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Mountain View News Saturday, February 6, 2021 

MONROVIA FIRE & RESCUE CAPTAIN CHRIS HUSON 
RECEIVES "LYN RILEY RED MUG" AWARD

We congratulate Chris on receiving the “Lyn Riley Red Mug Award” and thank 
both Lyn and Chris for their exceptional commitment to service!

In Lyn’s words, “As I look back but also forward, there are so many individuals 
who have impressed me with their professionalism and passion for the path they 
have chosen in life. Chris Huson is the Paramedic Coordinator for the Monrovia 
Fire Department. I have found him to be open to new ide-as and approaches to 
Prehospital Care, including treating his fellow firefighters with respect and acting 
as a great role model as an EMS leader. Over the past 40 years I have worked with 
many PM Coordinators, and have found Chris to be one of the best!”

The UCLA Center for Prehospital Care offers EMS education for EMTs, paramedics, 
phleboto-mists, nurses, physicians, and other healthcare providers.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE GILB MUSEUM IS? JOIN CURATOR ACEVEDO TO 
LEARN ABOUT THE GILB MUSEUM AND THE IMPACT IT HAS HAD ON THE COMMUNITY 
IN PROMOTING THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA AT THE ARCADIA 
COMMUNITY COORDINATING COUNCIL MEETING ON MARCH 1, 2021 TO 
FIND OUT. 

Mrs. Stevy Acevedo has been the Curator 
at the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage 
since 2019. As a Native Californian, 
she received her bachelor’s degree from 
Cal Poly Pomona and her masters from 
Eastern Illinois University and has a background 
in archaeology and history.



Join Curator Acevedo to learn about the 
Gilb Museum and the impact it has had on 
the community in promoting the history 
of the City of Arcadia. Take a closer look 
at the Gilb Museum’s collection, exhibits, 
educational programs (pre-pandemic & 
during pandemic),as well as the Museum’s 
volunteers and interns.



The mission of the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage is to collect, preserve and recognize Arcadia's 
heritage; to create a shared identity for a diverse community; and to celebrate the City's rich history 
with exhibits and educational programs that will encourage community involvement.



To learn more about the Gilb Museum, join the Arcadia Community Coordinating Council on March 
1, 2021. 


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Cheeseburger Challenge 2021 Results 
Announced


Watson Lecture ‘What 
Cosmic Fireworks 
Unveil About the 

 
Pasadena’s celebration of Cheeseburger 
Week in Pasadena ended on Friday, 
January 29. As part of the celebration 
patrons could take the Cheeseburger 
Challenge® and vote online for their 
favorites in eleven different burger 
categories. 1365 individuals voted in 
the 2021 Cheeseburger Challenge®. 
Restaurants taking part could enter in 
two categories of their choosing, from 
who serves your favorite traditional 
cheeseburger to who serves your favorite 
alternative burger. Every restaurant participating is 
entered in the What is Your Favorite Place to Go For a 
Cheeseburger category.

 For 2021, by the slimmest of margins, The Stand was 
voted Favorite Place to Go for a Burger, with 25% of the 
vote. Dog Haus and Dog Haus Biergarten received 24% 
of the votes with Pie ‘n Burger taking third place with 
9% of the vote.

Here are the top vote getters in each category:

-Favorite Place to Go for a Burger:

1 The Stand 25%

2 Dog Haus/Dog Haus Biergarten 24%

3 Pie ‘n Burger 9%

-Favorite Innovative Burger

1 The Stand 38%

2 Umami Burger 17%

3 Kings Row Gastropub 16%

-Favorite Lunch Counter Burger

1 Pie ‘n Burger 51%

2The Counter 30%

3 The Pan 9%

-Favorite Traditional Burger

1Pie ‘n Burger 43%

2Clearman’s Galley 34%

3Cindy’s 14%

-Favorite Sliders

1 Dog Haus/Dog Haus Biergarten 43%

2 Kings Row Gastropub 27%

3 Foothill 12%

-Favorite Veggie Burger

1 The Stand 42%

2 Umami Burger 19%

3 Clearman’s Galley 13%

-Favorite Gourment Burger

1 Dog haus/DogHaus Biergarten 34%

2 The Raymond 1886 32%

3 Umami Burger/Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse (tie) 11%

-Favorite Alternative Burger

1 Umami Burger 25%

2 The Counter 19%

3 True Food Kitchen 13%

-Favorite Turkey Burger

1 True Food Kitchen 39%

2 Barney’s beanery 31%

3 Kathleen’s Restaurant 24%

-Favorite White Table Cloth Burger

1 The Raymond 1886 42%

2 Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse 41%

3 Mi Piace 17%

-Favorite Dessert After a Cheeseburger

1 Pie ‘n Burger 33%

2 Stonefire Grill 22%

3 Cindy’s Restaurant 9%

 Voting in the Cheeseburger Challenge is done online 
and does not require proof that patrons sampled all 
the entries. “We ask people to vote for their favorites 
because enjoying cheeseburgers is a matter of personal 
taste so can’t honestly try to determine whose burger 
is best,” said Paul Little, president and CEO of the 
Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, the event organizer. 
“Cheeseburger Week is intended to be a fun event that 
brings attention to the wide variety of offerings and 
creativity of our local restaurants. From traditional 
burger restaurants to fine dining establishments, I am 
very pleased that our participants bring their best to 
the table for Cheeseburger Week in Pasadena.”

