Mountain Views News, Combined Edition Saturday, October 21, 2023

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ALTADENA - SOUTH PASADENA - SAN MARINO

Mountain View News Saturday, October 21, 2023 

Holden Joins Governor and 
other Legislators in Signing 
of Mental Health Legislation

Teen Advisory Board Hosts 
Retro Games Day Event

San Marino Upcoming 
Events & Programming

 The South Pasadena Public 
Library’s Teen Advisory 
Board will host a Retro Games 
Day on Saturday, November 
18 at 10:30 a.m. - noon in the 
Library Community Room at 
1115 El Centro Street, South 
Pasadena, CA. Sponsored 
by the Friends of the South 
Pasadena Public Library, this 
event is offered free to the 
public.

 Children, teens, and parents 
are invited to engage in classic 
hands-on games at stations 
led by Teen Advisory Board 
volunteers. Cat’s cradle, 
American jacks, Gonggi 
(Korean jacks), marbles, 
hopscotch, card games such 
as Spoons and Go Fish, and 
preschool games such as 
Duck, Duck, Goose, Hokey 
Pokey, and Ring Around the 
Rosie are samples of some 
of the games that the teen 
volunteers will demonstrate 
and play with younger kids 
and their peers.

 The South Pasadena 
Public Library is located at 
1100 Oxley Street in South 
Pasadena. Visit the Library 
website at: southpasadenaca.
gov/library for information 
about services and programs. 

San Marino Historical Society

Monday, October 23 at 7 PM, Barth Community Room

 In its Speakers Series, the San Marino Historical Society presents 
quarterly history talks focusing on topics specially selected for 
our town. This quarter’s guest speaker is Marc Wanamaker! 
Wanamaker is recognized around the world as one of the leading 
historians of Los Angeles, Hollywood, and the Motion Picture 
and Television Industries. He has been the featured expert on 
numerous television shows and documentaries and served as a 
technical advisor and consultant on numerous major motion 
pictures. Join us for a compelling conversation! Registration is not 
required.

Family Storytime

Tuesday, October 24 at 10:30 AM, Children’s Area

 Storytime is back! Storytime features activities for children ages 
5 and under that will promote early literacy and lifelong learning 
through songs, movement, fingerplays, and books. Storytime 
is also an opportunity for caregivers to learn ways they can 
incorporate learning activities into everyday routines. Storytime 
occurs weekly on Tuesday through December 19. Registration is 
not required. Please watch our social media for cancellations.

Coffee, Tea, and Chat

Friday, October 27 from 9:30 – 11:30 AM, Thornton Conference 
Room

 Connect with your neighbors to learn more about the community 
and its traditions. This program is presented in Mandarin by 
the United Charity Foundation for ages 18+. Registration is not 
required.

Trunk or Treat & Concert Night on October 27

 Pre-order your wristbands for a spooktacular time at our Trunk 
or Treat & Concert Night on October 27 from 6-10 PM at Lacy 
Park!

 There will be trunk or treating, food trucks, games, crafts, 
costume contests, and a concert featuring 80s cover band "Like 
Totally Fer Sure"!

 This is a ticketed event, and wristbands are required for adults 
and youth ages 2 and up. Preorder your wristbands NOW through 
October 26 at www.CityofSanMarino.org/Registration. Pre-
sale wristbands cost $5 for residents and $10 for non-residents. 
Pre-sale wristbands must be picked up at the San Marino 
Community Center (1800 Huntington Drive) by October 27 at 
11 AM. Wristbands will also be sold at the gate the day of the 
event for $15 for residents and non-residents. Wristband sales are 
non-refundable.

 For questions, call the Recreation Division at (626) 403-2200.

Smarter Living Series: How to Function with Hearing Loss in 
Everyday Life

Wednesday, November 1 at 1 PM, Barth Community Room

 In this free workshop, Doctor Norma Camacho will help 
participants learn strategies to communicate with assistive 
listening devices, visual cues, and auditory training. Individuals 
who use these strategies to communicate will improve their 
ability to understand speech even if they have severe hearing loss. 
Registration is not required.

