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Fourth of July Parade A Huge Success Thanks to Roger Klemm!
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his 4th of July parade was the best one that most people can remember. Under the direction of Rotary Club President Roger Klemm, this year’s 4th of July parade came to fruition and was wildly successful. For a while it was even questionable that there would be a parade this year because of the mismanagement of the clubs affairs by the junior officers. Everything went wrong with the organization that has been an organization to look up to for decades. Like all service organizations, as the
older experienced members died off, left the area or just didn’t want to continue, the organizations have begun to bring in younger members with no experience. The Sunland-Tujunga, Shadow Hills Rotary club was no exception. The last remaining members of the “old” group Michael Lucas who recently passed and Ellis Roberts who moved out of state, left the organization foundering. Michelle Ramage who went power mad and working behind the scenes almost destroyed the club. Roger Klemm was elected
last year and took over the parade logistics and made it happen. The club still has membership problems, but those left made the necessary sacrifices to continue the parade for its 37th year. Our Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez came through with funds and licenses AND police security to protect the marchers and animals. Bicycle and motorcycle officers patrolled the parade route making sure that none of the dignitaries had water balloons thrown at them. Motor officer Flores did his best to
glower at anyone that even hinted at having a hidden water balloon. One event that completely surprised the Rotary officers and the attending public, was the group of street racers that did wheelies that created so much smoke that it obscured Foothill Blvd. Although the LAPD looked annoyed, the parade went on to everyone’s delight. The American Legion Post 377 had the longest, tallest float in the parade with over 20 people riding on it. After the parade, they offered free hot dogs and hamburgers
to anyone that came to the Legion Hall. Honorary Mayor John Clausen who had been snubbed by event providers, took it all in stride watching the parade from the McDonalds front lawn. EVERYONE had a great time. The parade has always had the firefighting equipment spray the crowds and amuse those who tried to see how soaked they could get. (See Page 8). Next year should be even better. Oh, and yes, there was a fireworks display at the Verdugo Hills High School later in the evening.
Tujunga Resident Qualifies for Junior Olympics Synchronized Swimming
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s Los Angeles prepares to host the 2028 Olympics, we wanted to share that Tujunga has an up & coming aspiring Olympian in their community. Mercedes Rodriguez, a Tujunga Resident and local Verdugo Hills High School student recently qualified at the Southern California Regionals in San Diego to compete in the 2018 Junior Olympics Synchronized Swimming event in Oxford, Ohio. She will be in Oxford, Ohio June 23rd-July 1st for the week-long high-level national event. Only the top teams qualify to compete at
the Jr. Olympic level-a Team USA sponsored event, and Mercedes will be competing in the Jr. Duet event Mercedes has been training with the Los Angeles Synchronized Swimming Club, for the past 2 years, but has been swimming since she was 10. It takes a lot of dedication and sacrifice to train long hours sometimes in extreme weather including rain. Her future plans includes a spot on nationals and collegiate level team, When she’s not training she giving back to the community as a volunteer synchro coach
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at local county pools. More than anything she loves being in the water, because water is her realm.
’m proud to announce the addition of twelve new fire personnel at Fire Station 75 in Mission Hills, further restoring engine services to an area that has been operating with reduced capacity since 2011 budget cuts. The added staffing will increase deployment and improve response times in the Mission Hills area and supplement fire services in Sylmar -- the
largest service area in Los Angeles. Engine services will begin on Sunday, July 8, 2018. The funding to restore resources at Fire Station 75 was acquired through the Staffing for Adequate Fire Emergency Response (SAFER) Grant that was awarded to the City by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
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Burbank African Violet Society Meeting Thursday, July 19
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he Burbank African Violet Society is having their next club meeting on Thursday morning July 19, 2018 at 10:00 A.M. The location is The Little White Chapel Christian Church, 1711 North Avon St. in Burbank. Our guest speaker will be Dave Weeshoff a member of the San Fernando Valley Audubon Society. Dave will present an introduction to birding in southern
California including A description of their habitat and how to attract the birds to your backyard. Refreshments are served and friendships are made. Guests, are welcome to attends. For ore information call (818) 951-3597 or visit www.burbankafricanviolets. weebly.com
Tujunga United Methodist Church Christmas in July Craft Show
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ujunga UMC has a history of hosting Craft Shows for over 50 years. Christmas In July gives you an opportunity to get a head start on the Christmas season. We will be hosting 23 artists who sell only handmade items. All are local to So. California. Please join us for this free event and get a jump on the Holiday Season. There’s something for everyone on your list. The event will be held on Sat., July 21, 2018 – 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at 9901 Tujunga Canyon Blvd.,
Tujunga, CA 91042. We will have a great variety of items. We have returning artists and a nice variety of new artists. What are you looking for? Succulents? Handmade Soap? That one of kind crocheted item? Whimsical hair bows? Jim’s wonderful Jam? Doll Clothes? Fused glass? Coasters? Wire wrapped jewelry? Teddy Bears? Not sure what your looking for? Start your shopping early! For more information call the church office at 818-352-1481.
