RECOVERY RACE 

(continued from page 1)

The 5K Race Awards Ceremony was announced by MWTR 
Director Pete Siberell. The full list of 5K Race age group & 
category winners will soon be posted on the Mount Wilson 
Trail Race website. All age group & category winners were 
presented with an authentic McLeod, a long handled tool 
used to remove vegetation and soil. Usually race awards are 
neck ribbons with a small award medallion.

Many thanks to all who helped make this event such an 
amazing success. Thanks for showing that the road to recovery 
is real – especially when the community works together. 

Set your calendars now because the 2026 Mount Wilson 
Trail Race is scheduled for Saturday, May 23, 2026. 

Stay tuned and check the Mount Wilson Trail Race website 
after January 2026 for details as they become available. Much 
more trail work needs to be done to make the Mount Wilson 
Trail safe for public use such that the US Forest Service will 
allow it to be reopened.

2025 MWT RECOVERY 5K RACE RESULTS

First Place Overall Male & Female Runners

First place male runner – James Timphony (Pasadena) – 
17:42, an average pace of 5:42 minutes per mile. 

Also 1st Place Males 30-39. James was also the 1st Place male 
runner in the Mount Wilson Trail Race in May 2023 and 
May 2024, both of which were on the Mount Wilson Trail. 

First place female runner – Isla Terrill (Monrovia) – 19:34, 
an average pace of 6:17 minutes per mile. Also 1st Place Females 
0-19.

Top Five Sierra Madre Male Residents

1. Duncan Gillis – 19:02 – 2nd Place Overall Males 
& 2nd Place Males 30-39 

2. Eric Lozick – 20:33 – 5th Place Males 30-39

3. Ryan Monninger – 20:35 – 1st Place Males 20-29

4. Sanjay Chauhan – 21:46 

5. Mukesh Mehra – 24:46 

Top Five Sierra Madre Female Residents

1. Susie Lozick – 23:44 – 2nd Place Females 30-39

2. Hannah Yoon – 26:18 – 2nd Place Females 50-59 

3. Melody Donnelly – 28:08 – 2nd Place 

 Females 40-49 

4. Kaitlin Walsh – 28:23 – 5th Place Females 30-39

5. Wynde Barz– 28:36 – 2nd Place Females 60-69

Other Sierra Madre Division Award Winners

• Keith Ansell – 51:07 – 1st Place Males 80+

• David Pejsa – 26:40 – 3rd Place Males 50-59

• Judy Reid – 52:58 – 2nd Place Females 70-79

• Allan Rohlfs – 1:02:28 – 3rd Place Males 80+

• Stuart Stephens – 29:21 – 1st Place Males 60-69

• Stephen Walsh – 30:05 – 2nd Place Males 60-69

• Ralph West – 36:09 – 2nd Place Males 70-79

• Henry Yoon – 26:31 – 2nd Place Males 50-59

• Cristy Zink – 32:34 – 3rd Place Females 60-69

This year’s 5K race High School Challenge included teams 
from Flintwood Preparatory HS, La Salle Preparatory HS, 
Monrovia HS, and Pasadena HS. Team scoring was determined 
by the placement of the top five runners (male and 
female) from each high school. 

Winner – HS Challenge Male Division – Pasadena HS – 
Team Score = 24 Points – Coached by Armand Crespo and 
Marquis Worsley

Tyler Miller – 19:55 – 2nd Place Males 0-19

Jonathon Yoon – 20:01 – 3rd Place Males 0-19

Paolo Gutierrez – 20:06 – 4th Place Males 0-19

Zachary Nash – 20:39 – 7th Place Males 0-19

Calvin Jones – 20:41 – 8th Place Males 0-19

Winner – HS Challenge Female Division – Monrovia HS – 
Team Score = 16 Points – Coached by Heather Huggins 

Isla Terrill – 19:34 – 1st Place Overall Female, 1st Place 
Females 0-19

Lydia Dodd – 20:55 – 2nd Place Overall Female, 

 2nd Place Females 0-19

Keziah Johnson – 21:50 – 3rd Place 0-19

Annelie Cottone – 22:33 – 4th Place Females 0-19

Madeline Milon – 23:02 – 6th Place Females 0-19–

Photos by Dirk Bolle 

Results submited by MWT committee.

