Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, April 6, 2019

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PASADENA COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Mountain View News Saturday, April 6, 2019

 
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PASADENA CITY MEETINGS

Regular City Council Meeting

6-Day Forecast Pasadena Ca.

 

NEXT CITY COUNCIL MONDAY APRIL 8

Public Meeting 6:30 P.M. 

Council Chamber, Pasadena City Hall

100 North Garfield Avenue, Room S249 

FINANCE COMMITTEE (Chair Mayor Terry Tornek, Victor Gordo, John J. Kennedy, Margaret McAustin)

Meets April 8 at 4:00 p.m., 100 N. Garfield Avenue, Room S249 (City Hall Council Chamber, 2nd floor)

MUNICIPAL SERVICES COMMITTEE (Chair Margaret McAustin, Tyron Hampton, Terry Tornek, Andy Wilson)

Meets April 9 at 4:00 p.m., Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Avenue, Room S249 (Council Chamber, 2nd Floor)'

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE (Chair Victor Gordo, Tyron Hampton, Steve Madison, Andy 
Wilson)

Meets April 16, at 5:30 p.m. Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Avenue, Room S245/S246 (Council Conference Room, 2nd Floor)

PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE (Chair John J. Kennedy, Tyron Hampton, Steve Madison, Gene Masuda) 

Meets April 17 at 6 p.m. Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Avenue, Room S249 (Council Chamber, 2nd Floor)

LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE (Chair Terry Tornek, Steve Madison, Gene Masuda)

Meets April 23 at 6:00 p.m., Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Avenue, Room S245/S246 (Council Conference Room, 2nd Floor)

 Sun Sunny Hi 80s Lows 50s 

 Mon: Sunny Hi 80s Lows 50s

 Tues: Sunny Hi 70s Lows 50s

 Wed: Sunny Hi 70s Lows 50s

 Thur: Sunny Hi 70s Lows 50s

 Fri: Ptly Cldy Hi 70s Lows 50s

Forecasts courtesy of the National Weather Service

Playhouse: Play 'Good Boys'

 Pasadena Playhouse, the 
State Theater of California, 
announces the Los Angeles 
premiere of Roberto Aguirre-
Sacasa’s Good Boys, directed by 
Carolyn Cantor. The production 
is Aguirre-Sacasa’s fresh and 
revisited look at his previous 
work, Good Boys and True 
(world premiere, Steppenwolf 
Theatre Company), and will 
play from Wednesday, May 
29 through Sunday June 23; 
the press opening is June 2 at 
5:00pm. The play is a riveting 
drama set at a private prep 
school – involving a model 
student in the mold of his 
father, a disturbing video tape, 
and the privileged family that is 
faced with difficult choices. 

 Agiurre-Sacasa has the 
unusual distinction of being 
a playwright (Manhattan 
Theatre Club, 2econd Stage, 
Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 
South Coast Rep), television 
writer (Glee, Supergirl, 
Riverdale, Chilling Adventures 
of Sabrina) and Marvel Comics 
author (The Stand, Spider-
Man). He is also the Chief 
Creative Officer of Archie 
Comics.

 In Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s 
Good Boys, Brandon Hardy, 
a senior at St. Joseph’s Prep, 
has the world at his feet. He 
is handsome, athletic, smart, 
and a shining example of the 
perfect private school student, 
just like his father was. But 
when a disturbing videotape 
becomes the talk of the locker 
room, the comfortable lives of 
the Hardy family threatens to 
shatter. Good Boys is a riveting 
drama that explores what 
happens when a family must 
separate fact from fiction—and, 
ultimately, choose to either 
preserve their legacy or risk 
losing everything in pursuit of 
the truth.

 Aguirre-Sacasa says, “The 
dramatic situations in this 
play are uncannily similar to 
incidents and issues that we’re 
still grappling with in this 
country—viscerally—even 
more so than when I first wrote 
Good Boys. In revisiting the 
play, I further explored themes 
like privilege, masculinity, 
and personal responsibility, as 
Brandon and Elizabeth find 
themselves on trial by their 
community and each other. 
Good Boys is a sort of ‘moral 
thriller,’ a game of cat and 
mouse between a mother and 
her son, with twists and turns 
that will keep you guessing 
about the truth right up to the 
end.”

 Tickets available online at 
PasadenaPlayhouse.org, by 
phone at 626-356-7529, and in 
person at the Playhouse Box 
Office, 39 South El Molino Ave.

