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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022 VOLUME 16 NO. 43VOLUME 16 NO. 43 
INSIDE MOUNTAIN VIEWS NEWS THIS WEEK 
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.................... Page 2,3 
WHAT'S ON THE BALLOT............................ Page 4 
CONVERSATIONS..........................................Page 5 
MORE ABOUT BEARS 
WALKING SIERRA MADRE...........................Page 6 
CALENDAR......................................................Page 7 
PASADENA NEWS...........................................Page 8 
ALTADENA/ARCADIA AND MORE.............Page 9 
DINING WITH DILLS 
AROUND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY......................Page 10 
EDUCATION & YOUTH...................................... Page 11 
BEST FRIENDS......................................................Page 13 
THE GOOD LIFE...................................................Page 14 
MOUNTAIN VIEWS NEWS LOCAL 
ENDORSEMENTS..................................................Page 15 
LEGAL NOTICES...................................................Page 16 
SPORTS...................................................................Page 17 
Pasadena and Sierra Madre Police Departments Warn 
Parents 
Just weeks before Halloween, Pasadena Police are again cautioning 
parents about the dangers of candy-colored fentanyl pills after a 
narcotics investigation found the deadly drug being sold in the 
Pasadena area. 
According to investigators from the Department’s Major Narcotics/
Special Investigations Section, they seized approximately 328,000 
fentanyl pills, 2 kilos of cocaine, and a ghost gun, September 24,
during an ongoing narcotics investigation. Within the seized 
contraband, investigators located several packages of candy-colored 
fentanyl pills. This candy-colored fentanyl, dubbed “rainbow 
fentanyl” in the media, appears to be a new method used by drug 
cartels to sell highly addictive and potentially deadly fentanyl to 
children and young people. 
“Rainbow fentanyl—fentanyl pills and powder that come in a 
variety of bright colors, shapes, and sizes—is a deliberate effort bydrug traffickers to drive addiction amongst kids and young adults,” 
said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram. 
The investigation came after the death of three overdose victims. 
Maria Bolanos-Hernandez was arrested, in connection to the case, 
and found guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute Controlled 
Substances. Bolanos-Hernandez was sentenced to 15 years in Federal 
prison police said. 
The Pasadena and Sierra Madre Police Departments urge community 
members to call 911 immediately if they encounter fentanyl in anyform, and urge parents to be especially careful with the candy their 
children bring home during Halloween festivities. 
Sierra Madre police recommend learning more about this deadlydrug by going to:
https://www.dea.gov/factsheets/fentanyl 
POLICE WARN OF CANDY 
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ing report for your consideration. 
Sierra Madre has a new claim to fame. We are California’s most 
dangerous city from bear attacks. But more on that later. 
First off, let me state that the regular presence of bears in residen-
tial neighborhoods is a relatively new condition. Ten years ago, 
the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) consid-
ered these bear encounters as “rare.” Now, the CDFW considers 
them “routine.” So for all those that continue to claim that, “…the 
bears were here first,” understand that this is both a false and il-
legitimate claim.” Also, black bears are not native to this area and 
according to the CDFW definitions and under an Executive Or-
der issued by President Clinton, these bears are more accuratelydefined as an “invasive species.” 
I should also mention that in just the last month alone, my imme-
diate residential neighborhood has been subjected to numerous 
actual home entries by bears. My own home had two bear entries 
in the last month putting my wife in danger as the bear entered 
only six feet away from her and damaged the dishwasher. Last 
week, my neighbor across the street had her home ramshackled 
by a bear. Another two neighbors just up the street had bears en-
ter their homes this past week…..the list of entries and attempted 
entries goes on and sadly, there is no improvement in sight and 
no mechanism in place to prevent these threats to public safety. 
Two years ago, Sierra Madre hosted a webinar addressing the 
City’s increasing urbanized bear problems. I remember listening 
to the information and thinking, “ this urbanized bear situation 
in Sierra Madre is rapidly getting worse, will continue to worsen, 
and these proposed solutions are only superficial at best.” 
In that webinar, a Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist,
Rebecca Barboza, provided a myriad of data and explained the 
CDFW’s policies and practices. My concern after watching and 
rewatching the webinar a few times is that Ms. Barboza (and ev-
eryone else for that matter) never really addressed, and seemingly 
skirted around, the real problem; an overpopulation of bears 
greater than what the natural wilderness habitat can accomodate,
forcing the bears to relocate into urban neighborhoods. Accord-
ing to Barboza, because the CDFW’s policies and wildlife man-
agement practices have allowed the bears to overpopulate the 
bear’s available natural habitat, we now have several generations 
of urbanized bears that are incapable of surviving in their natural 
habitats and are incapable of surviving a relocation. According 
to Barboza, these urbanized bears do not know how to forage for 
their natural foods. The CDFW’s solution has been to allow the 
bears to “urbanize” and attempt to manage human behavior in-
stead of controlling the wild bear population. In my opinion, the 
CDFW policies are nothing short of animal cruelty. 
On Wednesday, October 19, 2022, after two bear entries into 
my home and my request for a meeting, I met with four Sierra 
Madre city staff members and Rebecca Barboza, the California 
Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist who participated in 
the webinar. I wanted to discuss the escalating black bear entries 
into homes in Sierra Madre, the “exponentially” increasing lo-
cal urbanized bear population, bear attacks on humans in Sierra 
Madre, public policies regarding bear populations, the results of 
CDFW’s wildlife management practices, and possible corrective 
solutions. 
Prior to walking into the meeting, I asked Ms. Barboza how manybear attacks on humans happen in California per year. Her re-
sponse, “Less than one per year.” We’ll get to that later, also. 
The meeting did little more than validate and confirm my con-
cerns that the CDFW has absolutely (Continued on page 6) 
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