EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IN EFFECT FROM AUGUST 27, 10:00 AM PDT UNTIL AUGUST 29, 10:00 PM PDT 


SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 2017 
VOLUME 11 NO. 34 
PASADENA EDITION 
L.A. County Firefighting
Super-Scoopers Return


Council to Vote on Union Street Bikeway 

Story and photo by DeanLee

outreach through distribution 

StyrofoamTake-out 
Containers 
Banned from 
Restaurants

The next phase of the 
City’s ban against the use of 
“Styrofoam” or polystyrene 
materials such as cups, plates, 
bowls, meal-serving trays 
and take-out containers took 
effect Tuesday. Restaurants 
and retailers doing business 
in Pasadena will no longer 
be able to sell or distribute 
food that uses such materials. 
This is the second phase of 
the City’s polystyrene food 
packaging ban. The first 
year’s ban applied only to 
City facilities, operations and 
permitted events.

 The purpose of the 
polystyrene food packaging 
ban is to eliminate 
polystyrene and Styrofoam 
litter and to encourage the 
use of environmentally 
friendly or reusable products 
that can be readily recycled 
or composted or decompose 
when buried at a landfill. 

Polystyrene or Styrofoam 
materials are lightweight 
and can easily become litter, 
blown by wind or carried 
through storm drains 
into wetlands, creeks and 
waterways. These materials 
do not decompose, but can 
easily break into small pieces 
that are mistaken for food by 
birds, fish and other animals, 
and, when consumed, can 
cause illness or death.

 Starting this week, all 
Pasadena restaurants and 
food retailers are required 
to use alternative materials 
and resources, which may 
include:

 Reusable service ware that 
can be cleaned and used 
multiple times

Paper plates, bowls and cups

 Corn starch-based and other 
decomposable products

 Violations should be 
reported to the Pasadena 
Citizen Service Center by 
calling (626) 744-7311 or 
online at the city's website. 

By Dean Lee

 After pulling the issue from 
their last meeting agenda, the 
city council is set Monday 
night to vote to have Pasadena 
City Manager Steve Mermell 
enter into a contract with 
DKS Associates for consultant 
services for the Union Street 
Two-way Protected Bikeway 
(Cycle Track) Project for an 
amount not to exceed $999,714 
according to the city’s staff 
report.

 The designated bikeway from 
Wilson Ave to Arroyo Parkway 
would be located on the south 
side of the street. DKS services 
would include environmental 
documentation, preliminary 
engineering, preparation of 
plans, specifications, estimate, 
right-of-way and public 
outreach.

 “Prior to the development 
of design the DKS Team will 
address all safety and ADA 
concerns identified by the 

Rose Bowl Game Tickets to 
go on Sale on September 1 


 The Tournament of Roses this 
week announced that tickets 
for the 2018 College Football 
Playoff Semifinal at the Rose 
Bowl Game presented by 
Northwestern Mutual will go 
on sale to the general public on 
Friday, September 1, at 9 a.m.

SAN MARINO/SO. PAS 
Pg. 4 
SIERRA MADRE Pg. 5 
ARCADIA Pg. 6 
MONROVIA 
THE ARTS B2 
CALENDAR Pg. 2 
MORE PASADENA NEWS 
Pg. 3 
THE GOOD LIFE Pg. 9 
AROUND SAN GABRIEL 
VALLEY B1 
EDUCATION/YOUTH 
Pg. 7 
BEST FRIENDS Pg. 11 
SECTION B: 
BUSINESS NEWS 
B3 
OPINION B4 
LEGAL NOTICES B5 
FOOD & DRINK Pg. 8 
WORLD AROUND US 
Pg. 10 
Tickets will be available 

online or by calling 
Ticketmaster at 1-800653-
8000. The sale will give 
fans the first opportunity 
to secure tickets for the 
Granddaddy of Them 
All®, which will take place 
Monday, January 1, at 1 

p.m. PT at the Rose Bowl 
Stadium. 
This year’s Rose Bowl 
Game will play host to a 
College Football PlayoffSemifinal, featuring two 
of the top-four teams 
in the country. The four 
teams that will play in 
the College Football 
Playoff Semifinal will be 
announced on Sunday, 
December 3, via a national 
broadcast on ESPN. The 
Rose Bowl Game will 
host either the semifinal 
between the No. 1 and No. 
4 teams in the nation or 
the No. 2 and No. 3 teams. 

Women’s Equality Day 


 Today - August 26th 

- Passage of the 19th 
Amendment to the U.S. 
Constitution. 
It has been 97 years since 
women were given the 
vote - Let’s Party!
Games - Learn the history 
of getting the vote - Light 
refreshments - Video on 
Inez Milholland (pictured) 
and documentary Beauty 
Bites Beast. 
Event is at 6:00 pmWomen’s City Club160 N Oakland Ave 
Pasadena, CA 91101

back, entry on Madison

Lots of free parking in 

Event is FREE 

public. There will be three 
outreach phases: the first will 
reintroduce the project and 
solicit input, the second will be 
to present and solicit input on 
sixty percent design, and the 
third phase will be to present 
and solicit input on ninety 
percent design.”

 Residents in the area have 
already expressed concerns over 
removing lanes and parking on 
Union Street; currently Union 
is a one way street. Pasadena 
Department of Transportation 
Director Fred Dock said that 
parking would be evaluated 
block by block. According to 
a staff report in November 
the project would remove 
21 parking spaces, most, 14, 
of which are in the Central 
Playhouse District. 

