• Feminist stories: MonteCedro will present a viewing of the Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival “Best Documentary” winner, “Feminist Stories from Women’s Liberation” on Wed., June 12.  The film, by Altadena filmmaker Jennifer Lee, will screen at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music at 2 PM.  Call 877-821-1918 or go to http://montecedro.org/upcoming-events.php to reserve your spot.
• Energy & Healthy Weight Loss: Revvell Revati will have a free Intro to “Energy Techniques and the Healthy Way to Easy-Peasy Permanent Weight Loss” 

Land Use Committee chair Ken Roberts emails us that tomorrow night’s meeting is cancelled “due to no land use agenda items to be heard.”

However, there will be early voting for the town council elections at the community center from 5-9 PM. The Altadena Community Center is at 730 E. Altadena Drive.

The Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena will present ZAC Camp in June, which teaches 5 to 9 year olds lifesaving water safety skills.

The ZAC Camp program combines in-pool swimming lessons, safety classes with First Responders, and  classroom curriculum. By week’s end campers are equipped with critical tools to ensure safe swimming,  including: fundamental stroke training, emergency preparedness and response,

• Pasadena LEARNs offers five weeks of summer academics and enrichment activities from June 11-July 12. The program is free Monday – Thursday for all PUSD students who attend a school that has a LEARNs afterschool program.

• Little Round Top: LA Magazine’s Ben Ehrenreich looks at the anti-slavery roots of Altadena, i.e. Owen Brown, whose headstone was rediscovered last year.
• Night flights: Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff have announced that the U.S. Forest Service has acquired the necessary equipment and finished the training for night flight helicopter sorties into fire areas. County fire crews can conduct night flying missions, but the Forest Service has grounded itself from night flights since the 1970’s.  

Both Whole Foods locations in Pasadena will hold a Communty Giving Day on Wednesday, June 5, to benefit Altadena’s Five Acres.

The grocery stores will donate 5% of all net sales to Five Acres.

“Partnering with Whole Foods Market will help raise public awareness and much-needed funds, allowing Five Acres to provide critical resources to continue our mission of strengthening local families for long-term success and ensuring safe,

Tonight, Tuesday, is early voting for the Altadena Town Council election.  Voting will take place at the Altadena Community Center, 730 E. Altadena Dr., from 5-9 PM.

Regular voting will take place Saturday, June 8, from 9 AM-3 PM at different locations.  Check out our election page for more details.

Also: election chair Eric Pierce said that volunteers are desparetely needed to staff polling places Saturday.

Athens Services, the waste-hauling contractor for Altadena, has announced the times of its annual free bulk trash pickup days.

Items should be left curbside by 6 AM on your haul day.

According to Athens, here are some examples of what can be left curbside on your pickup day:

• Bulky Items such as furniture,

The Altadena Town & Country Club has set Tuesday, July 2, as the date for the annual fireworks display for the 2013 Independence Day holiday.  The fireworks are set to go off at 9:30 PM at the country club, over the golf course.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich presents the 21st annual Family Music Festival at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia on Sunday, June 23.

It’s a stroll back to the classic rock days, with headliner Chubby Checker, along with Ben E. King and Jay and the Americans.

Price is $14 for Arboretum members or $20 for the general public (plus parking).  

from the Women's City Club

The Women's City Club of Pasadena is looking for nominees for the Gloria Gartz Award. Past honorees include internationally-known executive coach, best-selling author and keynote speaker Dr. Lois Frankel, and last year’s recipient, Christina Regalado, Vice President of Programs with the California Wellness Foundation.

Local favorites Wreck N Sow will be forming on the front porch at 2621 Marengo Avenue –

The California Shakespeare Ensemble returns to the Farnsworth Park Amphitheater in a performance of “Shakespeare’s LOVERS” on Sunday, June 16, at 7:30 PM.

The talented performers create a fast-paced (70 min.) show of some of the best love scenes from the Bard’s work.  (While there is no vulgarity, it does get earthy, as Shakespeare is wont to do,

by Timothy Rutt

The Altadena Town Council election is this Saturday, and election chair Eric Pierce says they're still looking for help:

We're still looking for volunteers to help staff the Altadena Town Council elections this Saturday!  We're up to 75% staffing,

from the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito & Vector Control District

The San Gabriel Valley Mosquito & Vector Control District confirmed that a dead bird identified by a District vector ecologist was infected with West Nile virus (WNv).  The bird was collected in central Arcadia southeast of Santa Anita Avenue and Duarte Road.  This is the first confirmation this year that WNv is being transmitted actively in the District.

by Timothy Rutt

Southern California Edison reports that 2,236 customers in Altadena are currently without power, and no estimate as to when they will be up.  We're still trying to pinpoint the locations affected.

UPDATE: as of 1:30 PM, down to 196 customers, and they blame trees on the lines.

Twelve year Pasadena City College board member Geoffrey Baum has sent out a message that he will not be seeking re-eelection.

Baum represents Trustee Area 1, which includes  La Cañada Flintridge, the San Rafael and Linda Vista neighborhoods of west Pasadena, and the western portions of Altadena.  In 2006, he was appointed to a six year term on the California Community Colleges Board of Governors by Gov.

The club, open to all teens ages 13-17. To learn more, stop by the Youth Reference Desk.  It’s fun, FREE, and easy.  Space is limited, so sign up today.

by Timothy Rutt

Sarah Allegra’s “Crossing the First Threshold” uses Photoshop and her own costuming and crafts skills to put her model, actress Lauren Cohan, into a mythological landscape in an Altadena back yard.

Bill Westphal’s critter-cam caught a few interesting visitors to the neighborhood in recent days: a bobcat, a bear (a wet bear, by the looks of it — check your hot tub!) and an animal control officer.  The latter have been  seen around town lately checking for unlicensed pets, so now’s a good time to take care of that …

by Timothy Rutt

The Folly Bowl takes us back to the Renaissance with a free concert by The Briton Ensemble on Sunday, June 2.  

The Ensemble, directed by James Briton Hendricks, sings 16th-19th century madrigals plus original compositions.  They perform at the Renaissance Fair and Dickens Christmas Fair, and give two concerts a year in Altadena.

Admission is free, but bring something for the potluck thereafter.  

The Folly Bowl is at 1601 E.

In the wake of the devastating tornado damage and loss of life in Moore, Oklahoma, we have a roundup of information:

• Helping:  Webster’s Fine Stationers, 2450 N. Lake Avenue, is collecting money to donate to tornado victims (see the Hugo Arteaga logo on top). Lori Webster writes: “We’ll be asking people to round up their sales to the nearest dollar, or to drop their change into a donation box, or just donate directly into the box. 

The Arroyo Food Co-op membership approved new board members, a proposition to handle product issues, and met the new general manager of the Co-op’s store.

Mia Dunn, Joe Masiero, Laura Floom Manning, Tricia Keane, and Rachel Reed were elected or re-elected by 100% margins, according to a message from Dunn.

The membership also approved a procedure to address concerns that may be brought up by members about food the co-op provides.