San Marino Fire Department 100th Anniversary Open House

 The San Marino Fire Department is celebrating our 100th 
anniversary! Join our San Marino firefighters in celebrating this 
historic occasion on Saturday, November 4, from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. 
The Fire Department will be hosting an open house tour featuring 
historical exhibits (including San Marino’s very first fire engine 
“Old #1”, firefighter demonstrations, and a fire safety workshop. 
For any questions, please call (626) 300-0735.

Free Compost Event on Saturday, November 11

 On Saturday, November 11, the City and Athens Services will 
hold a free compost giveaway for San Marino residents in the west 
(St. Albans) parking lot of Lacy Park. The event will be from 9 
AM to 12 PM, and is first-come first-serve for interested residents. 
As the event is self-service, residents are advised to bring shovels 
and sturdy containers to assist in loading the material, as well 
as eye protection and gloves. Athens’ compost is licensed by the 
California Department of Food and Agriculture, and will improve 
the quality and health of soil, reducing the need for pesticides and 
fertilizer. For more event details, go to: CityofSanMarino.org/
Calendar.

Meeting

Library Board of Trustees

Monday, October 23 at 8:00 AM; Barth Room Crowell Public 
Library and Zoom (Public Access)

Planning Commission Meeting

Wednesday, October 25 at 6:00 PM; City Hall Council Chambers 
and Zoom (Public Access)

Joint Meeting of the City Council and Public Safety Commission

Friday, October 27 at 8:30 AM; Barth Room and Zoom (Public 
Access)


NASA Psyche Spacecraft 
En Route to Study Asteroid

 Governor Newsom Last 
week signed Senate Bill 326 
authored by Senator Susan 
Eggman, modernizing the 
Mental Health Services Act, and 
Assembly Bill 531 authored by 
Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, 
a $6.38 Billion bond to build 
new behavioral health housing 
and treatment settings across 
the state. Californians will vote 
on this package, collectively 
known as Proposition 1, on the 
March 2024 ballot.

 “This week has been powerful 
and incredibly effective in 
moving forward efforts to 
tackle our state’s mental health 
crisis. From the signing of 
my Youth Mental Health 
Services Bill, AB 289, earlier 
this week, to the signing of my 
colleagues’ bills yesterday, we 
are moving on this issue as one 
united front and that is how 
meaningful change happens,” 
said Assemblymember Chris 
Holden.

 These bills collectively will 
work to allocate resources to 
California’s most vulnerable 
constituents who are fighting to 
overcome mental and emotional 
health challenges. The 
expansion of these resources 
allows for more citizens to find 
the necessary care needed in 
order for them to live productive 
lives in the state of California 
while also helping to prevent 
many people from facing some 
of the issues that can come from 
untreated mental disorders, 
including homelessness and 
substance abuse.

 “I want to thank Senator 
Eggman and Assemblymember 
Irwin for authoring these bills 
and making mental health a 
priority. I am with you in this 
fight for a happier and healthier 
society,” said Holden.

 For more information visit: 
a41.asmdc.org.

 NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on 
its voyage to an asteroid of the 
same name, a metal-rich world 
that could tell us more about 
the formation of rocky planets. 
Psyche successfully launched at 
10:19 a.m. EDT Friday aboard 
a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket 
from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s 
Kennedy Space Center in 
Florida.

 Integrated onto the spacecraft 
is the agency’s Deep Space 
Optical Communications 
technology demonstration, 
a test of deep space laser 
communications that could 
support future exploration 
missions by providing more 
bandwidth to transmit data 
than traditional radio frequency 
communications.

 “Congratulations to the Psyche 
team on a successful launch, 
the first journey to a metal-
rich asteroid,” said NASA 
Administrator Bill Nelson. “The 
Psyche mission could provide 
humanity with new information 
about planet formation while 
testing technology that can be 
used on future NASA missions. 
As Asteroid Autumn continues, 
so does NASA’s commitment 
to exploring the unknown and 
inspiring the world through 
discovery.”

