Thursday, JULY 19 - JULY 25, 2012
Another Pasadena Police Officer Charged with Abuse BY TERRY MILLER In a court declaration filed Thursday July 11, a man claims he was kidnapped and beaten by three Pasadena police detectives working a homicide case. Jeremi Carr, 24, identified the detectives as Kevin Okamoto, Keith Gomez and William Broghamer in a complaint sent last week to Phillip L. Sanchez, Pasadena Police Chief . The alleged incidents took place five years ago. The allegations filed by Attorney Michael Kraut, a former District Attorney, claim the officers mentioned above beat Carr in an effort to coerce him into making false statements in a Please see page 3
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Volume XVII, No. XXVIV
Pasadena Collects $4,667,183 in Parking Citations in Fiscal Year 2011
BY TERRY MILLER
The Association band members Russ Giguere, Larry Ramos ( pictured center) Jim Yester ,Bruce Pictor on drums Jordan Cole on keyboards (& guitar) and Del Ramos on bass kept the audience singing along with the Saturday night at Santa Anita Race Track. -Photo by Terry Miller
BY BILL PETERS A cool and damp air swept over the infield at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia last Saturday when the California Philharmonic Orchestra and its soloists presented its second concert of the Festival
on the Green. The guest soloists were hit recording artists from the 1960's, The Association. Conductor of Cal Phil, Victor Vener, gave the crowd, which appeared to number about 2,500, a musical history lesson of sweeping grandeur that encompassed
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Arcadia Quakes: National Champions in the 2012 AYSO National Games The Arcadia Quakes proudly represented Region 2 at the 2012 AYSO National Games in Knoxville, Tennessee from July 1-8, 2012 with over 3000 athletes who had come to compete in soccer in various age groups. The Arcadia Quakes were the only undefeated Boys U10 team in the entire tournament which was comprised of teams from all over the country, going 6-0, outscoring our opponents
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Jason Maucher, Vinnie Zuniga, Matthew Feng, Fernando Urteaga, and Alex Yen. Back row from left to right: Sean Grizzard, Frederick Harper, Aidan McKelvey, and Grant Pierce. -Courtesy Photo
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19th and 20th-century music. There was Mikhail Glinka, father of Russian composition (1842), Richard Strauss, German composer, who unbeknownst to him is wellknown in films for his work, "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (See '2001: A Space Odys-
sey) (1888), John Williams' "Olympic Fanfare" from the 1984 Olympics (1984), Hector Berlioz' "Symphonie fantastique" (1830), and the 1960's singing group, The Association.
It has been said that Pasadena is not business friendly. Point in fact, regulations are “through the roof” according to one retailer. And that’s just to open and stay in business. Now, if you want people to come into your Please see page 3
Attorney for McDade Family Files Please see page 11 Opposition to Sierra Madre Residents Defendants’ to Continue Speaking on Motions Measure V Amendment Lawyer says
BY JIM E. WINBURN Last week the Sierra ect’s two parcels from the Madre City Council in- law’s density restrictions. jected enthusiasm and purDensity is a key issue pose into their discussion of of concern among residents a downtown development watchful of downtown deproject that showed signs velopment. With the project of struggling under bureau- headed to the November cratic indecisiveness. ballot, residents will approve Council members re- or reject an amendment sponded in earnest to pub- to Measure V that restricts lic concern over the Kens- density to 13 dwelling units ington assisted living facility per acre downtown. Founby working with developer tain Square Development Billy Shields’ proposed West is proposing a 75-unit ballot language to draft an project at the 1.84-acre site amendment to Measure V Please see page 14 that would exempt the proj-
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“Corporal Gomez Intimidated and Threatened” Suspects BY TERRY MILLER
Attroney Caree Harper says a defendant in ongoing investigations in the Pasadena Police Dept, Corporal Gomez, is alleged to have used excessive force in all Please see page 12