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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 - OCTOBER 7, 2009 VOLUME 14, NO. 40

Alverno Head Calls Facility Usage Hullabaloo a “Mystery”

BY TERRY MILLER

To Ann Gillick, the head of the private girls’ school at Alverno in Sierra Madre, the substantial fuss and negative publicity over the use of facility and subsequent noise complaints is “a bit of a mystery.”

The school has been renting out its Villa Del Sol Del Oro facility to city departments for years at no charge, and the popular Sierra Ma-

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dre Friends of the Library annual food and wine event is yet another example of how the school feels it helps out the community. They never charge rent for that event as well as many others throughout the year. What’s more, whenever there has been a problem or complaint from the community, Gillick says it is always been addressed and resolved quickly, such as noise from the school bell,

which Gillick pointed out was a concern some years ago.

In fact, Gillick says Alverno has been a good neighbor in Sierra Madre for 50 years, and that’s a fact of which the school has always been quite proud.

Ironically, it was after a heated city council meeting last Tuesday evening - during which much of the debate was centered on the noise factor at Alveno - that the City

held its Volunteer Awards Ceremony at Alverno, just two nights later. Calls to the City of Sierra Madre in request for comment regarding their awards dinner were not returned.

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Alverno Head of School Ann Gillick stands outside the School’s famous Villa Del Sol Del Oro. Neighbors of the school have begun pressuring the city council to deny plans for new campus facilities.

- Photos by Terry Miller

Soliant Lights the Way for Future of Solar Energy

Sierra Madre School Performance Score Hits All Time High Academic Performance Index up 103 Points Since 2006, to 889 Sierra Madre School has posted a score of 889 score on the 2009 Academic Performance Index (API). The all time high score represents a 21 point increase over 2008 scores. From 2006 to 2009, Sierra Madre School’s API has increased by 103 points, reflecting the school’s continued commitment to academic excellence.

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This week’s winner of the Beacon Media/Priceless Computer Back to School Giveaway was Jacky Kwok, a seventh grader from First Avenue Middle School in Arcadia. Jacky’s essay was one of the most creative - and downright fun to read - that we’ve received since the contest began in early August. You can read Jacky’s essay online at www.arcadiaweekly.com.

Jacky’s parents were happy to learn about the pre-installed OpenOffice software suite, saying that their son needed to prepare presentations for school and did not have the right software. Now Jacky is all set.

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Sierra Madre Wine and Jazz Walk Set for Saturday Jay Goldman, Vice President of sales for Soliant, shows how they specializes in energizing commercial rooftops with these solar panels that are activated by unique cells which help move the units according to the direction of the sun.

Photo By Terry Miller

BY NINA KATHRYN HAUPTMAN

The city of Monrovia appears to be coming into its own as a veritable hot bed of cutting-edge technology. There is AeroVironment, which specializes in the development of energy products and unmanned hovering air vehicles. Then there is Xencor, which develops antibodies for such serious chronic illnesses as Hodgkin lymphoma, and

State-of-the-Art Pilot Facility Opens in Monrovia currently has a licensing deal with Pfizer. And the latest high-tech company to make waves in Monrovia is Soliant Energy, which cut the ribbon on a new, 15,000 square foot solar panel manufacturing facility on August 28th.

Both Congressman David Dreier of San Dimas

and Monrovia Mayor Mary Ann Lutz attended the grand opening festivities to show their support for Soliant.

Stated Dreier, “Soliant Energy is a great example of a company innovating, helping to meet our energy challenges, and creating good jobs all at once. Our area is

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known for innovation, and Soliant is one of the reasons why.”

Raved Mayor Lutz, “It’s exciting to see how Soliant Energy is bringing the solar technology we need to address climate change, and the green jobs we need to help rebuild our local economy.”

Indeed, Soliant is creating quite the buzz for its innovations in solar paneling.

The company has created

The Sierra Madre Wine and Jazz Walk to benefit the City of Hope will be held on Saturday, October 3rd from 4 to 7 p.m. in downtown Sierra Madre. Thirty Sierra Madre merchants, retailers and downtown businesses will swing open their doors to welcome attendees, offering delicious food from more than a dozen local eateries/caterers/ chefs. As attendees stroll the downtown area, they will be entertained at a dozen venues by twelve jazz combos/bands.

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Dozier & Rowan Bus Station Re-Opens After nearly a year in the making, a refurbished Dozier & Rowan Bus Station has reopened in East LA featuring a shaded seating area for patrons, improved lighting and landscaping. The Dozier & Rowan location opened in 1911 as a street car terminal and was converted to a bus station in 1963.

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Since streetcars haven’t rolled through East LA for nearly half a century, Metro is using special rail safety ambassadors along the route of the Metro Gold Line urging residents to use caution around the new trains. Metro is also installing tra;c enforcement cameras at intersections.

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I used to have a friend named Jack who lived nearby. (His name is still Jack and I hope he is still my friend, but he no longer lives nearby.)

Jack used to get after me sometimes when I would write about getting old. He told me not to do it because those writings were too easy for him to relate to. I pretty much took his advice and I don’t write about it very often. But, some observations I’ve been making lately impel me to take the subject up again.

In January, we were gifted with a great-granddaughter. She is absolutely gorgeous.

She wears a perpetual smile, even when teething. Distance and busy schedules prevent us seeing her as often as we would like, but a thoughtful Mommy, e-mail and a deal called Shutterfly allow us to share her many beginnings.

As Mommy describes, or as I look at pictures, I see many things we have in common.

She tries to stand, she has to hold on. I try to stand, I have to hold on. She tries to walk, her steps are unsteady. I try to walk, my steps are unsteady. As she learns to eat with a spoon, she sometimes dribbles. I eat, I sometimes dribble. She is growing up. I am growing old. Well, I won’t call it “growing old”. I’ll refer to it as “the aging process”.

The aging process is something everyone can relate to. It starts the day we are born and runs at fast speed for a time. Watching little newborn bodies age into miniature adult bodies is delightful and fascinating.

Their acute hearing allows them to react to sound immediately. Then they begin to discern the direction it is coming from. Soon they begin to recognize voices, and other sounds become familiar.

Their eyes first see light, then shape. Then they follow motion and begin to focus.

Little fists begin to grab and hold tight. Limber fingers grasp tiny objects. Legs grow strong and feet take on a purpose.

Minds grow sharp and language develops.

That tiny newborn body becomes the miniature adult body that has now only to grow and experience. All part of the aging process.

The process continues with reasonably moderate change then, before we can believe it, we begin to realize we are approaching the other end of the timeline. Fascinating maybe, but not so delightful. The process begins to reverse, slowly at first.

Perhaps slowly is a key word in the reversal process. We begin to slow down, can’t move as fast and can’t accomplish as much.

Familiar sounds begin to garble. Acute hearing begins to wane and disappear.

Light dims and shapes become shadows. Focus becomes dependent upon bifocals and trifocals.

Once limber fingers become stiff, and complaining knuckles sometimes cause fists to become permanent. Grasping tiny objects becomes a memory.

Legs grow weaker instead of stronger and the main purpose of the feet seems to be to hurt.

The body begins to bend, shrink and ache. If we’re lucky, the mind continues to experience but it takes more effort. Everything does. It’s part of the aging process.

I’m willing to call it “the aging process” but no matter what I call it, Raylene is growing up. I’m growing old. We are on the same timeline, we’re just at opposite ends.

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My Elementary school memories are often so vivid and clear it seems as though they happened just a few years ago. Teachers in those days were very good disciplinarians. They handled classroom misconduct promptly and fairly.

There was no need to have committee meetings with parents and teachers to determine if a student was out of order. Often a visit to the school principal’s office was embarrassing enough to ward off any repeat offenders. Parents were pleased to know that discipline and rewards were dispensed fairly in accordance with the student’s behavior.

Entering the first grade was my first schoolroom experience as pre-school and kindergarten were virtually unknown. It wasn’t long before I realized the versatility of the chalkboard eraser. It was secretly used as a fun powder-puff on an unsuspecting classmate. Also that it had aerodynamics capabilities when it was used to throw across the classroom as an attention getting missile and of course, the main purpose of the Eraser was to clear the teacher’s backboard. Writing one hundred times … “I will not throw and eraser across the classroom again” gave me plenty of experience staying after school to clear the blackboard and to pound the erasers clean before leaving school. My tardiness arriving home after school in a very powdery condition generally earned home-style disciplinary action also!

Teachers in the classroom also handed out great rewards for good conduct and achievement. Being released early from class to pound and clean erasers was a sought after reward. Once … a classmate and I received that honor to clean erasers. We uniquely cleaned them however by throwing them as hard as we could at the school building to see who could put chalk marks the highest up on the building. Now this was not the intended procedure for the eraser cleaning assignment and it was not long before the Principals intervention eliminated any possible “Good Conduct Rewards” for us to clean erasers in the future. I was not a bad

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In Praise of the Local Newspaper

BY FRAN SYVERSON

I write. I don’t give talks.

Yet as I thumb through my memories, I find that, during my days as an editor, there was one kind of talk that I was always willing to give. That was when the high school journalism teacher invited me to speak to the students. To them, I happily sang praises of the local weekly or daily newspaper.

I was passionate on the subject back then, but nowadays I’m even more convinced that the world really needs community newspapers. Papers of all sizes—local and metro—are struggling to stay in business, but nowhere is the threat of extinction more apparent than with small papers. Yet they fill a unique niche in our lives. No metropolitan paper can do what the local one does. No radio or television program can take its place. Nor do I think electronic media will one day supplant the local papers, and here’s why: When I spoke to students a couple of decades ago, I could honestly say to them, “It’s likely that only in your local newspaper will you ever see your name. It’s there that your life will be recorded.”

