Living on Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach for the past year or so has offered some serenity to Eaton Fire survivor Barbara Ford.
On Wednesday, Jan. 7, a year after the blaze displaced her from her home, she stepped onto the John Muir High School campus 30 miles away from her temporary residence for an Eaton Fire anniversary event with the community she plans to eventually return to.
“It’s very nice in Long Beach, but it’s not home,” Ford, 75, said.
Artist Cynthia Lake hosts an Eaton Fire anniversary event on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026 at John Muir High School in Pasadena. (Photo by Tyler Shaun Evains, Daily Breeze/SCNG) Attendees make clay tiles for a memorial 1,000 Voices Altadena Mosaic that will honor Altadena history and culture, and lives lost in the Eaton Fire, at an Eaton Fire anniversary event on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026 at John Muir High School in Pasadena. (Photo by Tyler Shaun Evains, Daily Breeze/SCNG) Eaton Fire survivors recieved free, handmade ceramic bowls as symbols of hope and comfort at an Eaton Fire anniversary event on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026 at John Muir High School in Pasadena. (Photo by Tyler Shaun Evains, Daily Breeze/SCNG) Attendees make clay tiles for a memorial 1,000 Voices Altadena Mosaic that will honor Altadena history and culture, and lives lost in the Eaton Fire, at an Eaton Fire anniversary event on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026 at John Muir High School in Pasadena. (Photo by Tyler Shaun Evains, Daily Breeze/SCNG) A moment of silence is taken at an Eaton Fire anniversary event on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026 at John Muir High School in Pasadena. (Photo by Tyler Shaun Evains, Daily Breeze/SCNG) Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger speaks at an Eaton Fire anniversary event on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026 at John Muir High School in Pasadena. (Photo by Tyler Shaun Evains, Daily Breeze/SCNG) Eaton Fire survivors recieved free, handmade ceramic bowls as symbols of hope and comfort at an Eaton Fire anniversary event on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026 at John Muir High School in Pasadena. (Photo by Tyler Shaun Evains, Daily Breeze/SCNG) People stood nearly shoulder-to-shoulder at an Eaton Fire anniversary event on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026 at John Muir High School in Pasadena. (Photo by Tyler Shaun Evains, Daily Breeze/SCNG) Show Caption1 of 8Artist Cynthia Lake hosts an Eaton Fire anniversary event on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026 at John Muir High School in Pasadena. (Photo by Tyler Shaun Evains, Daily Breeze/SCNG) ExpandCynthia Lake, a former art teacher at John Muir, hosted the event through her Side Street Projects nonprofit along with the John Muir Alumni Association. Handmade, ceramic bowls given out at the event served as symbols of hope and comfort.
“After being here for 30 years, I’ve met thousands and thousands of families and taught their grandchildren by the time I retired,” Lake said. “So, knowing my (John Muir) family had been affected by something that I consider to be my art form, fire, was devastating and I had to figure out a way to help them recover.”
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Lake made the ceramic bowls — All 240 bowls, of different shapes, sizes and colors — as part of her “Eaton Up” series, she said, when she thought of “filling the belly” as a way to help restore members of her community.
“Put food in the bowl, and ‘Eat-on’ up,” Lake said. “This is my joy.”
Culinary club member Kaiyah Murrell said that rather than selling the food, the goal was to give to the community that has suffered, lost jobs and more.
She felt the effects first hand, she said, when her mother was temporarily out of work after smoke from the fire made it unsafe to return to her Pasadena office.
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