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November 2024

October 2024

ARBORIST WALK: NOT FOR TREE HUGGERS ONLY!
10/29/2024

Bill Wishner: Visual Hunter
10/29/2024

Can a Village Group Fix Our Healthcare System?
10/29/2024

Community Board Directors Strengthen Village Board
10/29/2024

Connecting with Village Connections: The A, B, C, & D’s of Medicare @ 65+
10/29/2024

Grief is a Journey: Two Paths Taken
10/29/2024

Message from the President
10/29/2024

Promoting Informed & Involved Voters
10/29/2024

What Will Be Your Legacy?
10/29/2024

1619, Approaching the Election...
10/27/2024

Beyond and Within the Village - A Star is Born
10/17/2024

Happiness by Priscilla Leonard
10/11/2024

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
10/11/2024

Unpainted Door by Louise Gluck
10/11/2024

In the Evening by Billy Collins
10/10/2024

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
10/10/2024

Betty Kilby, A Family History
10/01/2024

Betty Kilby, A Family History
10/01/2024

Betty Kilby, A Family History
10/01/2024

September 2024

August 2024

1619 Wide Ranging Interests
08/19/2024

1619 Wide Ranging Interests
08/19/2024

First Anniversary
08/19/2024

Alexandra Leaving by Leonard Cohen
08/16/2024

Muse des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden
08/16/2024

The God Abandons Antony by Constantinos P. Cavafy
08/16/2024

Ch – Ch – Ch –Changes
08/15/2024

Cultural Activities Team offers an ‘embarrassment of riches’
08/15/2024

Engaging in Pasadena Village
08/15/2024

Future Housing Options
08/15/2024

Message from the President
08/15/2024

There Are Authors Among Us
08/15/2024

Villagers Welcome New Members at the Tournament Park Picnic
08/15/2024

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
08/14/2024

A narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson
08/13/2024

Haikus
08/13/2024

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
08/13/2024

Poem 20 by Pablo Neruda
08/13/2024

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
08/13/2024

Trees by Joyce Kilmer
08/13/2024

July 2024

June 2024

May 2024

Emergency Preparedness: Are You Ready?
05/28/2024

Farewell from the 2023/24 Social Work Interns
05/28/2024

Gina on the Horizon
05/28/2024

Mark Your Calendars for the Healthy Aging Research California Virtual Summit
05/28/2024

Meet Our New Development Associate
05/28/2024

Putting the Strategic Plan into Practice
05/28/2024

Washington Park: Pasadena’s Rediscovered Gem
05/28/2024

Introducing Civil Rights Discussions
05/22/2024

Rumor of Humor #2416
05/14/2024

Rumor of Humor #2417
05/14/2024

Rumor of Humor #2417
05/14/2024

Rumor of Humor #2418
05/14/2024

Springtime Visitors
05/07/2024

Freezing for a Good Cause – Credit, That Is
05/02/2024

No Discussion Meeting on May 3rd
05/02/2024

An Apparently Normal Person Author Presentation and Book-signing
05/01/2024

Flintridge Center: Pasadena Village’s Neighbor That Changes Lives
05/01/2024

Pasadena Celebrates Older Americans Month 2024
05/01/2024

The 2024 Pasadena Village Volunteer Appreciation Lunch
05/01/2024

Woman of the Year: Katy Townsend
05/01/2024

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What does it mean to be a citizen?

By John Tuite
Posted: 05/25/2022
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Men's Time Topic Discussion for Tuesday, June 7th at 9:30am Pacific time.

 

It is June 7 of the year, 2022! It is an Election Day! These are the Primaries, when we vote for the nominees for the final election in November!

 

I hope you’ll vote. It’s an opportunity to claim our citizenship, won through the wounds and deaths of the Revolution! And even more through the battles of the Civil War!

 

I thought we could spend our time today pondering our citizenship in the City of Pasadena. We talk so much of the National conditions, less about the State of California, and perhaps almost none of the City of Pasadena.

 

What are your thoughts about living here; what do you think the Council ought to be considering? Is the City divided? What can we do to bring it together? What about City events where we could meet people of other parts of the City? Do we think of others in the City as part of our responsibilities in the Village? Is the Village only for part of the City?

 

What does the Council have in mind for us in 2023? Have you ever had a talk with a Councilperson? Did he tell you what he wanted to accomplish? Did you have any ideas for him? Does the Village have any ideas, plans, demands, or thoughts for the Council? Do we have a committee for considering such?

 

What are some other important work going on in the City? In education, for example, or youth development, or crime prevention, or transportation, or concern for the the aging, or information dispersal. What are the departments of the City, and how do they relate to me and me to them. Does the City just go on in City Hall? Do I know anything about Council Meetings? Do they ever send me a letter to talk about what they are doing? What is a Councilperson? what are his/her duties? How do they relate to their constituents? What are their responsibilities to the Village? Who is the Mayor and what are his duties and who does he answer to?

 

And who are we? And what are our responsibilities? And do we care, or how much time are we, as individuals, and as an organization, going to be spending this year about the City, and what it’s accomplishing? And how much will the Village impact the City of Pasadena???

 

I think these are important questions, and I think we should work on some answers!

 

John Tuite

 

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