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BY ANTONIE BOESSENKOOL PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAFAEL NAJARIAN From the front door with its diamond-shaped glass panes to rooms filled with antiques from Asia and Europe, Suzy Crowell’s home is classical and traditional. It’s also warm and welcoming, a gathering place for friends and family and a reflection of Crowell’s own history as a Los Angeles native, philanthropist, artist and civic leader.

Crowell and her late husband Don, who ran Crowell, Weedon & Co., then one of the largest independent investment brokerages on the West Coast, bought the house in 1995 from the widow of William French Smith, U.S. Attorney General under President Reagan, somewhat on a lark.

“We weren’t looking for a house,” Crowell said. The day she first saw it was her birthday, and a friend who

was a realtor was taking her out to lunch. On the way, they stopped by to see the six-bedroom, five-bathroom house, and Crowell was immediately intrigued.

“When we drove up, I thought, ‘This really looks nice!’”

When Don, away on a business trip, called that night to wish her a happy birthday, she told him about the house she’d seen. And when

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he returned to San Marino they visited it together, taking a contractor with them, Crowell said, because she knew one of the first changes they would make would be to add a large wine cellar (the wine cellar they ultimately built in the basement can hold more than 1,000 bottles).

“Old English” is how she describes the style of her home, with its gabled dormer windows, wood shingled

roof, multi-paned front door and dark wood floors inside. Crowell favors a traditional style—she and her husband furnished their new home with heirlooms and antiques. But the aesthetic is far from overly formal. Instead, what is important to Crowell about her house is that it’s inviting.

“It felt really good,” Crowell said of her first impression of the home. “I’m a very traditional-type person, and

so this house spoke to me that way.

“It’s a very welcoming house,” she added.

The impressive central foyer leads to a living room, dining room and library that are each sumptuously furnished with Baroque antiques and rich, dark colors. But despite the stately décor in much of the rest of the house, Crowell considers the kitchen the center of her home.

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We’ll never talk!’ . . . So he gave in,” she said, smiling.

Indeed, the kitchen table is where Crowell’s two sons, Don and Andrew, and their families gather when they visit, and where friends sit to talk.

On a wall next to the table hangs a plaque that reads “Are We Lucky, Or What!” under which is a photo of Crowell flanked by her children and grandchildren. The plaque was a gift from actress Julie Andrews, who Crowell met when Andrews visited Port O’Call, the home and gift shop

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pleasing backdrop to the other decorative gems in the room.

Just off the living room is a bright sunroom that is reminiscent of an English cottage conservatory. Whitewashed brick walls contain large windows that look out onto the verdant, expansive garden. A couch with a cornflower blue seashell pattern invites visitors to sit. The botanical theme is echoed in the flower and leaf designs in the area rug, the vine-shaped metalwork on a simple chandelier and the plants and pots of live orchids around the room.

Family photos, especially of her four grandchildren of whom she is so proud, are everywhere in the house, such as in the elegant wood-paneled library. The photos give Crowell an occasion to talk about them: a granddaughter who is a ballerina and pre-med student, a grandson who graduated from college where he majored in business, a granddaughter who’s a tennis player and high school sophomore and a grandCrowell co-owns with J.D. Hornberger in San Marino.

The sitting room is cozy, with a fireplace and view out to the spacious, shaded patio framed by white brick archways and furnished with wrought iron tables with floral metalwork. It reflects Crowell’s taste for the traditional but with some contemporary touches. It has a welcoming blue-and-white-plaid easy chair and couch, marble fireplace and large Impressionistic painting of a breezy, sunny day at the seashore.

“It’s the heart,” Crowell said of the kitchen and adjoining spaces.

The two showpieces of Crowell’s home are the living and dining rooms, filled with antiques and art.

Crowell isn’t particular about the provenance of the antiques she’s collected over decades. She chooses instead what she finds attractive or what has meaning for her.

She does like blue and has selected a soft cornflower blue that shows up throughout the home. The dining

room walls are covered with fabric in this color, showing water scenes, flowers, trees, birds and fishermen.

The sideboards hold objects from another time: candelabras draped with crystal ornaments and a set of floral-patterned serving dishes, displayed to show off their opulent design. An impressive Asian folding screen, which comes from Crowell’s father-in-law, covers one wall, painted with the image of a tall-masted ship on the waves.

At the doorway is a formal portrait, a mark of Crowell’s Los Angeles roots. The elegant French woman in the painting is Crowell’s maternal great-grandmother, who moved with her children and grandchildren from Arizona to Los Angeles when Crowell’s mother was a girl. She and her husband started a flour mill, the California Milling Corporation, later bought by the Pillsbury Company, which still stands at the corner of Alameda and 55th streets north of Huntington Park.

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Paintings fill the living room, too, from another sunny seaside scene over the fireplace to a work by Crowell herself. As a young woman, she attended Art Center College of Design and Otis Art Institute, with the thought of becoming an illustrator of novels. She didn’t continue in that vein, but she did continue her art. An elevator from her kitchen-side sitting room opens on the second floor directly into her painting studio. In the living room is a colorful still life of flowers and pears she painted.

One of the most impressive pieces in the living room is the immense Asian folding screen behind a glossy black grand piano. “I don’t know anything about it,” Crowell admitted. But, she said, “I like antiques. I pick things up.” The folding screen, scattered with designs of large white flowers that look like magnolia blossoms, came from an antique store in Northern California. It reaches all the way up to the white beams of the living room ceiling and creates a

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son at college in Philadelphia. Other photos are of Crowell’s children, of herself and Don and of Crowell’s father—“a jolly fellow,” she said, as she pointed out a picture of him, wearing a captain’s hat, comical smile and pajamas, enjoying a morning on his boat.

As in the other rooms of the house, the library is also filled with artwork.

A dramatic, bright scene of waves crashing onto rocks sits on the mantel over a black marble fireplace. Over matching chairs covered in fabric with Asian-themed scenery are two paintings of winemakers that look like something out of an Old English storybook: one is of a rotund man tasting the drink from a metal beer stein and in the other, a man holds a glass of wine to the light to examine its color.

The library shelves are filled with history, too—books that reflect both Don’s and Suzy’s interests in wine, World War II, California and Los Angeles.

Numerous plaques and commendations line the wall leading up to the second floor, reminders of Crowell’s engagement as a civic leader, volunteer and philanthropist. In San Marino, Crowell not only served as a city councilwoman and mayor, but when the city’s plans for a new public library stalled, she and her two sons gave generously to move the project forward. The Crowell Public Library opened in 2008.

Over the years, Crowell has hosted countless people associated with the

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“Those who have something need to give something back,” she said. It is a philosophy she has also instilled in her children and grandchildren.

Upstairs are two bedrooms, displaying in varying ways Crowell’s affinity for blue and for traditional furniture. Pale blue walls create a soft, calm atmosphere in her bedroom, accented by dark wood chests of drawers, side tables and a large armoire. Toile-patterned wallpaper in cornflower blue covers the walls in one guest room, matched with bedspreads and accent chairs covered in the same pattern. The two other second floor bedrooms house Crowell’s beloved painting studio and Don’s office.

“Even though we weren’t looking for it at the time, I am very happy we purchased this house over 20 years ago,” Crowell reminisced. “It has been a wonderful place to create happy memories with my family and friends.” •

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KATHRYN BARGER L.A. County Supervisor is in her “dream job”

BY KEVIN KENNEY It is 4 a.m. in Los Angeles—a good couple of hours before most alarm clocks will be going off, a time when the freeways are still clear of the commuter crush and the sun is still a hundred-or-so miles to the east. A few early-rising birds can be heard through the morning darkness, but otherwise everything is calm and quiet. But this is wake-up time for Kathryn Barger, who hardly sleeps anyway.

The 59-year-old supervisor of L.A. County’s Fifth District is at her San

Marino home, and she tip-toes out of bed, allowing her husband, retired L.A. sheriff’s deputy Eric Leibrich, a few more hours to doze. Barger may have gotten to bed at 10 p.m. the night before, but just as likely may have arrived home after midnight following some late function in her geographically vast district. It makes no difference. She plays to this schedule every day, year-round—and has since she first won her supervisor’s seat in 2016, when she succeeded

Michael Antonovich, for whom she worked 28 years as an aide, the last 15 as chief of staff.

While most would regard such a playbook as exhausting, to Barger it is exhilarating, merely the cost of doing business in what she calls “a dream job” and “my passion.”

“I get up at 4, and that’s my quiet time,” she says during a chat in the eighth-floor offices of the supervisors on West Temple Street in downtown L.A. “From 4 to 5 is when I read the PHOTO BY RAFAEL NAJARIAN

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L.A. Times on my iPhone and then wait for the paper to come—I beat the paper boy. And then at 5 I start to get ready to do some exercise, and then, 7-7:30, I’m on the road.”

For Barger, this quiet time will be typically her last for many hours. Most days, Barger says, begin with at least a pit stop at her downtown office before she heads off to several other stops in a 2,800-square-mile district that’s larger than L.A. County’s other four districts combined.

Tuesdays are the exception—that’s when the supervisors gather for their weekly public meetings, which can turn into four-hour-plus marathons, with agendas stretching to 100 items and sometimes raucous public comment periods. These meetings are also where the supervisors manage a $36.1 billion county budget that covers everything from infrastructure to jails to social services…a budget that’s bigger than the gross domestic product of Bahrain.

Like the other four districts, Barger’s Fifth includes about 1.9 million people, which would make it the fifthmost populous city in the U.S., just behind Houston and ahead of Philadelphia. Her district encompasses a veritable United Nations of races and cultures and ethnicities—including, she pridefully points out, the world’s “largest Armenian population outside of Armenia.” It is a mosaic of urban and desert and everything in between, stretching from the San Gabriel Valley to the Santa Clarita, San Fernando and Antelope valleys, and all the way to the Ventura, Kern and San Bernardino county lines.

Barger is a regular in all these places…one peripatetic pol.

“I made a commitment when I was running, and I remain as committed as ever to being present throughout my entire district,” Barger says.

“To me it’s not a challenge, to me that is what makes the Fifth District so great—is that each region has its own challenges, but they’re all different, all unique. What’s right in the Antelope Valley is not going to be

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mirrored with what’s needed in La Verne.”

The diversity is what makes the job so exciting and dynamic for Barger.

“If I didn’t love what I did…I mean, I talk to people whose children are going into professions that they don’t like, and I feel for them. I think everyone needs to find their passion,” Barger says. “Everyone has their days where it’s going to be a tough day and you’ve just gotta put your foot in front of the other and get there.

But for me, I love what I do. It’s just the way I’m wired. I got it from my dad. It’s funny, growing up, my dad would get up at 4 because he had clients back East, and he’d be on the phone, and we all thought he was crazy—like, ‘What are you doing up so early?’ And I became my father.”

Barger’s dad was Richards Barger, a former California state insurance commissioner who died in January 2016. He didn’t get to see the youngest of his four children, and his only daughter, win the supervisor’s seat in November of that year, but was thrilled that he did get to see his little girl kick off her campaign.

“He passed away six months into my campaign,” Barger says. “But he got to see the announcement, and be a part of it, and really experience what I think he never believed would happen, and it was a dream for him.”

Richards and his wife, Ann, who passed away 13 years ago, raised

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laundry, and we wouldn’t really get the whole college experience. My dad was absolutely right, because academics was important, but life skills, living so far away from home, was probably as valuable a lesson and teaching experience for me as the education,” Barger says.

Richards Barger gave the freshly graduated Kathryn one other helping hand back then, connecting her with an insurance firm in Washington, D.C. for her first job in the real world.

But as Barger recalls, her dad’s assistance ended right there.

“I remember my dad coming back and meeting with the legal counsel back there, and (Richards) said, ‘I helped her get the job—it’s hers to keep, (but) if she’s not cutting it, you’re more than welcome to fire her.’ And he meant it.”

Barger did not get fired, but after two years in D.C. she “did miss my family, miss California,” and she moved back West, working a couple of private-sector jobs until An-

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their four kids in San Marino in the 1960s—a time, Barger recalls, when her mother had to leave her job as a stewardess (as they were called then) for United Airlines because “you could not be married and fly” if you were a woman. But both parents encouraged the dreams and aspirations of the next generation.

Barger also recalls a time—as she was approaching graduation from San Marino High in 1978—that her dad, an Indiana native, told her, “‘You can go to any college you get into, but I want you to at least look at the schools in the Midwest.’”

