PASADENA EDITION

 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2019 

VOLUME 13 NO.7


Presidents 
Day 
Closures, 
Reminders

One City, One Story 
Programs and Events

 Pasadena Public Library is set 
to hold a series of events for 
the 2019 One City, One Story 
selection, In the Distance by 
author Hernán Diaz. Now in 
its 17th year, One City, One 
Story is designed to broaden 
and deepen an appreciation 
of reading and literature by 
recommending a compelling 
book that sparks a community 
conversation on important 
issues.

 A young Swedish immigrant 
finds himself penniless and 
alone in California. The boy 
travels East in search of his 
brother, moving on foot against 
the great current of emigrants 
pushing West. Driven back 
again and again, he meets 
naturalists, criminals, religious 
fanatics, swindlers, Indians, 
and lawmen, and his exploits 
turn him into a legend. Diaz 
defies the conventions of 
historical fiction and genre, 
offering a probing look at the 
stereotypes that populate our 
past and a portrait of radical 
foreignness. 

 Díaz will discuss Thursday, 
March 7 at 7 p.m. his experiences 
writing In the Distance. A 
question and answer session 
led by Pasadena Public Library 
Director Michelle Perera will 
immediately follow. Díaz’s book 
will be available for sale and 
signing following the program. 

 The event will be held at All 
Saints Church Sanctuary

132 N. Euclid Ave.

Exhibits on Display through 
March

Central Library • 285 E. Walnut 
St.

One City, One Story

North Entry

Pueblo Revolt in America 
96 Years Before the 
American Revolution

Abstract artwork depictions 
and raw footage projections 
from Altadena artist and 
filmmaker Patricia Cunliffe’s 
upcoming documentary, 
The Pueblo Revolt, an 

 
Officials at Pasadena city hall 
are reminding residents that 
many services will be closed 
Monday in observance of 
Presidents Day. 

 City commissions, 
committees and the city 
council will not meet Monday. 

 Both the Permit Center and 
Municipal Services Payment 
Center will be closed and 
reopen Tuesday with normal 
hours. 

 Pasadena’s Water and Power 
Department and Service Call 
Center will also be closed. For 
emergencies call (626) 744-
4138. Customers can access 
other information such as 
accounts at pwpweb.com.

 Human Services and 
Recreation Department 
will be closed, including 
all community centers. All 
public library, citywide, will 
also be closed. Both will 
reopen Tuesday.

 Trash pickup will be on 
regular schedule. Pasadena 
Transit, along with Dial-A-
Ride will also be on regular 
schedules. 

 All street parking time limits 
and parking meters will 
not be enforced, although, 
overnight parking will be 
enforced. At city owned 
parking lots regular parking 
rates will apply. 

 Both Pasadena police and 
fire will provide all services. 
For non-emergencies call 
(626) 744-4241. All other 
emergencies, including life 
threatening, dial 9-1-1. 

 The Citizen Service Center, to 
assist in answering questions 
about city programs, services 
and events, will be open from 
7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. To use the 
service call (622) 744-7311.

Díaz

City On Track for $15 Hour Min. Wage

 By Dean Lee

 The Pasadena city council 
voted Monday night to keep 
future increases to the city-wide 
minimum wadge on a fast track 
to $15 an hour by July 1, 2020.

 The council voted 7 to 1 in 
favor of an increased time line :

July 1, 2019, the hourly wage 
shall be $14.25 ($13.25 for small 
employers).

July 1, 2020, the hourly wage 
shall be $15.00 ($14.25 for small 
employers).

July 1, 2021, the hourly wage 
shall be $15.00 for small 
employers.

Beginning July 1, 2022, and each 
July 1 thereafter the hourly wage 
shall be adjusted by an amount 
equal to the change in consumer 
price index... 

 The five hour meeting saw view 
points from both sides. Council 
member Tyron Hampton was 
the only no vote. Hampton said 
he favored helping keep current 
jobs and added that they should 
do something about computer 
automation and the high cost of 
childcare in the city.

 Most of the opposition was 
from restaurant owners. 

 “We went from a seven day 
a week restaurant, the last 37 
years, to three days.” said Robin 
Salzer owner of Robin’s BBQ. 
“Numbers don’t lie. I shaved off 
300 hours a week, what more 
can I do? Over the last two 
years, to pay my employees, 
and too not raise my prices, I 
stopped paying myself. I have 
not drawn a paycheck in the 
last two years... I can’t do that in 
perpetuity.” 

 At issue was a new bill that 
increases statewide minimum 
wage to $15 and would take 
effect in 2022. Pasadena will 
reach $15 per hour 18 months 
sooner than the state according 
to officials. Both Los Angeles 
and LA County have adopted a 
$15.00 minimum wage by 2020. 

 “During my tenure, I met 
and spoke with over 100 local 
charitable which are committed 
to making Pasadena a more 
inclusive and livable place 
for all of its residents,” Rose 
Queen Louise Deser Siskel said. 
“Joining all of the rest of Los 
Angeles County in increasing 
the minimum wage to $15 is 
one step the city council can 
take to participate in a shared 
vision of a city that is equitable 
to all its residents.” 

 Council members Steve 
Madison, Gene Masuda, Victor 
Gordo, Andy Wilson and Mayor 
Terry Tornek all supported the 
accelerated time line. 

