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SIERRA 
MADRE CITY 
COUNCIL 
MEETING 

December 9, 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 CommunityInformation 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. 

Mountain View News Saturday, November 29, 2025 

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more.” 

WALKING SIERRA MADRE

“If the only prayer you ever said in your entire life was ‘thank you,’ it 
would be enough. 

The Social Side by Deanne Davis

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today,

And creates a vision for tomorrow.” 

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. 

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” 

Willie Nelson 

We’ve done it again, friends and neighbors, celebrated another Thanksgiving. One of the 
things we celebrated is how much wonderful food can be had by bringing home goodies other 
people have prepared and heating them up in the microwave. 

Gone are the days when I would buy a 30 lb. turkey, brine it for a couple of days and then roast 
it in a slow oven overnight. Memories of those incredibly moist, delicious, succulent turkeyslinger in my memory and I thank our gracious Lord that I don’t need to do that anymore. This 
year we had an equally delicious succulent turkey breast that the fine folks at Target supplyin their freezer case. It’s all done up, marinated, seasoned and ready for the oven in a cookingbag.
It couldn’t be better and, best of all, I can lift it! 

We had fabulous mashed potatoes with sour cream and chives, sweet potatoes, macaroni and 
cheese, creamed spinach, and cranberry sauce. All prepared by someone else and waiting for 
us in the deli case. 

I did make Helen’s Lime Jell-O Salad and it was just as delicious as ever. I also took the leftover 
cranberry sauce and made cranberry sauce muffins. As everybody ends up with leftover 
cranberry sauce, I’ll give you the recipe and you can make some of these easy muffins, too. 


Cranberry Sauce Muffins 

1/2 cup milk1/3 cup olive oil1-1/4 cups leftover cranberry sauce1/3 cup brown sugar, or a little more if the cranberry sauce is very tart1 egg1 TB baking powder1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. ground cinnamon (generous)
¼ tsp. ground nutmeg1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour1 cup oatmeal (I used granola)
¼ cup chopped pecans (if you like nuts)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease a 12cup muffin tin.
Combine milk, olive oil, leftover cranberry sauce, brown sugar, and egg in your electric mixer.
Mix baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, flour and oatmeal in a separate bowl.
Gradually add to milk mixture and blend into a smooth mixture. Don’t overdo the blending as too much can make 
your muffins tough instead of melt in your mouth tasty.
Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups. Sprinkle with the chopped pecans.
Bake in your preheated oven 21 minutes. Cool in the muffin tins for about 10 minutes.
Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Enjoy with a cup of coffee or maybe even a cup of your leftover eggnog. 

Think thankful thoughts and, like Willie Nelson, start counting your blessings: God’s grace and mercy, family, home, peace, and 
leftover turkey 

Do not let the fact that Christmas is just a few weeks away intrude upon your peaceful leftover cranberry sauce muffin and cup of 
eggnog moment. 

“Christmas, it’s almost here,
Our favorite, favorite time of year!
Think mistletoe and holly,
Children’s faces…jolly!” 

My book page: Amazon.com: Deanne DavisChristmas is just a few short weeks away and my book:
“Sunrises and Sunflowers Speak Hope”
Would be a really nice gift for everyone you know. It’s on Amazon.com“Star of Wonder” a delightful Christmas Kindle story is there, too. 


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