WPRA
West Pasadena Residents' Association 
Neighborhood Update
Saturday, April 5, 2014
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City Council
and commission meetings
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Monday, April 7

  

City Council

6 p.m.

City Hall

Council Chambers, Room S249

100 N. Garfield Ave.

Tuesday, April 8

 

6 p.m.

Hale Building

175 N. Garfield Ave.

On the agenda: Preliminary consultation on an application from the Shriners for Children Medical Center to construct a new three-story, 74,500 square-foot ambulatory surgery center, clinic and medical offices, at 905 S. Fair Oaks Ave, with subterranean underground parking for 234 vehicles; a preliminary consultation on an application to demolish an existing building at 45 W. Green St. and to construct a new four-story mixed-use project consisting of 2,011 square feet of ground floor commercial space and nine residential units above, and an addition of up to four-stories above an existing one-story commercial building at 33 W. Green St. with a subterranean parking for 17 vehicles.

 

Wednesday, April 9   

 

6:30 p.m.

City Hall

Council Chambers

100 N. Garfield Ave. 

WPRA in motion
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SAVE THE DATE:

  Wednesday, April 30 

 

WPRA annual meeting: Save our neighborhoods! 

The West Pasadena Residents' Association cordially invites you to its 52nd annual meeting on Wednesday, April 30 at San Rafael Elementary School, 1090 Nithsdale Ave. Parking is available in the parking lot behind the school (access is from San Miguel Road). 

 

5:30 p.m.

The evening starts with a reception and guided tours of the school. Also, during the reception period, attendees can enjoy light refreshments, while visiting with the many community organizations that'll be exhibiting.
  

 

6:30 p.m.

This year's main program will be dedicated to two of the most important issues facing our neighborhoods: 

  • The potential closure of San Rafael Elementary School, the last public school in west Pasadena.
  • LA Metro's proposal to extend the SR-710 freeway between Alhambra and Pasadena
Neighorhoods in motion
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TRAFFIC AND CROWD ALERT: MS Walk 
On Sunday, April 6, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the Rose Bowl will host the MS Walk. Attendance is expected to reach 8,000.

The Pasadena Public Health Department encourages everyone to focus on health, healthy eating, exercise and a healthy lifestyle during National Public Health Week, celebrated this year April 7-13, 2014.

The recent earthquakes in March 2014 that have rattled much of Southern California serve as important reminders for everybody to be prepared now for disasters and emergencies at home, at work and in your cars.

Safely dispose of old computers, keyboards, printers, scanners, fax machines, phones, TVs, VCRs and other electronic equipment and have personal documents shredded at the free eWaste event Saturday, April 5, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Parking Lot I at Brookside Park. You can also bring old batteries (vehicle batteries will not be accepted).

 

El Molino entrance to the Vroman's parking lot is closing
New construction behind Vroman's main bookstore on Colorado Boulevard means a few changes. For years, Vroman's has leased the parking spaces between the movie theater and the office building, but these spaces are no longer available, and the El Molino entrance to the parking lot behind Vroman's will be closed permanently. Handicap parking spots have been relocated. Construction will be going on for the next 18 months. 
Editor's top news picks
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Sid Tyler, a prominent member of the Pasadena City Council from 1997-2009, died Friday after collapsing while riding his bicycle in Pasadena on Thursday. Pasadena Star-News
50 years of the Pasadena Showcase House of Design opens April 13
"It's a golden year for the Pasadena Showcase House of Design. The nonprofit, all-volunteer Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts group celebrates its 65th birthday while observing the 50th anniversary of its nationally known Showcase House of Design, a key fundraiser during the past five decades."
Pasadena Star-News

"For the first time in more than a decade, five NASA Earth-observing missions will be launched into space in a single year. To celebrate this milestone, NASA is inviting people all around the world to step outside on Earth Day, April 22, take a "selfie," and share it with the world on social media. Designed to encourage environmental awareness and recognize the agency's ongoing work to protect our home planet, NASA's "Global Selfie" event asks people everywhere to take a picture of themselves in their local environment."
Pasadena Now
Leisure
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Looking for other ways to entertain or educate yourself and your family? 

For current events around the area, we encourage you to visit our local news outlets. Click on the publication title to visit that publication's events section (alphabetical order).

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'd 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 how we use our land  
    • Education
      If you want to help save public education for 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 our membership so we can do more  
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 him about your interests.   
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Joseph Stoddard's watercolors: The WPRA is grateful to local artist Joseph Stoddard, who has generously allowed us to display his watercolors in our quarterly newsletter, The (WPRA) News; on the WPRA website; and in this publication. To explore Mr. Stoddard's work, visit josephstoddard.com.