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City Council declares level 1 water shortage
Outdoor watering limited to three days a week
winter and requires that leaks be repaired within 72 hours, in addition to permanent water waste prohibitions. Pasadena Water and Power (PWP) customers can report water waste by calling (626) 744-8888 at any time or report online via the Pasadena Citizen Service Center at www. cityofpasadena.net/csc. Fines for repeat offenders can be up
progress on reducing dangerous greenhouse gases,” said Governor Brown. July 28th’s agreement was signed by Governor Brown, Mexico’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Undersecretary Rodolfo Lacy and Mexican National Forestry Commission Director General Jorge Rescala Pérez. “Mexico and California
Local artist Sam Nicholson donating 25 percent of sales to Hillsides
have a long and rich history of environmental cooperation, and recognize each other as strategic partners in coping with climate change challenges and protecting and preserving our natural resources. The agreement signed today will take our joint work to a whole new level of cooperation, Please see page 4
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to $500 per violation for residential customers, and up to $1,000 per violation for commercial accounts. A complete list of water waste restrictions is available at www.PWPweb. com/WaterWaste. Water-saving rebates and conservation tips are available at www.PWPweb.com/SaveWater. Please see page 2
Governor Brown signs agreement with Mexico to reduce dangerous greenhouse gases On the first full day of California’s Trade and Investment Mission to Mexico, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Mexican environment officials signed an agreement to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. “California can’t do it alone and with this new partnership with Mexico we can make real
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Local fine artist Sam Nicholson is donating 25 percent of profits from any of his paintings purchased by supporters of the Pasadena-headquartered nonprofit Hillsides. “My wife Diane and I have been involved with Hillsides for years, and it’s such a worthy cause that it’s an honor for me to help out,” said Nicholson. Nicholson, a graduate of the UCLA Graduate School of Fine Arts, combines photography with traditional oil painting on canvas. An accomplished cinematographer and director, his background in motion pictures and commercial art enables him to fuse fine art and technology into dramatic images. Many of his works capture moments during his world travels to locales including Africa, India, Japan, and Europe. Nicholson is also the founder of Stargate Studios, an award-winning, state-of-the-art visual effects production company founded in 1989. Stargate has won three Emmy awards and multiple Visual Effects Society awards. “Sam already has been very generous to Hillsides by donating a painting of Pasadena’s Colorado Bridge that was auctioned off for thousands of dollars at our annual gala held in February,” said Hillsides Director of Development Carrie Espinoza. “It’s incredibly generous of him to support
A very dry Eaton Canyon -Photo by Terry Miller
The Pasadena City Council at its July 28, 2014 meeting declared a local water emergency, establishing a 20-percent conservation goal and implementing the City’s Level 1 Water Supply Shortage Plan, with mandatory water waste restrictions effective immediately. The Level 1 plan limits watering to three days per week in summer, one day per week in
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Countdown: The Cold War Hit Parade Musical performance by Ross Altman In conjunction with its series, “Critical Mass: The Culture of the Cold War,” and on the 69th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, the Allendale Branch Library presents “Countdown: The Cold War Hit Parade,” a musical performance by folk singer Ross Altman, on Saturday, August 9, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at 1130 S. Marengo Ave., Pasadena. Light refreshments will be served. Join Altman and the Allendale Branch for a journey of rediscovery with songs and stories from the late great Cold War – a charttopping, heart-stopping one-man show of music to take to the fallout shelter. Altman’s international set list will include songs by American dissidents Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Malvina Reynolds, Paul Robeson, The Weavers, and others; Russian dissident Alexander Galich; East German dissident Wolf Biermann; and poems by e.e. cummings and W.H. Auden.
