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On August 6, 2008, at the Sierra Club Pasadena Group’s monthly meeting, Mike McIntyre, district ranger for the Los Angeles River Ranger District of Angeles National Forest will present a slide-illustrated program concerning current plans for restoring Rubio Canyon and will provide an update on other environmental issues in his ranger district.
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It’s hard to track this conversation, but a recipe request at the Chaney Trail newsgroup has transformed into what combination of goat, eggplant, stone knife, and virgin will be required to feed/call up Cthulhu. (It’s possible that the virgin prepares the eggplant and goat with the knife herself — it’s unclear).
This means one of two things: (1) the Chaney Trail neighborhood is even stranger than we feared,
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The Rose Bowl Aquatics Center has been hosting the Kaiser Permanente National Diving Championships for the past few days, one of the final sifting processes to see who gets into next month’s Olympics. One of the competitors. Cosima Lenz, a junior at Pasadena Poly,
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Just got this note from JPL’s Alice Wesson today:
Dear Neighbors:
At 8:15AM Friday July 25, 2008, one of my staff observed a woman walking the fire road found alongside JPL’s east parking lot. The woman was observed beating off a coyote that was trying to attack her dog. The coyote had froth around its mouth.
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Cosima and Felicitas Lenz are interviewed in this Whittier Daily News piece on the diving championships going on this weekend at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center (toward the end).
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Got a couple of inquiries about multiple sheriff cars and the copper chopper active last night, around 11 p.m. at Glenrose and Cosby (State & Lake blog reports multiple cars with lights on turning down Woodbury last night, in what’s probably the same incident). Just called the desk sergeant at the sheriff’s station, and he can’t find anything significant on the log.
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Way back on May 21, after the town council meeting where the list of town council candidates was set, Altadenablog typed it up at around 11 o'clock at night after a loooooong day. We misplaced some commas, misspelled Alan Wasserman's name ("Allan"), and put Dr. Sandra Thomas in the nonexistent census tract 4603.03 (it should be .02). We also put the incumbents names'
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The Altadena Sheriff's Station annual concert series at Farnsworth Park continues Saturday with the Down Beat Express Big Band.
The Down Beat Express Big Band was founded in Pasadena twenty-five years ago by saxophonist Safford Chamberlain. Pat Emmett took the baton a year later. Since then, the band has played dozens of gigs from park concerts to wedding receptions to stage shows and jazz festivals.
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The Los Angeles County Dept. of Parks and Recreation will hold a FREE summer day camp at Charles White Park, 77 Mountain View St., starting June 30 through Aug. 29. Hours are 9 AM-6 PM (free lunch will be provided July 24-Aug 31, which is kind of odd considering the camp ends two days earlier!)
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JFX Online has some shots of a thriller being filmed in the High 'Dena featuring Beyonce (whom Altadenablog has actually heard of). Anyone know where this shoot is going on? Altadenablog may feel like stalking.
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Gallery at the End of the World is holding its monthly Sunday Salon, noon to dusk this weekend. View and purschase works by emerging and established artists in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere. Admission is free. For more info: 794-8779, or hit the link.
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Chris Considine, who alerted us to the mystery low-flying passenger jet, is not only our source of aviation news, but inside Hollywood scoop ….
[Beyonce] was at my friend’s house all day yesterday filming a thriller!…and no I can’t tell you where it is. I don’t know if they are still there today,
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It takes four cranes to block the stained glass at Westminster Presbyterian Church for the Tom Cruise movie they’re filming today. No idea if they’re discussing engrams vs. double predestination, or MEST vs. TULIP …
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PSN has an article about Coffee Gallery’s “Cans for Comedy” show, which collects food for Friends in Deed, and updates us on the new owners, Roque and Julie Sandoval.
The nut quote, from Julie Sandoval:
Community outreach and fostering creativity is in the spirit of what the Coffee Gallery has always been and what the community hub hopes to remain,
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Altadenablog has gained an incredible amount of respectability in the past week, what with increased page views since the town council election, a fan phone call from our favorite Pasadena Weekly correspondant Andre Coleman, our first sponsor, jealousy over our first sponsor at Foothill Cities Blog, and other pats on the head.