She ended up at Ohio Wesleyan, majoring in communications and political science and graduating in 1983 after interning for Supervisor Antonovich back in L.A. in the summers of 1981 and 1982.

“I think my dad’s fear was that we’d all end up close to home, coming home on weekends to do our

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tonovich heard that she was back and asked her to apply for a position in his office.

It would be the last position Barger applied for until she asked voters to elevate her to Antonovich’s job when he was termed out in 2016.

She rose from rookie staffer in 1989 to Antonovich’s chief policy adviser on health, mental health, social services and children’s issues (still among her key focus points today), and eventually to chief of staff in 2001. When Antonovich was termed out in 2016, she sought the seat herself, with her mentor’s endorsement, espousing moderate Republican positions for a job that is officially non-partisan.

She won with 59 percent of the vote, becoming the lone member of the board with roots on the right.

In a time of hyper-partisan rock fights nationally, Barger’s politics might best be described as some throwback to the days of liberal Republicans like Nelson Rockefeller or Jacob Javits…or to the “compassionate conservatism” of George W. Bush. She is, for instance, a leading advocate in the fight against homelessness, being an early booster of Measure H, which resulted in a quarter-cent county sales tax to aid the homeless. But as a fiscal conservative, she advocated that the 2017 measure be put on the ballot as a specific tax, dedicated exclusively to battling homelessness. The other supervisors agreed with her. They also agreed that the tax would expire in 10 years.

Her colleague, Mark Ridley-Thomas, had originally proposed a general tax, which required only 50 percent plus one for approval; a dedicated tax needs a 66 percent OK from voters. Still, Barger pushed the tougher path. She won the day, and the measure was approved by voters.

“My concern was that (the money) wasn’t going to go where it belongs,” Barger said at the time. “No one wants to do a quarter-cent sales tax—I don’t. But I feel we have an obligation to do better—as a society,

JOHN R. ROBERTS HORTICULTURALIST & INTERIOR DESIGN BARGER, BOTTOM RIGHT, SITS AT THE FIFTH DISTRICT CONFERENCE ROOM TABLE WHEN SHE WAS A HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPUTY FOR SUPERVISOR MICHAEL ANTONOVICH, WHO STANDS BEHIND HER. SHE IS JOINED BY FELLOW STAFF MEMBERS. AMONG THEM ARE TOP ROW FROM LEFT: OLLIE BLANNING (PASADENA FIELD DEPUTY), LINH TRAN (INTERN), MARY TRAN (POLICY DEPUTY), PAT RILEY (POLICY DEPUTY), DAVE VANATTA (PLANNING DEPUTY). BOTTOM ROW: LINDA BALDERRAMA (ANTONOVICH’S SECRETARY), RESSIE ROMAN (POLICY DEPUTY) AND LYNN SHANNON (STAFF SECRETARY).

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recommending that immigrants currently getting public assistance not be eligible for citizenship.

“Absolutely, that is unfair,” Barger says. “I will not support it. (Supervisor Hilda Solis) did a motion (against the Trump plan), and I supported it with my head held high. Because under President Obama, we were pushed to get people signed up for food assistance—and how dare anybody change the rules mid-stream for

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as a state.”

Today, as Barger seeks re-election for a second four-year term in 2020, one of her key issues remains homelessness. She believes the issue should be addressed in a holistic manner by looking at its causes, from mental illness to substance abuse to lack of jobs. She is also focused on improving conditions for foster children, seniors, veterans and those with disabilities, while being the supervisors’ biggest booster of police and other first-responders. She advocates protecting the environment and enhancing parks and open spaces.

But she’s a guardian against simply throwing money at problems, pushing fiscal frugality and reducing “unnecessary” government regulation.

“If you look at my voting record, I’m very much about issue and not

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about party,” Barger says. “I’ve always been that way, my father was that way…I’m not beholden to either party—I’m beholden to the people that I represent in the Fifth District.”

Case in point: President Trump is

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people that, quite frankly, probably wouldn’t have applied for aid. We went out with the mobile units and aggressively pursued—and promised—these individuals that there would be no negative impact on them. So I think that’s wrong. And so that, for me, is doing the right thing.”

Barger and her supervisor colleagues made history by becoming the first board of supervisors since it was conceived in 1850 to have a female majority (Barger, Solis, Sheila Kuehl and Janice Hahn).

Ridley-Thomas is the only male. For years, the all-male board was known as the “Five Little Kings.”

The current board is known for its civility in the way it conducts its business. They may disagree but still get things accomplished, such as in the Measure H issue.

Those two aspects are not necessarily coincidental, Barger says.

“I believe that women do attack the issues from a whole different perspective,” she says. “I mean, I’ve only worked with four women and one man, so I don’t know what it would have been like to be a supervisor with a different (board) makeup. But I can tell you that I really do believe—and I think anyone that’s married to the opposite sex will tell you—that women and men look at issues differently. And so I think that has probably played a little bit of a role in how we’ve been so successful in working together.

“I’m not trying to say that men are not compassionate at all—but I think women just come about thinking up solutions through a different part of their brain, and it’s just a lot—I don’t want to say softer, but that’s kind of what I’m leaning toward in terms of how we do it.”

But, she adds, “I always tell people, don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. Because I think that all of us on the eighth floor, all five of us, including Mark, can be very strong and passionate about an issue, but yet at the same time, we have compassion (toward each other).”

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At the end of one of those typically long days that are the norm for Barger, Eric, her husband of 17 years, is always there. He retired as a deputy for the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department eight years ago after working for the elite Security Operations Unit…one of whose duties is protecting county supervisors. Sometime around 1999, he and Barger crossed paths, and they’ve been together ever since.

There’s still lighthearted disagreement between the two about who asked out whom.

“I would argue he asked me out, he would probably tell you that I flirted with him, and the truth is somewhere in between. He’s a car fanatic, I’m not. And so he was talking about his new car and he wanted me to see it—which is probably the oldest line in the book, but I played along…and the rest is history.”

The two balance each other well, she says—his yin to her yang.

“It’s interesting, because our personalities are very different,” she says. “He’s very quiet and very calm, and his idea of a good evening is a football game and a good glass of wine and the barbecue on. I think that’s been the most difficult thing for me…many times I’m out five nights a week. But he always waits up, and always opens the door when I come home.”

Occasionally, Barger says, Eric will accompany her to an evening event, “but I let him pick and choose because, quite frankly, he knows

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how I am and how I work, and he doesn’t want to be in my way—even though he’s not.”

On those rare occasions when she’s not zipping around the county, Barger takes time to relax in the simplest of ways.

“For me, it’s hard to unplug, but when I do, if I hit a wall, I’ll spend time kind of getting things together in the house, doing my laundry, which is very relaxing, believe it or not. And with all the bad news going on, a real good source of escape for me is the Hallmark Channel, believe it or not—even though I know life does not run that way. You don’t, you know, meet a prince and end up living in wherever they have them in the Hallmark movies. But I’ll watch that. But it’s hard for me to sit still. So typically, if I have a day off, I like to just run errands—I’ll go to CVS, I’ll go to the market.”

While Barger has not yet won even a second term, it’s not too soon to speculate beyond that, to 2028, when she would be termed out after a potential third. She would be 68— five years younger than Jerry Brown was when he became governor in 2011, two years younger than Elizabeth Warren is now.

But when asked whether there is another office on her radar screen, the politician gives a decidedly direct and unpolitical answer: No. “People do approach me and say, ‘What’s your next chapter? What’s your aspiration?’” she says. “And I tell them…this is it. This is what I love. I think that’s what allows me to do my job so well, is that it’s very liberating to know that I’m doing it for the right reasons, not because I’m looking to get my name in the paper or to be invited to run for another office. I know that on any given day you can change the lives of families, young people, and really make a difference. For me, this is it, period.”

This is her “dream job”…her “passion.” Which is to say, Kathryn Barger, who hardly sleeps, is just fine with lots more of those 4 a.m. wake-ups. •

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DODGERS SPRING TRAINING

BY MARK LANGILL Today’s generation of Dodger fans can take for granted the opportunity to visit spring training in Glendale, Arizona, a modest distance from Southern California compared to the cross-country journey required during the previous half-century.

Before Arizona, the Dodgers trained in Vero Beach, Florida between 1948 and 2008. Even when the Dodger franchise relocated from Brooklyn to Los Angeles after the 1957 season, the team players and staff reported to Vero Beach in 1958 with the same core of players and same equipment—except for the “LA” hats issued during the first team meeting.

Sentiment kept the Dodgers in Florida for several reasons. After World War II, Dodger team president Branch Rickey imagined the former Naval air station in Vero Beach could be converted into a “baseball campus,” where all concepts of the game could be taught to the 600-plus prospects among the 26 minor league affiliates in the Brooklyn organization.

The invitation to Vero Beach from local businessman Bud Holman resulted in the South’s first racially integrated spring training camp.

Interestingly, in 1952, the Dodgers proposed sharing their complex with the Chicago Cubs—much like they do now with the Chicago White Sox. The timing wasn’t right, as Chicago was testing life in Arizona after decades on Catalina Island. Although they didn’t become spring partners, the working relationship between Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley and Cubs owner Phil Wrigley would play a key role in the Dodgers’ future in Los Angeles. In January 1957, the Cubs provided the Southern California territorial rights to O’Malley, selling the Los Angeles Angels’ Triple-A minor league franchise and its Wrigley Field ballpark (the original Wrigley Field, which was named when it opened in 1925, while the Cubs’ ballpark was known as Cubs Park), located at 42nd Place and Avalon Boulevard.

The Dodgers in 1953 dedicated Holman Stadium, a 5,000-seat facility in Vero Beach designed by Captain Emil Praeger using excavation techniques and concrete construction duplicated several years later when Praeger and O’Malley worked on the building of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

O’Malley upgraded Dodgertown over the years to include two golf courses. Residential villas replaced the former military barracks that had housed the players and O’Malley in the 1970s designed the property to become a year-round conference center. Holman Stadium was expanded in the 1980s to 6,500 seats to accommodate larger crowds and in the 1990s considerable investment was made to upgrade Dodgertown, including creating an indoor batting facility.

When the O’Malley family sold the Dodgers to the FOX Group in 1998, the transaction included Dodger Stadium and Dodgertown. In 2001, the Dodgers sold Dodgertown to Indian River County and then leased it back until 2008.

Camelback Ranch in Arizona opened on March 1, 2009. The Dodgers share the facility with the Chicago White Sox as each organization has its

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MANAGER DAVE ROBERTS

PITCHER CLAYTON KERSHAW SIGNS AUTOGRAPHS FOR FANS.

CHRIS TAYLOR PHOTOS COURTESY OF L.A. DODGERS

INFIELDER EDWIN RIOS MADE HIS MLB DEBUT IN 2019.

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own “territory”—the Dodgers occupy the administrative buildings and clubhouse areas behind the left-field fence. Camelback Ranch features a state-of-the-art ballpark, six practice fields on the Dodger side, including a replica Dodger Stadium field, fan photo elements commemorating Dodger history, walking trails, an orange grove and a five-acre lake.

Players report to spring training in mid-February. Spring training games for the Dodgers in 2020 will begin on February 22 and last for five weeks.

The Dodgers will play 16 of their 30 Cactus League games at Camelback Ranch, including 15 as the designated home team. They have at least one home game during each of the five weekends, providing fans with ample opportunity to make the five-hour drive or one-hour flight to the desert.

Fans can sign up for ticket information at camelbackranchbaseball. com. Single-game tickets go on sale on January 9, 2020 and start as low as $10.

“Camelback feels like you are actually behind the scenes at Dodger Stadium,” said San Marino resident and Dodgers spring training enthusiast Kerry Lovelock. “Get to the games when the gates open and you’ll be able to see Clayton Kershaw do his warmup ritual right in front of you before a game. During the day, you can see everything happening at the various practice fields—it feels like an all-access pass.

“My advice for first-timers would be to stay in Glendale. Hotels there are 10 minutes from Camelback and within walking distance to Westgate Entertainment District with lots of dining and entertainment options before and after games.”

In addition to the quest for autographs and selfies, another fun challenge is trying to predict the next breakout star from the group of players with high uniform numbers and unfamiliar names. Last year’s spring scorecard included minor league catcher Will Smith, infielder Gavin

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Lux, outfielder Matt Beaty and pitcher Dustin May, all of whom were summoned to Los Angeles in the summer and appeared in the postseason.

