Mountain Views News          Saturday, January 11, 2014

Smoking Now Banned atPasadena City College


Media 
Gets First 
Look at 
Animal 
Care 
Expansion


would like to get it up to around 
800 volunteers.”

 The Pasadena Humane Society 
is also set to have an open house, 
inviting the public to see and 
tour the new center Jan. 30, 
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 


Pasadena City CollegeNASA Spacecraft SpotsIts First New Asteroid


Mountain View News Saturday, January 11, 2014 

HamburgerHamlet 
Closes,
Opens asDu-par’s 

 As Pasadena celebrates 
the Cheeseburger next 
week, one local institution 
that made them famous, 
Hamburger Hamlet, closed 
its doors last week —ending 
a 40-year burger tradition 
in the city.

 The location at 214 S Lake 
Ave. opened Jan. 4 as Dupar’s 
Restaurant & Bakery.

 Hamburger Hamlet first 
opened in Pasadena in 
1967. In a statement, Dupar’s 
owner W.W. “Biff ” 
Naylor said all the existing 
Hamburger Hamlet 
employees will keep their 
jobs at Du-par’s.

 Patrons of Hamburger 
Hamlet took to social media 
to express their opinions on 
the change.

 “Hamburger Hamlet was 
a magical place where 
burgers were made and 
eaten and loved…,” wrote 
one reviewer on yelp.com. 
“And, while I like Du-par’s, 
it is just not the same.”

 The public can vote for a 
favorite Pasadena eatery, 
including Du-par’s, as part 
the Cheeseburger Challenge 
during the third annual 
Pasadena Cheeseburger 
Week. 

 Cheeseburger Week 
commemorates teenaged 
Lionel Sternberger’s 
culinary experiment in the 
early 1920s at his father’s 
restaurant, The Rite Spot, 
adding a slice of cheese 
to a burger. Rumor has it 
that Sternberger burned a 
hamburger and used the 
cheese to cover his error.

 Voting opens on 
Sunday at www. 
pasadenarestaurantweek.
com and ends on Monday, 
Jan. 21. Categories include 
Favorite Burger Restaurant, 
Favorite Lunch Counter 
Burger, Favorite Sit-Down/
White Table Cloth Burger, 
Favorite New Burger 
Restaurant, Favorite Beer 
and Burger, Favorite Sliders, 
among others. 

Pet of the 
Week

 
Eric is an 11-month-old 
pit bull puppy. He’s very 
friendly and playful. He 
loves to give kisses and gets 
along well with other dogs. 
He’s even been out on our 
Mobile Unit at the Rose 
Parade Float Expo Village.

 Eric’s adoption fee is $125, 
which includes his neuter 
surgery, a microchip, the first 
set of vaccinations, as well 
as a free follow-up health 
check at a participating vet. 
New adopters will receive 
complimentary health and 
wellness exam from VCA 
Animal Hospitals, as well 
as a goody bag filled with 
information on how to 
care for your pet. Ask an 
adoptions counselor for 
more information during 
your visit. 

 Call the Pasadena 
Humane Society & SPCA at 
626.792.7151 to ask about 
A343934, or visit at 361 S. 
Raymond Ave. in Pasadena. 
Adoption hours are 11-4 
Sunday, 9-5 Tuesday – 
Friday, 9-4 Saturday. Pets 
may not be available for 
adoption and cannot be 
held for potential adopters 
from phone calls or email. 
Directions and photos of all 
pets can be found at www.
pasadenahumane.org. 

 Local news reporters got a 
tour Thursday morning of the 
Pasadena Humane Society’s 
$20-million new Animal Care 
Center expansion, including 
The Shelter Shop, an expanded 
on-site pet store which opened 
for business the same day. 

 Although noisy, Humane 
Society Spokeswoman Ricky 
Whitman said construction 
of the center had not affected 
the animals, “We moved the 
animals farther away and when 
we knew certain things were 
going to happen we planned 
around that.”

 The new building features 
a large exercise yard in the 
middle, with artificial grass, for 
dogs Whitman explained, as 
she showed about half a dozen 
reporters.

 “For canine events we can open 
up our daycare center,” she said. 
“We can hold classes, training, 


Public Library Celebrates130 Years of Reading


Pasadena Public Library E. Walnut Street. 
will kick off our year-long Library Director Jan Sanders 
celebration with music, song, invites the community to 
historical exhibits, slide “Join us as we begin this 
shows and a special CAKE multi-month celebration to 
to commemorate 130 years mark Pasadena’s dedication 
of Reading in Pasadena on to reading and the library 
Saturday, January 18, 3 p.m. which supports it.” 
at Central Library’s Donald For more information, call 

R. Wright Auditorium, 285 (626) 744-4207. 
Health Department Looksfor Bone Marrow Donor

The public’s help is needed to 
find a matching bone marrow 
donor for a 2-year-old Pasadena 
girl suffering with leukemia.

