Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, August 25, 2018

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Mountain View News Saturday, August 25, 2018 

Symphony to Host Annual 
Moonlight Sonata Gala

Ice Confirmed at Moon's Poles

The Taste of Pasadena 
Returns to the Rose Bowl 

 
Join the Pasadena 
Symphony Association for 
an unforgettable evening of 
enchantment and romance 
on Saturday, September 22, 
2018 as they host the annual 
Moonlight Sonata Gala. This 
year’s elegant soiree will light 
up Centennial Square, set 
against the iconic rotunda 
of Pasadena City Hall. The 
evening’s festivities will kick 
off with libations around 
the Baroque fountain in 
the cloistered courtyard, 
followed by a luxe dinner 
under a moonlit sky at the 
steps of City Hall, and will 
conclude with dancing into 
the night under the stars. The 
program offers something 
for everyone – with an 
awards ceremony honoring 
two prominent community 
figures, an exciting live 
and silent auction, and live 
music performances by 
distinguished musicians.

 True to the organization’s 
mission, a variety of musical 
experiences will weave 
throughout the evening. 
Guests will be surrounded by 
live performances from PSA 
musicians, the Pasadena 
Youth Symphony Orchestra, 
and the soulful melodies 
of Nina Lares and her jazz 
ensemble. Music Director 
David Lockington will host 
the evening’s program as 
guests enjoy a succulent 
four-course meal courtesy 
of Claud & Co. Throughout 
dinner, David and members 
of the Pasadena Symphony 
orchestra will showcase a 
sampling of chamber music 
selections that highlight the 
artistic mission of both the 
Symphony and the POPS - 
including a world premiere 
work by PYSO musician 
Sydney Wang, a 2017 BMI 
Student Composer Award 
winner.

 The Pasadena Symphony 
Association is thrilled 
to honor this year’s two 
outstanding luminaries. 
Barbara Mann Steinwedell 
will be recognized as 
Philanthropist Luminary 
for her long, charitable 
history with the Pasadena 
Symphony Association. 
Steinwedell has been a major 
force within the organization 
for decades, donating and 
raising funds as well as 
guiding the PSA to reach 
its highest potential. The 
gala will also honor Seyfarth 
Shaw as Corporate Luminary 
for their generous charitable 
contributions to the arts, 
which have encouraged the 
Pasadena Symphony and 
POPS to flourish as the 
region’s premiere source for 
live symphonic music.

 Tickets to the Moonlight 
Sonata Gala are limited. 
Individual tickets start 
at $275 and may be 
purchased by visiting 
PasadeanSymphony-
Pops.org or by contacting 
Scott Vandrick, 
Chief Development 
Officer at svandrick@
PasadenaSymphony-Pops.
org or 626.793.7172 x 45.

 

 Join the Pasadena Chamber 
of Commerce for the 
Taste of Pasadena at the 
Rose Bowl on Thursday, 
September 13, 2018, from 
6pm to 9pm. Enjoy food 
and drink samples from 
many of Pasadena’s favorite, 
finest and most unique 
restaurants. Taste the four 
finalist cocktails in our SIP-
tember Cocktail Bracket 
Challenge and vote for your 
favorite as 2018 Pasadena 
Cocktail of the Year. 

 Only 500 tickets will be 
sold. No waiting in line. 
Lots of food, drink and fun. 
Cost to attend the Taste of 
Pasadena is $30 per person 
in advance. $60 per person 
at the door. Advanced tickets 
are available at http://www.
pasadena-chamber.org/
forms/taste-pasadena-and-
sip-tember-finale.

 For a list of participating 
restaurants, visit www.
pasadenarestaurantweek.
com. Information is posted 
as it becomes available.

 Dance Syndicate provides 
music for the Taste of 
Pasadena. The Sierra 
Family of Dealerships, 
City of Pasadena and Wells 
Fargo sponsor. The Taste 
of Pasadena is a Pasadena 
Restaurant Week event 
presented by the Pasadena 
Chamber of Commerce.

 32 drinks were entered the 
head-to-head SIP-tember 
Cocktail Bracket Challenge 
online competition. 
Only one will be named 
Pasadena’s Cocktail of the 
Year 2018. Drinks were 
randomly chosen for the 
head-to-head bracket 
challenge. Voting in the 
first three rounds is online 
at pasadenarestaurantweek.
com/vote. Second round 
voting ends August 28, 2018, 
at midnight. 