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Happened at about 1:10 a.m. today — word is just getting out about it. Latino man, shot on the street and died in the hospital. Developing …
Update 10 PM: We cornered Sheriff Capt. Roosevelt Blow at Farnsworth Park concert tonight — he says everything’s in the hands of sheriff’s homicide investigators and he can’t say anything.
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Feasting and fun at the Community Garden Picnic Saturday afternoon.
The Down Beat Express Big Band brings out the old school dancing at the Sheriff’s Station concert series at Farnsworth Park tonight.
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This is like a condensation of Altadenablog’s week …
PSN’s Larry Wilson, in his column today, talks about a film that is being made by Neil LaBute, fictionalizing the Irsie Henry story (Henry being the African-American LAPD cop who allegedly harassed his mixed-race neighbors in Altadena). “Lake View Terrace,” it’s called, and it stars Samuel L.
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Altadenablog owes a hearty hat tip to Altadenans and fellow bloggers for joining our crusade to be blogrolled on PSN’s Under the Dome. This idea was started by a faithful reader many days ago, with no response from blog editor Dan Abendschein, so we felt we had to launch an official crusade,
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… as represented in two PSN stories today.
In one, Larry Wilson runs down the exploits of ex-councilman (and recent defeated candidate) Rev. C.R. Tillman.
And Robert Hong looks at Keith “Sarge” Gibbs‘ “Commit II Achieve” training program (great pictures in the print version which are not available online).
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Hope this headline got your attention like it got ours. A Canyon Crest Rd. resident found same, fresh in their yard this morning (ummmm – fresh lung!), and the best guess is (1) it came from a large dog, and (2) the mountain lion is back in Millard Canyon. Hike with a partner,
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… says Steve Lamb of the Altadena Town Council and Land Use Committee. (The regular meeting is the first Tues. of the month, which would be tomorrow). The committee will resume its regular meetings in August.
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We had potential mountain lion mayhem — and now we have more! James Knowles sent us this:
Found your blog when I was searching how to report the brown bear that was in our back yard Saturday night. Great Blog!!
Then last night I thought that a bear sighting in Altadena might be something you want to report, to warn others, so here is the info:
We saw an approximately 5-6 foot long brown in our back yard on Glen Allen Ln about 5:00 PM on Saturday night.
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Crown City News reports
in a rather breathless paragraph that the June 21 Altadena Town Council elections are in danger of being thrown out. CCN reports that Regina Grimes plans to challenge her loss to Okorie Ezieme for CT 4602, and quotes council chair George Lewis that three other candidates are going to file protests, including Walter Olszewski for CT 4602.01, who lost against Alice Wessen. CCN says that Lewis will put his newly-formed ethics committee,
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PSN’s Robert Hong pays a visit to the home of Michael Anthony De La Torre, who was shot to death on East Figueroa Saturday morning. Sheriffs, as usual, aren’t saying anything.
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Kelly the West Coast Grrlie rides the new 762 line (apparently alone) to see it travel to Altadena, like the brochure says. Well, Washington and Fair Oaks ain’t Altadena, last we checked, and the Grrlie knocks ’em one for it.
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Doesn’t appear to be online yet, but Pasadena Star News has a feature on the Obama mural at Wayne Nelson’s clothing store on Lincoln. Artist Harmon Mandigo has added to it since we snapped it several weeks ago. Nelson plans to add to it, too — flags and all-night lights, for example.
On the other hand, we found a dried-up apple head that looks like Sen. McCain …
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The Chaney Trail newsgroup has gotten rather bloodthirsty of late.