 The Pasadena Public Health 
Department is partnering with 
the organization A3M-Asians 
for Miracle Marrow Matches 
(A3M), www.A3MHope.org, to 
encourage all members of the 
public interested in becoming 
a bone marrow donor to 
participate in the drive from 

9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Thursday, 
Jan. 16, 2014, at the Pasadena 
Public Health Department, 
1845 N. Fair Oaks Ave. 
Just five minutes and a quick 
cheek swab may help find 
much-needed compatible 
donors for patients across the 

and exercise out here also.”

 She said the artificial turf was 
for easy cleaning, “you just 
hose it down.”

 Whitman also said a standout 
of the center was their new spay/
neuter clinic. 

“We will now be operating 
that five days a week beginning 
sometime next week,” she said. 
“We will now have vaccinations 
two times a week (Wednesdays 
and Saturdays). She said the 
spay/neuter clinic is also now 
open to anyone in Southern 
California.

 She also said a new surgery 
area will now accommodate up 
to 20 surgeries a day. 

Whitman also said the new 
center will accommodate an 
influx of new volunteers. She 
said in the last year they have 
added about 400 volunteers. 
“We have about 700 now and 

country, including, locally, 
2-year-old Sofia of Pasadena, 
a little girl of mixed ancestry 
who suffers from leukemia. For 
more information on the donor 
drive, call (213) 625-2802 or 
visit www.A3Mhope.org.

 A3M’s mission is to improve 
the health and welfare of all 
people by providing education 
and assistance while facilitating 
prompt access to potential 
marrow and blood cell donors.

 Donors must be between the 
ages of 18 to 44; be willing to 
donate to any patient in need 
and meet the health guidelines 
established by the National 
Marrow Donor Program, www.
nmdp.org. The more people on 
the national donor registry, the 
better the chances are of finding 
matches for all patients of all 
backgrounds in need, including 
2-year-old Sofia.

 Currently, there are about 

9.5 million national registry 
members in the United States. 
Of those, only 28 percent are of 
diverse racial or ethnic heritage. 
For more info visit the 
department online at 
w w w.cit yof p a s aden a.n et/
publichealth. 

Student to be fined 

for violating newsmoke-free policy 

None of the over 20,000 
students set to start school 
at Pasadena City College 
Monday will be able to light 
up as the use of cigarettes, 
cigars, pipes, and smokeless 
devices became officially 
prohibited anywhere on the 
campus last week. College 
officials said a campus-wide 
survey showed 61 percent 
of students, faculty, and 
staff desired a smoke-free 
campus. 

 Jo Buczko, co-chair for the 
campus health and safety 
committee coordinated 
the tobacco-free campus 
campaign. “PCC students 
have been given notice 
for months that this day 
was coming and hopefully 
smokers will respect our 
right to have a campus that 
is now smoke-free”, Buczko 

 NASA’s Near-Earth Object 
Wide-field Infrared Survey 
Explorer (NEOWISE) 
spacecraft has spotted a never-
before-seen asteroid -- its first 
such discovery since coming 
out of hibernation last year.

 NEOWISE’s first discovery of 
its renewed mission came on 
Dec. 29 -- a near-Earth asteroid 
designated 2013 YP139. The 
mission’s sophisticated software 
picked out the moving object 
against a background of 
stationary stars. As NEOWISE 
circled Earth scanning the sky, 
it observed the asteroid several 
times over half a day before 
the object moved beyond 
its view. Researchers at the 
University of Arizona used the 
Spacewatch telescope at the 
Kitt Peak National Observatory 
southwest of Tucson to confirm 
the discovery. Peter Birtwhistle, 
an amateur astronomer at the 
Great Shefford Observatory 
in West Berkshire, England, 
also contributed follow-up 
observations. NASA expects 
2013 YP139 will be the first of 
hundreds of asteroid discoveries 
for NEOWISE. 