 Drinks being offered for 
the SIP-tember Cocktail 
Bracket Challenge include 
special margaritas, new 
interpretations of traditional 
cocktails and some 
specially created drinks 
from some of Pasadena’s 
premiere mixologists. 
New participants this year 
included Mi Piace and Ichi 
Gyo Ichi Et in Old Pasadena, 
Roy’s Hawaiian, Trejo’s 
Cantina and The Mixx in 
the Playhouse District and 
Foothill in east Pasadena. 
We are very pleased to 
welcome the Otis Bar at La 
Grande Orange Cafe back 
to competition along with 
local favorites White Horse 
Lounge, Bistro 45, Fleming’s 
Prime Steakhouse and Wine 
Bar, The Taproom at the 
Langham Huntington Hotel, 
El Cholo, Ruth’s Chris Steak 
House, Vertical Wine Bistro, 
True Food Kitchen, Lucky 
Baldwin’s Trappiste Pub and 
Del Frisco’s Grille. For full 
information on participants 
and drinks, visit www.
pasadenarestaurantweek.
com.

 Those advancing to the 
second round in the SIP-
tember Cocktail Bracket 
Challenge for 2018 are:

Mi Piace

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse 
and Wine Bar

Foothill

White Horse Lounge

The Mixx

Roy’s Hawaiian

Ruth’s Chris Steak House

True Food Kitchen

Trejo’s Cantina

La Grande Orange - Otis Bar

Taproom at the Langham 
Huntington Hotel Pasadena

Del Frisco’s Grille

 Guests at Taste of 
Pasadena Choose 
Pasadena’s Cocktail of 
the Year 2018

 

 In the darkest and coldest 
parts of its polar regions, a 
team of scientists has directly 
observed definitive evidence 
of water ice on the Moon’s 
surface. These ice deposits 
are patchily distributed and 
could possibly be ancient. 
At the southern pole, most 
of the ice is concentrated 
at lunar craters, while the 
northern pole’s ice is more 
widely, but sparsely spread.

 A team of scientists, led by 
Shuai Li of the University 
of Hawaii and Brown 
University and including 
Richard Elphic from NASA’s 
Ames Research Center in 
California’s Silicon Valley, 
used data from NASA’s 
Moon Mineralogy Mapper 
(M3) instrument to identify 
three specific signatures that 
definitively prove there is 
water ice at the surface of the 
Moon.

 M3, aboard the 
Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, 
launched in 2008 by the 
Indian Space Research 
Organization, was uniquely 
equipped to confirm the 
presence of solid ice on 
the Moon. It collected data 
that not only picked up the 
reflective properties we’d 
expect from ice, but was 
able to directly measure the 
distinctive way its molecules 
absorb infrared light, so it 
can differentiate between 
liquid water or vapor and 
solid ice.

 Most of the newfound water 
ice lies in the shadows of 
craters near the poles, where 
the warmest temperatures 
never reach above minus 
250 degrees Fahrenheit. 
Because of the very small tilt 
of the Moon’s rotation axis, 
sunlight never reaches these 
regions.

 Previous observations 
indirectly found possible 
signs of surface ice at the 
lunar south pole, but these 
could have been explained 
by other phenomena, such 
as unusually reflective lunar 
soil.

 With enough ice sitting 
at the surface -- within the 
top few millimeters -- water 
would possibly be accessible 
as a resource for future 
expeditions to explore and 
even stay on the Moon, and 
potentially easier to access 
than the water detected 
beneath the Moon’s surface.

 Learning more about this 
ice, how it got there, and how 
it interacts with the larger 
lunar environment will be a 
key mission focus for NASA 
and commercial partners, as 
we endeavor to return to and 
explore our closest neighbor, 
the Moon.

 The findings were published 
in the Proceedings of the 
National Academy of 
Sciences on August 20.

 NASA’s Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory, Pasadena, 
California, designed and 
built the moon mineralogy 
mapper instrument and was 
home to its project manager.

Boston Court Pasadena 
Fall Season Announced 

 Boston Court Pasadena 
presents another season of 
music events to Southern 
California – 14 Uncommon 
Performances -- this fall starting 
September 7 with a program of 
all new work in Poets, Prophets 
and Philosophers – with The 
Lyris Quartet and soprano Hila 
Plitmann.

 Artistic Director Mark 
Saltzman has programmed 
an eclectic, globe-trotting, 
and genre-crossing series 
of concerts, that includes a 
weekend mini-festival of three 
performancs and a master class 
surveying the music of Claude 
Debussy commemorating the 
100th anniversary of his death 
(October 5-7); pianist Jérémie 
Favreau and violinist Ken Aiso 
exploring the fictional Vinteuil 
violin sonata in Marcel Proust’s 
seminal novel, Remembrance 
of Things Past with the works 
that actually inspired it -- the 
Saint-Saëns and Franck’s Violin 
Sonatas, as well as Fauré’s 
Ballade for piano (September 
22); and The Harp Twins 
(September 13, 14 and 15) 
already sold out.

