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Mountain View News Saturday, February 22, 2025


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WALKING SIERRA MADRE -

 The Social Side by Deanne Davis

A note from the Editor: Our beloved columnist and friend took a 
bad fall last week, but she will be back as soon as she is able to Walk 
Sierra Madre Again. In the meantime her timely messagee from February 
24, 2024 is reprinted below.

6-Day Forecast Sierra Madre, Ca.

“Count your rainbows, not your thunderstorms.” Alyssa 
Knight

“You can’t have a rainbow without a little (or a lot) of rain.”

“A rainbow is a promise of sunshine after rain, of calm after 
storms, 

of joy after sadness, of peace after pain, of love after loss.”

All this rain has made me think about rainbows, especially after 
granddaughter, Nicole, sent me a picture of a fabulous one she 
saw on her way to work at Sea World. “You can’t see rainbows 
if you’re looking down!” Rainbows brought to mind our friend 
Noah, who saw the very first rainbow. You remember Noah 
was the only person on the entire earth at one time who wasn’t 
making God furious. In fact, Noah, being a pleasure to God was 
asked to do a little job for Him, i.e., build an ark the size of a 
football field, gather up two of every kind of beast, bird and bug 
and load them into this ark. So, he did. God then had Noah and 
all his family get on board. God shut the door. And it rained. 
And it rained. Forty days and nights it rained. You think you’ve 
felt cooped up at home with all this rain? Let’s hear from Noah 
about just how long they were inside the ark with no TV, no 
books, no iTunes, just each other and all those creatures.

Go ahead, Noah…we’re anxious to hear.

“Forty days! Everybody always thinks it was just forty days. We 
could have held our breath for forty days! But there was a lot 
more to it than that. Listen! God shut the door and we had forty 
days of non-stop rain. Then we floated for another 150 days 
while the water started going down and finally we landed on 
a mountaintop. Three months later…So that’s 40 days and 150 
days, 190 days already, then three months more for 280 days. 
Forty more days and I open a window and throw out a bird. 
Gone! Vanished! So I tried a smarter bird, a dove. She couldn’t 
find anyplace to land so back she comes and we’re at 320 days. 
I give it another week and toss her out again. So, 320 days and a 
couple more weeks brings us to 334 days. 29 days later we look 
out and the water is gone. So, 334 days and 29 days brings us to 
363 days but the place is total mud. Eight weeks of waiting for 
dry ground, which is another 56 days, which brings us to a total 
of 419 days! I never wanted to see water again!”

God brought his faithful, obedient Noah out of the ark and 
promised he would never destroy the land like that again. He 
made a promise, a covenant with Noah…

“I’ll send a rainbow, a sign of peace with men.

I’ll send a rainbow, to show my love again.

When clouds fill the sky, it’s a shower going by.

When raindrops fall, sunshine’s coming after all.

Look for the rainbow, my sign of peace with men.

I’ll make the rain go…and show my love again.”

Spring is definitely coming, friends and neighbors!

“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s Party!’” Robin Williams

“Spring has returned. The earth is like a child rejoicing 

in the sun.” 

“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of 

weather inside of 24 hours.” Mark Twain

If you look really closely at trees that look totally and completely 
dead as a doornail, you will see tiny hard buds at the end of the 
branches.

Dead as a doornail. What on earth does that mean? We all say 
it so I thought I’d check with Wikipedia and here’s what they 
have to say: “One plausible explanation is that doors were built 
using only wood boards and hand-forged nails. The nails were 
long enough to nail the vertical wooden panels and horizontal 
stretcher boards securely together so they would not easily pull 
apart. This was accomplished by pounding the protruding 
point of the nail over and down into the wood. A nail that was 
bent in this fashion – and thus not easily pulled out – was said 
to be ‘dead.’ Hence, dead as a doornail. There now, next time 
somebody wants to play Trivia, you’ve got a nifty little fact.

Anyway, plants that were brown will be sprouting green 
leaves. Sierra Madre will never look more beautiful. Snow on 
our personal mountains, camellias blooming in many yards, 
daffodils starting to poke spikey green things out of the ground. 
Sunshine will soon abound and we will be thinking of planting 
some petunias. See, just reading about flowers will make you 
smile and smiling frequently leads to laughter. Which I’m all in 
favor of.

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” Charlie Chaplin.

“Always find a reason to laugh. It may not add years to your 
life,

 but will surely add life to your years.”

“You don’t stop laughing because you grow older, you grow 
older

because you stop laughing.” Maurice Chevalier

Laughter strengthens your immune system, boosts your mood, 
diminishes pain and protects you from the effects of stress. 
Humor lightens your burdens, inspires hope, connects you to 
others and keeps you grounded, focused and alert. Also helps 
you release anger and forgive sooner.

That might possibly mean that when somebody cuts you off 
on the freeway, if you can laugh instead of shaking your fist at 
them, you’ll feel better.

This week, look for emerging signs of spring and laugh a lot! 

My book page: Amazon.com: Deanne Davis

Lent is here, which means Easter is on its way.

“The Crown” a story about what could have happened to 

The Crown of Thorns that pierced Jesus’ brow,

is now an actual book, in addition to a Kindle book.

“The Crown” will enrich your Easter experience.

 Sun Sunny Hi 80s Lows 50s 

 Mon: Sunny Hi 80s Lows 50s 

 Tues: Sunny Hi 80s Lows 50s 

 Wed: Sunny Hi 80s 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

February 25, 2025 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 ALERT: STREET PARKING & DEBRIS REMOVAL UPDATES

Effective Immediately:

Canyon Crest Drive: No street parking from 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM, seven days a week, for approximately two months. This is to facilitate 
heavy equipment access for removing 80,000 to 100,000 cubic yards of sediment and debris from behind the Sierra Madre Dam.

Other Areas: All other "No Street Parking" orders are lifted. However, streets may be temporarily closed for additional cleanup and 
water leak repairs.

County Crews:

County crews will also clear and maintain all other Sierra Madre debris basins. Currently, no additional street parking restrictions 
are required for these locations.

Resident Access:

County personnel will assist residents in accessing and leaving their homes during this work. All persons in the area, whether in 
vehicles or walking, are asked to follow the directions of County traffic control staff.

Private Property Debris Removal:

City Public Works crews will not enter private property for mud and debris removal.

Residents will have designated days to move storm-related debris to the street for removal. Household and landscaping waste are 
not permitted.

The exact timeframe will be announced after storm events, considering weekends and holidays.

Important: After street sweeping, depositing additional debris is prohibited and may result in fines. For more information, contact 
Sierra Madre Public Works at (626) 355-7135.

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