Fresh on the heels of the lung and trachea found in a resident’s yard (which now appears to come from a deer, not a dog), someone submitted a recipe for beuschl, an Austrian dish that is largely comprised of lung as well as other disgusting animal parts. The homeowner responded:
Darn! I wish I had known about this recipe before getting rid of the beuschl.we should have scaped off the dirt,
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… and no action yet. altho’ there’s a great story about a job at American University as a journalist/security guard. We’re not linking, because we’re having the vapors at being snubbed.
Reminds us of when we were in the ministry, and the model contract said that the minister was not to be responsible for janitorial duties as well.
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Dan Abendschein, blog-a-teer at Under the Dome, has sued for peace, and we graciously accept his hand in friendship and proclaim victory. The Altadenablog link is now up at PSN’s fine political/gossip blog. (The poor man sounds overworked, and I think we frightened him!)
Thanks to Monica Hubbard,
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Frank Giradot’s Crime Scene Blog looks at Eustolia De La Torre — her son Michael was murdered in Altadena on Saturday, but her oldest son, Sergio, 34, was also felled by gunfire a year ago.
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The Sheriff’s Support Group blog has posted a letter from some prominent Altadenans, presumably to the Star-News, in support of the county sheriff. Among the signatories is Altadena Town Councilman Ken Balder and presumed councilman-elect Tecumseh Shackelford. This letter takes issue with the May 30 letter from councilman Steve Lamb in PSN offering himself and presumed outgoing council chair George Lewis as escorts for anyone who wants to file a formal complaint.
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Stonehill News blog hasn’t had anything to say for a couple of months, but it’s a doozy now: pictures of a bear on the move in the Pinecrest area.
(And the headline is a church joke).
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Sharing this note from Alice Wessen, one of the savage residents of Chaney Trail:
Hi Tim:
Well, as bloody as we may get, we all worked together to close the campground early to avoid those carrying fireworks into the very dry forest area.
That is good for all of Altadena with all the dry brush around.
Several members of the Chaney Trail neighborhood pulled together to make this happen as did several agencies.
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PWeekly’s Andre Coleman reports on recent courtroom developments in the Irsie Henry saga. Henry is the African-American former LAPD cop who has been in trouble for harassing his neighbors, particularly a mixed-race couple. Henry was in court last month, acting has his own attorney in an attempt to show that his neighbor violated a restraining order.
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Pasadena Unified School District intends to put up a bond issue in November, asking for $350 million, paid for by a parcel tax on properties in Altadena, Pasadena, and Sierra Madre. The PWeekly story by Andre Coleman says that, despite the passage of Measure Y in 1997 to improve school infrastructure, much remains to be done and in fact some of the schools that received improvements closed down (oops).
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Altadena-based ALB Commercial Capital has announced plans to expand nationally using a broker-affiliate model, kind of like a franchise. This despite the downturn in the lending industry. We wish ’em luck!
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A 7-year-old boy who was participating in Altadena-based Tom Sawyer camps was hauled out of the John Muir High School pool Tuesday and is in critical condition at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. The camp was spending the day at the high school pool. PSN has the details.
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Please check out the latest updates on the Sheriff’s Support Group letter and response right here.
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Cleaning out your closets and garages? The League of Women Voters is holding a giant lawn sale to benefit ONECARENOW, which seeks passage of SB840 (Kuehl), the California Universal Healthcare Act. Treasures can be delivered on Sat., July 5, and the sale is Sun. July 6 at 1474 Oakdale, Pasadena. All the particulars are right here.
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Don’t forget — the Altadena Town & Country Club will have its annual pre-4th fireworks display tonight, starting at about 9 PM (altho’ they’ve run late before). Put your animals in a safe place and enjoy the show!
P.S. These people are too darn healthy.
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Supv. Mike Antonovich’s office has issued a press release, doubling the amount offered for turning in the killer of Evelyn Mosley — which probably means the sheriffs have nothing to go on, unfortunately:
LOS ANGELES COUNTY – In an effort to generate additional information, Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the death of Evelyn Mosley,
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May you and your family enjoy the holiday as we enjoy our freedom and liberty, and remember those who have sacrificed so much so that we can have days like today.
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Miss Havisham,