The artists gather here about every two weeks, some from far away — sometimes Orange County, sometimes Santa Barbara, and today one from San Luis Obispo.  They bend over their work, using pigments suspended in an emulsion of egg white and white wine, using delicate brushes and gold leaf.  Their purpose? Making windows into Heaven.

The Icon Guild of Southern California is a group of artists creating icons in the  Russian-Byzantine style. 

Tickets are $40 for professionals, $30 for parents and youth, breakfast, lunch, and snacks are included and scholarships are available.

For more information, click the graphic or contact Yoland Trevino at 626-797-3379.

• Four teenagers in Eaton Canyon apparently got too drunk to get themselves out of the park Saturday night, says PSN.  It required the Altadena Search & Rescue Team to take them out.
• Now David Rothman at The Solomon Scandals blog looks at LA Weekly looking at us looking at AOL. (This “WalMart” thing we started seems to have legs).  Rothman calls us “a mix of seri­ous civic report­ing,

Lynn Walker was highly motivated to attend Saturday’s meeting to talk about renovations to the main Altadena Library.  She had to go around to a side door to enter the community room in her motorized wheelchair, and she spoke using a combination of speech and a type pad.

“I’ve lived in Altadena 32 years,” she said.  “I’ve raised three children. 

Altadena Town Councilman Ken Roberts, vice-chair of PUSD’s School Consolidation Study Committee, sent out a report following Saturday’s public meeting at McKinley School.

According to Roberts,

We couldn't do this better ourselves, so why try?  Petrea @ Pasadena Daily Photo has a report on the wonderful social networking gathering at (Altadenablog sponsor) Webster's Fine Stationers on Friday night.  Lots of great people, great information, great food by Amy's Patio Cafe and El Patron and wine-tasting with the Oddball Grape bunch.

The general public is welcome (rain or shine) to participate in games, crafts, and activities for the entire family.

Don’t forget to wear your best costume for the costume contest,

We love living in Altadena — but we have some pet peeves, too.  What are yours?

Carolyn Seitz, who is working with the Altadena Sheriff's Station, recently sent this out to the newsgroups regarding the auto vandalism wave Sept. 26:

Greetings to you all and thank you again for being willing to communicate with me so I could provide useful information to the Sheriff's Department about several incidents of tagging reported on your vehicles.

• Larry J. Moore, DDS, MS, of Altadena assumed the presidency of the American Association of Oral and Mixillofacial Surgeons during the association’s annual meeting in Chicago last week.  Moore has a private practice in Chino Hills and lectures in the residency program at King/Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
• Don’t forget that the Forest Service and National Park Service are holding a meeting tonight,  Oct., 6, from 7-9 PM to get public input about a potential new national park for the Rim of the Valley Corredor. 

On the night before Halloween, you are all invited to Farnsworth Davies Theater for a special dance and movement event called, “Yourself in Another Life Masquerade Ball”

That evening, Oct 30th, you are invited to come dressed as yourself in another life, and throughout the night transform into, 

Prospective members can mingle with other moms, learn about the MOMS Club organization, and more.  We’ll have a few opportunity drawings as well. (Featuring prizes from  Kidspace and Goldstar).

MOMS Club is an international non-profit organization that supports mothers who have chosen to leave their paid careers for a new career: staying at home to raise their children. 

Airing Sunday mornings from 9 – 10 a.m. ET on Music Summit (XM Channel 24), The Ian Whitcomb Show features an eclectic and exciting mix of American and British popular songs ranging from Tin Pan Alley Ragtime, through 1920s crooners and dance bands,

Join Kimberley Valentine, Planned Giving Director at the Huntington Library, as she discusses how planned gifts can save on your taxes and provide resources that create extraordinary opportunities for the future of the organization of your choice.

This program, co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library and the Senior Center, will be held on Thurs.,

Between 6 PM and 9:10 AM: a commercial burglary occured on the 700 block of W. Woodbury Rd. (Pasadena Unified School District).  Suspect(s) entered the location by prying the door.  Loss; white Apple MacBook and seven gray Dell laptops.

Tues. Sept. 28

Between 6:30 AM and 3:35 PM: a residential burglary occured in the 2800 block of Glenrose Ave.  Suspect(s) entered the location by removing the window screen. 

Thurs., Oct. 7

• It’s Read for the Record Day as Ezra Jack Keats’ children’s classic, The Snowy Day, will be read all over the nation today.  Locally, reading locations and times will be at the Altadena Library, 600 E. Mariposa (11 AM & 4:30 PM); The Bob Lucas Branch Library, 2659 Lincoln Ave (4 PM);  and Perry’s Joint Ice Cream & Sandwich Shop, 2051 Lincoln Ave. (10:30 & 4 PM).

Fri., Oct.

• Hathaway-Sycamores held a fundraiser evening Sept. 30, awarding its first two “Celebrating Children” awards to the Southern California Gas Co. and Pasadena residents Annette and Michael Madden. The Gas Co. has a 25 year tradition of cooking a pancake breakfast and purchasing presents for youngsters in residential treatment at its Altadena campus.  The Sempra Employee Giving Network and Sempra Energy Foundation have made numerous improvements to the campus,

Is it that time already??  The Christmas Tree Lane Association is gearing up ….