Neighborhood Watch Report for Combined Foothills Area Meeting of 6/19/18 by Jon Von Gunten
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he group convened at its customary 6:00 PM on the third Tuesday. Tujunga’s Senior Lead Officer Gloria Caloca ran the meeting of 26 Sunland-Tujunga and Shadow Hills residents. PROPERTY CRIME continues as our biggest problem! Home security is a MUST! Police are uncertain if one or several crews are involved. Wanted posters are up on another matter that MAY be the same person. Crims now wear masks and hoodies, but videos of them can be somewhat useful if the apparel is spotted later. If you or family leave anything of value visible in vehicles, you expose yourself to double damages: Theft *and* vandalism to your vehicle to gain entry! CRIME VICTIMS NOW RECEIVE VALUABLE “VAP” ASSISTANCE! Foothill Division’s new Victims Advocate, Bianca Monteón, introduced us to LA’s Victims Assistance Program (VAP). VAP helps crime victims and their families with financial restitution, medical, emotional and funeral costs, legal advice and protection. Each LAPD Division now has a VAP advocate. VAP involvement often follows severe violence or robbery. See the program or request help at www. HelpLACrimeVictims.org. Reach Bianca at 818-8343104 or BiancaMonteon@ lacity.org. She’s eager to help! WHEN TO CALL YOUR SLO...and NOT! For specific events in progress, call 911 or LAPD Dispatch (1-877-ASK-LAPD). When it’s borderline, call 911! Either way, you’re calling a Team! Your SLO is one person who may be off duty, in training or meetings, on special duty or an event, in court, or even— OMG!—home with family! DO involve your SLO when problems are ongoing and calls to LAPD have not remedied. To put more officers on the street, Foothill’s front desk is no longer 24/7. It’s
closed from 11:00PM to 7:00AM. Its outside phone auto-calls 911. The MyLA311 app has a ton of services. Use our own Foothill LAPD app. STREET & PARK LIGHTING Foothill’s Neighborhood Prosecutor Mark Ross and Senior Lead Caloca did a ride-along to report areas of lousy lighting that encourage nighttime crowds. Kids “harmlessly” drinking in dark parks attract more and more people until the crowd plus alcohol emboldens someone to commit a crime. Per Eve Sinclair, CD-7 Deputy, Sunland Park and the McGroarty area will soon get more lighting! Some poles don’t even have lights. A few residents object to light pollution, but most support lights’ anti-crime benefits. Eve saw and reported 14(!) light poles whose bases had been vandalized, probably an attempt to steal copper wiring or power. A resident pointed out we should beware of unswept piles of pine needles in parks as they may hide hypodermic needles. A STREET-RACER TASK FORCE is being formed. Residents from several areas complained about racing. IF YOU SAFELY CAN, video or write down license plates. Racers’ cars may be impounded or stripped of expensive speed equipment. LAPD has doorknocked the addresses of racers from their plates and DMV records, often with good results. One resident’s drone was successful in intimidating street racers and residential fireworks. Officer Caloca addressed the myth of LAPD having “ticket quotas.” She has no quota and gets no management input for days of high or low ticketing. Speeders cross all ethnic lines. Although youth seems a contributing factor, one resident earlier reported seeing a succession of whitehaired grannies blowing through her stop sign. So much for all those comfort-
able generalities. REPORT TAGGING IMMEDIATELY! Recent tags promote TVR and TVok gangs. We have to squish their recruiting and PR efforts. Local response from Graffiti Busters or residents is usually FAST! Tagging can be a felony if damage exceeds $900. S-T is getting more and more LAPD attention, greater than higher-crime areas in Pacoima, who don’t speak up as often as we do! (!YaY! for us!) IN-N-OUT: Customers waiting for In-N-Out’s obviously tasty menu items often spill onto Foothill’s right lane. When more cars arrive, they stack up in the S/B right lane of Lowell, thus bollixing up traffic on two streets. Mark Ross is involved because ownership of that intersection divides very oddly between Glendale and LA. Demarcations even on Mark’s and Eve’s maps differed! Unless I&O takes active steps, no solution will be 100%. STREET SLEEPERS LAMC 85.02, regulating “Vehicle Dwelling,” expires on 1 July unless renewed. As officers must cite a person, not a vehicle, for that infraction, occupants often don’t answer LAPD’s knock. One large and sumptuous motor home took up an extended stay on Apperson near Newhome. Our Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez is arranging an overnight vehicle sleeping site away from the Foothills area. City is very mindful these must be done right the first try, else initial problems burn bridges with local residents that may never be rebuilt. MORNING Neighborhood Watch meetings will NOT occur on the usual first Tuesday and Wednesday due to the holiday. Perhaps they’ll be rescheduled for another morning if necessary. Come to the regular EVENING N/W meeting at 6 PM, NVCH, 11 July. Be there to say thanks, share trouble spots, and offer LAPD your ideas for improvements.