SOUTH PASADENA CITY 
MEETINGS

Regular City Council Meeting

Next meeting April 17

Meetings are held on the first and third Wednesday 
of the month, at 7:30 p.m., in the Amedee O. “Dick” 
Richards, Jr., Council Chambers, located at 1424 Mission 
Street. 

The Planning Commission 

Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.

Amedee O. "Dick" Richards, Jr. Council Chamber

1424 Mission Street

Staff Liaison: David Bergman, Interim Planning and 
Building Director

Phone (626) 403-7223

The Library Board of Trustees 

Thursday at 7 p.m.

South Pasadena Public Library Ray Bradbury 
Conference Room 1100 Oxley Street

Staff Liaison: Steve Fjeldsted, Director of Library, Arts, 
and Culture, Phone: (626) 403-7330

Spinoff Book Highlights NASA 
Technology Everywhere

 From precision GPS to 
batteries for one of the world’s 
first commercial all-electric 
airplanes, NASA technology 
turns up in nearly every corner 
of modern life. The latest 
edition of NASA’s Spinoff 
publication features dozens of 
commercial technologies that 
were developed or improved 
by the agency’s space program, 
including by NASA’s Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory and 
benefit people everywhere.

 “NASA works hard, not only to 
develop technology that pushes 
the boundaries of aeronautics 
and space exploration, but 
also to put those innovations 
into the hands of businesses 
and entrepreneurs who can 
turn them into solutions for 
challenges we all face here on 
Earth,” said Jim Reuter, acting 
associate administrator of the 
agency’s Space Technology 
Mission Directorate. “These are 
sometimes predictable, like the 
many NASA technologies now 
adopted by the burgeoning 
commercial space industry, 
but more often they appear in 
places that may seem unrelated, 
like hospitals, farms, factories 
and family rooms.”

 In this issue of Spinoff, the 
agency shares new stories of 
how:

· The world has come to rely on 
GPS signal correction software 
created by JPL, which enables 
precision agriculture, airplane 
navigation, smartphones, 
offshore oil drilling, Earth 
science and much more.

· Material meant to bring back 
samples from Mars, originally 
developed for JPL, is now used 
in life-saving sutures during 
heart surgery.

· An autonomous robot with 
four limbs built by JPL has been 
updated to work in hazardous 
environments — like disaster 
zones, chemical plants, or the 
battlefield — where it can stand 
in for a human.

· A JPL invention that uses 
lasers (instead of radio waves) 
to send data through space 
could also improve secure 
communication for places like 
hospitals, banks, and others 
handling sensitive data.

· NASA’s work to push the 
envelope of flight resulted 
in advanced battery packs 
that power one of the first 
commercial all-electric 
airplanes.

· A lightweight, high-pressure 
tank NASA invented to hold 
rocket fuel now stores life-
saving oxygen to keep pilots, 
firefighters and intensive care 
patients breathing; it can also 
hold gases that power city buses 
and even paintball guns.

 The publication provides nearly 
50 examples of how NASA 
benefits various industries and 
people around the world. For 
example, fitness enthusiasts 
may be surprised to learn about 
NASA’s contribution to the 
Bowflex Revolution resistance-
exercise home gym. Other 
highlights include a crucial 
component of pacemakers that 
have helped save lives around 
the world, as well as reactors 
that use electricity-“breathing” 
bacteria to clean wastewater 
and generate power at wineries 
and breweries.

 “The variety and complexity 
of NASA’s missions drive 
innovations in virtually every 
field of technology,” said Daniel 
Lockney, executive of NASA’s 
Technology Transfer program. 
“The result is that there’s not 
an industry or business out 
there that can’t make use of our 
groundbreaking work.”

 The publication also includes 
a “Spinoffs of Tomorrow” 
section that showcases 20 new 
NASA technologies available 
for license. One innovation 
on the list uses new materials 
to literally reinvent the wheel. 
The superelastic tires were 
inspired by the Apollo era 
and developed for future 
exploration of the Moon and 
Mars. The technology could 
find another purpose on Earth.

 Spinoff is part of the agency’s 
Technology Transfer program 
within the Space Technology 
Mission Directorate. The 
program is charged with finding 
the widest possible applications 
for NASA technology 
through partnerships and 
licensing agreements with 
industry, ensuring that NASA’s 
investments in its missions 
and research find additional 
applications that benefit the 
nation and the world.

 Print and digital versions of 
the latest issue of Spinoff are 
available at: spinoff.nasa.gov/
Spinoff2019/index.html. 

Free Monthly Events at 
Pasadena Senior Center

 

 There is something for 
everyone in December at the 
Pasadena Senior Center, 85 E. 
Holly St.

