The show and sale features ceramics, collage, encaustic, glass, jewelry, photography, textiles, woodworking and more. Participating artists are: Charolette Barnard, Erica Batchelder, Marcia Bloom, Evan Chambers, Catherine and Ovie Cowles, Mary Jane Elgin,

The Arroyo & Foothills Conservance is celebrating its purchase of 13 acres of Millard Canyon in a special event on Sunday, Oct. 27.

You can help restore the habitat, enjoy a docent-led hike up Millard Creek or just join the party.  The Conservancy will l share plans for the canyon and you’ll learn about its  newest land project.

All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

• Myth, taken: Alta-photographer Sarah Allegra, whom we’ve featured here before, recently had a chance to create one of her mythology-themed photographs with a new model: Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn, among other books.  (Allegra is partnering with Beagle’s publishers in some future work, so stay tuned for that).  Allegra’s website has a whole breakdown about how she created a dreamlike atmosphere in her Altadena living room on a Walmart budget. 

 

Bring it all to the main Altadena Library parking lot on Saturday, October 26,

Checking off:  the Pasadena Education Network (PEN) has released elementary school fact sheets and middle school comparison matrix for PUSD schools, so you can get a good idea of what your children may get into (or want to get into) next year, e.g., the Doctor Who Club at Marshall, for instance

WIcked Fun:  This year’s edition of Wicked Lit previewed at at Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum last night,

According to information provided, Williams was last seen boarding a bus in La Puente to Pasadena City College, but did not return home.  

Williams is 22 years old 5 ft. 9 ins., slender build, mixed race (black/white) with hazel eyes and curly brown hair.

Anyone with information is encouraged to call Lt.

Alice Wessen forwards the photo above:

 A Strike Team of  U.S. Forest Service, LA County and CAL FIRE are in the Chaney neighborhood in advance of the Santa Ana winds, reviewing the area, and getting/staying prepped.  We thanked them on behalf of the neighborhood.   They will be here for about an hour, walking around. 

It’s no secret that our daughter Rosie (pictured) is a person with Down Syndrome.  She’s a sharp, happy girl, one of those people who lights up a room, and we’re grateful to have her in our life.

But children, youth, and adults with Down Syndrome require a lot of special attention and care.  They usually require a modified school curriculum to teach them the skills that will make them fulfilled individuals and contributors to society.  

Bill Ward, who was recently seated on the Altadena Town Council for Census Tract 4612, announced today that he is moving and resigning his seat.

Ward emailed Altadenablog with a copy of this letter to Council Chair Diane Marcussen today:

Dear Madame Chair,

I write to you now to resign my position as Altadena Town Councilman representing Census Tract 4612,

At the urging of Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, a meeting in Altadena has been added to present the county’s sediment cleanup plan for the Devil’s Gate Reservoir,

The additional meeting will be at Jackson Elementary School on Thursday, Nov. 14, from 6:30-8:30 PM, according to a release from Antonovich’s office.  The county had previously scheduled meetings at the Rose Bowl Stadium Visitor’s Locker Room on Nov.

• Wong is Arroyo’s Volunteer of the Month:  Dorothy Wong, one of the movers and shakers of the Altadena Bicycle Club, was named Volunteer of the Month by the Arroy Seco Foundation.  The foundation recognized the rockin’ biker for leading the Arroyo Seco Via, the bicycling portion of Alternative 20 support rally on Sept. 28.  The foundation says that Wong also put together a series of Cyclocross events at Los Angeles Historic State Park and cares for the trees at the Foundation’s nursery.

Currently (6 PM) a helicopter rescue is underway at the Razorback Trail/Acrophobia RIdge for some climbers who didn’t heed the warnings.  More details as we get them.

6:15 PM: Per scanner: County fire chopper has been working this scene — just left to refuel, and request went out for sheriff copter, which as infrared capability, to locate a second victim.

6:30 PM: Per scanner, a “second patient” has been located.

Sixty students from Pasadena High School’s computer science APP Academy toured the Business Technology Center in Altadena on Tuesday.  

The Academy, part of the College & Career Pathways program through Pasadena Unified School District,  is a four-year program where students learn computer science through mobile, web and game development.  Here, they’re taking the tour through ASCII Media at the BTS,

Not much on the agenda this month, but there will be the “State of the State” report by assemblymember Chris Holden, and reports by the various committees, law enforcement organizations, and others.

The Altadena Town Council meets at 7 PM Tuesday, Oct. 15, at the Altadena Community Center, 730 E. Altadena Dr.

A large variety of well-priced and unusual California native plants and wildflower seeds will be available. Appropriate for gardens in the Los Angeles Basin, these beautiful native plants provide good habitat, and are attractive to birds,

The Altadena writer works in comics, cartoons, graphic novels, theater, and more — almost a superhero himself 

by Timothy Rutt

You would like Steven T. Seagle’s job. He takes meetings with the likes of actor/director Kenneth Branagh (“Hamlet” and “Thor”) and Marvel Comics’ Stan Lee.  He writes edgy, experimental fiction.  

Your kids would like his life, too: He spends his days with Spider-Man and the X-Men.