Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, November 24, 2018

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Mountain Views-News Saturday, November 24, 2018 

Events at the Huntington

Library Winter Holiday Concert

NASA Announces Landing 
Site for Mars 2020 Rover

 The Los Angeles Children’s 
Orchestra returns on 
Sunday, December 2nd at 
5:00 pm to perform another 
winter holiday concert. They 
will perform in the Library 
Community Room at 1115 
El Centro Street. Doors open 
at 4:50 pm. This free concert 
is sponsored by the Friends 
of the South Pasadena Public 
Library. 

 The award-winning, 
nationally acclaimed 
Los Angeles Children’s 
Orchestra is best known for 
the young age of its players 
(4-14), and the unusually 
high level of their playing. 
The conductor, Susan 
Pascale, is also founder and 
director of the Pascale Music 
Institute in South Pasadena.

 The Los Angeles Children’s 
Orchestra, now in its 17th 
year has been featured 
numerous times on local and 
national television. Their 
most recent appearance was 
on two rounds of NBC’s 
America’s Got Talent, 
Season 10, where they 
earned a standing ovation 
by the judges, and named 
a ‘Fan Favorite’ for their 
ground breaking act of 
incorporating choreography 
while performing ‘Eleanor 
Rigby’ by the Beatles.

 For more information about 
the Los Angeles Children’s 
Orchestra, call 626-403-
4611, or go to Pascalemusic.
com.

 Upon request made no 
later than four (4) business 
days before the event, 
the City will provide a 
reasonable accommodation 
for a qualified person with 
a disability to have equal 
access to the event. Please 
contact ADA Coordinator 
and Human Resources 
Manager, Mariam Lee Ko, at 
(626) 403-7312 or fill out the 
City’s request form available 
at www.southpasadenaca.
gov and email the form to 
Human Resources at HR@
southpasadenaca.gov.

Reading a Photograph: 
Stories from the 19th-
Century West

December 5, at 7:30 p.m. 

 Martha A. Sandweiss, 
professor of history at 
Princeton University and 
The Huntington’s 2018–
19 Los Angeles Times 
Distinguished Fellow, looks 
at how a single photograph 
from treaty negotiations at 
Ft. Laramie in 1868 reveals 
tangled stories about race, 
violence, and family life that 
would otherwise be hidden 
from view. This program 
is a Distinguished Fellow 
Lecture.

The Lady and George 
Washington

December 12, at 7:30 p.m.

 Mary Sarah Bilder, Founders 
Professor at Boston College 
Law School, discusses 
the responses of George 
Washington and Benjamin 
Rush to Eliza Harriot 
O’Connor’s remarkable 
university lectures in 1787 
and their implications for 
female political status under 
the Constitution. O’Connor 
was the first American 
female lecturer and principal 
of a female academy. This 
program is a Nevins Lecture.

 The Huntington hosts 
approximately twenty public 
lectures each year on themes 
related to its collections. 
Unless otherwise noted, 
lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. 
in Rothenberg Hall. The 
Huntington is located 1151 
Oxford Road, San Marino. 
For more information visit: 
huntington.org/lectures or 
call 626-405-2100.


Featuring the Los 
Angeles Children’s 
Orchestra

 

 NASA announced Monday 
they have chosen Jezero 
Crater as the landing site for 
its upcoming Mars 2020 rover 
mission after a five-year search, 
during which details of more 
than 60 candidate locations on 
the Red Planet were scrutinized 
and debated by the mission 
team and the planetary science 
community.

 The rover mission is scheduled 
to launch in July 2020 as NASA’s 
next step in exploration of the 
Red Planet. It will not only 
seek signs of ancient habitable 
conditions – and past microbial 
life – but the rover also will 
collect rock and soil samples 
and store them in a cache on 
the planet’s surface. NASA 
and ESA (European Space 
Agency) are studying future 
mission concepts to retrieve 
the samples and return them to 
Earth, so this landing site sets 
the stage for the next decade of 
Mars exploration.

 “The landing site in Jezero 
Crater offers geologically 
rich terrain, with landforms 
reaching as far back as 3.6 
billion years old, that could 
potentially answer important 
questions in planetary 
evolution and astrobiology,” 
said Thomas Zurbuchen, 
associate administrator for 
NASA’s Science Mission 
Directorate. “Getting samples 
from this unique area will 
revolutionize how we think 
about Mars and its ability to 
harbor life.”

 Jezero Crater is located on the 
western edge of Isidis Planitia, a 
giant impact basin just north of 
the Martian equator. Western 
Isidis presents some of the 
oldest and most scientifically 
interesting landscapes Mars 
has to offer. Mission scientists 
believe the 28-mile-wide 
(45-kilometer-wide) crater, 
once home to an ancient river 
delta, could have collected 
and preserved ancient organic 
molecules and other potential 
signs of microbial life from 
the water and sediments that 
flowed into the crater billions 
of years ago.

 Jezero Crater’s ancient lake-
delta system offers many 
promising sampling targets 
of at least five kinds of rock, 
including clays and carbonates 
that have high potential to 
preserve signatures of past 
life. In addition, the material 
carried into the delta from a 
large watershed may contain a 
wide variety of minerals from 
inside and outside the crater.

The geologic diversity that 
makes Jezero so appealing to 
Mars 2020 scientists also makes 
it a challenge for the team’s 
entry, descent and landing 
(EDL) engineers. Along with 
the massive nearby river delta 
and small crater impacts, the site 
contains numerous boulders 
and rocks to the east, cliffs to 
the west and depressions filled 
with aeolian bedforms (wind-
derived ripples in sand that 
could trap a rover) in several 
locations.

