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Larry Wilson’s blog has a picture of Altadena sculptors and landscapers Karen Bonfigli and Andreas Hessing and their contribution to the L.A. Garden Show section on gardens in cans.
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Alice Sarkisian Wessen, one of those amazing people who has her finger on the pulse of everything, is contributing light (rather than heat) to the development of the Scripps Home/MonteCedro retirement home. She offers this timeline of the development on the eve of the Altadena Land Use Committee meeting:
I was actually in attendance when dozens of Scripps residents and their board presented to the Altadena Town Council in May 2007.
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In our never-ending quest to improve our services, please note the Altadena Community Calendar has been added to the permanent pages (right). Since this is all being hand-built, it’ll take awhile to include all calendar items — if there’s something missing, please let us know!
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From another Altadenan who knows everything that goes on, Monica Hubbard:
The Education Committee of the Altadena Town Council meets this Wednesday, May 14 at 7 p.m. at the Altadena Community Center. Superintendent Diaz, PUSD communications director (and Altadena resident) Binti Harvey, and School Board member Bob Harrison (also an Altadenan) will be present to give the committee an update and answer questions.
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Bo Astrup of the Altadena Neighborhood Alliance tells us that the Altadena Town Council’s Land Use Committee voted lat night 10-zip (with one abstention) not to approve the T-Mobile cell tower under consideration at St. Elizabeth’s Church.
There’s a short story on the Neighborhood Allliance’s handsome new website.
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… will have its first meeting at the Community Center, 730 E. Altadena Dr., from 10 AM-3PM on Sat., May 17.
BTW, if you have any concerns about the long-term plans for the main library, email Altadenablog and we’ll make sure your message gets to the committee.
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It’s all over the news: a firefighters responding to a call this morning around 10 AM at 3225 North Lincoln found the body of an elderly woman. Her body showed signs of trauma, and there were signs of struggle in the house, according to PSN. The Associated Press says she was found lying in a "substantial pool of blood,"
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Thomas Kenyon, 41, of Altadena was hospitalized in critical condition today after driving off the 57 freeway near San Dimas. PSN has the details.
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Termed-out state senator Jack Scott (Altadenablog’s neighbor) has picked up a new job after his term ends: he’s been named chancellor of the California community college system, putting him in charge of a quarter of the nation’s two-year students. Before being a state senator and assemblyman, Scott was the president of Pasadena City College, so the job seems like a natural fit.
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The Altadena Connection is an invaluable publication that comes out every year with information on activities and services (it’s available at the Community Center, Library, and other places around town). Jason Tajima of the county Office of Unincorporated Area Services tells Altadenablog that it’s also available as a downloadable PDF file, so you can always get a copy (or keep it on your laptop).
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The Crime Scene Blog says that a housekeeper has been arrested in connection with yesterday’s housefire/homicide on north Lincoln Ave. No details yet, but more are promised.
UPDATE: She’s been released and exonerated. Let’s hope the rest of the investigation goes better.
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We’re blogging late on Sunday, because we’ve been celebrating the day with the mother in our house, and but thought this was worth passing on from PSN: 103-year-old Teola Davis of Altadena was honored by her church as "Mother of the Year." Sounds like the mother of SEVERAL years!
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Boudoir Girl (a blog previously unknown to me) has a feature on Barbar La Marr, one of the first real movie stars, who died in Altadena at a young age.
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Dr. Tax’s "Rambles" blog has a remembrance of Fr. Bob Cornelison. Conrnelison, who died recently at age 80, was a former rector of Altadenablog’s home parish, St. Mark’s – Altadena.
« Memories of Fr. Cornelison | Main | What, me gifted? »
Is this called "going brown?"
LA TImes business section profiles Cliff Moore. The Altadenan used to ride the bus for four hours every day to get to his job in Sun Valley and back. Now, in his own car, it takes 25 minutes.
Bus service is very Wonderland-like around here. When Altadenablog was young, lived in Arcadia and worked in the Wilshire District,
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LA Times profiles Dalton Sargent, 15, who attends Blair, in a story about gifted kids who get overlooked by the system. The story is a bit undisciplined itself — it would be nice if they defined "gifted," for example, considering the percentage of these students who’ve dropped out or who have sub-par school skills, or show how they’re different from a typical teenager.
