Mountain Views News, Combined Edition Saturday, July 31, 2021

Mountain Views-News Saturday, July 31, 2021 

SIERRA MADRE ROSE FLOAT ASSOCIATION 
AWARDS 2021 SCHOLARSHIP 


The Sierra Madre Rose Float Association is pleased to announce that Jessie Ellico 
Franks is the recipient of our 2021 SMRFA Scholarship Award. This award recognizes 
one student in either their senior year of high school or first year of college who has 
demonstrated academic excellence, service to the community, and a dedication to the 
work of the Sierra Madre Rose Float Association. Jessie served as a SMRFA princess for 
the 2020 parade. She is a 2021 graduate of CS Arts High School. In the fall, she will be 
studying at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, Wales, where she 
will pursue a BA (hons) in acting. She has been a wonderful contributor to the SMRFA 
crew for many years and will be missed in the SMRFA shop. 

AUGUST BEST USED BOOK SALE 

The Friends of the Sierra Madre Library are pleased to announce that there will be a regular 
Best Used Book Sale in August. Masks and social distancing will be required on the parking lot 
behind the library during the two-day sale. It will be held Friday, August 6 (3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.) 
and Saturday, August 7 (10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.). This is our BACK-TO-SCHOOL sale and will 
feature a 2018 World Book set and other reference materials as well as school supplies. We’ve 
been saving up TEACHER resources and materials as well. Come and shop our children’s books 
also; always priced from 50 cents - $1.00. 

And, we have a HUGE Art books collection for sale. Choose from beautiful books about artists, 
art history, photography, and art instruction. The parking lot will also have our $1.00 Bargain 
Books, small paperbacks 5/$1.00, CDs, DVDs and Audio Books. 

Although the basement will not be open for this sale, we’ll have a group of our newer, beautiful 
“Table Books” also on the parking lot available for purchase. Look for wonderful Cookbooks,
Children’s, and Contemporary Culture titles from $2.00-$12.00. 

Don’t forget the $5.00 BAG SALE on Saturday on the parking lot! 

We look forward to seeing everyone August 6 and 7 at the Sierra Madre Library, 440 W. Sierra 
Madre Blvd. in Sierra Madre. 

PLEASE STAY SAFE! 
GET VACCINATED! 

SOCIALLY DISTANCE! 

WEAR A MASK! 


WALKING SIERRA MADRE - The Social Side 

by Deanne Davis 

“Dogs leave paw prints on our 
hearts.” 
“If there are no dogs in heaven, then 
when I die, I want to go where they 
went.” 
Will Rogers 

“God will prepare everything for 
our perfect happiness in heaven, 
and if it takes my dog being there, Ibelieve he’ll be there!” Billy Graham 

“If there is a heaven, it’s certain our 
animals are to be there. Their lives 
become so interwoven with our 
own, it would take more than an 
archangel to detangle them.” 
Pam Brown 

I believe these are more than 
conjectures, I believe they are 
facts! Looking in the Bible, there 
are a number of verses to back this 
up. Here are a few: 

“The wolf and the lamb shall feed 
together, and the lion shall eat 
straw like the bullock: and dust 
shall be the serpent’s meat. They 
shall not hurt nor destroy in all myholy mountain, saith the LORD.” 
Is. 65:25 


“In His hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.” Job 12:10 

“Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, 
preserve both people and animals.” Ps. 36:6 

If Billy Graham thought he would be seeing his dog in heaven, who are we to doubt! 

OK, you’re saying, why on earth are you writing about whether we will see our beloved pets 
in heaven. Because my sister, Heidi, pictured here with her best friend ever, Kaiser, lost him 
the end of June. 

I’ll just pass along what she had to say about Kaiser: “I lost my best friend yesterday. I knew 
from the time we met that he was my dog. After saving him, literally, just hours from being 
put down at the shelter we enjoyed twelve years of adventures, long runs and always being by 
my side. He was the best cuddler! I will never forget you, Kaiser. You were the best dog I ever 
had and you will always be with me.” 

Heidi sent me a note a couple of weeks later saying, “As life slowly returns to normal, I am 
reminded daily of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for these blessings.” 

She also sent me the following, a wonderful story that will touch your heart and make you 
remember things like this that have happened in your own life. 

“I knew I was going to lose Kaiser. I have been cooking from scratch for him the last ten 
months, staying with him almost all the time, petting him, massaging him, talking to him. 
I knew I would lose him, but it didn’t make things easier. Kaiser and I had a special bond. I 
swear we could read each other’s thoughts and I used to joke that he and I would live forever 
as vampires, wandering the world together endlessly. On July 4th, I sat by his grave and asked 
him to give me a sign, something that let me know he was still with me. 

On July 5th, I went swimming at a friend’s house and he was telling how he heard that animal’s 
souls go into butterflies. He had heard it on the news. I told him I had never heard that, and 
at that very moment the most beautiful, huge, furry brown, white and orange butterfly landed 
on me staring at me and licking my foot. It even had a white chest. Right there in front of myfriend this happened. It was amazing. After a long stare, he flew away. I felt him in my heart, 
and knew I got the answer I needed. I could feel him then and he is always with me.” 

I have heard from other friends who have adopted rescue dogs that these animals seem to 
know that they have been saved from an untimely end and they are grateful. 

“I am rescued. You didn’t care how I looked or that I wasn’t a pedigree. You showed me that I 
am not disposable and that I am loved. You brought back the sparkle in my eye and the shine 
of my coat. You restored my spirit so my tail can wag again. You took a chance on me to see 
what I can become. You gave me a place to call home and a family to call my own.” 

My granddaughter, Nicole, adopted Pigeon and said this, “She was a candidate for euthanasia 
because of her “behavior problems.” An eleven-month-old puppy. This is why adopting pets 
matters.” 

John and I adopted Trinka when we were first married from one of the teachers at Pasadena 
Christian School who could no longer keep her. Trinka went everywhere with me and when 
she had to leave us I thought I’d never stop crying. The same with Wolfgang. Leah has never 
gotten over losing Whitey and Crissy her cat, BJ. 

Why do we have pets, knowing they will leave us? 

“Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve 
and nurture and care for all life.” James Cromwell 

And they love us unconditionally. So does God. 

Stay cool this week, dear friends and neighbors, and hug your pet an extra time or two. 

My book page: Amazon.com: Deanne Davis 
Where you’ll find 
“A Treasure Map, A Drunken Owl & 47 Rattlers in A BagTrue Tales of Early California.” 
Hot summer is the perfect time to read this exciting adventure. 

For you Emma Gainsworth fans, all her escapades are there AND, there’s a new Emma storyin the works! 


ln§ide The Mountain View§ 􀀒ew§ Thi§ Week. 

The Meadows Review Process......Page 2 
Arcadia/Monrovia News........Page 7 
Around San 
Gabriel Valley....Page 8

AroundSierraMadre........................Page3 
Education/BestFriends..........Page 9

CommunityCalendar......................Page 4 

GoodLife...............................Page 12

PasadenaNewsThisWeek....,,,,,,....Page 5 

Opinion/Commentary......,.....Page 
13

Altadena/South Pasadena...,,,,,,,...Page 
6 

Legal Notices.......................Page 
14

YEARS LOCALMANTOCOMPETEATTHE 
OLYMPICS..................Page8 


2007-2021 

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