Sunday, March 29, 2026

Fire-Displaced Altadena Church Hosts Free Job, Health and Housing Event in Pasadena

LIFT International partners with California Community Foundation and Altadena CDC to connect residents with recovery services

A church that lost its own building in the Eaton Fire is hosting a free event today connecting Altadena and Pasadena residents with employment opportunities, financial services, health screenings and homeowner support.

LIFT International Church, in partnership with the California Community Foundation and the Altadena CDC, will hold “H2O: Help for Overcoming Obstacles” at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1757 N. Lake Ave., beginning at 11 a.m. The event comes more than 14 months after the Eaton Fire destroyed more than 9,000 structures and displaced thousands of residents — the vast majority of whom, according to Los Angeles County officials, have not yet returned home.

The event will include a live symposium, counseling and consultations, and access to community service providers, according to organizers. Services are expected to address employment, financial assistance, health needs and homeowner support.

LIFT International was founded in Altadena in 2000 by Drs.

Sunday, March 29, 2026

Faith Groups to Stage Hymn-Singing Protest at Downtown Pasadena Target Over DEI Rollback, ICE Concerns

The Palm Sunday action, organized by Mennonite Action and All Saints Church, is part of a national campaign targeting the retailer

Greater Los Angeles Mennonite Action and All Saints Church are staging a nonviolent protest at the Downtown Pasadena Target store this afternoon, bringing a national campaign against the retailer to a Pasadena sidewalk one day after the No Kings 3.0 march drew crowds to the city.

The protest is part of Mennonite Action’s “Sing Down the Doors at Target” campaign, which has spread to Target stores across the country. Organizers are demanding that Target restore its rolled-back diversity, equity, and inclusion commitments and take a public stand against Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in its stores — demands that follow months of sustained civic engagement centered on downtown Pasadena’s faith communities.

Participants plan to gather for prayer at All Saints Church, 132 N. Euclid Ave., at 2 p.m. before walking to the Target at 777 E. Colorado Blvd. for what organizers describe as a “song-filled action”

Sunday, March 29, 2026

Holy Week Begins With Palm Sunday

Local churches mark the beginning of Holy Week on Sunday with the observance of Palm Sunday

Local churches mark the beginning of Holy Week on Sunday with the observance of Palm Sunday. For Christians, the week preceding Easter Sunday is full of significant events. Easter 2026 will be observed on Sunday, April 5. Known as Holy Week, the week begins with Palm Sunday and ends with Holy Saturday, the day before Easter.

Holy Week commemorates different key events that unfolded over the final days of Jesus Christ’s life on earth.

Many Eastern Orthodox churches follow the Julian rather than Gregorian calendar and will observe Palm Sunday on April 5 and Orthodox Easter on April 12.

“This is a moment for us to really reflect on the mystery of our redemption — the mystery of God’s love for us,” said Archbishop José H. Gomez, who will celebrate the 10 a.m. English-language Palm Sunday Mass at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles.

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Thousands Expected Along Colorado Boulevard for Third “No Kings” March

Marchers plan to gather at Pasadena City College, then march to City Hall

[Updated] Thousands are expected to march through the heart of Pasadena on Saturday for the third installment of the “No Kings” protest opposing recent federal policies and calling for civil liberties and justice.

The event, officially titled No Kings 3.0, begins at 11 a.m. at the Pasadena City College Reflecting Pool on East Colorado Boulevard and marchers will proceed west to Pasadena City Hall. Organizers say the march will culminate in a rally featuring local and state leaders, musicians, and community members.

Police will implement rolling street blockages as marchers head to City Hall, a city official said.

San Gabriel Foothills Indivisible, an all-volunteer chapter of the national Indivisible network active in Pasadena and surrounding communities, is coordinating the event with the American Civil Liberties Union.

According to organizers, the Pasadena march aligns with a nationwide series of more than 3,000 protests scheduled across the United States.

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Supervisor Barger Honors Teen-Founded Altadena Girls With Commemorative Scroll

The Old Town Pasadena nonprofit has distributed more than one million items to fire-affected families since the January 2025 Eaton Fire

Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger presented a commemorative scroll Thursday to Altadena Girls at the nonprofit’s Old Pasadena community center, recognizing the youth-founded organization’s disaster response work as Women’s History Month draws to a close.

The scroll honors Lauren Sandidge, the organization’s president, and her daughter Avery Colvert, who co-founded Altadena Girls at age 14 just three days after the January 2025 Eaton Fire, according to a press release from Barger’s office. The recognition comes more than 14 months after the fire destroyed thousands of structures in Altadena, an unincorporated community within Barger’s Fifth Supervisorial District, where many families remain displaced.

