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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2009 City is VOLUME 3 NO. 36 Prepared for STATION FIRE MAY BYPASS SIERRA MADRE Email Scam Station Fire Residents warned to proceed with “Cautious Optimism” Unleashed in The Sierra Madre Fire Department Sierra Madre and City Officials continue to closely At least a half dozen Sierra Madre monitor the Station Fire. As of residents were recently contacted via press time, there is still no imminent email in an attempt to scam money danger to Sierra Madre residents from unsuspecting friends of retired and no evacuation orders have been Pastor Dick Anderson. issued. The City of Sierra Madre will The hoax was done in the form of maintain its current state of optimal an email solicitation for emergency preparedness throughout the Labor assistance for an allegedley Day weekend. ‘stranded’ Rev. Anderson in London. The Station Fire continues to be The emails are signed “Dick” as his a slow-moving, terrain-driven fire friends affectionately call him and at that is currently 49% contained and first glance, appear to be authentic. has burned 154,655acres. Incident Several people recieved multiple Command indicates that areas south emails in the same day. and east of Mt. Wilson are still a high Pastor Anderson, who is in Sierra priority. This includes the foothill Madre, had no knowledge of the communities, including Sierra Madre scam until friends began contacting and Chantry Flats. him to make certain he was okay. Fire officials sent handcrews to create According to sources, he has a fire break between wilderness areas contacted the proper authorities to and the northern-most properties investigate the crime. in Sierra Madre. This fire break is expected to extend from Altadena to The emails ask the recipient to Azusa and is designed to hold the fire respond only via email. The sender’s north of the wildlife/urban interface. email address is the same as Rev. The view of the forest from Oak Crest Drive in Sierra Madre appears to be safe and serene in this photo. Anderson’s, however, the reply The City has been informed that At press time, the flames were more than 3 1/2 miles above the city, although the flames are not visible, the controlled fire operations are included address is an address similar to smoke and clouds are directly over the portion of the forest that is burning. More than 154,000 acres, more Rev. Anderson’s, but not affiliated with contingency plans should the than 200 square miles, have burned in fire become a real threat to life and with him whatsoever. Thieves Angeles National Forest. Photo by C. may have pilferred Rev. Anderson’s property in the foothill communities. Bertrand/MVNews The City of Sierra Madre would email address through ‘phishing’ At press time, the fire was diverted or other methods of securing email like to ask residents north of W. from destroying the Mt. Wilson Carter Ave., north of E. Carter Ave, addresses. Observatory (left). Photo courtesy Mt Residents are urged not to respond Mt. Wilson Trail Road, the Upper Wilson Observatory Web Cam Canyon and Lower Canyon, and to any such solicitations. north of E. Grandview Ave from N. City Announces 2009 If you have any doubts as to the Mountain Trail eastward to renew validity of a request from a ‘friend’, their emergency preparations in the Sierra Madre Honors... contact that person directly, via event that the City issues evacuation Awardees telephone. orders. Residents are reminded to be Sierra Madre Honors… Dinner and Staff/MVNews “Ready for 7” with 7 days worth of Awards is an exciting event and food, clothing, medicine, pet food and the City’s opportunity to recognize SCLT Performance supplies should they have to leave their and honor the true treasures of homes. The Community Recreation Sierra Madre, its volunteers, City Rescheduled Center at 611 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. has Commissioners and employees. Hazardous Air Quality been identified (cont. on page 3) Sierra Madre Honors… recognizes all Caused Cancellation out-going City Commissioners and "Southern California Lyric Theater awardees selected from nominations (SCLT) would like to express their sincere apologies and regret for any submitted to the Mayor’s Ad-Hoc inconvenience and disappointment Committee comprised of past experienced by those who took the time Residents Brave The Heat During Canyon Tour recipients. The following are the to come and out and enjoy Sunday's awardees for 2009: (canceled) August 30th Sierra Madre By Dean Lee George Maurer Lifetime Service Award Concert in the Park: “Fairytales and – Margaret Duran Fantasy V.” Prior to Sunday, in twenty After a two hour walking tour Presented to a person/entity that most years of productions and performances, through the Sierra Madre canyon SCLT has never had to take the extreme strongly represents a commitment to action of canceling a scheduled area early last Saturday morning, serving and volunteering, which is the performance. about two dozen residents, true spirit of Sierra Madre The health and well-being of the members of the Canyon Zone Wistaria Award – Sierra Madre Rose cast and audience being our primary Committee, City Council and Float Association & Taylor’s Ol’ concern, we felt we had no other recourse Planning Commission had plenty Fashioned Meat Market than to cancel this event, based on to say in a joint meeting about In recognition of City/Community warnings from the South Coast AQMD development, parking, flooding of unhealthful to hazardous air quality, partnership, presented to a local and oft-repeated media and agency and other concerns in one of the business or organization whose major oldest parts of the city. advisories that people should remain contributions to the City/Community indoors whenever possible. We did our of Sierra Madre have demonstrated a best to get the word out, but with such Mayor MaryAnn MacGillivray true partnership which assists in and short notice, obviously we were unable to was first to express unease about provides services, programs or enhances notify everyone, and we are sorry for any what she saw. the general welfare of the community as inconvenience." a whole We do have a wonderful family program “Some of the things that really and have re-scheduled it for September struck me are the areas where the Police Chief’s Special Award – Barbara 20th at 7:00pm in Memorial Park, Sierra flood control easements are not Cline Madre. We appreciate your continued utilized,” she said. “And I wonder Presented by the Sierra Madre Chief support, and we look forward to seeing to what benefit those food control of Police to an individual who has you on the 20th. easements can be utilized and demonstrated outstanding dedication to help us when we have, rain, and duty (employee) or service (community) Inside This Week..... in resolving a community law mud and fire.” During the walk, Resident John Herrmann led the walk around the Canyons. NEWS Planning Commissioner Bob enforcement-related issue Spears had pointed out the hard to the final decision will be made by the Public Safety Award – Sierra Madre PASADENA Page 4 see unutilized cemented channels. Most canyon residents on the walk city council. Fire Safe Council said they knew what they did not want: Presented by the Mayor to an individual, ALTADENA Page 4 She also said a number of illegible three story houses in the canyon, large Councilmember Don Watts suggested either an employee or citizen, who took weathered No Parking Signs were a houses on small lots, and the tearing designating the canyon as a historic action to protect and maintain the safety safety hazard. Police Chief Marilyn Diaz down of any historic buildings. district. “Where I see the canyon, it of the community by taking lifesaving ARCADIA Page 3 and Development Services Director becomes almost like a separate colony, action MONROVIA Page 3 Danny Castro seemed optimistic Many made comments to each it becomes the Canyon District.” He Public Service Award – Bruce Inman other as Canyon Committee member, said likening the idea to Bungalow that the signs could be replaced Employee of the Year – presented by the SIERRA MADRE Page 1 immediately. “That does [the lack of tour guide and canyon dweller, John Heaven in Pasadena. “And you basically Mayor upon the recommendation of parking signs] make it convenient for Herrmann, pointed out examples such have certain guidelines that have to be the City Manager to an extraordinary people to park in areas where parking as 88 Vista Circle. Herrmann said it approved.” city employee who has represented FEATURES should not be occurring,” MacGillivray was up to interpretation as to how remarkable customer and public service said. “And again, that’s a public safety many stories the newly built house Watts also said that by designating the as well as dedication to the citizens of Calendar & Arts Page 2 issue.” actually was. Herrmann noted that the area as historical, it would eliminate Sierra Madre over the course of a year house did not go before the Planning the need to nit pic over setback footage, Public Safety Page 5 Community Youth Service Award – Councilmember John Buchanan took Commission. height restrictions and other zoning Education & Youth Page 6 a different approach toward the area codes. “Square footage doesn’t work at Tracy Sullivan saying enforcing and the type of zoning Castro said the unstructured nature of all up there. You need variances, CUPs Presented by the Mayor to a young adult Opinion Page 7 normally considered to be ‘standard’ the walk and meeting was only meant and the rest of that stuff up there.” in the community who demonstrates Legals Page 8,9 to be an orientation and a chance dedication and outstanding volunteer was impossible in the canyons, Good Food & Drink Page 10 although he did also say that safety for the Planning Commission, City The walk and subsequent meeting participation in the community “was on everybody’s mind.” “When Council and Canyon Zone Committee proved to be very informative for all The 2009 Sierra Madre Honors… Dinner and The World Around Us Page 11 you ask folks, what’s the character of to have a dialog. He said the next step involved. At the next council meeting Awards will be held on Thursday, September The Good Life Page 12 24 in Sierra Madre by invitation only. For the canyon? ‘Funky, eclectic, I know was a series of meeting by the Canyon there will be further discussion of Homes & Property Page 13 it when I see it.’ Those are the hardest Zone Committee to come up with a Watts suggestion to designate the area more information contact the Community and Personnel Services Department at 626-355- FYI Page 14 things to put into an ordinance.” new Canyon Zone Ordinance. He said an historic district. 5278.

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Mountain Views News 80 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mtnviewsnews.com 3 AROUND THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY Mountain Views News Saturday, September 5, 2009

Looking Up With Bob Eklund Mt. Wilson Observatory Fire Update As this is being written (Thursday 9/3), been evacuated, but now three key staff more manageable. the threat to Mt. Wilson Observatory has members—Observatory superintendent The fire has been slowly coming up to the not entirely passed, but prospects for saving Dave Jurasevich, CHARA Array site mountaintop from the north, through the this priceless scientific facility look better manager Larry Webster, and `John canyon containing the remnants of the old than they have since the Station Fire began. Harrigan—returned to the mountain to Strain’s Camp—where water wells for the The Observatory’s situation has been a help direct the effort. Observatory are located. It is also expected roller-coaster trip. On Monday morning, By 8:00 Tuesday morning the fire fighters to come up the steep eastern canyon located August 31, fire crews that had been working had started their prep work. They began between the Berkeley ISI facility and the at the mountaintop were ordered to pull out at the northeast corner of the Observatory CHARA machine shop - due east of the - evidently because the area was considered using drip torches to set backfires all 100-inch telescope. The back fires will burn too dangerous to personnel - and the along a line from that point traversing the all the way down these canyons to disable Observatory and transmitter complex northern perimeter to the boundary of this approach. were left with no one on site. With flames the antenna complex. Later Tuesday and Deputy Chief Powers expressed his approaching on two fronts, things did not on into Wednesday, they applied the same absolute confidence that they will save the look good. controlled burning treatment to the east and Observatory, adding that this army of fire Then Tuesday morning, September southern boundaries of the Observatory fighters is “not going anywhere. They are 1, something new happened. Whether site. These fires clear ground debris and very hard working and talented people who because of a slight cooling in the air or a rise burn down slope, with the intention of will get the job done.” in humidity due to tropical air brought in meeting any approaching fire with depleted In thanking Deputy Chief Powers and by the hurricane in Baja, the prospects for fuel. his men for their dedication, Observatory defending and saving Mt. Wilson suddenly At the same time, a second defense was Director Hal McAlister said, “The began to brighten. A decision was made being waged in the air overhead. Many Observatory grounds are in the best possible to return to the mountain and defend it. of you may have watched on TV the giant shape, the fire fighters remain determined Led by L.A. County Deputy Fire Chief Jim Martin Mars 223 “Super Scooper” flying and in position, and we expect to survive Powers, 150 fire fighters—from Calaveras boat dropping 7,000-gallon loads of water this unless the approaching fire obtains far County and Helena, Montana, as well as and fire retardant gel, which was deposited more aggressiveness and complexity than it Los Angeles County—returned to the downslope from the backfires and not on now presents. But the fire to the north still Observatory early that morning and began the Observatory grounds. That has been lurks. I remain optimistic, but we cannot preparing the area to safely withstand the supplemented by other aerial tankers and declare an end to the danger until the fire is fire’s onslaught. helitankers for more precision dropping at declared contained by the authorities.” All of the Observatory astronomers crucial locations. The goal is to slow down You can contact Bob Eklund at: b.eklund@ and support personnel had previously encroaching fire, disperse it and make it MtnViewsNews.com Photo by Aaron Dominquez ARE YOU READY FOR 7? BEAR TALES Emergencies can strike quickly and without warning. City of Duarte When emergencies occur, you can take important steps that will save lives and protect your family. Here are seven states, “We’re No things you need to have on hand to help keep YOU, your Bear Killers” Labor Day! FAMILY and your COMMUNITY prepared! An official with the City 1. Food and Water. Pack non-perishable high energy foods of Duarte contacted the and foods that require no refrigeration, preparation or Mountain Views News regarding a statement in the With the internet at our finger tips, it is The first governmental recognition came cooking and little or no water. Have at least one gallon of August 22, 2009 edition of no longer necessary to drag out the old through the municipal ordinances passed water per person per day. And, don’t forget food and water the paper. In the article on encyclopedias, or even my small Desk during 1885 and 1886. The first bill to become for your pet! Sierra Madre’s “Living With Encyclopedia that contains more than law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 2. Preparedness Supplies. This includes a battery-operated Wildlife”, a member of the 14,000 entries, saving me many unnecessary 1887. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the radio, a flashlight with extra batteries and a first aid kit. SMPD stated that while there hours of research. But, the internet has it all, holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 were no bears killed in Sierra so today my compulsion to put words on of that year, Congress passed an act making Pack a first aid handbook, and make sure your first aid kit Madre, Duarte killed one. is stocked, especially with bandages and disinfectants. paper leads me to the History of Labor Day, the first Monday in September of each year However, after receiving as presented by Secretary of Labor, Hilda L. a legal holiday in the District of Columbia 3. Training. Get trained! Enroll in a class to learn first aid, the call from Duarte, the Solis who, by the way, originates from “our and the territories. In 1909, the Sunday MV News was informed that CPR or learn to become a disaster volunteer. Participate in Bradbury was in fact the city neck of the woods”, and was very recently preceding Labor Day was adopted as Labor the Disaster Training Program that killed bears, not Duarte. appointed to that position by President Sunday and dedicated to the spiritual and Bradbury City Manager, Obama. educational aspects of the labor movement. 4. Money. Have cash. (ATMs and credit cards won’t work “Labor Day, the first Monday of September, The character of the Labor Day celebration if power is out) Michelle Keith, when asked about whether or is a creation of the labor movement and has undergone a change in recent years, 5. Clothing and Bedding. Provide a change of clothing not Bradbury had in fact dedicated to the social and economic especially in large industrial centers where for everyone, including sturdy shoes and gloves. Have a killed a bear replied, “We’re achievements of American workers, an mass displays and huge parades have proved sleeping bag, blankets, pad or air mattress to sleep on. not bear killers either. In annual national tribute to the contributions a problem , shifting the emphasis to Labor fact, at council meeting a workers have made to the strength, Day addresses by leading union officials, 6. Special needs. Medications; eyeglasses, or contact bear walked up and peaked prosperity and well-being of our country. industrialists, educators, clerics and lenses and solution; identification cards; birth certificate; through the window. The council waited patiently while Although the first Labor Day was celebrated government officials. passports; etc.; sanitary supplies; baby needs; pet supplies on Tuesday, September 5th, 1882, in New Labor forces have added materially to our (pet carrier, plastic bags, vaccination information) the bear decided whether to join us inside the chambers York City, in 1884 the first Monday in high standard of living, bringing us closer 7. Contact information. A current list of family phone or not. The bear decided not September was selected as the holiday, as to the ideals of economic and political numbers and e-mail addresses, including someone out of and left. The council then originally proposed by the Central Labor democracy, so it is appropriate that the the area who may be easier to reach if local phone lines are proceeded with the rest of its Union and similar organizations in other nation pay tribute on Labor Day to the out of service. business. No bear killed! cities were urged to follow the example of American Worker who has created so New York. The idea spread quickly and the much of the nation’s strength, freedom and CITY PREPARED (cont. from pg. 1) and pets indoors. City’s message boards throughout nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor leadership!! as an evacuation or check- In compliance with an order from the weekend. At this time, the Day. [email protected]” in center should residents be the US Forest Service and the City Council meeting for Tuesday, LA County Sheriff Department, September 8, 2009, will take place forced to leave their homes. the City is closing until further at its regularly scheduled time. Pets in crates will be allowed in notice Bailey Canyon, Mt. Wilson Sierra Vista Park. Trail and access roads to Chantry For more information, please As the fire continues to burn Flats. These closures will continue tune into SMTV3, channel 3 on closer to Sierra Madre, wild throughout the Labor Day