Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, June 23, 2018

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Mountain View News Saturday, June 23, 2018 

Arroyo Seco Weekend

City Introduces Smartboot 
Technology to Recover 
Unpaid Parking Violations

Global Leadership Summit 
Event Comes to La Canada

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 Goldenvoice’s Arroyo Seco 
Weekend Festival today and 
tomorrow line up includes 
tonight headlines Neil Young 
+ The Promise Of The Real 
and Jack White with Sunday 
headliners Kings Of Leon 
and Robert Plant and the 
Sensational Space Shifters, 
as well as a food lovers’ 
paradise. Festival goers can 
find an array of sought-
after dishes and award-
winning restaurants from 
Los Angeles and Pasadena’s 
impressive culinary 
communities. The selection 
offers a wide range of cuisine, 
from classic Italian dishes; 
authentic Mexican; Korean 
BBQ; to gluten-free and 
vegan options celebrating 
Los Angeles’ melting pot 
of a food scene. Newest 
additions to the food and 
beverage program include 
Los Angeles staples Wexler’s 
Deli and Barrel & Ashes, 
along with the beloved 
Burritos La Palma, and the 
new and exciting Chilola’s 
Fine Filipino Tacos by Chef 
Michael Hung, and Chef 
Michael Mina’s Cal Mare, 
and more.

 Pasadena’s acclaimed 
Kidspace Museum returns 
to the festival with a tent of 
activities to keep children 
entertained. This year make 
your own box guitar, jam 
with the interactive drum 
circle lead by Rhythm Child, 
add to the collaborative art 
project and create your own 
crafts and concert buttons 
at the Kidspace Family 
Jam. And, for the first time, 
Arroyo Seco Weekend 
welcomes Pasadena’s The 
Huntington Library, Art 
Collections, and Botanical 
Gardens with an interactive 
installation of plant and 
flower biology and NASA Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory will 
be on site with an exclusive 
Intergalactic Travel Lounge. 
This year also sees the return 
of Vroman’s Bookstore-
curated Little Libraries, 
scattered around the festival 
site. Attendees will be able 
to peruse books relating to 
Pasadena’s long history as a 
cultural center. Children 10 
and under are free with a 
ticketed adult.

 The festival will include 
performances by (in ABC 
order by day):

SATURDAY JUNE 23:

Belle & Sebastian

Dwight Twilley

Gomez

Hurray for the Riff Raff

Jack White

Jeff Goldblum and the 
Mildred Snitzer Orchestra

Kamasi Washington

Margo Price

Maxim Ludwig

Neil Young + Promise Of 
The Real

North Mississippi Allstars

Pharoah Sanders

Pretenders

Seu Jorge

Shakey Graves

The Milk Carton Kids

The Specials

Typhoon

SUNDAY JUNE 24:

Aaron Neville

Alanis Morrissette

Allen Stone

Capital Cities

Dorothy

Fantastic Negrito

Gary Clark Jr.

Irma Thomas

Kings Of Leon

Los Lobos

Margaret Glaspy

Robert Plant & the 

 La Cañada Presbyterian 
Church will be hosting (via 
satellite) the 24th Global 
Leadership Summit. Willow 
Creek Association’s Global 
Leadership Summit drives 
transformation with fresh, 
actionable insight from a 
diverse faculty who challenge 
leaders to maximize their 
influence. The two-day 2018 
Summit will be simulcast live 
by satellite in HD to 600 sites 
in North America on August 
9-10.

 In the fall, the Summit 
goes global in 60 languages, 
reaching 128 countries to 
inspire an anticipated 400,000 
leaders to greater Kingdom 
impact. Faculty members offer 
uniquely different perspectives, 
enabling Summit participants 
to challenge their learning. 
Each member of the faculty is 
purposefully selected for their 
expertise, proven success and 
innovative approaches in non-
profit, government, education 
and faith-based sectors. 

Partial list of the scheduled 
speakers:

Simon Sinek - Best-selling 
Author; Founder, Start With 
Why

T.D Jakes - Founder & Senior 
Pastor, The Potter’s House

Angela Ahrendts - Senior Vice 
President of Retail, Apple

Danny Meyer - Restaurateur; 
TIME Magazine’s “100 Most 
Influential People”

Erwin McManus - Author, 
Futurist, Founder of Mosaic, 
Los Angeles

Carla Harris - Vice Chairman, 
Managing Director & Senior 
Client Advisor at Morgan 
Stanley

John C. Maxwell - Leadership 
Expert; Best-selling Author; 
Coach

 The event will be held at La 
Cañada Presbyterian Church, 
626 Foothill Boulevard, 
La Cañada. For more 
information, please contact 
Lynne Graves at lynne.graves@
planaheadeventsla.com or call 
818.839.2062.

