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News of the Arroyo - 2001 Click on the title on the left for the full story: |
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| Letters: Cirque Family Fun | December 24 -- Letters to the editor are printed regarding Cirque de Soleil. Families, booksellers and Arcadia all want to circus troupe. Or at least one of each. |
| Arroyo
Fest moves closer to fruition |
December 22 -- Plans are progressing for the celebration of the Arroyo Seco Parkway and watershed next October. Community groups are developing plans to make it the bigest celebration of the Arroyo yet. |
| From the Editor's desk -- Support for Cirque is Overwhelming | December 22 -- Star News editor Larry Wilson reports on the response to his campaign to bring Cirque de Soleil to the Arroyo Seco. He states that he has received 50 letters supporting the French Canadian circus troupe and only two opposed. |
| Governor Announces Success in Acquiring Los Angeles River State Park Parcels | December 22 -- Promising to help create a new network of urban greenery, Gov. Gray Davis announced Friday that the state is spending almost $60 million to buy two former rail yards near downtown Los Angeles that will be transformed into parks. The two lots along the Los Angeles River, now empty parcels littered with concrete slabs and laced with underground toxins, once were slated to become industrial complexes that would house warehouses and businesses. |
| Juggling Required.....more on Cirque | December 17 -- Norm Roberts of the Linda Vista Annandale Association and Barbara Double respond to the Star News campaign to bring the circus to the Arroyo. "What a surprise to read in the Dec. 8 editorial that the Linda Vista/Annandale Association has become such a major league power that it could strong-arm Cirque du Soleil into declining to bring its tented extravaganza to Brookside Park next spring," writes Norm. |
| Kidspace leaders celebrate | December 14 -- Kidspace moves in to take over 3.5 acres of the Arroyo Seco for $1 a year. Is park land so cheap? The City of Pasadena thinks so. "After a contentious trip through City Hall bureaucracy and a battle in the courts, the leaders of Kidspace Children's Museum celebrated the launch of construction for their new home in the Arroyo Seco at a special ceremony Thursday. About 50 people attended the event in one of three white clapboard buildings that used to be the Fannie E. Morrison horticultural center in Brookside Park." |
| PSN Editorial: Naysaying has gone full Cirque | December 14 -- The Star News turns up the heat with another editorial offering in its campaign to bring Cirque de Soleil to the Arroyo Seco. "We now know that the citizens of our area are in full support of a tent-pitching here, and we are letting the circus know of that support. And we ask more of you to join our campaign." |
| Watershed Study Honored at Biltmore Banquet |
December
10 -- The
Arroyo Seco Foundation and North East Trees were awarded the “Carla
Bard Advocacy Award” at the banquet of the 11th Annual
California Water Policy Conference at the Biltmore Millennium Hotel in
Los Angeles last Thursday evening.
The award was presented for the Arroyo Seco Watershed Restoration
Feasibility Study. |
| PSN: From the editor's desk: Neighborhood short Cirque | December 8 -- Pasadena Star News editor Larry Wilson decries the Cirque de Soleil to not come to Pasadena. " I can't tell you how mad it makes me that a pre-emptive strike by a neighborhood association has deprived the rest of us of the chance to see some very exciting, original, high art. The highest of arts, in fact. I can't tell you, but I can try." |
| Cirque bows out of Pasadena visit | December 4 - The French-Canadian acrobatic show Cirque du Soleil, which had been making plans to visit Pasadena this spring, decides not to come to the Arroyo Seco, reportedly due to neighborhood opposition. "They said, 'We want to be good neighbors,' " Cynthia Kurtz said, adding they also said, " 'When we come to the city, we like it to be a happy time. If there's any kind of animosity ... it's just not for us.' " |
| Hiking
- An Autumnal Jaunt in the Arroyo Seco |
November 25 - "A hike down the Arroyo Seco is as one of my favorite fall outings. I love tramping beside a rain-recharged creek and seeing big-leaf maples brighten the canyon with an autumnal yellow. The color display won't dazzle New England leaf peepers, but it might surprise hikers who think the Southland landscape doesn't change from season to season." |