“A great memory from 2013 is of my son and his friend spying a huge player that we didn’t recognize coming over to the boys at the practice field to give them autographs,” Lovelock said. “While he signed the baseball, I noticed both kids mesmerized at the sight of this towering player. My sister texted a minute after getting the autograph to make sure we tried to get close to this new player named Yasiel Puig—he was the talk of spring training. I looked down at the ball and it was signed Puig. I texted her a picture. ‘You mean him?’”

Although exhibition games don’t count in terms of permanent statistics, the exercise is critical to prepare for a six-month season. Rookies and top prospects are knocking on the door, hoping to impress, while veterans arriving with a non-roster invitation to camp sometimes face the crossroads of a career with an amusement park-like atmosphere as a contrasting backdrop.

“As a player, I’ve experienced both sides of spring training,” said Dodger Manager Dave Roberts, a UCLA graduate who was selected by the Detroit Tigers in the 28th round of the 1994 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.

Roberts played in 75 games with Cleveland between 1999 and 2001

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and was sent to Los Angeles in exchange for two minor leaguers. The Dodgers took a flier on Roberts because of his speed—he averaged 42 stolen bases between 1996 and 2001. Roberts was assigned uniform No. 50 and made the team, in part, because of injuries to other players and the sudden retirement of non-roster outfielder Dante Bichette.

He also volunteered to go back onto the field in Vero Beach for afternoon drills when former manager Tommy Lasorda looked for candidates to tutor in his impromptu “Lasorda University” sessions.

“When I first came to the Dodgers in the spring of 2002, I was trying to make the team as an extra outfielder,” said Roberts, whose base-running lessons from Maury Wills would famously pay off in 2004 when Roberts stole a critical base for the Red Sox in a postseason game against the New York Yankees. “There were a lot of guys in camp and I wanted to do anything I could to make a positive impression.

“Now, as a manager, I feel empathy for these young guys when they report to training camp. The hardest part of the job is making the cuts because there are so many good players. But there are only a certain number of roster spots. You can’t take everyone to Los Angeles when the season starts.

“We don’t feel the pressure to win all the games in spring training because the goal is to get ready for the season,” Roberts continued. “We’re trying to get to know each other and bond as a team. It’s also a chance to have more interaction with fans because the pace is different than the regular season. I think it’s a fun atmosphere for both sides.” • For more information about and tickets to Dodgers Spring Training, visit camelbackranchbaseball.com.

Mark Langill is Team Historian of the Los Angeles Dodgers and author of five Dodger-related books including Dodger Stadium and Dodgers: Game of My Life.

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FAMILY RECIPE Sierra Madre’s E. Waldo Ward & Son has had sweet success for more than a century

BY JASON SCHAFF PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAFAEL NAJARIAN

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Along a quiet residential street in Sierra Madre lies a local treasure hidden in plain sight. E. Waldo Ward & Son, over a century old and now helmed by the fourth generation of the Ward family, is the oldest independently owned jam manufacturer in California. What’s more, the family has no plans to slow down.

Those knowledgeable about family businesses will tell you that keeping a family-run company alive for a few decades, never mind a century, is extremely difficult. The Ward family apparently has its own recipe for success in addition to the delicious ones it uses to make the company’s vast array of fruit jams, jellies, preserves, butters, spreads and syrups, marmalades, marinades, sauces, condiments, sweet pickled and brandied fruits as well as olives at its factory on Highland Avenue.

This delicious legacy began with Edwin Waldo Ward, a food broker from New Jersey who moved to Sierra Madre in 1891 in search of a better climate.

“He liked what he saw in Sierra Madre and decided to settle down here,” says Jeff Ward, Edwin’s great-grandson who joined E. Waldo Ward & Son in 1988 and now runs it.

Edwin purchased 10 acres of land from the town’s founder, Nathaniel Carter. A few years later, he acquired 20 more acres. He married in 1900 and built a large Victorian house with a long side porch and barn that still stand today. Jeff’s sister and her family currently live in the home, which is painted a cheerful yellow and still exudes the charm and grace of yesteryear.

Because of his vast knowledge of the food business, Edwin understood the prevailing trends. He had planted his land with navel oranges and knew he could grow the Seville oranges needed to make the “English style” marmalade that was so highly sought after at the time. He imported two trees from Seville, Spain to use as the grafting stock to create a healthy grove of oranges (a few

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of those trees still exist) to make that marmalade. In the meantime, he experimented with marmalade recipes and built the canning factory behind the family home that is still in use today.

E. Waldo Ward & Son was founded in 1917. The company grew at a healthy pace as it established a reputation for producing the highest quality marmalades. Edwin began to experiment with other products such as jams and olives, thus beginning a family tradition of gradually and carefully diversifying the E. Waldo Ward & Son product line. Edwin Ward, Jr. took over the business in 1928, ultimately handing it down to his son, Richard, who in turn gradually handed it down to his son, Jeff.

Richard is officially retired, but he still comes in a little bit every day to help out wherever he can. Jeff says he remains the best trouble-shooter the company has—particularly when it comes to equipment problems—given his vast experience.

Over the years the business has evolved to accommodate changing consumer tastes and economic and market realities. For instance, marmalade was once the company’s primary product—it now accounts for approximately eight percent of sales. Further, E. Waldo Ward-branded products only account for about 20 percent of the company’s revenue, with 80 percent coming from private labeling and co-packing (where the company creates and packs a customer’s proprietary product). But what has not changed are the company’s high standards, commitment to tradition and appreciation of its history, which are reflected in everything from its ingredient procurement to its meticulous manufacturing processes to its informal museum housed in the barn.

Using high quality ingredients has always been and continues to be of paramount importance to the company—that, its recipes and its product consistency are the foundation upon which its reputation has been

THE BARN AND ORCHARD OVER A CENTURY AGO. PHOTO COURTESY OF E. WALDO WARD & SON

THE BARN AND ORCHARD AS IT APPEARS NOW.

FAMILY AT THE WARD HOME IN SIERRA MADRE IN THE EARLY DAYS. PHOTO COURTESY OF E. WALDO WARD

AN OLD TYPESETTING MACHINE IN THE COMPANY’S MUSEUM.

ORIGINAL BURNERS FROM WHEN THE COMPANY WAS FOUNDED IN 1917.

“Using a consistent recipe and getting ingredients from the same vendors on a regular basis are key to maintaining the quality of a product,” Jeff says.

And while the company offers a wide variety of products ranging from sweet jellies to savory sauces, there is one absolute constant for everything: it only uses cane sugar when a sweetener is required. Never, ever does the company use high fructose corn syrup that is common in other jams, jellies and barbecue sauces. Sugar gives the products a better taste and also acts as a preservative.

“After opening an E. Waldo Ward & Son jam or jelly, you can actually leave it unrefrigerated,” Jeff remarks.

The Wards’ Sierra Madre operation

is a combination food factory and laboratory all housed within a relatively small area—the original canning factory Edwin tucked behind his house and an addition to this structure that he added in the 1920s. It is hard to not become nostalgic when looking around the tidy space and seeing tools and instruments that have been used by the generations and are still being employed in the creation of the company's products.

A highlight is seeing Edwin’s original gas stoves from 1917, which are used for making small batches of items such as pickled kumquats. Of the 100 stoves, there are 20 left that still work.

“We just hose them off and we’re done. The problem is you can’t find parts for them anymore,” Jeff says with a laugh.

There is also a 1931 citrus chipper that has been at E. Waldo Ward & Son since that date and is still used regularly. The instrument, which has most of its original parts, shreds the peel of the raw fruit before it is cooked. The maker of the chipper, a company in England, believes it’s the oldest one of its kind still in operation.

“We contacted them about three years ago and we asked them to make us a new machine. We have it all hooked up and ready to go but my Dad says, ‘Why use it when we still have this one going good?’” Jeff says.

The lab contains all sorts of modern scientific instruments to test the quality and consistency of E. Waldo Ward & Son’s products such as a refractometer, which measures the sugar

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built and maintained. While only 2.5 acres of the original 30 acres of land Edwin owned remains in the Ward family—it sold off the southern part of the property during the Depression and other pieces of land bit by bit over the years—the pesticide-free fruit grown in the remaining citrus orchards is still used to make its products. Other fruit and ingredients used in the company’s varied product line come from well-vetted (and often longtime) local and regional sources such as the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino; Arlington Garden in Pasadena; California State University, Northridge; and University of California, Riverside; and from vendors as far away as the Pacific Northwest and Greece.

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content of a product. “A reading of 100 is pure sugar and federal regulations require jams, jellies and marmalades to have a 65 reading—anything less is considered a fruit spread or low sugar jam,” Jeff shares. It is also the place where Jeff and his staff develop recipes for new products and refine recipes for co-packing customers both large and small.

The factory is staffed by 15 employees who work only one shift, from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., throughout the week. Because the company’s operations have been grandfathered in a residential area, it has to play by different rules than factories in an industrial area. This also includes only having trucks come in and out of the premises before 3:30 p.m.

“We try to stay quiet as much as we can,” Jeff says. “At least we’re not making tar or something smelly,” he says jokingly.

E. Waldo Ward & Son’s manufacturing process is pretty straightforward for a normal-sized batch no matter what delectable product it is making. The ingredients are prepared and then mixed and cooked in 100-plus gallon kettles. Either Jeff, who has a food science and technology degree from UC Davis, or the company’s outside food scientist monitors the process to ensure the consistency of the product. Whatever has been made is then transferred, sometimes by hand, into a machine that automatically pours the product into a jar or bottle. From start to finish, it takes three people about an hour to make a batch of barbecue sauce, jam or jelly.

E. Waldo Ward & Son’s finished products are packaged and placed in its warehouse, a relatively new addition by Ward standards built in the 1980s, that is located behind the factory. From there, they are either sent to local, regional and national purveyors or are kept to be sold in the company’s small on-site shop or on its website: waldoward.com.

The old barn that Edwin built, which houses the equivalent of the

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company’s museum, holds remnants of vintage equipment that helped build the century-plus-old firm as well as relics like old barbecue sauce jars, an old printing press and beautiful decades-old orange crate labels from the Foothill Cooperative of which E. Waldo Ward & Son was a member. There are also many photos

JAM OR JELLY? What is the difference between jam, jelly, marmalade and preserves?

Jams are made from pureed fruit.

Jellies are made from fruit juice and don’t have any pieces of fruit.

Marmalades have the rind of the fruit in them and are usually made from citrus fruits.

Preserves have chunks of fruit but the terms “preserves” and “jams” are often used interchangeably.

JEFF WARD, LEFT, AND HIS FATHER RICHARD

taken at the factory and of surrounding acreage over the last 100 years.

There is even an original recipe for orange pineapple marmalade written in longhand by Edwin himself in 1933.

The Wards’ respect for their history and legacy continues to inform their daily decision making and plans for the future. Selling to a larger corpo-

ration is not of interest, according to Jeff.

“What we’re doing is comfortable,” Jeff says. “We try to grow every year at a comfortable pace. We have found that partnerships are difficult to work with especially when you have publicly traded companies or other owners.”

Keeping the business in the family is a priority for both Richard and Jeff.

While Jeff has no children, he says he hopes one of his relatives will want to take over—perhaps a nephew—and continue the family’s tradition of creating high-quality food products that was started so long ago.

“We have something unique,” says Richard. • E. Waldo Ward & Son is located at 273 E. Highland Ave. in Sierra Madre.

It is open Mon. – Fri. from 8:30 a.m.

– 4:30 p.m. and Sat. from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Facility tours are available on Saturdays by appointment. For more information, visit waldoward.com or call (626) 355-1218.

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NATURAL PROGRESSION William Stranger gives downed or diseased trees a second, beautiful life

BY JASON SCHAFF PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAFAEL NAJARIAN The arrival of winter and the storms that often come with it mean business for furniture maker William Stranger.

For him a downed tree is valuable. With its wood, he can make a beautiful piece of furniture and at the same time give that tree a second life. Nothing is ever wasted when it gets into the hands of Stranger, an avid environmentalist.

He has built his company on that philosophy and is an advocate for an industry, loosely called “urban salvage,” that has become popular in the furniture design world not only because of its green approach but because of the natural “live edge” look of its pieces.

