Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, October 13, 2018

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Mountain View News Saturday, October 13, 2018 

WALKING SIERRA MADRE... The Social Side By Deanne Davis

FELONY ARREST FOR CHILD 
ENDANGERMENT 

Sierra Madre, CA. – October 10, 2018 – While responding to a call 
for domestic disturbance, the Sierra Madre Police Department took 
possession of 22 firearms and made an arrest for child endangerment 
and unlawful storage of a handgun. Sierra Madre Police Chief 
Ortiz stated “the children were removed from the home and placed 
in the custody of the Los Angeles County Department of Children 
and Family Services, due to the general living conditions and safety 
concerns found in the residence, including leaving a loaded handgun 
on a dresser in the children’s bedroom.” 

In the morning hours of October 8, 2018, the Sierra Madre Police 
Department went to a residence in the 500 block of N. Michillinda 
Avenue, in regards to a domestic disturbance involving a husband 
and wife. While officers were completing their investigation, they 
learned the wife had allegedly injured the husband during the incident. 
The wife was arrested for suspicion of domestic violence. 
While still at the scene, officers saw a loaded handgun lying on a 
dresser in a bedroom belonging to the couple's children. The husband 
was arrested for alleged child endangerment and unlawful 
storage of a handgun. 

Chief Joe Ortiz said “we respect the people's constitutional right to 
have firearms inside their residences, however we are legally and 
morally responsible to ensure firearms do not get into the hands of our most precious members of our 
community, which are our children. Thankfully, a tragedy may have been averted thanks to the observations 
and thorough investigations of the officers involved in this incident.” 

If you own firearms and have children in your home, you can learn more information and obtain a free 
gun lock through www.ProjectChildSafe.org.


Walking Sierra Madre...The Social Side

Deanne Davis

September 19, 2018

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies...The 
man who never reads lives only one.” 

George R. R. Martin

“The more that you read, the more things you will 
know. 

The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” 
Dr. Seuss

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free!” 
Frederick Douglass

 While reading my way through the September 
8th issue of the Mountain Views News, I happened 
on “Jeff’s Book Pics” by Jeff Brown. I always check 
to see what Jeff has been reading as he’s always got 
something interesting he’s reviewing and, a couple 
of times, it’s been a book of mine. In addition to 
“Leadership: In Turbulent Times’ by Doris Kearns 
Goodwin and “Becoming” by Michelle Obama, 
Jeff reviewed Anne Bogel’s book, “I’d Rather 
Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the 
Reading Life.” 

 “For so many people, reading isn’t just a hobby or 
a way to pass the time,” Anne says, “ – it’s a lifestyle. 
Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and 
even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part 
of who we are as people, and we can’t imagine life 
without them.”

 When I was about 8 years old, my mother and 
her best friend, Florene, had taken me and Florene’s 
two children, Glen and Marsha to the beach to 
spend the day. I was lying on my towel squinting 
against the sun and reading. Glen and Marsha 
were in the water but I could have cared less. I 
was reading. My mother said to me, “You’ll never 
have any character lines on your face because you 
never stop reading long enough to develop any 
character!” I wittily replied, “Huh?” and continued 
reading. Well, I’ve developed plenty of character 
lines and have never stopped reading. When we 
were first married, John discovered that I read 
constantly and I even brought several books on 
our honeymoon. He got used to the fact that I 
had a book propped up in the kitchen, one in the 
dressing room and had several on my nightstand. 
He read mostly technical journals when we first 
met and eventually married, but subscriptions to 
everything IEEE puts out eventually loses it’s charm 
when one’s life partner reads one amusing passages 
from Fannie Flagg’s “Standing In The Rainbow” or 
death defying excerpts from John Caldwell’s book, 
“Desperate Voyage,” like the one below, especially 
when we had actually MET John Caldwell!

 “From Perlas to Galapagos, and from Galapagos 
on west, I had uttered such curses as I doubt have 
ever been heard over the keel of a ship. In every 
squall, gale, calm, cloudburst, and contrary current, 
I had unloosed a flood of invective to shame a mule 
skinner. But more than that...in the height of my 
extremities I had profaned God Himself. On many 
an occasion I became so bold as to defy Him, deny 
Him, and swear I would profess atheism all the 
rest of my life. I even invited Him on deck – man 
to man – anything but the obstructing persecution 
of the elements, anything but the slow crawl when 
I wanted speed. And now, lost, foodless, without 
instruments, I humbly bent my knees to the deck 
and laid my folded hands upon the cabin. With eyes 
raised, I read off a most heartfelt forgiveness and 
piteous appeal to Pagan’s real Captain.” Now I ask 
you, doesn’t that beat the heck out of what’s doing 
with transducers?

