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SIERRA 
MADRE CITY 
COUNCIL 
MEETING 

October 6, 2026 
The Brown Act provides the public 
with an opportunity to make public 
comments at any public meeting. 
As an alternative, public comment 
may be submitted by e-mail to publiccomment@
sierramadreca.gov by3:00PM 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 Communitynformation Radio.IThe 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. 
Sierra Madre 
Woman’s Club 
550 W. Sierra Madre Blvd, 91024 
Why have 
you 
not yet joinedSierra 
Madre Woman’s Club? 
We’re NOT “Little Old Ladies” playing Bridge at Tea! 
We offer: Tuesday Morning Chair Yoga (1011) 
w/ Paul Hagen (members only). 
We enjoy 2nd Wednesday Luncheons or Teas w/ with interesting programs! 
We host Nov. 18th’s Annual Community Interfaith Prayer Breakfast and 
our July 4th Pre-Parade Lawn Social (w/ Continental Breakfast) 
Visit Our Booth during: Winter Village, Wistaria Festival, Trail Races 
Wistaria Thrift Shop is our biggest fundraiser! 
Shop is open: 1st Thursday in September through Last Saturday in May 
M, Th, F – 10 am – 3 pm; Saturdays 10 am – 1 pm 
Join our weekly Tues / Wed Prep Crew: Jul –May. 
Fundraisers : October Pumpkin Decorating & March Murder Mystery 
AND: We annually award 8 Scholarships and donate to 20+ Charities! 
Join 
Now! 
Call Lynette at 626-836-7715 
SierraMadreWomansClub.org 626-355 -4379 

WALKING SIERRA MADRE: The Social Side by Deanne Davis

 “My beloved October has returned – with its brilliant on a pretty plate with maybe just a spoonful of whipped 
colors, cool temperatures and sunny, cloudless, azure skies, cream on top. 
and I must enjoy it before it escapes for another year.” 

EASY APPLE CAKE

Peggy Toney Horton, “Somewhere in Heaven My Mother is 

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Smiling” 

2 cups Granny Smith apples, cored, peeled and cut in

October serenades the breeze into dancing a cha cha cha; the 

good sized chunks

mountains echo in the background. 

1 cup sugar 
October sky never looked more charming nor the sublime 

Put the apples in a bowl and add the sugar. Let stand 30

leaves of the trees so graceful.” 

minutes. (This part is really important as this makes your

Avijeet Das 

apples release their juices.)
Here’s something you might not know…In 1774 Johnny 

Add to the apples and sugar:

Appleseed, a pioneer nurseryman known for introducing 

¼ cup oil

apple trees across the American frontier, was born John 

1 egg beaten

COMMUNITY EFFORT TO HELP Chapman in Leominster, Massachusetts. Appleseed’s 

1 tsp vanilla

reputation as a quirky, barefoot wanderer with a tin-pot hat

LONGTIME RESIDENT AND Blend well

and a passion for planting apple trees solidified his place asVOLUNTEER ALAN TIERNEY FIGHT an American folk hero who introduced trees grown with Combine and add to the apple ingredients: 
apple seeds to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, 1 cup unsifted flour

THE BATTLE OF HIS LIFE Illinois, and the Canadian province of Ontario, as well as the 1 generous tsp. cinnamon 
For years you've seen Alan around town, helping whereever northern counties of West Virginia. 1 tsp. soda 
he could - at Little League, numerous community events and Legend has it that he was a kind boy who loved nature and ¼ tsp. salt 

much more. Now he needs our prayers and support. Please animals, plants and trees, but most of all, he loved apples. Add ½ cup or so chopped pecans or walnuts and a handful 

scan the QR code below and join Team Alan. of dried cranberries works, too.

Eventually a desire grew within him to plant apple trees for 

Pour into well-greased 8” square pan

pioneer families, so he began to walk west, taking his apple 

Bake at 350, 45 to 50 minutes till cake tester comes out

seeds with him. He didn’t wear shoes, even in the winter. He 

clean.

wore a potato sack with holes cut out for his arms insteadof regular clothes. The tin-pot he wore on his head doubled Best served warm, shared with a good friend. You can double 
as both his hat and his cooking pot. He, obviously, wasn’t or triple it and it still comes out divine. 
interested in what he wore, he only cared about being kind 

The picture this week, another scarecrow! I just have to share

and helping others. He walked hundreds of miles and slept 

them with you!

outside no matter how cold it was. He planted apple seedseverywhere he walked and taught people how to care for 

“Think well of all, be patient with all, and try to find the good

these trees. If you happen across an old apple tree, visiting 

in all.” Muhammad Ali

the Midwest, it might very well be one planted by JohnnyAppleseed. My book page: Amazon.com:
Deanne Davis

If you take a look around the Produce section of your favorite 

There are treasures there! Trust

grocery store, you’ll see more and more of the classic harvest 

me! including “Just Desserts” A

staples like crisp apples, juicy pears and tart cranberries that 

Fall Fantasy of Pumpkins Gone

reach their peak during the autumn months. And, you’ll 

Wrong!

probably see a big box filled with pumpkins, big ones, smallones, strangely shaped ones and as we all know, pumpkins 

Fall fruits include classic

can be much more than an orange squash with seeds inside. 

harvest staples like crisp apples,
Where am I going with all this? I want to make some Apple juicy pears, and tart cran-
Cake and you, dear friends and neighbors, should have some, berries that reach their 
too. This is really easy, and it’s one of the things people never peak during the autumn months. 
get tired of. You can serve it as a dessert, a snack, heat it up for [1]
breakfast and with all those apples and nuts in it, you won’tfeel guilty eating it down to the last crumb. It looks elegant 

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