 The council will also, Monday 
night, vote to accept a grant for 
The Safer Streets Pasadena —a 
Bike Safety Outreach Program 
that focuses on bicycle safety 


In addition to the Rose Bowl 
Game, there will also be a 
semifinal played at the Allstate 
Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. 
The winners of the two 
semifinal games will advance 
to play in the College Football 
Playoff National Championship 
in Atlanta on January 8.

 A maximum of four tickets per 
person will be available during 
the Rose Bowl Game ticket presale. 
Individual ticket prices 
start at $185 plus Ticketmaster 
handling fees.
In addition to the Ticketmaster 
pre-sale, fans can also purchase 
official Rose Bowl Game travel 
and VIP Ticket and Hospitality 
Packages online through 
PrimeSport.

For more information 
about the 2018 College 
Football Playoff at the Rose 
Bowl Game presented by 
Northwestern Mutual visit: 
tournamentofroses.com. 

of safety education material 
and safety equipment. Activities 
include the expansion of the 
“Ride Right. Ride Bright” 
bicycle safety campaign. 
The program is scheduled to 
begin in October distributing 
educational material, 1 ,000bicycle head lights and tail 
lights, and 300 bicycle helmets 
at various activities throughout 
the City. IT ends in September 
2018.

 The items are both on the 
council’s consent calendar, 
items which are approved by 
one motion, although the public 
does have the right to comment 
on any item on the agenda. The 
city council meets at 6:30 p.m. 
in the city council chambers. 

NFL Player

Chargedwith Assault 

on Man in 
Pasadena

 
According to officials, 
an Oakland Raiders 
cornerback has been 
charged with an assault on 
his sister’s boyfriend in Old 
Pasadena.

 Deputy District Attorney 
Christopher Stogel said 
Sean Lee Smith faces 
one felony count each of 
assault by means of force 
likely to produce great 
bodily injury and battery 
with serious bodily injury, 
the Los Angeles County 
District Attorney’s Office 
announced Thursday.

 The criminal complaint 
includes an allegation that 
Smith inflicted great bodily 
injury upon the victim.

 Arraignment is scheduled 
on Sept. 29 in Department 
D of the Los Angeles 
County Superior Court, 
Pasadena Branch. The 
case was filed for warrant 
on Aug. 16.

 Smith allegedly beat 
and then stomped on the 
victim’s head near the 
corner of Arroyo Parkway 
and Colorado Boulevard 
early in the morning on 
July 4, the prosecutor said.

 If convicted as charged, the 
defendant faces a possible 
maximum sentence 
of seven years in state 
prison. The case remains 
under investigation by 
the Pasadena Police 
Department. 

 Supervisor Kathryn Barger 
(pictured above left) along with 

L.A. County fire personnel 
showcased a leased pair of 
Bombardier CL-415s from 
Canada Friday morning, the 
aircraft will stay in Southern 
California for 140 days to 
help firefighting in areas that 
include, Altadena, Pasadena, 
Sierra Madre and other cities 
along the San Gabriel foothills. 
“The jurisdictional agency 
fighting the fire, [Pasadena, 
Sierra Madre] they would make 
a request to us through their 
dispatch,” said Assistant Fire 
Chief Thomas Ewald (pictured 
above right). “If Pasadena were 
to have a fire they would make 
that request.” 

 Last year the planes were 
dispatched more than 50 times 
and dropped water in at least 20 
of them. 

 He said in the case of fire 
that spreads into the National 
Forest, there is an “initial action 
zone.”


Forces of Nature II, The
Beauty Of Woodworking 


 Forces of Nature 
II woodworkingdemonstration by artist 
and Rockler Woodworking 
and Hardware expert Pete 
Carta, who will show how 
to turn a wood platter, 
September 2, from 1:30 p.m. 
to 2:30 p.m. Los Angeles 
County Arboretum and 
Botanic Garden, 301 N. 
Baldwin Ave. Arcadia, 
Demonstration included in 
regular admission. 

 Carta is one of the 120 
artists using wood from 
Arboretum trees to create 
art for the Forces of Nature II 
exhibit December 1-10. The 

Free Concert; The NoWhere Men

amphitheater. The Sheriff ’s 

 The NoWhere Men are Support Group of Altadena 
playing FREE concert presents the 21st Annual 
at Farnsworth Park this Summer Concert Series at 
Saturday August 26, at Farnsworth Park, located at 
7:00pm. Sponsored by 568 E. Mount Curve Ave.
Altadena Sheriff ’s Support Captain Vicki Stuckey, 
Group.Reserve Deputies on foot 

 FREE concert at Farnsworth and horseback will be 
Park this Saturday, August attending this and every 
19th at 7:00pm at the concert. 

demonstration is presented 
by Rockler Woodworking 
and Hardware, presenting 
sponsor of Forces of Nature 

II. 
For more information, visit 
www.arboretum.org or call 
626.821.3222. 
“When there is a 911 call, who 
knows? Is the fire actually in the 
forest or on our side, so instead 
of taking any chances, when it’s 
in that zone we respond.” 

He also said they lease the 
scoopers this time of year 
because of wind, “you add that 
one component that makes an 
average fire extremely difficult.”

 County Fire Chief Daryl L. 
Osby urged residents in wild 
land areas to comply with brush 
clearance regulations. He also 
said when asked to evacuate, to 
evacuate. 

 “We can always rebuild a 
house if it’s lost, the grass and 
vegetation will always grow 
back, but we can never bring 
back a life,” he said.

 Osby also said there is no 
reason for anyone to have or fly 
drones near wildfires.

 “If you do we will hunt you 
down, you can be arrested, 
and convicted and fined up to 
$25,000.”

 This is the 24 year that the 
county and Canada partnered 
leasing the planes and Barger 
thanked everyone involved.


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