For close to a year, Ben McGinty, proprietor of McGinty’s Gallery at the End of the World in Altadena, said his small business has felt like a “little island in the middle of so much devastation.”

It’s an accurate picture. For five small businesses on the storied Mariposa Junction corridor at Lake Avenue and Mariposa Street, the Eaton fire that spared their storefronts nevertheless decimated their livelihoods.

“This is what makes us at strive to achieve, to keep going, seeing that there’s so much support for our community and knowing that there’s so many people that love our town makes us realize that we need to keep going and we need to be here,” McGinty said.

More than 500 people attended “Rising Together,” the relaunch of a restaurant, clothing store, print shop, stationery boutiqu

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