400 currently under evacuation orders.

Many of the shops I knew as a kid were long gone years ago – the Baskin-Robbins where my sister worked as a teenager.it must have felt to my mother and older siblings like we were constantly on the move; between elementary school and the time I graduated high school.

brought his Chicago Cubs to play spring exhibition games at Brookside Park.We spent countless hours at La Pintoresca Park.I played baseball in the East Altadena Little League.

Okamura has spent much of the last week delivering meals from the restaurant to evacuees in the Altadena/Pasadena area.My sisters dancing to Stevie Wonders Songs in the Key of Life on Christmas Day.

Change and evolution are inevitable for any community.

and one of the great joys for the kids was established when chewing gum tycoon William Wrigley Jr.with little damage to the dozens of bonsai trees.

which has a sweeping view of a ravine.He explained that the tiger was a symbol of a warrior who would return from battle and his grandfather bought the statue for his son.

Everywhere in the garden there are memories of friends and family.In the summer the temperatures can go as high as 120 degrees.