Healthcare Not Warfare Vigil Held outside Adam Schiff’s Office
Roberta Medford and a handful of friends and colleagues held a vigil outside Pasadena Senior Center Monday afternoon. The group plans on monthly vigils the third Wednesday of each month.
Photo by Terry Miller
Healthcare Not Warfare Vigil Held outside Adam Schiff’s Office
Roberta Medford and a handful of other opponents of war funding in the United States [...]
CURLING…ON GRASS IN ARCADIA
Margi Rambo delivers a bowl in a Triples Tournament at the Santa Anita Bowling
Green Club’s Greens at the Arcadia County Park. (Photo by Gene Plunkett)
We all watched Curling in the Olympic games, but did you know that that sport on ice [...]
The Homes That Love Built
By Susan Motander
The San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity turned keys over to four families on Saturday at the dedication of their new homes on Sherman Avenue in Monrovia. In giving the Invocation, Reverend Gregory Douglass of the Monrovia United Methodist Church, called the homes “A place to be a family.” [...]
Annual Wistaria Festival Offers Good Eats, Music, Fun – and One Spectacular Vine This Sunday
The Sierra Madre Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Wistaria Festival on Sunday, March 14, 2010. The festival first began in the early 20th century, drawing as many as 100,000 people over an extended period of time. Now the vine, which is on private property, is available to the public for viewing [...]
Southern California Public Radio’s Mohn Broadcast Center & Crawford Family Forum Opens
The Pasadena Independent toured the new broadcast headquarters of Southern California Public Radio (SCPR), The Mohn Broadcast Center & Crawford Family Forum Thursday morning .
The Public Radio facilities which used to call PCC home are now a far cry from their humble beginnings.
The 35,000 square-foot building includes new studios, a generous sized news roomcomplete [...]
4th Annual Iranian New Year Celebration Norooz Slated for March 11 in Pasadena
4th Annual Iranian New Year Celebration Norooz Slated for March 11 in Pasadena
By Terry Miller
This March, as millions of Iranians and Iranian Americans celebrate Norooz, – they may be joined by an unlikely group: the United States Congress.
H.Res.267, the Norooz Resolution, was unanimously approved January 27, 2010 by the House Oversight and [...]
“Cuss Free Week” Resolution Passes Assembly, Senate Stalls Adoption
A resolution authored by Assemblymember Anthony J. Portantino (D-La Cañada Flintridge) and Assemblymember Cameron Smyth (R-Santa Clarita), was adopted by the California State Assembly today. Assembly Concurrent Resolution 112 designates the first week of March as “Cuss Free Week” and invites all Californians to take the “No Cussing Challenge” to “improve our relationships, set a tone of harmony and connectedness in our communities, and inspire ourselves to higher endeavors,” according to the language from the resolution. ACR 112 was transmitted to the Senate for expedited action. When the Senate approves it, California will be the first state to annually recognize the first week of March as “Cuss Free Week”.
Villa Esperanza Services Serves It Up BEST for the Marathon Participants
Villa Esperanza Services Serves It Up BEST for the Marathon Participants
It didn’t matter that it was dark outside, the first group of volunteers arrived at 5:30 a.m. eager to get things set up at Water Station 14 – Villa Esperanza Services! They set up tables and filled water cups two hours before the first [...]
Pasadena PD Donates $500 to West Pasadena Little League
The Pasadena Police Command staff recently traded their uniforms for aprons when they grilled almost 800 hot dogs for the grand re-opening of the Robinson Park.
“It was our pleasure to be able to take one of our basic tenets – We exist to Serve the Community – and serve up hot dogs to hundreds [...]
Actor Activist Andrew Koenig Missing in Vancouver
Andrew Koenig, the actor and activist who became well known for trying to address Chinese Human Rights violations at the Pasadena Rose Parade in 2008 and was arrested for “interfering” with that Rose Float is now missing according to police, family and friends. Koenig played Richard “Boner” Stabone to Kirk Cameron’s Mike Seaver [...]
