Trail Folks– The Tuesday, October 13th meeting of the Altadena Crest Trail Restoration Working Group (ACTRWG) Steering Committee will be held as usual at the Altadena Community Center, 7 PM: 730 E. Altadena Drive (Just W. of Lake Ave and the Altadena Sheriffs Station, across the street from Rite Aid) Please report trail conditions after [...]
… shared by Monica Hubbard, this National Weather Service site has flash flood information, including evacuations: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/lox/ Bookmark it now! Read the Full Story at Altadena Blog
The Tournament of Roses announced the seven lucky survivors of competition for the 2010 Tournament of Roses Royal Court (wonder if martial arts and edged weapons were involved?). Our congrats go to Altadenans Ashley Thaxton, 17, of John Marshall Fundamental and Lauren Rogers, 17, from Blair High School. Read the Full Story at Altadena Blog
David Datz is sharing some haunting pictures of the Station Fire aftermath — charred landscape on a foggy day, around Inspiration Point, the Idle Hour Trail/Merrill Trail junction, Merrill trail near the ridge, and the Cape of Good Hope. His Picasa web album is here. Read the Full Story at Altadena Blog
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Robert Klomburg sends us this: I don't want to be an alarmist, but we could see the first significant rain of the season in October! This Tuesday night! How strange is that! You may wish to point your readers to: http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/weather/Heavy_Rain_Forecast_Fire_Scarred_Mountains_20091010 And from Weather Underground: http://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/548.html#SPE The County has had very little [...]
A busy day in our community. If you weren't one of the 50 or so people who went to the membership meeting for the Arroyo Food Co-Op — or even if you were — there's lots to do today: Pumpkins galore at the Girl Scout's Camp Mariposa …. Arts & crafts in a beautiful [...]
Via Boing Boing, today there's a reading in San Francisco to benefit the Octavia Butler Scholarship Fund. Butler, from Altadena, was a masterful writer in a genre where there are few women or African Americans, science fiction. Read the Full Story at Altadena Blog
KCBS just put online a story about our burglary wave. (Keep reloading — it took us several attempts before anything played) KNBC was at the Wednesday meeting, too, but we can't find any story online. (Hat tip to Jolline Hardman for pointing this out.) Read the Full Story at Altadena Blog
Altadena poet Linda Dove has won the 2009 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize from Bear Star Press. The prize, awarded annually for the best unpublished manuscript of poems by a writer west of the central time zone, includes a cash award and publication. In Defense of Objects is Dove’s first full-length collection, and several of its [...]
