Wildlife Focus
Acorn Woodpecker
Melanerpes formicivorusDescription 8-9 1/2". Male has yellow-white forecrown; red crown; light eyes; black nape, back, wings, and tail. Chin black; throat & sides of head yellow-white; breast and flanks whitish with dark streaking; belly, wing patches, and rump white. Female has black forecrown, otherwise identical to male.
Habitat Open oak and pine-oak forests.
Nesting 4 or 5 white eggs in a hole in a tree. Nests in colonies, with all members of colony sharing in excavating holes-mostly in dead oak branches-feeding young, and possibly incubating.
Range Resident from southern Oregon south through California, and in Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas. Also in tropics.
Discussion This well-named woodpecker harvests acorns and, in agricultural or suburban areas, almonds and walnuts as well. In autumn the birds store their crop of nuts tightly in individual holes so that no squirrel can pry them out. The storage trees are usually mature or dead pines or Douglas firs with thick, soft bark, but dead oak branches and fence posts are also used. The holes made by a colony are used year after year. Acorns seem to be emergency provisions; on mild winter days these birds catch flying insects.
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Volume Three • October 2004 • Please Recycle
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Editorial
Halloween Scavenger Haunt
A chilly wind blows up the steep and gloomy canyon, as hundreds of ghouls, witches and monsters ooze from their lairs to terrorize the peaceful residents of Mountain Cove. No, it’s not Election Day, it’s the “Big Event” this year for trick-or-treaters of every age.Our 1st Annual Scavenger Haunt is sure to be a huge success. Each individual or team must find 2 clues in this newsletter to find the starting point and the password. On Halloween Night, they must go to that house any time after 6pm and say the secret password to receive the next set of clues.
This continues throughout the night until the little monsters reach their final destination and win a prize. Special Prizes will go to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners who complete the entire Scavenger Haunt before anyone else. It’s a great way to supplement your regular trick-or-treating and neighborhood terrorizing. Let’s start with your Password Clue: This fruity friend grins eerily and winks his squinky eye, and when you’re done displaying him he’ll end up in your pie! Good Luck!
M.W. Martin,
Editor-in-Chief, www.mtncove.com /
Local News
Senator Romero Coming to MC
Come and meet our Senator for this district at the Lodge on Monday, October 18th at 7PM. Hosted by Barbara Dickerson and Kerry FreemanNeighborhood Watch
The Mountain Cove Neighborhood Watch is almost completely set up. However, there are currently no Street Captains for Mountain Laurel Way at the top of the hill and a number of other streets, so in the event of an emergency, you are out of luck! If you want to represent your street, please contact Pat Mallon at . Thanks!Golden Days Luau
The Woman’s Club of Azusa is offering a great dinner and entertainment on Wednesday, October 6th at 6-8PM at the Senior Center (740 N. Dalton Avenue) for only $15. The proceeds will benefit the projects of the Woman’s Club. Contact Barbara Dickerson 812.9872 for tickets.More News…
Taste of the Town
Our 2nd annual Taste of the Town is scheduled for Tuesday, October 5th from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Felix Center on the campus of Azusa Pacific University. The tickets are selling fast! For only $15.00 a person you can sample food from up to 30 local restaurants. The restaurants will be bringing 2 ample samples of their specialties. Not only will you, your friends and colleagues experience samplings of culinary delights, we are offering free valet parking, the soft sounds of dinner music the entire evening, a silent auction and a live auction featuring a ride in the police helicopter that serves the San Gabriel Valley.And as if that is not enough, we will be unveiling our Route 66 Rockin Chopper. One lucky person, who has bought their ticket for our chopper will receive an early Christmas gift of $500. Tickets for the chopper are only $100 each and we are limiting them to 2000. To get an entry form, go to www.azusachamber.org. To purchase Taste of the Town tickets you can call the chamber at 626-334-1507 or see Tina Cravens at City Hall.
Home Owner’s Association
For more info on the schedule for the next HOA Meeting, you should contact Alia Navarro at .November Elections!!!!!!
Yes, once again we will have the Lodge as the Voting Site for our precinct!!!!! /Calendar
October 2004 Events
· 1st & 2nd – 9am Canyon Chalk Fest· 4th – 7:30p City Council
· 5th – 5p Taste of the Town
· 6th – 6p Luau Dinner Show
· 8th – 5p Golden Days Carnival
· 13th – 7:30p Planning Commission
· 18th – 7:30p City Council
· 27th – 7:30p Planning Commission
· Visit http://www.ci.azusa.ca.us/ for More Calendar Events!
Thanksgiving and Giving
As we enter this time of Thanksgiving and Giving here are some opportunities for you to serve the less fortunate in the Azusa community:1) Men’s Homeless Shelter
2) Azusa Food Bank
If you are interested in any of these opportunities, please contact Barbara @ (626) 812-9872
3) Join the “Occasional Angel Brigade: and help out your local Neighborhood Homework House. Please contact Kerry Freeman @ (626) 665-3319 for more information.
Lost!
Standard Pacific key-ring with two keys, lost bewteen the MC Pool and Whispering Willow. If found, please return to 21 Mountain Laurel. Thanks!Game Club
Interested in gaming? Let’s start a Mountain Cove Game Club! Contact and we can plan. All games are welcome including board, card and RPGs. Play-testers also needed for unpublished games. Let the games begin! /Food & Fun
Scoops
Is anyone out there old enough to remember Abba Zabba candy? What about Charleston Chews? Red wax lips? Razzles? How about those colorful candy dots on a piece of paper?Scoops Soda Fountain & Candy is a delightful family-owned business located in Old Town Monrovia, just across the street from the south exit of the Krikorian Theater.
Scoops sells over 300 varieties of candy, old and new, and dozens of flavors of salt water taffy. There is also a full service, old-fashioned soda fountain featuring ice cream sodas, floats, shakes, sundaes, etc., as well as phosphates, Rickys, and much, much more. They even carry old time sodas like Bubble-Up, NeHi, Sassparilla, IBC and Orange and Strawberry Crush.
The atmosphere is fun and enjoyable, and the surrounding will take you back to your childhood no matter what your age. Scoops Soda Fountain & Candy is open Tuesday through Sunday and is located at 120 E. Lemon Ave., Monrovia, (626) 359-4480. As a little extra incentive, see the coupon below!
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LOCATION CLUE: The Willow that Whispers in the Night is surely going to fear and fright. You must not fear nor lose your slumber, appear before the unlucky number! /
World Cuisine
From www.recipezaar.comby Pets'R'us
Halloween Bones #44079
These sweet bones are easy to make and look great on a plate with some cobweb and black spiders!!!Makes 12 bones
2 hour 55 minutes, 25 minutes prep
Ingredients:
2 large egg whites4 ounces fine white sugar
Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees F.2. Beat the egg whites until stiff, starting on a low speed and gradually on a higher speed.
3. Then start adding the sugar, a tablespoon at the time, keep beating until you have a thick and glossy meringue.
4. Line baking trays with paper.
5. Using a piping bag with a plain nozzle, pipe a straight meringue bone/line of approx 4 inch long, pipe 2 meringue balls at each end of the bone/line.
6. Take of any pointy bits meringue on the balls with a small knife or use scissors.
7. Bake the bones for 1 ¼ to 1-½ hours until they have dried out, let them cool on the paper.
8. If you like the bones to look more brittle, then mix in some chopped nuts.
9. The yield will depend on how large you make the bones and on the size of the nozzle.
10: Enjoy!