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Mountain View News Saturday, October 18, 2025


Weather Wise

WALKING SIERRA MADRE 

 The Social Side by Deanne Davis


6-Day Forecast Sierra Madre, Ca.

“When witches go riding and black cats are seen, the moon 
laughs and whispers, “Tis near Halloween!”

“Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and caldron 
bubble.” 

William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” The Song of the Witches

Yes, friends and neighbors, Halloween is a mere three weeks 
away and the picture today is one of the window paintings 
from last year, created by one of our youthful artists. And, as 
Halloween is so near, I thought an Emma Gainsworth Adventure 
is exactly what Sierra Madre needs. We’ve got Legendary 
Bingo coming up on the 18th, the Scarecrow Festival 
is in full swing, our Rose Float Association is asking 
for volunteers for the Royal Court to ride on our float New 
Year’s Day, the Firefighters Annual Pancake Breakfast is the 
25th, and, as I’m sure you’re aware, October is Breast Cancer 
Awareness Month so if you haven’t gotten your mammogram 
this year, book it! I’ve had mine!

Emma Gainsworth, my favorite heroine; favorite because I 
created her and have written about six of her adventures, 
needs to stretch her arms, limber up her chef skills and see 
what trouble she can get into this Halloween. Sha has outwitted 
Pumpkinetta, Queen of a Pumpkin planet where she 
labored to create gourmet dishes featuring pumpkin and 
darn little else, including Pumpkin Chardonnay. She has 
built a cooking school, a fabulous restaurant, survived a 
hurricane, married and given birth to twins. But now, she’s 
going back to her beginnings…

EMMA GAINSWORTH 

CONQUERS HALLOWEEN…AGAIN

Emma Gainsworth was born on the wrong side of the tracks. 
Her parents, who considered her less than average, abandoned 
her abruptly and moved to Sweden. All she had left 
was a tumbledown shack and a pumpkin patch. As Halloween 
was approaching, Emma thought she’d create a sort of 
haunted pumpkin patch, hoping she could generate a little 
income so she could do some grocery shopping. Emma was 
tired to the bone of ramen noodles in a Styrofoam cup and 
longed for a nice piece of salmon, or maybe even a pound of 
hamburger and a box of hamburger helper.

Walking along the tracks, Emma found some pieces of 
wood, a bit of wire, and just a little further along, an abandoned 
corn field. “Perfect,” she thought to herself, and 
started dragging her finds home. This took quite a while as 
old wood and dried up corn stalks are heavy. However, as 
Emma was not going to let a little hard work defeat her, she 
persevered and eventually created a ramshackle sort of corn 
stalk embellished sign:

Haunted Pumpkin Patch! Just $1.00!

Open All Night…Bring Your Flashlight

It was the week before Halloween and she was ready. She 
had nailed flyers all over town advertising her Haunted 
Pumpkin Patch and was ready for business. The Harvest 
Moon had waned and the crescent moon gave very little 
light. Bottom line, it was dark! Halloween was less than a 
week away and Emma had carved terrifying faces in some 
of her pumpkins and lit them with candles, piled others 
into tall pyramids, and hoped for the best. 

Astonishingly, the flyers all around town had worked like 
a charm and carloads of bored teenage boys descended on 
Emma’s Haunted Pumpkin Patch. Armed with flashlights 
and illicit cans of Bud, they brushed by Emma like she was 
invisible. “Wait,” she cried, “it’s a dollar each! Come back!” 

Laughing maniacally, the boys, led by the local high 
school’s football team, started kicking Emma’s pumpkins, 
destroying her carefully carved jack o’ lanterns. “Stop it!” 
she shrieked. But they were destruction possessed.

But wait, Emma had cherished her pumpkins. Fed them, 
loved them, watered them and they, in turn, were grateful. 
The dim moon barely showed Emma’s pumpkins beginning 
to grow. The vines that still lay on the ground moved 
quietly, stealthily, and snaked around the ankles of the 
marauders, and before they even had time to scream, they 
were jerked up in the air, higher and frighteningly higher…

To Be Continued….

My book page: Amazon.com: Deanne Davis

There are treasures there! Trust me!

And All the Emma Gainsworth Adventures,

Including “Just Desserts” A Fall Fantasy of Pumpkins Gone 
Wrong!

 Sun Sunny Hi 80s Lows 50s 

 Mon: Sunny Hi 70s Lows 50s 

 Tues: Sunny Hi 70s Lows 50s 

 Wed: Sunny Hi 70s Lows 50s

 Thur: Sunny Hi 70s Lows 50s 

 Fri: Sunny Hi 80s Lows 50s

Forecasts courtesy of the National Weather Service

SIERRA 
MADRE CITY 

COUNCIL 
MEETING

October 28, 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)..


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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