Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Sheriff’s Deputies and Firefighters Pick Up Hammers in Altadena Habitat Rebuild

Los Angeles County first-responder agencies join San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity at an Altadena build site, helping construct a home and ADU for a family affected by the Eaton Fire

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies and county firefighters are joining San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity volunteers Tuesday morning at an Altadena work site to help build a home and accessory dwelling unit for a family affected by the Eaton Fire.

The 10 a.m. build day brings members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Los Angeles County Fire Department onto an active SGV Habitat rebuilding corridor in West Altadena, where the nonprofit has been raising walls on East Pine Street since last October. Organizers have not publicly identified the specific street address for Tuesday’s build or the family receiving the home.

The event was publicly announced through IAFF Local 1014, the union representing more than 3,200 county firefighters, paramedics, dispatchers, pilots, wildland firefighters, forestry and hazmat personnel.

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Altadena Roundtable Tonight Closes LA Forum Series on Rebuilding at Town Scale

Panelists from local affordable-housing nonprofits, UCLA’s cityLAB and two architecture practices gather at Good Neighbor Bar for the third Alt:adena conversation

A roundtable on rebuilding Altadena at neighborhood scale — affordable housing, alternative homeownership models and economic-development strategies — will convene Tuesday evening on the patio of Good Neighbor Bar, closing a three-week Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design series on recovery after the Eaton Fire.

The event, called Alt:town, runs from 7 to 9 p.m. and is the third and final installment of the LA Forum’s Alt:adena roundtable series.

According to the LA Forum’s event page, the panel will explore how “affordable housing, new models of homeownership, and economic development strategies” can build “a familiar and resilient Altadena.”

The series has stepped up in scale week by week — from the home (Alt:home, June 2) to the land (Alt:land, June 9) to the town.

The LA Forum lists five panelists for Tuesday: Alex Athenson of the Foothill Catalog Foundation,

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Chu Secures $1 Million for Jackie Robinson Community Center

By EDDIE RIVERA

Federal funds will pay for accessibility upgrades, kitchen remodel, and the return of a beloved pottery program

Congresswoman Judy Chu stood on stage at the Jackie Robinson Community Center in Pasadena Monday morning and presented the City a $1 million federal check that officials say has been a long time coming.

“This center needed some love,” Chu said. “This center needed an injection of funds.”

The money, secured through the federal community project funding process, will pay for facility-wide ADA accessibility upgrades, energy-efficient lighting, HVAC maintenance, staff area remodeling, a kitchen renovation, and the revival of the center’s pottery program, which had been discontinued.

Chu said she requested the funding as part of the fiscal year 2026 appropriations process, a mechanism that Congress members use to direct federal dollars toward specific projects in their districts. The practice, once known as earmarking, was suspended for a decade before House Democrats restored it in 2021 with new oversight requirements,

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

County Supervisors to Consider Streamlining Homelessness Prevention Services

CITY NEWS SERVICE

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is expected Tuesday to consider a proposal aimed at streamlining homelessness prevention services, including assistance for residents displaced by the Eaton and Palisades fires.

A motion by Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Lindsey Horvath calls for the creation of a countywide homelessness prevention resource page on the county website, and a coordinated referral system designed to connect residents with housing assistance before they lose their homes.

According to the motion, many wildfire survivors remain in temporary housing arrangements while rebuilding homes destroyed in the January 2025 fires. Supporters of the proposal said many residents face growing financial pressure as federal aid, insurance benefits and other temporary assistance programs begin to expire.

“Fire survivors are now simultaneously carrying a mortgage on a destroyed home and paying rent elsewhere, with insurance payouts that are delayed or insufficient to cover full rebuilding costs, which places fixed- income homeowners, and seniors in particular, at acute risk of housing instability and potential homelessness,”

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Eaton Fire Lawsuits Return to Court Tuesday With Pasadena and Altadena Plaintiffs Pressing Case Against Edison

A motion hearing in the consolidated litigation against Southern California Edison advances proceedings that include the Pasadena Jewish Temple, the Pasadena Unified School District and hundreds of Altadena homeowners

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge will convene a motions hearing Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the consolidated Eaton Fire litigation against Southern California Edison, advancing pre-trial proceedings in a case that now includes the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, the Pasadena Unified School District and nearly 1,000 other plaintiffs.

The hearing, before Judge Laura A. Seigle in Department 17 of the Spring Street Courthouse in the downtown Los Angeles Civic Center, is part of a mass tort advancing toward a first bellwether trial scheduled for January 25, 2027. The litigation alleges that Edison’s transmission equipment played a role in starting the January 7, 2025, fire that killed 19 people and destroyed more than 9,400 structures across Altadena.

The consolidated proceeding is anchored by Gursey v. Southern California Edison Co. (No.

Monday, June 15, 2026

Teachers Union Presents PUSD Board With Resolution for ‘Fully Staffed, Stable, Integrated’ Schools

[UPDATED] The United Teachers of Pasadena has adopted a resolution calling for “fully staffed, stable, integrated” schools across Pasadena Unified. A union representative read a statement summarizing the resolution to the Board of Education during the board’s June 11 meeting.

