‘Mango Languages’

Historic Library Community 
Room Improved, Repainted

 
The City of San Marino 
is preparing a planning 
document for the Huntington 
Drive Corridor. The plan is 
intended to help improve 
overall safety and mobility, and 
increase awareness of all modes 
of transportation, including 
children walking and biking to 
schools and business owners 
and patrons traveling to San 
Marino business centers. The 
plan will also consider ways to 
enhance corridor aesthetics to 
reinforce community identity. 
As part of this effort, the City is 
also working with San Marino 
schools along Huntington 
Drive to improve safety and 
access through education 
and programs. Officials are 
asking residents to take a brief 
survey, your responses will 
help guide our planners to 
areas of concerns within our 
community.

 For more information and 
the survey visit: ci.san-marino.
ca.us.

 The South Pasadena 
Public Library announced 
that it now offers the 
“Mango Languages” online 
language-learning system. 
Guided by its core purpose 
to enrich lives with language 
and culture, Mango is 
the leading provider of 
language-learning resources 
in public libraries in 
America, offering fun and 
immersive courses that 
appeal to students, lifelong 
learners, and business and 
leisure travelers.

 PhD-created and linguist-
approved, “Mango 
Languages” courses include 
more than 70 languages, 
and for English language 
learners instruction is 
available in 17 languages. 
Lessons combine real life 
situations and audio from 
native speakers with simple, 
clear instructions. The 
courses are presented with 
an appreciation for cultural 
nuance and real-world 
application by focusing 
on the four key elements 
of language learning: 
vocabulary, pronunciation, 
grammar, and culture.

 In addition to traditional 
language courses, Mango 
also offers the opportunity 
to learn through foreign film 
with “Mango Premiere”™ 
and access to a variety of 
specialty mini courses, like 
Pirate, Medical Spanish and 
even a Wine and Cheese 
course in French!

 “Mango Languages” is 
available free to South 
Pasadena Public Library 
cardholders and can be 
accessed from the Library’s 
website (southpasadenaca.
gov/onlineresources) 
using any computer with 
an internet connection as 
well as via apps for iPhone, 
Android™, Kindle and 
Nook. Learners will need 
their library card number 
to get started, and can 
study as a “guest” or create 
a personalized account that 
allows them to track their 
progress. Click here to start 
learning now! For more 
information or help getting 
started, visit the Library or 
call the Reference Desk at 
(626) 403-7350. 

 The South Pasadena 
Public Library is located at 
1100 Oxley Street, South 
Pasadena, California, 91030 
(see map), and open 7 days 
a week, now including 
Thursday nights for the 
convenience of visitors to 
the South Pasadena Farmer’s 
Market which is only one 
block from the Library. 
Library hours are Sunday 
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.; 
Monday 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 
p.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday, 
Thursday 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 
p.m.; and Saturday 10:00 
a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

 “Mango Languages” is 
generously sponsored by 
the Friends of the South 
Pasadena Public Library.

San Marino Crowell Public 
Free Library Programs

 The interior of the historic 
South Pasadena Public 
Library Community Room 
was recently repainted by 
a crew from Hands On 
Painting, Inc. of South 
Pasadena. The painting of 
the inside of the venerable 
room was undertaken 
after the recent installation 
of the new Audio Visual 
system in the Community 
Room by Studio Spectrum. 
Hands On Painting also 
painted the exterior of the 
South Pasadena Public 
Library two years ago. Both 
painting projects, the first in 
many years for the Library, 
were funded with the City 
Council’s approval of a pair 
of Supplemental Budget 
Requests. The funding for 
the new AV system for the 
Community Room was 
also approved with the City 
Council’s approval of another 
Library Supplemental 
Budget Request.

