Award-Winning Talk Show ‘Pasadena Monthly’ to Feature One Arroyo Foundation’s Trailblazers

Pasadena Media’s award-winning local TV talk show “Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman” returns this Friday with guests Rick Gould and John Onderdonk of the One Arroyo Foundation.

On July 13, the One Arroyo Foundation and the City of Pasadena broke ground on the Trails Improvement Project, which will enhance miles of trails in the Arroyo Seco.

Gould is the Managing Director of the One Arroyo Foundation. He retired in December 2017 after 17 years as the director of the City of Santa Clarita’s Parks, Recreation, and Community Services Department. He has over 40 years of Parks and Recreation experience, including Community Services Manager for the City of Pleasanton; Parks and Community Services

Commissioner for the City of San Ramon; and, the City of Santa Cruz, responsible for the Ocean Beaches and Aquatics programs.

Onderdonk is the Vice President of the One Arroyo Foundation. He also serves as the Assistant Vice President of Facilities Operations and Services and Chief Sustainability Officer at Caltech.

Last month, Chapman won a 3rd place journalism award in the Talk/Public Affairs category of the LA Press Club’s 66th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards, for hosting “Pasadena

Monthly.” In April, “Pasadena Monthly” won a 1st place award in the Talk Show category at the Alliance for Community Media West’s WAVE (Western Access Video Excellence) Awards.

“Pasadena Monthly” airs at 5 p.m. PT on the fourth Friday of every month on Pasadena Media’s Arroyo Channel and streaming apps, available on channel 99 on AT&T U-verse, channel 32 on Charter Spectrum, YouTube, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Roku. The show is written, hosted and produced by Chapman, directed and edited by Jeffrey Stanfill, supervised by producer Jasiri Jenkins-Glenn, executive produced by Chris Miller and chief executive produced by George

Falardeau, CEO and executive director of Pasadena Media.

“This is must-watch television each month for everyone who cares about this city,” Falardeau said.

Guests on “Pasadena Monthly” (and its previous iteration, “NewsRap Local”) have included

Congress member Judy Chu; Congress member Adam Schiff; Assembly member Chris Holden;

Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo; Pasadena city manager Miguel Márquez; LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger; JPL director Dr. Laurie Leshin; and many others.

Chapman was the youngest elected official in LA County when he served on the Altadena Town Council at age 19. He has served on a number of local boards and wrote hundreds of articles for dozens of print and digital publications, including KPCC/LAist, Alta Journal, Huffington Post, LA Weekly, Irish Post, Berkeley Political Review, Pasadena Weekly, Pasadena Star-News, Pasadena Now and many others. He has won a dozen LA Press Club journalism awards.

He was a professional child actor who starred in dozens of movies, TV shows, commercials and plays. He previously served as Communications Officer for USC’s Pacific Council on

International Policy and currently serves as the District 6 Council Liaison/Field Representative to Pasadena Vice Mayor Steve Madison.

Learn more at justindouglaschapman.com and pasadenamedia.org.