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Sunday, August 30, 2009

Say a little prayer today

La Cañada fire
Originally uploaded by McDeez.

Firefighters will need all the help they can get.

Station Fire - La Cañada / Flintridge
Originally uploaded by DisneyKrayzie

Labels: fire, firefighters, Fires, La Canada-Flintridge, La Crescenta, Station Fire

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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Say some prayers for the Vedanta Temple

Vedanta Temple - La Crescenta, CA
Originally uploaded by santa barbarian.

serving the La Crescenta / La Canada-Flintridge area.

The area is ablaze and the temple is located in the foothills just west of the major portion of the Station Fire burning uncontrolled in the San Gabriel mountains.

Say some prayers for the residents of the 210 corridor...it's not looking good.

Labels: 210, Fires, La Canada-Flintridge, La Crescenta, San Gabriel Mountains, Wildfires

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Thursday, January 01, 2009

HAPPY TOURNAMENT OF ROSES PARADE DAY!

IMG_8929
Originally uploaded by shawn_broes.

One of the best times I've had during the Holiday Season was to help out with decorating the Rose Parade Floats. The City of La Canada-Flintridge takes their float building very seriously as a community. They actually set up the float building area underneath the freeway and then slowly haul it down to Pasadena when it's finished the night before the big day...hoping that the float will fit beneath the underpasses it encounters along the way.

The year my friend Brian came down to help out, we had to "recreate the recipe" for "skin tone" by blending rice, seeds, cinnamon and a few other organic items. We managed to break 4 blenders and came out with a skin tone that was, well, a bit more "ethnic" than perhaps La Canadians were used to. Hard, messy work but great fun. Hey...Mike Rowe...there's a Dirty Job for you to do for next year....Glue pampas grass, etc. on floats!