Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, September 1, 2018

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SOUTH PASADENA - SAN MARINO

Mountain Views-News Saturday, September 1, 2018 

PCC Students Join the San 
Marino Police Department

The Taste of Pasadena 
Returns to the Rose Bowl 

Arroyo Seco Bill Passes 
Awaits Governor’s Signature

 
The California State Legislature 
voted Tuesday to pass SB 1126 
authored by Senator Anthony 
Portantino. The bill will include 
the Arroyo Seco Tributary 
into the Upper Los Angeles 
River and Tributaries Working 
Group. SB 1126 contains an 
urgency clause which would 
make it effective on the day 
it garners a signature from 
Governor Brown. 

 “I am very glad that this 
important district and regional 
measure is now headed to 
the Governor’s desk. As a 
representative of the 25th 
Senate District, I was grateful 
to my friend Tim Brick who 
highlighted the need to include 
the Arroyo Seco Tributary 
to the greater regional study. 
The Arroyo Seco is not just 
important to our district but 
to the environmental well-
being of the entire Los Angeles 
watershed. In addition, SB 1126 
ensures the communities in our 
district are well-represented on 
the working group as we move 
forward,” commented Senator 
Portantino.

 SB 1126 formally includes the 
Arroyo Seco Tributary in the 
Upper Los Angeles River and 
Tributaries Working Group 
plan. It was inadvertently left 
out of the original legislation 
that set up the working group 
last year. Tim Brick from 
the Arroyo Seco Foundation 
brought the legislative oversight 
to the attention of local leaders 
asking for a solution. 

 “Those of us who value the 
Arroyo Seco are very excited to 
see it included in the working 
group. We are very appreciative 
to Senator Portantino who 
heard our call to action and 
acted upon it. It’s a great 
example of how environmental 
activists can raise an issue to a 
sympathetic policy maker who 
can turn our plea into state law,” 
commented Tim Brick Director 
of the Arroyo Seco Foundation.

 The bill was supported by 
Arroyo Advisory Group and 
the City of Pasadena.

 

 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

 

 Jocelyn Serrano, a PCC 
Alumna, and Mariah Felix, a 
current PCC student are two 
of the three Police Cadets to 
recently join the San Marino 
Police Department. Working 
as cadets, they will have the 
opportunity to gain hands-
on experience and learn 
the fundamentals of law 
enforcement.

 Serrano, who just graduated 
from PCC after studying 
sociology, psychology, and 
social behavior, plans to attend 
Cal State Northridge in the 
fall and major in Sociology. 
“I’m interested in how people 
interact within the community,” 
Serrano told the San Marino 
Tribune. “I love the idea of 
helping people, learning how to 
protect them, and how to serve 
the community.”

 Thanks to the department’s 
flexibility, Felix is able to work 
as a Cadet while continuing 
to take courses at PCC, where 
she studies Criminal Justice. 
“This is my fun because law 
enforcement is so interesting 
to me,” she told the Tribune. 
“My goal is to become an 
officer with the San Marino 
Police Department”. Felix plans 
to transfer to Cal State Long 
Beach this fall.

Blue Boy Conservation 
Exhibition Set to Open Sept 22

Fish for Biological 
Control of Mosquitoes

 

 The exhibition “Project Blue 
Boy” will open at The Huntington 
Library, Art Collections, and 
Botanical Gardens on Sept. 
22, offering visitors a glimpse 
into the technical processes of 
a senior conservator working 
on the famous painting as well 
as background on its history, 
mysteries, and artistic virtues. 
One of the most iconic paintings 
in British and American history, 
The Blue Boy, made around 
1770 by English painter Thomas 
Gainsborough (1727-1788), 
is undergoing its first major 
conservation treatment. Home 
to the work since its acquisition 
by founder Henry E. Huntington 
in 1921, The Huntington will 
conduct some of the project in 
public view, as part of a year-
long educational exhibition that 
runs through Sept. 30, 2019.

 The Blue Boy requires 
conservation to address both 
structural and visual concerns. 
“Earlier conservation treatments 
mainly have involved adding new 
layers of varnish as temporary 
solutions to keep it on view as 
much as possible,” said Christina 
O’Connell, The Huntington’s 
senior paintings conservator 
working on the painting and 
co-curator of the exhibition. 
“The original colors now appear 
hazy and dull, and many of the 
details are obscured.” According 
to O’Connell, there are also 
several areas where the paint 
is beginning to lift and flake, 
making the work vulnerable 
to paint loss and permanent 
damage; and the adhesion 
between the painting and its 
lining is separating, meaning it 
does not have adequate support 
for long-term display.

 The painting first appeared in 
public in the Royal Academy 
exhibition of 1770 as A Portrait 
of a Young Gentleman, where 
it received high acclaim, and by 
1798 it was being called “The 
Blue Boy”–-a nickname that 
stuck.

 Huntington is located at 1151 
Oxford Road, San Marino. 
For more information visit: 
huntington.org. 

 

 Mosquito fish are intended 
to be used for stocking 
ornamental ponds, unused 
or “out-of-order” swimming 
pools, and animal water 
troughs. The Greater Los 
Angeles County Vector 
Control District provides 
FREE mosquito fish to 
all District residents for 
placement on their property 
only. Please call the District 
Headquarters at (562) 944-
9656 or the Sylmar Branch 
at (818) 364-9589 to request 
FREE mosquito fish for your 
home. A Vector Control 
Specialist will deliver them 
to your address within 24 
hours.

 How to Find & Eliminate 
Mosquitoes in the Yard and 
Inside Your Home or Office:

 Get rid of standing water. 
These mosquitoes can live 
and complete their life 
cycle indoors or outdoors, 
wherever standing water 
can be found. And they can 
complete their life cycle in 
about a week 

Coyote 
Reporting 
Form

 The City of San Marino is 
working with the Pasadena 
Humane Society and other 
organizations in the San 
Gabriel Valley to monitor, 
track and respond to coyote 
complaints. For information 
visit: cityofsanmarino.org 
click “Complete Form...” to 
access the reporting form.


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