Colvert, now 15, launched the effort with an Instagram post on January 10, 2025, asking for clothing, beauty products and personal care items to help her friends “feel confident and like themselves again,” according to the 19th News. The post drew more than 28,000 likes and celebrity support,

Saturday, March 28, 2026

A Priest’s Balancing Act: Love, Grace, and Growing Crowds at the No Kings March

Featured speaker at today’s march Rev. Tim Rich of All Saints Church says the No Kings march must stay ‘grounded in grace’ — even as concerns widen from immigration to international warfare

[Updated]  The Reverend Tim Rich will stand on the steps of Pasadena City Hall on Saturday and ask several thousand people to do something he freely admits he cannot always do himself: love the people whose actions and beliefs they find repugnant.

“Let me be fully candid, that’s not a balancing act that I always walk very successfully,” Rich, the priest in charge at All Saints Church in Pasadena, said in an interview on Friday.

That candor — a faith leader heading into a charged political moment while openly wrestling with his own capacity for grace — captures some of the tension running through the No Kings 3.0 march, the third and expectedly largest anti-Trump demonstration that will move down Colorado Boulevard since the movement began in June 2025.

The first No Kings march,

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Pasadena Rep. Chu Votes Against House ICE Funding Bill as Shutdown Continues

The 42-day partial shutdown shows no sign of ending as Congress departs for recess with competing bills

Rep. Judy Chu voted against a House Republican bill late Friday that would fund the Department of Homeland Security, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, for 60 days, calling ICE “an uncontrolled rogue agency” in a statement released by her office.

The bill passed 213-203, with three Democrats — Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington and Don Davis of North Carolina — crossing party lines to vote with Republicans, according to CBS News. Chu, who represents California’s 28th Congressional District including Pasadena and the west San Gabriel Valley, was among the Democrats who opposed the measure.

The vote came hours after the Senate unanimously approved a separate bill by voice vote that would fund most of DHS — including the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency — but exclude ICE and most of Customs and Border Protection,

Friday, March 27, 2026

Altadena Library Mobile Van to Visit Kidspace Weekly Starting April 3

The collaboration will bring books, resources, and family activities to the museum every Friday afternoon

Families visiting Kidspace Children’s Museum will soon have access to books, library cards, and community resources right outside the museum. Beginning April 3, the Altadena Library District’s Curiosity Connection Vol. 2 mobile library — described as “where family resources meet the road” — will park at Kidspace every Friday from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. as part of a yearlong collaboration between the two institutions.

Visitors can sign up for a library card, check out or return books, browse flyers for upcoming events, and enjoy an outdoor reading space near the van. Families who register for a card will also receive $3 off Kidspace admission for up to four guests.

Kidspace offers free admission on the first Friday of each month, with advance reservations recommended. Tickets are released about two weeks prior to each Free First Friday. The museum is located at 480 North  Arroyo Boulevard in Brookside Park .

Friday, March 27, 2026

School-Closure Fears Dominate PUSD Board Meeting

With 56 public-comment cards submitted, parents, students and teachers warned that consolidating campuses after the Eaton Fire and pandemic could deepen trauma and accelerate the enrollment decline

More than 50 speakers lined up at the Pasadena Unified School District board meeting Thursday to plead against school closures, filling a lengthy public-comment period with accounts of children displaced by the Eaton Fire, disrupted by the pandemic, and now facing the prospect of losing yet another anchor in their lives.

The March 26 session drew 56 public-comment cards — so many that President Tina Frederick proposed reducing each speaker to one minute, which the board accepted without objection, to accommodate the crowd. The central message, repeated by students, parents, teachers and classified staff alike, was that a cost-cutting consolidation plan could worsen the enrollment decline it is designed to address.

“If Marshall closes, I don’t know where I would go or if I would even stay,” said Violet, a student who said she commutes an hour each way to Thurgood Marshall Secondary School after being displaced by the fire.

Friday, March 27, 2026

South Pasadena Masonic Lodge to Host Chili Cook-Off Fundraiser for Eaton Fire Victims

The fundraiser will feature a chili competition, live music, and special guests to benefit victims of the Eaton Fires

The South Pasadena Masonic Lodge will host a community chili cook-off fundraiser on Saturday, March 28 to benefit victims of the Eaton Fires. The free, all-ages event begins at 5:00 p.m. at 1126 Fair Oaks Avenue with live music scheduled to start at 7:00 p.m.

The evening will feature a chili competition judged by members of the South Pasadena Fire Department, live performances by Sunday Best and Jackrabbit — the latter featuring actor Dermot Mulroney — and special guest appearances. Actor Phil Donlon, known for “Chicago Fire” and “High and Outside,” will serve as host.

The event flyer states: “To raise funds and support for communities impacted by the Eaton Fires, while bringing the South Pasadena community together for an evening of food, music, and philanthropy.”

Jackrabbit’s past performances have drawn notable attendees including John Stamos, Lori Loughlin,