Letters Good Job on the Recent Issue Hi, I just wanted to say nice job on the recent issue of the TC Tribune. I felt compelled to write to you because it had some good reading!

I was reading this issue for a good half hour or more because there was more interesting stuff than usually is the case. I appreciated that you sent a reporter to the TC redevelopment town hall meeting.

I also really appreciated the piece on Ramadan and the San Gabriel Mosque and Judy Chu; very interesting to know!

It’s very nice to get some diverse coverage. The piece on the artist as well. I hope you do more of these types of pieces. There was some good interesting stuff in there to read for once, not just the same ol’ thing about school kids and announcements. I appreciated learning about something new, interesting people right in my neighborhood. Real stories!

And I liked hearing the full story on your computer giveaway for the kids. You had small writeups about this before, but this is the first time I heard about them being refurbished / recycled computers; you and the computer shop are doing a very cool thing for the community!

Thanks and keep up the good work. With real reporting and news articles, this paper is starting to feel like it’s

And I’d tick off lifetimes of examples, thusly: When you were born, the announcement probably was printed. This is less true nowadays, in part, I suspect, because of hospitals’ privacy policies. But a “stork” column was standard in earlier times.

When you’re ready for kindergarten, the paper will publish registration dates.

Organizations such as Boy and Girl Scouts will have their meetings and outings printed.

If you make Eagle, look for it in the paper. Your school teams’ coming into its own.

Thank you, Bryan Matsumoto, Temple City Candidate, Master of Landscape Architecture California State Polytechnic University, Pomona RE: More Lawsuits to Come in Mini Madoff Matter Wow, what a creep.

Kim, via monroviaweekly.com RE: Former Tax Doctor Mark Colasuonno to Face Embezzlement Charges in Pasadena Courthouse Was mark even a investment broker, or just a tax preparer that people trusted.

I would have trusted this man with my money. If I had any money to invest. I am not saying anything against those who invested.

Zetti, via monroviaweekly.com RE: Kick up your Home Decor in Extraordinary Ways I’m learning so much from you – thank you! I’ve been trying to find a great piece of art to hang above my sofa, but I haven’t had any luck. Your suggestion about the antique map is perfect, and may just be the answer I was looking for.

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wins and losses will find their way to the sports page, as will your own personal athletic victories. Perhaps a feature story will tell of a spelling bee or a class play.

At graduation, you’ll find your name listed along with your classmates’. Scholastic achievements will be noted.

Perhaps there’ll be a brief item telling of your acceptance at the college of your choice.

Later, maybe, that you made the Dean’s List.

I’d say to the students: If you go into the Armed Forces, your local paper likely will carry a photo of you in uniform. During the Viet Nam conflict, pages were full of these items. Neighbors read about others’ sons and daughters, and their own. Later, during “peace,” this news tapered off, but sadly rose again with our engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hopefully, I’d tell the students, your newspaper will never have to announce your death in the service of your country.

Oh, yes, the police blotter! It’s the item many people turn to first. Beware—don’t ever get your name and fame in that particular section. Everyone will know.

Where else but in the local “rag,” as newspapers are sometimes called, will you learn what your City Council is doing in your town? Or that the School Board is considering closing a school, or cancelling the music program?

Church news is carried.

Outings, youth groups’ projects, concerts, special holiday celebrations—they’ll all get their just dues.

Engaged? Find the happy news on the “Society Page.”

Married? Your photos and descriptions of the wedding— “the bride wore an ivory satin gown”—will be there for your friends to see. No, not in the huge metro papers—that’s not likely. Most of us are not notable enough for mention in newspapers that cover an area of eight million people. That’s why we need local papers.

Not all your personal details will be heralded, however. Should you get a divorce,

that well may not hit the news.

But if you’re named CEO of a company, you should get good coverage. And if you hit a ripe old age of 90, that might be newsworthy locally.

When that happened to my favorite uncle, I was a bit dismayed that a large area paper declined the news, saying that so many people celebrated their 90th birthdays nowadays that they didn’t publish those items. The Temecula community paper, however, actually sent a reporter to interview him and did an entire feature story. Hurrah for the local press!

And finally, yes, I’d tell the students: Yes, someday your obituary will be printed here. R.I.P. Your entire life’s record is here, possibly saved as clippings first by your parents, then yourselves, and eventually, your descendants.

Through the decades, the hometown paper has provided a special link to community life. Folks move away, but many continue to subscribe to it, and look forward to its news.

Thus it pains me now that newspapers are so threatened.

The day when we can get news electronically is with us, but I hope that continues to include local news, just as it did when the papers were tossed onto our sidewalk.

I write. I don’t give talks, usually. But ask me to speak in praise of the local newspaper and the place it holds in our culture, and I’m only too happy to share my convictions. And it’s especially fun when I talk with journalism students, for it is they who will carry the traditions into the future.

Monrovia Association of Fine Arts Presents

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In “T he Foreig ner�, which opens Oct. 9 at the Sierra Madre Plahouse, Charlie Baker, a Brit visiting America, is dropped off at a fishing lodge in Tilghman County, Georgia for several days while his former army buddy, Staff Sergeant “Froggy� LeSueur is occupied training Americans at a military base nearby.

Charlie is painfully shy, his psyche tromped underfoot by the constant betrayals of his relentlessly unfaithful wife. So Charlie prefers to keep interactions with other people to a minimum. To facilitate this, Froggy arranges for Charlie to pose as a foreigner who knows virtually no English. Froggy then leaves on his mission.

Meanwhile, the foreigner proves a subject of exotic fascination for the locals, who offer him Southern hospitality and attempt to teach him English. The fact is, Charlie is being drawn out of his shell and blossoming (to mix metaphors) as a result of the attention and admiration he is receiving from his new Georgia buddies.

Confident that Charlie is unable to understand English, the locals talk freely in front of him, and Charlie

quickly becomes privy to some secrets, including a plan to cheat Betty, the sweet old lady who owns the lodge, out of her beloved home. Charlie and his new friends will have one chance to stop the evil plans. Can they possibly succeed? “The Foreigner� is a hilarious comedy that has received numerous productions in regional theatre since its off-Broadway debut in 1984.

Its guaranteed belly-busting laughs make it a crowdpleaser.

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ART OF LIVING

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These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. On the left is an image showing brightness at shorter infrared wavelengths. On the right, the distribution of water-rich minerals (light blue) is shown around a small crater. Both water- and hydroxyl-rich materials were found to be associated with material ejected from the crater. Photo Credit: ISRO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS/Brown Univ.

Reason for Return?

JPL Scientists Find Water on the Moon Scientists from Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon. That’s right. Water.

On the moon.

Instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed water molecules in amounts that are greater than predicted, but still relatively small.

Hydroxyl, a molecule consisting of one oxygen atom and one hydrogen atom, also was found in the lunar soil.

NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper, or M3, instrument reported the observations.

M3 was carried into space on Oct. 22, 2008, aboard the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. Data from the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, or VIMS, on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, and the High-Resolution Infrared Imaging Spectrometer on NASA’s Epoxi spacecraft contributed to confirmation of the finding. The spacecraft imaging spectrometers made it possible to map lunar water more effectively than ever before. Pasaden’s own JPL manages the M3 instrument, Cassini mission and Epoxi spacecraft for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

The confirmation of elevated water molecules and hydroxyl at these concentrations in the moon’s polar regions raises new questions about its origin and effect on the mineralogy of the moon.

Answers to these questions will be studied and debated for years to come.

“Water ice on the moon

has been something of a holy grail for lunar scientists for a very long time,” said Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

“This surprising finding has come about through the ingenuity, perseverance and international cooperation between NASA and the India Space Research Organization.”

From its perch in lunar orbit, M3’s state-of-the-art spectrometer measured light reflecting off the moon’s surface at infrared wavelengths, splitting the spectral colors of the lunar surface into small enough bits to reveal a new level of detail in surface composition. When the M3 science team analyzed data from the instrument, they found the wavelengths of light being absorbed were consistent with the absorption patterns for water molecules and hydroxyl.

“For silicate bodies, such features are typically attributed to water and hydroxylbearing materials,” said Carle Pieters, M3’s principal investigator from Brown University, Providence, R.I. “When we say ‘water on the moon,’ we are not talking about lakes, oceans or even puddles. Water on the moon means molecules of water and hydroxyl that interact with molecules of rock and dust specifically in the top millimeters of the moon’s surface.

The M3 team found water molecules and hydroxyl at diverse areas of the sunlit region of the moon’s surface, but the water signature appeared stronger at the moon’s higher latitudes. Water molecules and

hydroxyl previously were suspected in data from a Cassini flyby of the moon in 1999, but the findings were not published until now.

“The data from Cassini’s VIMS instrument and M3 closely agree,” said Roger Clark, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist in Denver and member of both the VIMS and M3 teams. “We see both water and hydroxyl. While the abundances are not precisely known, as much as 1,000 water molecule parts-per-million could be in the lunar soil. To put that into perspective, if you harvested one ton of the top layer of the moon’s surface, you could get as much as 32 ounces of water.”

For additional confirmation, scientists turned to the Epoxi mission while it was flying past the moon in June 2009 on its way to a November 2010 encounter with comet Hartley 2. The spacecraft not only confirmed the VIMS and M3 findings, but also expanded on them.

“With our extended spectral range and views over the north pole, we were able to explore the distribution of both water and hydroxyl as a function of temperature, latitude, composition, and time of day,” said Jessica Sunshine of the University of Maryland.