weekend Time Warner Cable, or www. animals will be leaving the forest and will be strictly enforced. sierramadrepio.blogspot.com. and entering the City. Public Fire conditions are changing eBlasts will also be sent out to Safety Officials warn residents constantly and this message registered users – to register for L.A.’s Best Tasting Jazz Club to be cautious and leave all contains the most current email alerts please visit www. information the City of Sierra cityofsierramadre.com, click on wildlife animals alone. For the Madre has at this time. City Hall AccessSierraMadre, and then click safety of these animals, please will be closed in observance of CommunicationLink to register do not feed them. Residents Labor Day Monday, September 7, your email address. may want to take caution and 2009; however, City officials will keep small children continue to monitor and update the THANK YOU Public Urged To Prepare: Influenza and Swine Flu Pose Serious Threats for voting us best By Erin Wendel others 2. Stay home when you are HAPPY HOUR The American Pharmacists Children aged 6 months up to sick . If possible, stay home Association (APhA) is their 19th birthday from work, school, and errands RESTAURANT LUNCH recommending that the public Women who will be pregnant when you are sick. You will help JAZZ CLUB MON–SAT 11AM-7PM begin visiting their local during the influenza season prevent others from catching pharmacist or other health People 50 years of age and older your illness. WINE LIST care provider to get vaccinated People of any age with certain 3. Cover your mouth and nose. against influenza. Consumers chronic medical conditions Cover your mouth and nose SERVER STAFF WINE SHOP are encouraged to check with People who live in nursing with a tissue when coughing or their pharmacist in advance homes and other long-term care sneezing. It may prevent those DAILY 11AM-7PM to ensure immunizations facilities around you from getting sick. are offered and to find out People who live with or 4. Wash your hands. Washing scheduled hours. care for those at high risk your hands often will help "The best way to reduce one's for complications from flu, protect you from germs. chances of getting the flu is to including Health care workers 5. Avoid touching your eyes be proactive and get a yearly Household contacts and out nose or mouth. Germs are often influenza vaccination," said of home caregivers of children spread when a person touches VOTED BEST APhA CEO and Executive Vice less than 6 months of age (these something that is contaminated President Thomas Menighan. children are too young to be with germs and then touches his SUNDAY BRUNCH "With pharmacists being the vaccinated) or her eyes, nose, or mouth. most accessible health care Even though the peak of the 6. Practice other good health providers, they are in a unique influenza season is typically in habits . Get plenty of sleep, be position to help protect their February, APhA encourages physically active, manage your communities against the spread consumers to talk to be proactive stress, drink plenty of fluids, of the flu." and talk to their pharmacists and eat nutritious food. Annually 5 to 20 percent of about their vaccination needs. It is important to note that the US population is infected Patients can be vaccinated into the seasonal flu vaccine will by influenza, resulting in nearly February and beyond, as long as not protect patients against 36,000 deaths and over 200,000 vaccine supply is available. the 2009 H1N1 (Swine Flu) hospitalizations, according to In addition to getting an annual influenza virus. A vaccine LIVE JAZZ EVERY NIGHT • NO COVER • DINNER DAILY AT 5PM the Centers for Disease Control flu vaccination, practicing good for Swine Flu is currently in (CDC). Consistent with the CDC health habits will help reduce production and is supposed to redwhitebluezz.com 626•792•4441 and the Advisory Committee on one's risk of getting the flu. be ready mid-October. 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my uniform, the truck, we Four-legged look official, then maybe…” JPL ResumesOperations She said the area was still Friends Get smoldering, “Thankfully we Help from Fire found the place still standing By Dean Lee although they did lose a couple of buildings, they lost the bobcat enclosure and The Pasadena Humane one vehicle, a van.” Society had their hands full Whitman said if there Wednesday as they were are more evacuations in still on alert after caring for Altadena, Pasadena or Sierra 374 animals affected by the Madre they would set up Station Fire that has now other command centers to consumed over 148,000 again take in animals. She acres and destroyed 64 advised, bringing animals homes. Of the animals being directly to the Pasadena cared for, not all of them Humane Society at 361 S. were dogs and cats, or even Raymond Ave saying it was household pets. Many animals still wait at pasadena humane society to go less stressful on the animals. The list of rescued creatures home. Photo D. Lee/Mtnews For more information call included a tarantula, Ginny “I don’t know when they will before the fire overran the 626-792-7151 or visit www. pig, a gang of ducks, a be able to take their animals.” area in Big Tujunga Canyon. pasadenahumane.org. bobcat and even a red- Whitman said a Good “They had planned to Arial view for JPL Photo courtesy of JPL tailed hawk said Humane Samaritan found the ducks go back for their smaller The Jet Propulsion 354-0805, 310-422-9853, Society Spokesperson Ricky wondering down a street in stuff that was indoors in Laboratory was back to [email protected]. Whitman. Altadena. classrooms,” she said. “Then normal Tuesday after gov. “We have wildlife from an The red-tailed hawk came the next day, well there was closing for days due to the JPL employees needing educational group that was from The Clear Creek no way they were going back massive Station fire coming assistance are urged to call stuck really hard,” she said. Outdoor Education Center up.” dangerously close to the 177 the Employee Assistance part of the Los Angeles Hermans said days later she acre laboratory located at Program at 818-354-3680. Unified School District said and other firefighters helped the edge of the San Gabriel Also because of the fire, a Wildlife Officer, Ashley rescue all the reaming Mountains. ribbon cutting ceremony for Hermans. animals from the center JPL officials said employees the opening of the new Flight “They originally evacuated including, educational who are affected by the fire Projects Building previously out their large outdoor snakes, mice and a box and unable to report to scheduled for Tuesday has animals, plus their birds turtle. work should contact their been postponed. No new which lived outdoors,” she “On Tuesday, I went over supervisor, who will work date has been set for the explained. “They have, like, with the director and asked with Human Resources to inauguration officials said 20 doves which are now out sheriffs if we could get an address the situation. Thursday. in our aviary. escort…,” Hermans said. They added employees who JPL is managed for NASA Hermans also said the “He [the director] had been have been evacuated from by the California Institute of education center evacuated a trying to get back every day. their homes are asked to Technology in Pasadena. Red-tailed Hawk Rescued Bobcat turkey vulture and the bobcat I thought, well if I go, with contact Rick Roessler at 818- Walk With ARTS Bus Routes Possibly Cut Review Called for in County’s Mayor By Dean Lee Wildfires Response and Updates In response to countless shelters has not been Rescheduled The City’s Transportation A walk around the Rose reports from constituents readily available to the Advisory Commission on the lack of timely, impacted communities,” Bowl Loop with Pasadena unanimously approved Mayor Bill Bogaard accurate and user-friendly said Antonovich. “Several Thursday night sending incident updates on County impacted cities, provided scheduled Wednesday was recommendations to the canceled due to the poor air websites about evacuations, hourly updates to the city council to cancel the road closures, shelters, communities they serve via quality caused by wildfires Pasadena Area Rapid Transit nearby. transit schedules and their websites and phone System (ARTS) bus route 70. school closures, Supervisor notification systems. The The scheduled special guest The recommendation was walker, Israel Estrada of Michael D. Antonovich has County’s Public Information made to cut costs and due to requested a thorough review Office has the capability to Pasadena Forward, will now low ridership on that route be joined with Bogaard and of the County’s response to provide the same level of If approved by the council the Station Fire to ensure service to its residents but Fire Chief Dennis Downs, the, peak hour, weekday Oct. 7. that the information posted failed to do so during this service only line from on the County’s website incident.” Meet at 7:30 a.m. Gate A Avenue 64 to the Fillmore at the stadium for the 3.3- about the fires is real-time Antonovich also called for Gold Line station would end passengers per hour at a cost Higginbotham said it was and accurate, in addition to a review of the County’s new mile walk. Free parking is Nov. 1. available. All levels of ability of over $24 per rider. irresponsible to run the route reviewing the effectiveness mass emergency notification Transit Manager Cathi Cole The commission also asked 70 with such low numbers and failures of the County’s system which sent an will be accommodated. said they did everything to Up & Moving Pasadena about rising fairs which Cole calling the whole idea of mass emergency notification erroneous evacuation order save the line although the said had just been done. She cutting it long overdue. system. to the community of La is a community effort to economic situation had support fitness for health. said July 1 the fee went to She also said they should “Information on evacuation Crescenta. taken its toll on two of the 75 cents, up from 50 cents evaluate cutting route 60 as orders and evacuation Walks are scheduled the major funding sources of the first Wednesday of every previously. well which has 6 riders per ARTS. She said in order to get hour at a cost of about $12 month. Find walking tips, “We are looking at right Police Seek Help in Finding start a walking group and substantial savings they per rider. now probably a $97,000 would have to cut from lines, Route 60 goes form Missing Woman With Alzheimer’s track your progress at www. deficit each year,” she said. upandmoving.org or call 20, 31/32 and 40 which she Pasadena City College to “If our funding estimates are explained drive the program the Sierra Madre Villa Gold (626) 831-2980. correct.” Pasadena police officers with the highest number Line Station. It also only responded Monday to a call The cost associated with the of riders. The lines average runs weekday during peak line this year was $116,800 reporting a woman missing about 40 riders per hour. She rush hour. from her home in the 900 Pet of and cutting the line Oct. 31 also said prop C funds the Cole said if money became would save $78,000 she said. block of Elizabeth Street. city’s Dial-a-ride program so available their priority Police identified the woman The Week Both MTA Proposition any cuts could impact that as would be to put back part of A and Proposition C sales as Patricia Sylvis, who well. route 70 from South Orange they said, wandered away tax money funds the ARTS Commissioner Jennifer Grove Blvd to the Gold Line. which she said have been from her home sometime down for the last year. $50,000 Reward For Arsonist between noon and 1 p.m. Commission Chair Vince Monday. She is said to have Patricia Sylvis Farhat bluntly said, “I Responsible For Station Fire Alzheimer’s and was last seen at about 12:10 p.m. by hair and blue eyes. She was wouldn’t be doing my job Supervisor Michael Anto- Unit has ruled the fire as being last seen wearing a bright if I didn’t ask if you had novich announced Friday that caused by arson. her husband. he will be offering a $50,000 re- The motion will be voted Police say ground and pink short sleeved silky Kittens are here! Kittens considered alternatives. blouse, dark blue jeans, Cole explained they looked ward for information leading to on by the Board of Supervisors air units were used to of every kind are ready the arrest and conviction of the at their next regularly scheduled patrol the area looking and light blue tennis shoes. and waiting for adoption! at rescheduling or cutting individual(s) responsible for the meeting on September 8, 2009. She may not initially give Sundays from other routes for Sylvis. Officers and Come visit all the adorable Station Fire. Anyone with information on detectives also canvassed the appearance of have bundles of joy and choose although not before pointing The estimated cost of the fire the individual(s) responsible for dementia. Police said she out that route 70 only had thus far is $28,554,000. the Station Fire is asked to con- the area, interviewed one, or even two, for your- neighbors, checked major also goes by the name “Pat.” self. A kitten is a wonderful an average ridership of two The Los Angeles County tact the Sheriff’s Homicide Bu- “It is a devastating Sheriff’s Department Homicide reau at (323) 890-5500. thoroughfares and local addition to the right home hospitals. Police also said feeling to lose a loved one and can bring hours of hap- that although she has been like this, Chief Bernard piness and laughter. Come Police Nab Illegal a Pasadena resident for Melekian said. “Our officers down to the Pasadena Hu- over 20 years, Sylvis may understand that. We will mane Society and see if one Street Racers be looking for her former continue to use all resources of them is purr-fect for you! home in South El Monte. at our disposal that will The regular cat adoption Pasadena police cited 22 drivers Monday Sylvis is Caucasian, 72 help fing her and bring her fee is $70 which includes while conducting an illegal street racing years old, 5’4” with brown home,” the spay or neuter surgery, enforcement detail throughout the city. Police said they were on alert from 7 microchip, vaccinations, a.m. to 3 p.m., further explaining that the Library Celebrates and a free follow-up health operation was designed to eradicate street check at a participating vet. racing by citing and impounding illegally National Sign-Up Month Currently, you can adopt modified cars. two cats or kittens for just Unable to find time to “As you know they race to up to high Pasadena Public Library will come to the library this $85. speeds and then can crash which results Please call 626-792-7151 celebrate National Library month? Get a temporary in very serious injury, death and expensive Card Sign-Up Month this one online at www. or come to the Pasadena property damage,” said Sergeant Chris Humane Society & SPCA, September. A library card PasadenaPublicLibrary. Gutierrez of the Pasadena police. provides access to books, NET. Then pick up a real 361 S. Raymond Ave, Pasa- Gutierrez said they look for specific things of traffic collisions resulting from illegal street racing. The funding we receive allows magazines, DVDs, CDs, card on your next visit. dena CA, 91105. Our adop- such as modified exhaust systems. He e-books, freeWi-Fi and Library cards come in tion hours are 11-3 Sunday, added that they conduct illegal street racing us to run these operations and ensure the safety of our city streets.” internet access, databases, different sizes. Wallet size 9-4 Tuesday, Wednesday, enforcement detail three or four times a year. Homework Help and more. cards and keychain cards. City Police Chief Bernard Melekian Funding, he said, was provided by a grant Thursday, and Friday, and from the California Office of Traffic Safety, Your first library card is Choose the one that fits you 9-3 Saturday. Directions said about the program, “Many times the free. During the month of and your lifestyle. victims are innocent drivers or uninvolved through the National Highway Traffic Safety and photos of all pets up- Administration. September lost or damaged For more information, dated hourly may be found bystanders. This program is an effective library cards will also be please contact Pam Gaggioli, at www.phsspca.org tool for achieving the Pasadena Police replaced free of charge. at (626) 744-4045. Department’s goal of reducing the number Mountain Views News 80 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mtnviewsnews.com 5 Public Safety Mountain Views News Saturday, September 5, 2009

Environmentally Speaking, Did You Know? Green Power Fuels Economic Growth (NAPSI)-When it comes to finding ways to stimulate the economy, experts say few things will fuel job growth like green power. In fact, the nuclear industry alone--the biggest provider of nongreenhouse-gas-emitting power in the U.S.--estimates that it created 9,000 new jobs in 2008, from construction positions to plant workers. Darlene Traxler, Additionally, 17 applicants have sought government approval to build 26 new nuclear plants She’s Everywhere! in the U.S. Analysts expect these efforts to result in the creation of even more jobs and the revitalization of the communities in which the plants are built. There’s a legend going around Sierra Madre Sierra Madre Community Foundation and worked that 100 residents do all the volunteer work in this on the Sierra Madre Relay for life in 2002, 2003 and High-Tech, High Growth foothill town. If you’re one of them, look around 2004, on the Luminaria Committee. you. You’ll probably see Darlene Traxler. She’s Back to the “fraternity” that many volunteers feel Of course, new types of technology have played a vital role in the green power revolution. For everywhere. is evident in Sierra Madre, Darlene acknowledged instance, a company called Westinghouse--which has hired approximately 4,000 employees Let’s talk volunteering. Darlene currently that “serving others” is something ingrained in within the past four years--credits much of its growth to its AP1000™ reactor, the only coordinates Meals-On-Wheels in Sierra Madre her. “I’m practically addicted to it,” she laughed. generation III+ nuclear power plant to receive Design Certification from the U.S. Nuclear and works at the Senior Center five days a week as Many can hardly fathom where she finds the time Regulatory Commission. Site Manager for the Sierra Madre Senior Lunch and energy to be involved in all the programs and Program. initiatives she has led or participated in over the The construction of four of the company’s reactors began in China this year, and many more She chairs the Friends of the years. are expected to follow throughout the world. Library Gardens Committee and Darlene’s dad said that if she Smart Safety has been on the Wine Tasting thought of others before herself, Committee for the past 10 years. she would have a rich and Darlene was chair of the 35th rewarding life. She nods her head Key to the reactor’s success is its simplicity, which makes for a less expensive construction and 36th Annual Cuisine and in assent and agrees that she process, but also increased safety. In fact, natural forces, including gravity, natural circulation Wine Tasting for the Friends of surely has. and condensation, provide the plant’s safety, and a comparatively smaller number of valves, the Sierra Madre Library. For the “My mother was always feeding pumps and motors are required to actuate the passive systems. Friends’ Art Fair, she’s headed the someone, either the homeless Food Court for several years. or the sick. My dad was always Add to that proposed new methods of recycling or storing spent nuclear fuel, and it may Darlene lives in a wonderful helping the neighbors with home become obvious why a country such as France now receives 80 percent of its power from historic home built in 1910 which repairs. He could do anything.” nuclear energy--a green choice that, in the U.S., could continue to pay off. spurred her interest in the Sierra Darlene moved to Sierra Madre Madre Historical Preservation 38 years ago and said she’s loved Society. She became Membership the community all of those years. For more information, visit www.ap1000.westinghousenuclear.com. Chair. During her first three decades After the death of her son, she had to leave the foothill Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rethink Shawn, 11 