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absurd as equating morality with immorality or health with illness. Hopefully Californians will contact their legislators and ask them to drop this odd anti-choice bill (AB-2943) like a lead balloon.
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ASK RUSTY Collecting Social Security while Working by AMAC Certified Social Security Advisor Russell Gloor, Association of Mature American Citizens
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ear Rusty: My husband started getting Social Security disability in 2016 at the age of 61; he is now 63. Did it automatically switch over to regular Social Security? Also, he is feeling bored and would like to have a little job. Is he allowed to work just so many hours per week, or does it go by how much you make per month? Is it just reported at tax time next year? Signed: Helpful Wife Dear Helpful: Your husband’s SS disability (SSDI) will automatically switch to his retirement benefits
when he reaches his full retirement age (66 years and 2 months if he was born in 1955). Regarding his working while still collecting SSDI benefits, Social Security encourages those on disability to attempt to return to the workforce, so your husband should consider enrolling in the Social Security “Ticket to Work” program, which will provide him the chance to test his ability to work for at least nine “trial work months” during a 60-month time frame. During this trial work period he’ll receive his full SSDI benefit regardless of how much he earns. Briefly, any month he earns more than $850 (for 2018) counts as a trial work
month (if he earns less than that it doesn’t count as a trial work month). After he has reached nine trial work months, he can still receive his SSDI benefits for another 36 months, ex-
cept that he won’t receive benefits for any month that his earnings exceed what Social Security considers “substantial gainful activity,” or “SGA,” which for 2018 is $1180. If his benefits stop because his earnings regularly exceed
“SGA,” and within 5 years he is once again unable to work due to his disability, his disability benefits can be restarted (without having to re-apply). You can get full details about Working While on Disability and the Ticket to Work program by going to this link: https://www.ssa.gov/ pubs/EN-05-10095.pdf. The Ticket to Work program should allow your husband to work and test his physical limits without having a negative impact to his Social Security disability benefits. As for reporting his earnings, your husband must notify Social Security when he starts to work and must, as well, report his monthly earnings to Social Security at 1-800-
772-1213. Once he has entered the Ticket to Work program, he should also report to Social Security if he stops working. And, of course, once his disability benefits convert to regular retirement benefits at his full retirement age, there is no restriction on how much he can earn. The Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC] [https://www.amac.us] is a vibrant, vital senior advocacy organization that takes its marching orders from its members. We act and speak on their behalf, protecting their interests and offering a practical insight on how to best solve the problems they face today. Live long and make a difference by joining us today
Boston Court Pasadena Announces Selections for the 14th Annual New Play Reading Festival July 19 – 28, 2018
Boston Court Pasadena announced the full details of its 14th annual New Play Reading Festival, July 19 - 28. Curated by Literary Manager Emilie Beck, in concert with Artistic Directors Jessica Kubzansky and Michael Michetti, the New Play Reading Festival is a key component of Boston Court Pasadena’s commitment to nurturing playwrights and new work, and continues the company’s core mission of developing and programming works that are inherently theatrical, textually rich, and visually arresting. This year’s Festival features four female playwrights. The plays for the 2018 New Play Reading Festival are How the Light Gets In by E.M. Lewis, Pairi Daiza by Nahal Navidar, Ladies by Kit Steinkellner and Drunk at the Base of the Bodhi Tree by Julie Hébert. Additional finalists were Three Girls
Never Learnt the Way Home by Matthew Paul Olmos and The Chinese Lady Performs for Us by Louisa Hill. “This year, we received 230 submissions for our New Play Reading Festival,” said Boston Court Pasadena’s Literary Manager, Emilie Beck. “We are thrilled that three of the four playwrights are based in Los Angeles and all four are women. While we read without attention to gender, we were drawn to these voices, which speak to a wide array of underrepresented female experiences.” Each play will receive a four-day workshop, culminating in final public reading. Since Boston Court Pasadena opened in 2003, the theater has mounted 60 productions, 33 of which have been world premieres – 18 of those world premieres were first discovered as part of the New Play Reading Festival.
