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Mountain View News Saturday, July 27, 2024


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WALKING SIERRA MADRE - The Social Side

by Deanne Davis

6-Day Forecast Sierra Madre, Ca.

Advice from a 
butterfly: Let your 
true colors show, Take 
yourself lightly, Look 
for the sweetness in 
life, Take time to smell 
the flowers, Catch a 
breeze, Treat yourself 
like a Monarch!

Nice, right? My 
daughter, Leah, 
the Sierra Madre 
butterfly wrangler, 
released several 
Monarchs into the 
wild this past week 
and is battling a 
truly horrid menace 
called, “T-Fly.” 
Brace yourself, it 
really is horrible: 
“The Tachinid Fly 
is a very small but 
deadly predator to 
the Monarch. This disgusting fly lays its eggs in the caterpillar or on the egg. The poor Monarch doesn’t even know it 
has been parasitized and goes through its life stages, happy as can be, until these stringy things start to come out of the 
chrysalis!” The next step: Squash it! Smash it! 

The life of a butterfly wrangler is fraught with disappointment, peril, and an occasional success, when one of these 
beauties is released to begin its journey to Mexico. 

Today, as I write Walking Sierra Madre, is granddaughter Emily’s, 14th birthday. She is having several of her friends over 
to devour pizza and spend the night. This celebration is right on the heels of the baby shower we hosted lasted Saturday 
for granddaughter, Nicole, her husband, and a whole lot of really charming young people. I think at least three of the 
young ladies were also expecting. 

That’s the picture today, Nicole, husband, Chris, and lots of family. These people are all over 6’ tall and I felt like a 
midget walking through a forest of giants! Emily is in the picture, too, with her curly hair. Yes, friends and neighbors, I 
love sharing family with you and my favorite things in the Mountain Views News always involve families. I was terribly 
torn about what picture to use as I also have one of the amazing, totally awesome, Harry Shahoian, Elvis impersonator 
extraordinaire, who will pack out the park tomorrow night from 6-8. Come early or you won’t get even a tiny spot to put 
your chair. As Harry’s picture was on the front page of last week’s News, I went with my family. 

Another exciting week, President Biden declined the nomination and in a rare celestial coincidence, July’s full moon (the 
Buck Moon) shared the spotlight with the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 16th.

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

The immortal words of Neil Armstrong. There was a lot of coverage about Apollo 11 taking us all to the moon, but you 
might not know what the Apollo 11 guys left behind: Lots of footprints! Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s footprints are 
still there today because there is no weather on the lunar surface.

Also left behind, messages of hope, peace and goodwill from leaders in 73 countries, with words inscribed microscopically 
on the edge of a silicon disc. It says, “From Planet Earth, July 1969” and lists the names of the members of Congress who 
signed legislation making Apollo 11 possible and the names of top NASA officials. This disc is about the size of a half 
dollar coin!

They left a patch from the Apollo 1 mission to honor Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chafee, the astronauts who 
lost their lives when a fire swept through the Apollo 1 command module during a training exercise at Kennedy Space 
Center on January 27, 1967. They also left medals honoring Russian cosmonauts Vladimir Komarov and Yuri Gagarin. 

An American flag was left behind, not so much to “claim” the moon, but a symbolic gesture. It is theorized that flags left 
on the moon during the Apollo era have faded to white under the sun’s harsh ultraviolet rays. Just something else you 
might not know. 

I, personally, could have cared less about men walking on the moon as I was incredibly pregnant, hot and miserable. Baby 
Crissy arrived July 30th, just a few days after the historic moon walk. 

One last thing…give yourself a fabulous treat and watch, “Young Woman and the Sea.” You’ll find it on Disney+. This 
is the story of Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel. “21 miles and a nice day for a swim!” She 
overcame so much adversity from just about everybody to complete this epic swim, faster than the man who had done 
it before her. It’s simply a great movie and you’ll find yourself cheering for Trudy all along the way. Gertrude first won a 
gold medal at the 1924 Olympic Games and in 1926 swam the English Channel. Really, sit down and watch an excellent 
portrayal of this heroic woman.

Have a fabulous time tomorrow night with Harry/Elvis and sing along. Best time ever!

My book page: Amazon.com: Deanne Davis

So many fun books, great recipes and stories in

A Tablespoon of Love, A Tablespoon of Laughter, and

Sunrises and Sunflowers Speak Hope

 
Sun Sunny Hi 90s Lows 60s 

 Mon: Sunny Hi 90s Lows 60s 

 Tues: Sunny Hi 90s Lows 60s 

 Wed: Sunny Hi 90s Lows 60s

 Thur: Sunny Hi 90s Lows 60s 

 Fri: Sunny Hi 80s Lows 60s

Forecasts courtesy of the National Weather Service

SIERRA MADRE CITY MEETINGS

SIERRA MADRE CITY 

COUNCIL MEETING

Sept. 10, 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. 


SIERRA MADRE GIRLS SOFTBALL 12U SILVER ALL 
STARS MAKE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AT JR. 
OLYMPICS TOURNAMENT

Sierra Madre Girls Softball Association’s incredible All Stars 
summer continued as the 12U Silver “Hustle” All Stars made it to the 
Championship Game at the USA Softball State Games (Jr. Olympics C 
Regionals) in San Diego this past weekend, as one of the two top teams 
out of the more than 1,000 all stars teams at the tournament.

This incredible achievement marked the end of 12U Hustle’s summer 
All Stars journey, which started on May 8 and continued with six days 
a week of softball practices and games. 12U Hustle’s commitment 
and hard work led to 25 victories out of 38 games played in high level 
tournaments across Southern California, often battling in triple digit 
heat. These girls dug deep and proudly represented Sierra Madre at the 
highest levels of competition.

And that’s not all–our All Stars season continues as three more 
SMGSA All Stars teams are on their way to National level tournaments 
in Oregon and Washington State at the 10U, 12U and 14U Gold levels 
over the next weekend, thanks to the support and dedication of our 
community.

Want to join in on the action? Fall season registration is open now at smgsa.org, with practices and games scheduled to start in 
September. SMGSA will offer both regular and more competitive select team options. For more information, visit smgsa.org and 
follow SMGSA on Instagram @sierramadregirlssoftball and Facebook @sierramadregirlssoftballassociation.


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