 Pianists abound: the 
return of the popular Piano 
Spheres artists Susan Svrcek 
(September 8) and Vicki and 
Scot Ray – The Yar Duo (a free 
concert, part of Pasadena Art 
Night October 12); the Faktura 
Piano Trio (September 21); 
a program pairing Leonard 
Bernstein and Ned Rorem 
works played by Brent McNutt 
and Paul Floyd with soprano 
Graycen Gardner and tenor 
Todd Strange (September 
28); and genre busting-
Bulgarian performer-composer 
Milen Kirov (September 29) 
transcending genres, labels, 
and artistic boundaries by 
blending contemporary 
composition, jazz, world 
music, and improvisation with 
superhuman co-ordination. 
Kirov’s concert, titled “One 
Piano, Two Hands” will 
showcase his virtuosic ability to 
play two pianos simultaneously.

 Keeping with its mission to 
present the newest and most 
interesting music of Los Angeles 
area composers, Boston Court 
features the latest compositions 
Julia Adolphe (October 13), 
whose commissions have 
already been performed by the 
New York Philharmonic and 
the LA Chamber Orchestra 
with an eclectic evening that 
includes selections from her 
new opera, A Barrel of Laughs, 
A Vale of Tears.

 “Mark Saltzman, our 
extraordinary artistic director 
for music, has created 
a 2018 season featuring 
musical, poetic, and at times 
indescribable offerings,” 
says Executive Director Kyle 
Clausen. “As always, we look 
forward to welcoming long-
time subscribers, first time 
ticket buyers, and everyone in 
between to a line-up of concerts 
you won’t find anywher else in 
Southern California.”

 Tickets range from $30 - $35 
with discounts available for 
seniors, students, and groups. 
Tickets are available by calling 
626.683.6801 or online at 
BostonCourtPasadena.org.


Pet of the 
Week

Senator Portantino Sends 

15 bills to the Assembly Floor

 Are you looking for a 
jogging buddy? Look 
no further than Felix 
(A463969), an athletic one-
year-old terrier mix. Felix 
is all about fun. He loves to 
play with toys and enjoys a 
good dog treat. Felix is also 
a straight A student. He 
already knows his sit, down, 
stay and shake commands. 
If you are looking for an 
exuberant young dog, ask 
for Felix.

 The adoption fee for dogs 
is $130. All dogs are spayed 
or neutered, microchipped, 
and vaccinated before going 
to their new home. 

 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.

*** Grab your leashes and 
your best four-legged friend! 
The 20th Annual Wiggle 
Waggle Walk will take place 
Sunday, September 30 at 
Brookside Park at the Rose 
Bowl. Help us raise money 
to provide food, shelter, 
medical care and other 
services to the thousands of 
animals—domestic, exotic, 
wildlife and livestock—
who come to the Pasadena 
Humane Society & SPCA 
each year. Register online at 
wigglewagglewalk.org.

 As the 2018 legislative 
session comes to a close, 
Senator Anthony Portantino 
Announced Monday he has 
moved forward with 15 bills 
that have cleared policy and 
fiscal committees. All are now 
before the California State 
Assembly for consideration. 

 Senator Portantino, chair 
of the Senate Appropriations 
Committee and the Senate 
Budget Subcommittee on 
Education Finance, is proud 
of this collection of bills 
which range in topics and 
are important to the 25th 
Senate District. These bills 
include issues such as suicide 
prevention, autism, healthcare, 
education, transportation and 
environmental protection.

 “I am very pleased with the 
legislative year thus far. I am 
grateful to my staff for working 
so hard on our agenda and to 
the Assembly Appropriations 
Committee for passing these 
fundamental bills and sending 
them to the Assembly floor. In 
particular, SB 1126 the Arroyo 
Seco bill and SB 972 the Suicide 
Prevention bill are important 
efforts to should keep moving 
forward,” commented 
Portantino. 

 As former Mayor of La Cañada 
Flintridge Senator Portantino 
authored SB 25 to prioritize 
local elections in every ballot 
order. SB 1100, SB 746 and SB 
1170 all promote gun safety 
and gun control, continuing 
Portantino’s leadership on this 
important public policy issue. 
SB 1126 is an important district 
bill as it requires the inclusion 
of the Arroyo Seco in the Upper 
LA River Working Group. 
Earlier in the year, Portantino 
nominated Tim Brick for 
membership on the Working 
Group. SB 1126 continues 
Portantino’s collaboration 
with Mr. Brick to promote the 
importance of the Arroyo Seco.

