Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, February 16, 2019

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Mountain View News Saturday, February 16, 2019 

KATIE Tse..........This and That

WALKING SIERRA MADRE by Deanne Davis


SO ROMANTIC...

I hope you had a lovely Valentine’s 
Day! Valentine’s is one of those 
loaded holidays that’s fertile with 
all sorts of horrible possibilities. 
I even second-guessed whether 
I should wish you a happy one 
in the first place, some people being so 
touchy about it.

 My husband and I have been married 
for nine years now, and we’ve reached 
that comfortable point beyond caring to 
plan anything grand for the holiday. It’s 
been a gradual descent to this level, but 
I’m glad we made it.

 Like most people, I seem to recall that 
we went out for dinner on Valentine’s 
when we were first dating. Almost as 
harrowing an experience as dining out 
on Mother’s Day. We swore we’d never 
do that again.

 Then we tried cooking. I, for one, 
am a horrible cook. That could be a 
whole article in itself! No matter how 
terrible you may believe your skills are 
in the kitchen, I can make you feel more 
confident by comparison. Anyway, 
for a few years we stayed home and my 
husband cooked. Bless his culinary heart.

 But the trouble is that he works far 
from home, and Valentine’s rarely lands conveniently on 
a non-work day. So, we decided to order take-out. That 
sometimes worked, but we always remember one year 
when we ordered ribs from a rib place. I mean, “Ribs” 
is in their title. Ribs is what they do. Wouldn’t you know 
that they ran out of ribs that night! Lesson learned...

 Fast forward to Valentine’s Day 2019. I forget if 
I’ve mentioned in previous articles that we absolutely 
love Wing Stop! I don’t care how tacky that sounds. If 
you’ve never had the pleasure, I have only two words for 
you: Lemon. Pepper. Oh my gosh! 
Anyway, we haven’t had Wing Stop in 
a while and I was secretly craving it.

 So, my husband gets home from 
work a couple days before Valentine’s, 
smiles wickedly at me, and confesses 
that he has an evil idea of what to get 
for dinner that night. With an equally 
guilty grin I tell him I think I know 
what he has in mind. 

 But he outdid me this year in 
planning the perfect celebration. Since 
what we order from Wing Stop makes 
for two nights’ meals, he suggested 
we pick it up Wednesday night so we 
wouldn’t even have to leave the house 
on Valentine’s!

 So that’s what we’re going to do (I’m 
writing this Tuesday evening). Pick 
up Wednesday, enjoy greasy wings in 
all their caloric glory, and reheat the 
rest the following night for Valentine’s. 
I have a nice cabernet that pairs well 
with mango habanero and seasoned fries. Maybe not 
everyone’s idea of romance at it’s finest, but that’s why my 
husband and I get along. “Love means eating hot wings 
together.”


“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t 
hurt.” Charles M. Schulz

“Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every 
day my Valentine.” Thomas Hood

 Valentine’s Day was a few days ago and I know all my 
readers were totally prepared with a card and a dinner 
reservation or you cooked your Valentine’s favorite dish, even 
if it was something totally off the wall like a beet soufflé. Put 
that out of your mind. Now think of chocolate. Now think 
of chocolate and champagne. Nice. Now then, when was the 
last time you read Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous love 
poem? Probably not since you were in high school. Well, here 
it is and it’s pretty nice:

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
I love thee to the level of everyday’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.”

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for 
loving.” Paulo Coelho

“Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the 
years multiply.” Zane Grey

 I never actually said anything like that to my Valentine, the 
adorable, ever-patient, John, who is now residing in heaven 
where every day is Valentine’s Day, and love abounds all over 
the place. No, I never quoted Elizabeth Barrett Browning to 
him, but I wrote about love and I’m sure there are a few of you 
out there who haven’t done Valentine’s Day yet so it’s not too 
late to write a note or a letter to the person who is your own 
personal Valentine. Not to say I’m anywhere near Elizabeth, 
but I wrote about love like this… “The Best of Marriage”

 “I sit at your desk and look out your window at the sky.

 And I think of you and how much I love you.

 So many years we’ve spent together, mostly sunny with 
just a little bit of rain.

 I treasure these years which have flown by us.

 I’ve grown to love you, respect you, admire you, need you 
more with each one.

 There is so much about you that makes me want to be the 
best that I can be.

 It makes me smile each time you walk into a room.

 How many thousands of times have I watched you enter 
the space where I am,

 And each time I feel pleasure, delight, at just the sight of 
you.

 You make me laugh, you make me think.

 You make me challenge myself, you make me want to be 
the best me I can be.

 You’ve even taught me to enjoy college football... Go 
Trojans!

 I love just to talk with you, to exchange the ordinary stuff 
our days are made of,

 Conversations that are the flour and salt of life.

 You are ever in my mind. 

 You are the other half of my heart.

 You are, very simply, the one person selected by God to be 
my lover, my friend, my husband.

 I have known you for more than half my life. The best half.

 We have shared all there is in life:

 Joy, sorrow, laughter, tears, death, birth, pleasure, misery, 
poverty, not quite so poverty, 

Pride in our children, and absolute disgust with them, 

And always, always we have had each other to hold on to.”

