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Pasadena Press
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2014 - DECEMBER 14, 2014
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Record-Breaking Storm Still No Relief for California’s Drought By Jennifer Schlueter
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Pasadena Sandwich Company, Pasadena Fire and PUSD Help Feed Over 300 on Thanksgiving By Terry Miller
housing, and safety, I intend to start to minimize the impacts to our community. I have served on many City of Pasadena and Pasadena Unified School District Taskforces, Commissions, and Committees since 2002 that have direct positive impact to our community.” In addition
The pace was brisk and the enthusiasm enormous at Pasadena Sandwich Company the Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving. The reason: The Fink Family and volunteers from the Fire Dept. (including the outgoing Chief Wells) were busy filling ‘Blessing Bags’ for their guests who will dine at the restaurant on Thanksgiving Day. Over 300 members of some 59 Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) families who are transitioning from homelessness to self-sufficiency received a free Thanksgiving meal with all the trimmings from the popular Pasadena Sandwich Company on Thanksgiving Day. Pasadena Sandwich Company, in conjunction with PUSD’s Families in Transition and the Pasadena Fire Department, provided a family-style feast at the restaurant as part of the third annual Thanksgiving Share-A-Meal for PUSD families. The event honors Stephen E. Fink, the co-founder of the Pasadena Sandwich Company who believed that nobody should ever be alone on Thanksgiving. “We are trying to distin-
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Monrovia residents brace for the storms with K-rails and sandbags near the Madison Fire area.
Last week, drought-stricken California finally received some much needed rain for two straight days along with delayed and canceled flights, traffic chaos, destroyed power lines, and mudslides. The subtropical storm that emerged south of Hawaii broke December 2
records of the past 50 years in “downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles International Airport, Long Beach Airport and communities such as Antelope Valley, Palmdale and Camarillo,” meteorologist Eric Bolt from the National Weather Service told Voice of America (VoA).
- Photo by Terry Miller
In Glendora and other mountain communities, residents and city departments feared mudslides resulting from desolated hillsides due to previous wildfires. A few evacuations were issued; though, soon lifted Please see page 4
Pixie Boyden, Mayor Candidate for Pasadena City Council District 1 About Her Goals Pixie Boyden, a seasoned community activist/organizer who brings more than 12 years of dedicated service to Northwest Pasadena has thrown her hat into the ring for a city council seat in District 1. Creating “meaningful partnerships to create effective plans/projects that increase investment of community members” is just one of her
goals. “I believe that sustainable solutions tend to be those most closely aligned in grassroots processes where collective effort steers the innovation process to solve problems. With a plan to work ‘out of the box’ to engage our community to address the challenges of underemployment and unemployment, neighborhood sustainability, affordable