 The City of Pasadena has 
entered into an agreement 
with PayLock, LLC to provide 
SmartBoot technology in an 
effort to recover unpaid parking 
violations throughout the city. 
The City’s scofflaw program 
enforces the State of California 
motor vehicle code, aimed 
at the most serious parking 
violators who have five or more 
unpaid parking tickets

 “While the California Vehicle 
Code allows us to impound 
vehicles with five or more 
unpaid parking citations, we 
wanted to find a way to collect 
these unpaid citations that 
was less punitive,” said Jon 
Hamblen, the City’s Parking 
Manager. “Instead of having 
to come to our office and then 
to a tow yard, motorists can 
now simply call Paylock, make 
a payment and have access to 
their vehicle in minutes.”

 When Parking Enforcement 
officers identify a vehicle 
eligible for impounding, a 
SmartBoot is placed on the 
vehicle. Once all fines and fees 
are paid, the registered owner 
of the vehicle is given a six-digit 
code to release the SmartBoot. 
Motorists may pay outstanding 
violations 24-hours a day, seven 
days a week by calling a multi-
lingual, live-operator customer 
Help Center or on any mobile 
device. In most cases, the 
process takes less than 10 
minutes. Cash payments are 
made at 221 E. Walnut Street, 
Suite 199, Pasadena, CA 91101.

 Under the current system, 
vehicles with five or more 
parking violations are towed 
to one of three impound 
lots. Going forward, an 
identified vehicle will have a 
SmartBoot immobilization 
device attached by a Pasadena 
Department of Transportation 
officer. The SmartBoot weighs 
approximately 16 pounds 
and has an electronic keypad 
that may be unlocked by the 
motorist after payment is made. 
Once removed, the motorist 
returns the boot to a specified 
return location. If a motorist 
chooses not to remove the boot 
on their own, an officer will be 
dispatched to assist.

 PayLock introduced self-
release booting in 2004. 
Since then, the company has 
partnered with more than 
20 municipalities on parking 
enforcement solutions. To date, 
the company has processed 
more than one million self-
release booting transactions, 
helping cities recover badly-
needed vehicle debt. 

 Motorists with five or 
more parking violations are 
encouraged to pay outstanding 
tickets at the City of Pasadena 
Department of Transportation 
located at:

City of Pasadena Parking 
Citation Section

221 E Walnut St, #199

Pasadena, CA 91101 (626) 744-
4360

Pasadena Humane Society 
to Hold Free Adoption Day

 

 The Pasadena Humane Society 
& SPCA will hold its 5th 
Annual “Free Adoption Day” 
on June 29. Adoption fees for all 
available animals--- including 
dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, 
pocket pets and reptiles—will 
be subsidized. The shelter, 
located at 361 S. Raymond Ave 
in Pasadena, will be open for 
adoptions from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

 As the shelter fills to capacity 
during the warmer months, it is 
important to find new homes 
for pets as quickly as possible. 
This is especially true before 
4th of July, when dogs, cats 
and other animals are easily 
frightened by the loud booms 
and bursts of fireworks and may 
run away. The shelter hopes 
to free up as much kennel as 
possible to prepare for the 
increased number of stray and 
lost pets arriving around the 
4th of July. 

 Free Adoption Day is the 
shelter’s largest adoption 
event of the year. In 2017, 152 
pets--71 cats, 56 dogs and 25 
critters-- found a home on 
Free Adoption Day. The shelter 
hopes to exceed that number in 
2018. 

 “Visit us on Free Adoption for 
the best deal of the year,” says 
Julie Bank, President/CEO of 
the Pasadena Humane Society 
& SPCA. “Not only are you 
saving the life of a homeless 
pet, but you are bringing home 
a new family member.”

 All dog and cat adoptions 
include the spay or neuter 
surgery, a microchip and 
age appropriate vaccines. 
New adopters will receive a 
complimentary health-and-
wellness exam, as well as a 
packet filled with information 
about how to care for your pet.

 The event is open to all 
looking to adopt a pet. Regular 
adoption process applies. To 
expedite the adoption process, 
print an adoption application 
in advance on the organization’s 
website. To view animals at the 
shelter or to make a donation 
towards a subsidized adoption, 
visit pasadenahumane.org. 

Curiosity Captures Photos 
of Thickening Haze


Pet of the 
Week

 

 Abbey (A456125) is 
a 3-month-old domestic 
shorthair looking for a new 
home. She was found as a 
stray in Monrovia about a 
month ago and has been 
looking for the right people 
to come along to take her 
home. She currently has two 
roommates whom she likes 
to cuddle and play with. She 
is a bit timid, but enjoys ear 
and face rubs. Come visit 
Abbey and her kitten friends 
today at the Pasadena 
Humane Society. 