Hello, Christmas Tree Lane Friends and Volunteers!!

This is to ask you to please join your neighbors and friends beginning October 16 from 9 AM to 12 PM for “Lights Up”. As long as the weather permits,

Interested in starting a neighborhood watch?  Interested in having one of them talk about crime prevention at your next neighborhood watch meeting?  Want tips about how to be a less likely victim of crime?  They can be reached at the Station’s primary phone number (626 798 1131), but since the phone is being answered at Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station as Altadena Station is being remodeled,

The Altadena Coalition of Neighborhood Associations (ACONA) will hold its second meeting at the Altadena Library Tuesday night, Sept. 21, 7-8:30 PM. ACONA was formed to bring together the heads of neighborhood associations and neighborhood watches so that they can share success stories as well as share and solve issues.

At its first meeting, in July, three dozen neighborhood block captains and others looking to organize their neighborhoods showed up.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying a classified cargo for the nation’s spy satellite agency launched last night during a primetime blastoff from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Liftoff was at 9:03:30 p.m. local time from Space Launch Complex 3-East. The 19-story rocket was visible across the region as a flame in the night sky, streaking southward to orbit.

This 40 second exposure, taken from my backyard in Altadena,

• Congrats to Eliot Middle School,  one of three grand prize winners in the 2010 Governor’s Fitness Challenge.  The prize: a new, state-of-the-art, $100,000 fitness center.  (Webster Elementary was also in the running as a state finalist).  School officials also credit the emphasis on fitness and activity with driving up the school’s API scores by 100 points.  PSN’s Beige Luciano-Adams (a new name to us – my, they’re running through those reporters) has the full story.
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  Altadena’s Shirlee Smith preaches it on the Dr.

Mon., Sept. 13
Between Mon., 10 AM and Tues., 2 PM: suspect(s) entered a residence on the 1700 block of E. Altadena Dr.  The residence was tented for fumigation at the time of the crime.  Suspect(s) entered the residence by cutting a hole in the tent and entered via an opened window.  Loss: Samsung 46 in. flat screen television, white Nintendo Wii,

Reader Gary Carman took this picture of Lincoln Ave. being blocked as deputies handle a potential hostage situation.

UPDATE, 4:30 PM: Talked to Lt. Joe Dempsey of Altadena Station, and here’s the sketchy information so far (we have also changed the headline appropriately):

A female resident of Altadena was arrested by the Monterey Park police as a suspect in a bank robbery. 

• After some discussion and objections from neighbors about potential parking problems, a planned Oct. 8 farmer’s market at Farnworth Park was put off. The organizers said they would work to find a better time and place for the market.
• Altadena Sheriff Capt.

From CHP:

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) received a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to address motorcycle safety.  The grant’s primary focus is on reducing motorcyclist fatalities and injuries within CHP jurisdictions throughout the four counties with the highest statistics. 

Exoplanet Madness continues, not only with the Mt. Wilson Observatory Assn. talk on Saturday, but this event at Caltech on Oct. 4:

"Many Suns, Many Worlds: The Galactic Quest for Exoplanets"

Worlds like "Hot Jupiters" and "Super Earths" don't exist in our own solar system, but have been found in our galaxy.

• If we were about 35 years younger, we’d definitely be a Goth, so that’s why this appeals to us: Hometown Pasadena’s Sandy Gillis takes a look at the outstanding cemeteries of the region, not the least of which is Mountain View.
• PSN has the story of Heather Milligan of Altadena, 29, who was found dead Monday inside her car parked at a San Dimas strip mall.  Police do not suspect foul play. 

Altadena resident Helen Walker was honored at the Altadena Town Council meetingTuesday night by Los Angeles County for her ceaseless efforts to plant flowers and beautify her WIndsor St.-area neighborhood. Walker is flanked, l-r, by councilmembers Gino Sund, Gene Campbell, and Tecumseh Shackelford.

Photo by Ruth Neilan Edwards.

 
 

Heinz Ellersieck said he heard a lot of construction noise across Rubio Creek, but he was 89 years old and didn’t care to venture into the hot weather to check it out.

But last week — after the retired Caltch professor celebrated a 90th birthday breakfast with friends —

Sat., Sept. 25, is National Public Lands Day, and believe it or not there are activities for this kind of thing. National Public Lands Day 2010 celebrates service and recreation on public lands while educating volunteers about the effects of climate change on our parks. Locally, the Angeles National Forest is holding a "fee free"

Thurs. Sept. 23

• Altadena Ale & Wine House, 2329 Fair Oaks Ave., hosts “Thee First LA Limerick Fest” starting at 7:30 PM.  Radio personality Mimi Chen of 100.3 FM will be the mistress of ceremonies. Signup for open mic starts at 6:45 PM, and admission is $9, which includes one free drink and a dollar of each admission will go to the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.  Must be 21 or older to enter.

… traveling westbound at 6:30 this morning, says reader Tim Cutress.

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