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Mountain View News Saturday, November 23, 2024


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WALKING SIERRA MADRE -

 The Social Side by Deanne Davis


6-Day Forecast Sierra Madre, Ca.

“Before you marry someone, find out if their family drinks mimosas or runs 5k races on

Thanksgiving morning.”

“Forever grateful, this year and every year, that my family does not do a 5k, play touch football, 
or do any kind of physical activity whatsoever on Thanksgiving.”

I’m thinking about Thanksgiving today, November 18th, and realizing Thanksgiving is a 
week from Thursday! We’re looking forward to a lovely day of delicious food and possibly a 
Disney movie. And, yes, I will be making Green Jell-O Salad! Speaking of movies, Red One 
featuring The Rock and a bunch of other great actors engaged in saving Santa Claus was a 
really fun movie.

“I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal, maybe toast.”

Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

I can cook way more than cold cereal and toast, and did so for scores of family and friends 
for years and years. Our one major rule for Thanksgiving was there was no TV on during 
dinner, we didn’t care what football game was on. Days of hard labor had been expended and everyone was going to appreciate dinner! 
Doggone it! And they did. And really didn’t seem to miss the TV being on. In fact, many people lingered at the table enjoying 
conversation for what seemed like hours when all we really wanted to do was get the dishes washed and go to bed. 

Much to my relief, my cooking days are over and my daughters, Patti and Leah, have taken up the baton and serve amazing meals to 
our ever-expanding family. This year, we have a new baby, Nicole and Chris’s little Miss Olivia, and Luke and Mackenzie were married. 
More joy to share, along with the turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and Leah’s famous roasted vegetables. Blake is the pie master 
and whatever he makes, totally from scratch, will be awesome.

Everybody has some sort of Jell-O salad with their Thanksgiving dinner and here’s mine, given to me more than fifty years ago by 
my Aunt Helen, who was the gift and jewelry buyer for long-departed I. Magnin’s Department Store. She had the distinction of being 
a person who never said anything unpleasant about anyone, unlike Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth who 
famously said, “If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit

next to me.”

My Aunt Helen has been gone for quite a while now, but she lives on for me and our family

whenever we make:

Helen’s Green Jell-O Salad

Regular size package lime Jell-O

2 cups boiling water

24 oz. can crushed pineapple

1 Tbs. lemon juice

2 cups miniature marshmallows

1 8-oz container whipping cream, whipped till it’s nice and thick, or the equivalent amount of

Cool Whip

Put the Jell-O into whatever dish you plan to serve it in. Drain the pineapple juice into the Jell-O

but not the pineapple, add the marshmallows, the 2 cups boiling water, the lemon juice and stir

till the Jell-O is completely melted. Refrigerate. Keep a close eye on it as you don’t want it to jell

completely, just till it’s starting to get firm. At that point, add the other ingredients, mix well to

be sure all the Jell-O is off the bottom and mixed in. Refrigerate until totally firm. You can add

nuts, walnuts or pecans, but only if you’re sure that everyone who is going to eat this likes nuts.

Otherwise, you have to clench your teeth while the non-nut eaters carefully pick each and every

nut out and set them on another plate. You can double this with complete impunity and great

success. 

My Aunt Helen, who never had children of her own, loved me dearly, sat on the floor with a shaded light and read Winnie the Pooh 
to me when I had a really serious case of measles; sewed doll clothes for me on her treadle Singer sewing machine, helped me write 
and memorize a long report on Victoria Falls when I was in third grade, just to name a few of the ways she let me know she loved 
me, and was a blessing to me all her life.

“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.” Ps. 107:1

My book page: Amazon.com: Deanne Davis 

Christmas is just a few short weeks away and my book:

“Sunrises and Sunflowers Speak Hope” 

Would be a really nice gift for everyone you know. It’s on Amazon.com

“Star of Wonder” a delightful Christmas Kindle story is there, too.

 Sun Sunny Hi 60s Lows 50s 

 Mon: Sunny Hi 60s Lows 50s 

 Tues: Sunny Hi 60s Lows 50s 

 Wed: Sunny Hi 60s Lows 50s

 Thur: Sunny Hi 70s Lows 50s 

 Fri: Sunny Hi 70s Lows 50s

Forecasts courtesy of the National Weather Service

SIERRA MADRE CITY MEETINGS

SIERRA MADRE CITY 

COUNCIL MEETING

December 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. 


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