Mountain Views News, Combined Edition Saturday, March 28, 2020

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Mountain View News Saturday, March 28, 2020 

CITY OF PASADENA & PASADENA UNIFIED PARTNER 
TO PROVIDE MEALS FOR STUDENTS 7 DAYS A WEEK

SCHOOL DIRECTORY

Pasadena, CA --- 

“Grab and Go” breakfast and lunch service 
for children 18 and younger will 
extend to weekends starting March 28, 
thanks to the continuing partnership between 
the Pasadena Unified School District 
(PUSD) and the City of Pasadena. 
Pre-packed meals are available for pick 
up at seven PUSD schools from 9 - 11 
a.m. 

Meal service will continue during 
PUSD’s spring recess March 30-April 3, 
2020. 

PUSD began offering the weekday meal 
service to all children after schools closed 
to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus 
(COVID-19). Since the meal service 
started on March 17, PUSD has served 
more than 7,000 pre-packaged breakfast 
and lunches. “Grab and Go” Food Centers 
are staffed by PUSD Food Service 
workers and community volunteers. 

Weekend meals are provided through 
special one-time funding by the Pasadena 
City Council to address unforeseen 
and unmet food needs for our 
PUSD students. The Rose Bowl Operating 
Company and Pasadena Convention 
Operating Company are instrumental 
in supporting with logistical and staff 
support.

Weekend meal service will be provided 
by the City of Pasadena at the same 
seven school sites until classes resume. 
Meals will follow the same nutritional 
guidelines as PUSD meals offered during 
the week.

“I am pleased to partner with the City of 
Pasadena to extend vital support to our 
students and families during this time 
when we are all staying home to protect 
our community.” said Superintendent 
Brian McDonald. “We appreciate our 
continuing productive relationship with 
the city, and we are united in our commitment 
to serving students and their 
families.”

The seven PUSD Grab and Go Food 
Centers are:

Eliot Arts Magnet Academy

2184 N. Lake Ave.

Altadena, CA 91101

Field Elementary

3600 E Sierra Madre Blvd. 

Pasadena, CA 91107

John Muir Early College Magnet High 
School

1905 Lincoln Ave.

Pasadena, CA 91103

Madison Elementary

515 Ashtabula St. 

Pasadena, CA 91104

McKinley K-8 School

325 S Oak Knoll Ave.

Pasadena, CA 91101

Norma Coombs Elementary

2600 Paloma St.

Pasadena, CA 91107

Wilson Middle School

300 S. Madre St. 

Pasadena, CA 91107

This program is solely for the pick-up 
of meals as meals cannot be consumed 
on site. Families are en-couraged to continue 
to be proactive in reducing the risk 
of COVID-19 by not congregating at the 
school site once meals have been distributed, 
continuing to wash their hands 
often, sneeze or cough into a tis-sue or 
their sleeve and stay home if they are 
sick.

Community-based organizations Collaborate 
PASadena, STARS and the 
Pasadena/Altadena Coalition of Transformative 
Leaders (PACTL) are delivering 
student meals to homes of children 
whose par-ents/caregivers are working, 
have no transportation or are sick.

Information about PUSD’s Food Services 
is available at pusd.us or via the PUSD 
Family Hotline at 626.396.3606

