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West Pasadena Residents' Association
Neighborhood Update
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Founded in 1962, the WPRA is dedicated to maintaining the character of our communities and enhancing the quality of life in West Pasadena.
Editor
Chuck Hudson
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Spring forward!
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The Pasadena Fire Department reminds you to change all of your smoke alarm batteries when you change your clocks forward this Sunday, March 10.
- Change smoke-alarm batteries: Replace old batteries in your smoke alarms and in your emergency flashlights.
- Check smoke alarms: After replacing smoke-alarm batteries, make sure they're working by activating the safety test button. The Pasadena Fire Department recommends that you test all of your smoke alarms at least once each month. If you have any doubt regarding the working condition of a smoke alarm, replace it. Replace your smoke alarms with new devices every 10 years.
- Count your smoke alarms: A properly functioning smoke alarm should be placed in the hallway adjacent to every sleeping room. If sleeping rooms are on an upper story install the alarm in the center of the ceiling directly above the interior stairway.
- Clean your smoke alarms: Use a vacuum cleaner once a month to remove dust and cobwebs.
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Council and commission meetings
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6 pm
City Yards, 2nd floor
Training Room 220
233 W. Mountain
On the agenda: a change in the plan for sports field improvements proposed in the City's Multi-Benefit/Multi-Use Project. The field improvements, funded by a $1 million grant, are now proposed for Muir High School, instead of Sycamore Grove Field at Hahamongna Watershed Park
Pasadena Planning Commission
6:15 pm
City Hall
Council Chambers
100 N. Garfield Ave.
On the agenda: a public hearing for the (1) conditional use permit for "repowering" the Glenarm Power Plant at 72 E. Glenarm St., which includes an upgrade and expansion of the plant, and (2) a minor variance related to the height of a fence and closure of E. State Street at the plant.
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Neighborhood notes
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At San Rafael Branch Library
1240 Nithsdale Rd.
Saturday, March 9, 1 pm: "Write your own City, One Story:" writing techniques to write your own OCOS, including highlights of The Age of Miracles, presented by Laurie Richards, Extended Learning Institute Writing Instructor, California State University San Marcos, and officer and director of the San Diego Book Awards. [City library branches are graded on circulation and attendance at programs. Your interaction with the San Rafael branch can make a difference. Pick up a brochure about all activities coming up at your branch.]
If you're a resident of Pasadena and would like to grow your own fruit, vegetables and/or flowers, but don't have the space to do it at home, you're in luck. Pasadena Community Gardens will kick off a membership drive for its first garden, at 721 South Pasadena Ave, with two informational sessions at 1 pm on Saturday, March 9 OR Sunday, March 10, at Huntington Hospital's Braun Auditorium, 100 West California Blvd. NOTE: Those who wish to become a member of the garden must attend one of these two sessions.
Meeting set to discuss Multi-Benefit/Multi-Use switch from Hahamongna to Muir HS
The public is invited to join District 1 Councilmember Jacque Robinson and representatives of the Pasadena Unified School District and the City's Department of Public Works to discuss the City's Multi-Benefit/Multi-Use sports field improvement project now proposed for Muir High School, rather than Hahamongna Watershed Park. The meeting begins at 6:30 pm, Wednesday, March 13, in the Muir High School auditorium, 1905 Lincoln Ave.
Assemblymember Holden holds open house
Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena) will hold an Open House from 2-5 pm on Saturday, March 16 at the 41st Assembly District Office, 600 N. Rosemead Blvd., Suite 117. The public is invited. Assemblymember Holden will provide a brief update from the Capitol. Light refreshments will be served and the event is free and open to the public.
Pasadena Heritage's Spring Lecture and Home Tou
Join Pasadena Heritage for a peek into the past during our 2013 Spring Lecture and Home Tour, Before the Bungalow. On Saturday, March 23, PH will take a look at the very early development of Pasadena and the first residential architecture built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Arroyo Seco Foundation is sponsoring a Hahamongna Walkabout on Saturday, March 23, 9-Noon. The event will offer a journey of discovery in our region's most environmentally rich and rare spot. Participants will take an escorted walking tour of Hahamongna, stopping at strategically placed learning stations to discover about the recreation, habitat, wildlife, birds and water resources in that unique basin at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. Go to Hahamongna Watershed Park at Foothill and Oak Grove Drive in Pasadena across from La Canada High School; go to the lower parking lot; tour groups will begin every half hour from 9-10:30 am. Registration is recommended.
Rose Bowl renovation update
To find out what's going on with the Rose Bowl Stadium renovation, click on the above headline.
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WPRA notes
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Slow down on S. Pasadena Avenue for safety, at least while Caltrans studies speeds Although the posted speed on S. Pasadena Avenue is 30 MPH, most vehicles travel 50 MPH or more. Caltrans will soon be measuring speeds on the street to determine the "proper" speed limit for the avenue. The WPRA urges you to drive within the current posted speed limit, at least during this period, to provide the State with data supporting a safe speed limit. Then continue to drive at a safe speed on S. Pasadena Avenue, as well as all other City streets. ROSE BOWL EIR LAWSUIT The WPRA Board of Directors supports a lawsuit filed recently by the Coalition for Preservation of the Arroyo that challenges City Council's certification of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) related to the potential temporary lease of the Rose Bowl Stadium by a National Football League team. If you share that view, the WPRA encourages you to contribute to the related legal fees. It's easy with EZ Donate on the WPRA website. And don't forget to check the box to indicate that your donation, which will be tax-deductible, is for the Rose Bowl EIR lawsuit. MORE The News, WPRA style
View the latest issue of The News, the WPRA quarterly magazine.
