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MONDAY EDITION An edition of the
Monrovia WEEKLY &
ARCADIA WEEKLY
MONDAY, AUGUST 10 - AUGUST 16, 2009 VOLUME 2, NO. 32
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The Funky Hippeez To Perform in Temple City
National Night Out MAJOR UPGRADES ON TAP FOR CITY’S I.T. INFRASTRUCTURE
-Photo By Terry MIller
Full Coverage on page 14
Arcadia General Plan Workshop Welcomes Input from Local Business Owners
City to Install New High-Speed Internet Service, Cable Access Wiring
The Funky Hippeez are a live 70s Retro Show complete with elaborate costumes and antics reminiscent of the late 70’s disco era. Popcorn Jackson, Superfly, Rio Love, Danny Dynomite and The Disco Shiek will boogie down as the The Funky Hippeez on Wednesday, August 12 at Temple City Park beginning at 7 p.m. The Funky Hippeez show is a fast-paced, non-stop ride
through your favorite K-Tel disco hits. Grab your love beads, bell bottoms and platform shoes and get set to groove to Le Freak, Got To Be Real, Disco Inferno and more! Don’t miss the world’s grooviest live disco and funk show to date. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Pavilion at Temple City Park, 9701 Las Tunas Drive. Bring a chair or blanket to enjoy an evening of music in the park. Pre-concert activities start at 630 p.m. – Participate in Shape Up TC – all ages are welcome to join TC Parks & Recreation staff during a miniexercise demonstration. Hot Dogs, soft serve ice cream, shaved ice, popcorn and more will be for sale during the concert. For further information, please call the Parks & Recreation Department at (626) 285-2171 ext. 2328.
LOCAL REALTOR DONNA BAKER TO RUN FOR MONROVIA SCHOOL BOARD Candidate Managed Clarence Shaw’s City Council Campaign, Now Vies to Fill his Vacant School Board Seat BY NURIA MATHOG
This week, in a move meant to further facilitate live video coverage of City Council Meeting via the internet, Temple City will install new wiring and hardware for its outdated information systems network. The new connection, which will be provided by AT&T, is expected to provide data transfer capabilities equivalent to twice that of a normal T1 line, a longtime industry standard in dedicated internet access for large companies and government networks. In his weekly report, Assistant to the City Manager Gary Flod called the upgrade “an important step in obtaining sufficient bandwidth to accommodate live video streaming of the City Council meetings over the Internet.” Last month, the city signed an agreement with Community Media of the
Foothills, a non-profit cable access studio in Monrovia, to record City Council meetings for rebroadcast both on the city’s dedicated cable access channel and via the internet. However at this point, the meetings are not broadcast live on either medium due to hardware constraints and insufficient upload bandwidth out of the Council Chambers and City Hall. Currently, the meetings are available for viewing on the cable access channel only after they have been recorded and then set up for playback through the play-out system in the adjacent building. The hardware and wiring upgrades are meant to address this issue, allowing the meetings to be directly broadcast from the Council Chambers live as the meetings take place. Flod said in his report that this system is expected to
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-Photo By Terry MIller
BY SAMEEA KAMAL In an effort to provide business owners in Arcadia with the opportunity to voice concerns and suggestions, the City of Arcadia and Chamber of Commerce co - sponsored a Genera l Plan Business Workshop on Tuesday, August 4 at the City Hall Council Chambers. Despite a low turnout,
the meeting provided a few business owners and members of the General Plan Adv isor y Commit tee to review the plan’s goals and approach, and to discuss potential problems. “We want to make sure we get every stakeholder and party involved to continue to have a prosperous
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Monrovia resident Donna Baker has joined candidates Chris Rich and Alexandra Zucco in campaigning for a spot on the Monrovia Unified School District Board of Education. Baker, a Dickson Podley realtor, has been an active citizen in the community for many years. In addition to supporting the Foothill Unity Center and the Monrovia Public Library, she has sponsored numerous sports programs at Monrovia High School and the Monrovia Unified School District’s “Making the Grade” program. Other contributions include her work with the Monrovia Historic Presentation Group, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the restoration of historical city buildings, and her service as the current President and Chief Officer at the Santa Anita Family YMCA. Baker has been involved with many local groups, most
notably the Foothill Community Democrats, a local chapter of the American Democratic Party, and the Monrovia Chamber of Commerce. In 2008, the Chamber awarded Baker the title of Monrovia Citizen of the Year. Rival candidate Chris Rich, who has a degree in Business Management from the University of Houston, has served on the Board since 2005 and is currently running for reelection. Alexandra Zucco, a graduate of the University of La Verne, filed for candidacy as a “consultant/ parent.” This November, the candidates will compete for the two open positions on the Board: the office of former Board member Clarence R. Shaw, who relinquished his seat on the Board to serve on the Monrovia City Council this April, and the office of
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