 The Community Room was 
first constructed as the main 
reading room of the South 
Pasadena Public Library in 
1907 using a grant of about 
$19,000 from the Carnegie 
Corporation. In 1930 the 
exterior of the Library’s 
main room received an 
architectural style makeover 
reminiscent of Northern 
Italy by the firm of Smith, 
Marsh & Powell. The 
renovation and remodeling 
project also included 
artwork adding stone 
carvings by distinguished 
sculptor Merrell Gage. 
His six decorative panels 
depict scenes from classic 
literature. Different periods 
and phases of literature are 
represented in the scenes of 
David and his sling, Perseus 
with the head of Medusa, 
Don Quixote charging 
a windmill, an Indian 
(Hiawatha perhaps), Rip 
Van Winkle, and Hamlet. 
Two shields were added 
over the exterior of the 
main entrance: an orange 
tree representing the coat of 
arms of South Pasadena and 
the other a bear representing 
the state of California.

 The interior arrangement 
of the original building was 
not altered in 1930, although 
a woodwork of Philippine 
mahogany was added to 
augment the windows 
and unusually striking 
chandeliers were hung from 
the 24 foot ceiling. The most 
beautiful touches came from 
modernist muralist Lucille 
Lloyd who created ornate 
hand painted designs on 
the ceiling beams which, of 
course, still remain. Lucille 
Lloyd also painted murals 
for the South Pasadena 
Middle School, Griffith 
Park Observatory and a 
decoration for the State 
Capitol in Sacramento.

Written by Steve Fjeldsted, 
Library Director

Digital Photography with George Simian: Better Indoor 
Photos with a Battery-Powered Flash

Saturday, September 23: 2 pm

 Lose your fear of creating your own light, in this demonstration of 
how to use a flash to make better images indoors. George Simian, 
commercial photographer and educator (UCLA Extension, 
Samy’s Camera, American Photographic Artists) will show you 
how to master basic lighting concepts and skills, managing both 
the quality (hard vs. soft) and the direction (frontal vs. indirect) 
of light.

Navigating the Maze of Medicare: Part E 

Wednesday, October 4: 7 pm

 Health Insurance Specialist John Dickey returns to discuss 
Part E of Medicare, which includes the Supplemental Plans 
that function like PPOs. These Supplemental Plans are also 
referred to as MediGap policies. John will go through a carrier’s 
2017 Supplemental Plan Enrollment Guide Book, step by step. 
There will be a question and answer period to address any 
other Medicare issues patrons might have. John’s guidance and 
advocacy on behalf of seniors is always totally independent of any 
insurance company/carrier, and is governed by CMS (Center for 
Medicare and Medicaid Services). An excellent, generic 2017-
2018 guidance booklet on all aspects of Medicare will also be 
given to every attendee to take home.

Fashion Lecture with Alex Kosztowny

Tuesday, October 10: 7 pm

 Alex Kosztowny, freelance fashion designer and librarian at the 
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) returns 
with another lecture on the world of fashion and costume history. 
No stranger to art libraries and collections, Kosztowny has worked 
with Fashion and Art Collections at LACMA and the Gagosian 
Gallery.

 All events take place at Crowell Public Library, 1890 Huntington 
Drive. For more information please call the Library at (626) 300-
0777.

Police and Fire 
Open House

 


 Come join South Pasadena 
police and fire this Sunday, from 
10 AM to 3 PM for the South 
Pasadena Police & Fire Open 
House (See flyer below).

 City officials invite everyone 
to come and enjoy a day of 
activities at the police and fire 
department as well as enjoying 
the Tournament of Roses Classic 
Car Show along Mission Street.

 There are many activities 
planned at the Open House with 
a special focus on Emergency 
Preparedness. Some quick 
highlights of activities taking 
place are hands-on emergency 
preparedness demonstrations, 
child fingerprinting, guided tours 
of the police departments, test 
your decision making skills at the 
Force Option Simulator, support 
the pink patch project for breast 
cancer research and helicopters 
will be landing and taking off 
throughout the day. 

STREET CLOSURE ALERT

 Please note that because of the 
car show, Mission Street will 
be closed between Fair Oaks to 
Meridian Avenue on Sunday, 
from 5 AM to 5 PM, but Fremont 
Avenue will remain open for 
north/south traffic. For more 
visit: ci.south-pasadena.ca.us. 


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