PASADENA EDITION

 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2019 

VOLUME 13 NO.8

Council 
to Look at 
Sexually 
Oriented 
Businesses


Hamilton Teacher Surprised 
with Milken Educator Award

 
The city council is set 
Monday night to discuss 
updating and modernizing 
the city’s regulation of 
sexually oriented businesses.

 According to a city staff 
report, “The city has 
recognized that sexually 
oriented businesses, as a 
category of businesses, have 
negative secondary effects 
and that both licensing 
and zoning regulations are 
necessary to prevent or 
minimize these deleterious 
effects on the community.”

 If passed, amendments 
would deal with definitions 
and licensing of sexually 
oriented businesses to 
conform with recent court 
decisions. 

 Some of the changes include 
what defines “adult bookstore 
or adult video store” including 
what percentage of the store’s 
floor space is devoted to 
“sexual activities.” Changes 
also include what is” nudity” 
or “nude conduct.” 

 Updates would also make it 
unlawful for any person who 
operates a sexually oriented 
business to employ a person 
at the establishment who 
does not have a valid sexually 
oriented business employee 
permit, among other changes, 
including what defines 
an “adult motion picture 
theater.”

 City staff said the purpose 
of the regulations are to 
“promote the health, safety, 
moral, and general welfare 
of the citizens of the city, and 
to establish reasonable and 
uniform regulations.” 

 Any new ordinance 
amendments would “not 
change any regulations 
regarding where sexually 
oriented businesses may 
locate within the city.” city 
staff said. 

 The council meets 6:30 p.m., 
Pasadena City Hall 100 North 
Garfield Ave. Room S249. 

City to Take Up Soft-Story Retrofit Ordinance 



 Hamilton Elementary School 
teacher Nichole Anderson 
got the surprise of a lifetime 
at a school assembly where 
she was presented with a 
Milken Educator Award by 
Milken Family Foundation 
Chairman and Co-Founder 
Lowell Milken and Pasadena 
Unified School District 
(PUSD) Superintendent Brian 
McDonald. Anderson was 
named a 2018-19 recipient of 
the national recognition, which 
comes with an unrestricted 
$25,000 cash prize. She is the 
only Milken Educator Award 
winner from California this 
year and is among the 33 
honorees.

 Nichole Anderson smiling 
Anderson is the third PUSD 
teacher to win the Milken 
Educator Award, which is 
hailed by ‘Teacher” magazine 
as the “Oscars of Teaching.” 
John Muir High School teacher 
Manuel Rustin won in 2012 and 
Joshua Tornek, now a teacher 
at Marshall Fundamental, 
received the award in 2001.

 “A forward-thinking teacher 
like Nichole Anderson 
understands the importance 
of building a technology 
foundation that helps prepare 
students for academic and 
real-world challenges in the 
21st century,” said Milken. 
“She is a welcome addition to 
the National Milken Educator 
Network.”

 As the computer lab teacher 
at Hamilton, Anderson helps 
students build technology skills 
that support all other areas of 
learning. Among the many 
technology skills Anderson 
shares with her students are: 
computer and web coding, 
typing and word processing, 
3-D printing, robotics, internet 
safety, computer graphics 
creation, online research, 
and presentation technology. 
Anderson also promotes 
professional development 
among her colleagues, trains 
staff on technology, and 
serves on multiple educational 
committees as well as 
organizing weekly assemblies 
and tech fairs.

 “Nichole Anderson is a 
visionary educator who inspires 
students to reach high, be 
creative, and develop solutions 
to real-world problems,” said 
McDonald. “She ensures that 
students are equipped with 
knowledge and skills to form 
meaningful connections to 
the world through technology, 
leadership, and collaboration.”

 By giving students in 
kindergarten through fifth 
grade access to and expertise 
in technologies such as 3-D 
printing, computer coding, 
robotics, word processing, and 
web applications, Anderson is 
building a platform for students 
to succeed from an early age, 
whatever the future may bring. 
A charismatic and caring 
teacher who knows the names 
of all 600 kids in her school, she 
finds ways to make technology 
personal, approachable, and 
concrete for her students.

 Nichole Anderson with 
students Anderson’s position, 
the school computer lab and 
3-D printers are funded by 
donations made to the Pasadena 
Educational Foundation, which 
supports Pasadena Unified 
schools.

 The Milken Educator Awards 
has been opening minds and 
shaping futures for over 30 
years. Research shows teacher 
quality is the driving in-school 
factor behind student growth 
and achievement. The initiative 
not only aims to reward great 
teachers, but to celebrate, 
elevate and activate those 
innovators in the classroom 
who are guiding America’s next 
generation of leaders. Milken 
Educators believe, “The future 
belongs to the educated.”



 In effort to increase the 
safety of Pasadena’s residential 
building inventory during an 
earthquake, the city council 
is set Monday night to pass 
regulations requiring retrofit 
of wood soft-story residential 
buildings citywide. 

 Some building owners in 
Pasadena have expressed 
concerns including financial 
cost, assistance, the time period 
for completion of the repairs 
and applicability.

 “The recommended ordinance 
would apply to all existing 
wood-framed or partially 
wood-framed multiple-family 
residential buildings with 4 
or more units, two or more 
stories with the ground floor or 
basement containing parking or 
other similar open-floor space,” 
The staff report reads. 

 According to staff, The 
proposed regulations establish 
a process for implementing the 
soft-story retrofit program and 
would:

•Require all existing wood-
framed, soft-story multiple-
family residential

buildings built prior to January 
1, 1978 to complete a seismic 
retrofit;

•Establish three tiers for 
prioritization of the timing of 
the retrofits;

•Establish a five-year timeline
for completion of the retrofits; 
and,

•Establish enforcement 
provisions for non-compliance 
with the retrofit

requirements. 