A downed or even diseased tree can be made into a customized piece of furniture that may hold many memories.

Take, for instance, a recent project of Stranger’s—an En-

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gelmann oak or so-called Pasadena oak that had been on the property of an Altadena home.

“Their whole family was really attached to this tree. Their children grew up climbing the tree,” Stranger said. But it became diseased and had to be cut down. The family wanted a record of the life of the tree—something that would last for generations.

“They contacted me, and I arranged for the tree to be craned off of the property and taken out and milled,” Stranger said. He designed a table using the wood from the tree which was left in its natural state. Natural finishing oils were used on the table to make the imperfections look like beauty marks. “At completion, the family is now able to literally eat off something that had been near and dear to their hearts,” Stranger

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said with a smile.

Stranger started his woodworking business 32 years ago. For the last 20 years, his studio has been located in a worn-looking light industrial and warehouse facility on E. Foothill Boulevard in Pasadena, which was a former torpedo research and development site. It’s a space Stranger loves due to its size and flexibility for his needs. He can work there 24 hours a day if he wants to. And he can store pieces of cut trees, too. Next to his studio is a yard full of pieces of reclaimed trees that lie drying in the sun waiting to be cut and shaped into a custom piece of furniture.

All of the pieces of trees that Stranger gets for his projects must go through a drying process. He’ll let some dry outside under tarps for years, with each row of stacked wood separated by smaller pieces

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STRANGER IN HIS WORKSHOP. PHOTO COURTESY OF WILLIAM STRANGER

of wood called stickers that allow air to flow around the wood so all sides can dry. Air drying preserves the color of the natural wood.

“Drying wood is an art in itself,” Stranger said. “If you dry the wood too fast, it will twist and crack.” He likes to air dry his wood at first and then finish off the process in an environmentally friendly solar kiln, which also kills any bugs that may be in the wood.

Stranger usually gets his downed urban trees through word of mouth.

One time he stumbled on a work crew that was cutting down a dead tree and he negotiated with them to give the wood to him instead of sending it to a landfill. He hired a per-

son with a portable sawmill to cut up the tree onsite so it was easier to transport. “There’s really a community of people now doing urban salvage,” Stranger commented.

This, however, wasn’t always the case.

A native of England with a background in gardening and landscaping, Stranger moved to Los Angeles in 1984 and for the next few years worked in construction.

“I didn’t know that I was good at making things with my hands until I started working on a construction site. I gravitated toward the finer carpentry. It came naturally to me.

When I was a kid, I liked to make models,” he said.

His first customers were referrals from a contractor for whom he had worked previously. He borrowed a portable table saw and got to work

learning his craft just by doing it and reading about woodworking.

“In 1987, on the eve of my first cabinet job, my wife gave me George Nakashima’s book The Soul of a Tree and that was a real eye opener for me.” Nakashima’s book discusses the beauty of wood and how craftspeople can live in harmony with nature by giving noble trees a second life as furniture. Stranger became interested in using natural materials and having a minimal design for his creations.

But the use of “live-edge” wood, which keeps the original lines of the trunk along its edges portraying the wood in a natural or raw way, wasn’t very popular in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s.

“It was a struggle for me to get people interested in it. People were more interested in a post-modern

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mish-mash of designs,” Stranger remembered.

Design is what has kept Stranger passionate about his business over the years. He has always been interested in the design world’s Arts and Crafts Movement, which flourished in the early 20th century and was known for its simple forms and for promoting individual craftsmanship as opposed to mass production. This movement at the same time emphasized devotion to detail. The fact that he ended up working in Pasadena, home to famous Craftsman homes such as the Gamble House which were a result of the Arts and Crafts Movement, may or may not have been a coincidence Stranger relayed with a smile.

He is now interested in a more modern aesthetic, but he keeps things simple so that each of his pieces accentuate the beauty of the wood. He likes to “celebrate” the colors in the wood as well as the so-

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called defects such as knots. “Those are the features that I love,” Stranger said. He uses only natural finishes and oils on his pieces and won’t ever use stain on a piece of wood. He’ll sometimes burn the wood to give it a darker color if that is what a customer wants.

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Most of the products he creates are custom requests by clients. He does very little “spec” work where he creates a product before there is a buyer. So that both he and his clients are on the same page when he agrees to make a piece, Stranger says he sketches out a drawing of his design and shows clients the progress of the piece along the way.

Upon completion of a piece, he will sign and date it and on some he’ll inscribe a quote or a phrase. It may be a song lyric, a line of poetry or from a novel, or if a client has a particular phrase in mind, he’ll use that.

What he does for a living is very personal for Stranger, and not because it’s a livelihood.

He’s helping the environment with his creations and approach. Every day, an enormous amount of wood from local trees goes in the dump or gets burned, eventually releasing carbon into the atmosphere. Making a piece of furniture out of downed trees “sequesters” the carbon in the furniture, Stranger said. Further, Stranger endeavors to waste nothing. Excess cuts of wood in his projects become items such as cheese or carving boards or go to other artists to use for their work. Sawdust he creates goes to urban gardeners to create mulch.

“What I’m doing is representing the intersection of the natural world and the man-made world,” he said. In other words, it’s a man-made design that he’s creating, but the material he is using is completely natural and by using as many hand tools as possible and eco-friendly natural finishes the furniture that he makes is as natural as one can make. And because it is natural and solid, his products will last for generations, he said proudly.

“It will be in somebody’s family and maybe passed down,” he added.

And that’s a lasting legacy for the owner of the piece and for Stranger’s work. • William Stranger’s creations can be seen on strangerfurniture.com or williamstranger.net.

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BY JAYNE SMYTHE PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAFAEL NAJARIAN Wreaths are a wonderfully festive way to decorate for the holidays.

They can be made in a variety of sizes and multitude of materials to perfectly complement any décor.

We were recently invited to Descanso Gardens by Richard Troche, Descanso’s camellia horticulturalist

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RICHARD TROCHE

and resident wreath expert, to learn how to make an organic-looking wreath created out of materials that can be harvested from a yard.

When we meet up with Richard in Descanso’s Harvest Garden on a balmy Friday we are greeted by an impressive array of branches including green and silver juniper, seeded and silver dollar eucalyptus, redwood and magnolia, as well as Chinese fringe berries, bush poppy and magnolia seed pods and pine cones—all of which were gathered from the gardens that morning. He explains that when he selects components for his wreaths, he likes to include plants that are fragrant, dry well if they’re fresh and create visual interest.

“It’s wonderful if you can harvest from your yard. If not, the Los Angeles Flower District is always a great place to get supplies,” Richard advises us.

Richard tells us that in addition to the plant materials, we will need an 18-inch diameter wire wreath frame, green paddle wire (24 gauge) and twine, all of which can easily be purchased at a craft store, as well as

wire clippers and pruning shears.

He starts by attaching the wire to the metal frame with a twist. He then begins to layer silver juniper onto the frame piece by piece, making sure to provide a solid wrap of wire for each branch before adding the next. He keeps all the branches pointing in the same direction as he works and cuts the wire once the frame is completely encircled in greenery, tucking the loose end at the back of the frame.

“This layer doesn’t have to be perfect because it’s the background,” he tells us. “Think of it like a basecoat before you begin painting. Juniper, redwood and any kind of pine work best for this section.”

Richard then begins putting on a second layer of branches to add more volume to the wreath. He once again fastens the wire to the frame and begins attaching redwood branches in the same direction as the juniper, securing each branch to the frame with a wrap of wire. He occasionally clips some of the branches with pruning shears before attaching them, noting that redwood foliage can be dense and sometimes needs

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to be thinned. He finishes fastening the redwood branches, cuts the wire and tucks the end behind the frame, and holds up the wreath to examine his progress.

“See how there’s more dimension and character?” he asks us. “It looks straggly and messy right now, but that’s good! Now we add more!

More layers! It’s like a cake,” he says with a grin.

Richard places the wreath back on the table and sorts through the seeded eucalyptus branches, selecting the prettiest ones. He cuts the branches down to a more manageable size and, beginning at the top of the wreath, begins to insert the eucalyptus underneath the wire already present from the previous two layers. He places the eucalyptus every eight inches or so and makes sure to have the branches facing in the same direction. The additional foliage not only adds more dimension, but also helps cover up some of the visible paddle wire.

“I love eucalyptus,” he says. “It smells wonderful, holds up for a long time, and has a beautiful silvery-white

color for Christmas that few plants have.”

Richard again holds up the wreath to orient and balance the leaves and, once satisfied, puts it down and sets about creating a swag for the bottom. He says he likes his wreaths to have a more natural feel to them and therefore does not pre-make any elements but notes that the method of pre-wiring swag components also works as well.

He cuts a piece of wire about ten inches long and uses it to bundle several pieces of green juniper together and attach them securely to the bottom of the wreath frame. He remarks that more wire can be used if necessary because it will ultimately be covered by other components. He then cuts a three-inch piece of wire to group two magnolia leaves together that he attaches to one side of the juniper, making sure to cover the juniper wire, and repeats the process for the other side. He next wires together a bundle of Chinese fringe berries with a four-inch piece of wire and attaches it to the swag area, moving the magnolia leaves to cov-

er the wire.

“I’m using Chinese fringe, but you can use holly with red berries or anything colorful for the center of the arrangement,” Richard tells us as he continues to manipulate the leaves to cover the wire.

He picks up the wreath to test how securely everything is fastened and the balance of the composition. Unsurprisingly, his wreath is structurally sound and balanced, but he says that at this point if anything is loose it needs to be wired in and if any branch is sticking out awkwardly it should be cut off.

Richard then starts to fill in the bottom of the wreath by inserting silver dollar eucalyptus branches directly into the frame with wire that has already been used to secure other elements. He adds dried bush poppy seed pods in the same manner to create more depth.

“You can use dried flowers, cones, seed pods or a variety of other items from your yard or purchased locally to add depth,” Richard advises us.

He wires together more magnolia leaves, as before, and attaches

them at the top of the swag to add more visual interest. He then uses a ten-inch piece of wire to connect a pinecone (wired through the scales), a magnolia seed pod and some seeded eucalyptus. He affixes this arrangement over the magnolia leaves to completely hide any exposed wire and “gritty stuff,” as Richard describes it.

“We’re almost done!” he proclaims. Richard cuts a two-foot piece of twine and wires each end rather than knotting it so the twine lays flatter when incorporated into the wreath. He then centers the twine on the top of the wreath and wires each side behind greens on the wreath at a height that makes the twine visible.

Richard says his aesthetic is more organic, which is why he likes twine to hang his wreaths, but ribbon and other materials could also be used.

At this point, Richard looks down at his hands and realizes they’re quite dirty. “Expect to have filthy hands when you’re done with your wreath—the dirtier they are, the better your wreath!” he laughs.

He holds up his gorgeous creation and we are amazed that something so beautiful could be made with readily available organic materials and in such a short amount of time.

He says, “As you can see, the key to making wreaths is to have lots of layers and have fun with it! This wreath is simple and green and smells lovely. It should last about two months inside or outside in the shade and once it dries it will stay fragrant but have an entirely different feel. You can experiment with all sorts of foliage and objects to create visual interest in your holiday wreaths—the only limit is your imagination!” • Richard Troche, Descanso Gardens’ camellia horticulturalist and resident wreath expert, is teaching wreath making classes at Descanso in December. All supplies will be provided. $40 for members; $50 for non-members. For more information visit descansogardens.org or call (818) 949-4200.

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MUSEUM IN FOCUS:

THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

BY DEBORAH BELGUM High on a hill overlooking the undulating curves of the Simi Valley, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum and its gardens are spread over 100 acres of land reminiscent of the days when California was filled with cattle ranches and orange groves.

The library opened in 1991 to house all the records from Ronald Reagan’s presidency from 1981 to 1989. Those records include 55 million pages of presidential documents, more than 1.6 million photographs and a half-million feet of motion picture film. In addition, the library houses documents from Reagan’s eight years as governor of California from 1967 to 1975.

While the records and documents are primarily for researchers, visitors will be intrigued by the permanent exhibits that highlight Reagan’s career and life.

There is a full-scale replica of Reagan’s Oval Office when he was in the White House. In another area, a gallery highlights Reagan’s accomplishments when he was California’s governor. There is also a permanent exhibit chronicling the actor-turned-politician’s life.