Sunshine is Epoxi’s deputy principal investigator and a scientist on the M3 team.

“Our analysis unequivocally confirms the presence of these molecules on the moon’s surface and reveals that the entire surface appears to be hydrated during at least some portion of the lunar day.”

The semi-annual Art + Design Open Market is a great venue to purchase local art.

More than 100 artisits from from Art Center College of Design and Pasadena City College will hit the streets of the One Colorado this weekend for the bi-annual Art + Design Open Market, to be held this Sunday, October 4 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The one day event will host more than 100 Pasadena artists selling their work in the central Courtyard and in the surrounding pedestrian alleys.

This Open Market provides an opportunity for the public to interact with emerging and established artists from Pasadena’s leading

cultural institutions.

The best part? Any and all purchases made during the event go directly to participating artists, thereby supporting individual careers and artistic expression. Plus, having the artists on hand to interact with the public and discuss the creative process behind their works is reason enough to make the trip out.

Since its launch in 2003, the Open Market has provided visibility for more than 600 artists, and has served as a destination for thousands of art collectors and appreciators. Participating institutions include Pasadena City Col-

lege, which focuses on painting, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, photography and illustration, and Art Center College of Design, which has a long legacy of graduating artists and designers who have significantly influenced our culture. Art Center’s participating students, faculty and alumni stem from a variety of the College’s art and design disciplines including fine art, illustration, photography, transportation design, graphics, product design, film and entertainment design.

For more information, visit www.onecolorado.com, or just show up on Sunday and start asking questions!

Local Artist Selected in MAFA Festival Banner Contest In a contest sponsored by the Nuvein Foundation for Literature and the Arts and the Monrovia Association of Fine Arts, local artist Roxana Javadi-Kashani has been unanimously chosen as the winner of the 2009 Monrovia Festival Banner Art Contest.

The banner Roxana designed will be displayed on the 40 poles lining Myrtle Avenue for the October 10-11 “Celebrate the Arts” Monrovia Festival weekend. Javadi-Kashani describes her winning design as a “nice colorful mash-up of colors.”

Roxana was born and raised in Alhambra, but her pedigree is worldly. Her father is Iranian and her mother is

Mexican. She is a San Gabriel Valley girl who loves the freedom of introspection that art can offer to both the artist and the audience. Ever since she could pick up a crayon at the tender age of 3, she has been on a creative streak.

She graduated with a degree in Art History from UCLA in 2004. Before that, she attended Ramona Convent, an all-girl’s Catholic high school that has been in Alhambra since 1889, where Sister Barbara became her mentor in the creative arts like

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Friday Night Lights with crepe paper, everything was painted, and the float was down the driveway and headed to school. Little did we know that the junior class had a float professionally constructed with all the mechanical parts hidden in a garage since July.

We rallied because other than snacks and cokes, the senior parents had just enjoyed watching the float come together! We attached a sign..100% student made.

We lost the contest but who will forget the float and the evenings pulling it together?

Food always soothes and a platter of hot wings, a cool soup, and mounds of brownies fit the bill.

There is no feeling like a Friday night football game in September or October. Will it be 80 degrees and sultry or will a cool breeze change everything? No matter the weather, this is another traditional tailgate opportunity! No alcohol, of course!

The teens will actually rally around the SUV if you can provide something tasty, served on paper products of school colors that were almost impossible to find.

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While patrons are at Walt Disney Concert Hall hearing the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel in his inaugural appearance as Music Director, down the block in the plaza of the Music Center, music lovers can enjoy the concert for free as the concert will be simulcast to eight plasma TV screens to an audience of about 3,000 who register online for a lottery-system ticket.

Of course, you won’t be interested until you know the music to be performed by the LA Phil: John Adams’ “City Noir” and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1.

Now that you are excited about the music and the new conductor, here are the details on getting in on the lottery for a ticket. Go to www.musiccenter.org/events/dudamel. html. At the end of the article “Catch the Passion on the Music Center Plaza” is a registration form. Fill out the form and submit for a maximum of two people per reservation request (that includes children, although those under eight years are probably too young). Deadline for registering is 6:00 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5. Notification will be by email on Oct. 6.

Pillows and blankets are welcome, but apparently not seats or strollers. Picnicking will be allowed, but hotdogs, burgers, tacos, snacks, beer and wine will be available for purchase.

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This weekend, the Pasadena Wine Festival will offer the opportunity to sip both California wines and wines from around the world while sampling cheeses and food at a two day event at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens Saturday, Oct. 3 and Sunday, Oct. 4. The festival will be open from 4:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. each day. Net proceeds of ticket sales are to benefit the Pasadena Symphony Association’s two orchestras, the Pasadena Symphony and the Pasadena Pops.

About 20 wineries will be participating in the festival offering tastings of over 120 wines. California wine regions represented will include Napa Valley, Sonoma County, Santa Barbara County, Paso Robles region, and Monterey County. State of Washington wines will be available and wines from around the world will come

from Italy, New Zealand, Aust ra lia, Spa in, Sout h America, France, and Columbia.

Samplings of food will come off the Ultimate Tailgater’s Chill and Grill Barbeque set up by Barbeques Galore and California and world-wide cheeses will be available. Food will also be available for purchase.

Music will be a major part of the entertainment and be heard throughout both days. Music styles will include jazz, jazz-funk, salsa, world jazz and blues.

A favorite at the Cal Phil concerts at the Arboretum during the pre-concert picnic times, Ryan Cross Trio will play straight-ahead jazz while By ron Miller a nd Friends will offer jazz-funk.

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“It’s very primitive. It’s like magic. Once you develop it, the picture comes to life,” said Roxana.

But Roxana says that her first love has always been painting.

“I think it’s easier to tell a story when you’re painting. To tell you the truth, I like to get my hands dirty,” said Roxana, adding that if she were living in the “Old West”, she’d “probably be a blacksmith just to fix random things and get her hands dirty”. In addition to painting and photography, Roxana also does 3-dimensional work like sculpting and ceramics.

Roxana says of art that she finds it to offer something more to people, suggesting that “sometimes words aren’t enough” and that art offers an opportunity to “sit back and watch yourself; to watch humanity. You just realize things

that you might not normally realize when you’re in that moment.”

MAFA has held a fine art show in Monrovia’s Library Park since 1964. This year, MAFA is expanding the event by working in collaboration with another art group, the Nuvein Foundation for Literature and the Arts, to create a full scale cultural festival in Old Town Monrovia. The event is expected to provide entertainment and other art venues throughout Old Town on both days of the upcoming weekend.

This year the fine art show - to be held on October 10 & 11 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

- is returning to the newly constructed Library Park. According to event organizers, the new park layout provides a better view of the festival from the main streets that surround the park than has been available in years past.

on hand. Espinosa, born in Havana, Cuba, is known for his excellent percussion work and keeps the beat flowing smoothly through the salsa, son, timba, Latin jazz and other styles.

Communal tables will be available and umbrellas to provide additional shade.

The grounds will be available for strolling. But the more active can challenge friends to games of bocci ball, horse shoes, Ultimate golf challenge of even throw the Frisbee around. The idea is to relax on the Arboretum’s grass while enjoying a tad of vino, the music and the food samples. Event officials suggest you bring blankets or beach chairs to stay the full evening. No one under age 21 will be admitted to the event. No food or alcohol can be brought to the grounds.

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The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens is located at 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia.

As part of the City of Pasadena’s Art Night celebration members of the Crown City Symphony, performing as the Crown City Chamber Players, will perform in the Children’s Room of the Pasadena Central Library, 185 E. Walnut St., Pasadena, on Friday, Oct. 9 from 6:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. The group invites listeners to come in anytime and sit and enjoy their music. The Howling Winds, a woodwind trio, opens at 6:00 p.m. with traditional music for oboe,

clarinet and bassoon. (See the video on the Bassoon Brothers posted on the website). Crown City String Quartet follows at 7:00 p.m. with standard classical and pops favorites. The Crown City Chamber Players perform works for oboe and strings at 8:00 p.m. and Duos for two clarinets completes the program from 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

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Located near the giant bow of the Queen Mary, and squeezed between a beautiful bay and 400 palm trees, Maya is the latest offering from hotel operator Joie de Vivre. The property opened in early July after a two-year renovation transformed it from the former Coast Long Beach Hotel.

The 199-room hotel resembles a Latin American resort, with sloping, pyramid-like lines, bold colors, lush gardens and inviting public spaces. It has everything one might expect from a boutique hotel, including what I call the “three C’s:” charm, chic and chef. The latter refers to Fuego, the hotel’s eclectic Latin waterfront restaurant.

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Violinist Chalifour Opens Music Series in Arcadia with Panache Timothy Durkovic, Music Director at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Arcadia, began a winter music series called Music in Sacred Spaces several years ago, in 2002. Over time, Durkovic has brought some of Southern California’s finest classical musicians to the church chapel, including the Calder Quartet, pianist Kevin Fitz-Gerald, L A Opera tenor Jonathan Mack and soprano Carol Stephenson, among others. During the early years the attendance was good, but modest. This season, though, it seems to have g row n i n popu la r it y a s almost all the seats in the chapel were f i l led— a nd filled with enthusiastic auditors.

The reason for the ent husia sm wa s appa rent.

Los Angeles Philharmonic violinist and concertmaster, Martin Chalifour, in his program of three selections with Durkovic as accompanist, presented a lively g roupi ng of bot h mod ernist and old-fashioned music, each delivered with panache.

Chalifour, playing on the 1729 Stradivarius that he has on loan from the Philharmonic’s music art collection, played Igor Stravinsky’s “Suite Italienne” with bold strokes and extraordinary finger work.

The “Italienne” is an arrangement by Stravinsky of music from the ballet “P u lci nel la”, composed in 1934. Stravinsky used as his inspirat ion music from the Italian baroque, most notably the music of Pergolesi.

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four performed Johannes Brahms’ Sonata in G-major. The work, composed in 1878 and 1879 is considered one of the Romantic era’s finest examples. It is said that the second movement, ada g io, wa s a Bra h ms’ tribute to his godson, Felix Schumann, the son of Clara and Robert Schumann, who died at age 24. Chalifour and Durkovic brought both the personal tragedy to bear in their interpretation, but also the moving poetry of the Romantic era music as well. Chalifour maintained solid and gorgeous tone.

T he f ina l number on t he prog ra m, Sergei Prokofiev’s Sonata in D-major, returned the program to lively, modern music.

The piece, written in 1942 and 1943 was written for flute. But, at the request of Russian violinist David Oistrakh, Prokofiev transcribed the piece for violin.

Chalifour played the music, written in the classical style, with dramatic intensity ending with flourish. Durkovic followed Chalifour’s lead

with a seamless collaboration.

A standing ovation was accorded. Music in Sacred Spaces continues Sunday, Nov. 22 at 3 p.m. with Brian Head, guitar and Paula Fehrenbach, cello.

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I was there yesterday and so happy to see you cover this event,which was incredible. Amazing performances by Martin Chalifour and Timothy Durkovic. I do think it should be noted that in chamber music performers play an equal role and the piano is not subservient to the violin. Whilst your review is positive, it seems to give the impression that Mr Chalifour was a soloist and not a collaborator! This was music for piano and violn, so i hardly think your review is fair to call Mr Durkovic “an accompanist” !

I know my standing ovation was both gentleman but it feels your review was rather overwhelming just for the violin. I feel both gentleman played off each other exceedingly well. Bravo!

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3bdrm 1.75bth contemporary home surrounded by schools and great recreational activities. Good floor plan, includes cozy living room w/ FP, dual purpose dining/family room w/wet bar, spacious galley style kitchen w/built-in appliances. Covered patio, separate BBQ area, grass covered backyard, RV parking, and 2-car garage. (S1304)

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$538,000

This 3 bed/2 ba home features beautiful hardwood floors, large master bedroom, kitchen with custom cabinets, granite counters & SS appliances. Large spacious lot with lots of space for expansion or to add a pool. Nice street with great neighbors.

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NORTH ARCADIA POOL HOME

$699,000

1001 WIGWAM AVENUE, ARCADIA.Come see this lovely home in a great location! Nicely landscaped w/ covered porch. Spacious living rm with brick fireplace, formal dining rm off kitchen.

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NORTH LA VERNE

$530,000

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FABULOUS LOCATION

$479,000

There are three structures on this North Monrovia property. Main house with 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Back house with 1 bedroom, 1 bath, and a Studio with 2 rooms, currently used as an office.

Perfect for owner occupied or income property. Beautiful landscaping. (G710)

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$439,000

SAN GABRIEL

$678,000

8450 Sheffield Rd. Charming home w/3bdrm 1.75 bth, 1673 sq ft of living space, 7191 sq ft lot located in N. San Gabriel. Recently renovated, warm open floor plan, double door entry leading to spacious living room with elegant fireplace and den. Kitchen w/ granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances. Refreshing pool, bonus room and built-in BBQ. Newer tile roof. (S8450)

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GLENDORA

$499,000

Traditional 4 bedroom home located on cul-de-sac with 2 bathrooms. Hardwood floors throughout and central air/heat.

Formal living room, family room with fireplace, washer and dryer included, 2 car detached garage with newer automatic door and bonus room or office. Fruit trees in the rear. Close to freeway, transportation and shopping. A great value. (L1926))

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Lots of light in and open floor plan in this top floor corner condo Two spacious bedrooms, plus a convertible den, dining area, fireplace, laundry area, FA/CA, newer skylight in kitchen and a balcony with a mountain view and a Jacuzzi..1,181 efficient square feet per Assessor. Conveniently close to South Lake, Paseo Colorado & Old Town. (M230)

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That you can purchase this great starter home in a quiet Baldwin Park neighborhood. for only $209,800. Clean bank owned property has 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, new carpet & paint in bedrooms, new tile in living room. Property is ready to move in.

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$125,000

This townhouse style condo features 2 bedrooms and 1.5 baths. Inside laundry, central air & newer carpeting downstairs. Complex centrally located and close to shopping and easy access to freeways. Great opportunity for 1st time buyers! (RIV)

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BY DAWN RICKABAUGH

I

f you see tornado clouds forming on the horizon, chances are you’re going to grab a flashlight and a box of crackers, (and some wine and cheese to go with) and head for the cellar. That is, unless you’re like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, who peddles along absolutely clueless, but with a nice set of braids, none-the-less.

Sometimes private note holders (sellers who offered owner financing when they sold a piece of property) see flying monkeys on the horizon and start worrying that those nice juicy note payments might stop coming in. This is especially true if they didn’t have a lot of guidance in structuring the transaction and the actual note documents from the beginning.

And if payments stop coming in, that turns everything into a witch of a deal, whether it’s in the east OR west.

OK, so I’m going to quit being abstract and just share a story as we hold hands down the yellow brick

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We Need to Dump Our Owner Financed Note! soft bellies. They’re getting a bit nervous, because if/when he misses the first payment, then they’ll have to decide what to do, and that’s just more of a hassle than they (thought they) signed up for.

Additionally, the property is now worth less than the balance on the note: $350,000. So, they were hoping that they could just sell the note for $350,000 and be done with it. And I couldn’t even begin to touch that number. For a peek into my thought process, watch the video on my website.

Instead, I responded with a few ideas for them: “Dear Jennifer, It was a pleasure to speak with you today, and I look forward to helping you and your husband navigate the current situation for the best possible outcome. To summarize, you have 3 options:

road. It started with this email: “Hi Dawn, I found your web site by searching how to sell our note. My husband and I are the only note holders to the house we sold.

We’ve been kicking around the idea of selling the note, but still not sure. Your web site is very informative, this is something we might be interested in. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards, Jennifer” So here’s how this Riverside County deal looked: Sales price: $450,000 8.4% down payment: $38,000 Note amount: $412,000 Interest rate: 6.5% Monthly (interest only) payment: $2,231.67 Besides the down payment, the buyer fully prepaid one year of interest on the note at close of escrow, so, his first regularly scheduled payment is due a month from now. But, the sellers are worried that their little munchkin won’t be able to come up with the dough.

W hy? B e c a u s e he

“Look Toto, I think I see a buyer!” somehow failed to pay the last round of property taxes.

So, he’s technically in default already.

Thus, the note holders are starting to feel those f luttering f lying monkeys right in the middle of their

1.Try to sell the entire note for as much as $150,000 (50% of the value of the property, not the note balance).

Anyone who buys this note will expect to eventually have to foreclose, so they need to buy at a price that

ensures they can still profit after all is said and done.

2.We can see if he can get regular financing. If he could qualify for a traditional loan of say $300,000, you would walk away with more money on a “short refinance” than an outright sale of your note.

3.You can work out a loan modification. You can make it as easy as possible for him to continue (or start) paying you. Your return would significantly decrease, but you may be able to avoid massive principal reduction. I am often hired to help negotiate deals like this. We’d use a Title Holding Land Trust to eliminate your exposure to foreclosure from here on out.”

Always consult with your CPA, tax attorney and/ or financial advisor before selling property or paper.

Dawn Rickabaugh is a RE broker with expertise in owner financing and RE notes. www.NoteQueen.com 626.641.3931

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Features 4 bed/3 baths + bonus room w/bath in basement.

Situated on 29,820 sq.ft. lot. Association pool, meadow & lake access. Spacious rooms w/good lay-out. Expansion potentials.

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$1,795,000

This beautiful 4bdrm 2bth home has a wonderful open floor plan, up-dated kitchen, double door entry, fireplace, large windows all around, flat yard with fruit trees.

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$859,000

Step into this ver y unique home high in the hills of Sier ra Madre. This tri-level home is designed with the executive in mind, one who loves to entertain. The entrance is to the floor with bedrooms and laundry, go up one flight to the kitchen and dining and then another half flight up to the LR w/ a warm & inviting fireplace, a wet bar, open beamed cathedral ceilings & out to the deck w/ a built in hot tub. Use a little imagination on your decorating and this will be a dream home for life. (L540)

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C h o i c e Fr o nt U n i t , 3 b d r m 2 . 5 bt h b a l c o ny v i ew s , great location, tri- level gated communit y. Spacious kitchen w/ break fast bar, for mal dining room, large living room w/FP, f inished garage w/direct acc ess, upstairs den/office, bdrms w/private balconies. (A912)

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$518,000

Sharp! Sharp! Sharp! 2 exceptionally well maintained units. One unit built in 1949 and one unit in 1958. The front unit has new carpet, ceramic tile floors in kitchen and bath. This is a neat, clean and orderly property and it has no deferred maintenance.

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CITY NEWS

OCTOBER 1 - OCTOBER 7, 2009

City Holds Awards Dinner at School’s Facility despite Usage Firestorm Continued from 1 near the historic Alverno Villa Del Sol Del Oro, purporting that Alverno is not a good neighbor. The scale of the complaints is considerably smaller but seemingly no less vocal.