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710 FREEWAY EXTENTION:
It's official: Metro will have Ara Najarian to kick around for awhile"The long process of reconfirming Ara Najarian to the Metro Board of Directors has come to an end with the Glendale City Councilman still standing. Flying in the face of tradition, a group of cities that support the 710 Big Dig Project, allegedly at the direction of Supervisor Mike Antonovich, attempted to squash Najarian's nomination from the North County cities he represents." LA.streetsblog.org"As people in Los Angeles await word on the sale of the Anschutz Entertainment Group, the NFL doesn't sound too enthusiastic about the firm's plan to build a downtown stadium. Less than six months after the L.A. city council voted unanimously to support AEG's plan, the concept is essentially dead to the NFL, according to two sources. The problems with the plan are numerous, but the most essential one is the economics." Yahoo! SportsDid Los Angeles mount a potential winning drive to bring professional football back to the City of Angels only to stall inside the NFL Red Zone? Only if you believe a story posted Monday by Yahoo's Jason Cole in which two NFL sources essentially put AEG's downtown Farmers Field project on life support, claiming the numbers involved aren't suitable to the NFL. Los Angeles Daily NewsGold Line authorities approve Azusa-Montclair extension"The future extension of the Gold Line light-rail route from Azusa to Montclair has been approved by the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority board. The approval Wednesday night starts the wheels in motion for initial conceptual engineering work to be completed with construction possibly beginning in as early as three years." Pasadena Star-NewsPasadena resident wants to grow a solution for area hunger"Cathy Morrison, a marketing director and co-chair of Pasadena Community Gardens, said buying seeds and renting a plot of land in a community garden is a lot less expensive than spending money on both gas for cars and produce at supermarkets. Additionally, many vacant properties can be transformed so that 'communities have more control over the types of food that are available,' she said." Pasadena Star-News
[CORRECTION: Information sessions scheduled for Saturday, March 9, and Sunday, March 20, will be held at 1 pm at Huntington Memorial Hospital's Braun Auditorium.]
Pasadena Symphony names new music director, principal guest conductor"The Pasadena Symphony Association announced Friday the appointment of David Lockington as its music director and Nicholas McGegan as its principal guest conductor." Pasadena PatchIncumbents reign in school board election"Every school board member seeking re-election won another term Tuesday, and Ruben Hueso just missed collecting enough votes to win Northwest Pasadena's open Seat 3 outright. Kim Kenne (Seat 1), Elizabeth Pomeroy (Seat 5) and Scott Phelps (Seat 7) all remained on the Pasadena Unified School District board, signaling that voters didn't want dramatic turnover despite authorizing districts for the first time this year." Pasadena Star-NewsImported water flows into City pipes again"Water deliveries via the Metropolitan Water District's Upper Feeder Pipeline resumed late Thursday night, February 28, marking the end of Pasadena's Level 4 Water Shortage Emergency." Pasadena Now
Saharan and Asian dust, biological particles end global journey in California"A field study of aerosol impacts on clouds and precipitation in the Sierra Nevada shows that dust and microorganisms transported from as far away as the Sahara desert help to spur the precipitation that California counts on for its water supply." Science Daily
"Pasadena officials are cracking down on recycling centers in grocery store parking lots, reacting to complaints that some have become magnets for littering, loitering and even public drunkenness." Pasadena Sun
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Attend WPRA board meetings each month
Monthly WPRA board meeting dates and locations are on the WPRA website. Click on the headline above or visit our website and look under "Meetings and Events."
The WPRA needs you ...
If you'd like to serve your community and do it with a group of your neighbors who are equally dedicated, the WPRA encourages you to join your neighborhood residents' association. If you live within our service area, we'd welcome your help.
- Got the local news bug? Just curious about your city (and would like to share news with 1,000 or so of your closest friends), consider serving as a co-editor of Neighborhood Update. It will only take a few hours a week (on your own schedule) in the month or two a year in which you serve. We'll train you.
- We have lots of opportunities to serve on one of our many committees:
- Land use and planning. If you care about what, how and where it gets built.
- Education: If you want to help save public education in West Pasadena.
- Open space & conservation. If you care about preserving open space and conservation of land and resources.
- Membership. If you'd like to help us continue to build and serve our membership so we can do more for our members.
If you'd like to chat about ways we could help you become more involved or, more likely, more effective (by helping us), send an email to WPRA President. Tell us about your interests.
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Joseph Stoddard's watercolors: The WPRA wishes to express its appreciation to local artist Joseph Stoddard, who has generously allowed us to display his watercolors in our quarterly magazine, WPRA News, on the WPRA website and in this publication. To explore Mr. Stoddard's work, visit josephstoddard.com.
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