Some of the songs to be performed include “Old Man Atom,” by Vern Partlow, one of the first anti-nuclear songs of the postwar era; “Let Me Die in My Footsteps” and “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” by Bob Dylan; “Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream,” by Ed McCurdy; “Talking Cuban Missile Crisis,” by Phil Ochs; and “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy,” by Pete Seeger. Altman will also perform several of his original songs about the Cold War, including “Ethel and Julius,” “Red Diaper Baby Boomer,” “The CIA’s Greatest Hits,” and “DROP!” A red diaper baby (a term which describes a child of parents who were members of the United States Communist Party or were sympathetic to its aims) whose father was blacklisted as an unfriendly witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), folk singer, guitarist, and music historian Ross Altman
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continues in the the tradition of Woody Guthrie “to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.” He grew up on the folk music of Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Theodore Bikel, Josh White, Big Bill Broonzy, and later on Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, and Malvina Reynolds. In addition to his busy performance schedule, Altman writes a regular column for Southern California’s FolkWorks. He is president of the Santa Monica Traditional Folk Music Club, and was awarded the Music Legend of 2010 by the Topanga Banjo-Fiddle Contest and Folk Festival. He is a member of Local 47 of the Profes-
sional Musician’s Union (AFLCIO). Altman records for his own label, Grey Goose Music, named for a children’s song by Leadbelly about an indestructible goose. For further information, contact the Allendale Branch Library at (626) 744-7260 or visit pasadenapubliclibrary.net. More details are also available at the Allendale Branch Library Facebook page: https://www. facebook.com/allendalebranch. Date & Time: Saturday, August 9, 2014, 2:00 p.m., Location: Allendale Branch Library at 1130 S. Marengo Ave. Information: (626) 744-7260 or visit pasadenapubliclibrary.net
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“Pasadena already has restrictions in place and our customers have made exemplary efforts to conserve,” PWP Chief Deputy General Manager Eric Klinkner said. “However, Pasadena’s water use has increased over the last few years due to a lack of rain and the improving economy. Tonight’s City Council vote reiterates the significance of the drought and is a call to action for all of our customers to step up their efforts to conserve our precious water supplies,” Klinkner said. The City Council approved Pasadena’s existing Water Waste Prohibitions and Water Supply Shortage Plans Ordinance in 2009. The key conservation measures currently in effect for all PWP water customers include: •Outdoor watering is limited to three days per week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, during the summer months. •No watering outdoors between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., except with a hand-held container or hose with a shut-off nozzle. •No watering during peri-
ods of rain. •All water leaks must be fixed within 72 hours. •No excessive water flow or runoff onto pavement, gutters or ditches from watering or irrigating landscapes or vegetation of any kind. •No washing down paved surfaces unless for safety or sanitation, in which case a bucket, a hose with a shut-off nozzle, a cleaning machine that recycles water or a low-volume/high-pressure water broom must be used. •No washing vehicles except by using a hand-held bucket or similar container or hose equipped with a water shut-off nozzle Stay connected to the City of Pasadena! For more information about PWP, visit www. PWPweb.com or follow on Twitter @PWPnews. Visit the City online atwww.cityofpasadena.net; follow us on Twitter @PasadenaGov, www.twitter. com/pasadenagov, and like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/cityofpasadena. Or call the Citizen Service Center, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, at (626) 7447311.
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Rare lightning strikes all over Southern California kill 20-year old and injure several others By JENNIFER schlueter On the weekend of July 2527, Southern California experienced a rare weather phenomenon for its region: Hundreds of lightning strikes jolted LA and its surrounding counties. In Venice Beach, one strike proved to be fatal for 20-year old Nick Fagnano, who was in the ocean when it hit him, and injured 13 additional beachgoers. On Santa Catalina Island, a 57-year-old golfer was struck, hospitalized, and according to Steve Denning, a law enforcement technician with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, in a stable condition. A National Weather Service map shows 858 lightning bolts in San Bernardino, 228 in Western and Central Riverside County, 248 in inland San Diego County, 75 in San Diego County along the coast, and 28 in LA County. According to the Los Angeles Times, more than a total of 1,400 lightning strikes were reported in Southern California (see National Weather Service map) throughout the weekend and the following Monday of July 25-28. James Thomas, a meteorologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told the LA Times: "It's an unusual amount of lightning strikes... for any time of year for that matter.” The lightning resulted from an unusual high-pressure system pulling hot, moist air up from the Gulf of California and Mexico towards the Southern California coastlines, explained climatologist Bill Patzert of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the LA Times. "Coastal Southern California is virtually lightning proof," he added. "Because it's so unusual, people are not sensitized to the dangers." Because thunderstorms are very rare in Southern California, and even less in July, lifeguards and officials were not as well prepared and did not ask people to clear the beaches, as they would
have done in Florida or the Midwest, where these weather conditions are more common, states Patzert. Scott Miller, an inspector with the Los Angeles County Fire Department agrees and told National Geographic that lightning strikes are “hard to predict.” Miller added that in the rare event of thunderstorms, LA lifeguards are trained to get people out of the water within 30 seconds. According to the rule “If you hear thunder, head for cover,” looking for shelter should be the next step; however, LA beaches have no approved rules for this, says Miller. John Jensenius, a light-
ning safety specialist with the National Weather Service in Silver Spring, Maryland, told National Geographic that lightning currents can travel across the ground and items which can channel electricity, and that most people are struck by ground current. Therefore, he advises not to lie on the ground and to avoid metallic objects such as wires, doors, windows, plumbing, etc. Sturdy buildings and hardtop vehicles provide the best protection. Fagnano was the 16th victim nationwide to have died from a lightning strike in 2014, and the first one in California.
