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Mountain View News Saturday, October 25, 2025


Weather Wise

WALKING SIERRA MADRE 

 The Social Side by Deanne Davis


6-Day Forecast Sierra Madre, Ca.

“Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, voices whisper 
in the trees. 

“Tonight is Halloween!”

All Hallows Eve...Be Afraid...Be Very Afraid!

All Hallows Eve.... is coming,

A deadly.... dreadly night...

When ghouls and ghosts and creepies,

And other awful blights,

Are free to roam and wander,

Anywhere they might.

Creating scary terror everywhere they can,

And scream-inducing, faint-producing,

hair-raising, bone-melting,

What’s that right there behind me...

Quivery, shivery...Fright!!

They creep out of their crypts and graves,

These creatures of the night.

They haunt the roads and byways,

Run rampant through the park.

They hide between the bushes,

And everywhere it’s dark.

Up and down the streets of town,

They race in search of plunder,

These ghouls and ghosts and monsters,

About three feet tall or under!

They shriek for treats and threaten tricks,

But are satisfied with candy.

These creatures rule the darkness,

As long as Mom and Dad are handy.

The Jack o’ Lantern families are waiting just for you,

All up and down Alegria,

Hoping to capture a treat or trickster or two.

But if you watch around and behind,

The Jack o’ Lanterns and spiders won’t capture you!

Beware...take care,

Who knows what’s waiting,

Just around the bend.

Could be Jack the Ripper, come to call again,

Or Dracula or Frankenstein, the undead walk tonight.

Maybe just stay safe inside...and turn off that porch light.

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A fun Halloween fact for you as you’re stocking up on candy: Total 
U.S. confectionery sales for the Halloween season in 2024 reached 
$7.4 billion, a 2.2% increase over 2023, according to the National 
Confectioners Association. Consumers were expected to spend 
about $3.5 billion on Halloween candy, while total Halloween 
spending was projected to be $11.6 billion.

One or two things more before we leave Halloween behind and start 
thinking about Thanksgiving… Our great-granddaughter, Brooklyn 
Davis, will be seven on Halloween. Dear friend, Rich Johnson, of JJ 
Jukebox fame, will be somewhat more than seven on Halloween and 
beloved friend, Roger Larocque joined the angel band on Halloween 
a few years ago.

Oh, one last thing…remember those boys who rudely invaded 
Emma Gainsworth’s Haunted Pumpkin Patch, were captured by the 
pumpkin vines, hoisted up by their ankles, and left dangling in last 
week’s Walking Sierra Madre? We gave them a week to regret their 
rudeness. What happened next was the pumpkin vines began to 
shake them left, shake them right and shake them up and down until 
all the money fell out of their feckless pockets and scared them silly. 
The vines then dumped them unceremoniously on the ground and 
they ran like the devil was chasing them. Good riddance to naughty 
boys. Emma picked up all the dollars and nickels they left behind 
and had enough money to treat herself to a delicious Italian dinner 
at Sierra Madre’s new restaurant, Bess, and to buy the ingredients 
to make her Giant Pumpkin Cookies. She will share her recipe next 
week. The picture this week, one of Emma’s vengeful pumpkins.

Have a great week and if you haven’t bought your little ghoul a 
costume, don’t wait too long! 

Happy Halloween my friends, and, in case you didn’t know, Tootsie 
Rolls go great with Chardonnay.


My book page: Amazon.com: Deanne Davis

There are treasures there! Trust me!

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

 Sun Sunny Hi 70s Lows 50s 

 Mon: Sunny Hi 70s Lows 60s 

 Tues: Sunny Hi 80s Lows 60s 

 Wed: Sunny Hi 80s Lows 60s

 Thur: Sunny Hi 80s Lows 60s 

 Fri: Sunny Hi 70s 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. 

