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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12 - NOVEMBER 25, 2009 VOLUME 14, NO. 47
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Rev. George Crisp Appointed to Sierra Madre United Methodist Church
Member and friends of the Sierra Madre Methodist Church announced recently that the Rev. George R.
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Crisp and his wife Sue have arrived in town to begin his tenure as the church’s new minister. Rev. George Crisp was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in many places as part of a military family. His father was an Air Force officer and his mother was a Registered Nurse. His parents, now both deceased, raised five children, three girls and two boys; he is number two of the five. In 1962, his family landed in Riverside, California.
At the Universit y of Redlands he received a B.A. degree, with a major in music and a minor in Theater Arts. To pay his way through college he worked in the library, as a dishwasher, bus boy, bartender, lounge singer, and as a choir director for a Baptist church. His first job after college was in a battery factory; later he worked as a school bus driver. He attended seminary at Claremont School of Theology, graduating in 1982 with a Master of Divinity. He
later returned to Claremont to earn an in-service Doctor of Ministry in 1993. His ordination as a Deacon was in 1981, and he was ordained an Elder in 1984. His first appointment was the Hesperia UMC, where he was the founding pastor. He has served five other churches in the United Methodist Conference: Del Rosa UMC in San Bernardino; San Luis Obispo UMC, where he also served as the Director of the Wesley Foundation at Cal Poly SLO; Wahiawa UMC
on Oahu; Christ Church by the Sea in Newport Beach; and the Kona UMC on Hawaii’s Big Island. In his first weeks serving as minister to the congregation, Rev. Crisp has received a warm welcome from all members of the church. His first Sunday in July found the congregation all wearing Hawaiian dresses and shirts as a way of acknowledging his more recent pastorate in Hawaii. Pastor George plays the piano, the guitar, sings
Arcadia Historical Museum Honors Japanese Americans
Sierra Madre residents can register their boys and girls ages 5-12 now for the 2010 Little League spring season by going to www.smll.org. After on-line registration, parents or guardians will be required to provide proof of residency and make their payment at one of two sessions held at the Sierra Madre Recreation Center (611 E. Sierra Madre Boulevard). The sessions will be on Wednesday, December 2, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Saturday, December 5 from 9:00 a.m. to Noon. For more information, go to www.smll.org or call Pete Siberell, SMLL President at 626-355-6746.
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Civic Club Shoppe Offers Creative Gifts The Shoppe, run by Sierra Madre Civic Club, features beautiful hand-knitted items and other creations for your holiday gift buying. Look for their booth at Dickens Village, November 28, from 3 to 8 pm, in Kersting Ct. From December 4 through 6 there will also be a Boutique at 196 N. Adams on Friday, 6 to9 pm; Saturday, 11 am to 4 pm and Sunday, 11 am to 1 pm. There will be a rainbow of colors for knitted scarves, hats, berets, hand warmers and much more, plus jewelry creations and even a wonderful variety of hand created aprons. Your selections will make your gift giving unique and perhaps you will find something special as a treat for yourself. Busy hands, for several years, have make the Shoppe a successful fundraiser for Civic Club to add the club coffers as they donate to needed community projects.
Friends Used Book Sale, December 4 & 5 Is it really that time of year again? Thank goodness the Friends of the Sierra Madre Library’s Best Used Book Sale is here just in time for Holiday shopping. Calling all family chefs: A collection of specialty cookbooks are being offered in the (Saint) Nick of time. They’re perfect to help plan holiday meals and tasty new treats for Santa. The Martha Stewart Christmas Cookbook; Marlboro Country Cookbook; One Potato, Two Potato are just a few of the epicurean delight editions on sale. And while you are munching on your Yuletide goodies, enjoy a good Christmas book, such as Christmas in America, and Christmas with Victoria. Art lovers of the world unite! The World of Picasso,
tenor and is a long-time Los Angeles Dodgers fan. Pastor George and his wife Sue have moved into the parsonage and are busy acquainting themselves with the church family as well as enjoying the charm of Sierra Madre. The new pastor was even fortunate enough to ride in the July 4th parade, commenting afterward that the day had presented a wonderful opportunity for him and his wife to greet the residents of Sierra Madre.
Taka and Michi Nomura were two of the thousands of Japanese Americans who were forcibly “relocated” from their home in Pasadena in Photos by Terry Miller 1942. The couple now in their 90’s visited the museum Saturday. BY TERRY MILLER
As we approach the 68th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, the curators at a local museum have decided to honor thousands of Japanese Americans who were forced from their homes under an order from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The exhibit, at the Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum, explores the temporary assembly center at Santa Anita Race track which was used for the detention of Japanese and Japanese
Americans during World War II. The events that took place nine weeks after Pearl Harbor honors those who were forcibly removed from their homes in the aftermath of the war hysteria and ensuing prejudice. Japanese American internment was the forcible relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese residing in the United States to camps called “War Relocation Camps,” in the wake of Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. The
internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally throughout the United States. Japanese Americans residing on the West Coast of the United States were all interned, whereas in Hawaii, where more than 150,000 Japanese Americans composed nearly a third of that territory’s population, only 1,200 to 1,800 Japanese Americans were interned. Of those interned, 62 percent were United States citizens. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066 on February 19,
1942, which allowed local military commanders to designate “military areas” as “exclusion zones,” from which “any or all persons may be excluded.” This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington, except for those in internment camps. It took a mere 46 years for Congress to pass, and President Ronald Reagan sign, legislation which apolo-
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Letter to the Editor I commend the APD for the courage it must require to approach and kill a couple of Brown Bear Cubs. This act demands a barrel of fortitude. Perhaps we should issue a Medal of Honor to those who participated. I have a suspicion that I could have run out and kicked each in the butt and they’d have skidded for the woods. Big question is, why Fish and Game and the Arcadia Gestapo decided to destroy the bears when,
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