Monday, August 3, 2026 | 4:29 am
More than 100 young basketball players from across the San Gabriel Valley turned out at Loma Alta Park in Altadena on Friday, July 31, for a free youth basketball camp run by Russell Westbrook’s Why Not? Foundation, with Westbrook leading the training at the p... More »
Monday, August 3, 2026 | 4:04 am
For three evenings next week, the South Pasadena Tournament of Roses Committee will be collecting gently used items at the War Memorial Building. Donations are encouraged. The committee stocks its annual yard sale with them, and the sale runs Friday, August 14... More »
Monday, August 3, 2026 | 4:01 am
The Jade Marlin Foundation will hand out free backpacks and school supplies at a Pasadena giveaway on Saturday, Aug. 15, one of several back-to-school events across the region as families prepare for the new school year. The Pasadena-based nonprofit will run t... More »
Monday, August 3, 2026 | 3:00 am
The dress code is not a suggestion. To get into Wednesday’s grand opening of the We Out Here Community Corner, you have to wear pink. The Juicy Little Society, a youth-led nonprofit that pivoted into Eaton Fire relief work and has stayed in Altadena since, ope... More »
Monday, August 3, 2026 | 3:00 am
The Jade Marlin Foundation will hand out free backpacks and school supplies at a Pasadena giveaway on Saturday, Aug. 15, one of several back-to-school events across the region as families prepare for the new school year. The Pasadena-based nonprofit will run t... More »
Saturday, August 1, 2026 | 5:51 am
The Rose Bowl Aquatics Center will temporarily relocate its programs and operations away from its Pasadena facility in the Arroyo Seco beginning April 1, 2027, so the site can be prepared to stage Olympic diving competitions in July 2028. The Rose Bowl Aquatic... More »
Friday, July 31, 2026 | 3:20 pm
The Rose Bowl Aquatics Center (RBAC) is proud to announce its “Rising to the Moment” Annual Fundraising Benefit, an inspiring evening honoring the people, programs, and partnerships that have shaped the RBAC’s legacy and continue to make a lasting community im... More »
Thursday, July 30, 2026 | 6:28 am
The line for a free backpack on Sunday will run through the UCLA Bruins’ football locker room. Organizers of the third annual Dena Community Backpack Giveaway say students who have registered will pick out their supplies inside the locker room at Rose Bowl Sta... More »
Wednesday, July 29, 2026 | 6:15 am
The American Red Cross has awarded San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity a $5 million grant to pay for long-term rebuilding of Altadena-area homes destroyed in the January 2025 Eaton Fire, according to the Red Cross and media reports. The grant is intended t... More »
Wednesday, July 29, 2026 | 5:57 am
For more than 100 years, the Convalescent Aid Society has been doing something that sounds almost impossibly simple: lending wheelchairs, hospital beds, and walkers to people who need them, free of charge, no questions asked. Now the Pasadena nonprofit is high... More »
Wednesday, July 29, 2026 | 5:41 am
The nation’s blood supply has dropped to levels the American Red Cross calls a crisis. On August 3, a partnership between three organizations will bring a donation site to Altadena, where a single hour in a chair could help reverse it. Pasadena Village, the Ea... More »
Wednesday, July 29, 2026 | 4:56 am
A nonprofit founded by Eaton Fire survivors has launched a new program aimed at helping Altadena homeowners overcome one of the biggest obstacles to rebuilding after the January 2025 wildfire: the gap between insurance payouts and the actual cost of reconstruc... More »