According to Gillick, additional monies, like those raised from the rental of these facilities, is needed for the school nonprofit school to survive. Parents pay an average of $11,000 per year for tuition for their girls to attend the small school of 230 girls. That figure is approximately half the average tuition for most private schools in the area. That’s why Alverno relies heavily on private funding such as renting out their grounds and facilities in order to stay afloat while still providing an education to area girls at an affordable cost.

The master plan Alverno began in 1959, and when the school opened in 1960 enrollment was twice the number of students as today.

Ann Gillick says they could still add about 25% more students if other funding sources start drying up.

Alverno does not charge

Residents opposed to the plans to add new facilities to the school have voiced their opinions in no uncertain terms.

any nonprofit group in town for use of its facilities. The only temporary users that pay any sort of rent are commercial endeavors like film, television and commercial shoots, which bring in much needed money not only for the school but as well for the city, which charges for filming permits and the sur-

rounding commercial neighborhoods that benefits from the added foot traffic large productions often bring along with them.

But with the current economy still set in a rather gloomy state (pun most certainly intended), this year has not been good to Alverno or the City of Sierra Madre.

There has been no filming this year at Alverno. That money - often as much as $100,000 per year - is usually earmarked to help cover education costs as well as maintenance and renovations for the Villa facility.

Alverno staff says some residents might be “misreading” the school’s intensions.

Gillick points out that the school is a girls’ school, and that there are no plans for use of the new soccer facility for football games.

“Our girls don’t play football,” said Gillick “We certainly have no plans of renting out the field for football.”

Gillick maintains that the proposed development would not expand the campus itself in any shape or form. So the issue seems not to be one of intrusive building, but rather

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of the potential for noise issues an complaints from the surrounding neighbors.

This latest permit request has spawned appeals by neighbors urging the city to deny it. And the dispute has only just begun, as attorneys talk over the school’s plans for a new building and athletic field, the no doubt costly debate could go on for years.

Alverno doesn’t have a reserve for such litigation, but will find a way to fight on if need be, Gillick assured the Sierra Madre Weekly on Monday.

“We’re taking the higher ground, what’s more important to me than the Alverno Master Plan is the education of our young women.”

I n a not her sa rdonic twist, Alverno School is forced to hold one of its own school events in Pasadena next month to avoid any further noise complaints. They had to rent the Hilton in Pasadena. The issue is expected to be back in the council’s hands within a few weeks.

No word yet on whether or not a coin toss will be used in determining the projects future.

Sierra Madre School Performance Score Hits All Time High Continued from 1 Principal Gayle Bluemel says, “The continued high academic achievement by the students at Sierra Madre School does not happen by accident.

It is accomplished because of the dedicated and focused service of our professional staff that provides an exciting and engaging learning environment, supported by a steady stream of parent volunteers and by the outstanding involvement of our entire school community.”

Parent and Sierra Madre City Council Member John Buchanan also commented on the school’s success, adding, “We are excited about the academic progress across the district, but are especially proud of the achievements of Sierra Madre School. The API score only reaffirms what we have long known - Sierra Madre School is much more than a cherished community institution; it is a great place for kids to learn and grow.”

The Academic Performance Index (API) is the cornerstone of California’s Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999 (PSAA). The purpose of the API is to measure the academic performance and

growth of schools.

In addition to its high academic scores, Sierra Madre School is best known for its strong community and parent involvement, as well as its dy-

namic PTA and Annual Fund efforts. Sierra Madre School is part of the Pasadena Unified School District that serves the communities of Pasadena, Altadena, and Sierra Madre.

Sierra Madre Wine and Jazz Walk Set for Saturday Continued from 1 Throop, owner of Angels Everywear, one of the participating businesses since the event’s 2006 inception, the event began when she and some other Sierra Madre merchants were talking about the many events that take place in Sierra Madre, and the idea of a Wine Walk came up.

Shortly thereafter, a trip to Café 322 in Sierra Madre to enjoy some live jazz was the genesis of the idea to add jazz to the wine walk, and the idea started to pick up steam. It was agreed that making it a charitable event was a good idea.

The reasons for picking City of Hope were many. The event was to be held in October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness month. All of the involved participants that first year had had customers, friends and/ or family affected by cancer.

Throop’s father-in-law, the 2006 Sierra Madre Older American of the Year was treated for lymphoma at City of Hope, and was in fact, at that time, the oldest person ever to receive stem cell treatment at City of Hope. Another acquaintance had been treated at City of Hope, despite the fact that they had no insurance. So City of Hope was selected.

In its first year, the Sierra Madre Wine and Jazz Walk raised $20,000 for City of Hope; in its second year, event organizers were able to present the world famous hospital with a check for $40,000. In 2008, the Walk raised $74,000 for the cause.

New to the event this year will be the San Antonio Winery Wine Garden, from 6 to 8pm.

The Riboli Family Wine Estates is the presenting sponsor of the event, donating wine from the historic San Antonio Winery to be served at each of the venues.

The Winery was founded in 1917. During prohibition, when most wineries closed down, San Antonio was able to stay in business by providing sacramental wines to the Catholic Church, and to this day, produces altar wine as well as the aforementioned award winners.

For the music lovers, this year’s event features nearly a dozen live bands. Joining Sweet Heat on the bill are The Mercy Powell Quartet, Max Buda, Nine + One Big Band With Harry Smallenburg, Skivaly / Sills Quartet, The Susan Krebs Trio, The Bruce Lofgren Trio, Envino Jazz, New Astroturf, Red Eye Blues Trio, and the Lorenzo Grassi Trio. Music is being booked, arranged, set up and coordinated by Mario Lalli, owner of Café 322.

There will also be a silent auction featuring dozens of items up for bid, including a Dodgers Ticket Package, Wine Tasting and Tour for Four at Callaway

Winery, Taco Party for 25, Turf Club Admission, with Valet Parking and lunch up to $100 at Santa Anita Park, and many more.

Some merchants will be providing their own food, while many have teamed with local restaurants, caterers and chefs to provide food. Participating Sierra Madre food providers include Barney’s Only Place in Town, Bean Town, Café 322, Casa del Rey, Charcuterie, Corfu, Four Seasons Tea Room, Lucky Baldwin’s Delirium Pub, Restaurant Lozano, Ugo’s Italian Gourmet, Village Pizzeria and Wildflour Baking Company. Other local restaurants that will participate include Baldwin’s Sidewalk Café of Monrovia, Matt Denny’s Ales House and The Patio Mediterranean Cuisine, Arcadia, Barney’s, Ltd., California Skewers, El Portal Restaurant, and Nikki C’s, all of Pasadena, and Chefelle, Personal Chef Caterer.

Tickets for the event are available online by visiting the event website, at SierraMadreWineandJazzWalk.com, or by visiting one of the participating businesses in downtown Sierra Madre. Advance tickets are $35, on the day of the event, tickets will be $40. There will be three check-in points in the downtown area, where attendees will pick up their City of Hope wristbands, a wine glass, tickets good for each of the “tastes” of wine.

Presenting Sponsors of this year’s event are the Riboli Family Wine Estate and San Antonio Winery. Ticket Sponsor is Sharp Seating. Rusnak Jaguar is Valet Sponsor. Gold Sponsors are Remo, Inc., Foothill Home Care Partners, and Webb-Martin Realtors, a Dickson-Podley Company. Angels Everywear, Charles Norman, Chase Bank, Frank and Pat Hall, Mike and Nancy Brown and Sierra Madre Woman’s Club are all Hope Sponsors.

Participating businesses this year are Angels Everywear, Attitude Clothing, B. La, Baldwin Jewelers, Body Shop Private Fitness, Brown’s Classic Interiors, Capelli Court Salon, Center for Well Being, Chase Bank, Colbert Studio and Spa, Creative Arts Group, Curves for Women, Foothill HomeCare Partners, Gwen on 2, The Hair Upstairs, Iris Intrigue Boutique, Ixora Floral Studio, Julia Rocks Skin Care Center, La Bella Rouge, Leonora Moss, Lunch Salon, Once Upon A Time, Salon Zelo, Savor the Flavor, Sierra Health and Fitness, Sierra Madre Books, Sierra Madre Playhouse, The Four Seasons Tea Room, and Webb-Martin Realtors.

For a complete list of sponsors and participants, visit the SierraMadreWineandJazzWalk.com website and click on the link to sponsors.

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OCTOBER 1 - OCTOBER 7, 2009

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located near the top of Santa Anita Avenue and offers a wonderfully open and spacious floor plan. There is a garden atrium with trickling waterfall and Koi pond in the center of the home. It offers 2,995 sq feet with a large family room, 4 bedrooms, (2 master suites) 3 baths, pool, spa, mountain view and a 12,339 sq ft lot. You won’t want to miss this dreamy home!

751 Oak Crest, Sierra Madre $1,098,000 • $3,500 Lease price Imagine the possibilities! Situated on an acre of land, this famous Sierra Madre glass Pyramid home offers breathtaking, panoramic views of the San Gabriel Mountains, city lights and valley. The Pyramid features 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 3,327 sqft and a large sunk-in fireplace. The Master Suite has a private patio & an Egyptian motif bathroom. A spiral staircase takes you to the 2nd bedroom high within the Pyramid’s peak. There is a Zen garden pond, hot tub under a pergola and a look-out point. The 1 bedroom, 1 bath guest house offers the same views and completes this property. Wouldn’t you like to own such an icon?

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638 Manzanita Avenue, Sierra Madre Offered at $1,098,000.

This decorator perfect home offers 2,792 s.f. with 3 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. The lot is 12,177 s.f. and has over 50 rose bushes as well as plum, orange, peach, and lemon trees.