 The adoption fee for cats 
is $75. All cats are spayed 
or 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.

 View photos of adoptable 
pets at pasadenahumane.
org. 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. 

 *** Looking to add a new 
furry friend to your family? 
The Pasadena Humane 
Society & SPCA will hold its 
5th Annual “Free Adoption 
Day” on June 29. Adoption 
fees for all available 
animals— including dogs, 
cats, rabbits, birds, pocket 
pets and reptiles—will be 
subsidized. The shelter, 
located at 361 S. Raymond 
Ave in Pasadena, will be 
open for adoptions from 9 
a.m. to 5 p.m.

 

 A storm of tiny dust particles 
has engulfed much of Mars 
over the last two weeks and 
prompted NASA’s Opportunity 
rover to suspend science 
operations. But across the 
planet, NASA’s Curiosity 
rover, which has been studying 
Martian soil at Gale Crater, 
is expected to remain largely 
unaffected by the dust. While 
Opportunity is powered by 
sunlight, which is blotted out 
by dust at its current location, 
Curiosity has a nuclear-
powered battery that runs day 
and night.

 The Martian dust storm 
has grown in size and is now 
officially a “planet-encircling” 
(or “global”) dust event.

 Though Curiosity is on 
the other side of Mars from 
Opportunity, dust has steadily 
increased over it, more than 
doubling over the weekend. The 
sunlight-blocking haze, called 
“tau,” is now above 8.0 at Gale 
Crater -- the highest tau the 
mission has ever recorded. Tau 
was last measured near 11 over 
Opportunity, thick enough that 
accurate measurements are no 
longer possible for Mars’ oldest 
active rover.

 For NASA’s human 
scientists watching from the 
ground, Curiosity offers an 
unprecedented window to 
answer some questions. One 
of the biggest is: why do some 
Martian dust storms last for 
months and grow massive, 
while others stay small and last 
only a week?

 “We don’t have any good 
idea,” says Scott D. Guzewich, 
an atmospheric scientist at 
NASA Goddard Space Flight 
Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, 
leading Curiosity’s dust storm 
investigation.

 Curiosity, he points out, plus 
a fleet of spacecraft in the orbit 
of Mars, will allow scientists for 
the first time to collect a wealth 
of dust information both from 
the surface and from space. The 
last storm of global magnitude 
that enveloped Mars was in 
2007, five years before Curiosity 
landed there.

 In the accompanying images, 
Curiosity is facing the crater 
rim, about 18.6 miles (30 
kilometers) away from where 
it stands inside the crater. Daily 
photos captured by its Mast 
Camera, or Mastcam, show 
the sky getting hazier. This 
Sun-obstructing wall of haze is 
about six to eight times thicker 
than normal for this time of 
season.

 Curiosity’s engineers at NASA’s 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 
Pasadena, California, have 
studied the potential for the 
growing dust storm to affect 
the rover’s instruments, and say 
it poses little risk. The largest 
impact is to the rover’s cameras, 
which require extra exposure 
time due to the low lighting. 
The rover already routinely 
points its Mastcam down at the 
ground after each use to reduce 
the amount of dust blowing at 
its optics. JPL leads the Mars 
Science Laboratory/Curiosity 
mission.

 Martian dust storms are 
common, especially during 
southern hemisphere spring 
and summer, when the planet 
is closest to the Sun. As the 
atmosphere warms, winds 
generated by larger contrasts in 
surface temperature at different 
locations mobilize dust 
particles the size of individual 
talcum powder grains. 
Carbon dioxide frozen on the 
winter polar cap evaporates, 
thickening the atmosphere and 
increasing the surface pressure. 
This enhances the process 
by helping suspend the dust 
particles in the air. In some 
cases, the dust clouds reach up 
to 40 miles (60 kilometers) or 
more in elevation.

 Though they are common, 
Martian dust storms typically 
stay contained to a local area. 
By contrast, the current storm, 
if it were happening on Earth, 
is bigger than North America 
and Russia combined, says 
Guzewich.

 The dust storm may seem 
exotic to some Earthlings, but 
it’s not unique to Mars. Earth 
has dust storms, too, in desert 
regions such as North Africa, 
the Middle East, and the 
southwest United States.