Alverno Heights Academy

200 N. Michillinda Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-3463 Head of School: Julia V. Fanara

E-mail address: jfanara@alvernoheights.org

Arcadia High School

180 Campus Drive Arcadia, CA 91007

Phone: (626) 821-8370, Principal: Brent Forsee

bforsee@ausd.net

Arroyo Pacific Academy

41 W. Santa Clara St. Arcadia, Ca, 

(626) 294-0661 Principal: Phil Clarke

E-mail address: pclarke@arroyopacific.org

Barnhart School

240 W. Colorado Blvd Arcadia, Ca. 91007

(626) 446-5588 

Head of School: Ethan Williamson

Kindergarten - 8th grade

website: www.barnhartschool.org

Bethany Christian School

93 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-3527 

Preschool-TK-8th Grade

Principal: Dr. William Walner

website: www. bcslions.org

Clairbourn School

8400 Huntington Drive

San Gabriel, CA 91775

Phone: 626-286-3108 ext. 172

FAX: 626-286-1528

E-mail: jhawes@clairbourn.org

Foothill Oaks Academy

822 E. Bradbourne Ave., Duarte, CA 91010

(626) 301-9809

Principal: Nancy Lopez

www.foothilloaksacademy.org

office@foothilloaksacademy.org

Frostig School

971 N. Altadena Drive Pasadena, CA 91107

(626) 791-1255

Head of School: Jenny Janetzke

Email: jenny@frostig.org

The Gooden School

192 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-2410 

Head of School, Jo-Anne Woolner

website: www.goodenschool.org

High Point Academy

1720 Kinneloa Canyon Road 

Pasadena, Ca. 91107 

Head of School: Gary Stern 626-798-8989

website: www.highpointacademy.org

La Salle College Preparatory

3880 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. 

(626) 351-8951 website: www.lasallehs.org

Principal Mrs. Courtney Kassakhian

Monrovia High School

325 East Huntington Drive, Monrovia, CA 91016 

(626) 471-2800 Principal Darvin Jackson

Email: schools@monrovia.k12.ca.us

Odyssey Charter School

725 W. Altadena Dr. Altadena, Ca. 91001

(626) 229-0993 Head of School: Lauren O’Neill

website: www.odysseycharterschool.org

Pasadena High School

2925 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. 

(626) 396-5880 Principal: Roberto Hernandez

website: http://phs.pusd.us

St. Rita Catholic School

322 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

Principal Joan Harabedian (626) 355-9028 

website: www.st-rita.org

Sierra Madre Elementary School

141 W. Highland Ave, Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-1428 Principal: Lindsay LUIS

E-mail address: LUIS.lindsay@pusd.us

Sierra Madre Middle School 

160 N. Canon Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 836-2947 Principal: Garrett Newsom

E-mail address: newsom.garrett@pusd.us

Walden School

74 S San Gabriel Blvd

Pasadena, CA 91107 (626) 792-6166 

www.waldenschool.net

Weizmann Day School

1434 N. Altadena Dr. Pasadena, Ca. 91107

(626) 797-0204

Lisa Feldman: Head of School

Wilson Middle School

300 S. Madre St. Pasadena, Ca. 91107

(626) 449-7390 Principal: Ruth Esseln

E-mail address: resseln@pusd.us

Pasadena Unified School District

351 S. Hudson Ave., Pasadena, Ca. 91109

(626) 396-3600 Website: www.pusd@pusd.us

Arcadia Unified School District

234 Campus Dr., Arcadia, Ca. 91007

(626) 821-8300 Website: www.ausd.net

Monrovia Unified School District

325 E. Huntington Dr., Monrovia, Ca. 91016

(626) 471-2000 

Website: www.monroviaschools.net

Duarte Unified School District

1620 Huntington Dr., Duarte, Ca. 91010

(626)599-5000 

Website: www.duarte.k12.ca.us

Arcadia Christian School

1900 S. Santa Anita Avenue Arcadia, CA 91006

Preschool - and TK - 8th Grade

626-574-8229/626-574-0805

Email: inquiry@acslions.com

Principal: Cindy Harmon

website: www.acslions.com

CHRISTOPHER Nyerges

IS THIS Y2K ALL OVER 
AGAIN?

 
31 N. Baldwin Ave. 
Sierra Madre, CA 91024 
(626) 355-6060 
Family Owned Since 1972 
Originally located in Temple City 
Open 7 days a week 
“HIDING OUT IN A 
SMALL TOWN”

[Nyerges is the author of “Extreme 
Simplicity: Homesteading in the 
City,” “Self-Sufficient Home,” 
“How to Survive Anywhere,” and 
other books. He can be reached at 
www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com]

During the days leading up to Y2K, when irrational 
panic overtook otherwise calm people, I received 
a phone call from a man who spoke to me 
in a choppy, breathy tone. 

