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WALKING SIERRA MADRE: The Social Side by Deanne Davis
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What we really want to be doing this week is going to the 

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SIERRA 
MADRE CITY 
COUNCIL 
MEETING 

JULY 14, 2026 5:30 pm 

The Brown Act provides the public 
with an opportunity to make public 
comments at any public meeting. As 
an alternative, public comment maybe submitted by e-mail to publiccomment@
sierramadreca.gov by 3:00PM 
on the day of the meeting. Emails will 
be acknowledged at the City Council 
meeting and filed into public record. 

A copy of the posted agenda and a live 
video stream of the meeting can be 
found on the City’s website at sierramadreca.
gov 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. 

parade, Sierra Madre’s best event of the year. But that’s 
not till next Saturday so I thought I’d do a little more 
on Father’s Day before we turn the page on that for this 
year and get out our patriotic t-shirts to see which one to 
wear to the parade. The picture this week is an oldie but 
a goodie, John and me enjoying the parade in front of 
Happy’s Liquors. 

The father I want to remember this week is my father-inlaw, 
Jay Davis. Flag Day, June 14th was when he was born. 
He’s been celebrating birthdays in heaven for a very long 
time, but my memories of him and my mother-in-law are 
so good that I want to share a little bit of them. 

He was a life-long member of the Gideons and must 
have given out thousands of little New Testaments in his 
lifetime. During WW2 he was down at Union Station 
daily as the young soldiers were taken out of Los Angeles 
by train to go to war, handing out New Testaments, 
shaking their hands, encouraging them, and prayingfor them. They lived, Jay and Leila Davis, all their lives 
together in the home that Leila’s father bought on Van 
Ness Avenue in Los Angeles when she and her familyfirst moved here from Idaho. She was 14. She became a 

school teacher, specializing in adult education, and he 
worked for the County all his life. He took a walk daily in his 
neighborhood and was one of the people who left his world a 
little better than he found it, picking up trash along the way. I 
expect that the line of people who came to know Jesus as their 
Lord and Savior, because Jay Davis gave them the Good News, 
stretched for miles when he arrived in heaven to receive his “well 
done, good and faithful servant.” I had never met people like 
them before, and have been grateful all my life for the day John 
took me to meet them and they ran out the door to meet and 
welcome me. 

There’s a little something about John’s dad and here’s a little 
something about my dad: 

He was a gifted and acclaimed artist and his work is on all the 
walls of my house. He was a storyteller with an endless supply of 
true and astonishing tales. He sent me many letters describing 

Deanne and John Davis at THE SIERRA MADRE JULY 4th PARADE 


his childhood and his dad and the early wild days of California 
and Mexico, which I turned into a very successful Kindle book: 
“A Treasure Map, A Drunken Owl and 47 Rattlers in a Bag!” 
He was a covert member of the CIA, an officer in the Chinese 
Army, an engineer and in his 80’s took a trip around the world 
on a container ship and ended up being the second mate. He was 
a gardener, a builder of koi ponds, and enjoyed an occasional 
martini. My sister, Heidi, and I miss him so much. 

The weather is still doing odd things, a little sun, a little gloom, 
but, friends and neighbors, enjoy these last shreds of gloom…
the heat is coming! Think watermelon, popsicles, barbeques and 
swimming. If you want to see the last full moon of June, take a 
look outside on June 29th to see the Strawberry moon. 

Here’s a positive thought to end the week and get you through to 

next weekend… 

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“Smiling is infectious; you catch it like the 
flu. 
When someone smiled at me today, I 
started smiling, too.
I passed around the corner, and someone 
saw my grin.
When he smiled, I realized I’d passed it on 
to him. 
I thought about that smile, then I realized 
its worth. 
A single smile, just like mine, could ravel 
round the earth. 
So, if you feel a smile begin, don’t leave it 
undetected – 
Let’s start an epidemic quick and get the 
world infected!” 

And, to get you in the mood while you’re 
going through your patriotic t-shirts to see 
if you’ve got one that doesn’t have mustard 
on the front: 

I Love A Parade, the tramping of feet, 
I love every beat I hear of a drum.
I Love A Parade, When I hear a band, 
I just want to stand and cheer as they 
come. 
(Especially if it’s the Sierra Madre CityCollege Band!)
That rat-a-tat-tat, 
The blare of a horn, 
That rat-a-tat-tat, 

A bright uniform,
The sight of a drill,
Will give me a thrill,
I thrill at the skill of anything military.
I love A Parade, a handful of vets, 
A line of cadets or any brigadeFor I Love A Parade. 

Have a great week, smile a lot, maybeeven give someone a compliment. Visit 
our fabulous new library and be happilyastonished and get ready for the best paradeever next Saturday! 

Check out my book page: Deanne Davis:
Amazon.com 
Great stories there about all sorts of 
adventures. 
Take a look!