- Pasadena Now's Tatiana Toomer has video of Councilmember Alice Wessen on the community and the upcoming election (nice hat!)
- Actor Michael Nouri will host "Swingin' on a Star" black-tie gala to benefit Five Acres on June 6 at 6 PM. Big band music by the Pasadena Jazz Orchestra , and tickets are $250. It's all at The Vibiana (you know, the old cathedral!), 210 S. Main St., Los Angeles. Call 626-798-6792, Ext. 2244 for tix and information.
- PSN's social reporter Pat Diroll has a piece on the May 14 benefit for Altadena Christian Children's Center, which honored community activist Joe Wyatt.
- The next meeting of the Sierra Club at Eaton Canyon Nature Center will feature a panel discussing the efforts of organizations (including the US Forest Service, Sierra Club, TreePeople, and others) to repair Station Fire damage. It's at 7:30 PM Wednesday (tomorrow) at Eaton Canyon Nature Center, 1750 N. Altadena Drive. Social time starts at 7 PM.
- PSN also has a Janette Williams update on the fate of the Fork in the Road -- Bob Stane wants to move it up 15 feet to another area. We say there needs to be a movement to "Bring the Fork Home!" to Altadena (we're all for the Old Marengo pocket park!)
- Reader Tom Kosakowski points us to this LA Times obit on long time Muir High football and girl's track coach Jim Brownfield. Brownfield was elected to the National High School Athletic Coaches Assn. Hall of Fame in 1998.