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Agreement with Mexico to reduce dangerous greenhouse gases Continued from page 1
which will reflect in tangible and concrete results that will inure to our mutual benefit,” said Mexico’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Undersecretary Rodolfo Lacy. The pact seeks to enhance cooperation through a range of activities, including: Aligning greenhouse gas reduction programs and strategies; Collaborating on fire emergency response along the border and other climate change adaption strategies; Improving air quality, including reducing pollution and expanding markets for clean energy technologies; and strengthening fuel and truck efficiency standards and supporting green freight initiatives. “In line with the priorities of the Mexican Government for the forestry sector, the Memorandum of Understanding signed today with the State of California lays down the conditions and excellent opportunities for mutual cooperation to strengthen our capacity to prevent and respond to forest fires, a key issue in our common border,” said Mexican National Forestry Commission Director General Jorge Rescala Pérez. The agreement with Mexico comes on the heels of similar agreements signed in 2013 with the governments of British Columbia and the states of Oregon and Washington and China’s National Development and Reform Commission – the first agreement
of its kind on climate change between the commission and a subnational entity. For the past several years, the California Air Resources Board and Quebec have worked together to fully harmonize their cap-and-trade programs. The Governor first announced the Trade and Investment Mission to Mexico in his 2014 State of the State address and met with Mexican Consuls General from cities across California in March. Last week, ahead of the trip, Governor Brown met with Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs José Antonio Meade Kuribreña in Sacramento and invited Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to meet later this year in California. The Governor is joined on the Trade and Investment Mission to Mexico by a delegation of state legislators and senior administration officials. A delegation organized by the California Chamber of Commerce with the help of the California Foundation for Commerce and Education that includes approximately 90 business, economic development, investment and policy leaders from throughout California is also participating in the trade mission. For social media updates and other announcements throughout the trade mission, please follow these twitter handles: @CAMexicoTrade; @JerryBrownGov; @ GovPressOffice; @CAGoBiz; @ CalChamber and @VisitCA
Nursing home fire cause $65,000 damage Pasadena Fire E31 responded to a car fire at 150 Bellefontaine in Pasadena July 27. En-route, the incident was upgraded to a Structure Fire due to reports that the fire had extended into the adjacent Nursing Facility. On arrival, units performed fire attack, evacuation, ventilation, and checked for fire extension. Additional units provided rehabilitation and monitoring of the residents. The fire was quickly extinguished. All 127 residents of the facility were
evacuated or sheltered-inplace. All residents and staff were accounted for, and reoccupied the building. The fire destroyed one vehicle, damaged a second vehicle, and damaged one room. The occupant of the affected room was moved to a different room in the facility. Fire personnel assisted staff with the movement of the residents back into the facility. One Firefighter was injured and transported to the hospital with moderate injuries.
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Sam Nicholson’s painting of the Colorado Bridge -Courtesy Photo
Hillsides beyond our gala and to give our supporters a chance to own his beautiful paintings while benefiting Hillsides.” To view Nicholson’s works, please visit http://samnicholsonfineart.com/. To purchase a painting, please call 626-862-1111 or write him through the contact form on his web site. For Hillsides to receive the donation, all any-
one has to do is mention Hillsides when they make a purchase. Hillsides is a premier provider dedicated to improving the overall well-being and functioning of children, youth, and families throughout Los Angeles County, serving more than 7,500 individuals a year. For more information, please visit www.hillsides.org.