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La Cañada Presbyterian Church Parent ED Delivers Burp Cloths for 2,500 Babies to Glendale Adventist

The LCPC Parent Education Program has recently partnered with Glendale Adventist Medical Center to gift their logoed burp cloths to every baby born at the hospital– totaling 2,500 babies per year. On April 19, Parent Education Director, Anne Bierling, and Parent Ed representative Lynne Graves, donated the first shipment of burp cloths to the Glendale ...

Patricia Kinaga Receives Prestigious Haas Public Service Award

Pasadenan Patricia Kinaga was awarded the prestigious Peter E. Haas Public Service Award from the University of California by Berkeley’s Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. This award is bestowed annually University-wide to one distinguished alumnus per year who has made a significant volunteer contribution in the United States, and comes with a generous grant to a charity ...

Longtime Pasadena Press Officer Ann Erdman Retires

Click here for a slideshow of the festivities   Longtime City of Pasadena Press Information Officer Ann Erdman was the belle of the retirement bash at a Castle Green celebration on March 30 which saw hundreds of past and present city officials, members of the media, self-described “members of the adoring public,” and other colorful ...

Police Don Aprons, Wait Tables to Support Special Olympics

Commander Chris Russ, Lieutenant Phlunté Riddle and Deputy Chief Darryl Qualls. [Photo: James Macpherson] Over a dozen Pasadena police officers and command staff plus Police Department employees, Explorers and their family members joined Neighborhood watch families, young Special Olympics athletes and members of the eating public at Hamburger Hamlet on South Lake Avenue Thursday evening ...

Barbara Bigby Named Assembly District “Woman of the Year”

During a special session of the State Assembly Monday morning, Assemblymember Anthony Portantino honored Altadena NAACP activist and lifelong educator Barbara Bigby as his 2012 Woman of the Year for the 44th Assembly District. “It gives me great pleasure to name Barbara Bigby as Woman of the Year for the 44th Assembly District,” said Assemblymember ...

10th Graders Learn “Style” at NCL Pasadena Modelette Program

Thirty-three girls took to the runway as part of the National Charity League, Inc. (NCL) Pasadena Area Chapter’s Modelette program held on Sunday, February 12, at the Altadena Town and Country Club. Modelette, in the form of a fashion show and dinner, is an annual rite of passage for the Chapter’s 10th grade members. This ...

National Charity League Pasadena Area Chapter Announces New Board of Directors

President Lisa Hausler announced the new 2012-13 Board of Directors of the Pasadena Area Chapter of National Charity League, Inc. at a recent Patroness general meeting. The Pasadena Area Chapter, established in 1998, works to foster mother-daughter relationships in a philanthropic organization committed to community service, leadership development and cultural experiences. The incoming Board members ...

Tournament of Roses Names William Flinn Executive Director

The Pasadena Tournament of Roses announced today that William B. Flinn will assume the role of executive director, effective March 1, 2012. [Photo: Tournament of Roses] The Pasadena Tournament of Roses announced today that William B. Flinn will assume the role of executive director, effective March 1, 2012. Flinn has been serving as both interim ...

Pasadena Serviceman “Earns His Spurs”

Pasadena native Pfc. William Medina, 8th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment medic, works with his team to pull a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, during the squadron spur ride, Feb. 13. The approximately 20-hour event will use multiple events to test the squadron soldiers’ physical and mental toughness. Those who complete the day’s events will receive ...

Fuller Associate Provost Appointed Trustee for Fund for Theological Education

Juan Martínez, Fuller’s associate provost for diversity and international programs, has been appointed to the Board of Trustees for The Fund for Theological Education (FTE). FTE is a national, ecumenical, nonprofit organization dedicated to finding and supporting Christian leaders—both pastors and theological educators. The FTE board has governance responsibility for advancing FTE’s mission to develop ...

Caltech’s Peripatetic Postdoc

British-born microbiologist Morgan Beeby, who now works at Caltech, set out on a walk one Monday morning in June 2007 and didn’t stop until a Tuesday afternoon in October—four months later. By then, he had traveled 2,590 of the 2,650 miles that constitute the Pacific Crest Trail, which meanders through the United States from the ...

Prominent Trio Share 50th Navy Milestone

Roger Adams in 1961 Three local men who have been extremely involved on Pasadena boards and in Pasadena events over the past decades got together on November 21 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a long-ago, faraway time and place when the three entered the Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI on the same ...

Foothill Unity Center Executive Director Joan Whitenack to Retire

After sixteen years at the helm of Foothill Unity Center, the major source of food, health services and crisis assistance for over 4,000 low-income families in the San Gabriel Valley, the organization’s Executive Director, Joan Whitenack, has announced that she will retire in early 2012. Under her energetic and passionate direction, the Center has grown ...

Brian McDonald Named PUSD’s New Chief Academic Officer

Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) Superintendent Jon R. Gundry announced the appointment of Brian McDonald, Ed.D., as Chief Academic Officer, filling a key leadership position essential to implementing strategies that consistently raise student achievement. The Board of Education voted to approve Dr. McDonald’s contract at a special meeting today. “I am pleased to welcome Dr. ...