 “We are delighted to get back 
to finding and characterizing 
asteroids and comets, especially 
those that come into Earth’s 
neighborhood,” said Amy 
Mainzer, the mission’s principal 
investigator from NASA’s 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 

 Residents and businesses 
are advised that the work on 
a water mainline installation 
at the intersection of Foothill 
Boulevard and Sierra Madre 
Villa Avenue will begin on 
Monday and is scheduled to 
be completed by February 7. 
Work will occur from 7:00 
a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday 
through Friday. 
The City urges motorists, 
bicyclists and pedestrians to 
use caution while traveling 
through the area. Motorists 
can anticipate traffic delays 
and it is recommended 
that they seek temporary 
alternative routes. The work 
will involve partial road 
closures and motorists may 
be detoured to Orange Grove 
Boulevard and Halstead 
Street during construction. 
Local access to businesses 
will be maintained. 
The project is an effort by 
the Pasadena Water and 
Power Department (PWP). 
Vido Artukovich & Son is the 
contractor for the project. 
Notices were previously 
distributed to residents and 
businesses directly affected 
by the construction work. 
On-street message signs 
have been placed on Foothill 
Boulevard and Sierra Madre 
Villa Avenue. 
Water Main 
Work to 
Begin onFoothill 
Free Dr. 
StrangeloveScreening 


Learn How to Produce 
Your Own TV Show 

 In anticipation of Pasadena 
Media opening new studios at 
150 S. Los Robles Ave, they are 
offering free television-training 
programs for producers. Plan 
to attend an orientation to 
discover the right classes for 

 Pasadena Public Library’s 

you. Producers’ Training 

Allendale Branch’s will host a 

teaches how to produce shows 

viewing of Stanley Kubrick’s 

for The Arroyo Channel. Studio 

wildly absurd “Doomsday” 

Production/Equipment training 

comedy, Dr. Strangelove 

is also offered to volunteer 
or: How I Learned to Stop 

crewmembers. In addition, 
Worrying and Love the 

on-going training will soon be 
Bomb, today at 2 p.m. at 
Allendale Branch Library, 

Class Offerings 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Nightly 
1130 S. Marengo Ave. 
The film will launch 

Orientation & Producers Training

Allendale’s new series 

Monday, Jan. 13 at 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm 

“Critical Mass: The Culture 
of the Cold War,” an 

Stage Manager Training

examination of the impact of 

Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 

the Cold War on American 
culture. Also to be screened 

Character Generator Training

is First Time Here (1964), a 

Wednesday Jan. 15 at 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm 

short film by Richard Myers 
which incorporates dream 
imagery into an essay on 

Video Tape Op. Training

Thursday Jan. 16 at 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm 
For more information on 

atomic warfare. 

Citizen Journalism coming soon 
the program, call (626) 744


Digital Film Group coming soon 

7260. 

available in citizen journalism 
and digital film groups. Call the 
office (626) 794-8585 or go to 
PASADENAMEDIA.ORG and 
explore what Pasadena Media 
has to offer. 


said.

 The PCC Board of Trustees 
passed the smoke-free 
ordinance in August 2013 in 
an effort to create a healthier 
campus environment. 

 Students caught smoking 
can be fined $25 for a first 
offence, $50 for a second 
offence and $75 for a third 
offence. Students who are 
caught can also opt for a 
smoking cessation program 
instead of a fine Buczko told 
the Courier, the school’s 
newspaper.

 Campus police have said 
they will enforce the new 
policy. Smoking on the 
sidewalk around the college 
will still be permitted 
although police said those 
that chose to do so, must 
keep walking, while they 
smoke. 
Unpaid smoking citations 
will go to collections, similar 
to parking violations, police 
said. 

Pasadena, Calif. “With our 
infrared sensors that detect 
heat, we can learn about their 
sizes and reflectiveness.”

 2013 YP139 is about 27 million 
miles (43 million kilometers) 
from Earth. Based on its 
infrared brightness, scientists 
estimate it to be roughly 0.4 
miles (650 meters) in diameter 
and extremely dark, like a piece 
of coal. The asteroid circles the 
sun in an elliptical orbit tilted 
to the plane of our solar system 
and is classified as potentially 
hazardous. It is possible for 
its orbit to bring it as close as 
300,000 miles from Earth, a 
little more than the distance to 
the moon. However, it will not 
come that close within the next 
century.

 NEOWISE originally was called 
the Wide-field Infrared Survey 
Explorer (WISE), which had 
made the most comprehensive 
survey to date of asteroids and 
comets. The spacecraft was shut 
down in 2011 after its primary 
mission was completed. But 
in September 2013, it was 
reactivated, renamed and given 
a new mission, which is to 
assist NASA’s efforts to identify 
the population of potentially 
hazardous near-Earth objects 
(NEOs). NEOWISE also 
can assist in characterizing 
previously detected asteroids 
that could be considered 
potential targets for future 
exploration missions.