 You do not have to be a 
member to attend. Some events 
require advance reservations as 

noted. 

 Tax Time – Wednesdays 
and Fridays through April 
12 from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. 
Representatives from the 
AARP Foundation’s Tax-
Aide program will assist 
low- to middle-income filers 
in preparing their federal 
income tax returns. There is 
no age limit. Appointments are 
required: 626-795-4331.

 Sages and Seekers – 
Tuesdays to April 30, from 3 
to 4:15 p.m. In tribal cultures, 
elders have a vital role as keepers 
of memories and wisdom, and 
younger members learn from 
them. Sages and Seekers is an 
intergenerational program that 
brings together teens and older 
adults to share experiences. 
On a one-on-one basis, sages 
describe highlights of their lives 
and what they have learned 
from their experiences, and 
seekers weave that knowledge 
into essays honoring the sages.

 Diabetes Workshop 
– Mondays, to April 15, from 1 
to 3 p.m. If you orsomeone you 
care about is diabetic or pre-
diabetic, this series encourage 
you to make lifestyle changes 
while learning more about your 
diabetes and how it affects your 
health. Registration is required: 
626-685-6732. 

 Screening Mimis Film 
Disc Scenic Walkers Club – 
Wednesdays to April 24, at 9 
a.m. Join this new group for a 
series of leisurely walks to enjoy 
the great outdoors and get some 
exercise. Alan Colville will 
give you a list of items to bring, 
let you know what to expect, 
provide detailed itineraries and 
arrange transportation. For 
more information or to sign up, 
email alancolville@charter.net.

 Friday Movie Matinees – 
Fridays at 1 p.m. Everyone 
enjoys movies and the pleasures 
they bring. April 12: “Bohemian 
Rhapsody” (2018, PG-13) 
starring Rami Malek and Lucy 
Boynton. The story of the 
legendary rock band Queen and 
lead singer Freddie Mercury, 
leading up to their famous 
performance at Live Aid (1985). 
The film is based on true events. 
April 19: “Free Solo” (2018, PG) 
starring Dierdre Wolownick 
and Tommy Caldwell. Follow 
Alex Honnold as he becomes 
the first person to ever free solo 
climb Yosemite's 3,000 ft high 
El Capitan wall. With no ropes 
or safety gear, he completed 
arguably the greatest feat in 
rock climbing history. The 
film is based on true events. 
April 26: “The Green Book” 
(2018, PG-13) starring Viggo 
Mortensen and Mahershala 
Ali. A working-class Italian-
American bouncer becomes the 
driver of an African-American 
classical pianist on a tour of 
venues through the 1960s 
American South.

 Sample Classes for Spring – 
Monday and Tuesday, April 8 
and 9 , from 9:00 a.m. to noon. 
Whether you’re interested 
in taking a fitness course, 
learning a new language or 
pursuing a new hobby, come 
to Class Tasting events, meet 
the instructors and sit in on 
free mini-versions of fee-based 
spring courses. Each sample 
class lasts 30 minutes; regular 
classes begin April 15.

 Cultural Thursday: Great 
American Songwriters – 
Thursday, April 11, at 2 p.m. 
The six-part Great American 
Songwriters series continues 
with a focus on Dorothy Fields 
and other women who wrote 
hit songs by including “Lovely 
to Look At,” “ On the Sunny 
Side of the Street,” “ A Fine 
Romance,” and “You Ought 
to Be in Pictures,” and many 
more. Join pianist Bob Lipson 
and commentator/performer 
Saul H. Jacobs for this fun, 
interactive program. 

 Safe Senior Driving - 
Thursday, April 11 at 
10:00 a.m. The DMV has 
established the Senior Driver 
Ombudsmen Program for the 
expressed purpose of helping 
all drivers maintain their 
driving independence for as 
long as they can do so safely. 
You will hear about resources 
that are available and valuable 
information for Seniors Safe 
Driving. Questions and 
Answers following the lecture. 
Presented by Tressa Thompson, 
Ombudsman.

 LA Opera Talk: “El Gato 
Montes: The Wild Cat” – 
Monday, April 15, at 1 p.m. An 
LA Opera community educator 
will take participants through 
Gluck's groundbreaking 
masterpiece, which bridges the 
musical worlds of Handel and 
Mozart with its ornate vocal 
lines and flowing melodies. 

 All About Allergies Thursday, 
April 18 at 10:00 a.m.

