A zusa B eacon Monrovia Weekly Temple Tribune ArcAdiA Weekly MONDAY, JULY 30 - AUGUST 5, 2012 VOLUME XVII, NO. XXXI
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Team CrossFit Academy in Monrovia to Host Annual Workout to Remember Fundraiser For Fallen Military Servicemen Killed Aug 6, 2011 On August 4 this year, athletes at Team CrossFit Academy in Monrovia and around the world will gather at their CrossFit affiliates to complete a grueling partner workout that has become an annual tradition and fundPlease see page 7
limited information directly to Earth as it enters Mars’ atmosphere. Before the landing, Earth will set below the Martian horizon from the descending spacecraft’s perspective, ending that direct route of communication. Odyssey will help to speed up the indirect communication
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proposal. There was much said about how sodas are unhealthy, how there is a high rate of obesity in El Monte, and how it would be nice if the money collected by the tax would go towards parks and community programs to benefit the city’s youth. Supporting this view were a pediatrician from the El Monte Comprehensive Health Center, a member of the Mountain View Board of Education, and the City’s Planning Commissioner, besides over a dozen mothers testifying to the negative impact that soda has on their children. The El Monte Finance
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Director Julio Morales said to the LA Times: “What we’re doing is financial planning. We’re trying to take the right steps.” Based on statistics, it is projected that the sugar tax could raise up to $7 million each year for El Monte. For that reason the city is willing to invest the reported $65,000 that the special election will cost it. That is what the other half of the residents brought up at the City Council meeting, saying that it is not really an interest in health that is behind this tax proposal, but a Please see page 4
process. NASA reported during a July 16 news conference that Odyssey, which originally was planned to provide a near-real-time communication link with Curiosity, had entered safe mode July 11. This situation would have affected communication op-
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erations, but not the rover’s landing. Without a repositioning maneuver, Odyssey would have arrived over the landing area about two minutes after Curiosity landed. A spacecraft thruster burn Tuesday, July 24, last-
Agents from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and their local law enforcement partners have just concluded Operation Guardian, one of the largest and most comprehensive sweeps in recent years focusing on parolees who have known ties to criminal gangs. So far, Operation Guardian has resulted in the arrests of more than 69 parolees in Los Angeles County with known gang ties. One compliance check prompted an investigation after a naked parolee was found in bed with three children. There were 59 instances of guns, a shotgun, semi-automatic handguns and ammunition
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On Wednesday, Scientists at JPL gave the Media a tour of their “Mars Yard” where Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers and scientists are testing engineering models of NASA’s Curiosity rover in a sandy, Mars-like environment. The real Curiosity rover, part of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, is on its way to the Red Planet. -Photo by Terry Miller
El Monte is Looking for a Sugar Fix In a move that put El Monte in all of the regional papers, the City Council voted Tuesday to declare a fiscal emergency so that it can place a soda tax on the November 6 special election ballot. If the residents vote in favor of the tax, businesses will be charged a penny per ounce on beverages that are sweetened with sugar, such as soda, Snapple, and Gatorade. The City Council meeting extended for four and a half hours, much of it dedicated to listening to a long list of residents, doctors, and business representatives wanting to speak both for and against the tax
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Mars Orbiter Repositioned to Phone Home Mars Landing Next Week
NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has successfully adjusted its orbital location to be in a better position to provide prompt confirmation of the August landing of the Curiosity rover. NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft carrying Curiosity can send
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El Monte Inaugurated Garvey Court Senior Housing Building BY DENA BURROUGHS With an impressive event, Garvey Court, at 10117 Garvey Avenue, was officially inaugurated Thursday morning. The modern housing building holds 68-units reserved for low-income seniors. It also includes a community garden, a courtyard, a computer in each floor for the use of the residents, energy-saving solar panels, and a health clinic that is soon to open. Jason A. Hobson, of Domus Development, welcomed residents and government representatives to the event that began with a
Garvey Court as seen from Garvey Avenue. -Photo by Dena Burroughs
lion dance for “good luck, good health, and prosperity.” Hobson then presented the “safe, secure, and affordable” building that is
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the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building Please see page 5