There is a formal living room with high ceilings, cherry wood flooring, family room, a Master Suite with a newly updated bathroom, a spiral staircase leading to a loft. There is a storage room with wall-to-wall cabinets. This contemporary style home is a delight!

1106 Windsor, South Pasadena Offered at: $1,098,000 Located in the desirable South Pasadena School District as well as one of the most sought after locations of South Pasadena, the Library District, this lovely Craftsman home was built in 1907 and has been recently updated with all the modern conveniences and boasting the latest colors. There is an updated family kitchen, 3 updated baths, the formal dining room is being used as the family room and the attic has been converted to a guest room/play room and has 2 closets, a kitchenette and a bathroom. Additionally, there is a spacious rear yard with play set and a workout room with air conditioning attached to the garage. The home is 2008 +/- sq. feet on a 7092 sq. foot lot and 4 bedrooms. This one won’t last!

833 Canyon Crest Sierra Madre Offered at $698,000.

Escape to the serene hills of Sierra Madre to your own, cozy hideaway. This beautifully maintained home exudes an aura of comfort and peacefulness. There are charming, relaxing patios and city light, treetop and mountain views. The new kitchen offers granite counters, stainless steal appliances and cherry wood cabinets. Also includes: a brick fireplace in the living room, French doors, a formal dining room, office/den, 2 bedrooms (one opens to the back patio w/fountain) 1.5 baths and 1,460 square feet. Experience life at a pace that is sure to slow you down what are you waiting for?

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My favorite way to hang art is to group 6-8 prints in a grid. This is a striking and elegant way to display pieces.

By sticking to a theme such as colorful flowers, insect prints from a book, or playful drawings, they will work together and become a large, unified piece of art. The key is to make sure they are the same size and framed identically. This uniform method of hanging art can bring a hint of formality to a room.

If you want to display your pieces of art in a loose and casual way, art shelves will add a relaxed and lighthearted touch. By layering the art and leaning it on a shelf, you have a bit more flexibility to display pieces that suit your mood at the time, and you can even swap the art out as the seasons change.

Either I’m non-committal in my own home, or I just like the laid-back look of it, but I enjoy leaning art on my fireplace mantel and living room chests. This also accomplishes a layered look, as it creates a very relaxed and untailored atmosphere to juxtapose the formal furniture and fabrics in my living room.

Whether you’re hanging just one piece of art, or a whole gallery wall, this is the step that unifies a room and adds that extra layer of drama. Hanging art should be creative and fun, reflecting why we choose certain pieces to display in the first place – because we love it.

So with some basic hanging principles, you can surround yourself with your favorite art and tie your room together at the same time.

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Hanging art is the final touch, the last piece of a puzzle to making a room beautiful.

And it is, well, an art form. It can also be the most difficult and frustrating part of decorating. But with a few simple pointers, and lots of daring creativity, you can feel confident to pick up that hammer and put the final touches on your room.

The biggest mistake many people make is hanging their art too high on the wall.

As a guideline, make sure that the center of the piece is at the average person’s eye level. Once it’s hung properly, the art will add drama and beauty to any room.

You can also accomplish some visual trickery with art. Hanging art vertically will give the room a sense of height by drawing the eye upward, particularly if you have low ceilings. Horizontal arrangements will elongate a wall and is a great way to detract from really high ceilings – it brings the room back down to human-size, if you will.

If you have a large wall, the best way to display art is by grouping pieces together of various sizes and shapes.

Think English hunting lodge!

Use similar colored frames to keep the different pieces unit-

ed. Be sure to keep the same spacing between each piece; this will give the display a more uniform look.

To create a gallery wall, you can make a template out of kraft paper. Trace each piece of art, cut it out and place them together on the wall. This allows you to arrange the art before you commit to hanging it. Take the largest piece of art and hang it in the center, then add smaller pieces around that.

Take a step back; really look at the shapes of each piece and the way it flows on the wall. Mark the edges in pencil for a guide, and you’re ready to hang!

If you are looking for a way to create a picture wall that s even faster and easier, turn to the PerfectPicturewall® - www.thepicturewallcompany.com. They help you create an instant gallery with a set of 10 frames that come with a template you simply place on your wall as a hanging guide; there is no measuring, all you do is hammer in the hooks based on the template, then hang the art. The template lets you arrange the art in numerous ways so you can create the look you want (or attempt that tricky staircase gallery). With different finishes, the frames can accommodate a modern or traditional room. It really couldn’t be easier.

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The Eraser Continued from 3 kid however as I had two older brothers who were continuously teaching me “The Art of Mischief� and school seemed like the most common place to practice my skills.

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But, fortunately I set aside all of those unjustified feelings and began to consider the consequences.

That careless might cause me to lose one of my best friends. Now, leaving behind all of that foolish pride and self-pity, I reached down into my God Given Toolbox filled with Loving and Caring tools and selected that humbling tool called Apology. I sent a most inspiring apology for my carelessness and carefully stated all of the wonderful things that his friendship meant to me.

WOW ‌ h a rd ly a n hour went by when I received a telephone call from him. “Hey Wally, I just got back from a long camping trip with my Grandson and found t his unbelievable Apology from you??â€? “ I got your letter and I thought that your comment on the out side of t he envelope was hilarious!â€? Well, it is needless to explain that at that moment the incident became quite funny.

But it was also a very good learning experience.

Be careful what you say. The tongue can do more damage with one thoughtless word or comment than you can repair in a lifetime.

Your emot ions and feelings need not precede your good judgment. Kindness, Understanding, Apology and God’s Eraser called Forgiveness are just some of those Loving and Caring Tools t hat God ha s provided for us to enjoy a happier life.

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Fire Damaged Water Supply Line Once Again Flowing into Descanso Gardens Water is again flowing into Descanso Gardens as of Monday, Sept. 21. Repairs have been made to the damaged pipes in Hall Beckley Canyon where a steadyflowing creek provides the Gardens with its main water source of irrigation for the 160-acre landscape. About 200 feet of plastic PVC pipes

melted because of the intense heat of the fire.

Descanso has been without its main water supply since Aug. 26 and, consequently, has had to purchase additional public water through Valley Water Company for a total of about $600 a day.

Dur ing t he summer months, Descanso uses be-

tween 50-70,000 gallons of water a day; and usually during peak times, Descanso supplements its watering capacities of Hall Beckley Canyon water by buying public city water.

Since the fire broke out, the Gardens have cut back on irrigation, especially on lawns, to conserve water.

International Orchid Growers Head to the Huntington 50th Anniversary Orchid Show Coming October 16–18 The Southland Orchid Show Committee celebrates its 50th anniversary with a spectacular show and sale Oct. 16–18 at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. This is the fifth year that The Huntington has hosted the event.

Exhibitors from across the region will be joined by international orchid growers as they display their best blooms for the benefit of judges and the public alike. Large, creatively designed floor installations and intricate tabletop compositions will feature hundreds of exotic oncidiums (“Dancing Ladies�), brassias (“Spider Orchids�), paphiopedilums (“Lady Slippers�), and miltonias (“Pansy Orchids�), as well as cattleyas, cymbidiums, vandas, epidendrums, and many other orchid species and hybrids.

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A series of daily talks in the Botanical Center’s Ahmanson Classroom will provide visitors with an opportunity to learn more about orchid care and culture: Friday, Oct. 16 12:30 p.m. - Orchid Conservation Strategies and Opportunities, by Peter Tobias 2 p.m. - Key Species of the Modern Pot-Plant Phalaenopsis, by Tom Harper 3:30 p.m. - California Native Orchids, by Robert Lauri Saturday, Oct. 17 12:30 p.m. - Laelia Anceps and its Hybrids in the West, by James Rose 2 p.m. - The Species of Catasetum, Cycnoches, and

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Hours for the show and sale are from noon to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, and from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. All activities and exhibits are included with Huntington admission. Adult admission is $15 on weekdays and $20 on weekends. Discounted rates are offered for seniors, students, children, and groups.

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OCTOBER 1 - OCTOBER 7, 2009

The Social Whirl

Former Arcadian and Music Star, Pat Robinson, Returns to Arcadia Oct. 15

BY FLORETTA LAUBER

ASID Pasadena Chapter 23rd Annual Home & Kitchen Tour, Sunday, October 4

This awesome home is a must see, located on Rancho Road in the Santa Anita Oaks, Arcadia, one of five homes on the ASID Home Tour Sunday, October 4.

The Annual Pasadena ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) Home & Kitchen Tour, now in its 23rd year, is set for Sunday, October 4, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., announced Carol Cobabe, 2009 ASID Pasadena Chapter Home * Kitchen Tour chair.

“Our tour is very strong on value,” she explained.

“What other home tour offers entrée to five diverse homes, plus opportunities to meet designers, learn about products and services from key industry vendors, and shop unusual boutiques, all for a mere $30 per ticket?”

This year’s self-guided tour, which features homes built from 1923 to 2008 throughout Pasadena and Arcadia, offers two very different takes on traditional design and mid-century design, plus a new California Spanish home. Designers had to take into account existing furniture, artwork and personal collections.

“These are real homes for real people,” said Angela Reed, Home & Kitchen Tour co-chair.

Participating designers for 2009 include Eileen Atwood, Allied ASID (Sierra Custom Kitchens); Jennifer Bevan-Montoya, ASID, and Denise Ranalli, Allied ASID ( Jennifer Bevan Interiors); Lauren Elia, ASID (The Elia Design Group, inc.); Susan

Sawasy, ASID (Casawasy), and Rozalynn Woods, Allied ASID (Rozalynn Woods Interior Design).

