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Monday, November 2 -November 8, 2009 Volume 2, No. 44
School Board Candidates Speak at Forum Hosted by High School Students By Sameea Kamal
Jimenez attended the event as a guest of honor, recognized by all in attendance as responsible for the early impetus to build the Annex.
In preparation for the November 3 school board election, two Temple City High School student groups came together to host a forum for the three candidates running for the two open positions. Candidates Matt Smith and Joe Walker, who are running for re-election, and Kenneth Knollenberg spoke at the October 24 forum organized by the high school’s Junior State of America club and a student-run community publication, the Temple City Voice. The program started out with introductions by each of the candidates. Knollenberg, a lifelong resident of Temple City, attended the district’s schools growing up and went on to get his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Cal Poly Pomona. He worked in the United States Navy in Long Beach for 25 years in engineering, including 14 years of project management. His years working for the federal government and on the supervising committee for the Credit Union supplied him with a budget and strategic planning background, he said.
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-Photo by Terry Miller
Community Center Annex Opens in Service to Community Teens New City Manager Turns Out for First Public Event with Citizenry By John Stephens Citizens, city council members, city staff and commissioners all turned out last Monday evening, October 26th at 6:30 p.m., for the of-
ficial opening of the Live Oak Park Community Center Annex, the newest addition to Live Oak Park’s many offerings for communal recreation. The project has been in discus-
sion and in the works for many years, largely at the urging of one particular young member of the Temple City community. Now a junior at Temple City High School, Gabriel Jimenez
began lobbying the city council for a new place for after school youth activities when he was in 6th grade. Dressed in his finest ribbon-cutting attire and an ear to ear smile,
Hundreds Of Children Participated In The Temple Arboretum Gets the Message: City Sponsored Annual Halloween Carnival Save the Adobe and Baldwin’s Home! Temple City’s Annual Halloween Carnival drew thousands of trick or treaters to Live Oak Park for all the festivities. Pirates and witches were able to go around to various booths to play carnival games such as ring around the pumpkin to win candy. When needing a break from walking around both kids and adults could sit down and play Bingo hosted by the Kiwanis Club. In addition to winning candy at the game booths the kids were able to enter raffles for various prizes and a brand new bike. Dracula and Frankenstein were on hand for their magic show performance. Funnel cake, kettle corn, and a variety of tropical
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-Photo by Terry Miller
By Bill Peters The Baldwin Adobe Restoration Committee, the group of Arcadians formed to pressure the County to get serious about preserving the old adobe located in the historical section of the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, got a piece of good news this week. The Arboretum announced it will work not only to stabilize the quickly deteriorating 150 year-old adobe structure but also develop a plan which will include the re-construction of the home of Elias J. Baldwin, the founder of Arcadia, that an earlier restoration group had
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A group of students from USC Dept. of Anthropology Field Study group dig at the northeast corner of the adobe seeking artifacts. They found little here.—Photo courtesy of California State Parks, 2009