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Mountain View News Saturday, November 15, 2025


Weather Wise

“For each new morning with its light,

For rest and shelter of the night,

For health and food,

For love and friends,

For everything Thy goodness sends.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 “Count your many blessings, see what God has done.”

I guess where I am, just a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving, is counting blessings, naming 
them one by one. Blessings are small things. They seldom arrive on a pink unicorn with glitter 
being tossed about. Blessings are a shared moment you didn’t think would happen, like an 
unexpected hug or a nice phone call with someone you’re missing. Even finding a penny in the 
parking lot at Target is pretty nice.

You’re probably still planning your Thanksgiving menu and my best and favorite dish is my

Aunt Helen’s Lime Jell-O Salad. Everybody has some sort of Jell-O salad but my Aunt Helen’s

is delicious and blessedly easy to make. Everybody devours it and there’s seldom even a bite 
left.

I pass this along every year because it’s good and because I want all my friends and neighbors 
to enjoy it, too.

Helen’s Lime 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 dissolved. Refrigerate. Keep a close 
eye on it as you don’t want it to jell completely, just till it’s starting to get firm. 

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 actually likes nuts. Otherwise, you have 
to clench your teeth and bite your tongue 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 has been in heaven for quite a while now but she will never be forgotten as long as her Lime Jell-O Salad is still 
made here and there. She was an interesting woman who never married. She 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.”

This is another of our Thanksgiving favorites and, while my daughter, Leah, is a huge fan of roasted vegetables, I have to have 
Creamed Spinach. After you try this, you’ll feel the exact same way. This is so good that even people who eschew (that means 
they wouldn’t touch it with a fork) spinach will eat it! Popeye would never eat another can of spinach once he tasted this. You can 
double, triple or whatever this recipe and it will be fantastic.

CREAMED SPINACH

1 (10 oz.) package chopped spinach

2-3 slices bacon, finely chopped (or more if it makes you happy)

½ cup onion, finely chopped

2 Tb. flour

1 tsp. seasoned salt

¼ tsp. seasoned pepper

1 clove garlic (optional)

1 cup milk (I use non-fat which works just fine)

Cook spinach and drain well. Combine bacon and onion in a large skillet and fry till tender and bacon is brown and crispy. Remove 
from heat. (As bacon is so lean anymore, it’s not necessary to drain off any of the fat, unless it makes you nervous. Do leave some!) 
Add flour, seasoned salt, seasoned pepper and garlic (if you’re using garlic). Blend thoroughly.

Return to heat and slowly add milk, stir continually until thickened. (In case you hadn’t noticed, you’ve just made white sauce!) 
Add spinach, mix well. Astonish your guests and family.

This recipe is originally from Mike Roy, one of my culinary heroes, from The Mike Roy Cook Book, copyrighted in 1966, which 
I bought at the Sierra Madre Library Used Book Sale for the astonishing price of $3.95 – hard cover! Mike has been in heaven for 
some time now, but I like to think he is still cooking up there, for a very appreciative crowd.

“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 Coming!

“A Tablespoon of Love, A Tablespoon of Laughter”

“Sunrises and Sunflowers Speak Hope”

Are Great Gifts! Trust Me!

WALKING SIERRA MADRE 

 The Social Side by Deanne Davis

6-Day Forecast Sierra Madre, Ca.

 Sun Rain 66% Hi 60s Lows 50s 

 Mon: Rain 77% Hi 60s Lows 50s 

 Tues: Ptly Cldy Hi 60s Lows 50s 

 Wed: Ptly Cldy Hi 60s Lows 50s

 Thur: Rain 66% Hi 60s Lows 50s 

 Fri: Rain 66% Hi 60s Lows 50s

 Forecasts courtesy of the National Weather Service


SIERRA 
MADRE CITY 

COUNCIL 
MEETING

November 18, 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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