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About Senior Solutions
03/28/2025

Building a Bridge With Journey House, A Home Base for Former Foster Youth
03/28/2025

Come for the Knitting, Stay for the Conversation... and the Cookies
03/28/2025

Creating Safe and Smart Spaces with Home Technology
03/28/2025

Finding Joy in My Role on The Pasadena Village Board
03/28/2025

I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!
03/28/2025

Managing Anxiety
03/28/2025

Message from Our President: Keeping Pasadena Village Strong Together
03/28/2025

My Favorite Easter Gift
03/28/2025

The Hidden History of Black Women in WWII
03/28/2025

Urinary Tract Infection – Watch Out!
03/28/2025

Volunteer Coordinator and Blade-Runner
03/28/2025

Continuing Commitment to Combating Racism
03/26/2025

Goodbye and Keep Cold by Robert Frost
03/13/2025

What The Living Do by Marie Howe
03/13/2025

Racism is Not Genetic
03/11/2025

Bill Gould, The First
03/07/2025

THIS IS A CHAPTER, NOT MY WHOLE STORY
03/07/2025

Dramatic Flair: Villagers Share their Digital Art
03/03/2025

Empowering Senior LGBTQ+ Caregivers
03/03/2025

A Life Never Anticipated
03/02/2025

Eaton Fire Changes Life
03/02/2025

February 2025

Commemorating Black History Month 2025
02/28/2025

Transportation at the Pasadena Village
02/28/2025

A Look at Proposition 19
02/27/2025

Behind the Scenes: Understanding the Pasadena Village Board and Its Role
02/27/2025

Beyond and Within the Village: The Power of One
02/27/2025

Celebrating Black Voices
02/27/2025

Creatively Supporting Our Village Community
02/27/2025

Decluttering: More Than The Name Implies
02/27/2025

Hidden Gems of Forest Lawn Museum
02/27/2025

LA River Walk
02/27/2025

Message from the President
02/27/2025

Phoenix Rising
02/27/2025

1619 Conversations with West African Art
02/25/2025

The Party Line
02/24/2025

Bluebird by Charles Bukowski
02/17/2025

Dreams by Langston Hughes
02/17/2025

Haiku - Four by Fritzie
02/17/2025

Haikus - Nine by Virginia
02/17/2025

Wind and Fire
02/17/2025

Partnerships Amplify Relief Efforts
02/07/2025

Another Community Giving Back
02/05/2025

Diary of Disaster Response
02/05/2025

Eaton Fire: A Community United in Loss and Recovery
02/05/2025

Healing Powers of Creative Energy
02/05/2025

Living the Mission
02/05/2025

Message from the President: Honoring Black History Month
02/05/2025

Surviving and Thriving: Elder Health Considerations After the Fires
02/05/2025

Treasure Hunting in The Ashes
02/05/2025

Villager's Stories
02/05/2025

A Beginning of Healing
02/03/2025

Hectic Evacuation From Eaton Canyon Fire
02/02/2025

Hurricanes and Fires are Different Monsters
02/02/2025

January 2025

Neighboring Anew

By Bridget Brewster
Posted: 05/02/2025
Tags: bridget brewster, newsletter may 2025

The Foothills Neighborhood Group, mostly comprised of Altadena and La Canada Villagers has been meeting for many years.  For the last several of those years, we’ve gathered on the first Wednesday of the month at the Altadena Golf Course Café.  

Like everything else about our lives, that changed on the night of January 7.

With almost all Foothills Villagers displaced from their homes, the need to gather became critical for us.  Claire Gorfinkel reached out to our co-leaders, Fritzie Culick and LuCinda Haagenson and invited the group to meet in her home.  As many as could get there, gathered February 5th in Claire’s warm and inviting home. As you can imagine, the conversation was centered around our experiences of the fire.

Fritizie Culick stated, “What has been vital about starting our neighborhood meetings again has been finding a place to meet!  Claire Gorfinkel offered her house right at the start, and again the second month. Then Barbara Madden suggested the Altadena Library, which was brilliant and it worked.” 

We will meet at the Altadena Library again in May and determine where we will continue as some are able to return to their homes.  We will also be exploring opportunities to meet at various restaurants and coffee shops in Altadena to lend our support as these once thriving businesses struggle to come back.

The Foothills Neighborhood Group is a thriving bunch of eclectic Villagers who truly enjoy being together.  “The enthusiasm of getting together one and all, old and new friends is a great aspect of our Foothills Group. I want to thank Claire Gorfinkel for graciously hosting us in her home at a time when we needed to be together.”

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