« What, me gifted? | Main | Just doo it »
From ACT:
All People interested in Altadena Trails–
The next meeting of the Altadena Crest Trail Restoration Working
Group will take place this Tuesday [at the Altadena Community Center}. All are welcome.
A County representative has agreed to describe the route of the ACT
recently affirmed by Court ruling in the vicinity of the La Vina
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Tom Nuccio (of Nuccio’s Nursery) is giving the moneyed people at Pacific Palisades a talk on their azeleas on Mon., April 7. Who better?
(Altadenablog has a particular animus against people from West LA, who say, "Meet you in Altadena? That’s so far — why don’t you come here instead, it’s a shorter drive." We once had a Westsider give us a ride to Monrovia,
« Nuccio’s hits the westside | Main | More bears … »
P-Weekly’s Jim Laris talks about the Ken Jennings Experience! at the Altadena Library
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Alan Zorthian at the Zorthian Ranch reports to the newsgroups that a large brown bear was spotted tucking into a refrigerator full of food last night:
A woman, who lives on the ranch heard a noise outside at about 9:00
PM. She shined her little light outside and saw two eyes looking at
her. She called me and said she thought the mountain lion was outside
« More bears … | Main | Another blow to Rhythms »
PSN leads with Brandon Michael Landreth, 30, of Pasadena, a history teacher at John Muir HIgh School, being booked for a murder in Arcadia last Sunday. No details as to why Landreth is the suspect — story is developing. Read all about it. Frank Giradot’s Crime Scene Blog may have some reasons why.
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Caroline An of PSN has a front page story on the latest blow to Rhythms of the Village Charter School: they have ceased paying their staff. School will resume after spring break this week, but what will happen after that is anybody’s guess.
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Dave Ocker’s Mixed Meters blog has a photo essay of a vernacular art treasure: the FotoBuster kiosk in the parking lot at the shopping center at Lake and Altadena Drive. We’ve passed by it many times and never realized its bizarre uniqueness!
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An exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of History, opening April 12, will feature items from the Mt. Lowe Railway:
Mount Lowe Exhibition
Mount Lowe: Souvenirs from the Incline Railway illustrates how “Earth’s Grandest Mountain Ride” captivated the imagination of visitors from near and far during its 43-years in operation, and how latter-day adventurers continue to treasure remnants of the legendary incline railway.
« Pas Museum to feature Mt. Lowe Railway | Main | Thompson named poet laureate; celebrate with cookies! »
This message from Lori Paul has been making the rounds of newsgroups:
Dear Neighbors & Trail Users,
Most of you are aware of the dismal service Altadena has long
experienced from L. A. County Animal Care & Control’s distant Baldwin
Park Animal Shelter. For years our calls have been routed to a
general Distpatch number that often disconnects callers or fails to
reach the proper authorities,
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From our friends at the Altadena Library. In fact, it’s from the Friends of the Altadena Library:
The Friends of the Altadena Library will sponsor its sixth annual Poetry & Cookies celebration on Saturday April 19 at 2 pm. This event will feature the crowning of the Poet Laureate for Altadena Library, May 2008 through April 2010, Marcia L. Thompson.
Miss Thompson, who serves as literacy coordinator for Head Start Escalon in Altadena, was chosen for this honor by the library’s Poet Laureate Committee.
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If you’ve been traveling along east Altadena Drive, you’ve seen ’em — the signs! And we hope they’ll work! What’s the story behind them? This note from town councilman Gino Sund of CT 4601:
The residents along Altadena Drive and adjacent streets, whom we refer to as the East Village Homeowners, have been working since October on many construction and traffic issues related to Altadena Drive. There have been several important successes for the neighborhood related to both areas.
« Slow Down, Altadena! | Main | Open letter to Pasadena Star News »
A little late with this one, we know (been out of town on spring break!), but Giuseppe Attardi, a pioneering geneticist from Caltech, died in his Altadena home on April 5. He was 84. PSN says:
He identified all the genes of the DNA in human mitochondria – often called the powerhouses of biological cells. He then developed techniques for investigating genetic diseases,
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Hey, PSN!