 Less than five minutes after 
liftoff, once the rocket’s second 
stage climbed to a high-enough 
altitude, the fairings separated 
from the rocket and returned 
to Earth. About an hour after 
launch, the spacecraft separated 
from the rocket, and ground 
controllers waited to acquire a 
signal from the spacecraft.

 Shortly after, the Psyche 
spacecraft commanded itself 
into a planned safe mode, in 
which it completes only minimal 
engineering activities while 
awaiting further commands 
from mission controllers on 
Earth. Psyche established two-
way communication at 11:50 
a.m. EDT with NASA’s Deep 
Space Network complex in 
Canberra, Australia. Initial 
telemetry reports show the 
spacecraft is in good health.

 “I am excited to see the treasure 
trove of science Psyche will 
unlock as NASA’s first mission 
to a metal world,” said Nicola 
Fox, associate administrator for 
the Science Mission Directorate 
at NASA Headquarters in 
Washington. “By studying 
asteroid Psyche, we hope to 
better understand our universe 
and our place in it, especially 
regarding the mysterious and 
impossible-to-reach metal core 
of our own home planet, Earth.”

 By August 2029, the spacecraft 
will begin to orbit the 173-mile-
wide (279-kilometer-wide) 
asteroid – the only metal-class 
asteroid ever to be explored. 
Because of Psyche’s high iron-
nickel metal content, scientists 
think it may be the partial core 
of a planetesimal, a building 
block of an early planet. The 
goal is a 26-month science 
investigation.

 “We said ‘goodbye’ to our 
spacecraft, the center of so 
many work lives for so many 
years – thousands of people 
and a decade,” said Lindy 
Elkins-Tanton, Psyche principal 
investigator at Arizona State 
University in Tempe. “But 
it’s really not a finish line; it’s 
a starting line for the next 
marathon. Our spacecraft is off 
to meet our asteroid, and we’ll fill 
another gap in our knowledge 
– and color in another kind of 
world in our solar system.”

 For its six-year, 2.2-billion-mile 
(3.6-billion-kilometer) trip to 
the main asteroid belt between 
Mars and Jupiter, Psyche relies 
on solar electric propulsion. 
The efficient propulsion system 
works by expelling charged 
atoms, or ions, of the neutral 
gas xenon to create a thrust that 
gently propels the spacecraft. 
Along the way, the spacecraft 
will use Mars’ gravity as a 
slingshot to speed it along on its 
journey.

 “I’m so proud of the Psyche 
team, who overcame many 
challenges on their way to 
this exciting day,” said Laurie 
Leshin, the director of NASA’s 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 
Southern California. “Now the 
real fun begins as we race toward 
asteroid Psyche to unlock the 
secrets of how planets form and 
evolve.”

 The first 100 days of the 
mission are a commissioning 
phase, called the initial checkout 
period, to make sure all flight 
systems are healthy. Key to the 
checkout is ensuring that the 
electric thrusters are ready to 
begin continuously firing over 
long stretches of the trajectory.

 Active checkout of the 
science instruments – the 
magnetometer, the gamma-
ray and neutron spectrometer, 
and the multispectral imager – 
starts about six weeks from now. 
During this period, the imager 
will take its first images for 
calibration purposes, targeting 
standard stars and a star cluster 
at a variety of exposures, with 
several different filters. Then 
the Psyche team will activate 
an automatic feed of publicly 
viewable raw images online for 
the duration of the mission.

 The first opportunity to power 
on the optical communications 
technology demonstration 
is expected in about three 
weeks, when Psyche would 
be roughly 4.7 million miles 
(7.5 million kilometers) from 
Earth. This will be the agency’s 
first test beyond the Moon of 
high-data-rate optical, or laser, 
communications. While the 
transceiver is hosted by Psyche, 
the tech demo will not relay 
Psyche mission data.