In addition to the readings, each Thursday night during the Festival will feature a preview of the coming weekend’s plays, a discussion of what makes a “Boston Court Pasadena play” and an inside look at the play development process. Literary Manager Emilie Beck and Artistic Directors Jessica Kubzansky and Michael Michetti will be joined by the festival playwrights for a lively discussion and an audience Q&A. The New Play Reading Festival is open to the public and free-of-charge, but reservations are recommended. Information and reservations are available online at bostoncourtpasadena.org, by calling 626-683-6801. The New Play Reading Festival is supported in part with funds received from the Pasadena Tournament of Roses® Foundation and the Playhouse District Association.
Saturday, July 21–11:00am
Saturday, July 28–11:00am
Written by E.M. Lewis Directed by Emilie Beck A travel writer who never travels. A Japanese architect who can’t figure out how to build a simple tea house. A tattoo artist who refuses to draw on a woman’s skin. And a homeless girl who lives under a weeping willow tree in the Japanese Garden. Four lonely people find each other when one of them falls apart.
By Kit Steinkellner Directed by Michael Michetti Ladies is a fictional account of a year in the life of The Blue Stocking Society, the world’s first major feminist movement in 1750’s London, and explores the tangled knot of electric and jagged relationships that comprise this group. These women are pioneers and revolutionaries, emboldened by the call to arms to be the first of their kind and burdened by the misfortune of being born far ahead of their time.
How the Light Gets In
Saturday, July 21–2:00pm
Pairi Daiza
Thursday, July 19–7:00pm
Written by Nahal Navidar Directed by Shishir Kurup When 24-year-old Iranian Independent-Fighter Zahra learns she is 7 months pregnant in the heat of the Iran-Iraq war, she rejects her maternal instincts and chooses to remain in combat. As her impending due date approaches, Zahra must learn how to deal with the traumas of her past life and open herself up to hope and love. Thursday, July 26–7:00pm
A preview of the coming weekend’s plays, a discussion of what makes a “Boston Court Pasadena play” and an inside look at the play development process. Literary Manager Emilie Beck and Artistic Directors Jessica Kubzansky and Michael Michetti will be joined by the festival playwrights for a lively discussion and an audience Q&A.
A preview of the coming weekend’s plays, a discussion of what makes a “Boston Court Pasadena play” and an inside look at the play development process. Literary Manager Emilie Beck and Artistic Directors Jessica Kubzansky and Michael Michetti will be joined by the festival playwrights for a lively discussion and an audience Q&A.
Performance Schedule:
Festival Preview and Playwright Discussion
Festival Preview and Playwright Discussion
Ladies
Saturday, July 28–2:00pm
Drunk at the Base of the Bodhi Tree
By Julie Hébert Directed by Jessica Kubzansky A woman with a broken ankle washes up at the base of a Bodhi tree in the foothills of SoCal seemingly out of nowhere. When another woman hiking in on a solitary mission to commune with a dead man encounters this intruder, sparks fly as they navigate the tricky terrain of understanding--until a real brush with danger changes everything once more. Tickets and Information: Boston Court Pasadena 70 N Mentor Ave. Pasadena, CA 91106 Prices: Free. Reservations Recommended Website: BostonCourtPasadena.org Phone: 626.683.6801
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SACRAMENTO – Senator Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, today announced that two of his bills succeeded this morning in their second Assembly committee hearings. SB 1101, the B.O.T Act of 2018 (Bolstering Online Transparency) was introduced with the support of Common Sense Kids Action to address the growing occurrence of automated bots masquerading as individuals and being weaponized to spread fake and misleading news with a goal of lending false credibility and reshaping political debates. The bill has taken amendments to address opposition’s concerns, but maintains its by Chef ranDy core goal of requiring bots to be identified as automated Lentilsonline. are low in calaccounts ories, high in fiber, high SB 930, co-sponsored in have zebyprotein Board ofand Equalization Member FionaThis Ma, would ro trans fats. baestablish the framework for sic lentil recipe is simple
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Amateur Radio Field Day 2018 a Great Success