years ago, Darlene mountains to go to work for the Brought to you by: started volunteering at the Sierra County of Los Angeles as an Sierra Madre Environmental Action Council (SMEAC) Madre Pioneer Cemetery and eligibility worker for the welfare P.O. Box 85 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91025-0085 soon became a Board Member. She designed the department. “I’d look at those mountains in my Your thoughts and comments are welcome... layout for the most recent brochure and assisted rearview mirror, longing for the day that I could with updating cemetery records, a task that stay.” She retired 12 years ago, having raised three demanded months of effort to identify each grave children in the community. and headstone. She has also sold grave plots for She has a son, Bill, who is a longtime resident Sierra Madre Police Blotter over five years for the cemetery. of Sierra Madre and he has two children, Sierra- Darlene has been a member of the Sierra Madre Shawn and Coleton Cruze. Her daughter, Nichelle During the week of Sunday, August 23rd, to driver was a parolee at large with an outstanding Civic Club for the past 15 years, and in 2007 she was Traxler Porto, lives in Vienna, Austria with her Saturday August 29th, the Sierra Madre Police arrest warrant. The driver was arrested and awarded Honorary Life Membership, the highest family: Shawn-Joseph, Aurelia Clarie and Devlin Department responded to approximately 318 calls transported to LA County Jail for remand. honor given to any member. That award was for her Reed, and, of course, her husband. Darlene visited for service. Wednesday, August 26th: years of outstanding service, of course. She holds Nichelle and family for three months last year. As Sunday, August 23rd: 2:07 AM – Arrest, DUI Arrest, 100 block Ramona her time with Civic Club “especially close” to her was stated earlier, her son, Shawn, died 11 years ago. 1:06 AM – Vandalism, 400 block North Baldwin Ave. A motorist was stopped for a vehicle code heart. Darlene concluded, “Have fun whatever you do.” Ave. The driver of white or silver car was seen violation. During the investigation the motorist The Sierra Madrean served as a member of the Darlene is no legend. She’s the real thing. slowing as it passed the victim’s parked Honda. The was determined to be driving under the influence victim heard a bang as a rock hit his car. The rock of alcohol. The driver was arrested and transported caused a 1” scratch and small dent to the driver’s to the Pasadena Jail for remand. Arcadia Police Blotter side door. No damage estimate was available. Thursday, August 27th: For the period of Sunday, August 23 through accessories by using a business account, and he 9:30 AM – Grand Theft, 200 block Grove 10:59 AM – Arrest, 2000 block North Santa Anita Saturday, August 29, the Police Department had provided the proper account information and Street. A black 12-speed tandem bicycle with red Ave. A motorist was stopped for a traffic violation. responded to 1,083 calls for service of which 170 password. The store employee was still suspicious lettering was stolen. The bike was momentarily left A records check revealed the driver’s license was required formal investigations. The following is a and contacted the business owner who advised that unsecured on the sidewalk near the rear driveway suspended/revoked. The driver was cited for the summary report of the major incidents handled no one was authorized to purchase any additional entrance of the victim’s home. The crime occurred violation and released on a written promise to by the Department during this period. phones. Officers apprehended the suspect, and he Sunday, between 9:30 am and 9:45 am. The loss appear. Sunday, August 23: was taken into custody for commercial burglary, was estimated at $750.00. Friday, August 28th: Around 11:22 p.m. on August 22, officers were identity theft, and outstanding misdemeanor 11:05 PM – Arrest, Battery, 00 block East Laurel 1:14 PM – Theft from Vehicle, 100 block East called to First Cabin Bar, 46 East Huntington, warrants totaling $70,000. Ave. A man was reported striking his grandmother Highland Ave. The registration and insurance was regarding a disturbance involving two intoxicated Around 5:39 p.m., officers followed a vehicle several times in the face. The man reportedly stolen from an unlocked parked car. The crime male subjects; a 24-year-old Caucasian and a that was a reported stolen out of Los Angeles. struck an elderly female in the mouth and nose occurred between 12:00 pm Thursday, 8/27 and 23-year-old Hispanic. A taxi cab was summoned The car turned into the Denny’s parking lot, 7 area several times. The victim was treated at the 4:00 pm Thursday, 8/27. and the men left the area without incident. East Huntington, and a high risk traffic stop scene and transported to the Hospital by Sierra Saturday, August 29th: Shortly before 1:00 a.m., units were dispatched was conducted. An 18-year-old female Hispanic Madre Fire Department Paramedics. 4:19 AM – Arrest, Public Intoxication, 200 block again to the location in reference to two men driver and a 30-year-old male Hispanic passenger Monday, August 24th: Mariposa Ave. Officer observed a man lying in a harassing female patrons. It turned out to be the were arrested, and a vehicle search revealed drug 11:20 AM – Commercial Burglary, 695 West car. Further investigation revealed the subject was same subjects so they were taken into custody for paraphernalia and baggies of white crystalline Sierra Madre Blvd. Methodist Church. A fire drunk and he was arrested. The man was arrested disorderly conduct/drunk in public. substance resembling methamphetamine. extinguisher and an exit sign was stolen from and transported to the Pasadena Jail for remand. A victim came to the station around 12:20 Thursday, August 27: the church. The crime occurred between 4:30 pm 12:17 PM – Arrest, Santa Anita and East p.m. to file a fraud report. He advised that an At 12:21 a.m., units responded to the Wireless Thursday, 8/20 and 9:30 am Monday, 8/24. The Grandview Ave. A motorist was stopped for a unknown suspect had used his personal identity Champs kiosk located at Westfield Mall in estimated loss was not available. traffic violation. A records check revealed the to obtain an owner’s license with the California reference to a commercial burglary. Unknown 11:25 PM – Arrest, Parolee at Large, Colorado driver’s license was suspended/revoked. The driver Horse Racing Board, and the IRS has contacted suspect had removed locks to the display cases Blvd and Michillinda Ave. A motorist was stopped was issued a citation for the traffic violation and him regarding the nonpayment of over $28,000 in and stole 31 cellular phones. A review of the for a traffic violation. A records check revealed the released on a written promise to appear. federal income tax. surveillance video showed that at 9:15 p.m., a Monday, August 24: male Caucasian, 5’9” to 6’2”, 210 pounds, ducked Units responded to El Pollo Loco, 9974 East Las behind the display cases with a box and then left a Tunas, around 6:39 p.m. in reference to a theft short time later. SIERRA MADRE’S FARMERS MARKET! that occurred between 3:00 p.m. and 4:02 p.m. A Officers were dispatched to the 1300 block female Hispanic suspect, 5’0”, took an employee’s of Rancho around 7:50 a.m. in regards to an purse that was stored behind the counter. The identity theft report. An unknown male suspect Wednesday 3-8pm suspect then used the victim’s debit card to opened a joint account by also using the victim’s purchase gasoline. personal information. He then transferred a large Fresh vegetables and seasonal fruits from California family farms. Tuesday, August 25: amount of cash from one of her accounts into the Specialty foods, vegetarian and vegan dishes, ethnic foods and hot Shortly after 12:30 p.m., a victim came to the fraudulent joint account and tried to withdraw station to file a fraud report. While checking money from two different bank locations in food - Everything you’ll find at the farmers market has been made or his bank account online, he discovered an extra Idaho. Fortunately, his transactions were denied. picked fresh, is pesticide-free and preservative-free. account under his name but with a different Friday, August 28: address. He learned that an unknown suspect Shortly after 6:00 a.m., units were called to Free public parking on Mariposa. made an initial $40 deposit into the fraudulent Extended Stay, 401 East Santa Clara, regarding account and then withdrew over $236. a male suspect refusing to leave the location. JC Penney loss prevention personnel advised that A 35-year-old Hispanic was contacted and he they had detained an employee for embezzlement appeared to be under the influence of a controlled SIERRA around 7:14 p.m. An internal investigation was substance. A record check revealed that he had conducted between July 10 and August 21, and it two outstanding warrants, so he was taken into MADRE’S was discovered that a 19-year-old male African- custody. During the booking search, he admitted American employee deactivated sensor tags on to hiding methamphetamine on his person. FARMERS merchandise and transported them to unknown Saturday, August 29: subjects who were waiting in their vehicles Five auto burglaries occurred between 9:30 MARKET! outside the store. A private person’s arrest was p.m. on August 28 and 7:34 a.m. on August 29, made, and the suspect was taken into custody for at 24-Hour Fitness, 125 North First. Unknown embezzlement, commercial burglary, grand theft, suspect(s) smashed car windows and removed and outstanding misdemeanor warrants totaling property. Wednesdays over $27,500. Around 7:29 p.m., a traffic stop was made in the Wednesday, August 26: 600 block of South First for equipment violations. Units responded to the Sprint store located at An 18-year-old male Asian driver was contacted, 3-8pm Westfield Mall around 2:34 p.m. in reference to a and officers located a container filled with Ecstasy man attempting to purchase cellular phones with tablets. He was arrested for sale/manufacture fraudulent account information. A 22-year-old of a controlled substance and possession of a Fresh vegetables Hispanic tried to buy 16 Blackberry phones and controlled substance for sale. and seasonal fruits from California family farms. 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Mountain Views News 80 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mtnviewsnews.com 6 Mountain Views News Saturday, September 5, 2009 EDUCATION Editorial - GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES There are times when adults the country will be able to see it. how they feel about THE What a very different news in this society simply go too It is absolutely sinful that PRESIDENT taking time from story it will be in contrast to SCHOOL DIRECTORY far. We forget about everything anyone would object to THE his busy schedule to encourage the horrific ones about children and everyone except our own U.S. PRESIDENT, regardless their success in school? To being abused and murdered. personal agendas. Such is the of who it is, taking time out to my knowledge, it hasn’t been Imagine how important our case of those who protest U.S. speak to our children. Those done before, but given the children will feel knowing that Alverno High School President Barack Obama’s who oppose the speech are current onslaught of bad news THE PRESIDENT has taken 200 N. Michillinda Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 planned ‘Back To School’ speech simply not thinking about the that children see and hear all time to encourage them. (626) 355-3463 Head of School: Ann M. Gillick on Tuesday. The President best interest of our kids who day long, I am certain it will It doesn’t matter who the E-mail address: [email protected] intends to speak directly to are dropping out of school at have a very positive impact. It person holding the office is, it’s students about the need to work alarming rates across racial, will be nice for them to know the message, not the messenger! Arcadia High School hard and stay in school. His social and economic lines. that someone other than Encourage you children’s 180 Campus Drive Arcadia, CA 91007 address will be shown live on Perhaps those critics should their parents, think they are teachers to share the President’s Phone: (626) 821-8370, Principal: David L. Vannasdall the White House Web site and stop and speak with a few important. Especially if that message with students. His Arroyo Pacific Academy on C-SPAN and students across third graders and ask them someone is THE PRESIDENT! words may go a very long way. 41 W. Santa Clara St. Arcadia, Ca, (626) 294-0661 Principal: Phil Clarke PASADENA POPS:2009 SIDE-BY-SIDE STUDENTS “GENIUS LOVES COMPANY” E-mail address: [email protected] Barnhart School 240 W. Colorado Blvd Arcadia, Ca. 91007 (626) 446-5588 Head of School: Joanne Testa Cross Kindergarten - 8th grade website: www.barnhartschool.com Bethany Christian School 93 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 (626) 355-3527 Principal: James Lugenbuehl E-mail address: [email protected] Carden of the Foothills School 429 Wildrose Avenue, Monrovia, CA 91016 626/358-9414 626/358-5164 fax [email protected] The Gooden School 192 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 (626) 355-2410 Head of School: Patty Patano website: www.goodenschool.org LaSalle High School 3880 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. (626) 351-8951 Principal: Patrick Bonacci website: www.lasallehs.org PASADENA, CA –Rachael Worby and Paris, the only American in that ensemble. and appearances with the Philadelphia Or- the Pasadena POPS join forces with the stu- She has worked with some of the world’s chestra and the North Carolina Symphony. Monrovia High School dents of Pasadena Symphony Association’s leading conductors including Leonard Ber- Harry Lennix: an accomplished film, tele- 325 East Huntington Drive, Monrovia, CA 91016 2009 Side-by-Side program in “Genius nstein, Gorge Solti and Pierre Boulez. In vision and stage actor who can be seen on (626) 471-2000, email: [email protected] Loves Company”- an exploration of how June of 2000, Ms. Kreston was engaged as the FOX Network’s “Dollhouse” series. He Norma Coombs Alternative School great composers’ music has influenced great Concertmaster of the Pasadena Symphony. will be seen next in Working Title’s “State 2600 Paloma St. Pasadena, Ca. 91107 composers. These accomplished students Kreston has performed on the soundtracks of Play ” alongside Russell Crowe, Edward (626) 798-0759 Principal: Dr. Vanessa Watkins have been selected from all over Southern of over one hundred films, in live broad- Norton and Helen Mirren. In 2006, Len- E-mail address: [email protected] California for a once in a lifetime opportu- casts, throughout the USA and has delight- nix starred in the Gold Globe nominated nity to rehearse and play side-by-side with ed audiences all over Europe. A commit- ABC show “Commander in Chief”. Some Odyssey Charter School the professional musicians of the Pasadena ted teacher, Ms. Kreston has been a prime other critically acclaimed and highly suc- 725 W. Altadena Dr. Altadena, Ca. 91001 POPS. These final concerts conclude the mover of Project Harmony, a program de- cessful projects he has starred in include the (626) 229-0993 Head of School: Lauren O’Neill 2009 POPS Summer Series and will also signed to bring high quality, low-cost mu- Oscar winning film “Ray” with Jamie Foxx website: www.odysseycharterschool.org honor Lincoln ’s bicentennial with televi- sical training to disadvantaged children in for which he received a SAG nomination Pasadena High School sion, film and stage actor Harry Lennix in Los Angeles . Ms. Kreston is a member of and both “The Matrix: Reloaded” and “The 2925 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait on Friday and the faculties of the Colburn School of Music Matrix: Revolutions.” Lennix has also been (626) 798-8901 Principal: Dr. Derick Evans Saturday, September 11 & 12 at Descanso and the Henri Mancini Institute at UCLA. extremely active in his native Chicago com- website: www.pasadenahigh.org Gardens at 7:30 p.m. She is married to Pasadena Symphony vio- munity where he was an English and mu- This celebration of mutual admiration list Andrew Picken. sic teacher before becoming an actor. The Pasadena Unified School District between composers and artists features the Geneva Lewis: Eleven year-old Geneva founded Legacy Productions, dedicated to 351 S. Hudson Ave. Pasadena, Ca. 91109 brilliant works of Bach’s Concerto for Two began playing the violin at age of three in promoting significant works about the Afri- (626) 795-6981 website: [email protected] Violins performed by Concertmaster Ai- New Zealand . In 2005, Geneva moved to can American experience. He is also on the St. Rita Catholic School mee Kreston and 11 year old protégé, Gene- the United States where she began lessons staff of the Goodman Theater Co. Lennix 322 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 va Lewis, Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, with Aimee Kreston. Geneva also studies has directed and appeared in stage produc- (626) 355-9028 Principal: Joanne Harabedian Brubeck’s A Touch of Jazz, Verdi’s Triumph the piano with David Dunford. When not tions across the country. website: www.st-rita.org March from Aida and Williams’ Three playing music, Geneva can often be found The Side-By-Side Symphony musicians Sierra Madre Elementary School Pieces from Schindler’s List in addition to on the tennis court. She enjoys tournaments are specially selected from all over Southern 141 W. Highland Ave, Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 excerpts of orchestral gems from Mozart, and is the highest ranked player for her age California to audition for the opportunity (626) 355-1428 Principal: Gayle Bluemel Mahler and Shostakovich. Soprano, Shana in Southern California. Her other pursuits to perform in concert side-by-side with the E-mail address:[email protected] Blake Hill, (whose voice has been described are ballet and lyrical dance. Geneva ’s ambi- Pasadena POPS. Additionally they receive by Ken Hoover of the Classical Voice as “… tion is “to be a pro at everything I do.” lessons and coaching sessions with men- Sierra Madre Middle School like pyrotechnics flashing in the sky and Shana Blake Hill: Soprano Shana Blake Hill tors, attend rehearsals and participate in a 160 N. Canon Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 then floating gently toward earth”) will per- has proved herself a multifaceted performer seminar and workshop, learning audition (626) 836-2947 Principal: Gayle Bluemel form Mr. Tambourine Man, Blowin’ in the in operatic and orchestral repertoire. Re- techniques and strategies to pursue careers Contact person: Garrett Newsom, Asst. Principal Wind and Forever Young from Corigliano’s cent highlights: 2008 release on Naxos label in music. E-mail address: [email protected] song cycle of Bob Dylan’s poems, Mr. Tam- of Bright Sheng’s The Phoenix/Seattle Sym- “GENIUS LOVES COMPANY” Weizmann Day School bourine Man. phony, Susannah/Opera Pacific, Rosalba in Date(s): Friday and Saturday, September 11 1434 N. Altadena Dr. Pasadena, Ca. 91107 Aimee Kreston: Violinist Aimee Kres- Daniel Catan’s Florencia en el Amazonas/ & 12, 2009 (626) 797-0204 ton graduated from the Curtis Institute of Cincinnati Opera and Rosalinda in Die Fle- Time(s): 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 5:30 p.m.) Lisa Feldman: Head of School Music. In 1989 she became the youngest dermaus/Opera Southwest. Previously with Venue: Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso member of the Minnesota Orchestra and Pasadena Symphony: Mahler’s Fourth Sym- Dr. La Canada Flintridge Wilson Middle School years later, was appointed Principal Sec- phony, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor and Tickets: $20-$90. Call our box office at 626- 300 S. Madre St. Pasadena, Ca. 91107 ond Violin. From 1993 to 1997 Ms. Kreston Canteloube’s Chants D’Auvergne. Upcom- 793-7172 ext. 16 or visit us online at www. 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Spiritual life requires collaboration with God’s Spirit. We often limit the Lord’s activity in our lives by how we choose to live. Rev. Jeffrey O’Grady’s sermon this week is entitled, “God’s Limits;” a reflection upon ways we limit the Lord’s healing power.