Shortly after we re-subscribed to your paper a year ago, we had to leave town for a few days and requested a "vac-pack" — you hold on to the papers on the days we were gone, and deliver them all on the day we return. Your robotic answering device gave us this option.
And when we returned,
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PSN reports that Altadena Lincoln Crossing LLC must pony up $1.1 million in unpaid management fees to subcontractor Swinerton Builders, Inc. Altadena Lincoln Crossing is owned by site owner Dorn Platz. The crushing quote:
Altadena Town Councilman Bobby Thompson, who owns BJR Postal/Copy Center at Lincoln Crossing, said he would sue Dorn Platz, too, if all his problems with them hadn’t sapped him of the money necessary to retain an attorney.
« Lincoln Xing: the saga continues | Main | Let’s Talk Libraries April 28 »
This is our 300th post, and we celebrate over 6,300 page views. Thank you for making this Altadena’s community news blog!
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The Altadena Public Library will hold a community meeting between 7-9 PM on Monday, April 28. "Let’s Talk Libraries" will be an opportunity for residents to voice their suggestions about the future of the library (services, possible building enhancements, etc.) Erica Metoyer of the library says that there will be presentations by their strategic planning consultant and architects, who will address access issues (something close to Altadenablog’s heart).
« Let’s Talk Libraries April 28 | Main | Library renovation updates »
… always a scene — Tues., April 15, 7-10 PM at the Altadena Community Center.
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Jodie of The Four Seasons blog profiles the Cinema 21 building on Lake & Washington, built in 1925 and designed by Altadena architect Clarence Jay.
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This note has been circulating about the plans for the new retirement community planned for the site of the old Scripps home:
Dear Neighbors:
The Episcopal Home Communities would like to update you on our plans for creating MonteCedro, a new nonprofit retirement community on the site of the former Scripps Home. We invite you to a meeting at the Altadena Community Center,
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The U.S. Forest Service has awarded two grants to Altadena-based neighborhood fire safety associations.
The Altadena Foothills: Chaney Trail/Millard Canyon Fire Safe Council received a $133,100 grant for fuel reduction. The Meadows Fire Safe Councll was awarded a $158,900 grant for an expanded fire protection project.
« Altadena fire safety groups get federal grants | Main | More on the library »
In a rather brief (two hour) monthly meeting, a rump Altadena Town Council kicked back the proposed T-Mobile cell tower to the land use committee.
Representatives of two groups (Altadenans for St. Elizabeth’s, and the Altadena Neighborhod Alliance) urged the council to reconsider its approval of a cell phone tower to be located at St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church at Lake and Woodbury.
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Library board member Tom Hubbard puts in his 2 cents on Altadena Library renovations in today’s PSN letter column.
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We’re adding some new categories based on recurring topics: "Altadena Library" and "St. Elizabeth’s Cell Tower." It’ll take a few days to add previous stories to the new categories, but we thought you should know, if you’re tracking these.
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Monica Hubbard, who always has her finger on the pulse of the community, sends us this:
You are cordially invited to attend a wine and cheese book release party for San Antonio based author Frederick Williams. His new novel Just Loving You is due to be released on April 19, and our customers will have the first opportunity to review and purchase this phenomenal novel that actually takes place right here in Pasadena,
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It must be global warming or something … but there’s a new cougar sighting .. in CHICAGO! And he apparently migrated from the hills of South Dakota, 1,000 miles away. Makes our local cats seem to lack ambition …
« When cougars attack | Main | Children’s Day/Book Day at Bob Lucas Branch April 28 »
PSN front-pages the latest on Brandon Michael Landreth, 30, a history teacher at John Muir High who was charged with killing an Arcadia man who had dated his ex-wife. Police say that, when arrested, he had $9,000 cash in his car, camping equipment, and the name of another man who allegedly dated his ex-wife. Landreth has pled not guilty.
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Starting at 1:30 PM at the Bob Lucas Memorial Branch Library, 2659 N. Lincoln Ave., enjoy an afternoon of Latin American songs, stories, poems, and fables from award-winning bilingual children’s storyteller and singer/songwriter Suni Paz. Children will receive a free book and pan dulce while supplies last.