 For more information on Mars 
2020, visit: nasa.gov/mars2020.

Photographer Henk Freizer 
donates 200 photos to Library


South Pasadena Lego Mania

 Just in time for the holidays, the South Pasadena Public Library 
and Friends of the South Pasadena Public Library invite children 
of all ages and their families to take a break from shopping and 
join us for this Lego free play event Dec. 15 from 11 a.m. to 1 
p.m. 

 Offered free to the public, this program encourages children to 
use their imagination and apply science, math, and engineering 
to create and build with Lego blocks. Children 3 years and 
younger, will learn through play with the larger Lego Duplo 
blocks.

This program is funded by the Friends of the South Pasadena 
Public Library.

 The South Pasadena Public Library Community Room is 
located 1115 El Centro Street.

Bricks LA: LEGO Convention

Bricks LA is an annual family-
friendly convention that will 
take place at the Pasadena 
Convention Center on January 
5, 2019 to January 6, 2019. 
Come share your love of LEGO 
and discover hundreds of fan 
created models in over 19,000 
square feet of display space. 
Shop the vendor area with new, 
used, and vintage LEGO sets, 
minifigures, jewelry, gifts, and 
unique brick accessories. Learn 
about the brick community and 
building techniques in panels 
and discussions. Be inspired to 
build your own creations in the 
play area.

Tickets

Adults | $5.00

Children under 5 | Free

 As a registered attendee, you 
will have exclusive access to 
private events. Several themed 
categories will be available for 
you to show your very own 
LEGO creation. Get in on 
giveaways and participate in 
building competitions. Meet 
and hang out with friends and 
other fellow LEGO enthusiasts 
at the after hours festivities, and 
receive a swag bag. Must be 18 
years old.

 Early Bird VIB Registration | 
$55.00

Hours of Operation

January 5, 2019 at 9:00 AM to 
5:00 PM

January 6, 2019 at 9:00 AM to 
4:00 PM

 Parking at the convention 
center is $15 per day for up 
to 16 hours or $21 per day 
for in and out privileges. The 
subterranean parking structure 
is shared with the Sheraton 
Pasadena. 

 The Metro Gold Line runs 
from Downtown Los Angeles 
or Azusa to Pasadena. There 
are two train station within 
walking distance.

By Steve Fjeldsted, 
Library Director

 Henk Freizer, longtime 
local freelance photographer 
for the South Pasadena 
Review, the now defunct 
South Pasadena Journal, 
the San Marino Tribune, 
and many other local 
newspapers, has recently 
donated to the Library 
about 200 photographs of 
South Pasadena events and 
individuals through the 
years. The photos will be 
added to the Library’s Local 
History Archives.

 Henk was born in Holland 
in 1944 and grew up in Eagle 
Rock learning photography 
from his father, Joe Freizer. 
After serving in the Army 
overseas as a photographer, 
Henk returned to Eagle 
Rock in 1968 and joined 
his father, Joe, as a freelance 
photographer and a partner 
in “Freizer Photography.” 
Sean Freizer, Henk’s son, is 
a Dial-A-Ride driver for the 
City of South Pasadena.

 Henk Friezer grew his 
freelance photography 
business based in Eagle 
Rock by establishing his own 
clientele, which included 
the Los Angeles Public 
Library, Miller Brewing, 
United Way, and Coca Cola. 
His photographs have won 
awards from the California 
Press Photographers 
Association, the Great 
Los Angeles Press Club, 
the Forest Lawn Photo 
Contest, and the Magic 
Mountain Photo Contest. 
Although semi-retired, 
Freizer continues to attend 
many local events and snaps 
photographs in his spare 
time. The Joe and Henk 
Freizer Negatives Collection, 
more than 100,000 images, 
was recently donated to the 
Occidental College, Special 
Collections & College 
Archives, by Henk Freizer.

 Henk Freizer’s Photo 
of Miriam C. Spaulding, 
the “Rose Lady” of South 
Pasadena, (pictured above) 
who grew exquisite roses at 
her home for over 37 years. 
She personally delivered 
bouquets of her roses for 
the public service counter 
of the Post Office in South 
Pasadena for more than 13 
years. Huell Howser, the host 
of KCET’s “California Gold” 
covered Miriam’s charming 
story on the 5th season of his 
show and Episode 523 can 
be viewed at youtube.com/
watch?v=e1A7KcvZKek.

 Miriam had been an 
accomplished violinist with 
the Pasadena Symphony 
Orchestra, as well as a 
successful businessperson 
after she was widowed in 
1954 . Miriam passed away 
peacefully at age 102 in 2010.

Photos Include one of 
Miriam Spaulding, the 
Beloved “Rose Lady” of 
South Pasadena


Input 
Needed for 
Transporation 
Survey

 
The Arroyo Verdugo 
Communities Joint Powers 
Authority is seeking feedback 
on potential transportation 
projects to fund in South 
Pasadena and surrounding 
cities. The projects will be 
funded by Measure M, the 
voter-approved sales tax 
increase. Your feedback will 
be used as the Authority 
develops the Measure M Five-
Year Multiyear Subregional 
Programs (MSP) for 
transportation projects in the 
Arroyo Verdugo communities. 
Please take a moment to 
give your input: tinyurl.com/
AVCJPASurvey 


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