 
NO KINGS SIERRA MADRE 

 By Stuart Tolchin (Sierra Madre resident for 45 years)

This report was written on October 18 which, for 
me, was a very good day. By the time you read this report 
a whole week will have passed and who knows what that 
week will be like, but as I write on the end of this Saturday, 
I remember it was a very good day. Early in the morning I 
decided that I needed to be a part of the Nation-wide protest 
and I phoned and left messages for old friends all over the 
country who were probably already awake as they lived in 
different time zones. Sadly, people don’t answer their phones 
much these days, but I did leave voice messages. I was feeling 
pretty good undoubtedly connected with the Dodgers victory 
of the day before. Contrary to the anti-immigrant complaints 
that circulate these days, I was pleased that the efforts of the 
Non-American born Dodger stars were being celebrated by 
everyone.

My son needs to undergo a medical procedure on 
Monday, and he had stayed overnight with my wife and I 
so that we could assist with the necessary pre- operative 
procedures and could transport him to and fro. He suffers 
from life-long disabilities and was confused and nervous 
about the coming procedures. I wanted to be with him as 
much as I could on Saturday, but it was also very important 
to me to be at the demonstration. Consequently, I spoke to 
him about the importance of being present at the No Kings 
Demonstration and he was very reluctant to be involved. He 
argued that he did not understand what possible difference his 
actions would make and I took the time to explain that being 
a part of something intended to do something positive would 
be of benefit to him.

My wife, who did not at first intend to go to the 
demonstration strongly advised that I leave him alone but soon 
she decided to get involved herself. When my wife decides to 
do something she does not do it half-way. She began making 
signs to carry and presto, my son decided he wanted to go. So 
off we all went. We live in little Sierra Madre, a city of about 
ten thousand people and we wondered how many people 
would be at the demonstration. As we drove down the hill 
from our canyon we saw many people walking some carrying 
signs and a few in costume. We parked away from where the 
protest would take place and as we arrived we were amazed to 
see many. Many people already gathered there. 

I read later in the day that the crowd was estimated 
to be at least one thousand people making it the largest crowd 
ever held in Sierra Madre. The composition of the crowd itself 
was surprising and interesting. I was not the oldest person 
there. There were many other people who also looked to be 
in their eighties. In fact, a man who said he was ninety was 
walking around taking pictures.

 Besides, we old folks, there was a wonderful mixture 
of all generations which is something rarely seen or even 
imagined these days. The overall mood of the crowd was 
wonderful. Although the event is described as a protest it was 
clear that people were having a good time. The signs that were 
carried were clever and humorous and there existed a feeling 
of togetherness. I spoke with a man of about my age who wore 
Air Force insignias. We had a good conversation in which he 
explained that he had been a career military officer whose 
life had been dedicated to protecting the freedoms which 
were being threatened by our own President. I had several 
other conversations all of which were very civil but serious. 
I came away with the feeling that the crowd members all 
shared a positive spirit of love of Country and determination 
to maintain this Country’s ideal. People there were there 
wanting to be of help rather than wanting to fight. The sun 
had gotten to my wife and son and they left earlier. I stayed 
and eventually met someone I knew who, along with her 
friend, gave me a ride home. I invited them into our house, 
and we sat on the deck on this beautiful day sharing the space 
with the hummingbirds and admiring the soaring flight of 
other larger birds. I learned that the women were volunteers 
with a program that attempted to answer the understandable 
concerns of Hispanic people and now I plan to also volunteer.

I am left with the recognition of the strength of 
civility and the possibility of lending support. I believe that 
what is needed is group strength rather than group violence 
and there is importance to not succumb to indifference and 
despair. Frankly, I believe that positive feelings will prevail 
and Americans will come together in recognition of the values 
consistent that we have all maintained. That is how I feel today 
and hope that you will share that same feeling a week from 
now when the paper containing this report hits the stands. Of 
course, by then the Dodgers will be participating in the World 
Series and it may well be a new opportunity for rebuilding and 
remedy.

Go Dodgers. Go Sierra Madre, and be ready to do 
whatever we must do, 

Mountain Views News 80 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: editor@mtnviewsnews.com Website: www.mtnviewsnews.com