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HOWARD Hays use to dump policyholders when they would hinder or affect the profitability of Mountain Views get sick, in order to increase profits and the companies. to reward their Wall Street investors . . . “The insurance companies, particularly News (I)f they get sick, if they get injured and now, are marketing limited benefit plans As I See It file a claim, then the insurer will take a and another one is the high deductible Publisher/ Editor Insurance Insider Speaks Out real close look at the application that the plan ... Fake insurance, as I call it, or Susan Henderson person filed to see if there might be some very inadequate insurance; these very, When we last left Which brings up Wendell Potter. possibility that some previous illness very limited policies, that often have no City Editor our Congress, they Fifteen years at insurance giant Cigna, wasn’t disclosed . . . you’ve paid your hospital coverage, for example, have very Dean Lee were debating most recently as Head of Corporate premiums on time, sometimes for years low caps on how much they will pay out healthcare reform. Communications, he’s since left the and years and years, and when you need totally, do not cover a lot of things ... And Then came the industry and has spoken out - in it most, they’ll kick you out because they a lot of people can’t even afford to make Sales August recess, interviews and in testimony earlier don’t want to have sick people on the rolls their co-payments when they go get care Patricia Plunkett when they returned this summer before the U.S. Senate. . . . it’s the way our system operates. . . as a result of this . . . It is a real hellish 626-325-3111 home to hear complaints about a Marxist The following quotes are from recent (T)here’s a measure of profitability that scenario that they have in mind for us. takeover, death panels and a missing interviews Mr. Potter gave to Bill Moyers investors look to, and it’s called a medical “The industry doesn’t want to have any 626-818-2698 “long form” birth certificate. Now it’s on PBS, Rob Kall on WNJC Philadelphia, loss ratio. And it’s unique to the health competitor. In fact, over the course of the back to Washington to again tackle and from his own commentary for CNN. insurance industry ... a measure that tells last few years, the number of competitors Art Director healthcare - and hopefully produce a bill. “It was my job to ‘promote and defend’ investors or anyone else how much of a has been shrinking through a lot of To whom should we turn for the company’s reputation ... During premium dollar is used by the insurance acquisitions and mergers. So first of all, Allison Kirkham information? (The answer, of course, is the last couple of years of my career, company to actually pay medical claims. they don’t want any more competition. opinion columnists in our community however, I became increasingly worried And that has been shrinking, over the Period. They certainly don’t want it newspaper.) The “mainstream” media that the high-deductible plans insurers years, since the industry’s been dominated from a government plan that might be Production Assistant assume more readers/ viewers/ listeners were beginning to push Americans into by, or become dominated by, for-profit operating more efficiently than they are”. are drawn by stories of gun-toting would force more and more of us into insurance companies... So, investors In his interview with Bill Moyers, Wendell Richard Garcia yahoos carrying pictures of President bankruptcy. ... What I’m trying to do as I want that to keep shrinking. And if Potter described his involvement in Obama sporting a Hitler mustache than write and speak out against the insurance they see that an insurance company has the campaign to “blunt” the impact of Photography by analyses of Congressional Budget industry I was a part of for nearly two not done what they think meets their Michael Moore’s 2007 documentary Jacqueline Truong Office projections. Nor would I rely on decades is to inform Americans that expectations with the medical loss ratio, “Sicko”, in which residents of Canada and Lina Johnson information from our politicians. There when they hear isolated stories of long they’ll punish them... It has not denied Europe express contentment with their are those who’d want any bill to fail in waiting times to see doctors in Canada enough claims. It has not kicked enough own healthcare systems, contrasted with Contributors order to make Obama look bad. There and allegations that care in other systems people off the rolls. the acquiescence in our own country to are others who’d want it to pass, no is rationed by ‘government bureaucrats’, “(I)t is the strength of the lobbyists, and the devastation of lives and families for Teresa Baxter matter how watered-down and counter- someone associated with the insurance members of congress ... just turn a blind the sake of corporate profit. Potter told Pat Birdsall productive, just to see Obama score a industry wrote the original script . . eye to what needs to be done ... Senator of sending lobbyists up to Capitol Hill to Bob Eklund “success”. . the industry funnels millions of its Max Baucus, who is chairman of the warn, “Look, you don’t want to believe Howard Hays It’s best to go to a “primary source”. A policyholders’ premiums to big public senate finance committee. He has received this movie. You don’t want to talk about good example is Hail Hamilton’s going relations firms that provide talking more contributions from the insurance it. You don’t want to endorse it. And if Paul Carpenter to an actual Canadian for his columns on points to conservative talk show hosts . . . industry and from the pharmaceutical you do, we can make things tough for Stuart Tolchin Canadian health care. It’s harder to get PR firms set up front groups, again using companies, from the health industry you.” Asked if he agreed with the premise Kim Clymer-Kelley insider information from the insurance your premium dollars and mine, to scare combined, than any other member of of Moore’s film, Wendell Potter replied, Christopher Nyerges industry, not filtered through industry- people away from reform. congress . . . (T)he insurance industry “Absolutely”. Peter Dills funded lobbyists, think tanks and “The higher I rose in the company, the has been one of the most successful, in Hail Hamilton politicians. more I learned about the tactics insurers beating back any kinds of legislation that Rich Johnson Chris Bertrand HAIL Hamilton Virginia Hoge STUART Tolchin On...LIFE Mary Carney Health Care: TRUTH FROM INSIDE OUT La Quetta Shamblee Glenn Lambdin When will Americans wise up? It’s Sunday and there are fires everywhere. Greg Wellborn Friends have been calling to check on us and the calls leave me feeling cared-about and Ralph McKnight Experts agree that our The Impact of Rising Health Care Costs connected. At least until I got a call from Trish Collins health care system is National surveys show that the primary reason my ex-brother-in-law. He called a couple Pat Ostrye riddled with inefficiencies, people are uninsured is the high cost of health of hours ago to make sure that his niece and nephew (my kids) were okay and I assured Editorial Cartoonist excessive administrative insurance coverage. expenses, inflated prices, Economists have found that rising health care him that they were. I then asked how he was Ann Cleaves poor management, and costs correlate to drops in health insurance doing. What a mistake! Webmaster inappropriate care, waste and fraud. These coverage. He told me that he was going into the hospital for elective knee John Avery problems significantly increase the cost of A recent study by Harvard University surgery tomorrow and would be there for a few days.. I told him medical care and health insurance for workers researchers found that the average out-of- that he might enjoy reading a few of my articles and volunteered to e-mail the articles to him immediately. “DON’T!” he said. Mountain Views News and affect the security of families. pocket medical debt for those who filed for bankruptcy was $12,000. The study noted that “Why?” I regrettably said. formerly MountainViews “Because I have already read a couple of your articles; I hate Observer has been National Health Care Spending 68 percent of those who filed for bankruptcy your kind of essay. You review your day and try and squeeze the had health insurance and that more than 50 meaning of life out of some trivial incident. I write some op-ed adjudicated as a newspaper In 2008, total national health expenditures percent of all bankruptcy filings were the result of General Circulation for pieces myself and focus on political issues that actually mean increased 6.9 percent -- two times the rate of of medical expenses. something. If I want to understand the depth of the human the County of Los Angeles inflation. Total spending was $2.4 TRILLION Every 30 seconds in the United States someone in Court Case number condition I read poetry and sometimes try and write it. Please in 2007, or $7900 per person. Total health care files for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a spare me, I really have only this one life and don’t have the time to GS004724: for the City spending represented 17 percent of the gross serious health problem. waste. Well, I’m glad you guys are okay. Take care.” of Sierra Madre; in Court domestic product (GDP). A new survey shows that more than 25 I know, different strokes for different folks -- live with it. I agree Case GS005940 and for the U.S. health care spending is expected to increase percent said that housing problems resulted with this principle and write about the importance of honesty City of Monrovia in Court at similar levels for the next decade reaching from medical debt, including the inability and tolerance. My wife sometimes pokes fun at my usual subject Case No. GS006989 and is $4.3 TRILLION in 2017, or 20 percent of GDP. to make rent or mortgage payments and the matter by saying, “Enough with the truth already.” Still, is my published every Saturday In 2008, employer health insurance premiums development of bad credit ratings. elitist (I had to put this in) ex-brother-in-law correct? Are my at 31C East Montecito, increased by 5.0 percent – two times the rate of About 1.5 million families lose their homes articles a complete waste of time? If they are what can I do? Even Sierra Madre, California, inflation. The annual premium for an employer to foreclosure every year due to unaffordable I am not foolish enough to believe that I am smart enough to 91024. All contents are health plan covering a family of four averaged medical costs. pretend that I am some sort of political or economic expert like copyrighted and may not nearly $12,700. The annual premium for single A recent survey found that in order to cope the accomplished thinkers whose opinions frequently appear on be reproduced without the coverage averaged over $4,700. with rising health insurance costs, 86 percent this page. (Right) Furthermore, I am just not interested in, or In 2008, health care spending in the United of Americans said they had cut back on how perhaps capable of, producing articles filled with always diverting express written consent of but amusing and generally useless information. Hooray, for my the publisher. All rights States reached $2.4 trillion, and was projected much they could save, and 44 percent said to reach $3.1 trillion in 2012.1 Health care that they have cut back on food and heating friend Rich Johnson; but I want and need to do something else. reserved. All submissions I just got another call. Synchronistically, a friend called to say that to this newspaper become spending is projected to reach $4.3 trillion by expenses. the fire department issued an order of mandatory evacuation for the property of the 2016. Retiring elderly couples will need $250,000 in him last night. He remained where he was, but this morning left Mountain Views News and In 2008, the United States will spend 16.2 savings just to pay for the most basic medical his house at 6:00a.m for his weekly Sunday golf game. The police percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on coverage. Many experts believe that this figure stopped him and told him if he left he wouldn’t be able to get may be published in part health care plus another 3% more on litigation is conservative and that $300,000 may be a or whole. back in. My friend didn’t even have his wallet with him; he hadn’t over medical bills. It is projected that the more realistic number. packed and his wife was still back at the house. Still, he didn’t Opinions and views percentage will reach 25 percent by 2025 and Time for Action on Controlling Health Care hesitate for a minute. He told the officer he understood. Off he expressed by the writers 49% in 2082 Costs went to play golf (in the smoke yet) figuring he would probably be printed in this paper do not Health care spending is 4.3 times the amount able to sneak back up later on. Yes, I’m omitting my friend’s name necessarily express the views spent on national defense. Policymakers and government officials agree because he sounds nuts but judge not lest ye be judged. and opinions of the publisher Although nearly 50 million Americans are that health care costs must be controlled. It’s about understanding priorities. Right now my stubborn or staff of the Mountain uninsured, the United States spends more on But they disagree on the best ways to address friend feels that his weekly golf game is vital for his sanity. Sure Views News. health care than any other industrialized nation. rapidly escalating health spending and it may seem foolish to everyone else (including me) but the break Those countries provide health insurance to all health insurance premiums. Some favor provided by the golf game is that important to him. Guess what Mountain Views News is their citizens. price controls and imposing strict budgets I’m going to say next? Right. Even if my articles don’t seem like wholly owned by Grace The United States has $480 billion in excess on health care spending. Others believe free they are worth much to anyone else, I believe they are important. Lorraine Publications, spending each year in comparison to Western market competition is the best way to solve the If I can penetrate deeper into my own truth it is the same TRUTH Inc. and reserves the right European nations that have universal health problems. One thing is absolutely certain— which is written on the hearts of everyone else and is struggling to refuse publication of insurance coverage. The costs are mainly doing nothing is not an option. to get out. It’s all in there jumbled up with our DNA; a shared associated with excess administrative costs and understanding within our nervous systems of what is right and advertisements and other just. If I can get back inside to my own truth it is a Truth that will materials submitted for poorer quality of care. help all of us. We’re all in this together. Well, the fire is raging and publication. I guess I ought to pay some attention to it. That’s also the truth. Letters to the editor and correspondence should be GREG Welbourne sent to: power corrupts absolutely, is just as true today. You have to live in a different reality to believe that giving such discretion Mountain Views News The Mother Of All Power Grabs Say what you will about the late, In April of this year, the Environmental Protection Agency to a federal agency won’t result in favoritism and special 80 W. Sierra Madre Bl. #327 not-so-great, Saddam Hussein (he issued an “endangerment finding” stating the carbon dioxide interest pleadings. Imagine the power the federal government Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 was a dictator, tyrant and butcher after (CO2) is a pollutant that threatens the public’s health. The will have to coerce cooperation. Phone: 626-355-2737 all), but he did have a way with words. significance of this ruling is that is mandates regulation of Imagine if new government owned GM factory all of a Fax: 626-609-3285 His famous threat that a U.S. invasion CO2 by the EPA. The agency is required to regulate any source sudden faced competition from a Honda factory. You don’t email: of his country would unleash the that emits more than 250 tons of a given pollutant. think that there will be a very strong incentive on the part of [email protected] “mother of all wars” was memorable Now 250 tons is probably a reasonable threshold level for the government (which owns GM) and the labor union which in its clever exploitation of our sound-bite driven media and true poisons and pollutants, but it is an extremely low limit represents the workers there to ask the EPA to rule that the GM factory is exempt but the Honda factory must comply Mountain Views laughable when juxtaposed against the speed of his army’s for something which comes out of all of our mouths when we defeat. Fast forward from those wild and crazy days of the exhale and is produced in abundance when ever we humans with the 250 pound limit? This type of deal-making and News early 1990s to today’s deliberations in Washington, and we get together in places like offices or schools. In fact, if this political favoritism will sweep D.C. faster than the common Mission Statement find that we Americans our about ready to lose a substantial finding is allowed to stand, the EPA in Washington D.C. will winter cold. The traditions amount of our freedoms in what can only be called the mother be required (not allowed) to regulate schools, hospitals, farms, One way or the other, our economy and way of life is in of the community of all power grabs. and malls. In fact, the average local restaurant at lunch or for some serious trouble. If the EPA is allowed its discretion, newspaper and Under normal circumstances, the political process in a dinner time will emit enough CO2 to require EPA attention. major economic decisions will be made based on who has the concerns of developed democracy such as ours tends to temper the most Some may say this sounds crazy and can’t possibly be the most political clout rather than on economic merits and our readers are aggressive tendencies and policy prescriptions of both sides true. In fact, when this little factoid first came to light, the fair competition between competitors. But if – as I suspect of the political spectrum. Radical lefties and strident right EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson, gave a speech and ridiculed – environmental groups like Green Peace sue the EPA to this newspaper’s force them to abide by the letter of the Clean Air Act, we top priorities. We wingers find that they have to compromise, cajole and cater those who warned about the consequences of this finding. Ms. to the center and temper their own extreme objectives to craft Jackson should probably have more closely read the law she’s will find every major institution and the local eatery subject support a prosperous legislation which can get the support of the middle. This is a charged with enforcing, because the EPA itself has now come to the command and control of unelected, unaccountable community of well- good thing; it has served us well over the centuries since our to the same conclusion and has therefore written a proposed bureaucrats. This isn’t the change Americans voted for when informed citizens. country’s founding, and it was one of the several marks of rule, called the “tailoring rule”, which would allow the agency they elected Barak Obama. I do not fault the man for having We hold in high genius that our founders created three power centers that each in its discretion to target CO2 regulations only at “major his own political vision. But I certainly do fault him for regard the values competed with the others, limiting any of them in their ability industrial sources of carbon emissions”. skipping the political process and simply having the EPA do of the exceptional to take away our freedoms. Let’s put aside for the moment whether the EPA has the the dirty work of forcing his desire for more industrial policy quality of life in our Well today, there is a fourth power center, and it has very authority to suspend the clear statutory language of the Clean control down our throats. This is the mother of all power community, including few checks and balances. The vast regulatory agencies that Air Act which requires regulation at the 250 ton level. I, grabs, and it needs to be stopped. have been created are often charged with interpreting laws and most conservatives, are as bothered by giving the EPA Gregory J. Welborn is an independent opinion columnist. He the magnificence writes and speaks frequently on political, economic and social of our natural written by Congress, and signed by the President, but given discretion to target certain industries as we are about giving very little direction in how to craft actual regulations. In many the EPA this much power and reach into our daily lives. issues. His columns have appeared in publications such as The resources. Integrity instances the regulations which are instituted are arbitrary and Limiting government intrusion, and thus maximizing Los Angeles Daily News, The Orange County Register, The Wall will be our guide. excessively burdensome to the rest of us who have to live in the all our freedoms, is one of the hallmarks of conservative Street Journal and USA Today. He can be reached at g.welborn@ real world, outside D.C.’s beltway. philosophy. The old expression, power corrupts and absolute mtnviewsnews.com. 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This statement was filed Business and Professions Code) Business and Professions Code) The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The following person(s) is (are) doing business with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Publish: Mountain Views News Publish: Mountain Views News BENJAMIN’S IRON WORK, 4008 E. OLYMPIC as: TOTAL MERCHANDISING CO., 1543 W. 08/05/09. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced File No. 09-1184614 Pub. 08/22, 08/29, 09/05, 09/12/2009 Pub. 08/17, 08/24, 08/31, 09/07/2009 BLVD., L.A., CA 90023. Full name of registrant(s) OLYMPIC BL. #350, L.A., CA 90015. Full name to transact business under the fictitious business The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: is (are) EAST LA IRON WORKS, INC., 4008 E. of registrant(s) is (are) YOUNG W. KIM, 234 S. name or names listed above on N/A. TRI COMPUTER SERVICES, 1559 E. AMAR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OLYMPIC BLVD., L.A., CA 90023. This Business ARDMORE AVE., L.A., CA 90004. This Business NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires RD. #S, WEST COVINA, CA 91792. Full name of File No. 09-1223015 File No. 09-1248577 is conducted by: A CORPORATION. Signed: is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: five years from the date it was filed in the office of registrant(s) is (are) INA DE BELEN, ROBERTO The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The following person(s) is (are) doing business RAFAEL CONTRERAS/PRES. This statement YOUNG W. KIM/OWNER. This statement the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name DE BELEN, 604 CLARADAY ST., GLENDORA, AAA HOME PRESERVATION SERVICES, as: SUPREME CLOSEOUTS, 2501 WHITTIER was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles Statement must be filed prior to that date. The CA 91740. This Business is conducted by: A 4041 AGNES AVE., LYNWOOD, CA 90262. BLVD., L.A., CA 90023. Full name of registrant(s) County on 07/31/09. The registrant(s) has (have) County on 08/05/09. The registrant(s) has (have) filing of this statement does not of itself authorize GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Signed: INA Full name of registrant(s) is (are) ANGEL E. is (are) RUBEN RIOS, 920 S. DACOTAN ST., commenced to transact business under the fictitious commenced to transact business under the fictitious the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name DE BELEN/OWNER. This statement was filed SAAVEDRA, 4041 AGNES AVE., LYNWOOD, L.A., CA 90023. This Business is conducted by: business name or names listed above on N/A. business name or names listed above on 8/1/09 in violation of the rights of another under Federal, with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on CA 90262. This Business is conducted by: AN AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: RUBEN RIOS. This NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. 08/03/09. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced INDIVIDUAL. Signed: ANGEL E. SAAVEDRA. statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los five years from the date it was filed in the office of five years from the date it was filed in the office of Business and Professions Code) to transact business under the fictitious business This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Angeles County on 08/13/09. The registrant(s) has the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Publish: Mountain Views News name or names listed above on N/A. Los Angeles County on 08/10/09. The registrant(s) (have) commenced to transact business under the Statement must be filed prior to that date. The Statement must be filed prior to that date. The Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires has (have) commenced to transact business under fictitious business name or names listed above on filing of this statement does not of itself authorize filing of this statement does not of itself authorize five years from the date it was filed in the office of the fictitious business name or names listed above 8/5/04. the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name on 3/30/09. NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires in violation of the rights of another under Federal, in violation of the rights of another under Federal, File No. 09-1200514 Statement must be filed prior to that date. The NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. The following person(s) is (are) doing business filing of this statement does not of itself authorize five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Business and Professions Code) Business and Professions Code) as: MACKENZIE’S PET PANTRY, 2201 E. the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. The Publish: Mountain Views News Publish: Mountain Views News WILLOW ST. STE. D, PMB #169, SIGNAL in violation of the rights of another under Federal, Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 HILL, CA 90755. Full name of registrant(s) is State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name (are) DANIELLE ELIZABETH BELL, 2201 E. Business and Professions Code) the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WILLOW ST., STE. D, PMB #169, SIGNAL Publish: Mountain Views News in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. File No. 09-1185902 File No. 09-1184614 HILL, CA 90755. This Business is conducted Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and Professions Code) The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: DANIELLE Business and Professions Code) Publish: Mountain Views News CELLPHONE SOLUTIONS, 1559 E. AMAR RD. TRI COMPUTER SERVICES, 1559 E. AMAR ELIZABETH BELL/OWNER. This statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Publish: Mountain Views News Pub. 08/17, 08/24, 08/31, 09/07/2009 STE. S, WEST COVINA, CA 91792. Full name of RD. #S, WEST COVINA, CA 91792. Full name of was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles File No. 09-1184934 Pub. 08/17, 08/24, 08/31, 09/07/2009 registrant(s) is (are) EMMEL GANZON, MARY registrant(s) is (are) INA DE BELEN, ROBERTO County on 08/05/09. The registrant(s) has (have) The following person(s) is (are) doing business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NINA GANZON, 3667 VALLEY BLVD. SPC. 124, DE BELEN, 604 CLARADAY ST., GLENDORA, commenced to transact business under the fictitious as: WHITE TIGER COSTRUCTION, 13419 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 09-1221867 POMONA, CA 91768. This Business is conducted CA 91740. This Business is conducted by: A business name or names listed above on 11/1/2008. BROCK AVE., PARAMOUNT, CA 90723. Full File No. 09-1222311 The following person(s) is (are) doing business by: HUSBAND and WIFE. Signed: EMMEL GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Signed: INA NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires name of registrant(s) is (are) FELIPE PEREZ, The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: WIRELESS CONNECTION HOT SPOT, GANZON/OWNER. This statement was filed DE BELEN/OWNER. This statement was filed five years from the date it was filed in the office of 13419 BROCK AVE., PARAMOUNT, CA 90723. as: ES PARA TI, 7824 E. FLORENCE AVE., 4922 CLARA ST., CUDAHY, CA 90201. Full with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. DOWNEY, CA 90241. Full name of registrant(s) name of registrant(s) is (are) ANTHONY RALON, 08/03/09. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced 08/03/09. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced Statement must be filed prior to that date. The Signed: FELIPE PEREZ/OWNER. This is (are) ALFONSO VALENZUELA, 10613 RIVES BARBARA REGUERO, 4922 CLARA ST., to transact business under the fictitious business to transact business under the fictitious business filing of this statement does not of itself authorize statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los AVE., DOWNEY, CA 90241. This Business CUDAHY, CA 90201, MACHRIS RALON, 4924 name or names listed above on MAY 30, 2009. name or names listed above on N/A. the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name Angeles County on 08/03/09. The registrant(s) has is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: CLARA ST., CUDAHY, CA 90201. This Business NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires in violation of the rights of another under Federal, (have) commenced to transact business under the ALFONSO VALENZUELA. This statement is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. five years from the date it was filed in the office of five years from the date it was filed in the office of State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. fictitious business name or names listed above on was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles Signed: ANTHONY RALON. This statement the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Business and Professions Code) 08/03/2009. County on 08/10/09. The registrant(s) has (have) was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles Statement must be filed prior to that date. The Statement must be filed prior to that date. The Publish: Mountain Views News NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires commenced to transact business under the fictitious County on 08/10/09. The registrant(s) has (have) filing of this statement does not of itself authorize filing of this statement does not of itself authorize Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 five years from the date it was filed in the office of business name or names listed above on N/A. commenced to transact business under the fictitious the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires business name or names listed above on N/A. in violation of the rights of another under Federal, in violation of the rights of another under Federal, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Statement must be filed prior to that date. The five years from the date it was filed in the office of NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. File No. 09-1183529 filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name five years from the date it was filed in the office of Business and Professions Code) Business and Professions Code) The following person(s) is (are) doing business the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. The the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Publish: Mountain Views News Publish: Mountain Views News as: MAMBO’S AUTO ELECTRIC, 6320 in violation of the rights of another under Federal, filing of this statement does not of itself authorize Statement must be filed prior to that date. The Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 S. WESTERN, L.A., CA 90047. Full name of State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name filing of this statement does not of itself authorize registrant(s) is (are) SERGIO MALDONADO, Business and Professions Code) in violation of the rights of another under Federal, the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 4524 W. 131st ST., HAWTHORNE, CA 90250. This Publish: Mountain Views News State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. in violation of the rights of another under Federal, File No. 09-1185301 File No. 09-1184934 Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 Business and Professions Code) State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. The following person(s) is (are) doing business The following person(s) is (are) doing business Signed: SERGIO MALDONADO/OWNER. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Publish: Mountain Views News Business and Professions Code) as: HI HO MARKET, 10846 DOWNEY AVE., as: WHITE TIGER COSTRUCTION, 13419 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of File No. 09-1207624 Pub. 08/17, 08/24, 08/31, 09/07/2009 Publish: Mountain Views News DOWNEY, CA 90241. Full name of registrant(s) is BROCK AVE., PARAMOUNT, CA 90723. Full Los Angeles County on 08/03/09. The registrant(s) The following person(s) is (are) doing business Pub. 08/17, 08/24, 08/31, 09/07/2009 (are) MICHAEL DURON, 10319 FLALLON AVE., name of registrant(s) is (are) FELIPE PEREZ, has (have) commenced to transact business under as: WINDOWS & DOORS ETC., 440 S. SAN FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT SANTA FE SPRINGS, CA 90670. This Business 13419 BROCK AVE., PARAMOUNT, CA 90723. the fictitious business name or names listed above DIMAS AVE., SAN DIMAS, CA 91773. Full name File No. 09-1248110 FILE NO. 2009-1223011 is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. on N/A. of registrant(s) is (are) CHERYL WINKELMAN, The following person(s) is (are) doing business STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE MICHAEL DURON/OWNER. This statement Signed: FELIPE PEREZ/OWNER. This NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires 621 S. WALNUT, SAN DIMAS, CA 91773. This as: FAST SIGNS-THOUSAND OAKS, 1182 E. OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los five years from the date it was filed in the office of Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. THOUSAND OAKS BLVD. #B, THOUSAND The following person(s) has/have abandoned the County on 08/03/09. The registrant(s) has (have) Angeles County on 08/03/09. The registrant(s) has the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Signed: CHERYL WINKELMAN/OWNER. OAKS, CA 91362. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) use of the fictitious business name: AAA HOME commenced to transact business under the fictitious (have) commenced to transact business under the Statement must be filed prior to that date. The This statement was filed with the County Clerk of MCM USA, INC., 1182 E. THOUSAND OAKS PRESERVATION SERVICES, 10900 OTIS ST., business name or names listed above on OCT. 26, fictitious business name or names listed above on filing of this statement does not of itself authorize Los Angeles County on 08/06/09. The registrant(s) BLVD. #B, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91362. This LYNWOOD, CA 90262. The fictitious business 2006. 08/03/2009. the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name has (have) commenced to transact business under Business is conducted by: A CORPORATION. name referred to above was filed on 3/30/09, in the NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires in violation of the rights of another under Federal, the fictitious business name or names listed above Signed: BOB A. MASSEY/PRES. This statement county of Los Angeles. The original file number five years from the date it was filed in the office of five years from the date it was filed in the office of State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. on N/A. was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles of 2009-0453495. The business was conducted by: the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Business and Professions Code) NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires County on 08/13/09. The registrant(s) has (have) AN INDIVIDUAL. This statement was filed with Statement must be filed prior to that date. The Statement must be filed prior to that date. The Publish: Mountain Views News five years from the date it was filed in the office of commenced to transact business under the fictitious the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 08/10/2009. filing of this statement does not of itself authorize filing of this statement does not of itself authorize Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name business name or names listed above on N/A. The business information in this statement is true the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. The NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires and correct. (A registrant who declares as true in violation of the rights of another under Federal, in violation of the rights of another under Federal, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT filing of this statement does not of itself authorize five years from the date it was filed in the office of information which he or she knows to be false, is State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. File No. 09-1199816 the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name guilty of a crime.) SIGNED: LAURA POSADA Business and Professions Code) Business and Professions Code) The following person(s) is (are) doing business in violation of the rights of another under Federal, Statement must be filed prior to that date. The SERVIN/OWNER. Publish: Mountain Views News Publish: Mountain Views News as: MARILU RIOS INSURANCE SERVICES, State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. filing of this statement does not of itself authorize Publish: Mountain Views News Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 516 N. POPLAR AVE. #77, MONTEBELLO, Business and Professions Code) the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name Pub. 08/17, 08/24, 08/31, 09/07/2009 CA 90640. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) Publish: Mountain Views News in violation of the rights of another under Federal, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MARILU RIOS, 628 N. HOWARD AVE. #77, Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 09-1196908 File No. 09-1207624 MONTEBELLO, CA 90640. This Business is Business and Professions Code) File No. 09-1263141 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The following person(s) is (are) doing business conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: FILE NO. 2009-1185302 Publish: Mountain Views News The following person(s) is (are) doing business HOTWIRE LABS, 2459 W. 208th ST. STE. 203, as: WINDOWS & DOORS ETC., 440 S. SAN MARILU RIOS/OWNER. This statement STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE Pub. 08/17, 08/24, 08/31, 09/07/2009 as: ALL MARKETING GRAPHICS, 207 E. TORRANCE, CA 90501. Full name of registrant(s) DIMAS AVE., SAN DIMAS, CA 91773. Full name was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 158th ST., GARDENA, CA 90248. Full name of is (are) ROBERT L. PETERSEN/R.L. PETERSEN of registrant(s) is (are) CHERYL WINKELMAN, County on 08/05/09. The registrant(s) has (have) The following person(s) has/have abandoned FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT registrant(s) is (are) DANIEL J. SANTA CRUZ, ASSOCIATES, LLC., 3404 LAMBETH COURT, 621 S. WALNUT, SAN DIMAS, CA 91773. This commenced to transact business under the fictitious the use of the fictitious business name: HI HO File No. 09-1222208 207 E. 158th ST., GARDENA, CA 90248. This UNIT F, ORANGE, CA 92869. This Business Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. business name or names listed above on 08/01/08. MARKET, 10846 DOWNEY AVE., DOWNEY, The following person(s) is (are) doing business Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY Signed: CHERYL WINKELMAN/OWNER. NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires CA 90241. The fictitious business name referred as: 1. MR. MR. KAYO 2. MR. MR. MUSICK, Signed: DANIEL J. SANTA CRUZ. This COMPANY. Signed: ROBERT L. PETERSEN This statement was filed with the County Clerk of five years from the date it was filed in the office of to above was filed on OCT. 26, 2006, in the 2625 HEMLOCK WAY, POMONA, CA 91767. Full statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los JR./PRINCIPAL. This statement was filed Los Angeles County on 08/06/09. The registrant(s) the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name county of Los Angeles. The original file number name of registrant(s) is (are) KEIVIN MONTRAY Angeles County on 08/17/09. The registrant(s) has with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on has (have) commenced to transact business under Statement must be filed prior to that date. The of 06-2384112. The business was conducted by: MCCONICO, 2625 HEMLOCK WAY, POMONA, (have) commenced to transact business under the 08/05/09. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced the fictitious business name or names listed above filing of this statement does not of itself authorize A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. This statement CA 91767. This Business is conducted by: AN fictitious business name or names listed above on to transact business under the fictitious business on N/A. the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles INDIVIDUAL. Signed: KEIVIN MONTRAY N/A. name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires in violation of the rights of another under Federal, on 08/03/2009. The business information in this MCCONICO. This statement was filed with the NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. statement is true and correct. (A registrant who County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 08/10/09. five years from the date it was filed in the office of five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Business and Professions Code) declares as true information which he or she The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. The Publish: Mountain Views News knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) SIGNED: business under the fictitious business name or Statement must be filed prior to that date. The Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 MICHAEL DURONOWNER. names listed above on N/A. filing of this statement does not of itself authorize filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Publish: Mountain Views News NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, File No. 09-1200673 Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 five years from the date it was filed in the office of in violation of the rights of another under Federal, in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. The following person(s) is (are) doing business the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and Professions Code) as: PRECISION BUILDERS, 14546 E. CLOSE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Statement must be filed prior to that date. The Business and Professions Code) Business and Professions Code) Publish: Mountain Views News ST., WHITTIER, CA 90604. Full name of File No. 20091198717 filing of this statement does not of itself authorize Publish: Mountain Views News Publish: Mountain Views News Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 registrant(s) is (are) JUAN RIOS, 14546 E. CLOSE The following person(s) is (are) doing business the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name Pub. 08/24, 08/31, 09/07, 09/14/2009 Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 ST., WHITTIER, CA 90604. This Business is as: CALABASAS INN 23500 Park Sorrento, in violation of the rights of another under Federal, FILE NO. 2009-1185302 conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: JUAN Calabasas, Ca. 91302. Full name of registrant(s) State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE RIOS/OWNER. This statement was filed with the is (are) KNIGHT-CALABASAS, LLC. 10823 Business and Professions Code) File No. 09-1269933 File No. 09-1200514 OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 08/05/09. Rochester Avenue, Los Angeles, Ca. 90024. Publish: Mountain Views News The following person(s) is (are) doing business The following person(s) is (are) doing business The following person(s) has/have abandoned The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact This Business is conducted by: A LIMITED Pub. 08/17, 08/24, 08/31, 09/07/2009 as: 1. ALPHA RENT A CAR 2. ALFA RENT as: MACKENZIE’S PET PANTRY, 2201 E. the use of the fictitious business name: HI HO business under the fictitious business name or LIABILITY COMPANY. Signed: DAVID A CAR, 4118 E. WHITTIER BLVD., L.A., CA WILLOW ST. STE. D, PMB #169, SIGNAL MARKET, 10846 DOWNEY AVE., DOWNEY, names listed above on N/A. BARTHOLOMEW, MANAGER. This statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 90023. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) JOSE HILL, CA 90755. Full name of registrant(s) is CA 90241. The fictitious business name referred NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles File No. 09-1215713 A. CHI SANTOS, 4145 E. FLORAL AVE., L.A., (are) DANIELLE ELIZABETH BELL, 2201 E. to above was filed on OCT. 26, 2006, in the five years from the date it was filed in the office of County on 08/05/09. The registrant(s) has (have) The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CA 90065. This Business is conducted by: AN WILLOW ST., STE. D, PMB #169, SIGNAL county of Los Angeles. The original file number the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name commenced to transact business under the fictitious RIVERA 4 LENNOX, 10900 ACACIA AVE., INDIVIDUAL. Signed: JOSE A. CHI SANTOS. HILL, CA 90755. This Business is conducted of 06-2384112. The business was conducted by: Statement must be filed prior to that date. The business name or names listed above on N/A. LENNOX, CA 90304. Full name of registrant(s) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: DANIELLE A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. This statement filing of this statement does not of itself authorize NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires is (are) HUMBERTO RIVERA, 10900 ACACIA Los Angeles County on 08/18/09. The registrant(s) ELIZABETH BELL/OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name five years from the date it was filed in the office of AVE., LENNOX, CA 90304. This Business is has (have) commenced to transact business under was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 08/03/2009. The business information in this in violation of the rights of another under Federal, the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: the fictitious business name or names listed above County on 08/05/09. The registrant(s) has (have) statement is true and correct. (A registrant who State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. Statement must be filed prior to that date. The HUMBERTO RIVERA. This statement was filed on JUNE 27, 2002. commenced to transact business under the fictitious declares as true information which he or she Business and Professions Code) filing of this statement does not of itself authorize with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires business name or names listed above on 11/1/2008. knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) SIGNED: Publish: Mountain Views News the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name 08/07/09. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced five years from the date it was filed in the office of NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires MICHAEL DURONOWNER. Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 in violation of the rights of another under Federal, to transact business under the fictitious business the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name five years from the date it was filed in the office of Publish: Mountain Views News State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. name or names listed above on N/A. Statement must be filed prior to that date. The the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Business and Professions Code) NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires filing of this statement does not of itself authorize Statement must be filed prior to that date. The File No. 09-1185801 Publish: Mountain Views News five years from the date it was filed in the office of the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name filing of this statement does not of itself authorize FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Pub. 08/8, 08/15, 08/22, 08/29/2009 the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name File No. 09-1200588 SPORTSMAN’S SOLUTIONS, 5531 N. AZUSA Statement must be filed prior to that date. The State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. in violation of the rights of another under Federal, The following person(s) is (are) doing business fsdfdsfdsfAVE., AZUSA, CA 91702. Full name FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT filing of this statement does not of itself authorize Business and Professions Code) State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. as: ARCADIA MAIN DENTAL, 118 W. LAS of registrant(s) is (are) DAVID A. SMITH, 5531 File No. 20091246719 the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name Publish: Mountain Views News Business and Professions Code) TUNAS DR. STE. D, ARCADIA, CA 91007. N. ASPAN AVE., AZUSA, CA 91702, KEITH E. The following person(s) is (are) doing business in violation of the rights of another under Federal, Pub. 08/24, 08/31, 09/07, 09/14/2009 Publish: Mountain Views News Full name of registrant(s) is (are) JIMMY CHOI, COOK, 5523 N. ASPAN AVE., AZUSA, CA 91702. as: BC VELOCITY EXHAUST, 635 Fairview State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 D.D.S., INC., 1510 BALDWIN AVE. UNIT C, This Business is conducted by: CO-PARTNERS. Avenue, Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024. Full Business and Professions Code) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT ARCADIA, CA 91007. This Business is conducted Signed: DAVID A. SMITH/OWNER. This name of registrant(s) is (are) MALACHITE Publish: Mountain Views News File No. 09-1280100 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT by: A CORPORATION. Signed: JIMMY CHOI/ statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los MANAGEMENT, INC., 635 FAIRVIEW Pub. 08/17, 08/24, 08/31, 09/07/2009 The following person(s) is (are) doing business File No. 09-1183529 PRES. This statement was filed with the County Angeles County on 08/03/09. The registrant(s) has AVENUE, SIERRA MADRE, CA. 91024 This as: ASAP TOWING, 14835 CLARK AVE., The following person(s) is (are) doing business Clerk of Los Angeles County on 08/05/09. The (have) commenced to transact business under the Business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT HACIENDA HEIGHTS, CA 91745. Full name of as: MAMBO’S AUTO ELECTRIC, 6320 registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact fictitious business name or names listed above on JIMMIE D. LONG, PRESIDENT. This statement File No. 09-1222655 registrant(s) is (are) MARK A. GONZALEZ, 2436 S. WESTERN, L.A., CA 90047. Full name of business under the fictitious business name or N/A. was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles The following person(s) is (are) doing business FLORENTINA AVE., ALHAMBRA, CA 91803. registrant(s) is (are) SERGIO MALDONADO, names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires County on 08/07/09. The registrant(s) has (have) as: SRI LANKAN CAFE, 18845 SHERMAN This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. 