SURGE APPEARS TO BE SUBSIDING: (from the Pasadena Star-News): The winter surge that filled emergency rooms and hospital beds with COVID-19 patients in late December through January and into early February is over.

The City of Pasadena’s Cultural Affairs Division has released guidelines for the fiscal year 2022-2023 Annual Grants Program, which provides financial grants through a competitive application process in support of Pasadena-based arts and cultural organizations and individual artists to enrich the City’s cultural life.

I received this email last week:

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by Jill Cowan for the New York Times: For almost two years, as the coronavirus has surged and receded and surged again in Los Angeles, Barbara Ferrer, the county’s public health director, has been a steady voice of caution.

Indoor Mask Mandates: From the Pasadena Star-News:  The state of California is set to lift its COVID-19 indoor mask-wearing requirement for vaccinated people next week, but the Los Angeles County and Pasadena Public Health departments will maintain their own mandates for indoor face coverings for the foreseeable future.

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Here is the January Community Brief from Pasadena PD.  As a reminder, this information provides a greater awareness to the Pasadena community. The critical events detailed below are merely a snapshot of the more than 600 calls received to the Police Communications Center every day.

Pasadena Symphony announces its 95th season with an exhilarating schedule of seven concerts, running October 22, 2022 through April 29, 2023. The 2022/23 season will be presented under the batons of seven guest conductors serving as Artistic Partners, each bringing a new and diverse voice to the podium while the orchestra embarks on a search for its new Music Director.

How to live with Covid

As the Omicron wave subsides in regions across the world, more governments, politicians and health officials are telling us it’s time to start “living with the virus.”

But what does that mean? And how do we do that?

For guidance, I connected with more than a dozen epidemiologists to ask about the next phase of the pandemic and how they’re approaching it.

Pasadena Chamber Networking Connection Breakfast Thursday, February 10th.

WE ARE NOT HAPPY! From the New York Times: As you’re probably aware by now, Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations are plummeting in California — the first pandemic-related good news in months.