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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2009 VOLUME 14, NO.77
Sierra Madre Won’t Pay SCAG Membership Dues
Debate Over School Facility Rental Continues
BY SAMEEA KAMAL
BY SAMEEA KAMAL
The approval of a tempor a r y u se per m it t ha t would allow a private Sierra Madre high school to continue renting out its facilities led to the second city council discussion with t he nea rby resident s of the neighborhood and the school. R e s ident s who l ive near Alverno High School, a private all-girls Catholic school, oppose the use permit for the renovations outlined in the school’s master plan that would continue to allow the school to rent out its facility to private parties and events. The renovations for the school would address the lack of an assembly place on the school’s campus and soccer or softball fields, which the school currently has to rent out and bus students to and from, said Ann Gillick, Head of School at Alverno High School. Currently, the soccer a nd sof tba l l tea ms rent fields in La Canada. Neighbors in the com-
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As the young women waited for their turn to say a few words and give their first impressions to the TOR Committee on the south lawn of Tournament House, reigning Rose Queen and Arcadia resident Courtney Lee and her court gave the hopefuls a few
A heated discussion at Tuesday’s City Council meeting regarding the payment of dues to the Southern California Association of Governments ended with the council’s decision not to pay the membership fee “This problem is that all us little towns are being mandated to do things by Sacramento and Northern California, and they have no understanding of the issues that we have here for development, considering especially that water resources are slowly disappearing,” said Councilman Don Watts. According to Watts, mandates for increased housing density require an increased water supply that is difficult for Sierra Madre to provide. The water supply in Sierra Madre currently comes from the mountains and a number of wells, but the amount of water available is decreasing. Last year, one of the city’s water pumps burned out, he said. “We’re having a harder and harder time meeting the demand … and if we have to do increased building and
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-Photo By Terry Miller
1100 Young Women ( and a few good men) Try out for Annual Rose Court BY TERRY MILLER
The annual Rose Queen & Royal Court Tryouts were held Saturday and Monday at Tournament House. More than 1,000 Pasadena-area young women and a few good men tried out hoping to become a part of Pasadena history as they participated in
Governor Thwarts Eviction of Disabled Monrovia Residents
this unique selection process. Seven finalists will be named to the Royal Court in the coming weeks. Of course, as predictable and as timely as the Parade itself - a handful of Arcadia High School boys tried out once again for the coveted Rose Court. One contestant
said “It takes a lot of courage for boys to enter” the prestigious Royal Court tryouts. Doubtful as it is that a male will be selected on the court, one hopeful said he did it to “meet girls” and another just wanted an “official” TOR photo with the bouquet of Roses.
“It’s a Beautiful Night In London”
JUDGE LANCE ITO PRESIDES IN PASADENA POLITICAL CAUCUS Pasadena Women’s Political Caucus Offers Unique Look at How Judges Get their Jobs
Frank Gallagher with the Pasadena Independent in hand on top the Plinth
BY JOHN STEPHENS AND TERRY MILLER
Following the appearance of an article in the Los Angeles Times last week, as well as an article printed nearly three weeks prior in this paper, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared
Friday morning at the Regency Court building in Monrovia where he announced his plans to stop the evictions. Regency Court Tenants
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In his thick Irish dialect and with absolute joy of life and passion in his heart, Pasadena artist Frank Gallagher took the internet world by stor m at mid-
night (GMT) Wednesday as friends and family watched from home and all around the world via the internet. With a copy of last week’s Pasadena Independent in hand and on parade for
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Priceless Computer and Beacon Media Award Second Computer to Local Family In the second week of the Beacon Media/Priceless Computer Back to School Computer Giveaway, our winner comes from Monrovia High School, a place where, as Francisco Baltazar
says in his essay, computers are becoming more and more necessary to complete assignments and keep up with studies. Francisco comes from a large family, seven of them in
all, including four brothers, a little sister, and their parents. Just before deadline on Wednesday, the whole family came by the offices of Beacon Media to pick up their new computer, the first such
tool in their household. In addition to working hard in school, Francisco also plays in a band, so one of his first destinations through his new computer’s web browser was to YouTube,
where he showed us a video they had made of one of their songs. Francisco’s entire family was thankful for the computer, much like all of us at Beacon Media are thankful
to Priceless Computer in San Gabriel and the hard work they put in to make this project possible. Because no one can say it better than Francisco him-
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