For aviation aficionados, a 90,000-square-foot hangar houses the Boeing 707 that served as Air Force One, or the Flying White House, during the administrations of six presidents from 1973 to 2001, including Richard Nixon during his second term, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The plane flew Reagan 660,000 miles to 26 countries and 46 U.S. states.

In an area turned into a replica of the White House South Lawn, there is a graffiti-covered slab of the Berlin Wall, which Reagan had urged to be torn down by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987.

The library is also the final resting spot for Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, which can be viewed by visitors. Reagan was interred here in 2004, and his wife followed in 2016.

The museum may be known as the place to honor Reagan as the country’s 40th president, but it is also known for its temporary exhibitions highlighting art, history and discoveries from around the world. Past exhibits have included The World of da Vinci, Pompeii: The Exhibition, and Nancy Reagan: A First Lady’s Style.

The current exhibition, which opened October 5, 2019 and runs until April 12, 2020 is Egypt’s Lost Cities. It displays more than 250 artifacts found since 2000 by underwater deep-sea-diving archaeologists led by Dr. Franck Goddio, a sort of Indiana Jones with scuba gear.

Goddio, who has several impressive deep-sea archeological discoveries under his belt, was on hand for the unveiling of the exhibition, along with Dr. Mostafa Wazery, secretary general of the Supreme Council for Antiquities from

THE AIR FORCE ONE HANGAR.

A GRAFFITI-COVERED SLAB OF THE BERLIN WALL.

A FULL-SCALE REPLICA OF REAGAN’S OVAL OFFICE.

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FOYER AT THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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Egypt.

The two stood in front of the museum next to a 25-foot tall, 18-ton stone monolith known as the Stele de Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II and noted this is the first time this particular piece has been exhibited in the United States.

Inside the museum, the world of ancient Egypt awaits with three colossal 16-foot sculptures of an Egyptian pharaoh, a queen and a god, artifacts, tall stones carved with hieroglyphics and statues discovered in the sunken cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus, buried for more than 1,000 years under 15 feet of sediment.

Thonis-Heracleion are the Egyptian and Greek names for the once prosperous city founded around 800 B.C. With a population approaching about 10,000, it had a network of canals and its port was the maritime gateway for foreign ships trading with Egypt.

The discovery of more than 700 ancient anchors and 75 shipwrecks dating from the sixth to the second century B.C. revealed the intensity of maritime activity, Goddio said.

Nearby Canopus was also a port as well as a sanctuary city with temples to the Egyptian gods Osiris and Serapis. Like Thonis-Heracleion, the city of Canopus sank into the sea. It is believed an earthquake hit both cities, causing a tidal wave that quickly engulfed the area. Goddio likened Thonis-Heracleion to an underwater Pompeii.

“The whole story of the discovery started from archives and ancient texts that we studied,” said Goddio.

“We realized that two cities mentioned in the ancient texts had not been discovered. I studied the texts and defined an area where they could be and found that area was not on land but under the sea.”

For two years, Goddio and his team surveyed the area with electronic equipment until they spotted what they thought were the submerged locations. Canopus was located one mile off the Egyptian shore and Tho-

THE CREW OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION WATCHES AS THE BUST OF GOD HAPI IS RAISED FROM THE WATERS OF ABOUKIR BAY, EGYPT. PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRISTOPH GERIGK COPYRIGHT FRANCK GODDIO/HILTI FOUNDATION

AN ARCHAEOLOGIST CHECKS THE STELE OF THONIS-HERACLEION RAISED UNDER WATER IN ABOUKIR BAY, EGYPT. PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRIS-

THE BUST OF THE STATUE OF HAPI IS STRAPPED WITH WEBBINGS BEFORE BEING RAISED FROM THE WATER. PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRISTOPH GERIGK COPYRIGHT FRANCK GODDIO/HILTI FOUNDATION

DR. FRANCK GODDIO WITH AN 18-FOOT STATUE OF THE GOD HAPI AT THE EXHIBIT AT THE REAGAN MUSEUM. PHOTO BY DEBORAH BELGUM

nis-Heracleion was five miles from the coast.

When the team donned scuba gear and started sweeping the Mediterranean Sea for artifacts, it was like being a blind person trying to search for objects buried in 15 feet of sediment. “We found a statue that had fallen at the time of the earthquake.

The piece was under the sea and the visibility was only 50 centimeters.

I couldn’t figure out whether I had found a foot or what. I thought it was too big to be a foot, and then we understood we were in front of a colossal statue made of red granite,” Goddio recalled.

The exploration of the two sunken cities is an expedition that Goddio said could last for decades. Until recently, he thought he had discovered about five percent of the treasures located in Thonis-Heracleion.

But last year, his team found another section, which means he has only unearthed about one percent of the

city.

While Goddio has been involved in other underwater excavations— locating ancient shipwrecks such as the Spanish galleons San Diego and San José and Napoleon Bonaparte’s flagship Oriente—he believes his work in Egypt is his most important.

“Here we are really touching on the history of mankind. It is not just one shipwreck. Here you have temples and palaces and a port,” he said. “We are bringing information of how they were living and trading, how they were worshiping and fighting. We have whole citadels with weaponry.”

He believes this exhibit has something for everyone with videos on how the underwater crew went about excavating the artifacts, how the objects were restored, and the history of the sites. “From heads of states to kids,” he said, “I have found everyone is interested.”

Some 1.5 million people have seen

this exhibit since it left Egypt in 2015 and has made its way to the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris; the British Museum in London; the Museum Rietberg in Zurich; the St. Louis Art Museum; the Minneapolis Institute of Art and now Southern California. From Southern California it is going to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond and then back to Egypt where a museum is being built to include these sunken-city discoveries. “So this means it will be the last time visitors can see this exhibition in California,” Wazery noted. • The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum is located at 40 Presidential Drive in Simi Valley.

It is open every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is only closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Tickets also include admission to its special exhibits. For more information and tickets, visit www. reaganfoundation.org or call (805) 522-2977.

TOPH GERIGK COPYRIGHT FRANCK GODDIO/HILTI FOUNDATION

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GETAWAY:

AVALON STORY & PHOTOGRAPHY

BY JAYNE SMYTHE

Avalon, located on Santa Catalina Island (oftentimes referred to as Catalina Island or Catalina), is a wonderful escape during the winter.

Offering up both the rustic and refined, this idyllic retreat located just off the coast has something for everyone.

This charming city is home to most of the island’s dining, lodging and organized entertainment options, a result of the investment of William Wrigley, Jr., who bought a controlling interest in the Santa Catalina Island Company a century ago, and his

family (the company still owns and operates many of the best hotels and main tourist attractions in Avalon). It is also the perfect stepping off point for those looking to visit the wild interior of the island or explore the underwater wonders off its shores.

The preferred method of transportation in this one square mile town is walking or golf cart—cars are not prevalent as there is a decades-long waitlist to get a permit for one— which informs the resort community’s casual and comfortable vibe. It is important to note that because of

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the age and construction of certain buildings elevator access is not always available, so bear that in mind if mobility is an issue.

The cooler temperatures bring fewer crowds, but there is still plenty of activity on the island. So why not take the opportunity to get away from it all in Avalon this winter? You’ll be glad you did!

GETTING THERE: There is regular ferry service available from ports in Long Beach, San Pedro, Dana Point and Newport

Beach. Helicopter service is available from Long Beach, San Pedro, Santa Ana and Burbank. Private boats or planes (landing at Catalina Island’s Airport in the Sky, approximately 10 miles from Avalon) can also be used.

THINGS TO DO: Catalina Casino Built in 1929, Catalina’s most recognizable landmark, the Catalina Casino (which means “gathering place” in Italian), is home to the impressive Avalon Theatre on the ground level that has phenomenal acoustics and

a rare original pipe organ, and the 20,000 square foot Catalina Casino Ballroom on the top level that is the largest circular ballroom in the world. Visitors can take a guided tour of this lavishly decorated, storied Art Deco building or can attend events at it. The Avalon Theatre shows firstrun movies daily at 6:30 p.m. with an organist playing music one hour before on Fridays and Saturdays. The ballroom is a venue for many fun local events. The 47th Annual Catalina Island New Year’s Eve Gala Celebration will be held there on Tuesday,

December 31, 2019, and will include a buffet dinner, dancing and more (catalinachamber.com/events/holidays/new-years-eve). The Catalina Casino is located at 1 Casino Way. (visitcatalinaisland.com/things-todo/catalina-casino) Catalina Island Museum The Catalina Island Museum tells the unique history of the island in detail—from the time it was inhabited by the Tongva to William Wrigley, Jr.’s purchase and development of the island to its role during World War II

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Military: free. The memorial and garden is located at 1400 Avalon Canyon Road. (catalinaconservancy.org)

to present-day. It also features interesting and varied temporary exhibitions. The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. except for July 4th, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day, when it is closed. Adults: $17; Seniors (60+), Military and Students: $15; Children (age 15 and under): free with paid adult admission.

It is located at 217 Metropole Ave. (catalinamuseum.org) Descanso Beach Club/Descanso Canyon This is the perfect place to come for a day of outdoor entertainment, weather permitting. Guests can eat lunch at Avalon’s only beachside restaurant and bar, participate in watersports or sit back and enjoy the phenomenal views of the Pacific from chaise lounges or cabanas (that can easily be reserved in advance online) at Descanso Beach Club, a gorgeous oasis just past the Catalina Casino.

Just above Descanso Beach Club is Descanso Canyon Adventures, home to the Zip Line Eco Tour and Catalina Aerial Adventure ropes course. Those looking for an adrenaline rush should try the zip line, which crosses Descanso Canyon on five separate lines at speeds approaching 35 miles per hour. Located at 1 St. Catherine Way. (visitcatalinaisland.com) Explore the Interior of the Island Eighty-eight percent of the island is under the stewardship of the Catalina Island Conservancy, whose mission is to conserve and protect the

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natural environment that is home to more than 60 endemic plant, animal and insect species. The island is also home to a herd of over 100 American Bison whose ancestors were brought over for a movie almost a century ago. There are several tour operators including the Catalina Island Company (visitcatalinaisland.com), Catalina Island Conservancy (catalinaconservancy.org) and Catalina Transportation Services (catalinatransportationservices.com) that offer the chance to venture into the wilderness from Avalon by jeep, which provides a unique opportunity to experience the beauty and ruggedness of the land and its creatures. There are also several hiking trails starting from Avalon with various levels of difficulty for those looking to explore by foot.

Maps and hiking permits are available from the Catalina Island Conservancy’s Trailhead visitor center located at 708 Crescent Avenue.

play golf in Avalon. Catalina Island Golf Course, a nine-hole course with two sets of tees for 18-hole play, is the oldest course west of the Mississippi.

Located in Avalon Canyon, it provides terrific ocean and city views.

The pro shop rents clubs and carts.

Golf Gardens Mini Golf, located in the heart of town, is a charming 18hole miniature golf course located in a verdant setting. The lack of gimmicks and wacky décor enhances the delightful experience. (visitcatalinaisland.com/things-to-do/golf)

own course, there are boats, jet skis and kayaks available for rent. Scuba diving is popular during the winter— while the water may be colder the visibility is better, which many consider a worthwhile tradeoff! The Catalina Chamber of Commerce has compiled a list of businesses catering to those who want to experience this ocean paradise. (catalinachamber. com/things-to-do/by-sea)

Golf There are a couple of options to

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Ocean Adventures The gorgeous blue water surrounding Catalina Island is filled with wildlife. Unsurprisingly, there are numerous options to get out on—and in— the water from Avalon. Those looking for more organized activities can take a glass bottom boat, submarine, or whale watching tour (gray whales are on their annual migration January through March). Sailing and fishing charters are also popular with visitors. For those who like to chart their

Rent a Golf Cart Renting a golf cart for one to two hours allows visitors to see most of Avalon’s main sights in a short amount of time. Drive up Wrigley Road for beautiful panoramic views or check out some of the sights like Wrigley Memorial & Botanic Garden, Descanso Beach Club or the Catalina Chimes Tower, whose Deagan Westminster Chimes ring out every 15 minutes from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Catalina Island Golf Cart Rentals (301 & 675 Crescent Avenue, catalinaislandgolfcart.com) and Island Rentals (125 Pebbly Beach Road, catalinaislandgolfcartrentals.

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com) both rent golf carts.