4524 W. 131st ST., HAWTHORNE, CA 90250. This NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of commenced to transact business under the fictitious WAY STE. D, RESEDA, CA 91335. Full name of Signed: MARK A. GONZALEZ. This statement Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name business name or names listed above on 8/1/09. registrant(s) is (are) AMALI DISSANAYAKE, was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles Signed: SERGIO MALDONADO/OWNER. the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. The NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires 18610 NORDOFF ST., NORTHRIDGE, CA 91324. County on 08/19/09. The registrant(s) has (have) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize five years from the date it was filed in the office of This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. commenced to transact business under the fictitious Los Angeles County on 08/03/09. The registrant(s) filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Signed: AMALI DISSANAYAKE. This statement business name or names listed above on 8/1/09. has (have) commenced to transact business under the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, Statement must be filed prior to that date. The was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires the fictitious business name or names listed above in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. filing of this statement does not of itself authorize County on 08/10/09. The registrant(s) has (have) five years from the date it was filed in the office of on N/A. State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and Professions Code) the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name commenced to transact business under the fictitious the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires Business and Professions Code) business name or names listed above on 8/2/09. Statement must be filed prior to that date. The five years from the date it was filed in the office of Publish: Mountain Views News NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 five years from the date it was filed in the office of the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. The the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, filing of this statement does not of itself authorize FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Statement must be filed prior to that date. The State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name File No. 09-1178158 CLASSIFIEDS filing of this statement does not of itself authorize Business and Professions Code) in violation of the rights of another under Federal, The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name Publish: Mountain Views News State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. BENJAMIN’S IRON WORK, 4008 E. OLYMPIC in violation of the rights of another under Federal, Pub. 08/24, 08/31, 09/07, 09/14/2009 Business and Professions Code) BLVD., L.A., CA 90023. Full name of registrant(s) Publish: Mountain Views News is (are) EAST LA IRON WORKS, INC., 4008 E. FOR RENT Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 OLYMPIC BLVD., L.A., CA 90023. This Business Sierra Madre Luxury Apts. is conducted by: A CORPORATION. Signed: 2br 1 bath $1350 & $1450 & 2br 2bath $1550 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT RAFAEL CONTRERAS/PRES. This statement SALES AND MARKETING ASSISTANT File No. 09-1199816 was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles Mountain View, garden setting, spac & quiet, pool, a/c, ldry The following person(s) is (are) doing business County on 07/31/09. The registrant(s) has (have) as: MARILU RIOS INSURANCE SERVICES, commenced to transact business under the fictitious 355-5072 Immediate Part-Time 516 N. POPLAR AVE. #77, MONTEBELLO, business name or names listed above on N/A. CA 90640. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires Opportunity with Local Publisher MARILU RIOS, 628 N. HOWARD AVE. #77, five years from the date it was filed in the office of HOUSE FOR RENT MONTEBELLO, CA 90640. This Business is the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Lovely W. Laurel Avenue Home In Sierra Madre conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: Statement must be filed prior to that date. The MARILU RIOS/OWNER. This statement filing of this statement does not of itself authorize Three Bedroom/2 Bath w/Pool $2800/month was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name Contact: (310) 874-4288 (Posted Tuesday, August 11, 2009) County on 08/05/09. The registrant(s) has (have) in violation of the rights of another under Federal, commenced to transact business under the fictitious State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. HOUSE FOR RENT business name or names listed above on 08/01/08. Business and Professions Code) Foothills-area newspaper publisher looking for a mature, NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires Publish: Mountain Views News 139 Esperanza Avenue - Newly Refurbished House five years from the date it was filed in the office of Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 1 bedroom, 1 Bath the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name independent, self-starter who can work with minimal Statement must be filed prior to that date. The FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT New kitchen cabinets, granite counter tops, refrigerator, filing of this statement does not of itself authorize File No. 09-1185902 microwave oven. Tile floors in kitchen & bathroom. Small supervision. Key job responsibilities and requirements are the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: in violation of the rights of another under Federal, CELLPHONE SOLUTIONS, 1559 E. AMAR RD. front yard and landscaped side lard. Off street parking. listed below: State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. STE. S, WEST COVINA, CA 91792. Full name of Walking distance to city park and downtown Sierra Madre. Business and Professions Code) registrant(s) is (are) EMMEL GANZON, MARY Publish: Mountain Views News NINA GANZON, 3667 VALLEY BLVD. SPC. 124, $1175 per month - Computer literate (Proficient with MS Word and MS Excel) Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 POMONA, CA 91768. This Business is conducted Contact Earl (626) 893-0473 by: HUSBAND and WIFE. Signed: EMMEL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT GANZON/OWNER. This statement was filed APARTMENTS FOR RENT - Good communication skills and professional presence File No. 09-1200673 with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on The following person(s) is (are) doing business 08/03/09. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced 136 #B Esperanza Avenue - Newly Refurbished Duplex as: PRECISION BUILDERS, 14546 E. CLOSE to transact business under the fictitious business 1 BR/1BA New kitchen cabinets, granite counter top, - Some sales work involved ST., WHITTIER, CA 90604. Full name of name or names listed above on MAY 30, 2009. registrant(s) is (are) JUAN RIOS, 14546 E. CLOSE NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires refrigerator, microwave, dish washer, washer & dryer. Carport ST., WHITTIER, CA 90604. This Business is five years from the date it was filed in the office of parking - Vehicle is a plus (not required) conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: JUAN the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name RIOS/OWNER. This statement was filed with the Statement must be filed prior to that date. The Walking distance to city park and downtown Sierra Madre. County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 08/05/09. filing of this statement does not of itself authorize $1050 per month Contact Earl (626) 893-0473 - Flexible hours The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name business under the fictitious business name or in violation of the rights of another under Federal, names listed above on N/A. State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. 391 #C W. Sierra Madre Blvd - Newly Refurbished Apt. - Hourly base salary* for 20 hours per week + commission NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires Business and Professions Code) five years from the date it was filed in the office of Publish: Mountain Views News 2 BR/1BA New Refrigerator, microwave oven, gas cook top, the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 oven, and dishwasher)Large galley kitchen, tile floors in (*based on qualifications/experience) Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT kitchen, eating area & bathroom. Spaciuos living & bedrooms the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name File No. 09-1185301 (lots of storage). This downstairs apartment also offers an in violation of the rights of another under Federal, The following person(s) is (are) doing business E-mail resume and two professional references to: State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. as: HI HO MARKET, 10846 DOWNEY AVE., enclosed patio and out side storage area. $1350 per month Business and Professions Code) DOWNEY, CA 90241. Full name of registrant(s) is Contact Earl (626) 893-0473 Publish: Mountain Views News (are) MICHAEL DURON, 10319 FLALLON AVE., [email protected] Pub. 08/10, 08/17, 08/24, 08/31/2009 SANTA FE SPRINGS, CA 90670. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: Mountain Views News 80 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mtnviewsnews.com 9 Legal Notices Mountain Views News Saturday, September 5, 2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires NORTH, L.A., CA 90032. Full name of registrant(s) Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing LIVING, 112 N. 2nd ST. #201, ALHAMBRA, CA File No. 09-1280068 Statement must be filed prior to that date. The five years from the date it was filed in the office of is (are) CANAAN CONSTRUCTION AND of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in 91801. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) PERFECTO The following person(s) is (are) doing business filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name DEVELOPMENT, INC., 5569 HUNTINGTON DR. this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation LIVING, LLC., 112 N. 2nd ST. #201, ALHAMBRA, as: AYAYAY TACOS, 9111 LEMONA AVE., the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. The NORTH, L.A., CA 90032. This Business is conducted of the rights of another under Federal, State, or CA 91801. This Business is conducted by: A STE 9, NORTH HILLS, CA 91343. Full name of in violation of the rights of another under Federal, filing of this statement does not of itself authorize by: A CORPORATION. Signed: SHIGEYUKI common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Signed: registrant(s) is (are) MICHAEL NEHORAYAN, State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name OKANO/PRES. This statement was filed with the Professions Code) EVETTE MARTINEZ/MGR/MEMBER. This 11148 OATURA LN., APPLE VALLEY, CA 92308. Business and Professions Code) in violation of the rights of another under Federal, County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 08/28/09. Publish: Mountain Views News statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Publish: Mountain Views News State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact Pub. 09/07, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28/2009 Angeles County on 09/02/09. The registrant(s) has Signed: MICHAEL NEHORAYAN. This Pub. 08/24, 08/31, 09/07, 09/14/2009 Business and Professions Code) business under the fictitious business name or names (have) commenced to transact business under the statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Publish: Mountain Views News listed above on 8/28/09. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT fictitious business name or names listed above on Angeles County on 08/19/09. The registrant(s) has FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Pub. 08/24, 08/31, 09/07, 09/14/2009 NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires File No. 09-1341230 SEPT. 2, 2009. (have) commenced to transact business under the File No. 09-1269932 five years from the date it was filed in the office of The following person(s) is (are) doing business NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires fictitious business name or names listed above on The following person(s) is (are) doing business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name as: J.H.C CARTS SERVICE, 9228 ZAMORA five years from the date it was filed in the office of N/A. as: SUPER VALUE, 4114 E. WHITTIER BLVD., File No. 2009126195 Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing AVE., L.A., CA 90002. Full name of registrant(s) is the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires L.A., CA 90023. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) The following person(s) is (are) doing business of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in (are) JOSE HUGO CARRANZA, 9228 ZAMORA Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing five years from the date it was filed in the office of JOSE A. CHI SANTOS, 4145 FLORAL AVE., as: MELISSA AT THE SPA 128 S. MYRTLE this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation AVE., L.A., CA 90002. This Business is conducted of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name L.A., CA 90063. This Business is conducted by: AN AVENUE, MONROVIA, CA. 91016. Full name of the rights of another under Federal, State, or by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: JOSE HUGO this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation Statement must be filed prior to that date. The INDIVIDUAL. Signed: JOSE A. CHI SANTOS. of registrant(s) is (are) MELISSA AT THE SPA, common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and CARRANZA. This statement was filed with the of the rights of another under Federal, State, or filing of this statement does not of itself authorize This statement was filed with the County Clerk of INC., 128 S. MYRTLE AVE., MONROVIA, Professions Code) County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 09/01/09. common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name Los Angeles County on 08/18/09. The registrant(s) CA. 91016. This Business is conducted by: A Publish: Mountain Views News The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact Professions Code) in violation of the rights of another under Federal, has (have) commenced to transact business under CORPORATION Signed: MELISSA ANN Pub. 09/07, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28/2009 business under the fictitious business name or names Publish: Mountain Views News State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. the fictitious business name or names listed above URIBE. This statement was filed with the County listed above on 9/1/09. Pub. 09/07, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28/2009 Business and Professions Code) on 8/8/09. Clerk of Los Angeles County on 08/21/09. The FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires Publish: Mountain Views News NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact File No. 09-1322176 five years from the date it was filed in the office of FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Pub. 08/24, 08/31, 09/07, 09/14/2009 five years from the date it was filed in the office of business under the fictitious business name or The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name File No. 09-1341947 the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name names listed above on 8/21/09. GENNESIS WIRELESS, 724 S. BROADWAY, Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Statement must be filed prior to that date. The NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires L.A., CA 90014. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in RSMD, 2808 OREGON CT. STE. J, TORRANCE, File No. 09-1262840 filing of this statement does not of itself authorize five years from the date it was filed in the office of ERENDIRA G. ESPINOZA, 3503 TRAVIS AVE., this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation CA 90503. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) The following person(s) is (are) doing business the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name COMMERCE, CA 90040, CLISERIO ACOSTA of the rights of another under Federal, State, or ARCHIVE IT, INC., 2808 OREGON CT. STE. J, as: COLD SPRINGS PUBLICATIONS, 717 in violation of the rights of another under Federal, Statement must be filed prior to that date. The DE AVILA, 14905 KIDSON AVE., COMPTON, common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and TORRANCE, CA 90503. This Business is conducted BREA CANYON RD. #12, WALNUT, CA 91789. State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. filing of this statement does not of itself authorize CA 90221. This Business is conducted by: A Professions Code) by: A CORPORATION. Signed: GUY PUCKETT/ Full name of registrant(s) is (are) DIAMOND Business and Professions Code) the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name LIMITED PARTNERSHIP. Signed: ERENDIRA Publish: Mountain Views News PRES. This statement was filed with the County NUTRICEUTICAL, INC., 717 BREA CANYON Publish: Mountain Views News in violation of the rights of another under Federal, G. ESPINOZA. This statement was filed with the Pub. 09/07, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28/2009 Clerk of Los Angeles County on 09/01/09. The RD. #12, WALNUT, CA 91789. This Business is Pub. 08/24, 08/31, 09/07, 09/14/2009 State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 08/27/09. registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact conducted by: A CORPORATION. Signed: JOY Business and Professions Code) The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT business under the fictitious business name or names PAN. This statement was filed with the County FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Publish: Mountain Views News business under the fictitious business name or names File No. 09-1343178 listed above on 9/1/2009. Clerk of Los Angeles County on 08/17/09. The File No. 09-1286057 Pub. 08/24, 08/31, 09/07, 09/14/2009 listed above on N/A. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires MADISON ELECTRIC AND CONSTRUCTION, five years from the date it was filed in the office of business under the fictitious business name or TERESITAS FLOWERS, 7860 PARAMOUNT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT five years from the date it was filed in the office of 2930 HEATHER RD., LONG BEACH, CA the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name names listed above on 08/17/09. BLVD., PICO RIVERA, CA 90660. Full name File No. 09-1357367 the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name 90815. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) SCOTT Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires of registrant(s) is (are) ALEINA NUNEZ, 6744 The following person(s) is (are) doing business Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing WASHBURN, 2930 HEATHER RD., LONG of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in five years from the date it was filed in the office of LOCH ALENE AVE., PICO RIVERA, CA 90660. as: AQUILES TRUCKING, 4769 W. 120th ST., of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in BEACH, CA 90815. This Business is conducted by: this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. APT. C, HAWTHORNE, CA 90250. Full name this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: SCOTT WASHBURN. of the rights of another under Federal, State, or Statement must be filed prior to that date. The Signed: ALEINA NUNEZ. This statement of registrant(s) is (are) RAMON AQUILES, 4769 of the rights of another under Federal, State, or This statement was filed with the County Clerk of common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and filing of this statement does not of itself authorize was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles W. 120th ST. APT. C, HAWTHORNE, CA 90250. common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and Los Angeles County on 09/01/09. The registrant(s) Professions Code) the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name County on 08/20/09. The registrant(s) has (have) This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Professions Code) has (have) commenced to transact business under Publish: Mountain Views News in violation of the rights of another under Federal, commenced to transact business under the fictitious Signed: RAMON AQUILES. This statement was Publish: Mountain Views News the fictitious business name or names listed above Pub. 09/07, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28/2009 State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. business name or names listed above on N/A. filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County Pub. 09/07, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28/2009 on 9/1/09. Business and Professions Code) NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires on 09/03/09. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires Publish: Mountain Views News five years from the date it was filed in the office of to transact business under the fictitious business name FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT five years from the date it was filed in the office of Pub. 08/24, 08/31, 09/07, 09/14/2009 the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on 9/03/2009. File No. 09-1335102 the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name To the Editor Statement must be filed prior to that date. The NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT filing of this statement does not of itself authorize five years from the date it was filed in the office of I.C. TEK, 7411 FIRESTONE PL., DOWNEY, CA of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in File No. 09-1279282 the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name 90241. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) NORMAN this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation Re: the Fires (Aug. 31,2009) The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: in violation of the rights of another under Federal, Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing E. VALERIO, 7411 FIRESTONE PL., DOWNEY, of the rights of another under Federal, State, or FASHIONWORKS, 13963 E. ALONDRA BLVD., State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in CA 90241. This Business is conducted by: AN common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and SANTA FE SPRINGS, CA 90638. Full name of Business and Professions Code) this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation INDIVIDUAL. Signed: NORMAN E. VALERIO. Professions Code) I have not seen in the media registrant(s) is (are) POLICARPA SEVILLA, 13003 Publish: Mountain Views News of the rights of another under Federal, State, or This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Publish: Mountain Views News LA MANCHA ST., LA MIRADA, CA 90638. This Pub. 08/24, 08/31, 09/07, 09/14/2009 common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and Los Angeles County on 08/31/09. The registrant(s) Pub. 09/07, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28/2009 a comparison of the Station Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Professions Code) has (have) commenced to transact business under Fire with historic fires. As Signed: POLICARPE SEVILLA. This statement FILE NO. 2009-1268877 Publish: Mountain Views News the fictitious business name or names listed above FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE Pub. 09/07, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28/2009 on N/A. File No. 09-1334737 of this evening the Station County on 08/19/09. The registrant(s) has (have) OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires The following person(s) is (are) doing business commenced to transact business under the fictitious The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT five years from the date it was filed in the office of as: 1. ONE TEAM REALTY 2. ONE TEAM Fire is being quoted at business name or names listed above on N/A. of the fictitious business name: SUPER VALUE, File No. 09-1356863 the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name MORTGAGE 3. ONE TEAM ESCROW, 11745 105,000 Acres. According NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires 4114 S. WHITTIER BLVD., L.A., CA 90063. The following person(s) is (are) doing business Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing FIRESTONE BLVD., NORWALK, CA 90650. Full five years from the date it was filed in the office of The fictitious business name referred to above was as: BROADWAY MINI MARKET, 8413 S. of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in name of registrant(s) is (are) ONE TEAM REALTY, to John Robinson in The the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name filed on 4/7/09, in the county of Los Angeles. The BROADWAY, L.A., CA 90003-3342. Full name of this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation INC., 14526 ERMITA, LA MIRADA, CA 90638. Statement must be filed prior to that date. The original file number of 2009-0500269. The business registrant(s) is (are) RODRIGO TORRES, 8413 S. of the rights of another under Federal, State, or This Business is conducted by: A CORPORATION. San Gabriels II, the 1919 filing of this statement does not of itself authorize was conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. This ROADWAY, L.A., CA 90003-3342. This Business common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and Signed: HABIB GHOBRIAL/PRES/CEO. This fire blackened 160,000 Acres the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: Professions Code) statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los in violation of the rights of another under Federal, Angeles on 08/18/2009. The business information RODRIGO TORRES. This statement was filed with Publish: Mountain Views News Angeles County on 08/31/09. The registrant(s) has while the 1924 fire blackened State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 09/03/09. Pub. 09/07, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28/2009 (have) commenced to transact business under the Business and Professions Code) who declares as true information which he or she The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact fictitious business name or names listed above on over 90,000 Acres. I’ll bet Publish: Mountain Views News knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) SIGNED: business under the fictitious business name or names FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT N/A. your researchers can come Pub. 08/24, 08/31, 09/07, 09/14/2009 IRENE L. FRANCO/OWNER. listed above 9/03/2009. File No. 09-1334073 NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires Publish: Mountain Views News NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: five years from the date it was filed in the office of up with considerably greater FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Pub. 08/24, 08/31, 09/07, 09/14/2009 five years from the date it was filed in the office of ICE-MECH SERVICES, 1419 RONAN AVE., the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name File No. 09-1262714 the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name WILMINGTON, CA 90744. Full name of registrant(s) Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing detail. The following person(s) is (are) doing business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing is (are) DARYL JAMES BALLANTYNE, HSIN- of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in as: GENESIS LEGAL SERVICES, 746 S. File No.20091261964 of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in YI DIANA BALLANTYNE, 1419 RONAN AVE., this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation --Eric Olson , Sierra Madre ALVARADO ST. #6, L.A., CA 90057. Full name The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation WILMINGTON, CA 90744. This Business is of the rights of another under Federal, State, or of registrant(s) is (are) ROSARIO NAVARRO, 2551 STUDIO SINALOA 3763 EAST COLORADO of the rights of another under Federal, State, or conducted by: HUSBAND and WIFE. Signed: common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and E. AVE. S. #6-249, PALMDALE, CA 93550. This BLVD., PASADENA, CA. 91107. Full name common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and DARYL BALLANTYNE. This statement was filed Professions Code) FYI - At press time, the total Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. of registrant(s) is (are) BURT BRYANT 1261 Professions Code) with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on Publish: Mountain Views News Signed: ROSARIO NAVARRO. This statement SINALOA AVENUE, PASADENA, CA. 91104. Publish: Mountain Views News 08/31/09. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to Pub. 09/07, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28/2009 acreage burned exceeded was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Pub. 09/07, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28/2009 transact business under the fictitious business name or County on 08/17/09. The registrant(s) has (have) Signed: BURT BRYANT. This statement was filed names listed above on AUG. 31, 2009. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 154,000 acres and may well commenced to transact business under the fictitious with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires File No. 09-1349780 exceed the acerage of the 1919 business name or names listed above on N/A. 08/17/09. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced File No. 09-1329183 five years from the date it was filed in the office of The following person(s) is (are) doing business NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires to transact business under the fictitious business The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name as: PERFECTO LIVING, LLC.; PERFECTO fire. five years from the date it was filed in the office of name or names listed above on 8/16/2009. CANAAN TRADING, 5569 HUNTINGTON DR. City of Sierra Madre City of Sierra Madre COURTESY NOTICE Public Hearing Notice From: The City of Sierra Madre Subject: CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERATION OF A TEMPORARY USE PERMIT TO To: Property Owners within a 300-foot radius From: The City of Sierra Madre ALLOW PRIVATE RENTAL EVENTS TO OCCUR IN THE ALVERNO VILLA Subject: PARCEL MAP 09-02 DEL SOL D’ORO LOCATED ON THE ALVERNO HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS Applicant: David Brock Project Location: 2219-2225 Santa Anita Avenue, in the City of Sierra Madre, County of Los Angeles, State of California Applicant: Alverno High School The City of Sierra Madre gives notice, pursuant to State of California law, that the Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing to consider a request for a lot split for the property at 2219-2225 Santa Anita Avenue. The applicant is proposing to split the existing 43,795- Project Location: 200 N. Michillinda Avenue, City of Sierra Madre, square-foot parcel into two (2) parcels measuring 15,008 square feet and 28,787 square feet. County of Los Angeles; DATE AND TIME OF HEARING PLACE OF HEARING The City of Sierra Madre gives notice that the City Council will be considering a Temporary Use Permit to allow City of Sierra Madre City of Sierra Madre private rental events (non-school related events) to occur in the Alverno Villa Del Sol d”Oro, located on the Planning Commission meeting City Council Chambers Alverno High School campus, at 200 N. Michillinda Avenue. The purpose of the meeting on September 8, 2009 Thursday, September 17, 2009 232 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. is to receive public input on the matter. The City Council will continue the matter to September 22, 2009, to (Hearing begins at 7:00 p.m.) Sierra Madre, CA receive additional public input and will consider the request at such date. All interested persons may attend this meeting and the Planning Commission will hear them with respect thereto. ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: The project qualifies for Class 15 Categorical Exemption (Minor Land Division), pursuant to All interested persons may attend these meetings and the City Council will hear them with respect thereto. Section 15315 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). APPEAL: The decision of the Planning Commission is subject to a 10-business-day appeal period to the City Council. If in the future anyone wishes to challenge the decision of the Planning Commission in court, one may be limited to raising the issues that were raised or presented CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS PLACE OF MEETING in written correspondence delivered to the Planning Commission at, or before, the scheduled public hearing. For further information on this City of Sierra Madre City of Sierra Madre subject, please contact the Development Services Department at (626) 355-7138. Tuesday, September 8, 2009 City Council Chambers By Order of the Planning Commission and Tuesday, September 22, 2009 232 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. (both meetings begins at 6:30 p.m.) Sierra Madre, CA 91024 Danny Castro, Director of Development Services

Mountain Views News 80 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mtnviewsnews.com 10 Mountain Views News Saturday, September 5, 2009 Good Food & Drink TABLE FOR TWO By Peter Dills Service and a Smile? Do you remember the to disturb you,” I interrupted. Common magical days of, “Can sense is not so common and good service is I fill her up, check the not always easily attained. oil?” They didn’t ask Let’s get away from that misadventure and if they could wash on to the Melting Pot, in Old Pasadena. A your windows, they few months ago I had written a glowing just did it. I might be too young to remember review about this quaint establishment. This the gilded age of that service. But I know the time I was meeting friends and they were absolute importance of service, especially seated near the bar when I arrived and they in this competitive marketplace. Recently, I mentioned that they weren’t off to the best spoke with Andrew Cherng, founder of the start. They went on to tell me that they told expansive Restaurant chain, Panda Express. the hostess they were waiting for a friend, but He told me, that when he worked at his wanted a few drinks. When I arrived I could original Panda Inn Restaurant in Pasadena, see on their faces that they weren’t happy. “I reminded himself daily to treat every I know how to treat indifferent service - a customer as if they may never come back.” little kindness usually helps. I had to almost Those are very perceptive and guiding tackle someone to order a few drinks and words. How many times have you gone to told the server I was not sure if we were a restaurant simply because you are fond of having appetizers or entrees, but to start us the staff? There are many times that I may off with a few drinks. Nothing after twelve be indifferent about the food offered, but the minutes. I asked the front desk people what service and people inspire a loyalty in me!!! the problem was? I was told “Your friends I even go to the same teller at the racetrack seated themselves.” Ok, I know that is a “no, just because Bill tells a good joke. Most of the no” in the restaurant business, but how about horses I like are much funnier than they are a little communication? How about an act of fast. forgiveness? I think this was only the second Last week after house hunting all afternoon, time in five years that I walked out of a my Real Estate Agent Paul and I decided to restaurant. We swept over to Buca Di Beppo stop for a cold refreshment. We went to the and enjoyed a fantastic evening of great new, swank bowling alley, “The 300”, and service, and friendly people. The manager as they say, we bellied up to the bar, rather Rob actually came by to see how everyone a rather lifeless one this day, as we were the was doing. Nice touch! only ones on the radar. We got the attention We saw two differing spectrums of service in of the bartender and ordered two beers on a short night. tap, the bill came to ($17). Beelzebub, are So, one experience doesn’t make or break my you kidding me?!? Plus, you can add a three opinion, but take notice “300” and Melting dollar tip. Why three and not a dollar tip? Pot, your customers deserve some common Insurance policy! So we decided on another politeness. round, again we are the only ones at the bar, Got a great Service story? Email me at the “Hi, Excuse me, how about one more round?” [email protected] The bartender didn’t move, maybe he had Watch The Chef Knows every Saturday lost his hearing, as he paid no attention to afternoon at 3 PM on KJLA TV us. He was happily conversing with another employee. Finally, I got his attention; “Sorry

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Mountain Views News 80 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mtnviewsnews.com 11 The World Around Us Mountain Views News Saturday, September 5, 2009 SUSAN Henderson An Everlasting Memory Living Through A California Wildfire home, she would be dead. The right next to my Piaget which thought still unnerves me today. cost about 100 times more, but Happy 40th Birthday, Thankfully, by the time she got I didn’t bother to pick up.) And, to the bottom of the hill she had by the end of the day, that was all Internet! no choice but to drive away from I owned in the world. the fire. What I took with me is on the The second panic came when I lighter side of things. There is realized that my husband and I the other side of the memories The use of devices for purposes of computing and that people are no longer quite as separated should have left together instead that never go away. I still forget goes back (as far as human beings are concerned) from a shared, common experience as they once of taking two stupid cars. That that I no longer have a single to the time when about as far as the first humans were due to the widespread use of the Internet realized that they could use objects to keep track for purposes of reporting local happenings to the I opened my front door last too, worked out okay. I later picture of any of my children found out that the shrubbery in as infants. I have no pictures of things and events. The first of these computing world at large. Wednesday morning, and the devices included fingers, abaci and other devices In our neck of the woods one’s 40th birthday often smell of our burning forest the front of our home had started of my parents and siblings to burn and the back of my from when I was young. At the and systems created to track objects for purposes marks the beginning of a time of reflection about immediately sent my heart and of simple calculation. Fast-forward to the 20th one’s life and one’s place in this world. Sometimes mind back to October 20, 1991. husband’s car caught fire as he time of the fire, my father was was leaving. Again, fortunately, deceased and my mother was century and full-fledged computer systems as questions about one’s having done anything of Just about 18 years ago, I opened the flames just burned the paint in an Intermediate Care Facility we now know them were beginning to be found any significance during one’s lifetime or having the sliding door to the deck of off the back of the car and did so I was the custodian of all in widespread use for many different types of left one’s mark on the world come to the surface our home in the Oakland (CA) not reach the gas tank. the family memorabilia. My applications. Despite all the seemingly myriad and give one pause while these weighty issues Hills and for the first time, dad kept my first drawings in operations these machine perform, at their most are being sorted out and evaluated in one’s own smelled that same pungent odor. The Oakland Hills fire burned Kindergarten as well as my first basic level they do all of this work using 1’s and mind. If the Internet were a human being (for the I went out on the deck and for several days before it was place ribbon for a mobile I made 0’s (the presence or absence of electrical signals sake of argument let’s say a 40-something, single looked toward the hillsides only contained. The final tally was in second grade. He kept the above or below a certain voltage threshold) in a IT Professional) what do we think would be its to see a small patch of smoke 25 dead and 3,000 homes mobile too, only to be destroyed dizzying array of increasingly complex pattern evaluation of its own progress and importance to and trucks from the California destroyed. The area, an affluent in the fire. And of course, arrangements, synchronized and coordinated the world up to this point in its existence? Department of Forestry suburb of Oakland, was just there were the artifacts from down to the billionth of a second. These electronic It would no doubt be surprised by its surrounding it. I called out to about the size of Sierra Madre, our world travels, art, jewelry symphonies we now have at our fingertips unquestioningly pervasive influence into my husband who had seen the 3 square miles, and very much and furs. I was an absolute represent a significant extension of the human nearly every area of human activity. It would be initial flare up the day before and like our canyons. When the fire clothesaholic. And the fire took ability to use tools to track objects or events. pleased by its ease of accessibility to nearly every suggested he grab his camera. was contained, it looked like a it all away. But, I am not, and On September 2, 1969 in a test lab at UCLA, demographic that lives on the planet today where He had taken terrific photos of war zone with nothing visible did not, complain. two computers were connected together and conditions and circumstances permit. It would the water dumping helicopter but a few chimneys, blackened passed data to each other in what was then the be humbled by its facilitation of new avenues the day before, noting that they swimming pools, and ash. We made it out alive without first of many billions more computer connections of thought, entrepreneurship, social activism, a single scratch. Another to come. This was the birth event that spawned scientific research, international cooperation and flew so close he had actually shot After a few days, the Oakland close ups of the pilots face. neighbor further up the hill, my the Internet as we know it today. This event the most basic need for humans to connect with Police Department escorted beautician, was evacuating with represented a significant extension in the human other humans. It would be impressed by the sheer Almost simultaneously, I called van pools of residents down her two grandsons and watched ability to communicate. This was the beginning volume of data that it transports daily. It would be my dear friend who lived about what once had been beautifully in horror, as her next door of the World Wide Web. Since that time there taken aback by the way that it has transformed the 150 yards above the area that landscaped homes and hillsides neighbor, the neighbors’ two has been no sphere of human activity that has way people now see the world and themselves. It was smoking and suggested that protected by all the majesty of children and the fireman who remained untouched by the use of the Internet would be a little sad that despite all of the benefits she come on down and join us the forest. We were warned that moments before had knocked since human civilization grows and advances that it has provided it hasn’t been able to screen for breakfast since the wind was the ashes were still smoldering on her door. perish when a based upon our ability to communicate our out the worse elements of man’s in humanity now sending the smoke in her and there were many hazards gust of wind brought flames observations, ruminations and findings about the towards man, nor was it designed to do so. And direction. Both invitations took still unseen, including leaking that consumed them. And world as we see it to other humans and receive the it would be stunned to find out that despite less than a minute, however, gas and live electrical wires. We there were many more heart same from them. One would be hard pressed to bringing people closer together, they are still as neither event happened. were told that the purpose of the wrenching stories. argue that our world has not gotten a lot smaller far apart as ever. Happy 40th, Internet. ‘ride’ was to allow us to come In less than 60 seconds, what to terms with the fact that our The fire moved fast and burned appeared as a little patch of homes were gone, nothing was deeply, but it left an indelible smoke exploded into one of the left but memories. The purpose, mark on my life. Not the pain, The Book Report worst natural disasters in this they said, was to show us the nor the memories of the event Jeff’s Pics Books for your consideration country’s history and definitely, finality of the situation in hopes itself, but the constant reminder the most life altering event in my that it would help us move on to of how good it is to be alive. life. the next step. They meant well. There is not a day, no matter what transpires, that I am not Unless you have lived through Moving on was almost it, you cannot imagine it. There grateful to be here. I never did impossible. I remember on the give a lot of meaning to material was no forewarning, no time to day of the fire we drove to a prepare anything, just enough things, but having lost a lifetime friend’s home that lived on the full of pictures, awards, baby time, thank God, to get out and other side of Oakland. When save your life. There was no time shoes, class rings, and snapshots she opened the door she was of precious moments in time, I to think about what you should crying and gave me a big hug take with you. Actually there learned to care even less about and said, “Susan, I am so sorry ‘things’. I learned, literally, that was no time to think at all, just – I just saw your home on the time to act. you can have the whole world and news. It’s gone.” To which I loose it in a matter of seconds. Imagine seeing your entire replied, “Oh Vi, how could that In fact, the night before the fire, neighborhood go up in flames have been our house? There I had hung a signed lithograph instantly, much the same way was just smoke in the area when from the artist Cristo, for whom a grill of charcoal doused with we left.” It was so much easier I had done some collaboration lighter fluid ignites when a to hold on to hope, but that van with in the early stages of his Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and evolution from a child of religious conservatives match is lit. That is exactly what trip through miles of ashes took ‘Umbrella’ project on the wall in the Art of Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders(2009) in rural England to a freewheeling spiritual happened. away any notion that anyone’s my den. The frame cost a couple This is an exploration of the most difficult and teacher who challenged Westerners to defy house survived, much less ours. of hundred dollars and on the important part of what doctors do, by Yale School convention and think for themselves. From early We immediately left the house back of it I added a brass plate of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of in this intellectual life, Watts shows himself to in excruciating heat and total At some point we were allowed to go back to the site which read, “To My Children: the monthly New York Times Magazine column be a philosophical renegade and wide ranging darkness. The air was filled with Do Not Sell This In A Garage “Diagnosis,” and technical advisor for the hit autodidact who came to Buddhism through the thick black smoke. Each of us of our homes and look for any remaining valuables. Fires and Sale”. They won’t. Fox TV series House, M.D. A healthy young teachings of Christmas Humphreys and D. T. took our individual cars, mine man suddenly loses his memory, making him Suzuki. Told in a nonlinear style, In My Own was in the garage, my husband’s air pockets are really interesting But, the most unforgettable part phenomenon. When we went unable to remember the events of each passing Way wonderfully combines Watts’ own brand of in the front of the house. When of that entire incident was the hour. Two patients diagnosed with Lyme disease unconventional philosophy and often hilarious the garage door opened, I back to our home, which was amazing strength, courage and a 3 story split level, there was a improve after antibiotic treatment, only to have accounts of gurus, celebrities, psychedelic drug remember seeing nothing but sacrifice made by the firefighters. their symptoms mysteriously return. A young experiences, and wry observations of Western thick black smoke and dashes of single level of ash. But, we did I actually saw men standing with find some interesting things. My woman lies dying in the ICU bleeding, jaundiced, culture. A charming foreword written by Watts’ orange. their arms outstretched trying to incoherent and none of her doctors know what is father sets the tone of this warm, funny, and husband found the unscathed help us with the wind dashing head of his driver (golf club). killing her. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Lisa beautifully written story of a compelling figure I drove instinctively (I could see flames all around them. They Sanders takes us bedside to witness the process who encouraged readers to “follow your own nothing) for about a mile until I found a slightly cracked cup put their lives at risk to help save that I brought back from New of solving these and other diagnostic dilemmas, weird” , something he always did himself, as his the smoke was less dense and us. With 3,000 homes destroyed, providing a firsthand account of the expertise remarkable account of his life shows. pulled over to the side of the road. Orleans a month or two before. without forewarning at 10 am There was a pretty good sized and intuition that lead a doctor to make the right Without realizing it, I had driven on a Sunday morning, the fact diagnosis.Never in human history have doctors The Flame Keepers: The True Story of an American to the freeway and towards pile of melted pennies from that only 25 people perished Andrew’s collection. I found had the knowledge, the tools, and the skills that Soldier’s Survival Inside Stalag 17 by Ned Handy & center city. Miraculously, my is a testament to the men and they have today to diagnose illness and disease. Kemp Battle(2004) husband, along with several the ‘frothing’ tool for our women who fought that fire. So, cappuccino maker. We gathered And yet mistakes are made, diagnoses missed, In the Spring of 1944, Ned Handy’s B-24 bomber other residents had pulled over when I hear people criticize our symptoms or tests misunderstood. In this high was shot down on a mission into Germany. at that point too. We took a what we could and put them in public safety officers, it is all I can a display box later. Since then, tech world of modern medicine, Sanders shows us Handy and his fellow survivors were sent to Stalag moment to glimpse back at the do to keep quiet. I always want that knowledge, while essential, is not sufficient to 17, a crowded, disease-ridden POW camp that inferno and then proceeded to I have thrown that box away. to ask those who take issue with What was the point? unravel the complexities of illness. She presents held thousands of Allied soldiers and operated drive helplessly to safety. the decisions of our firefighters an unflinching look inside the detective story by its own cruel rules. From the beginning, There was an incredible calmness On the day we ran out of if they would be willing to stand that marks nearly every illness revealing the Handy set out to escape, relentlessly digging a surrounding the area as I the house, it was interesting in their shoes? combination of uncertainty and intrigue that tunnel underneath a barracks. As he dug, Handy drove out of my driveway onto what I took with me. The day It is not possible to live through doctors face when confronting patients who are forged friendships and uneasy alliances, survived the streets. No one could see before, I had taken my mother something that traumatic and sick or dying. Through dramatic stories of patients Gestapo searches and a vicious beating, helped anything, but you could hear the to San Francisco for a trip to not appreciate every breath you with baffling symptoms, Sanders portrays the save the lives of wanted men and befriended guiding voices of the Oakland the museum and shopping. I take. You quickly learn to live by absolute necessity and surprising difficulties of a German guard. When the moment came for Fire Department directing found a great ‘deal’ on Union the expression, “don’t sweat the getting the patient’s story, the challenges of the Handy to escape, fate would intervene as he and residents to stay calm and keep Street, a pair of red wide welt small stuff”. Life is a big thing physical exam, the pitfalls of doctor-to-doctor his fellow prisoners began a brutal march West moving. The firefighters stood corduroy walking shorts for $5 and having escaped death makes communication, the vagaries of tests, and the near towards freedom or death. This is a powerful, there shouting instructions as ($50 value). I quickly donned you really understand that. calamity of diagnostic errors. She wonderfully moving memoir of an ordeal that brought out the the area surrounding them kept them on, tag and all, a T Shirt chronicles the real life drama of doctors solving best and the worst in men. A must-read for World burning and the winds kept – that I later noted was the one Yes, the memory is everlasting, these difficult medical mysteries that not only II buffs and anyone interested in the true nature blowing. I never noticed anyone signed by Nelson Mandela and but not in a frightening way. illustrate the art and science of diagnosis, but of war, The Flame Keepers is a story of suffering, panicking and personally I only was waiting to be framed; the Knowing what you have been often save the patients’ lives. camaraderie, horror and survival and one young lost it twice, each time very nearest pair of shoes – which through has an anesthetizing man’s awakening to the power of humanity briefly. The first was when I were sitting by the door waiting effect on you and how you look In My Own Way: An Autobiography by Alan W. itself. “This wonderful book has stirred me more realized I may have encouraged to go to shoe repair (sole and at life, even when faced with the Watts (1972) profoundly than any other World War II memoir my friend to drive to her death. shoe had separated like in first possibility of another wildfire Alan Watts was a leading popularizer of Eastern I have read.” George McGovern, former Senator If she left her home and headed grade); and when I grabbed my that may be coming your way Religions in the West and an intellectual force and World War II B-24 pilot. away from the fire she would be keys, I grabbed a watch by the behind the 60’s cultural revolution. In this book safe, but if she had turned, in night stand. (A Timex I won at Ms. Henderson is the Publisher/ Watts tracks his spiritual and philosophical the seconds before the flames Virginia Madden’s golf classic Editor of Mountain Views News. engulfed the area towards our for Longest Drive. It was lying

RICH Johnson place at the wrong time and was cut in half by saying, “I’m a Democrat.” Roosevelt finally asked a Japanese destroyer. This killed two sailors and why? The man responded, “My grandfather was threw the rest into dangerous waters. Kennedy a Democrat, my father was a Democrat, and I’m Repartee acted valiantly, saved his crew, and was awarded a Democrat.” Roosevelt confidently responded, a Medal. Forward to 1960, at one campaign stop, “Suppose your grandfather had been a jackass and Webster’s dictionary tells John Kennedy’s run for president in 1960 a rumor a little boy asked the future president: “How did your father a jackass, what would you be then?” us repartee means a “quick arose suggesting JFK’s rich family was going to you become a war hero?” JFK’s short response The man shot back: “A Republican.” Point, set, and and witty reply.” Who buy the election. Rather than try to sidestep the charmed the entire country: “It was involuntary. match to the heckler. amongst us hasn’t wished, issue, the future president brought it up at the They sank my boat.” Now, as to the commercial. We have Comedy at one time or another, annual Gridiron Dinner in Washington D. C. He Another famous example of repartee involves Improv Club every Monday night, 7-9pm in the that they had the perfect quick and witty retort to announced he had just received a telegram from his our favorite British Prime Minister, Winston back room of the Casa Del Rey Restaurant in Sierra someone else’s not quite as quick and witty line? father. The fictional message said, “Jack, don’t buy Churchill. At a 1912 dinner party, Lady Astor Madre. It costs $100 every four weeks. Comedy As a matter of fact that’s why I participate in a single vote more than necessary. I’ll be damned became angry at Churchill’s drunken diatribe and Improv helps me in my business communications Comedy Improv on Monday nights. It helps me if I’m going to pay for a landslide.” Apparently it said, “Winston, if you were my husband, I’d put and (sometimes) having the right words at the develop a quick clever response to whatever people shot down the rumor as he was elected president poison in your coffee.’ To which Churchill instantly right time at social gatherings. Call June Chandler may say to me. Look for the Comedy Improv that year. John Kennedy’s war record was another replied, “Nancy, if you were my wife, I’d drink it.” at (626) 355-4572. She’ll invite you to come join commercial at the end of the column. topic frequently mentioned during the campaign. Now, don’t think our professional orating us for a free class. Be prepared to play along with Okay, let’s take a little peek and recount clever For those of you unaware, during World War II politicians always get the final word. While giving us. (By the way, I don’t get paid for this. I promote examples of repartee. The political arena is always a Lieutenant j.g. Kennedy was the skipper of a PT a campaign speech in the early 1900’s, Teddy improv for the pure joy of loving improv.) rich place to dig for witty nuggets. In the middle of boat. It had the misfortune of being in the wrong Roosevelt was interrupted by a heckler who kept Mountain Views News 80 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mtnviewsnews.com 12 Mountain Views News Saturday, September 5, 2009 The Good Life SENIOR HAPPENINGS I Am The Master Of My Fate: FYI: Labor Day Recipe of the Month: On September 5, 1882, some Apple Butter The captain of my soul... 10,000 workers assembled in New York City to participate RECIPE INGREDIENTS: William Ernest Henly was a bright and bloody, but unbowed” was close to the fact. in America’s first Labor Day 9 to 10 apples talented kid. He would later show that he parade. After marching from 1 cup apple cider was also very gutsy. He attended a parochial During the course of his literary carrier, he City Hall, past reviewing 2 tsp. apple pie spice(or 1/2 tsp. each nutmeg and allspice school in urban London during the days of became friends with many writers of that era. stands in Union Square, and 1 tsp. cinnamon) Queen Victoria. He was lucky, the school He built a particularly close relationship with and then uptown to 42nd 1. Peel and core the apples, then cut them into 1 inch chunks. Place master was T.E. Brown, a recognized poet Robert Lewis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling Street, the workers and their the apples in a large, saucepan and pour the cider over them. Cover and scholar. When Henly was about twelve, and George Bernard Shaw. According to families gathered for a picnic, the pot and cook for about 30 minutes over low heat or until the he picked up a bone infection in both legs. It a biographer, some of those writers used concert, and speeches. This apples are soft. was deadly serious. His doctor told him that Henley as their model as they developed first Labor Day celebration he might be able to save one of his legs but fictional characters for their work. A part was eagerly organized and 2. Cool the mixture until it is only warm to the touch. Divide it probably not both and possibly he wouldn’t of the sassy and in-your-face Henly became executed by New York’s into two batches and puree each in the bowl of a food processor be able to save even one. T. E. Brown, who Peter Pan. The one-legged Henley became Central Labor Union. or blender. was also his best friend, told young Henley the one-legged Long John Silver. Debate continues to this day that he better get busy preparing for a carrier as to who originated the idea 3. Pour all of the pureed fruit into a 13 x 9 x 2 inch baking dish, that didn’t require standing. Some consider “Invictus” as one of the most of a workers’ holiday, but it spread evenly, sprinkle with the apple pie spice, and stir well. Bake beautiful poems ever written. It is certainly definitely emerged from the in a preheated 300 degree oven for 2 to 3 hours or until your apple ranks of organized labor at butter is deep brown and thick. Stir the puree every 20 minutes. Henley elected to become a poet like his one of the most memorized poems in school. a time when they wanted to Cool the apple butter and then scoop it into a clean jar with a school master. Brown then helped Henley But some have problems with the last two demonstrate the strength of sealable lid. It will keep for up to 2 months in your refrigerator. map out a plan of study and he tutored lines: “I am the master of my fate: I am the their burgeoning movement Spread it on toast, crackers, or sandwiches. Makes 1-1/2 cups. him along the way. At the age of sixteen, captain of my soul”. How could anyone be and inspire improvements in the battle to save the left leg was lost and it the master of their fate or the captain of their their working conditions. was amputated just below the knee. Henley soul? You certainly couldn’t read this kind of New York’s Labor Day continued to study and began to write nonsense in church. celebrations inspired similar For Your Funny Bone classic poetry. At the age of eighteen, Brown events across the country. A man was walking along the beach when he found an introduced Henly to the Admissions Board Henley was first and foremost a poet and Oregon became the first ancient bottle. When he rubbed the bottle, a genie appeared. at Oxford. The Board reviewed his grasp of poetry is about playing with words. Henley state to grant legal status to The genie told him that he would grant him three wishes but literature, language, math and science. They was also very bright, a devout member of the holiday in 1887; other that his mother-in-law would get twice as much as he asked admitted him as a senior student. A few the Church and a Biblical scholar. There states soon followed. In 1894, for. months later he graduated. He continued are several passages in the Bible that begin Congress passed legislation So the man said “OK, give a million dollars”. “Fine” says the to write classic poetry and he continued to with the words, “I am” and they always seem making Labor Day a national holiday. genie. He gave the man a million dollars and the mother-in- study literature. Within a couple of years, to be used in an unusual way. When God law received 2 million also. he became recognized as a major poet and a confronts Moses in the desert, for example, Seeing how this was going, the man said “OK, give me a big major literary critic. God identifies Himself as, “I am who I am”. I house with a pool, tennis court, bowling alley, movie theater think that the “I am” parts in the “Invictus” a Bentley in the garage, etc.” The genie said “It’s done” and the His remaining right leg went from bad to are probably more Biblical than personal. Helpful Hints mother-in-law received 2 of the same. worse and for a long time, it seemed likely Then the genie said “ OK, that’s two wishes what’s the last that he would lose that leg as well. While “Invictus” might make an appropriate text Don’t throw away odd one?” Henly was bedfast in a London hospital, for a very interesting sermon. socks or socks with holes “OK, then why don’t you just beat me half to death!! he wrote, “Invictus”. The line, “My head is in them, use them to make a mop. Tie several socks (10-12 works September Birthdays best) to a mop or broom handle and use just like you would a regular mop. Edwina Garcia, Yvonne Osti White cotton socks work best for this project and by the time the “sock mop” Quote: wears out, you’ll probably Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up have plenty more socks to every time we fail. make a new one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pasadena Highlands Sponsors Bingo Prize Pasadena Highlands, an independent and assisted living community, is proud to provide a special gift basket on the first Tuesday of each month. Bingo takes place every Tuesday at 1:30 pm in the Hart Park House / Senior Center in Memorial Park. The game begins at 1:30 pm but those wishing to play must arrive 10 minutes before to secure your Bingo cards. Join us on the first Tuesday of each month for your chance to win this special prize and learn more Hey Diddle Diddle... about the Pasadena Highlands. Unless listed differently, all an appointment. The Cow jumped Over the Moon Activities: Wednesday: Wii Wednesday Virtual by Dorothy White activities are at the Hart Memorial Park (Senior Reality games (bowling, tennis, Center) 222 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra boxing,etc.) Madre 2nd Wednesday of the month: FREE Legal Old King ple to the other cows. Cowleen was happy Lunch Program: Monday- Friday at the Consultations 10-11:30 am. Appointments Cole was in a to leave; she had been yearning for a change Intervale Café -12:00 Noon-Call (626) necessary. Call 355-7394. quandary-- the and some city life. 355-0256 to make your daily reservation. Thursday: Game Day- 1:00PM- 3:30PM- star of the show, “The Cow Jumped Over the Moon” Suggested donation $2.00 for seniors Poker, UNO, Scrabble, Cribbage, Little Tommy turned out to be a great act. Cowleen made (60+) and $3.75 for visitors. Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Tucker, who several feints; then to a drum roll, made her Monday: Free strength Training Class Pinochle...you name it. sang for his fantastic leap over a gigantic papier mache with volunteer Lisa Brandley 1:00-1:45 Yoga- 5:00 PM- 6:30 PM $6.50 for seniors Tuesday: Bingo- 1:30PM- 3:30 PM .25c (50 and over) Call 355-5278 for more supper at King moon. After two weeks had passed however, per card information Cole’s night Cowleen became homesick. She missed the Yoga- 5:30 PM- 7:00PM Instructor Friday: Ping-Pong 1:30 PM club, had laryn- clover-filled fields, the playful calves and es- Andrea Walsh- $6.50 for seniors (50 and Saturday: Senior Club for those 55 and gitis. A replacement must be found immedi- pecially a good gossip with the other cows. over.) Call 355-5278 for more information older- Brown bag lunch at 11:30AM ately. But who? Where? She wanted to go home. Fortunately at this 3rd Tuesday of each month-Free financial Meeting at Noon- Bingo at 12:30 PM- To help him think of what to do, King point, Tommy Tucker regained his voice. consulting: 10-12 noon. Call 355-7394 for only .25c per card Cole took a leisurely drive through the Cowleen was fired and Tommy once more countryside. As he passed a farm he noted became the show’s star. something almost unbelievable—a cow Cowleen returned to the farm, where al- Senior Opportunities and Excursions making fantastic leaps—jumping over other though she regaled her cohorts with tales of cows, sometimes two or three cows in one her life in show biz, she was much happier Monthly Excursions: a bit of easy tai chi. On Wednesdays at leap. Maybe, just maybe—that was the solu- back at the farm. She was truly a contented 11:00 am. tion to his problem. When approached, the cow. Free Blood Pressure farmer said he would gladly rent Cowleen to Clinic- Second Tuesday Free Lawn Bowling Lessons: The Santa King Cole as she had been such a bad exam- of each month 11:00 AM- Noon Anita Bowling Green Club will have No appointment necessary beginning lawn bowling lessons each SIERRA MADRE’S FARMERS MARKET! Saturday morning starting at 10:00 AM. Senior Stretch and Balance- A free class Located just north of the golf course at Wednesday 3-8pm designed by volunteer instructors Teryl 405 S. Santa Anita Ave.< free parking> Fresh vegetables and seasonal fruits from California family farms. Specialty foods, Willis, for seniors to refresh the joints, For information call Gene at 626.351- soothe the spine, and improve balance. 5327. vegetarian and vegan dishes, ethnic foods and hot food - Everything you’ll find at the Come and join in some simple and farmers market has been made or picked fresh, is pesticide-free and preservative-free. gentle exercises, a little light yoga, and Free public parking on Mariposa. Meals-on-Wheels: Meals are delivered to homebound seniors by volunteer drivers through the YWCA Intervale Lunch Program M-F (with frozen meals for the weekend.) $2.00 suggested donation per day. Call Susan Garcia at (626) 858-8382 for more information. MEALS-ON-WHEELS NEEDS VOLUNTEERS TO DELIVER MEALS TO OUR HOMEBOUND NEIGHBORS **ONCE A MONTH OR WEEKLY** Please contact Darlene Traxler at 626.355.0256.

ARTHRITIS, OSTEOARTHRITIS, OSTEOPOROSIS HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT The City of Arcadia, Senior Services Department is having a health lecture on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at the Arcadia Community Center, 365 Campus Drive at 1:30pm. This is a free lecture given by the Arcadia Senior Services Department in partnership with the rehabilitation professionals at Casa Colina. Barry Shafer, PT, ATV and director of the new Casa Colina Azusa Center will be the guest speaker. Mr. Shafer obtained his Bachelor of Science and Masters’ of Physical Therapy from the University of Southern California and will discuss the differences between Arthritis, Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis. Mr. Shafer will also perform exercises that you can perform at home to manage the disease and prevent pain. The presentation is free but reservations are required as space is limited. To reserve your space please call Arcadia Senior Services at 626.574.5130 before September 17th . This event is for individuals 50 years of age and older. Mountain Views News 80 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mtnviewsnews.com Home & Property Mountain Views News Saturday, September 135, 2009 One Of A Kind: Featuring unique homes & gardens and the people who create them By Chris Bertrand LA Arboretum Membership: Could be the cheapest, best gym membership around! Chris Bertrand The Los Angeles Arboretum, lo- of this “fairy spot in the Valley” from Don Hugo Reid to Elias cries for “Help! Help!” It’s just the call of these birds. cated right across Baldwin Avenue Jackson “Lucky” Baldwin. If you prefer to walk in a group or learn while you ex- from the Santa Anita Mall and the Racetrack in Arcadia The Queen Anne Cottage, a resplendent Victorian home ercise, members-only summertime walks will continue might just be the perfect recession solution to renewing your built in 1885, was closed after “Lucky” Baldwin’s death. Re- through September 21 on Wednesday evenings from 5:30-7 pricey gym membership! stored in the 1950’s by The Arboretum, work continues today p.m. A volunteer docent focuses an informative guide on a An Arboretum membership comes with several special with occasional refurnishing with fitting period pieces. The different area of the grounds each week. Afterward, mem- privileges, especially early, members-only entrance to the cottage is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. bers may remain on the grounds until 7:30 on Wednesdays. park. Instead of trudging on a boring treadmill or elliptical Don Hugo Reid’s 1840 adobe was reconstructed utilizing Through September 21, the early entrance hours have also trainer, consider trying the three plus miles of paths through the original method of manufacturing sun dried clay, water been moved up to 7 a.m. to take advantage of the cool early the park when members eagerly flow through their doors at and straw into adobe bricks. It carries a California designa- morning hours. 8 a.m. every morning. tion as a Historical Landmark. The “Baldwin Belvedere” Vic- If you want to increase the challenge level, you can create You’ll enjoy the soothing sounds of Mayberg waterfall. You’ll torian or the Adobe could become part of your daily rou- your own personal Boot Camp. Try several traverses of the learn to recognize the jungle-like landmarks of the “Prehis- tine, part of your “neighborhood walk” just as familiar as the stairs near Tallac Knoll, or lunges through the Australia gar- toric Forest” section along Baldwin Lake when it appears in homes on your street. den. If a “real” Boot Camp is more your style, Extreme Boot another of its many appearances in TV and film. You can be The horseshoe shaped lake adjacent to the cottage is actu- Camp Monrovia meets weekday mornings at 5:30, includ- among the first to delight in the first blooms of the vivid pur- ally a naturally occurring artesian water source, fed by two ing two days onsite at the Arboretum. Ask for the members’ ple Jacarandas or the Tabebuia impetiginosa. Also known as springs. It was originally a holding reservoir for Baldwin’s fee discount when you sign up at 626-256-9000. Another fee the Pink Trumpet Tree, its iridescent hot pink blooms burst Ranch irrigation and was dredged to 12-15 feet in the 1880’s based class is Tai Chi Chuan, taught by Master Mo Chi Sasian out after the tree suddenly loses its leaves in mid-winter. It’s a and beautified by adding granite boulders along its edges. Yau, designed to increase energy and flexibility, while reduc- breathtaking sight not to be forgotten. In such a dry climate as LA, it’s amazing how restorative ing stress and blood pressure. Sign up for this one directly Early walkers are in good company. You might meet up an amble along the water can be. A membership can become through the Arboretum. with ninety-something member, Walter Hollywood, who’s part of a holistic approach to exercise. When you’re looking at the checkbook, considering where been walking the Arboretum for decades. The only accom- You can take in some of the over two hundred bird spe- to cut back these days, think about an Arboretum member- modation to his age are the dual canes he sports. You’ll see cies, both migratory and resident species documented in this ship as an affordable alternative to your workout at the gym! multi-generations walking together regularly, with children avian and mammal sanctuary. Likely, you’ve heard about the Exercise your body, feed your soul and immerse yourself in often joining parents and grandparents for this soul-feeding Arboretum’s most famous avian residents, their showy pea- nature in this true sanctuary! routine in the summer months. cocks. Annual individual memberships start at $45 a year and The 127 acres that became the county’s botanical garden, The peafowl, brought here during the Baldwin days of the family/grandparent memberships start at $70, with numer- is planted in the heart of the original Rancho Santa Anita, late 1800’s have both thrived and naturalized like pigeons ous other membership levels available. For more informa- which was initially 13,319 acres. Today it is a historical site. have in New York or Chicago. Don’t be alarmed if no one tion, visit www.Arboretum.org or call 626-821-3233. Two landmarks stand in testament to the long line of owners around comes running with aid at high pitched, apparent

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