| Recycled fashions featured at fest | November 18 -- Recycled art, clothes and other products were on display in an effort to raise environmental awareness at the Arroyo Seco Fest at Brookside Park on Saturday. The theme of the event was "Celebrate the Environment," and one of the highlights was a fashion show that featured models wearing recycled clothing. |
| Skate park in SoPas targetted for April opening | November 10 -- The on-again off-again skate park in the South Pasadena stretch of the Arroyo is on again. "I'm totally against having a skate park down there," council member Harry Knapp said. He and other residents say that Stoney Drive is a hilly, winding street that would be dangerous for kids who might skate down to the park. |
| Council
approves condominium complex at Arroyo entrance |
November 6 -- A condominium complex will now clutter Arroyo slope surrounding the Colorado Street Bridge. The plan will establish 55 condos and restore eight historic bungalows near the Vista del Arroyo Hotel. Eleven condos will be planted on the Arroyo slope on Arroyo Drive as it curves down from Holly Street to the Colorado Street Bridge. |
| MWD Backs Arroyo Restoration |
October 19 -- Metropolitan Water District today reaffirmed its support for the restoration of Southern California watersheds by presenting $20,000 to a community-oriented institute that aims to make the Arroyo Seco a test case for river renewal. Presenting an MWD Community Partnering Program check to Robert Gottlieb, director of Occidental College’s Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, was Assemblymember Carol Liu (D-La Canada-Flintridge) and Metropolitan Director Timothy F. Brick. |
| Officials Tour Arroyo Seco | October 6 -- State conservation and water officials toured the Arroyo Seco area Friday as part of a statewide watershed management initiative. |
| PSN View: RBOC Should See the Light | October 5 -- The Arroyo Seco is the greatest open space in the suburban San Gabriel Valley, and for many years has very much been the center of a political battle over just how wild it should be. |
| Bowl lights get tryout for Arroyo residents | October 4 -- Trying to calm anxious Rose Bowl neighbors, city officials held a demonstration in the Arroyo Seco this week of taller, brighter lights planned for the parking lot. Neighborhood residents are concerned the 50-foot-tall light poles would look ugly and the increased light would create a glare in their homes. |
| The Arroyo Restored | Fall -- The newsletter of the West Pasadena Residents Association includes an article by Tim Brick on the importantce of the Arroyo and on the watershed restoration study. (This document is in Acrobat - pdf format). |
| Modern Arroyo Home Tour | September 28 -- See and experience the modern homes of this region at the Modern Arroyo Home Tour on Sunday. Sponsored by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Highland Park Heritage Trust, The Modern Arroyo Home Tour will feature eight different homes in the Pasadena and Mt. Washington areas. Of the eight, five have never before been opening for viewing. |
| Out There Into the Wild Blue to Look for Green Below | September 8 -- Flying service that helps monitor environmental patterns and problems from above aids effort to find land for an open corridor in Arroyo Seco. |
| Cowboys and Indians Vie, Politely, for a Museum | August 29 -- Here's the inside story on the plans and problems of one of the Arroyo's greatest treasures, the Southwest Museum. Possible relationships with the Autry Museum or the Pechanga Band are explored. |
| Fallout continues in Rubio Canyon | August 20 -- Rubio Canon Land and Water Association started a federally funded project to replace a damaged water pipeline in April 1998. When the project ended nine months later, Rubio Canyon was filled with tons of granite rocks, leaving what some have called an environmental disaster in the Angeles National Forest that should never have been allowed to happen. |
| The fall of Rubio Canyon | August 19 -- Becky Oskin of the Star News relates the sad story of the "fall" of Rubio Canyon, the irresponsible construction project that buried three waterfalls in Rubio Canyon. A related piece tells the history of the canyon, including the water development and the canyon's connection with the Mount Lowe Railway. |