“I think at the end of the day, we 
have to hope that this will be the 
best out come and that it will 
give more of our young people 
in Pasadena the opportunity to 
fulfill their potential because 
they have a stable home life and 
a basic quality of life, Madison 
said.” 

 Council member Margaret 
McAustin put forth the idea to 
aline small businesses with the 
state increasing to $15 in 2022 
but the motion was voted down 
6 to 2. 

Pictured: Queen Louise Deser 
Siske. Photo by D. Lee/MVNews 

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NASA Opportunity Rover 
Mission on Mars Ends

Community 
Mammogram 
Free Clinic

 One of the most successful and 
enduring feats of interplanetary 
exploration, NASA’s 
Opportunity rover mission is 
at an end after almost 15 years 
exploring the surface of Mars 
and helping lay the groundwork 
for NASA’s return to the Red 
Planet. 

 The Opportunity rover 
stopped communicating 
with Earth when a severe 
Mars-wide dust storm 
blanketed its location in 
June 2018. After more than 
a thousand commands to 
restore contact, engineers 
in the Space Flight 
Operations Facility at 
NASA’s Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory (JPL) made 
their last attempt to revive 
Opportunity Tuesday, 
to no avail. The solar-
powered rover’s final 
communication was 
received June 10.

 “It is because of 
trailblazing missions such 
as Opportunity that there 
will come a day when our 
brave astronauts walk on 
the surface of Mars,” said 
NASA Administrator 
Jim Bridenstine. “And 
when that day arrives, 
some portion of that first 
footprint will be owned 
by the men and women of 
Opportunity, and a little 
rover that defied the odds 
and did so much in the 
name of exploration.”

 Designed to last just 90 
Martian days and travel 
1,100 yards (1,000 meters), 
Opportunity vastly 
surpassed all expectations 
in its endurance, scientific 
value and longevity. In 
addition to exceeding 
its life expectancy by 60 
times, the rover traveled 
more than 28 miles 
(45 kilometers) by the 
time it reached its most 
appropriate final resting 
spot on Mars — Perseverance 
Valley.

 “For more than a decade, 
Opportunity has been an 
icon in the field of planetary 
exploration, teaching us about 
Mars’ ancient past as a wet, 
potentially habitable planet, 
and revealing uncharted 
Martian landscapes,” said 
Thomas Zurbuchen, associate 
administrator for NASA’s 
Science Mission Directorate. 
“Whatever loss we feel now 
must be tempered with the 
knowledge that the legacy of 
Opportunity continues — 
both on the surface of Mars 
with the Curiosity rover and 
InSight lander — and in the 
clean rooms of JPL, where the 
upcoming Mars 2020 rover is 
taking shape.”

 The final transmission, sent 
via the 70-meter Mars Station 
antenna at NASA’s Goldstone 
Deep Space Complex in 
California, ended a multifaceted, 
eight-month recovery strategy 
in an attempt to compel the 
rover to communicate.

 “We have made every 
reasonable engineering effort 
to try to recover Opportunity 
and have determined that the 
likelihood of receiving a signal 
is far too low to continue 
recovery efforts,” said John 
Callas, manager of the Mars 
Exploration Rover (MER) 
project at JPL.

 Opportunity landed in the 
Meridiani Planum region of 
Mars on Jan. 24, 2004, seven 
months after its launch from 
Cape Canaveral Air Force 
Station in Florida. Its twin 
rover, Spirit, landed 20 days 
earlier in the 103-mile-wide 
(166-kilometer-wide) Gusev 
Crater on the other side of Mars. 
Spirit logged almost 5 miles (8 
kilometers) before its mission 
wrapped up in May 2011.

 For more information about 
the agency’s Mars Exploration 
program, visit: nasa.gov/mars.

 February 22 at the 
Planned Parenthood 
Pasadena Health

Center 1045 N Lake 
Ave.

 Message from Planned 
Parenthood Pasadena and San 
Gabriel Valley: “Our monthly 
community mammogram 
clinic coming up at our 
Pasadena Health Center on 
Friday, February 22nd. We 
want to spread the word 
to our LBTQ community. 
Appointment required. 
Prospective patients can call 
the Contact Center at 626-798-
0706 for more information and 
to schedule an appointment 
(10p.m.-2p.m.). No insurance 
is required (they are an enroller 
for the Every Woman Counts 
program which provides free 
mammograms!), but also 
accept most Medi-Cal plans 
and private insurance as well.”

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MORE PASADENA NEWS

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SAN MARINO/SO. PAS

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SIERRA MADRE Pg. 5

ARCADIA Pg. 6

MONROVIA 

EDUCATION/YOUTH

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FOOD & DRINK Pg. 8

THE GOOD LIFE Pg. 9

Villa-Parke 
Youth Soccer 
Parade

WORLD AROUND US 

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 BEST FRIENDS Pg. 11

 
A Youth Soccer League 
Inauguration Parade of 
approximately 70 youth 
soccer teams, with players in 
uniform, will be introduced 
to the community. City 
of Pasadena officials will 
be present to kick off the 
ceremony. Youth and adult 
soccer exhibition games 
are scheduled following the 
parade.

 The parade is set for 
February 23 from 10:00 a.m. 
- 1:00 p.m. at Villa-Parke 363 
E. Villa Street. 

 For more information, 
please call (626) 744-6530.

SECTION B: 

AROUND SAN GABRIEL 
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THE ARTS B2

BUSINESS NEWS

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OPINIONB4

LEGAL NOTICES B5


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