Shopping for treasures and discovering resources are added benefits of the tour, which includes retail boutiques, displays of the best home design products, and ongoing demonstrations of faux painting. Guests can also purchase chances to win a U-Line wine refrigerator (a $1,500 value), donated by Silver Sponsor Snyder Diamond.

Tickets for the tour, $30 in advance and $35 on the day of, are available by calling (800) 237-2634 or the ASID Pasadena Chapter office at (626) 795-6898. Tour tickets and tickets for the wine refrigerator drawing ($10 each) are also available at Anthony’s Art & Frames, 1120 Huntington Dr., San Marino (800) 237-2634; Curves, Kenneth Village, 1416 W. Kenneth Rd., Glendale (818) 551-1600; Cynthia Bennett & Associates, 501 Fair Oaks Ave., South Pasadena (626) 799-9701; French Laundry, 606 S. Lake Ave., Pasadena (626) 792-3881; Pzazz Hair Salon, 840 Foothill Blvd., La Canada (818) 7901334, and Snyder Diamond, 432 S. Arroyo Pkwy., Pasadena (626) 795-8080.

All proceeds benefit the Pasadena chapter of ASID. Proceeds go toward scholarships for emerging designers.

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1965 photo taken at Pasadena Civic Auditorium. (L-r) Tom Hendersen, Pat Robinson (Leader of the Fenwyck Band) and Mike Pechanic. Robinson is returning to Arcadia Oct. 15, at Arcadia Historical Museum at noon. “The beat goes on.”

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(Right) Rotary president, Imy Dulake, with guest speaker, Evelyn Gray, whose subject was “If You Can’t Find it in 30 Seconds, It’s in the Wrong Place.” She is a productivity expert and seminar leading consultant, trainer and speaker, one of her good “turns that pile into a file.”

Pat Robinson, musician, songwriter, record and film producer, and so much more, is Gene Glasco’s featured speaker at his ensuing Brown Bag lunch talk titled “The Beat Goes On: Arcadia’s Back Yard Bands of the Sixties,” October 15, at noon at Arcadia’s Ruth and Charles Gilb Museum. Glasco and Robinson grew up together in Arcadia, and although Glasco played guitar with his own folk revival group, he spent more time following Robinson around and carrying Robinson’s equipment than he did performing his own music. “Pat had a fantastic band named Fenwyck,” says Glasco, “that I could never get enough of. Fenwyck played all over Southern California, but the band’s beginnings were in Arcadia.”

Some of Robinson’s early recordings will be played at this talk, along with some newer cuts from some of his many CDs. In later years, Robinson’s growth in the music industry was explosive, with tours and performances in Europe and numerous recording gigs in the United States.

Robinson has written for Joe Cocker, Gene Clark of the Byrds, Percy Sledge (Atlantic Records 50th anniversary release), to name just a few. His production company, JBond Records, produced a video with Timothea in New Orleans, “It’s Time For Change,” filmed at the Columns Hotel on St. Charles Place, a very famous tobacco plantation house, which also featured Walter “Wolfman” Washington, along with other famous New Orleans personalities.

Robinson has recently been helping the Jackson family sell Michael Jackson’s art collection.

An accomplished sketch artist in his own right, some of Robinson’s work will be on display at Glasco’s Brown Bag event.

This is one event you don’t want to miss.

Send your social and club news to “The Social Whirl,” e-mail your photos and announcements to : socialwhirl@ (L-r) Larry Livingston (Altadena), music director of Thornton Orchestras, and professor of conducting at USC Thornton, and Eric Small at their 125th anniversary celebration.

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Arcadia Rotary Club celebrated the Los Angeles Dodgers at its Sept. 25 meeting, complete with Dodger dogs and nachos for lunch. (L-r) Keith Brown, dressed for the day, with Bob Deao, wearing his original shirt $39 he wore 50 years ago when he played for the Dodgers minor team.

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$10, $15 at the door. Location is Arcadia Elks Lodge, 27 W. Huntington Dr. (parking lot entrance off Morlan Place).

Send checks, made out to Arcadia Historical Society, before October 15, to Don Swenson, 911 Encanto Dr., Arcadia 91007.

For information, call the Society at (626) 574-5468.

Gene Glasco is membership vice president and chair of the event, Ruth Dunlop is president.

Anyone interested in the history of Arcadia will enjoy this group. Remember to visit the Ruth and Charles Gilb Historical Museum next to Arcadia Community Center.

It is outstanding.

Assisteens Book Buddy Program to Begin New School Year at Arcadia Public Library The Assisteen Book Buddy program scheduled for 3:30, 4 or 4:30 p.m., on October 1, 15; November 5 and December 3, is a special one-on-one read aloud program especially designed to promote the love of reading to children ages four to eight years of age.

The Assisteens, an auxiliary of Assistance League of Arcadia, generously volunteer their time reading aloud.

Space is limited, so be sure to register early.

Sign-ups began September 21 for October 1, 15 and November 5; November 12 for December 3.

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Tri-tip barbecued beef and all the fixings await members and friends of the Society, Sunday, October 18, 3-5:30 p.m.

This fun event will also offer great prizes from local restaurants, plus line dancing and more.

Prospective members are invited. Advance cost is only

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(L-r) USC Thornton professors Suli Xue (Arcadia), USC Thornton adjunct professor of strings/harp, and Alice Schoenfeld (La Canada), emeritus professor of strings/harp; Rob Cutietta (Pasadena), dean of USC Thornton School of Music, and philanthropist Ruth Ross.

Chinese-American violinist Suli Xue enjoys an active career on today’s international music stage. He is a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, a professor of violin at the USC Thornton School of Music, and the former concertmaster of the Central Philharmonic Orchestra of China.

Internationally renowned violinist Alice Schoenfeld was educated in Berlin. At age 10 she made her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of P. Scheinpflug. A protégé of the eminent professor Karl Klingler, the heir of the great Joachim tradition, she rose quickly to the top ranks of violinists. Schoenfeld has received the USC Ramo Music Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. Most recently she and her sister, Eleonore Schoenfeld, posthumously, were honored by the American String Teacher’s Association as National Winners of the 2008 Artist-Teacher Award.

In honor of Thornton’s 125th anniversary, Ruth Ross made a generous $1.25 million gift to augment the Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld scholarship for string students that she originally established in 2004. Ross, a lifelong friend of the Schoenfeld sisters, made the additional gift in celebration of the Schoenfelds to guarantee Thornton’s future as a premier pace to study strings,

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Ages 8 through 18 Scenes from the 19th Annual Street Rods Forever Hot Rod & Custom Car Show on Myrtle Ave. -Photos by Roy Nakano.

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Soliant Lights the Way for Future of Solar Energy

Rather then lying flat, Soliant’s panels tilt towards the sun using a motorized, self-guided system. The company has created a solar energy system that can capture up to 80 percent more energy than traditional apparatus, attracting investment from larger comapines like General Electric, Rockport Capital Partners, Trinity Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, Convexa and Nth Power.

Continued from 1 a solar energy system for commercial buildings that can capture up to 80 percent more energy than traditional apparatus. Rather then lying flat, Soliant’s panels tilt towards the sun using a motorized, self-guided system. The weight and capabilities of the panels make the system best suited for commercial buildings with high energy needs and limited rooftop space (they have proven too heavy for use on the average house).

Soliant Energy CEO Marco DeMiroz stated, “The Soliant Energy mission is to energize commercial rooftops by maximizing solar

energy output at the most competitive price. Opening this pilot production facility is a critically important step along this path…we are thrilled to be part of the expanding solar industry in Monrovia and the greater Foothills area.”

Soliant’s new facilities come at a time when the area, battered by current economic conditions much like the rest of California, will certainly benefit from an electric jolt of economic progress. Unemployment in Monrovia for the month of July was recorded at 11%.

While still under the dismal California average of 12.1%, this figure is nonetheless significantly higher than the

national rate of 9.6%, and certainly not reflective of a desirable state of economic affairs.

The company will likely add up to 40 employees to its workforce, which, though an admittedly small figure given the current unemployment crisis, will nonetheless be a welcome boost to the local economy. Soliant currently retains 38 workers, thus it is possible that the company will effectively double its number of employees in the near future.

S ol i a nt , wh ic h w a s founded in 2005 by former employees of NASA, was chosen by The United States Dept. of Energy as a Technology Pathway Partner in 2007.

The company has focused on providing solar panels for commercial use in hot, dry, sunshine-rich areas such as California, Arizona and New Mexico.

Several major investors have offered their financial backing, including General Electric, Rockport Capital Partners, Trinity Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, Convexa and Nth Power.

The new Monrovia facility will be capable of manufacturing up to 2,700 panels in its first year of operation, and up to one megawatt of solar panels on an annual basis. The pilot program is intended to help Soliant develop the means for full-scale production in the year 2010.

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The Los Angeles County Office of Education announced 16 Los Angeles County Teachers of the Year Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Monrovia High School teacher Jennifer Bryant was one of those 16. Additionally over 60 District Teachers of the year were announced: In Arcadia, John M. van Haaster from Foothill Middle Schools was selected. From Duarte, Char Wilson was the lucky recipient. Wilson is at Valley View Elementery. Lauren Nadirah Nayo, from Pasadena Unified School District won her District Teacher of the Year award for her work at Norma Coombs Alternative School. Mark Afram, from South Pasadena USD was

Jennifer Bryant was one of 16 Teachers of the Year for the County of Los Angeles. Here she is getting a helping hand from her mom.

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selected as District Teacher of the Year for his work at South Pasadena High School.

The keynote speaker was California Teacher of the Year for 2009, Jose Navarro who

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3:17 AM – Arrest, Suspended/Revoked Driver’s License, 200 block South Mountain Trail Ave. A motorist was stopped for a traffic violation. A record check revealed the driver’s license was suspended. The driver was issued a citation and released on a written promise to appear.