 “Launching with Psyche 
is an ideal platform to 
demonstrate NASA’s optical 
communications goal to get 
high-bandwidth data into deep 
space,” said Dr. Prasun Desai, 
acting associate administrator, 
Space Technology Mission 
Directorate (STMD) at NASA 
Headquarters. “It’s exciting 
to know that, in a few short 
weeks, Deep Space Optical 
Communications will begin 
sending data back to Earth to 
test this critical capability for the 
future of space exploration. The 
insights we learn will help us 
advance these innovative new 
technologies and, ultimately, 
pursue bolder goals in space.”

 Arizona State University leads 
the Psyche mission. A division 
of Caltech in Pasadena, JPL is 
responsible for the mission’s 
overall management, system 
engineering, integration and 
test, and mission operations.

 For more information about 
NASA’s Psyche mission go to: 
nasa.gov/psyche.

 
The mission, managed 
by JPL, will explore a 
metal-rich asteroid that 
may shed light on our own 
planet’s formation.

Club Haus Local Artists 
Pop Up Event Kicks Off 

 

 Club Haus, in collaboration 
with Bravo Spa and Salon in 
Pasadena, is set to hold an 
opening night reception for 
an art pop-up, featuring the 
works of five local mixed 
media artists, on Thursday, 
October 26.

 “I’m excited to launch Club 
Haus Art Pop Up and kick off a 
new networking event aimed 
at nurturing meaningful 
connections within the 
Pasadena community, while 
supporting local artists,” said 
Rebecca Haussling, founder 
of Club Haus. 

 Club Haus Art Pop Up 
will showcase five unique 
artists with a wide range 
of mediums including 
Andrea Atanay, a self-taught 
mixed media artist with a 
lifelong passion for artistic 
expression through abstract 
expressionist paintings 
and collage. Andrea will be 
showcasing a six-foot-tall 
colorful encaustic painting, 
made with pigmented wax.

 Multi-talented artist 
GERMIZM (pictured) is a 
self-made talent who began 
with spray cans and graffiti 
art and transitioned to 
graphic design and screen 
printing. He created the 
inaugural posters for the 
Coachella Music Festival, 
as well as for musical acts 
such as Boy George’s Culture 
Club, Stan Ridgeway and DJ 
Paul Oakenfold. GERMIZM 
will feature several medium-
sized, mixed media pieces 
and limited-edition prints.

 Kimberly Adamis Fongheiser 
is a multidisciplinary artist 
and photographer. She can 
be found either in her home 
art studio, or creating art 
portraiture and capturing 
live moments through 
photography. Kimberly has 
toured with Ann Wilson 
from Heart, and in 2019 
she photographed Heart’s 
“Love Alive” tour. Kimberly’s 
work has been exhibited 
in Los Angeles, Rome, 
Venice, London and now, 
in Pasadena. Kimberly will 
feature two large mixed 
media works and limited-
edition Sharpie prints.

 NERV Skyhigh found his 
escape through art as a kid, 
and later with graffiti. NERV 
spent the last 20 years in the 
music business collaborating 
with major brands like 
Nike, MTV, Paramount 
Pictures, PUMA, Krylon 
and more. His artwork has 
been featured in prestigious 
venues like Christie’s 
Auction House in Beverly 
Hills and the Museum 
of Contemporary Art in 
downtown Los Angeles. 
NERV will display a large, 
single, mixed media piece 
featuring singer, songwriter, 
and multi-platinum artist, 
Prince.

 Rounding out the five 
artists is multi-disciplinary 
artist Sya Warfield. Sya’s 
artwork expresses feelings 
of optimism and radiates 
empowerment. Sya’s work 
is filled with vibrant colors 
and effervescent imagery. 
In 2022, Sya was selected 
to create artwork for a Visa 
kiosk for the Super Bowl 
Experience held at the Los 
Angeles Convention Center. 
She will be featuring several 
of her mixed media works.

 The Art Pop Up will be held 
from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bravo 
Spa and Salon is located at 
455 South Lake Ave. To RSVP 
email: clubhausartshow@
gmail.com.


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