 Sometime today, if you haven’t already done it, tell your 
special Valentine how much he or she means to you. Kisses 
and holding hands are good, too…maybe even better than 
chocolate. Even if you totally blew off Valentine’s Day, it’s not 
too late to say I love you. 

 My book page: Amazon.com: Deanne Davis – check out

Noah & The Unicorns...or maybe The Vuillaume Violin

Both available there, along with other goodies!

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

Blog: www.authordeanne.com

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playwrightdd

RESIDENTS CONCERNED ABOUT LA COUNTY 
SPRAYING OF BAILEY CANYON WITH CANCER 
CAUSING CHEMICAL 

 An alert Sierra Madre resident shared with 
neighbors information she discovered regarding 
the possible use of the chemical Round Up Pro 
in Bailey Canyon, which is belieed to be a health 
hazard to both humans and animals. 

 In a public post on social media, Linda Beckham 
of Sierra Madre shared the following::

 " Last week I received a copy of an article entitled 
Bailey Canyon Herbicide Spraying “Monsanto 
Roundup Pro” Pet Owners Beware) that 
was written and researched by Alan Himmel of 
Sierra Madre. The article announced LA County 
was going to spray Round Up Pro in Bailey Canyon 
to eradicate weeds the end of February or 
early March 2019. This spray is not only deadly 
to weeds, but if it becomes part of a standing pool 
of water (due to rain which we have enjoyed over 
the last few weeks) it can also kill wildlife and dogs 
who drink the water. It contains glyphosate. The 
California Office of Environmental Health Hazard 
Assessment determined that glyphosate would be 
added to the list of chemicals known to the state 
to cause cancer for purposes of Proposition 65. The 
World Health Organization's International agency 
for research on cancer classified glyphosate as 
"probably carcinogenic to humans".

 She went on to say: I went to the city council 
meeting last night to present the article for the 
council members to consider. The good news was 
I was told that the county was going back off of 
the spraying because they had not notified the city 
that the spraying was to take place. I then gave all 
the members of the council copies the article I had 
received written by Alan Himmel. The article contains 
several links including the results of a San 
Francisco trial which the jury granted a unanimous 
250 million dollar verdict in punitive damages and 
intentional willful misconduct against Monsanto 
for lying about the safety of their product for over 
decades. Although the amount of the verdict was 
later reduced to 78 million, the trial connected the 
person who sued Monsanto (the plaintiff Dewayne 
Johnson) to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma as a 
result of his exposure to Roundup. The trial was 
part of this article. 

The good news is the county has backed off for 
now, but we must remain vigilant regarding what 
is sprayed in our own backyard. For me Bailey 
Canyon is part of my backyard because it is at the 
top my street and because my 8 month old Labrador 
Retriever puppy goes with my 34 year old son 
to walk/run the trails for exercise.

At the same time, Emily Dixon, a CNN reporter 
wrote an article entitled, "COMMON WEED 
KILLER GLYPHOSATE INCREASES CANCER 
RISK BY 41%, citing the results of a study 
by researchers from the University of Washington. 
In the article she names Glyphosate, an 
herbicide that remains the world's most ubiquitous 
weed killer, raises the cancer risk of those 
exposed to it by 41%, a new analysis says.

The researchers evaluated existing studies into 
the chemical -- found in weed killers including 
Monsanto's popular Roundup -- and concluded 
that it significantly increases the risk of non-
Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), a cancer of the immune 
system.

"All of the meta-analyses conducted to date, including 
our own, consistently report the same 
key finding: exposure to GBHs (glyphosate-based 
herbicides) are associated with an increased risk 
of NHL," the authors wrote in a study published 
in the journal Mutation Research.

The revelation lead to members of the community 
again sounding the alarm in hopes that Los 
Angeles County would abandon all plans to use 
the herbicide anywhere.

For more information on the study, go to: 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/health/us-
glyphosate-cancer-study-scli-intl/index.html

S. Henderson/MVNews

SIERRA MADRE POLICE BLOTTER

During this period, the Sierra Madre Police 
Department responded to approximately 229 day and 
night time calls for service. 

Saturday, February 9 

Responding to a neighbor’s call of a vehicle that had 
the rear window smashed, officers discovered that 
between 2/8/19 at about 7:00PM and 2/9/19 at about 
8:50AM, unknown person(s) smashed the window 
removing personal items. This occurred in the 100 
block of Esperanza Ave. Case to Detectives pending 
further information from the victim. 

11:44AM 

A resident in the 00 block of Esperanza Ave. reported 
that her vehicle that was parked in her assigned 
parking space, had its rear window smashed by 
unknown person(s) with an unknown object. Case 
to detectives 

3:14PM 

Officers responded to a call of a fight in-progress 
between two males at the intersection of Michillinda 
Ave and Sierra Madre Blvd. Officers attempted 
to contact one of the subjects. The male subject 
ignored the officer’s verbal commands and was 
uncooperative. As the officers attempted to place the 
subject in handcuffs, the subject resisted, requiring 
the officers to deploy a Taser before placing the 
subject in handcuffs. Officers transported the male 
subject to a local hospital for medical clearance, then 
to the Pasadena Jail for booking. Case to DA’s office 


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