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Mountain Views News Saturday, June 15, 2024


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WALKING SIERRA MADRE - The Social Side


6-Day Forecast Sierra Madre, Ca.

“I believe in loyalty. When a person reaches an age they 
like, they should stick with it.”

Eva Gabor

“A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day trip 
around the sun. 

Enjoy the trip, don’t miss anything!” Unknown

“We are only young once. That is all society can stand.” 
Bob Bowen

“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly,

and lie about your age.” Lucille Ball

Birthdays seem to be happening just about every day lately 
and they are all significant. Of

course, many of them are remembrances of people who 
have graduated from here to

heaven. Flag Day, June 14, for instance, was my father-in-
law’s birthday. He would have been 131. He’s been gone 
quite a long time, but my memories of him and my mother-
in-law are so good that I wanted to share a little bit of them. 

He was a life-long member of the Gideon’s and must have 
given out thousands of little New Testaments in his lifetime. 
During WW2 he was down at Union Station daily as the young soldiers were taken out of Los Angeles to 
go to war, handing out New Testaments, shaking their hands, encouraging them, and praying for them. They 
lived, Jay and Leila Davis, all their lives together in the home that Leila’s father bought on Van Ness Avenue 
in Los Angeles when she and her family first moved here from Idaho. She was 14. She became a school 
teacher, specializing in adult education, and he worked for the County all his life. He took a walk daily in his 
neighborhood and was one of the people who left his world a little better than he found it, picking up trash 
along the way. I expect that the line of people who came to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior, because Jay 
Davis gave them the Good News, stretched for miles when he arrived in heaven to receive his “well done, 
good and faithful servant.” I had never met people like them before, and have been grateful all my life for the 
day John took me to meet them and they ran out the door to meet and welcome me.

Tomorrow is Father’s Day and I’m hoping you’re prepared with a card or plans for a phone call or visit to 
your dad. It is also my best friend and Walking Sierra Madre buddy, John’s, birthday. 

John and I were married fifty years and his birthdays became more and more interesting as time

went on because he made it very clear he didn’t want any more stuff. He let me refresh his

wardrobe as soon as he realized I could buy all his clothes for him and he’d never have to go in

another department store again. But as far as the children were concerned, what he wanted was

for them to arrange something for them to do together. Go someplace, do something. He went to

air shows with Leah, helped son, John, remodel a house, went on an outing to an aircraft carrier

with Patti and grandson, Blake, just to name a few. We flew to Texas to celebrate birthdays with Crissy and 
Chris, and had innumerable birthday dinners, lunches and breakfasts. 

All my memories of his birthdays involve lots of laughter, flocks of family, good times and good food. We 
went on a hot air balloon ride to celebrate his 40th birthday, had a belly dancer and the party of the century at 
our house on Alegria for his 50th. Yep, friends and neighbors, epic good times.

I suspect his birthday in heaven this year will be another great day. Interestingly, when I opened Sarah 
Young’s devotional book, “Jesus Calling” for June `16th, the reading was really about him and his character, 
ending with his life verse, Micah 6:8: “He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord 
require of you? To act justly and to have mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” That was pretty much 
how John lived. Happy birthday my one and only love! The picture today, is one of us with grandson, Luke. 

One last thing, the cake John liked most for his birthday was apple cake so I’ll pass it along to

you guys.

Easy Apple Cake

2 cups Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, cut in good sized chunks

1 cup sugar - Place apples in a bowl and add sugar. Let stand 30 min. (That part is really

important!)

Add: 1/4 cup oil, 1 egg beaten, 1 tsp vanilla. Blend well. 

Combine:

1 cup unsifted flour, 1 generous tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. soda, 1/4 tsp. salt 

Stir into apple mixture.

 

Add 1/2 cup or so chopped pecans or walnuts. Spoon into well-greased 8” square pan. 

Bake at 350, 45 to 50 minutes till cake tester inserted in middle comes out clean. 

Cut into squares and dust with powdered sugar. Best served warm, and it doubles and triples

beautifully.

You’ll notice my book page on Amazon contains the title, “A Treasure Map, a Drunken Owl and 47 Rattlers 
in a Bag.” These are stories of my grandfather, as handed down to me by my father. They are harrowing tales 
of carving out farmland in lower California. 

My book page: Amazon.com: Deanne Davis

Where you’ll find the Emma Gainsworth Kindle novelettes, 

Along with other goodies like “A Treasure Map, A Drunken Owl

And 47 Rattlers in A Bag” True Tales of Early California

 Sun Sunny Hi 80s Lows 60s 

 Mon: Sunny Hi 80s Lows 60s 

 Tues: Sunny Hi 80s Lows 60ss 

 Wed: Sunny Hi 80s Lows 60s

 Thur: Sunny Hi 80s Lows 60ss 

 Fri: Sunny Hi 80s Lows 60s

Forecasts courtesy of the National Weather Service

SIERRA MADRE CITY MEETINGS

SIERRA MADRE CITY 

COUNCIL MEETING

June 25, 2024 5:30pm

THIS MEETING WILL BE HELD 
IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS!

As part of the City of Sierra Madre’s 

COVID-19 transparency efforts and The 
Brown Act provides the public with an opportunity 
to make public comments at any 
public meeting. Public comment may also be 
made by e-mail to PublicComment@CityofSierraMadre.
com by 3:00 p.m. on the day of 
the meeting. 

Emails will be acknowledged at the Council 
meeting and filed into public record. The 
public may also comment in person at the 
meeting.

The meetings will be streamed live on Foothills 
Media website at foothillsmedia.org/sierramadre 
and broadcast on Government 

Access Channel 3 (Spectrum)..



1630 AM EMERGENCY RADIO & 

Free on-air publicity for local events

 Sierra Madre’s EMERGENCY radio station is now accepting scripts for 
Public Service Announcements (PSAs) about community events. PSAs 
will be broadcast on the air at no charge. The station operates 24/7 and can 
be heard at 1630 on the AM dial.

 Any local non-profit or non-commercial organization can have their 
event information broadcast to the public on Sierra Madre Community 
Information Radio. The station covers the city of Sierra Madre, plus 
surrounding areas of Pasadena, Arcadia, and Monrovia. 

Your event must:

• Benefit a non-commercial or non-profit entity
• Be open to the public
• Be of general interest to local citizens


Just 
write a Public Service Announcement that describes your event and 
e-mail it to radio@cityofsierramadre.com. 


LIBRARY TOWN HALL MEETINGS - JUNE 2024

Thursday, June 13, 2024 – 6:30PM at The City Hall Council Chambers – 232 W Sierra Madre Blvd.

Saturday, June 22, 2024 – 2:00PM at The City Hall Council Chambers – 232 W Sierra Madre Blvd.

The Sierra Madre Public Library wants to hear from you on the future direction of the Library. 

With a renovated building on the horizon, we want to know how does the Sierra Madre community want to utilize that 
remodeled building? Tell us what you enjoy about the Library and what would you like to see and/or do at the Library. 
Let us know where we should focus our future efforts. 

Be heard at the City Hall Council Chambers on Thursday, June 13 at 6:30pm or on Saturday, June 22 at 2:00pm. The 
upcoming Thursday, June 13 Town Hall Meeting will be livestreamed and recorded for your convenience. Call the 
Library at (626) 355-7186 for more information.

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

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