COMMUNITY SECTION


Thursday: YWCA Honors Dr. Beatriz Solis

The May installment of the 2012 YWCA Honors Series will feature Dr. Beatriz Solis, Director of Healthy Communities at The California Endowment. Mark your calendars for Thursday, May 17th, from 5:30PM-7:00PM at the Maxwell House of the Western Justice Center, located at 55 South Grand Avenue, Pasadena. Come share the evening with the YWCA Pasadena-Foothill ...

PCC Career Center Offers 22nd Annual Student Job Fair Comes on May 17

The Pasadena City College Career Center will bring students and prospective employers together as part of the 22nd Annual Student Job Fair on May 17 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in PCC’s Creveling Lounge. The event will give students the opportunity to meet representatives from companies, local businesses, and industry. The Career Center staff ...

Pasadena Hosts NOBLE Training Symposium

During the week of May 16th – 18th 2012, the San Gabriel Valley Chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) has partnered with the Pasadena Police Department to hold the Region VI Training Symposium in Pasadena at the Pasadena Convention Center. Law enforcement executives from across the Western United States will ...

KCBS’ Whitney Drolen To Emcee Hathaway-Sycamores’ Fundraiser

KCBS news and traffic reporter Whitney Drolen promises to keep the evening’s festivities lively as she emcees Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services’ 19th Hole After-Party on May 18 at Angeles National Golf Club in Sunland. The After-Party, which will be held from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., will cap off Hathaway-Sycamores’ annual “Shot-at-a-Million” Golf Classic ...

Engineering and Science Community Comes Together at PCC

The 2012 Pasadena Engineering and Science Expo will celebrate the engineering and science community, bringing together local innovators to inspire the next generation in a day of interactive engineering and science fun. Presented by the Pasadena Educational Foundation (PEF) and hosted by Pasadena City College (PCC), the Expo will feature the Innovation and Opportunities Fair ...

Pasadena City College Foster Program to Hold Rising STARS Award Gala and Fundraiser

The Rising STARS (Scholars Transitioning and Realizing Success) Award Gala, which will honor and support foster youth success and raise funds for the far-reaching program, will be held on May 19 at 6 p.m. in the Pasadena City College Creveling Lounge. The event will be hosted by the PCC Foster & Kinship Care Education and ...

Mothers’ Club to Celebrate Over 50 Years of Serving Vulnerable Families

For more than 50 years, Mothers’ Club has been Building Community, One Family at Time. On Sunday May 20th, the club will come together at its annual spring benefit to support its two-generation learning programs – programs that reach more than 100 families each year and prepare them for success in school and in life. ...

Start Race Times Released For State Track/Field

Pasadena City College track and field athletes Luis Dorantes and Tenia Sebastian will each be running in the evening in their respective events at the CCCAA State Championships at Cerritos College Friday-Saturday, May 18-19. Dorantes will run in the men's 10,000 meters, the final event of Friday's competition at 8:30 p.m. Sebastian will race in ...

Pasadena Marathon Expecting 7000 Participants

The highly-anticipated Kaiser Permanente Pasadena Marathon, scheduled to take place on Sunday, May 20, 2012, is well on its way with approximately 7000 runners, cyclists, and walkers participating from across the country as well as several international cities drawn in by the event’s four different timed events and a couple of noncompetitive events. The four ...

PCC Presents Brian Wetzel in That Voice in the Wilderness is Laughing

On May 21, Pasadnea City College Student Health Services and the PCC Cross Cultural Center present “That Voice in the Wilderness is Laughing,” a presentation by comedian Brian Wetzel on the many factors that contribute to clinical depression, and the complex issues surrounding this mood disorder. In his presention, Wetzel candidly shares how his career ...

Educator, Best-Selling Author to Speak at 12th Annual Educator Symposium

  Pasadena City College is proud to host its 12th Annual Educator Symposium, with educator and best-selling author Dr. David Berliner as the evening’s keynote speaker, on May 18 from 5 to 6 p.m. in PCC’s Creveling Lounge. “I’m really excited to have Dr. Berliner come out,” said David McCabe, of the Teacher Preparation Program. ...

Help Pasadena Achieve a Zero-Waste Future

  Imagine a Pasadena that less than 30 years from now produces no garbage and recycles or reuses everything that today is thrown away.The Public Works Department invites Pasadena business owners and residents to do more than just imagine it by helping develop the Zero-Waste Strategic Plan.The City’s ambitious goal is to achieve zero waste ...

Pasadena Marathon May 20 Event Info and Road Closures Announced

  The City of Pasadena reminds the public about the following road closures and other event information for the Kaiser Permanente Pasadena Marathon, Sunday, May 20.The Pasadena Marathon and related activities spans from 5:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Sunday, May 20.There will be a full and half marathon, bike tour, 5k/10k runs, a Kids Run ...

Lake Avenue Church: For Such a Time as This! “Esther-Ordinary Faith”

Earlier this spring, the Lake Avenue Church family studied the lives of faithful men and women in the Bible. They were encouraged to learn from one of them – Esther. Looking at her life, the church sees how she was one who was willing to step forward in dangerous times. Like Esther, will one be ...