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e had a fantastic Field Day…Its getting better every year.” Said Michael Lichtman (KF6KXG), President of the Crescenta Valley Radio Club (CVRC). Field Day had just concluded and all that was left in Verdugo Park was a folding table and a few boxes full of wire and connectors. The 15 or so club members that remained were standing in small groups on a beautiful sunny Sunday morning seemingly reluctant to leave. When looking at the small cadre of remaining club members, Mike said, “Excellent group of people.” Other club members voiced similar sentiments. Many had just spent the better part of 30 hours working together to make this year’s Field Day a success. Field Day is an annual event in which amateur radio operators (also called Hams) literally take their equipment to the field and try to make as many contacts as possible within a 24 hour period. On the surface, Field Day is a contest. The deeper purpose is disaster preparedness as Hams improve their skills in operating under conditions that are less than ideal. Amateur radio operators are licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to operate on a host of frequencies via voice, Morse Code, various digital modes and even video or television. Collectively, Hams have the skills and equipment to communicate across town or around the world which makes amateur radio ideal for emergency communications. This year, CVRC made nearly 200 contacts across the
George Eckart (KJ6LA) logs contacts on the computer while Bob Cesarone (WA9JIB) searches for another Ham to call. Photo by: Pet Natividad (N6PET)
United States and Canada. “This was my second Field Day but the first time on the air,” said Joe Antczak (KM6ERG). It’s a thrill to realize that you can talk to someone who is three thousand miles away,” He continued. In addition to emergency communication, the amateur radio service is dedicated to technical innovation. Tom Hendricks (K6THH) brought his home-built 10 meter antenna for testing. He made a contact with another Ham in Pasadena. Not a great distance but the antenna worked and looked quite impressive with its’s 7 foot radial rods extending to the side resembling a giant up-side down ice cream cone. It should work very well when atmospheric conditions are better. Another amateur set up a small WSPR (Weak Signal Propagation Reporter) station. Ham stations around the world report to the network, located at Princeton University, any other low power amateur stations who are heard on
Randy Bonilla (KB6FTW), Larry Cohn (AD6IZ) and Gary Kiffel (KM6NIP) begin making contacts at the start of Field Day. Photo by: Robert Jimenez (K6YZF)
various frequencies. This Ham’s small transmitter was heard across the US and Canada, as far as the Cook Islands in the Pacific and the Canary Islands off the Coast of Africa. Not bad for a small Ham station radiating about as much power as one small incandescent Christmas-tree light. There were other technical challenges as well. There were large spools of wire to be unfurled, long lazy antennas to be draped across the giant sycamores in the park, a huge loop antenna to be placed and adjusted, power cables to be distributed, and transmitters to be set up with computers and properly tuned. Operators were on duty all night long. When the contacts became slim in the early morning hours, Bob Cesarone (WA9JIB) brought out his banjo and treated the sleepy Hams on scene to a little bluegrass concert. The whole operation was solar powered until the batteries began to fail about 2 am Sunday Morning due to the extended overcast the previous
Pet Natividad (N6PET), Bob Cesarone (WA9JIB) and Mark Kanzler (KE6ZRP) search for another contact in the early morning hours of Field Day. Photo by: Joe Antczak (KM6ERG)
day. What do Hams do when confronted with a challenge? Change the plan. “We switched from all natural power to the emergency power option,” said Gene Roske (AE6GR) which meant starting up the engine in his solar powered command vehicle. Improvise, adapt, overcome” could also be the moto of Ham radio operators on Field Day. Field Day not only brought the members of the CVRV together, but there were many other non-practicing amateur operators or would-be operators who visited the site on Saturday and Sunday. While Field Day is typically a contest, it is much more. According to Mark Kanzler (KE6ZRP) “We make points by socializing.” Whether it was discussing radio propagation, antenna configurations, sharing family photos or carefully weighing-in on how a particular Swiss dialect sounded more like German than Dutch, most operators really seemed to enjoy the time in fellowship with others who shared a similar passion for the art, science and service of amateur radio. Of course,
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there was also the now traditional late night Chinese dinner that operators shared around a rented folding table in the cold darkness of Verdugo Park. As one might observe, cold park… warm hearts and there were plenty of warmed hearts to go around. This was club member Gary Kiffel’s (KM6NIP) first Field Day. Although just licensed last October, ham radio was something Kiffle said he had always wanted to explore. “I was so pleased with the energy, camaraderie and the spirit.” “This was my first opportunity to call CQ (invitation to have contact). I loved every minute of Field Day,” Kiffel said. Planning is already underway for next year. What will you be doing the last weekend in June, 2019? If you are interested in learning more about Ham Radio, how to become a licensed Amateur radio operator or would like to know more about the Crescent Valley Radio Club, visit the club’s website at cvrv.club. The club meets the second Thursday of every month at 7:30PM at Verdugo Hills Hospital. All are welcome to attend.