🌱 Patch AM: Pasadena seller’s infant walkers recalled—could they be in your home?

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In today's newsletter:

• Pasadena seller's infant walkers recalled—could they be in your home?
• Step inside JPL's Pasadena clean room shaping the hunt for life
• How Sacramento's new wildfire deal could still affect Pasadena bills

Also on today's calendar: Gracie Bullyproof Back To School Open House and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What gets bigger the more you take away? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Sunday: Sunny, with a high of 90 and low of 67 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Monday: Nice with plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 88, low: 64.
• Tuesday: Partly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 85 and low of 67 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• California college takes top spot in TIME's new national rankings — dominates 10 best (nypost.com) — A Pasadena-based seller is recalling about 243 Kmaier infant walkers sold briefly on Target.com because they can roll through doorways and fail to stop at stairs, posing a serious fall hazard. Local families are urged to stop using the walkers immediately, follow the photo-and-email process to get a refund, and consider safer stationary activity centers or floor time instead.
   

• Inside the room where NASA built a groundbreaking tool to spot alien worlds (cnn.com) — Right here in Pasadena at JPL, engineers built an ultra-clean, high-tech coronagraph that will ride aboard NASA's new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to hunt distant planets and probe dark energy. The story walks you inside the Pasadena clean room, explains why everyone dons full "bunny suits," and shows how this local lab's work could help answer whether we're alone in the universe.
   

• Newsom drops plan to shift wildfire costs away from utilities (calmatters.org) — State leaders just struck a deal on how California utilities will pay for wildfire damage, keeping more costs on power companies and preserving full damages for survivors. Pasadena appears as the backdrop for Newsom's earlier wildfire bill signings, underscoring how local schools and neighborhoods are part of the broader debate over fire safety, insurance, and electricity rates statewide.
   

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Saturday September 5
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  Rose Bowl Stadium, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, Pasadena
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Other local events

Monday August 31
• City Council Meeting
  City of Pasedena NW Programs City Hall - Council Chamber Room S249, 100 N Garfield Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
  6:00 pm
Tuesday September 1
• Fall Play Auditions (Webb)
  San Marino High Webb Theater
  4:00 pm
Saturday September 5
• Gracie Bullyproof Back To School Open House →
  Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Pasadena, 75 W Walnut St, Pasadena
  1:00 pm
• Guns N' Roses →
  Rose Bowl Stadium, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, Pasadena
  6:25 pm
Sunday September 6
• Campus Care: Amigos de Los Rios
  Jackson STEM Dual Language Magnet Academy Pasadena, CA 91101
  8:00 am
Monday September 7
• Labor Day - No School
  Altadena Arts Magnet Altadena
Tuesday September 8
• Coffee with the Principal
  Washington Elementary STEM Magnet School Pasadena, CA 91101
  8:15 am
• School Tour
  Jackson STEM Dual Language Magnet Academy Pasadena, CA 91101
  8:30 am
• Lunch Break Reset →
  Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Pasadena, 75 W Walnut St, Pasadena
  12:00 pm
Wednesday September 9
• FREE Jiu-Jitsu Intro Class in Pasadena | No Experience Needed →
  Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Pasadena, 75 W Walnut St, Pasadena
  7:30 pm
Thursday September 10
• 2026 Los Angeles County Women's Leadership Conference →
  Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E Green St, Pasadena
  8:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• has anyone seen this cat?
  he got out last night and we haven't seen him. lmk (Nextdoor Daisy Villa)
• Has anyone had to replace their sewer line lately?
  If so, is there someone you can recommend? I would like to obtain several quotes as the company who came out to fix my clogged kitchen drain quoted… (Nextdoor Bungalow Heaven)

• Lucky Strike Entertainment Corporation posted a job opening for Greeter / Counter Desk Attendant in Pasadena. Apply here.
• Pacific Oaks College posted a job opening for Senior Enrollment Counselor in Pasadena. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Pasadena here.

🗞 Nearby News

Altadena

• UCLA Study Finds Gaps in Protections for Eaton Fire Recovery Workers (pasadenanow.com)
• LA28, Santa Anita Park tree-removal plan contradicts games' environmental promise, opponents argue (pasadenastarnews.com)
• Lawmakers Reach Wildfire Deal That Sidelines Most of Newsom's Key Proposals (hsjchronicle.com)

San Marino

• SMPD: Swatting Puts People at Risk (outlooknewspapers.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A hole (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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