Try a “Buffalo Milk” Catalina’s signature drink, named in honor of Catalina’s herd of bison (also referred to as buffalo), tastes like an alcoholic version of a banana milkshake. This cocktail can be found in most restaurants and bars on the island and is definitely worth a try!

Wrigley Memorial & Botanic Garden The Wrigley Memorial, built to honor William Wrigley, Jr. and primarily created out of materials sourced on Catalina Island, is the centerpiece of the botanic garden, whose collection places a particular emphasis on California endemic plants. It is not only a beautiful and serene place, but also the primary gateway to one of Catalina’s most popular hikes, the Garden to Sky Trail. The site is open daily from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. except for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Adults: $8; Seniors (60+) and Veterans: $6; Students and Children (age 5-12): $4; Children (5 and under) and Active

PLACES TO EAT Avalon Seafood Open for over 50 years, this restaurant is a must-visit for those looking for a memorable Avalon experience.

Order a cold beer and platter of fried seafood at the counter (make sure to try the cocktail and tartar sauces— they’re delicious!) and take a seat at the high-top communal tables to soak in the charming ambiance of the pier and harbor. Located at Green Pleasure Pier, Avalon Seafood is open daily at 10 a.m. (closing time varies based upon the crowd). (avalonseafoodcatalina.com) Lloyd’s of Avalon Confectionery This adorable sweet shop, which has been around for over 75 years, is a local institution. It offers a wide array of house-made sweets like its famous saltwater taffy (which is pulled in the front window), caramel apples, fudge and baked goods as well as ice cream, candy and coffee beverages. Located at 315 Crescent Avenue, Lloyd’s is open Sun. – Fri. from 7 a.m. – 6 p.m. & Sat. from 7 a.m. – 10 p.m. (catalinacandy.com) Original Jack’s Country Kitchen Looking for a hearty breakfast or lunch served up in a fun retro environment? Look no further. This delightful diner serves up generous portions of fabulous comfort food that

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are sure to please. Make sure to save room for dessert (even after breakfast!)—the house-made pies are delicious. Those in a hurry can pick up a freshly baked pastry and Kona coffee at the adjacent bake shop. Located at 118 Sumner Avenue, Original Jack’s is open daily from 6:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. (catalinahotspots.com/ original_jacks) Steve’s Steakhouse and Seafood This restaurant is a favorite among locals and visitors alike for good reason. Steve’s offers up amazing fare in a casual upscale environment with a terrific panoramic view of Avalon Harbor. Fans of shrimp or scallops should be sure to try them “Avalon style,” a divine house specialty whereby they’re sautéed in lemon butter and wine with diced tomatoes and served on garlic toast.

Located at 417 Crescent Avenue, Steve’s is open daily for lunch from 11:00 a.m. – 1 p.m. and dinner from 5 – 8 p.m. Note: the restaurant will be closed for the month of January. (stevessteakhouse.com) Toyon Grill One of the newest entrants to the Avalon restaurant scene, Toyon Grill focuses on hyper-local, sustainable food in a casual environment. Its strong food and beverage offerings and fantastic view make it a perfect place to stop in for a meal, snack or drink. Located at 708 Crescent Avenue, Toyon Grill is open Mon. – Thurs. from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Fri. – Sun. from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. (toyongrill.com) PLACES TO STAY Catalina Island Inn The Catalina Island Inn offers up nice, clean rooms for a variety of different budgets—from intimate rooms for solo travelers to those with fireplaces, private balconies or harbor views. The hotel is well-located, and the friendly staff goes out of its way to be helpful. Located at 125 Metropole Avenue. (catalinaisland-

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inn.com) Hotel Atwater Newly renovated (the grand reopening was in August 2019), this chic, upscale hotel is inspired by the life and style of Helen Atwater Wrigley, Philip Knight Wrigley’s wife, and William Wrigley, Jr.’s daughter-in-law.

The stylish décor is a delightful mixture of nostalgic pieces, ocean-inspired finishes and bright colors. The well-appointed rooms come with great amenities including free tours and access to other Catalina Island Company properties, as well as two splits of sparkling wine on the day of arrival, a nod to Helen and her ritual of having a glass of champagne every evening before bed. Located at 125 Sumner Avenue. (visitcatalinaisland.com/lodging/avalon/hotel-atwater) Hotel Metropole The Hotel Metropole was the first hotel in Avalon, but it burned down in 1915. The current Hotel Metropole stands on the site of the original

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structure, conveniently located close to the beach and surrounded by the restaurants and shops of the Metropole Market Place. The hotel has a nice assortment of well-decorated rooms with varied features depending upon the room type such as a fireplace, balcony, jacuzzi tub or ocean views. The new VIP Wing is special, with terrific views and luxurious accommodations. Visitors can also book Hotel Metropole’s 1,800 square foot, two-bedroom, two-bathroom beach house, which is great for families or those looking for a bit more space. Located at 205 Crescent Avenue. (hotel-metropole. com)

cart to make coming and going from this secluded retreat a breeze. This fabulous lodging option is steeped in history and charm, provides stunning views of Avalon, Catalina Island and the Pacific Ocean and has terrific amenities including a well-stocked complimentary butler’s pantry. Located at 398 Wrigley Road. (visitcatalinaisland.com/lodging/avalon/ mt-ada)

Mt Ada Live like a Wrigley! The only Forbes Travel Guide four-star accommodation on the island is located in the former residence of William Wrigley, Jr. and his wife, Ada. This Georgian Colonial mansion perched on a mountain that Wrigley named after his wife features six guestrooms, each of which has its own dedicated golf

Pavilion Hotel This casual, charming hotel is located just steps from the beach. The rooms are comfortable, the grounds are beautiful with ample outdoor seating and a fire pit, and the staff is friendly and helpful. The amenities are top-notch: guests can indulge in free tours and access to other Catalina Island Company properties, as well as property-specific benefits such as a terrific breakfast with a build-your-own omelet bar and evening wine and cheese reception. Located at 513 Crescent Avenue. (visitcatalinaisland.com/lodging/avalon/ pavilion-hotel) •

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FOODIE FAVORITES Restaurant recommendations from those in the know Chicken soup is good for the soul, not to mention cold and flu season! It’s no wonder that various incarnations of this delicious dish appear in cuisines throughout the world. With winter upon us, we asked some of our favorite foodies where they go for scrumptiously satisfying chicken soup. Here are some of the spots they’ve been frequenting and think you should, too!

Porridge + Puffs 2801 BEVERLY BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES (HISTORIC FILIPINOTOWN) (213) 908-5313; PORRIDGEANDPUFFS.COM WEDS.: 10 A.M. – 3 P.M.; THURS.: 10 A.M. – 3 P.M. & 6 – 9 P.M. (PRIX FIXE DINNER); FRI. & SAT.: 10 A.M. – 3 P.M. & 5:30 – 10 P.M.; SUN.: 10 A.M. – 2 P.M. The culinary genius of Minh Phan is well worth the drive. Her inspired, seasonally influenced menu at Porridge + Puffs features an absolutely divine poultry and mushroom porridge. A concentrated, house-made chicken stock is used to cook the porridge, which is then layered with sweet soy braised chicken, turkey and mushrooms, crispy shallots, celery pickles and seasonal edible greens and flowers. The optional hibiscus-shiso pickled soft egg adds a completely different dimension to this sublime comfort food. Don’t forget to order some savory puffs (fried dough) to eat with the porridge—the combination is ridiculously good (and you’ll have firsthand appreciation for the restaurant’s name!).

Julienne Gourmet Market 2649 MISSION STREET, SAN MARINO (626) 441-2290; JULIENNETOGO.COM MON. – FRI.: 8 A.M. – 6:30 P.M.; SAT.: 8 – 5:30 P.M. You can find Julienne’s famous “Get Well” soup in onequart containers in its gourmet market throughout the week or in its restaurant on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the winter. This delightful soup is comprised of chicken breast, red bell pepper, potato, celery, carrots, zucchini and yellow squash simmered in an herbed broth. It not only tastes good, but many fans also say it is their go-to soup when they want to feel good, too!

DAN Modern Chinese Spanglish Kitchen 526 N. ATLANTIC BOULEVARD, ALHAMBRA (626) 589-0482 MON. – SUN.: 9 A.M. – 10 P.M. If you’re looking for a delicious, rich broth (the kind that congeals when you refrigerate it) filled with large pieces of boneless chicken and veggies including carrots, potatoes, corn, chayote and zucchini, look no further. The spectacular chicken soup at Spanglish Kitchen, a cute order-at-the-counter joint located in a small strip mall, can be eaten plain or with the Spanish rice, cilantro, diced onions, lime and salsa provided—either way, it’s terrific!

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146 S. LAKE AVENUE, SUITE 105, PASADENA (626) 817-9799 MON. – THURS.: 11 A.M. – 9 P.M.; FRI.: 11 A.M. – 9:15 P.M.; SAT.: 10:45 A.M. – 9:15 P.M.; SUN.: 10:45 A.M. – 9 P.M. DAN Modern Chinese, which specializes in delectable Dumplings And Noodles (hence, the name), has a wonderfully satisfying chicken soup on its menu. The light, flavorful broth with hints of ginger and garlic plays host to perfectly chewy house-made noodles, shredded chicken breast, a pinch of pepper and a healthy dusting of scallions. It is simultaneously soothing and satiating.

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CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

BY JEANNETTE BOVARD

HOMES IN UPPER HASTINGS RANCH OVER THE

YEARS. PHOTOS PRESERVED IN THE ARCHIVES AT PASADENA MUSEUM OF HISTORY (PSN COLLECTION)

Enjoying the sight of festive light displays and decorations has long been a holiday tradition. For multiple generations of San Gabriel Valley families, an annual sightseeing destination has been Pasadena’s Upper Hastings Ranch, a 44-block neighborhood that began celebrating the season in a big way in the 1950s.

While there are brilliantly decorated homes elsewhere, the inclusive and compact nature of this seasonal neighborhood endeavor makes it unique. Where else can you be cer-

tain to see Lucy, Charlie Brown, and the entire Peanuts gang frolicking on a lawn next door to glowing snowmen, ethereal angels, and Santa on his sleigh being pulled by eight enormous dinosaurs? Whether you prefer tastefully elegant or extravagantly inventive you’re likely to find it here, as Hastings Ranch residents compete for awards in categories such as humor, fantasy, best use of lights, and even a “special” category for presentations that defy categorization!

The wonder inspired by holiday

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lights takes place in cities large and small all over the nation, and far beyond our shores. However, Christmas lights are a uniquely American tradition—and not just because they first appeared in this country. In The Very American History of Christmas Lights, author Adam Clark Estes writes, “The tradition embodies a certain American-ness, an ingenuity and hunger for innovation...”

It was that inventive streak that led to the first string of electric lights in 1879. While European scientists had

been developing incandescent light bulbs for some time, it was Thomas Edison who took the invention to the next level with his efficient, long-lasting carbon filament lamps. He strung the lights up in his New Jersey laboratory, and invited people to view them in late December. “Although the official demonstration took place on New Year’s Eve in 1879, many people consider Edison’s innovation to be the world’s first string of Christmas lights,” Estes notes.

In December 1882, Edward H.

Johnson, vice president of the Edison Electric Light Company, decided to try replacing the traditional—and beautiful-but-dangerous—candles on his Christmas tree with Edison’s electric lights. Johnson created a spectacle in his New York City home with a tree mounted on a rotating base and adorned with eighty red, white, and blue walnut-sized bulbs.

As a publicity stunt, it was a rousing success. Reporters wrote flowery accounts of the beautiful sight. It would not be long before these decora-

tive bulbs would make it into family homes.

Christmas lights became a sensation nationwide but, in reality, they could only be enjoyed by the wealthy. When General Electric Company introduced its first set of pre-wired sockets in 1903, they were priced at $12.00 for a set of 24 lights.

Since the average wage at the time was 22 cents per hour, a single string of lights would have cost a full week’s wages!

It’s not surprising, then, that com-

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munity trees and public light displays became popular holiday attractions, allowing everyone to enjoy their beauty and playing a significant role in bringing communities together across socioeconomic and ethnic boundaries. Some researchers claim that the first community Christmas tree was erected in New York’s Madison Square Park in 1912. The first “National Christmas Tree”—a 60-foot fir on the Ellipse adjacent to the White House lawn—was lit by President Calvin Coolidge on Christmas Eve, 1923. The iconic Rockefeller Center tree in New York City didn’t make its debut until Christmas 1933, an attempt to bring light and cheer in the

depths of the Depression with its 700 blue and white bulbs. However…the Herbert Hoover Museum’s researchers credit Pasadena with beginning the tradition of the community tree in 1909! Before we get too smug, we must take into account that conflicting research claims that San Diego scooped us by five years, lighting a tree for the community in 1904.