 Books can infuriate us. Yes, indeed, I read the first 
chapter of “Fifty Shades of Grey” and threw it in the 
trash. Thoroughly enjoyed the recent movie, “Book 
Club,” with Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice 
Bergen and so forth, but was dismayed when the 
book Jane Fonda forced on her friends was “Fifty 
Shades of Grey!” 

 I read “Forever Amber” by Kathleen Winsor as 
a pre-teen and it made such an impression on me 
that I forbade my own pre-teen daughter, Leah, 
ever to read it as it was just too sexy. It was pretty 
racy, even making the Black Plague sound hot and 
bothered, but nothing like what’s being published 
now. She still hasn’t read it. 

 “Little Women,” “Gone With The Wind,” 
“Lonesome Dove,” “Tom Sawyer,” “Huckleberry 
Finn,” anything and everything by Pat Conroy, 
including his cookbook. And my favorite team, 
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child...these guys 
created FBI Special Agent A X L Pendergast, one 
of the quirkiest, most enigmatic, wealthy, brilliant 
persons ever drawn on a page. Jack London, C. 
S. Lewis, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, and about a 
hundred others are my favorite authors. Recently 
read and thoroughly enjoyed: “A Gentleman in 
Moscow” by Amor Towles. 

 Childhood favorites, all “The Black Stallion” 
books by Walter Farley, “Misty of Chincoteague” by 
Marguerite Henry, “Lassie,” “Lad: A Dog” I loved 
them all. “Mr. Popper’s Penguins.” Reading, friends 
and neighbors, never gets old. What book made 
you fall in love with reading?

 My book page: Amazon.com: Deanne Davis 

Kindle books of all sorts and hardcover “Tablespoon 
of Love” are on there, as is “Star of Wonder.”

 Star of Wonder the CD is now on TuneCore! 
Take a look!

 Blog: www.authordeanne.com

 Follow me on Twitter, too! https://twitter.com/@
playwrightdd


"...we are legally and morally responsible 
to ensure firearms do 
not get into the hands of our most 
preciousmembers of our community, 
SMPD Chief Joe Ortiz"


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ST. RITA FALL HARVEST FESTIVAL

Next weekend, St. Rita School will host their annual 
Fall Harvest Festival. This is a family friendly, fun 
and exciting way to spend your days! The weekend 
starts off on Friday night with Beer, Brats and Bingo 
from 6:00-10:00 in O’Malley Hall. This event brings 
together parishoners, members of the community 
and parents as they gather to enjoy some great 
Oktoberfest style food and drinks, and of course try 
their hand at the $1 Bingo games! New to this year’s 
event will be the highly anticipated Stein Holding 
Contest! Come and test your stein holding strength 
and endurance! Beer, Brats and Bingo is an adults 
only event, but also on site will be our FREE Kid’s 
Night Out! We will have dinner, games, crafts,a live 
DJ and movies on the meadow to keep the children 
entertained while the parents enjoy themselves 
close by!

 Saturday’s festivities kick off at 12:30pm. St. 
Rita School’s west campus transforms itself from a 
school yard into an amazing Fall Festival. There are 
game booths from each classroom, multiple food 
booths, and a beer garden featuring the football 
games. In addition, live entertainment continues 
all day with Johnny Starr and the Galaxy headlining 
for the evening! There are many rides for kids of 
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While you’re there, be sure to stop by the auction 
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 St. Rita’s annual Harvest Festival is a wonderful, 
family friendly event that you are sure to have 
a great time attending. Please come and enjoy 
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SIERRA MADRE LIBRARY AND PLAYHOUSE 
PARTNER FOR HALLOWEEN FUN

SleepyHollowLIB FINAL (2) 
Just in time for Halloween, join the fun of 
Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy 
Hollow and Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven, 
presented by the Sierra Madre Playhouse. 
Appropriately atmospheric and spooky for 
the season, the radio play with live sound 
effects, will chill and thrill on Tuesday, Oct. 
30 at 5:00 pm. at the Sierra Madre Public 
Library.

The old-time radio drama, is performed 
by the Sierra Madre Playhouse AKT 
Academy, a company of young artists in 
residence at Sierra Madre Playhouse under 
the direction of Alison Kalmus. They’ll be 
joined in this performance by special guest 
Sierra Madre Playhouse Artistic Director 
Christian Lebano. 

 Read, Discover, Connect @ Sierra Madre 
Public Library, 440 W. Sierra Madre 
Blvd. Sierra Madre, CA 91024, (626) 
355-7186, Text (626) 662-1254, www.
cityofsierramadre.com/services/library

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