“Christopher, can you help me?” he asked. “I need 
someone to help me survive Y2K.” I didn’t know 
the man and had never met him. It was the first 
time we’d ever talked.

The man told me that he was afraid of the impending 
doom, civil unrest, and the loss of everything 
he’s worked for. He wanted to know if I could help 
him dig a hole in the desert.

"Excuse me?” I asked, waiting for the punchline.

“Why would you dig a hole in the desert?”

“I’d live there,” he told me, matter of factly. The 
man sincerely believed that digging a hole in the 
desert and hiding out in some remote desert locale 
would be his passport to survival.

I knew that I would not be digging a hole with 
him in the desert, and I asked him, “Have you ever 
camped out at night? Ever slept in the outdoors, 
ever?”

“No,” he told me.

“So, what makes you think you would enjoy living 
in a hole.”

 He told me that he wasn’t sure he would enjoy it, 
but that he was certain he would survive better in 
a hole in the desert than he would in urban San 
Diego when western civilization began to collapse 
with Y2K. In our conversation, I learned he was 
affluent, ran a business, and felt that he had a lot to 
lose as society collapsed. He also told me that he 
didn’t know any of his neighbors, and he regarded 
them more with fear than with friendship.

I suggested that the man get to know his neighbors. 
Join some social group, or start participating 
in Neighborhood Watches. Get to know his actual 
neighbors and begin to interact with them. But he 
told me that he didn’t really have time for that.

“You want to dig a hole in the desert, but you don’t 
have time to get to know your actual neighbors?” 
I asked, waiting for his response. He was quiet, 
thinking about it.

“Here’s what I also suggest,” I told him. “Take a trip. 
Go to the desert if you want, but drive through 
some of the rural towns in California, and maybe 
Arizona, and Nevada, and Utah. Get to know the 
world beyond your little world. Stop places and 
have lunch in little cafes. Talk to people. Go shopping 
in little stores, and talk to people. See what 
makes an impression on you. If Y2K spelled the 
death of western civilization, little towns take care 
of themselves better because that’s what they do all 
the time.”

The man made a few comments and said, “Yeah, I 
like that idea. I might try that. I think it would be 
good to disappear into a small town.”

It was clear that he believed he could live in a small 
town and no one would know him.

“Oh, that’s not going to happen,” I told him. “No 
one knows you now because you live in a big city. 
That’s how it is in the big city. People don’t know 
each other because they want it that way, or because 
it’s just too big. But in a small town, everyone 
knows your business and who you are, eventually.”

“Really?” he asked. I could tell that this man had 
never ventured far from the confines of his own 
home and business.

“Yes, really! No one hides out in a small town. All 
everyone does is talk, and they will know everything 
there is to know about you, sooner or later, 
whether it is true or not.”

I told him the story of when I lived on my grandfather’s 
farm after high school, in a town of about 
3,000 population in northeast Ohio. My brother 
and I had painted the kitchen of the farmhouse 
with flat paint, not glossy, and one of my uncles felt 
that that proved we were urban idiots who didn’t 
know the first thing about paint. Later, when we 
went to family gatherings, cousins would say, “Oh, 
you’re the ones who painted the kitchen with flat 
paint.” In one case, a woman in a store in the town 
center said the same thing, as if that’s all there was 
to know about me!

During the next few conversations with the frightened 
man, he seemed increasingly calmer. I don’t 
know what action he finally took because he 
stopped calling. 

People who have never lived in a small town probably 
cannot fathom a place where everyone knows 
your business, which can be a very negative feature. 
But a small town is also like a large family, and everyone 
realizes that their fate is tied to their neighbor. 
In this sense, for the health of urban America, 
and the sustainability of our cities, it’s necessary 
to become a part of the larger community, to take 
action, to get involved, and to get to know your 
neighbors for everyone’s mutual benefit.

Sierra Madre is not what I call a “small town.” A 
small town is typically rural, with a population 
of 3000 to 5000 people, spread out over a large 
area. But Sierra Madre is not a big city either. Sierra 
Madre is somewhat in-between those two extremes, 
where you can have the best of both worlds 
if you know how to navigate your life here.