 At a public meeting November 
8, Pasadena Building Official 
Sarkis Nazerian explained that a 
survey was done in 2007. They 
estimated around 500 soft-
story buildings citywide with 
approximately 4,500 units. 

 At the time many property 
owners asked about cost. 
Nazerian had said Pasadena 
did not have a cost estimates 
although Zepeda and Nazerian 
both said in Los Angeles retrofit 
cost ranged from $5,000 to 
$10,000 per unit. 

 Nazerian also said city 
officials had also looked into 
a “404 hazard Mitigation 
Grant Program” through the 
Governor’s Office that covers 
75 percent though FEMA and 
25 percent shared by the city. 
He said the funds were not a 
guaranteed. 

 Some asked about making the 
ordinance voluntary something 
Nazerian said they could look 
into. Any voluntary retrofitting 
program would not qualify for 
grant funding he cautioned. 

 Nazerian said, if the ordinance 
passed, the only way for a 
property owner to be removed 
from the list is having an 
engineer writeoff that the 
retrofitting had been done. He 
did say that if someone thinks 
they are on the list by mistake, 
to call city hall and a city 
building inspector would look 
at the property. 

 Some owners were also 
concerned about overnight 
parking. 

 If passed the ordinance would 
be prepared with 60 days. 

Jump into 
Pasadena’s 
Summer Fair

 Looking to stay active this 
summer? Join us from 10 a.m. 
to 1 p.m., Saturday, March 2, at 
Central Park, 275 S. Raymond 
Ave., to learn what fun, free and 
low-cost options are available 
for children, teens and families 
this summer provided by the 
City of Pasadena.

 Among the many summer 
offerings are anime, art classes, 
book clubs, camps, concerts, 
crafts, dance, discovery days, 
game days, martial arts, movie 
nights, music, Parks After Dark, 
recreational swim, robotics, 
science, sports, STEAM 
activities, storytimes, Summer 
Reading, swimming lessons, 
video gaming and writing 
workshops. Programs run June 
through August. Some programs 
may require either resident or 
non-resident fees. 

 Pasadena’s Summer Fair is 
presented by the City of Pasadena 
Human Services and Recreation 
and Public Library departments. 
For more information, 
visit cityofpasadena.
net/humanservices or
pasadenapubliclibrary.net.

Free Pasadena Community 
Orchestra Classical Concert


CALENDAR Pg. 2

MORE PASADENA NEWS

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SAN MARINO/SO. PAS

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 The Pasadena Community Orchestra (PCO) performs 
Boulanger’s D’un Matin de printemps, Beethoven’s 
celebrated Symphony No. 5, and Neruda’s Trumpet 
Concerto, featuring soloist Dr. Cameron Ghahremani is set 
to perform under the baton of Music Director Beth Pflueger, 
Friday, March 15, 8:00 p.m., This is a free concert.

 Female composer Lili Boulanger was a French child prodigy 
born in 1893. She came from a musical family of singers and 
composers and entered the prestigious Paris Conservatoire 
in 1912. D’un Matin de Printemps (‘One Spring Morning’), 
written for violin and piano, was composed shortly before 
her death and has since been adapted for orchestra. 
The piece is a joyful nod to Debussy and was considered 
progressive for its time.

 Beethoven’s great Symphony No. 5 in C Minor was written 
between 1804 and 1808 and was dedicated to Russian Prince 
Lobkowitz and Count Andreas Razumovsky. Eventually, 
the piece came to epitomize Beethoven’s life and musical 
style and has been used in popular culture and inaugural 
events ever since. Beethoven revealed in 1801 that he was 
beginning to lose his hearing and once wrote about the 5th 
that it is about “fate knocking at the door”.

 Johann Baptist George Neruda was a classical Czech 
composer who wrote his 3-movement Trumpet Concerto 
in E-flat Major during the baroque era. The repertoire was 
originally written for a hunting horn or corno da caccia. 
The present version of the piece was published in 1974 by a 
famous trumpet player by the name of David R. Hickman. 
The sound and range of this concerto is an unusual work for 
the modern trumpet.

 The musicians of the Pasadena Community Orchestra 
graciously donate their services for every concert. One of 
the only Los Angeles area orchestras to provide fine music 
to the public for free, PCO is supported through generous 
benefactor sponsorship and run by board members and 
volunteers. Audience members may meet the Music 
Director and other musicians at a reception following the 
concert.

 The concert will be in the sanctuary of First Church of the 
Nazarene, 3700 E. Sierra Madre Blvd.


SIERRA MADRE Pg. 5

ARCADIA Pg. 6

MONROVIA 

St. Patrick’s 
Luncheon 
and Dance

EDUCATION/YOUTH

Pg. 7

FOOD & DRINK Pg. 8

 Shamrocks, leprechauns 
and pots of gold will be in 
abundance Saturday, March 
16, from noon to 2 p.m. in the 
Scott Pavilion at the Pasadena 
Senior Center, 85 E. Holly St.

 Food will be served by 
National Charity League San 
Marino Chapter mothers and 
daughters.

 The Great American Swing 
Band will perform musical 
favorites for listening pleasure 
and dancing.

 The cost is only $10 for 
members of the Pasadena 
Senior Center and $12 for 
non-members of all ages. 
Reservations may be made at 
the Welcome Desk no later 
than Thursday, March 14.

 For more information about 
the programs and services of 
the Pasadena Senior Center 
visit: pasadenaseniorcenter.org 
or call 626-795-4331. 

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WORLD AROUND US 

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 BEST FRIENDS Pg. 11


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THE ARTS B2

BUSINESS NEWS

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OPINIONB4

LEGAL NOTICES B5


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