“if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV
Do you have what it takes to win the Great Oxnard Salsa Challenge 2016?
Calling all home cooks!
Your family and friends RAVE about your homemade salsa, but do you have what it takes to be the best of the best? We think you do! Take the challenge and enter to win the Great Oxnard Salsa Challenge – Amateur Division recipe competition taking place on Sunday, July 31 during the 23rd Annual Oxnard Salsa Festival!
Presented by the Oxnard Salsa Festival, amateur salsa chefs are invited to compete to win! The contest is limited to 50 salsas and pre-registration is required. The entry fee is $25 per salsa and includes one souvenir t-shirt per entry. Entry forms are due by Friday, July 8, 2016.
Winning salsas will be selected in several categories including Best Red, Best Green, Best Fruit, Best Mild, Best Medium, and Best Hot. The Judge’s Choice Winner (the best of the best!) will be awarded with a $100 cash prize from the Oxnard Salsa Festival. First place category winners receive a Festival ‘goodie bag’. Read more
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The Salsa Festival is coming to Pershing Square in Downtown LA this Summer! Spend the weekend of July 9&10, 2016 living it up with us with a fun, cultural event. What will you find at the Salsa Festival? Fun for the entire family!
You’ll find tons of delicious salsas to sample in the Salsa Tasting Tent, along with local food vendors offering up their best selections throughout the Festival. Live music, dancing, an interactive Kids Zone, and Beer & Margarita Bar making the Salsa Fest the perfect place to spend a summer afternoon- spice up your weekend!
Who’s ready for the Salsa Festival this weekend? We’ll see you for music, food, dancing, margaritas, sangria, carnival games, salsa tasting, and fun for the whole family! 10am-6pm both Saturday & Sunday!
Take advantage of this promo- use code JULY4 to save $4 off a Large Salsa Tasting package, valid this weekend only!! https://www.latinsalsafestival.com/admission/
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Admission: FREE!
Food, salsa tasting tickets, and beer and wine tickets will be on-sale during event hours on the premises.
No Coolers, no outside alcohol please.
Bags and backpacks are subject to search at entrance.
To be a vendor, comments or questions, email: irene@ezeventproduction.com
When
Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 10:00 AM – Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 6:00 PM (PDT)
Where
Pershing Square – 532 South Olive Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013
More details and to rsvp.
According to sources, Sangers & Joe Pasadena has closed less than a year after opening.
A new restaurant is taking over the space rumored to be a seafood restaurant.
More details to follow.
Sangers & Joe
57 E Holly Street, Pasasdena, CA 91103
(323) 553-0563
Every year starting around middle of June and well into July, you will hear the loud explosions which sound like gunfire in many cases when illegal fireworks are ignited, many powerful enough to blow the limb off or maim a person. Yet why is it that every year we continue to experience these incidents?
Here’s some info from the Consumer Products Safety Commission. Using the hashtag #fireworkshurt and an annual report for 2015, with more details about injuries and deaths related to fireworks. Some stunning facts.
The police and fire officials are busy dealing with other more important issues, from accidents to fires.
The fireworks we are experiencing that are illegal in all communities are M-80’s that make loud gunfire type explosions. But there’s the kind you can buy at surrounding communities where they are legal to buy and set off. These are classified as the “safe and sane”(not sure who came up with that, maybe the manufacturers). These “safe and sane” fireworks are sold by community organizations and perhaps are the number fundraising event of the year for many of these organizations, raising tens of thousands of dollars in many instances.
To those who think that fireworks don’t cause damage or harm, just one example last year of a fire caused by fireworks, causing $3 million in damage!
Reading the postings on NextDoor, a neighborhood social media platform, you can see that illegal fireworks are a very “popular” topic.
So here’s some ideas for officials to consider.
- Drive in unmarked undercover vehicles when patrol the repeat problem areas.
- Enlist the help of police volunteers to isolate the problem areas. Looking on NextDoor again, there are specific addresses residents have pointed out where the culprits live and fireworks are coming from.
- Offer a rewards for tips leading to arrest. If there’s a zero tolerance for any type of fireworks in Pasadena, then city officials need to step it up and crack down. I am sure the city can come up with $100, or even $500.
- Put the challenge to Caltech or the community, help us catch those involved in illegal fireworks. The banners are a good start. Maybe even a hotline, where residents can call in and remain anonymous if they desire and report. According the Pasadena Police, all calls are followed-up on. Usually if there’s one incident or report of fireworks at a location, there will be more.
- Implement technology already in use for other criminal activity, including use of drones and sensors to triangulate gunfire.
- Education of those most prone to be involved in illegal fireworks. Just sow then this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQGr3FSESHg - Working with neighboring communities where “safe and sane” fireworks are sold to stop the sale and use. It has to be a multi-city effort. There are probably some pretty shocking stats on the cost of fireworks to the city emergency response, where there are injuries or property, damage fires, etc. Not to mention the pollution of the air, the sulfur odor remains in the air for days if there’s no breeze to blow it away.
Like we hear over and over again from PPD Police Chief Sanchez, the residents are the eyes and ears of the police, that without residents, the job of catching the “bad guys” becomes that much harder.
PasadenaNow was recently on scene with PPD to experience firsthand the challenges of locating those culprits involved in the use of illegal fireworks.
Here’s a tweet from Pasadena Fire Dept. Showing what the fines can be if you are caught.
Fire Chief Calvin Wells asks is an arrest record, vehicle impound, jail time and fines as high as $50,000 worth it? pic.twitter.com/yHJLosELty
— Pasadena Fire Dept. (@PasadenaFD) June 24, 2014
If you want to see fireworks, encourage those with illegal fireworks to enjoy professional firework displays. Here’s the organizers of the Rose Bowl event, testing out the fireworks.
#fireworks practice @RoseBowlStadium @PasadenaFD @VisitPasadenaCA pic.twitter.com/U95tMVf1LQ
— City of Pasadena (@PasadenaGov) July 1, 2016
Here’s a recent tweet from PPD Chief Sanchez show a new SUV. Maybe there’s technology in it to help with catching those involved in illegal fireworks?
#PPD new SUV. The vehicle has state of the art equipment and technology. Others like unit 15 will follow soon pic.twitter.com/OQpy9BF5kF
— Chief Phillip L Sanchez (ret) (@PPDChiefSanchez) July 2, 2016