| Green Dreams Spring from a Dry Gulch | August 12 -- The Los Angeles Times features the Arroyo Seco. "It's identity overall is sketchy, a composite of glimpses blurred in the haze. Few see the Arroyo Seco as a whole--an ephemeral river system that plunges from a yawning pocket of the San Gabriel Mountains, a creek that twists along deep shadows and oaks and freeways and parking lots." |
| NYT: Near Vast Bodies of Water, Land Lies Parched | August 12 -- "This year, with shortages appearing in places that have never doubted the future of their supply, many parts of the country have discovered water may indeed be a commodity more precious than oil. A general warming trend, sprawl that covers the sponge of land that normally replenishes the nation's vast underground reservoirs, and the growing demands of agriculture and expanding cities are the reasons most often cited for accelerated water shortages. |
| Arroyo Seco Named California Pilot Watershed | August 9 -- The California Resources Agency and the State Water Resources Control Board have selected the Arroyo Seco Watershed Restoration Feasibility Study as a Pilot Project under AB 2117 (the Wayne Watershed Bill). Ten watershed projects will be studied over the new six months and a report prepared for submittal to the California Legislature by February 1, 2002 as part of the Joint Task Force for California Watershed Management. |
| NEA Provides Art Center Funding for Arroyo Parkway Design | August 8 -- 2001 NEW PUBLIC WORKS AWARDS to Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA $40,000 To support an invited competition to redesign the streetscape of the Arroyo Parkway that will enhance the "gateway" into Pasadena from Los Angeles through a melding of art, landscape design, and architecture |
| Bill could be a boon for the Arroyo | August 3 -- Rep. Adam Schiff introduced a bill Thursday to study the feasibility of expanding the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to include parts of the mountains ringing the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys, as well as the Arroyo Seco. |
| Pasadena Council considers Arroyo Seco Foundation lawsuit | July 30 -- The Pasadena City Council's closed session to discuss the litigation regarding the use of parkland in Brookside Park by Kidspace Museum, Arroyo Seco Foundation v. City of Pasadena, was cancelled. The meeting had been scheduled to precede the weekly City Council session. |
| Arroyo restoration featured at statewide California ReLeaf conference | July 30 -- "The Arroyo Seco – A Watershed Approach to Urban Forestry" was the topic of the featured presentation today at the California ReLeaf statewide annual conference held at the University of California at Santa Cruz. |
| Engelmann oak to be cloned as part of tree-saving project | July 28 -- The Engelmann oak has grown for hundreds of years, reaching the height of a seven-story building as the city has sprouted up around it. To the tree enthusiast, the native California oak is more than just big; it's a superlative, a "national champion" that dwarfs all others of its species. |
| L.A. River defies city in nurturing wildlife | July 27 -- Birds and other animals thrive. Now work on as much as $100 million worth of parks, trees and bike paths is beginning. |
| Lawsuits block effort to protect 2 river species | The two species, which live in the San Gabriel River, are in limbo as the Fish and Wildlife Service tends to deadlines set by the court for a slew of other threatened and endangered species. |
| San Gabriel River backers push for national ranking | July 23 -- Here's the LA Times' take on Rep. Solis' drive for federal aid and recognition of the San Gabriel River watershed's urban oasis. |
| Solis promotes U.S. park plan for 2 rivers | July 22 -- Using the San Gabriel River as her backdrop, Rep. Hilda Solis, D-El Monte, on Saturday promoted her plan to turn the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles rivers into a national park. |
| Solis aims for federal protection of rivers | July 18 -- Rep. Hilda Solis, D-El Monte, on Tuesday introduced legislation that would study the feasibility of making sections of the Lower Los Angeles and the San Gabriel rivers a part of the National Park System |
| Public to Hear JPL Cleanup Plans | June
17 -- Now the National Aeronautics and Space Administration wants
to remove the compounds from the soil and on Wednesday will hold a
public hearing in Altadena to present its plan.