 But conditions here prevent 
them from spreading globally, 
said Ralph A. Kahn, a Goddard 
senior research scientist who 
studies the atmospheres of 
Earth and Mars. These include 
the structure of our thicker 
atmosphere and stronger 
gravity that helps settle dust. 
Earth also has vegetation cover 
on land that binds the soil with 
its roots and helps block the 
wind and rain that wash the 
particles out of the atmosphere.

Free Monthly Events at 
Pasadena Senior Center

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

 Mail Fraud – Thursday, 
June 28, at 10 a.m. Older 
adults should be vigilant about 
a number of scams intended to 
deplete their life savings. Learn 
how to protect yourself from 
mail fraud. Presented by the 
U.S. Postal Service.

 LIMITLESS/LENNY – 
Friday, June 29, at 3:30 p.m. 
Guest artists from MUSE/
IQUE will explore the music 
of Leonard Bernstein and 
his enormous impact on the 
American sound. A limited 
number of complimentary 
tickets will be available to the 
LIMITLESS/LENNY concert 
Saturday, June 30, led by 
MUSE/IQUE musical director 
Rachael Worby. Register at the 
Welcome Desk or by calling 
(626) 795-4331. 

 Screening Mimis Film Club 
– Tuesdays, July 3 and 17, at 
3 p.m. What used to require 
a monthly fee is now free! 
Classics, film noir, cult films, 
documentaries, shorts, foreign 
films, animated films and more 
are selected democratically by 
club members. Each screening 
is researched and its hidden 
history presented prior to each 
viewing. Lively discussions 
and Q&A follow each 
screening. Popcorn and other 
refreshments are provided. The 
film club is scheduled the first 
and third Tuesdays of every 
month. Email mmeovary@aol.
com for more information.

 A Toast to the Joys of 
Music – Tuesdays, July 3 to 
31, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. 
Tom Campbell returns to play 
his guitar and sing covers of 
traditional country, country 
rock, blues, folk, gospel and 
classic rock music made famous 
by The Grateful Dead, Vince 
Gill, Merle Haggard, B.B. King, 
Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, 
The Rolling Stones and others.

 Domino Club – Thursdays, 
July 5 to 26, at 1 p.m. 
Rollicking games of chicken 
foot dominoes will have you 
laughing as the tiles cascade! 
This game is easy enough for 
beginners yet challenging 
enough for seasoned players. 
For more information call 
Vicki Leigh at (928) 478-4654.

 Friday Movie Matinees – 
Fridays, July 6, 13 and 20, at 
1 p.m. Everyone enjoys the 
experience of watching movies 
and the pleasures they bring. 
July 6: “The Great Debaters” 
(2007, PG) starring Denzel 
Washington and Kimberly 
Elise. At a small African 
American college in the 1930s, 
a professor forms a student 
debate team that goes on to 
beat Harvard University in the 
national debate championships. 
The film is based on true 
events. July 13: “An Ordinary 
Man” (2017, R) starring Ben 
Kingsley and Hera Hilmar. An 
infamous Bosnian Serb war 
criminal who has spent years 
on the run, blending in to one 
new surrounding after another, 
discovers his new maid in a new 
location is a secret agent hired to 
protect him. July 20: “Chicago” 
(2002, PG) starring Richard 
Gere and Catherine Zeta-Jones. 
Two female murderers, one a 
small-time chorus girl and the 
other a major Vaudeville star, 
find themselves on death row 
together and fight for the fame 
inside that will keep them from 
the gallows in 1920s Chicago 
with the help of a hotshot 
attorney and a scheming prison 
matron.

 Sample Classes for Summer 
– Monday and Tuesday, July 
9 and 10, from 8:30 a.m. 
to noon. Whether you’re 
interested in taking a fitness 
course, learning a new language 
or pursuing a new hobby, come 
to Class Tasting events, meet 
the instructors and sit in on 
free mini-versions of fee-based 
summer courses. Each sample 
class lasts 30 minutes; regular 
classes begin July 16.

 For more information visit 
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. 

Home Tour for Altadena 
Guild for Huntington Hospital


Altadena Guild Home Tour Chairs for 2018: Lisa Urbina, Debbie 
Williams, Liz Campagna, Jeane Ward

 Altadena Guild for Huntington Hospital, a local nonprofit 
dedicated to support the mission of Huntington Hospital 
and the Huntington Medical Research Institute (HMRI), 
held its annual Home Tour, last week, on Pepper Drive 
in Altadena. Visitors had the opportunity to view five 
beautiful homes and gardens as well as enjoy the talent of 
folkloric dancers and purchase handcrafted items from over 
twenty vendors. This was the 67th. Home Tour sponsored 
by the organization and grossed over $100,000. Proceeds 
from the event support programs at Huntington Hospital 
and HMRI. 

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