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

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Mountain View News Saturday, February 16, 2019 

One City, One Story 
Author signing Event

Presidents 
Day 
Closures, 
Reminders

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 

 
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.

 
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

ArtNight at the Library

Art Night is Friday, March 8 • 6 
p.m.-10 p.m. 

Wild, Wild West

Yeehaw! It’s a Western Shindig, 
featuring music, dance, shows 
and art honoring Pasadena’s 
2019 One City, One Story 
selection, In the Distance by 
Hernán Diaz

Quilting Bee

Quilting Bees or parties were 
social gatherings in the West, 
where everyone worked 
together on completing a quilt. 
Join us and color a quilting 
square to take home with you. 

6-9 p.m. • Centennial Room

Western Line Dance

Line dancing is fun and easy-to-
learn. This group dance involves 
people dancing in one or more 
lines or rows facing the same 
direction, and executing the 
steps at the same time. The steps 
are straightforward. Presented 
by Francisco Martínez. 

6-6:30 p.m., 7:30-8:30 p.m. 
& 9:30-10 p.m. • Great Hall/
Center 

Reiyukai America 

Create a memory of ArtNight 
to take home with you.

6-9 p.m. • Great Hall/East

Graphic Novel Salon & Gallery

Focusing on women creators, 
writers, artists and publishers 
in the comics field and learn 
how they create their characters 
and plot. Featuring creators 
from the west; Cecil Castellucci, 
Leslie Hung, Kristen Gorlitz, 
Xanthe Bouma, Nilah 
Magruder, Barbara Randall 
Kesel, Anne Toole, some or 
all of the creators of Hex 11, 
Madeleine Holly-Rosing and 
more. 

Throughout the evening • 
Reading Wing

Pueblo Revolt in America 96 
Years Before the American 
Revolution

Multi-media presentation by 
documentary filmmaker and 
abstract artist Patricia Cunliffe, 
who shares the obscure story 
and presents abstract depictions 
surrounded by projections of 
raw footage from her upcoming 
documentary, The Pueblo 
Revolt.

Throughout the evening • 
Humanities Wing

Crown City Chamber Players

Enjoy a variety of classical 
music performed by members 
of the Crown City Symphony.

Throughout the evening • 
Children’s Room 

We’re Ok, if you’re Ok at the 
OK corral

Bring your boots and cowboy 
hats and be ready to stomp 
the night away with Theatre 
Americana. Enjoy memorable 
and contemporary Country 
Western music, games, a “two-
step” contest and lots of other 
activities. You’ll be a cowboy 
or cowgirl by the end of the 
evening! Y’all come by now, ya 
hear?

6:30 & 8:30 p.m. • Donald 
Wright Auditorium

Western Beat

DJG plays special Western 
music and tempos to Chill Out 
2 while enjoying an artwork 
display. 

7-9:30 pm. • East Patio 

Commemorating the 
Stonewall Rebellion 

San Gabriel Valley Pride’s 
contribution will be a literary 
panel presentation saluting 
the 50th anniversary of the 
Stonewall Rebellion, which 
took place in NYC in June 
1969. The Rebellion is widely 
considered the beginning of the 
modern fight for LGBT rights 
in the United States.

Throughout the evening • Teen 
Central

Free parking is available in the 
north lot. Coffee and treats will 
be available for purchase.

 Central Library is located 285 
E Walnut Street. For more call 
(626) 744-4066.

 

 
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.

Opportunity 
Rover 
Mission on 
Mars Ends

Pet of the 
Week

Community 
Mammogram 
Free Clinic


February 22 at the 
Planned Parenthood 
Pasadena Health

Center 1045 N Lake 
Ave.

 Osze (A469807) is a 
12-year-old Chihuahua 
who is very affectionate 
but takes a little time to 
open up. He seems to be 
a shy dog who just loves a 
good cuddle session now 
and again. Once he's on 
your lap, good luck getting 
him off! He is always eager 
to accept treats that 
are given to him and he 
is overall a gentle and 
sweet dog. Osze shares a 
kennel with his son, Guerro 
(A469808), who is 9 years 
old. Osze likes spending 
time with his son but also 
loves interacting with other 
dogs he’s met on Wiggle 
Waggle Waggin’ field 
trips. He walks great on 
leash, likes to be carried, 
and would be a great 
new best friend. Visit Osze 
and his son, Guerro, today 
at the Pasadena Humane 
Society & SPCA. 