The meeting, the last in a series of three, will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. in the auditorium of Eliot Middle School, 2184 N. Lake Ave. |
| In Defense of the Flood Channel | June 6, 2001 -- M. Bruce Chubbuck, Star New letter writer, loves the flood channel and believes it is necessary. "I know it is the duty of some to spend state money, but you can accomplish a lot more for a lot less by cleaning and repairing that wonderful flood-control channel." |
| Editorial: Restore San Gabriel River and the Arroyo Seco | May 30, 2001 -- The San Gabriel Newspapers editorialize that President Bush should support Hilda Solis' proposal for a San Gabriel River national park. The editorial also calls for restoring the Arroyo Seco. "These are projects that are not about saving a species of frog or fish but rather, about saving a quality of life for almost 2 million San Gabriel Valley residents who increasingly spend more time in their cars in traffic than in nature." |
| Charting New Course for Arroyo | May 29, 2001- The Star News' Lisa Faught reports on the results and recommendations of the Arroyo Seco Watershed Restoration Feasibility Study released May 24 at the Los Angeles River Center. Is stream restoration feasible??? You bet!!! |
| A Firing Range in the Arroyo Seco??? | May 9, 2001 -- Chuck Cherniss' logic has so befuddled John F. McKenna, Jr. that Junior thinks the Arroyo Seco would be a good place for the police firing range. That's what he suggests in this letter to the local rag. |
| Star News: Make Best of Rose Bowl | May 2, 2001 -- The Pasadena Star News editorializes on the future of the aging Rose Bowl. No NFL, the editor opines, but a grand facility, nonetheless, that pleases the fans and the neighbors. |
| Rose Bowl Politics | April 30, 2001 -- Lee Zantesen is the star of part two of the Star News series on the future of the Rose Bowl. The story examines the relationship with Arroyo Seco neighbors and the prospects for a NFL team. |
| Big Questions About the Rose Bowl's Future | April 29, 2001 -- The Rose Bowl has played host to the oldest of all college football bowl games, plus five Super Bowls, Olympic events and the women's and men's World Cup soccer finals. No stadium in the country can match its tradition. |
| Ruling affirms lease to Kidspace | April 26, 2001 -- Judge Dzintra Janavs has rejected the Arroyo Seco Foundation's challenge of Pasadena's 50 year lease to Kidspace Museum for park land in Brookside Park. |
| Cherniss wades in on Arroyo funding | March 23, 2001 -- Columnist Cherniss can't argue with the City Council and suggests that there should be a public vote on the value of the Rose Bowl like the 710 vote. |
| Arroyo funds for golf course, Rose Bowl | March 22, 2001 -- Despite the objections of park advocates, the City Council has decided that the Rose Bowl and Brookside Golf Course are eligible for a multimillion-dollar capital improvement fund created to benefit the Arroyo Seco. |
| Pasadena defends its use of funding | February 16, 2001 -- The city acted appropriately when it used a fund intended for Arroyo Seco restoration to pay for more than $2 million in Rose Bowl and golf course renovations, according to a financial review by city staff. But the review hasn't quieted Arroyo Seco advocates who believe the money was intended only for natural areas |
| Letters to the Star News Regarding the Trash in Millard Canyon | February 12, 2001 -- Four letters in the Star News regarding the trashing of Millard Canyon by the La Vina Development |
| Arroyo Seco safety zone declared for endangered southwestern toad | February
8, 2001 -- A six-mile swath of land along the Arroyo Seco has been
designated a safety zone for the endangered arroyo southwestern toad,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced yesterday.
The land stretching from Devil's Gate reservoir in Pasadena to Long Canyon in the Angeles National Forest is now federally protected as critical habitat for the toad, which has lost an estimated 75 percent of its territory to development and dams |
| Trash fouls Millard Canyon trail |
January 28, 2001 -- Trash and building debris from the
nearby La Vina housing development, dumped or blown into scenic Millard
Canyon, has littered a wilderness trail with plastic foam insulation,
food wrappers and coffee cups.
Hikers and residents are concerned that no one seems to have taken responsibility for cleanup, and some worry the debris will find its way into the mountain stream below. |
| ASF park perservation lawsuit moves ahead | January 24, 2001 -- A Superior Court judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the city of Pasadena by the Arroyo Seco Foundation over a 50-year lease of public land in Brookside Park granted to the Kidspace Museum. |
| Toad listing under review | January 24, 2001 -- A six-mile strip of wild land beyond Devil's Gate Dam is considered prime habitat for the endangered arroyo southwestern toad, but its safety zone is in jeopardy as the Bush administration reviews the recent decision to designate 180,000 acres as critical habitat. |
| Endangered toad stirs debate | January 16, 2001 -- An endangered toad could win federal protection for its habitat along the upper Arroyo Seco, but local public agencies are croaking about the possibility that it could put their plans on hold. |
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