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Mountain View News Saturday, October 11, 2025


Weather Wise


6-Day Forecast Sierra Madre, Ca.

 Sun Sunny Hi 80s Lows 60s 

 Mon: Sunny Hi 80s Lows 60s 

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 Wed: Sunny Hi 80s Lows 60s

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SIERRA 
MADRE CITY 

COUNCIL 
MEETING

October 14, 2025 5:30 pm

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)..


WALKING SIERRA MADRE 

 The Social Side by Deanne Davis

“FIFTEEN MEN ON THE 
DEAD MAN’S CHEST!


...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Drink and the devil had done for 
the rest—

...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

But one man of her crew alive,

What put to sea with seventy-five.”

“Fifteen men of ’em good and true-

Every man jack could ha’ sailed 
with Old Pew-

There was chest on chest full of 

Spanish gold,

With a ton of plate in the middle hold,

And the cabins riot of stuff untold,

And they lay there,

That had took the plum,

With sightless glare

And their lips struck dumb,

While we shared all by the rule of thumb-

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!”

Last October this fearsome pirate biding his time outside the 
Buccaneer brought to mind those fifteen men on the dead 
man’s chest, right out of Robert Louis Stevenson’s immortal 
tale, “Treasure Island.” I’m hoping they will turn to pirates 
again this year as I had such a good time regaling you with 
pirate stuff and flights of fancy about the Bucaneer pirate…

That one man of the pirate crew left alive is haunting Sierra 
Madre, keeping watch outside the Buc during the day but, 
oh my friends, at night, when the moon dodges behind the 
clouds and the ghostly goblins come out to play, this pirate 
stalks the streets searching for the treasure. Up and down our 
quiet town he wanders, frightening cats and coyotes, bothering 
bears and making sleeping dogs howl. He’s lost his map, 
you see; the one where X marks the spot.

All this conjecture about pirates and their history made me 
think of one of the best pirates ever, Sir Henry Morgan (1635 
- 1688). Morgan was a Welsh privateer who fought for the 
English against the Spanish in the Caribbean during the 1660s 
and 1670s. He is remembered as the greatest of the privateers, 
amassing huge fleets, attacking prominent targets, and being 
the worst enemy of the Spanish since Sir Francis Drake. Although 
he made numerous raids all along the Spanish Main, 
his three most famous exploits were the 1668 sack of Portobello, 
the 1669 raid on Maracaibo, and the 1671 attack on 
Panama. Morgan was knighted by King Charles II of England

and died in Jamaica a rich man. A privateer, in case you didn’t 
know, was a pirate with a license to loot!

The Buccaneer pirate could very well have sailed with Morgan 
through the Caribbean and buried chest on chest of Spanish 
gold. Of course, the most important part of this whole story 
is the fact that his dashing face and figure are on the label of 
Captain Morgan’s spiced rum, which is the major ingredient 
of the Mai Tai. You can find one of those right inside the Bucaneer 
and imagine yourself on a beautiful hotel veranda in 
Jamaica with the ocean in front of you and a tropical scented 
breeze blowing gently around you as you watch the sun slowly 
sink into the ocean. Maybe today you’ll see the green flash.

Jimmy Buffett also comes to mind… “A Pirate Looks at 40”

“Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call

Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall

You’ve seen it all, you’ve seen it all.

Watched the men who rode you switch from sails to steam

And in your belly, you hold the treasures few have ever seen.

Most of ‘em dream, most of ‘em dream.

Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late

The cannons don’t thunder, there’s nothin’ to plunder

I’m an over-forty victim of fate

Arriving too late, arriving too late.”

See what I mean, flights of fancy probably brought on by too 
many Pumpkin Spice Lattes.

My book page: Amazon.com: Deanne Davis

There are treasures there! Trust me!

Including “Just Desserts” A Fall Fantasy of Pumpkins

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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