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16 SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 - OCTOBER 5, 2011
COMMUNITY CALENDAR Featured Event Arcadia Day at the Races
Opening day is Arcadia Day at the Races at Santa Anita Park. The autumn racing season will kick off
with a special invitation for Arcadia residents. Arcadia residents will be able to enter the Club House for
free by showing their ID with Arcadia address at the Arcadia Day booth just outside the Club House
WEEKLY EVENTS
pants should wear appropriate footwear, clothes, and gloves; bring a lunch and drinking water; and start with a full gas tank before driving up Azusa Canyon. For more info visit www.ci.arcadia.ca.us. The 18th Angel Festival The 18th Angel Festival will take place on Saturday, Oct. 1 from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Sierra Madre Memorial Park, located at 222 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. The festival is all about angels; arts and crafts, religious, or just for fun. Participants wearing an angel costume will receive a $5 off coupon redeemable at any booth. There will also be free angel books given away to those with an ID confirming that their name is Angel. For more info visit www.theangelfestival. com. Museum Legacy Exhibit The Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical
museum will host an opening reception at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 1 for their Museum Legacy Exhibit. The exhibit will run through Oct. 29. The Museum is located at 380 W. Huntington Dr., Arcadia. For more info call (626)574-5440. 18th Annual Lincoln Village Festival This year’s “Function at the Junction” will be held on Saturday, Oct. 1 from 12 – 4 p.m. at Lincoln Ave in Pasadena between Montana and Idaho. The street festival is free, and was created by Neighbors Acting Together Helping All and the City of Pasadena. There will be children’s games and activities, health screening, community information booths, live entertainment, food, vendors, jewelry and crafts, and more. For more info visit www.natha.org.
Blood Drive The City of Monrovia and Larsen Window Cleaning will hold a blood drive on Thursday, Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. in the Community Center parking lot located at 119 W. Palm Ave., Monrovia. Participants who donate blood will get a free gift card for a pint of Baskin Robbins ice cream. Blood donations will benefit patients at Huntington Hospital. For instructions and more info call (626)-9325550. Watershed Restoration Program On Saturday Oct. 1 from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. volunteers are invited to participate in the Watershed Restoration Project’s 20th Anniversary. Volunteers will meet at the San Gabriel Canyon Environmental Education Center. Partici-
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Bob Bartlett and Robin Salzer Honored for Their Work By Susan Motander
Last Thursday Foothill Unity Center recognized two local gentlemen for their work in the community. Both Bob Bartlett and Robin Salazer were honored with the Center’s highest honor, the Heart in Hand Humanitarian Award. Given each year, the award recognizes individuals who do more than most people for others in their communities. County Supervisor, Michael Antonovich introduced each of the honorees. Of Bob Bartlett, former mayor of Monrovia, Antonovich said he was following in the footsteps of his father in community service. After pointing out all the work he did for Monrovia and the rest of the San Gabriel Valley, Antonovich summed up the work Bartlett saying, “Some people have sight, but not vision; Bob has both.” While Bartlett was honored for his work -Photo by Terry Miller throughout the community as a whole, Antonovich admission gates. The event focussed on Salzer’s efwill take place on Friday, forts on behalf of those in Sept. 30. For more info visit need. He explained that when several Pasadenans www.santaanita.com. were working to provide food for those in need, LOCAL GOVERNMENT Walt Jackson contacted restaurant owners in town City Council Meetings and only Salzer stepped
Arcadia - First and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Council Chambers, located at 240 W. Huntington Dr. Monrovia – First and third Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall, located at 415 S. Ivy Avenue. Pasadena – Every Monday at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall, located at 100 N. Garfield Avenue. Sierra Madre – Second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of City Hall, located at 232 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. Temple City – First and third Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers in the Civic Center, located at 5938 Kauffman Avenue.
forward to assist. In 2007 he worked with Neighbors Acting Together Helping All to establish the Lemonade Brigade, a programs that helps young people in Pasadena Schools to start and run a business, their proceeds going toward scholarships and field trips. Nor were they the only ones honored by the center last week. In addition to the Heart in Hand honor, the center also recognizes their own. This year, Neighbors Helping Neighbors Awards were presented to Henry and Lou Thedinga for their volunteer work each week at the center. Both now in their 90s have been volunteering their time for well over ten years. Gold Plates were also presented to Southern California Edison and the Monrovian Family Restaurant in recognition of their Neighbor Helping Neighbor status for their respective support of the Foothill Unity Center. The center started as a food bank and has moved beyond that to assisting individuals in housing, returning to the work force, and much more. For further information on the Foothill Unity Center, check their web site: foothillunitycenter.org.
Pasadena’s Hires New Director of Public Works City Manager Michael J. Beck announced today that Siobhan Foster has been appointed as the new director of the Pasadena Department of Public Works effective Wednesday, Oct. 26. For the past six years Foster has overseen and managed the Public Works Department for the City of Riverside, the 12th largest city in California, with a population of more than 303,000. During her tenure in Riverside, Foster’s department constructed $269 million in infrastructure projects since 2006 as part of the city’s Riverside Renaissance initiative, with another $489 million of additional projects now in construction or final design. Projects include
railroad grade separations, reconstruction of freeway interchanges, and rehabilitation of Victoria Avenue, recognized on the National Park Service’s Register of Historic Places. Under her leadership, the department also cut costs while increasing project efficiency and responsiveness to citizens’ needs. For example, upon taking responsibility for utility line clearance trimming for Riverside Public Utilities, the department reduced the annual number of tree-related power outages by 80 percent, and cut the number of minutes customers were without power by 83 percent. lieu of traditional asphalt for street paving, reducing costs by 50 percent while producing a superior road.