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Friday, September 18th: 9:36 AM – Theft of Mail, 200 block Manzanita Ave. A man on a bicycle was seen reaching into the resident’s mailbox and removing several pieces of mail. The man was startled by the resident when they opened the front door. The man put the mail in his back pack and fled westbound Manzanita Ave. The man was described as a male white 5’9” – 6’0”, 1821 years with red hair, red and black tank top with matching shorts.

11:55 AM – Arrest, Battery, 300 block Santa Anita Court. A family argument escalated to a fight involving three family members. Two were arrested and one sustained an injury requiring her to be transported to the hospital by the Sierra Madre Fire Paramedics. The arrested parties were transported to the Sierra Madre Police Department where they were booked and released on a written promise to appear.

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1. Units responded to the 2300 block of South Sixth around 12:19 p.m. in reference to a domestic violence incident. During an argument, a 30-year-old male Caucasian suspect struck his wife in the back. When he was leaving the house, he threw a brick through the window and the brick struck the victim in the leg. The suspect fled in his vehicle, and he was not located during an area search.

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11:04 AM – Theft from Vehicle, 00 block East Mira Monte Ave. A wallet was stolen from an unlocked car. The crime occurred between 7:00 pm Tuesday, 9/15/2009 and 2:00 pm Wednesday, 9/16/2009. The loss consisted of a wallet, cash, driver’s license and several credit cards.

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Tuesday, September 15th:

7:19 PM – Petty Theft, 100 block Suffolk Ave. A bicycle was stolen from the resident’s open carport between 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm, Saturday, 9/12/2009. The bicycle was described as a red and silver 18 speed Specialized Mountain Bike with “Hard Rock” on the frame. The bike was valued at $350.00.

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For the period of Sunday, September 13, through Saturday, September 19, the Police Department responded to 1,041 calls for service of which 127 required formal investigations. The following is a summary report of the major incidents handled by the Department

Tuesday, September 15: 5. Units responded to Citibank around 10:56 a.m. in reference to a robbery that just occurred. Two male African-American suspects, early to mid 30’s, presented a demand note to the teller. Fearing for her safety, the teller gave the suspects money from her cash register. The suspects then fled the location on foot. An area search was conducted, but the suspects were not found.

6. Shortly after 3:00 p.m., officers were dispatched to Macy’s regarding a grand theft.

Two male suspects, one Hispanic and one possibly Caucasian, stole 15 purses from display racks for a total reported loss of about $3,300.

The suspects fled the scene in a dark colored Honda driven by another suspect.

Wednesday, September 16: 7. A victim came to the station around 3:00 p.m. to file a fraud report. Because she was already an identity theft victim, she was scrutinizing over her bank statement when she discovered two unauthorized transactions charged to her credit card in Germany. The transactions totaled over $5,100.

8. Loss prevention personnel from Macy’s advised that they had detained an employee for grand theft and embezzlement around 4:42 p.m. The 27-year-old male Hispanic employee was being monitored for suspicious activities, and he was seen making fraudulent returns and giving merchandise to a female customer. Further investigation revealed that the 50-year-old woman was the suspect’s mother.

A private person’s arrest was made, and the employee was taken into custody.

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10. Around 4:57 p.m., a victim came to the station to file an embezzlement report.

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Friday, September 18: 11. Around 2:15 p.m., officers were dispatched to Baby Gap located at Westfield Mall in reference to several thefts that occurred between August 15 and September 18. The manager advised that about $1,000 in property had been stolen from the store.

/ CitizenÊs Arrest On September 19, an officer responded to the 600 block of South Myrtle regarding a female subject urinating in public near the downtown car show. The reporting party saw a female squat down next to a building and urinate. The citizen placed the suspect under arrest for urinating in public.

Structure Fire On September 19 at 8:53 p.m., officers were dispatched to a structure fire at an apartment complex in the 100 block of West Colorado. It was determined that one of the apartments had a ceiling fire caused by an electrical short in the bathroom exhaust fan.

An officer arrived, gained entry, and put the fire out with his unit’s fire extinguisher prior to Fire Department arrival.

Suspicious Circumstances / Kidnapping

12. Shortly before 11:00 p.m., a traffic stop was conducted at Highland Oaks and Sycamore for an equipment violation. A sole occupant was contacted and a consent search revealed a white crystalline substance resembling methamphetamine, a glass-smoking pipe, and prescription medication without a prescription. The 52-year-old male Caucasian was taken into custody without incident.

On September 19 at 9:23 p.m., officers were dispatched to a suspicious circumstances call in the 1200 block of Encino. The reporting party, a 14-year-old female, reported her mother and four-year-old sister had just been kidnapped by her mother’s ex-boyfriend. It was later determined to be a hoax.

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13. Between 9:00 p.m. on September 18 and 10:00 a.m. on September 19, a grand theft from auto occurred in the 400 block of West Norman. Unknown suspect(s) entered the unlocked vehicle and stole a $2,000 laptop computer.

On September 20 at 12:54 a.m., officers were dispatched to the area of a local bar in the 1500 block of South Myrtle regarding a subject bleeding in the parking lot. The victim was located with serious lacerations to his head and face. Investigation revealed the victim had argued with friends while driving to Monrovia from Azusa in a cab. When they arrived at the Monrovia bar, a fight occurred, and the victim was kicked by the two suspects in the head, neck and face, causing his injuries. The victim was transported to a hospital for treatment. Due to the victim’s injuries and being extremely intoxicated, attempts to obtain the names of the suspects were futile. Investigation continuing.

14. A 61-year-old male Hispanic transient was arrested by the railroad tracks and Santa Anita around 9:30 p.m. for attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and outstanding misdemeanor warrant. The suspect stabbed a 17-year-old male juvenile in the abdomen in the 00 block of West Huntington for no apparent reason. The juvenile was transported to the hospital for medical treatment.

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During the last seven day period, the Police Department handled 593 service events, resulting in 132 investigations. Following are the last week’s highlighted issues and events:

Unlawful Sex with a Minor / Suspect Arrested On September 17 at 7:50 p.m., officers were dispatched to the public restrooms at a park in the 500 block of South Mountain regarding subjects engaged in lewd conduct.

When officers arrived, they found the restroom door locked, but officers could hear the subjects inside. Officers contacted a 16-yearold female and an 18-year-old male as they exited the restroom. Both parties admitted to drinking alcoholic beverages and having intercourse in the public restroom. The 18-year-old was subsequently arrested for unlawful sex with a minor. The 16-year-old was released to a guardian.

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Injury Traffic Collision On September 20 at 2:36 a.m., officers were dispatched to an injury traffic accident in the area of Fifth and Chestnut. Officers found the intoxicated victim trapped in his vehicle. The accident appeared to have been a high-speed collision into the support pillar of the 210 Freeway overpass. Monrovia Fire Department was able to extract the victim from the wreckage, and he was transported with minor injuries to a hospital. Investigation continuing.

Fight in Progress / Drunk in Public / One Suspect Arrested On September 20 at 3:19 a.m., officers responded to a fight in progress in the front yard of an apartment in the 300 block of West Lime Avenue. Officers detained several subjects, ranging in age from 16 to 21 years of age. What started out as a few friends having a slumber party, escalated into friends of friends showing up and large quantities of alcohol being consumed by the party-goers. A fight broke out between unknown suspects and the front apartment window was shattered. One subject was arrested for being drunk in public, and parents were called to take custody of their children.

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They hold or have held careers ranging from stay at home mom to general contractor to LAPD detective, but all 28 new Provisional members of the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts (PSHA) share one goal in common: a desire to help the musical arts flourish throughout Los Angeles County.

“Putting on our House of Design, which is one of the oldest, largest and most successful house and garden tours in the nation, requires a large number of volunteers,” explains Delise Menik, President of PSHA. “So we’re thrilled to welcome such a large Provisional class of talented new members.”

“What’s truly extraordinary, this year, is the diversity of our Provisional class,” adds Kathryn Hofgaarden, Provisional Chairman. “The range of careers is truly amazing.

The class includes a realtor, retailer, attorney, teacher, hair salon owner, general contractor, retired LAPD detective, retired Deputy Director of the LA Department of Children and Family Services, a television producer, and stay at home mothers. PSHA will benefit immensely from the skills and experience they bring us.”

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1965, when we held our first Pasadena Showcase House of Design, PSHA has raised over $17 million for the musical arts programs throughout LA – from large organizations like the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Opera to local schools, senior centers, hospitals, libraries, guilds, museums and youth orchestras. With 28 new members now on our team, I can’t wait to see what we’ll accomplish!”

As Provisionals, these 28 new volunteers will not only staff the Pasadena Showcase House of Design but will have the opportunity to participate in three music programs supported by PSHA: the Pasadena Showcase House Music Mobile™ program, in which the Pasadena Conservatory of Music and members of PSHA introduce thirdgraders throughout the San Gabriel Valley to the instruments and music of a symphonic orchestra; the Pasadena Showcase House Youth Concert, to which PSHA invites about 4000 fourth-graders from schools throughout LA County to Walt Disney Concert Hall for a special performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; and the Pasadena

Showcase House Instrumental Competition in which talented, young musicians compete for approximately $30,000 in award monies in the areas of Brass, Strings and Woodwinds.

T he 2 010 Pa sadena Showcase House of Design will be open to the public Sunday, April 18 through Sunday, May 16. Tickets will become available on February 1, 2010. For more information about PSHA or the Pasadena Showcase House of Design, please visit www.

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