An allergy is a chronic 
condition involving an 
abnormal reaction to an 
ordinarily harmless substance 
called an allergen. Allergens 
can include aeroallergens, such 
as dust mites, mold, and tree, 
weed, and grass pollen, as well 
as food allergens such as milk, 
egg, soy, wheat, nut or fish 
proteins. Come to this lecture to 
learn more about allergies, and 
ways to treat them. Presented 
by Anthem Blue Cross

 Take Care of Your Feet! - 
Thursday, April 25 at 10:00 a.m.

Foot problems are especially 
common in older people, for 
a variety of reasons. Feet lose 
cushioning as they age. Learn 
more about foot problems 
and happy feet. Presented by 
Veronica Banta, M.D., Health 
Partners.

 For more information visit: 
pasadenaseniorcenter.org or 
call 626-795-4331.

 Founded in 1960, the 
Pasadena Senior Center is an 
independent, donor-supported 
nonprofit organization that 
offers recreational, educational, 
wellness and social services 
to people ages 50 and older 
in a welcoming environment. 
Services are also provided 
for frail, low-income and 
homebound seniors.

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY

Celebrate comics! Join us for the annual FREE Comic Book 
Day, held the first Saturday in May throughout the United 
States. Pick up a free comic book (one per person while 
supplies last), by stopping in any Pasadena Public Library 
on Saturday, May 4. Comics suitable for all age groups 
(children, teens and adults) will be available at each site.


Pet of the 
Week

Josie (A473564) is a cool cat 
that has yet to be impressed 
by us hoomans. We’ve wined 
and dined her, presented her 
with gifts galore and even 
performed our brilliant song 
and dance numbers, but 
nothing has captured her 
attention! One of her den 
neighbors, told his friend, 
who told PHS staff that she 
is of royal descent. Josie is a 
gorgeous, elegant feline, but 
the royalty rumor has not 
been substantiated. We do 
know that she’s 6 years old, 
truly a beauty, but definitely 
not the cat to get the party 
started. Our shy “Royal” 
Josie needs a best friend she 
can trust and a peaceful 
forever home. Note: new 
home need not be a castle.

 The adoption fee for cats 
is $90. All cats are spayed 
or neutered, microchipped, 
and vaccinated before being 
adopted. 

 New adopters will receive a 
complimentary health-and-
wellness exam from VCA 
Animal Hospitals, as well 
as a goody bag filled with 
information about how to 
care for your pet.

 View photos of adoptable 
pets at pasadenahumane.
org. Adoption hours are 11 
a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday; 9 a.m. 
to 5 p.m. Tuesday through 
Friday; and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
Saturday.

 Pets may not be available 
for adoption and cannot be 
held for potential adopters 
by phone calls or email.

Athens Recycling Facility Tour

 The City of San Marino, 
in cooperation with Athens 
Services, Inc., is offering an 
opportunity for residents 
to visit the recycling 
facility that manages all 
trash collected in the City. 
The trip will take place on 
Saturday, April 20th from 10 
a.m. to noon. Registration 
and transportation will 
be provided through the 
Recreation Department. The 
bus will depart promptly 
at 9:30 a.m. from the Lacy 
Park Scout House located 
on the west side of the park. 
Arrive by 9:15 am to ensure 
you you don’t miss the bus 
departure. Please call (626) 
403-2200 for additional 
details/reservations. 
Space is limited. If you 
have additional questions 
regarding the tour or other 
related trash/recycling items 
you can call Dana Hang, 
Administrative Analyst at 
(626) 300-0765 or dhang@
cityofsanmarino.org.


Applicants for Space Accelerator

 NASA’s first aerospace 
accelerator program, 
co-sponsored by the Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory in 
Pasadena, California, will 
select 10 startup companies 
to take part in a three-month 
pilot program to develop 
new technologies for space. 
Applications will be accepted 
through April 7. Organized 
by Techstars with support 
from Starburst Aerospace, 
the pilot program will enable 
the selected companies to 
collaborate with engineers 
and subject matter experts 
from JPL and from co-
sponsors Lockheed Martin, 
the U.S. Air Force, Maxar 
Technologies, SAIC and 
Israel Aerospace Industries 
North America.

 The accelerator will focus 
on technologies that can be 
applied to space — including 
geospatial analytics, digital 
design coupled to advanced 
manufacturing, autonomous 
systems, applied AI and 
machine learning. A main 
goal of the pilot program is to 
help both applicants and JPL 
swiftly develop technology 
that could be used for future 
space missions while also 
promoting collaboration 
between industry and 
NASA.

 Based in Los Angeles, the 
accelerator program begins 
on July 15. To apply visit: 
techstars.com/programs/
starburst-space-program/

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