“This resolution is built around a simple principle,” the union’s statement told the board: “every student in Pasadena, Altadena, and Sierra Madre deserves access to a fully staffed, stable, integrated, and high-quality public school.”

The resolution arrives as the district works to close a projected 2026-27 budget shortfall its own figures put at $30 million to $35 million — pressures that have already driven layoffs and a now-paused school-consolidation review affecting campuses in Pasadena, Altadena and Sierra Madre. The union casts its document as an alternative course: invest in neighborhood schools rather than manage decline.

It calls on PUSD to minimize layoffs and involuntary transfers, protect direct student services, and preserve programs the union says families value most — among them arts,

Monday, June 15, 2026

A Pasadena Landmark and an Altadena Wine Shop Return to the Gamble House Lawn for Summer Fridays

The twice-monthly series, presented with West Altadena Wine + Spirits, continues June 12 with $5 admission and first-floor access to the 1908 Craftsman home

A Pasadena Craftsman landmark and an Altadena wine retailer will return to the Gamble House lawn Friday, June 12, for the next installment of a twice-monthly summer evening series that pairs picnics and live music with after-hours access to the historic home’s first floor.

The series, called “Friday Nights at The Gamble House with West Altadena Wine + Spirits,” opened May 8 and runs on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month through August, with eight evenings total. The remaining 2026 dates are June 12, June 26, July 10, July 24, August 14, and August 28, each from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Non-members pay $5 for general admission or $40 for admission with a wine tasting. Members enter free and pay $35 for the tasting. Children 12 and under are admitted at no charge.

The Pasadena–Altadena partnership is built into the name.

Sunday, June 14, 2026

A Juneteenth Hike and Luncheon Carry Altadena’s Black History Forward

The Altadena Historical Society marks the holiday with a trail dedication, a scholarship luncheon and the voices of Eaton Fire survivors.

The Altadena Historical Society marks Juneteenth this year by walking the community’s history into the foothills. On Friday, June 19, its annual Juneteenth Celebration and Scholarship Awards begins at 8:30 a.m. at the JPL East Parking Lot, where participants gather before setting out on a 3.2-mile round-trip community hike along the El Prieto Trail. The destination is a newly installed handcrafted bench at the El Prieto Canyon trailhead, built by Eagle Scout candidate Elias Silva of Troop 333 as a permanent place to pause and reflect on the area’s layered Black and Indigenous history.

At noon, the celebration moves to Loma Alta Park for a community luncheon and program. The afternoon features a photo exhibit by award-winning local photographer Alfred Haymond, quilt displays by master quilters, and a program exploring the significance of Juneteenth while honoring the legacy of Ellen Garrison Clark, the 19th-century educator and civil rights activist who spent her final years in the Pasadena area and is buried in Altadena.

Sunday, June 14, 2026

Altadena’s Juneteenth Stretches Across Two Days of Music, Resilience and Community

My Tribe Rise hosts a Friday night Backyard Boogie and a Saturday festival as the community marks freedom and recovery.

For Altadena, Juneteenth this year is both a celebration and a statement of endurance. The community will mark the holiday with two events organized by My Tribe Rise, the Black-led Altadena mutual-aid group that has been a steady presence in the neighborhood’s recovery since the January 2025 Eaton Fire. More than 20 organizations have come together to present the celebrations.

The weekend opens Friday, June 19 with a Backyard Boogie night party from 5 to 10 p.m., featuring the band Jammetry and a performance by “American Idol” alum Edi Callier. The festivities continue Saturday, June 20 with a festival and community fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Metropolitan Baptist Church, 2283 N. Fair Oaks Ave. in Altadena.

The gatherings carry added weight in a community still rebuilding. My Tribe Rise, founded in 2019 around a peace-and-unity mission it calls the P.E.A.C.E.

Sunday, June 14, 2026

Altadena Town Council Takes Up Edison Savings and Housing Bills

The monthly meeting pairs a Southern California Edison presentation with legislative updates touching recovery and housing.

The Altadena Town Council holds its regular monthly meeting Tuesday, June 16 at 7 p.m. at the Altadena Community Center, with an agenda that keeps the community’s two preoccupations — utility costs and the rules governing rebuilding — front and center. The session is open to the public, and residents will have time to address the council during general public comment.

Southern California Edison is scheduled to present on customer savings programs and provide updates, a perennial topic in a community where the January 2025 Eaton Fire and the utility’s response remain central concerns. The agenda also includes legislative updates on Senate Bill 9 and Senate Bill 1090, with the discussion expected to feature state Senator Sasha Renée Pérez and Assemblymember John Harabedian. Public safety reports are slated from the Altadena Sheriff’s Station, the California Highway Patrol and the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

The Altadena Town Council serves as an ombudsman for the unincorporated community,