 The adoption fee for 
dogs is $140. All dogs 
are spayed or neutered, 
microchipped, and 
vaccinated before going 
to their new home. 

 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.

 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.”

Free Monthly Events at 
Pasadena Senior Center

ALTADENA CRIME BLOTTER

 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. 

 Screening Mimis Film 
Discussion Group – Tuesdays, 
Feb. 19, at 1:30 p.m. Diehard 
film fans are invited to watch 
a movie the first and third 
Tuesday of every month, 
preceded by a presentation 
about the film’s hidden 
history and followed by lively 
discussion. Feb. 19: Touching 
the Void (2003, R). This 
documentary film recreates 
the adventures of two young 
mountaineers who set off in 
1985 to climb the treacherous 
west face of the Siula Grande 
in the Peruvian Andes. 

 Rediscovering Hope – 
Thursdays, to Feb. 28, at 3 
p.m. Rediscovering Hope is 
a support group for anyone 
grieving the death of a loved 
one. For more information call 
licensed clinical social worker 
Jody Casserly at 626-918-2273, 
ext. 7455.

 Chair Yoga – Wednesday, 
Feb. 20, at 1 p.m. Improve 
your balance and confidence 
through gentle yoga exercises 
while sitting in a chair or 
standing and using a chair for 
support.

 Heart Healthy Eating – 
Thursday, Feb. 21, at 10 a.m. 
Preventing heart disease isn’t 
just about avoiding unhealthy 
food. You should also eat 
foods rich in nutrients, fiber and 
healthy fats. Learn what foods 
are healthy for your heart and 
what are not. Presented by 
Regal Medical Group.

 LA Opera Talk – Monday, 
Feb. 25, at 1 p.m. An LA Opera 
community educator will 
make a presentation titled “It 
Can’t Be an Opera if Nobody 
Dies.”

 Brain Attack! – Thursday, 
Feb. 28, at 10 a.m. Strokes 
can happen at any time. 
Educating yourself now is 
the key to a better outcome. 
Learn about different types of 
strokes, how to help prevent 
a stroke from happening 
and what to do in a stroke 
emergency. Presented by 
Health Care Partners.

 For more information visit 
www.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.

Sunday, February 3rd

1:27 AM – A domestic violence 
incident occurred in the 700 
block of Royce Street. Suspect 
was taken into custody.

10:00 PM – A vehicle burglary 
occurred in the 2300 block of 
Navarro Avenue. Suspect(s) 
entered the vehicle by shattering 
the window. Stolen: black 
leather purse, black iPad, black 
Jordan sneakers, and an Olive 
Garden gift card.

Monday, February 4th

4:12 PM – An assault with a 
deadly weapon occurred in the 
2000 block of Marengo Avenue. 
Suspect has not been identified.

Tuesday, February 5th

10:00 AM – A package theft 
occurred in the 400 block of 
Poppyfields Drive. Stolen: 
package containing clothing.

1:27 PM – A package theft 
occurred in the 2300 block 
of Holliston Avenue. Stolen: 
packages containing shelves.

6:50 PM – A battery occurred 
in the 2100 block of Lincoln 
Avenue. Suspect has been 
identified.

Wednesday, February 6th

6:08 PM – Helena Watts, 37 
years old of Altadena was 
arrested in the 70 block of 
W. Mountain View Street for 
possession of a controlled 
substance. 

Thursday, February 7th

11:53 AM – An attempt 
residential burglary occurred in 
the 1300 block of Eastlyn Place. 
Suspect(s) attempted to enter 
the residence via the screen 
door. No entry was made.

12:13 PM – A battery occurred 
in the 2900 block of El Nido 
Drive. Suspect was taken into 
custody.

8:00 PM – A grand theft 
occurred in the area of 
Coolidge Street and New 
York Drive. Suspect has been 
identified. Stolen: black iPhone 
X, purse, currency, and other 
miscellaneous items.

Friday, February 8th

7:30 PM – A petty theft from an 
unlocked vehicle occurred in 
the 1900 block of Layton Street. 
Stolen: red and beige canvas 
bag and watch.

10:00 PM – A petty theft from 
an unlocked vehicle occurred 
in the 1900 block of Olive Way. 
Stolen: black Samsung Galaxy, 
white iPod and books.

Saturday, February 9th

3:10 PM – A petty theft 
occurred in the 500 block of E. 
Altadena Drive. Stolen: white 
Stihl pruning saw.

Villa-Parke 
Youth Soccer 
Parade

 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.

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