Interestingly, there was a rather steep learning curve for the first users of Christmas lights. General Electric’s multicolored strings of lights came in wooden boxes with complete, and elaborate, instructions on how to hang them and replace broken bulbs. It is apparent in the

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document’s language that they expected few people to actually know what they were doing. For example: “At one end of the lamp conductor will be found a screw attaching plug. This should be screwed into the nearest lamp socket in the room. The lamps are strung in series of eight on these festoons on loops of cord radiating from a junction box. This junction plug can be fastened to the decoration in an inconspicuous place and the festoons of cord with lamps can then be draped about the decoration and entwined as desired.” Whew!

Thankfully, technology has made our lives increasingly easy in the realm of decorative light strands. Over the years, enterprising companies have created trend-worthy designs and improvements, from the ubiquitous mid-century “bubble lights” to bulbs in varying shapes, sizes, colors, and designs that work equally well indoors and outside. The bulk of manufacturing moved overseas in the mid-1960s.

Highly affordable Merry Midget lights from Japan and China were the first of the icicle-shaped mini-lights. They took suburbia by storm—which brings us back to Hastings Ranch and every neighborhood that celebrates the year-end holidays with festive outdoor displays. You can bet that in the weeks ahead visitors of all ages will delight in the creativity, imagination, and eclectic personal style of these after-dark spectacles. • Jeannette Bovard is Media Consultant for Pasadena Museum of History and teaches at Los Angeles City College and East Los Angeles College.

These photos of homes in Upper Hastings Ranch in Pasadena decorated for Christmas, circa 1978-1987, are by various Pasadena Star-News photographers including Larry Goren, Shane Morgan, Blake Sell, and Andrew Taylor.

They are now preserved in the Archives at Pasadena Museum of History (PSN Collection), which is open to the public free of charge Thursday through Sunday afternoons. For further information, please visit pasadenahistory.org.

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The second Sunday of every month, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. One of the most famous flea markets in the world, it features an eclectic array of crafts, apparel, antiques and other goods.

Admission starts at $9 and up.

A Noise Within 3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena. Visit anoisewithin.org or call 626-356-3100 for more information.

• A Christmas Carol. Dec. 4 – 23, 2019. A Noise Within’s delightfully festive, musically merry holiday tradition returns! Families love the inspirational story of Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, and Scrooge—the perfect burst of boundless good cheer for the season and beyond!

• The Winter’s Tale. Feb. 9 – April 11, 2020. King Leontes, consumed by unwarranted jealous rage, unleashes catastrophic violence upon his loved ones, shattering the royal family and plunging him into deep remorse. But bitter winter’s thaw ushers in a spring of regeneration and miraculous forgiveness in William Shakespeare’s celebrated romance.

PASADENA Farmers Markets • Villa Parke Center, 363 East Villa St. at N. Garfield Ave., Pasadena. Visit pasadenafarmersmarket.org or call 626-449-0179 for more information.

Tuesdays, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Rain or shine.

• Victory Park, at the intersection of Sierra Madre Blvd. and Paloma St., Pasadena.

Visit pasadenafarmersmarket.org or call 626-449-0179 for more information.

Saturdays, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Rain or shine.

Flea Markets • Pasadena City College Flea Market, 1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Visit pasadena.edu/ community/flea-market/ or call 626585-7906 for more information. The first Sunday of every month, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. This popular flea market boasts 400+ vendors selling a range of antiques, clothing, wares and street fare. Admission is always free.

• Rose Bowl Flea Market, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr., Pasadena. Visit rgcshows. com/rosebowl for more information.

Caltech Beckman Auditorium, 330 S. Michigan Ave., Pasadena unless otherwise noted. Visit events.caltech. edu or call 626-395-4652 for more information.

• Jasper String Quartet with Nicholas Phan, tenor. Nov. 24, 2019 at 3:30

p.m. In 2008 the Jasper String Quartet won the top prizes at the Coleman, Plowman, and Yellow Springs competitions; and a Silver Medal at Fischoff’s competition in 2008 and 2009. The Jaspers soon scaled musical peaks to rival the peaks of their namesake, Jasper National Park in Canada. More recent peaks include the CMA’s prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award in 2012 and Fischoff’s 2016 Educator Award. A golden thread woven into this program is the golden voice of tenor Nicholas Phan.

• Kiran Ahluwalia.

Dec. 14, 2019 at 8 p.m. Kiran Ahluwalia performs beautiful traditional and contemporary music with a modern twist from India and Pakistan. Her original compositions embody the essence of Indian music while embracing influences from Mali and Western blues, rock, R & B and nuances of jazz.

• Molly’s Revenge. Dec. 20, 2019 at 8 p.m. Molly’s Revenge is a dynamic, acoustic Celtic band known for its unique and infectious enthusiasm.

The classic combination of bagpipes, whistle, and fiddle, with a backdrop of guitar, mandola, and bodhran guarantees an enjoyable experience for all fans of Scottish and Irish music.

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• Jim and Susie Malcolm. Jan. 24, 2020 at 8 p.m. Scottish folk singer and songwriter Jim Malcolm has appeared at Caltech many times, but this time will be a special treat as he’s joined by his wife, Susie. They’ve recently released the duet album Spring Will Follow On, a selection of traditional and more contemporary songs they love, set alongside two new compositions from Jim based on popular fiddle tunes.

• Kres Mersky: The Life & Times of A. Einstein. Jan. 25, 2020 at 8 p.m. Set during news conferences from 1934 to 1955—the last on the occasion of his death—this one-woman play is a seriocomic portrait of a man of “great intellectual courage” and of his harried private secretary, the woman who devoted most of her life to him.

• Elias String Quartet. Feb. 16, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. The Elias String Quartet takes its name from Mendelssohn’s oratorio, Elijah (Elias is its German form). It was formed in 1998 at the 4:53 PM Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. The program will include Beethoven’s Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2, Beamish’s Quartet No. 3, “Reed Stanzas,” and Felix Mendelssohn’s Quartet in A minor, Op. 13.

MUSE/IQUE MUSE/IQUE events are held at various locations around town. Visit museique.com or call 626-539-7085 for more information.

• Grace/Landing. Nov. 17, 2019 at 7 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Pasadena. Before there was the hip-swaying, leg-shaking, lipcurling, jumpsuit-donning, drawling, smirking rock ‘n’ roll Elvis of lore, there was a young boy in Memphis who loved gospel. Join Artistic Director Rachael Worby and more than fifty powerful singers at Westminster Presbyterian Church for a tribute to the spiritual sounds at the roots of Elvis the man and the music he

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shared with the world.

• 1965/Alive. Jan. 26, 2020 at 7 p.m.

The Beatles. The Rolling Stones. Bob Dylan. Otis Redding. James Brown.

Nina Simone. The Beach Boys. Sonny & Cher. Nancy Sinatra. The Supremes.

John Coltrane. Curtis Mayfield. Sam Cooke. These artists and more set the soundtrack to a year of tumult, uprising, social unrest, and cultural revolution. Artistic Director Rachael Worby and a band of fearless artists will guide attendees through 1965 and how the music that emerged from its aftershocks changed the world forever.

Norton Simon Museum 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena.

Visit nortonsimon.org or call 626-4496840 for more information.

• By Day & By Night: Paris in the Belle Époque. Now – March 2, 2020. This exhibition celebrates the innovative spirit of art and culture in Paris during the belle époque through a selection of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs from the museum’s collections.

• Beyond the World We Know: Abstraction in Photography. Nov. 22, 2019 – April 6, 2020. In the 20th century, photographers faced a fundamental quandary. On the one hand, their medium was esteemed precisely for its ability to record what the eye saw.

On the other hand, photographers, like painters and sculptors, sought new approaches to advance their picture making. Abstraction as a nonrepresentational, visual language played a significant role in bending the conventional expectations of a medium unquestionably suited to describe people, places and objects. Beyond the World We Know: Abstraction in Photography presents the work of 16 artists who embraced a new goal for their practice: to loosen the grip of realism and demonstrate photography’s ability to suggest something other than itself, to serve as a conduit for visual metaphor and personal expression.

Mission Playhouse, 320 S. Mission Dr., San Gabriel. Visit pasadenadance. org or call 626-683-3459 for more information.

• The Nutcracker. Dec. 14, 15, 21, & 22, 2019 at 2 p.m. and Dec. 23, 2019 at 1 p.m. More than 80 dancers magically bring to life Clara’s Christmas Eve dream of a dashing Nutcracker Prince, a devious Mouse King and an ethereal Sugar Plum Fairy. Artistic Director Cynthia Young’s choreography to Tchaikovsky’s memorable musical score dazzles audiences of all ages.

Pasadena Half Marathon & 5K Rose Bowl Stadium, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr., Pasadena. Visit pasadenahalf. com or call 213-542-3000 for more information.

• 4th Annual Pasadena Half Marathon & 5K. Jan. 19, 2020 at 7 a.m. Enjoy the picturesque course through beautiful Pasadena, passing landmarks like the Colorado Street Bridge, Old Pasadena and Caltech before a majestic finish on the field at the world-famous Rose Bowl.

Pasadena Museum of History 470 W. Walnut St., Pasadena. Visit pasadenahistory.org or call 626-5771660 for more information.

• Fenyes Mansion Tours. Nov. 22, 2019 – Jan. 5, 2020 on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 12:15 p.m. Experience the elegant 1906

Beaux Arts Mansion on a 75-minute docent-led tour this holiday season.

Edwardian-style Christmas trimmings will embellish the original furnishings in the reception hall, drawing and dining rooms.

Pasadena Playhouse 39 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena. Visit pasadenaplayhouse.org or call 626356-7529 for more information.

• The Great Leap. Now – Dec. 1, 2019.

When an American basketball team travels to Beijing for an exhibition game, the coaches find themselves in a conflict that runs deeper than the strain between the countries, and a young player’s actions abroad become the accidental focus of attention. Building tension right up to the buzzer, this sharpwitted new drama directed by Tony Award winner B.D. Wong is about much more than making the shot, as two men with a past and one teen with a future struggle to for their own personal victories.

• The Father. Feb. 5 – March 1, 2020.

André was once a tap dancer. He lives with his daughter, Anne, and her husband, Antoine. Or was André an engineer, whose daughter Anne lives in London with her new lover, Pierre? The thing is, he is still wearing his pajamas, and he can’t find his watch. He is starting to wonder if he’s losing control. Featuring acclaimed actor Alfred Molina

(Frida, An Education, Enchanted April) in a tour-de-force role that will captivate audiences and leave them breathless.

Pasadena Symphony and POPS Ambassador Auditorium, 131 South St. John Ave, Pasadena unless otherwise noted. Visit pasadenasymphonypops.org or call 626-793-7172 for more information.

• 2019 Holiday Look In Home Tour and Boutique. December 7 & 8, 2019 from 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Boutique hours at the Scottish Rite Cathedral (150 N. Madison Ave., Pasadena) are from 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. The 52nd Annual Holiday Look In Home Tour, which benefits the Pasadena Symphony and POPS and music education programs throughout the San Gabriel Valley, features four lovely homes in Pasadena beautifully decorated for the holidays by four of the city’s most prominent floral designers.

• Holiday Candlelight at All Saints Church. Dec. 14, 2019 at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Broadway star Sarah Uriarte Berry joins an array of choruses at this festive concert featuring the most popular and cherished holiday melodies performed by candlelight at the architecturally exquisite and acoustically sonorous All Saints Church, Pasadena’s equivalent of a classic European cathedral.

• Vivaldi Four Seasons. Jan. 25, 2020 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. David

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Lockington conducting, with Simone Porter on violin and Marissa Benedict on trumpet. Featuring Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, Albinoni’s Oboe Concerto transcribed for trumpet, Reena Esmail’s Teen Murti and more.

• Gershwin Porgy and Bess. Feb. 15, 2020 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Music Director David Lockington conducting, with Nick Kendall on violin. Featuring Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, Michael Giacchino’s Voyage, Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess: Fantasy for Violin, Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending and Debussy’s La Mer. Rose Parade Pasadena Tournament of Roses, 391 S. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena.