 During Cheeseburger Week from January 24th to 
January 29th, Pasadena honored Lionel Sternberger’s 
genius in being the first to put cheese on a hamburger 
and serve it at the Rite Spot in Pasadena in 1924. Three 
dozen of Pasadena’s favorite restaurants, lounges and 
burger joints offered their signature burgers, some 
special creations and great deals during Pasadena 
Cheeseburger Week. 

Here were the participants for 2021:

Barney’s Beanery

Bone Kettle

Cindy’s (Eagle Rock)

Clearman’s Galley

The Counter

Dog Haus (Hill Street location)

Dog Haus Biergarten

El Portal Restaurant

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar

Foothill

Fox’s Restaurant

La Grande Orange Cafe

Granville

The Great Maple

The Grill at Brookside Golf Course

Hummus Lab

Kathleen’s Restaurant

Kings Row Gastropub

Lucky Baldwin’s Pub

Lucky Baldwin’s Trappiste Pub and Cafe

The Luggage Room

Mi Piace

The Pan

Pie ‘n Burger

Raffi’s Catering

Rounds Premium Burgers

Ruth’s Chris Steak House 

Slater’s 50/50

The Stand

Stonefire Grill

True Food Kitchen

Umami Burger

White Horse Lounge

Yahaira’s Cafe

 Cheeseburger Week is a Pasadena Restaurant Week 
and California Restaurant Month event presented by 
the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce.

 On Wednesday, February 17, at 5 p.m. 
Pacific Time, Mansi Kasliwal (pictured 
right), assistant professor of astronomy 
in Caltech’s Division of Physics, 
Mathematics and Astronomy, continues 
the 2020–2021 Watson Lecture season 
by exploring “What Cosmic Fireworks 
Unveil About the Universe.”

 Our dynamic universe is ablaze with 
cosmic fireworks. Stars explode and 
send out beacons of light that are a 
million to a billion times brighter than 
our sun. Fireworks generated in these 
explosions are what synthesize most of 
the elements in our periodic table: while 
some explosions, called supernovae, 
create the lighter elements, mergers 
involving compact stars, called neutron 
stars, synthesize half of the elements in 
the periodic table that are heavier than 
iron.

 In her lecture, Kasliwal will explain 
how astronomers discover these cosmic 
fireworks with robotic telescopes and 
how they have undertaken a global 
follow-up campaign to characterize 
these energetic and ephemeral events. 
She will also discuss how astronomers 
combine information from multiple 
cosmic messengers—light, neutrinos, 
and gravitational waves—to gain a more 
comprehensive understanding of our 
universe.

 Kasliwal earned her BS at Cornell 
University in 2005 and completed her 
doctoral work in astronomy at Caltech 
in 2011. After a joint postdoctoral 
fellowship at Carnegie Observatories 
and Princeton University, she joined the 
Caltech faculty in 2015. She was awarded 
the Packard Fellowship in 2018.

 As principal investigator of GROWTH 
(Global Relay of Observatories Watching 
Transients Happen), Kasliwal heads up a 
worldwide network of collaborators who 
are trying to capture the astrophysics of 
these transient events to find out more 
about how they evolved. 

 At Caltech, Kasliwal’s research group 
discovers and characterizes the brilliant 
flashes of light that tell us about the 
lifecycle of stars and where elements are 
synthesized. Their primary discovery 
engines are two robotic, wide-field 
infrared and optical cameras at Palomar 
Observatory. Kasliwal’s group is 
unveiling infrared fireworks in the Milky 
Way with the first wide-field infrared 
surveyor 
called 
Palomar 
Gattini 
IR. They 
are now 
building 
an even 
more 
sensitive 
discovery 
engine in 
the infrared.

 Kasliwal’s Watson lecture isfree and 
open to the public. Advance registration 
is required. The lecture will begin at 5 
p.m. Pacific Time and run approximately
45 minutes, followed by audience Q&A
with Kasliwal. After the live webinar, the
lecture (without Q&A) will be available
for on-demand viewing on Caltech’s
YouTube channel.

 At 7 p.m., following Kasliwal’s Watson 
Lecture, Caltech’s Keck Institute for 
Space Studies will present “The Thrill and 
Terror of Landing a Spacecraft on Mars,” 
a virtual event with Rob Manning, Chief 
Engineer at JPL, which Caltech manages 
for NASA.

 Since 1922, the Earnest C. Watson 
Lectures have brought Caltech’s most 
innovative scientific research to the 
public. The series is named for Earnest C. 
Watson, a professor of physics at Caltech 
from 1919 until 1959. Spotlighting a 
selection of the pioneering research 
currently being done at Caltech, the 
Watson Lectures are geared toward a 
general audience as part of the Institute’s 
ongoing commitment to benefiting the 
local community through education and 
outreach. Through a gift from the estate 
of Richard C. Biedebach, the lecture 
series has expanded to also highlight 
one assistant professor’s research each 
season; Kasliwal is the Biedebach 
Memorial Lecturer this season.

 The Watson Lectures are part of the 
Caltech Signature Lectures presented 
by Caltech Public Programming, which 
offer a deep dive into the groundbreaking 
research and scientific discoveries at 
Caltech and JPL. 

 For information, please visit: caltech.
edu/watson.

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