Mountain View News Saturday, March 14, 2026 

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SIERRA 
MADRE CITY 
COUNCIL 
MEETING 

MARCH 24, 2026 5:30 pm 

THIS MEETING WILL BE HELD 
IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS! 

As part of the City of Sierra Madre’s 
COVID-19 transparency efforts and The Brown 
Act provides the public with an opportunity to 
make public comments at any public meeting. 
Public comment may also be made by e-mail to 
PublicComment@CityofSierraMadre.com by

3:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting. 
Emails will be acknowledged at the Council 
meeting and filed into public record. The public 
may also comment in person at the meeting. 

The meetings will be streamed live 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 CommunityInformation Radio. The 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 ande-mail it to radio@cityofsierramadre.com. 
WALKING SIERRA MADRE: 

The Social Side by Deanne Davis 

The picture this week is daffodils again, along with a couple 
of cute bunnies. I just love these flowers and if you haven’t 
treated yourself to a few bunches of them, you need to get 
on down to Trader Joe’s. You are a good person and you 
deserve daffodils on your kitchen counter, on your coffee 
table, in your bedroom and anywhere a bright splash of 
yellow would brighten the day. 

“St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time – a day to begin 
transforming winter’s dreams intosummer’s magic.” Adrienne Cook 

“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover – hard to find and 
lucky to have.” 
“May your troubles be less, and your blessing be more. And 
nothing but happiness, comethrough your door.” An Irish Blessing 

St. Patrick’s Day is next Tuesday and, speaking of Patrick, he 
had a pretty tough time!
Captured by Irish pirates at age 16, brought to Ireland, 
enslaved for six years working as ashepherd in County Antrim, he heard a voice at age 22 
telling him to go home so he ran away toport, set sail for Britain and shared his new faith with fellow 
shipmates. Sometime later, he had avision to go back to the place where he had been held captive 
and minister to the people. Aftervarious adventures he returned to his family in Britain 
where he continued to study Christianity.
He shared his vision a few years after returning home: 

“I saw a man coming, as it were, from Ireland. His name was 
Victoricus. He carried manyletters, and he gave me one of them. I read the heading:
“The Voice of the Irish.” As I began theletter, I imagined in that moment that I heard the voice of 
those very people who were near thewood of Foclut, which is beside the western sea—and they 
cried out, as with one voice: “We 
appeal to you, holy servant boy, to come and walk among 
us!” 

Needless to say, he felt a definite call to return to Ireland 
where his impact was vast: 100,000baptisms, 300 new churches, countless priests and nuns. 
But he was also beaten repeatedly,
chained, faced execution. It all sounds a lot like the Apostle 
Paul’s testimony in the book ofActs where he recounts how many times he was beaten, 
stoned, shipwrecked and left for dead.
“And he watched over me before I knew Him and before I 
learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil.” 
St. Patrick’s own words describing God’s care for him. 

In honor of St. Patrick, or just an opportunity to have a little 
fun, you can count on parades all over the world. Everyone 
you see will be decked out in green. Green beer will be 
readily available and more arrests than any other day of the 
year for...shall we call it…impaired driving? 

St. Patrick’s Day in Sierra Madre will feature specialized 
dining and pub festivities, notably at 
Delirium in Kersting Court, which hosts a weekend 
celebration from March 14–17, offering Irish nachos and 
stew. Additionally, The Only Place in Town will be serving 
traditional corned beef and cabbage. 

St. Patrick’s Day brings to mind some lovely people John 
and I knew back in the days when hewas hosting a radio program each Saturday morning from 8 

a.m. to noon on KCBH-FM, whichhas been a number of other stations since then, currentlyKYSR-FM. They were the Galligan 
Family, who traveled the world singing Gaelic folk music. 
Jim Galligan, who was very tall andcadaverously thin, was married to a lovely petite lady, 
Paulina. Jim sent us a loaf of Irish soda 
bread which he said “Was made this way in County Armagh 
by Grandma Galligan many years 
ago.” This bread is absolutely delicious. 

1. Put 3 cups of flour in a bowl with 1 TB of baking powder,
1 tsp. baking soda, 1 tsp. salt.
2. Rub in 4 TB. soft butter, 1 TB of caraway seeds, 1 cup ofcurrants, 1 cup of dark raisins, 1 cupof golden raisins.
3. Mix! 
4. Add ¾ cup of sugar, 1 beaten egg and 2 cups of buttermilk 
(Now, very few of us have buttermilk lounging around in 
our fridge so to continue with yourIrish soda bread, pour 2 TB of white vinegar in your 
measuring cup and add enough milk tomake 2 cups. Pour yourself a cup of coffee and read the 
Calendar section of the paper or go makeyour bed and by the time you finish, you’ll have buttermilk. 
Cool, huh!) 

5. Pour in greased iron skillet or loaf pan.
6. Bake 10 minutes at 400 degrees and then 45 minutes at350 degrees.
7. Test center with a toothpick to see if it’s done, let it rest for10 minutes, cut yourself a slice,
butter it, and enjoy. Irish Soda Bread also makes deliciousFrench toast. 
My advice is to avoid green beer and make yourself some 
authentic Irish soda bread. And, just incase somebody wants to play a little Irish Trivia with you 
here are a few tidbits they might notknow: C. S. Lewis was from Ireland, as were James Joyce, 
George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde,
Jonathan Swift and Bram Stoker. Now there’s a mixed bag ifI ever saw one! 

“May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow,
and may trouble avoid you wherever you go.” 

My book page: Amazon.com: Deanne Davis 


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