Visit tournamentofroses.com or call 626-449-4100 for more information.

• 131st Rose Parade presented by Honda. Jan. 1, 2020 at 8 a.m. The 2020 theme, “The Power of Hope,” celebrates the influence of optimism and hope. Featuring floral-decorated

floats, high-stepping equestrian units and spirited marching bands along the 5 ½ mile route down Colorado Blvd. Experience the magic of New Year’s Day in an unrivaled celebration, exclusive to the streets of Pasadena.

• Post Parade: A Showcase of Floats.

Jan. 1, 2020 from 1 – 5 p.m.; Jan. 2, 2020 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Following the Rose Parade, walk within feet of the floral and animated masterpieces parked along Sierra Madre and Washington boulevards.

Come rain or shine, take a closer look at the design and workmanship that went into each float entry and learn more about the float process from Tournament volunteers on hand.

Upper Hastings Ranch Association Holiday Light Up Riviera Dr. to S. Michillinda Ave. and north of Sierra Madre Blvd., Pasadena. Visit upperhastingsranch. org for more information.

• Holiday Light Up. Dec. 7, 2019 – Jan. 2, 2020 from 6 – 10 p.m. This delightful annual holiday tradition features blocks of elaborately decorated houses, each with a different holiday theme.

USC Pacific Asia Museum 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena. Visit pacificasiamueum.usc.edu or call 626-787-2680 for more information.

• Following the Box. Now – Jan. 26, 2020. This art exhibit is inspired by a collection of found photographs by guest curators, Alan Teller and Jerri Zbiral, that were taken in India by an unknown U.S. serviceman toward the end of World War II. It involves the curators as working artists—participant conduits—whose artistic efforts are shown alongside that of their Indian colleagues, a self-reflective exploration of historic images using a cross-cultural perspective.

• Oscar Oiwa: Dreams of a Sleeping World. Dec. 28, 2019 – April 22, 2020. The immersive art of Dreams of a Sleeping World asks visitors a poignant question indicative of this

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historical moment: What do we do when we are paralyzed by the chaos of our times? Oiwa is concerned that when the noise of our everyday world impedes our radiant minds, we shut down. In this gravitational pull of “sleep” we look to our dreams to reset, searching our subconscious for nourishment and hoping for wisdom to better face the dysfunction of our world. To that end, Oiwa invites visitors to enter his 360° dreamscape to transform the clenched fist of our hearts into open hands. This exhibition features an installation of a new immersive space, created specifically for USC PAM, and largescale artworks for which Oiwa is renowned.

ALTADENA Altadena Farmers’ Market 600 W. Palm St., Altadena. Visit altadenafarmersmarket.com or email hello@altadenafarmersmarket. com for more information.

Wednesdays, 3 – 7 p.m. This certified market has multiple booths selling fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as prepared and pre-packaged food that may be enjoyed on site. Rain or shine.

Christmas Tree Lane Santa Rosa Ave. between E. Woodbury Rd. and E. Altadena Dr., Altadena. Visit christmastreelane.net for more information.

• Annual Lighting Ceremony and Winter Arts and Crafts Festival.

Dec. 14, 2019 at 2 p.m., lighting ceremony at 6 p.m. Located at the Altadena Library (600 E. Mariposa St.). Celebrate the holiday season with the lighting of Altadena’s iconic Christmas Tree Lane, which will be open only to pedestrians after the lighting ceremony until 9 p.m. Enjoy food vendors, craft vendors and musical talents.

• Holiday Light Viewing. Dec. 14, 2019 – Jan. 2, 2020 from 6 p.m. – midnight.

Admire the gigantic deodar trees trussed with lights. Christmas Tree Lane is recognized as the oldest large-scale outdoor Christmas display in the world.

ENCHANTED: FOREST OF LIGHT. PHOTO COURTESY OF DESCANSO GARDENS

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE Farmers’ Market 1346 Foothill Blvd. Across from Memorial Park. Visit rawinspiration. org for more information.

Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Vendors come from all over the region with fresh fruits, nuts, vegetables, flowers, baked goods and much more. Many items are organically grown.

Descanso Gardens 1418 Descanso Dr., La Cañada Flintridge. Visit descansogardens. org or call 818-949-4200 for more information.

• Enchanted: Forest of Light. Nov. 17, 2019 – Jan. 5, 2020 from 5:30 – 10 p.m.

This interactive, nighttime experience unlike anything else in Los Angeles features a one mile walk through unique lighting displays, many of which are interactive, in some of the most beloved areas of Descanso Gardens. Rain or shine event.

• fruiting bodies at the Sturt Haaga Gallery. Nov. 18 – April 5, 2020.

Connecting plants, animals and Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles-based artist Jessica Rath and curator Pamela Bailey Lewis will present the first major survey of Rath’s contemporary works of art and her exploration of the human manipulation of agriculture and food production.

• Boddy House Holiday Display.

Nov. 23, 2019 – Jan. 6, 2020 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. The Boddy House will be seasonally decorated. Enjoy festive displays that celebrate the textures, scents and colors of beautiful winter botanicals. You just might be inspired to switch up your own seasonal décor!

Festival in Lights 1301 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada Flintridge. Visit lacanadaflintridge. com or call 818-790-4289 for more information.

• 46th Annual Festival in Lights. Dec. 6, 2019 from 4 – 7 p.m. Come see live reindeer, play in real snow and meet Santa and Mrs. Claus!

SAN MARINO Christmas Around the Drive 2200 Huntington Dr., San Marino. Visit sanmarinochamber.org or call 626286-1022 for more information.

• Christmas Around the Drive.

Dec. 6, 2019 from 5 – 8:30 p.m. This San Marino tradition is held along Huntington Drive, between Del Mar Ave. and Bedford Rd. Take a trolley ride “Around the Drive” and enjoy a variety of refreshments, entertainment, kid-friendly activities and even a visit from Santa Claus.

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• John Ruskin and His “Frenemies:” Prints and Drawings from The Huntington’s Collection. Now – January 6, 2020. This exhibition brings together 16 works by artists whose careers were either lauded or criticized by John Ruskin, the Victorian writer and polymath. While he had steadfast friends and several outright enemies, Ruskin’s relationships with many artists were more complicated than that, often combining a level of support with a great deal of criticism.

The selection, drawn from The Huntington’s permanent collection, includes works by Turner, members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Edward Burne-Jones, the great illustrator Kate Greenaway, Whistler, and Ruskin himself.

• Nineteen Nineteen. Now – Jan. 20, 2020. With The Huntington celebrating its centennial, this major exhibition examines the institution and its founding through the prism of a single, tumultuous year with a display of more than 250 objects drawn from The Huntington’s library and art collections. Organized around themes defined by the verbs “Fight,” “Return,” “Map,” “Move,” and “Build,” the exhibition showcases items that embody an era in flux.

• Apariciones/Apparitions. Now February 10, 2020. Apariciones / Apparitions is a nine-and-a-halfminute video work by acclaimed Los Angeles artist Carolina Caycedo that reconceptualizes several iconic Huntington spaces through Afro-Latinx and indigenous spiritual practices.

• What Now: Collecting for the Library in the 21st Century, Part 1.

Now – Feb. 17, 2020. This two-part exhibition invites visitors to consider the Huntington Library’s continuing role in documenting the human experience. The more than 100 items featured (over 50 in each of the two installations) are curators’ choices to represent recent trends in developing the Library’s collection.

All works on view were acquired in the 21st century, and this is the first time they will be on public display

at The Huntington. Together these objects illuminate in unexpected ways the rich texture and diversity of the Huntington Library today.

• Beside the Edge of the World. Now – Feb. 24, 2020. This exhibition marks the fourth year of The Huntington’s /five initiative. This year's showcase displays new work by artists selected in collaboration with Clockshop, an L.A. arts organization. Each participant’s work is based on research in The Huntington’s collections investigating ideas of perfection and utopia using Thomas More’s satirical work Utopia (1516) as a foundational text and starting point.

• The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Jan. 25 – May 11, 2020. Recent portrait-like paintings by contemporary British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye are displayed adjacent to the historic Thornton Portrait Gallery at The Huntington in an exhibition curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als, staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker magazine, and associate professor of writing at Columbia University. The installation of five of Yiadom-Boakye’s studies of fictional characters create a dialogue with The Huntington’s collection of highly formal 18th-century British portraits.

Saint Albans Road Lights Saint Albans Rd., north of Huntington Dr., San Marino.

• Holiday Light Viewing. Dec. 1, 2019 – Jan. 5, 2020 from 5 – 11 p.m. The trees along Saint Albans Road are looped with lights to make them look like huge Christmas trees.

SOUTH PASADENA Farmers’ Market Meridian Ave. and El Centro St. next to the South Pasadena Metro Gold Line Station. Visit southpasadenafarmersmarket.org for more information.

Thursdays, 4 – 7 p.m. This year-round, award-winning market features produce from certified farmers that grow the produce they sell—they do not buy it from second party sellers— which ensures fresh, quality produce,

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Annual Crunch Time Party Located at the War Memorial Building, 435 Fair Oaks Ave., South Pasadena. Visit SPTOR.org or call 626799-7813 for more information.

• Annual Crunch Time Party. Dec. 29, 2019 from 6 – 10 p.m. Put on by the South Pasadena Tournament of Roses Committee, all proceeds go toward funding South Pasadena’s float.

Come for live and silent auctions, dinner and get an up-close look at the float during “crunch time.”

Breakfast with Santa Located at the War Memorial Building, 435 Fair Oaks Ave., South Pasadena. Visit southpasadenaca. gov/government/departments/ community-services/recreationyouth-services/special-events-andprograms or call 626-403-7380 for more information.

• Breakfast with Santa. Dec. 14, 2019 from 9 – 11 a.m. Santa will once again return to South Pasadena for festive photo ops and a tasty breakfast!

South Pasadena Public Library 1100 Oxley St., South Pasadena. Visit southpasadenaca.gov or call 626403-7330 for more information.

• A Season of Giving: Family GiftMaking Workshop Winter Holiday Event. Dec. 7, 2019 from 10:30 a.m.

– 12 p.m. Families are invited and encouraged to learn about different winter holiday customs and make gifts in this season of giving. Related holiday books will be available for check out, so the gift of reading can also be shared.

• Restoration Concert: Speltz Family String Ensemble. Jan. 12, 2020 at 4 p.m. Sponsored by the Friends of the South Pasadena Library.

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Dahl Architects

564-0011

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ADVERTISER Mission Tile West

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Morrow & Holman Plumbing, Inc. 799-3115

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Nott & Associates

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Partnership Painting, Inc.

449-4097

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Pasadena Photography

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Phillips Eye Center

446-1600

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Rogers, Sarah - Compass

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285-7778

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Serafina

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Tom Nott Architect

703-4740

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Paquette, Linda Eliana Charlemagne Fine Wines

Downing, Michele - Compass

523-6939

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Family Chiropractic Center of South Pasadena

441-4888

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Halpin, Sarah - Markey & Associates

664-1598

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Hartman Baldwin

486-0510

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J & J Plumbing

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John R. Roberts

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Johnny Was

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Jorjorian Rug Co.

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Valencia Acura Knuth, Shirley - Castle & Home Realtors

233-5202

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Vana Watch & Jewelry

799-9919

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Liu's Brothers Jewelry

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Vlacich, Lin - Sotheby’s International Realty

688-6464

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ACTIVE | $1,498,000 249 Mockingbird Lane, South Pasadena

IN ESCROW | 875,000 812 Fremont Avenue #101, South Pasadena SOLD IN 2019 712 - 714 Hawthorne Street, South Pasadena 525 Floral Park Terrace, South Pasadena 2040 Primrose Avenue, South Pasadena 835 Milan Avenue, South Pasadena 1833 La Manzanita Street, South Pasadena 1010 Sycamore Avenue #205, South Pasadena 1962 Primrose Avenue, South Pasadena 711 El Centro Street, South Pasadena 510 Garfield Avenue #B, South Pasadena 1857 Via Del Rey, South Pasadena

Michele Downing Executive Director, Estates Division 626.523.6939 michele.downing@compass.com DRE 01046965

Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01866771. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only and is compiled from sources deemed reliable but has not been verified. Changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal may be made without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footage are approximate.

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