 SB 1263, SB 1422 and SB 1133, 
include strong environmental 
protections, ocean and water 
safety. Special education, 
suicide prevention, drug 
treatment and autism care 
are the subjects of SB 354, SB 
972, and SB 275 & 399. And, 
international drivers’ licenses 
and requiring AED’s on public 
transit are the subjects of SB 
1360 and SB 502.

 Collectively, Portantino’s 
collections of bills are an 
impressive showing for his 
second legislative year as 
Senator of the 25th District. 
He looks forward to continue 
his dedication and hard work 
for issues that families face 
across the foothills and across 
California.

ALTADENA CRIME BLOTTER

Monday, August 13th

9:00 AM – A residential 
burglary occurred in the 300 
block of E. Las Flores Drive. 
Suspect(s) entered the 
residence via the window. 
Stolen: unknown.

12:00 PM – An attempt 
residential burglary 
occurred in the 700 block of 
E. Palm Street. Suspect(s) 
attempted to enter the 
residence by prying the door 
lock.

12:20 PM – A residential 
burglary occurred in the 
2000 block of Holliston 
Avenue. Suspect(s) entered 
the residence by shattering 
the glass door. Stolen: 
currency.

Tuesday, August 14th

10:43 PM – Jan Villespin, 22 
years old of Pasadena was 
arrested in the 1000 block 
of E. Palm Street for being 
drunk in public.

Wednesday, August 15th 

No significant incidents. 

Thursday, August 16th

2:50 AM – An assault with 
a deadly weapon occurred 
in the 300 block of Ventura 
Street. Victim was not 
injured.

4:00 AM – A commercial 
burglary occurred in the 
2600 block of N. Fair Oaks 
Avenue. Suspect(s) entered 
the location by prying the 
metal gate links. Stolen: 
personal documents.

9:35 PM – Oscar Bell, 42 
years old of Pasadena was 
arrested in the 20 block of E. 
Woodbury Road for being 
drunk in public.

Friday, August 17th

8:00 PM – A vehicle 
vandalism occurred in 
the 2100 block of Lincoln 
Avenue. Vehicle damage: 
shattered window.

Saturday, August 18th

8:14 PM – A domestic 
violence incident occurred 
in the 2100 block of Alta 
Pasa Drive. Suspect was 
taken into custody.

Free Monthly Events at 
Pasadena Senior Center

PUSD Seeks Applicants 

For Vacant Seats On 
Measure TT Citizens 
Oversight Committee

 There is something for 
everyone in August 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.

 Free Summer Concerts 
for All Ages – Mondays 
at 6 p.m. through Sept. 3. 
Summer concerts sponsored 
by the Pasadena Senior 
Center have moved from 
Memorial Park to the air-
conditioned comfort of 
the center’s Scott Pavilion. 
Aug. 20: Lisa Haley and the 
Zydekats will play lively 
Cajun Zydeco music with 
plenty of Louisiana spice. 
Aug. 27: Leah Zeger will 
perform spirited Gypsy jazz 
and beloved standards. Sept. 
3: The Great American Swing 
Band will feature the sounds 
of Big Band, rhythm and 
blues, jazz and Dixieland.

 Guide Dogs of the 
Desert – Thursday, Aug. 
30, at 10 a.m. Since 1972, 
Guide Dogs of the Desert 
has made a difference in the 
lives of people who are blind 
or visually impaired. Come 
learn about the more than 
1,400 client/dog teams across 
the nation that are enjoying 
richer, fuller and more 
productive lives.

 For more information visit 
www.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.

 The Pasadena Unified School 
District (PUSD) Board of 
Education seeks applicants 
to fill five (5) vacant seats 
on its Measure TT Citizens 
Oversight Committee. The 
volunteer committee is 
responsible for monitoring 
project management and 
expenditures for the $350 
million local school facilities 
bond passed by voters in 
November 2008.

 State law requires 
that the members of 
the Citizens Oversight 
Committee include parents, 
representatives from the 
business community, 
senior citizen groups, 
taxpayer organizations, and 
individuals experienced in 
finance and construction.

 Applicants must complete 
an application and provide a 
resume. The application and 
resume must be submitted 
no later than 4:00 p.m. on 
September 6, 2018. Mail 
your application and resume 
to Nelson Cayabayab, Chief 
Facilities Officer, Pasadena 
Unified School District/
DSC, 740 W. Woodbury 
Road, Pasadena, CA 91103 
or via email to Nadia 
Zendejas at zendejas.nadia@
pusd.us

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