Thursday, May 21, 2026

Volunteers to Unveil Murals and New Outdoor Spaces at Odyssey Charter School South in Altadena

[photo credit: Odyssey Charter Schools]

The reveal runs from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the school’s campus at 575 W. Altadena Drive, marking completion of a volunteer project at a school that has been rebuilding since one of the most destructive wildfires in California history tore through Altadena 16 months ago. 

The completed project includes murals, painting and new student-centered outdoor spaces, according to the event announcement. 

Volunteers, school leadership, students and families are expected to participate. 

OCS South lost its original campus at 119 W. Palm Street when the Eaton Fire swept through Altadena on January 7-8, permanently displacing the school’s 375 students. At least 40 percent of OCS South families lost their homes in the fire, according to reporting by CalMatters. 

The school’s students spent the remainder of the 2024-2025 school year scattered across borrowed classroom spaces in Pasadena. OCS South reopened in January 2026 at 575 W. Altadena Drive — about two blocks from the Odyssey Charter School north campus at 725 W. Altadena Drive — in a building that had previously housed Aveson Global Leadership Academy. The school had just under 200 students at the reopening, according to CBS Los Angeles. 

“We’ve made it to this milestone. Our kids are happy,” Principal Bonnie Brimecombe told CBS when the school reopened in January. 

All Hands and Hearts describes itself in its organizational materials as a volunteer-powered disaster relief nonprofit that has supported more than 1.3 million people across nearly 20 years of work. The organization launched a 12-month relief program in response to the Los Angeles wildfires, which ignited on January 7 in Pacific Palisades and Altadena-Pasadena and ultimately burned more than 50,000 acres, destroyed 16,000 structures and resulted in 28 lives lost, according to the nonprofit’s GuideStar profile. All Hands and Hearts was formed in October 2017 through a merger of two earlier organizations, All Hands Volunteers and Happy Hearts Fund. 

Odyssey Charter Schools, founded in 1999, operates two public, tuition-free TK-8 campuses one block apart in Altadena, serving families across Altadena, Pasadena and the greater Los Angeles  area. OCS South opened in August 2018 as the school’s second campus and is chartered through Pasadena Unified School District.