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Dorothy's Place Damned annoying
By Dorothy Denne The faucet leaks in the bathtub. The filter screens on the hoses in the washer need changed. The handle on the under-the-sink cupboard keeps coming off in my hand and one-half of the magnetic latch is missing from the broom closet. Those things are not catastrophic. They are not life-threatening. They are just damned annoying. They can be repaired but that takes time and patience. Time is at a premium. Patience is short, in part, because I’m so damned annoyed that things are not right. It really is the little things in life that drive us
up the wall isn’t it? My mother used so say, “The mountains we climb, the mole hills we trip over.” I suspect we trip more often today because we are running faster. Society is moving at such a pace that as individuals we run like hell just to stand still. Three days after Christmas I was taking an early morning walk inside the Mall. As I passed the very first store my suspicion was confirmed. In the corner of the window stood the half dismantled Christmas tree. Right beside the tree was a newly completed Valentine display. I felt a moment of panic. I feared by the time I finished my trek, the tree would be gone and the Easter Bunny would be smiling at me. Of course that might not be all bad. The Easter
Bunny gets around to a lot of houses. Maybe he will know where I can find a good handyman. I used to have a good handyman but, because he is good, he has moved on to bigger things. He doesn’t have time to repair my faucets and mend my doors. I found him. I referred him. I lost him. That’s damned annoying. Truth be admitted, I haven’t totally lost him. He fits me in between his other jobs but I have to hang around half the day waiting for him. That’s only kind of annoying. Ah well, right now I don’t have time to worry about him, or the faucet, or the door, or the handle or latch. You see, I have to take my car for a Smog Check. Now that’s REALLY damned annoying.
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MENSCH International Foundation presents the 2013 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Program - Jan. 29 The MENSCH International Foundation and Steven Geiger, the Foundation’s Founder, will present The 2013 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Program honoring twotime Academy Award-winning producer, BRANKO LUSTIG (“Schindler’s List,” “Gladiator”) with The 2013 MENSCH For All Seasons Award to be held at the Writer’s Guild Theater, 135 South Doheny Drive (south of Wilshire Boulevard), Beverly Hills, CA 90211 on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. The event will also feature eight distinguished guest speakers, along with film clips. Steven Geiger, Founder of the MENSCH International Foundation said: “This year’s event is being held in the month of January to commemorate the 68th Anniversary of the liberation Holocaust prisoners from Auschwitz. It is our privilege to honor Branko Lustig, a Holocaust survivor and an Academy Awardâ-winning producer, who along with his fellow film producers, Steven Spielberg and Gerard R. Molen brought us the film
“Schindler’s List,” which remains to this day as the definitive movie of all time depicting the atrocities of the Holocaust and a German businessman named Oskar Schindler who saved thousands of Polish-Jewish refugees through his human acts of kindness. In 2005 the United Nations General Assembly designated the date of January 27th as International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is on this day that every member state of the United Nations has an obligation to honor the victims of the Holocaust and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.” Tickets for the event are $25 each and can be purchased by calling The MENSCH International Foundation at 760-416-3685 or online at www.menschfoundation.org. Free Parking will be provided for the event in the Writer Guild Theater’s adjacent parking garage structure located on south Wilshire Boulevard on the west side of Doheny Drive in Beverly Hills, CA. During the course of the evening Branko Lustig
will reminisce about his days in Auschwitz and his historic acceptance speech at the 1993 Academy Awards when he received the Best Picture Oscar along with fellow producers Steven Spielberg and Gerard R. Molen for the film “Schindler’s List” by saying: “My number was A3317. I am a Holocaust survivor. It’s a long way from Auschwitz to this stage. I want to thank everyone who helped me to come so far. People died in front of me at the camps. Their last words were: ‘Be a witness of my murder.’ Together we journeyed by helping Steven to make this movie. I hope I fulfilled my obligation to the innocent victims of the Holocaust. In the name of the six million Jews killed in the Shoah, and other Nazi victims, I want to thank everyone who acknowledged this movie. Thank you.” On May 2, 2011, Lustig returned to barrack No. 24 at Auschwitz, at the age of 78, to celebrate his bar mitvah (rite of passage), which he missed as a 13-year-old boy growing up, having been deported from his Croatian hometown to the death camp at the age of 10.
DUI enforcement operations planned this weekend in Monrovia Officers from the Monrovia Police Department’s DUI Enforcement Team will be deploying this weekend to stop and arrest alcohol and drug-impaired drivers in the Department’s ongoing traffic safety campaign. DUI Saturation Patrols will deploy on Friday, January 25, 2013, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. in areas with high frequencies of DUI collisions and/or arrests. “This is a ‘Zero Tolerance’ crackdown, so Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over!” In California, this deadly crime led to 774 deaths
in 2010 because someone failed to designate a sober driver. After falling dramatically for five straight years, figures for 2011 indicate that DUI deaths remained the same as 2010. Over the course of the past three years, DUI collisions have resulted in 33 injury crashes in Monrovia, harming 45 of our friends and neighbors. DUI can impact the economy, in addition to the pain and suffering of those immediately affected. Conservatively, a fatality has a $1.4 million impact, an injury $70,000, and a crash that only damages property averages nearly
$9,000. “California’s roadways are very much safer than they were before 2006,” said OTS Director Christopher J. Murphy. “The Monrovia Police Department will be keeping the pressure on through enforcement and public awareness so that we can continue saving lives and reach the vision we all share – Toward zero deaths, every 1 counts.” Funding for this program is from a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Report Drunk Drivers, Call 911!
ACLU/SC Pasadena Foothill Chapter The ACLU/SC Pasadena Foothill Chapter is hosting Candidates’ Forum for the City Council and PUSD on the follow-
ing dates: City Council January 31, 2013 @ 6:30 Church of Truth 690 E. Orange Grove Blvd.
PUSD-Board of Education February 7, 2013 @ 6:30 pm Neighborhood Church 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd.