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Thursday, November 25 - December 1, 2010
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Children’s Foothill Unity Center comes through Once again to Feed 1634 Families in Need in Two Days Hospital Los Angeles Now Seeing Patients in Arcadia By Terry Miller Children’s Hospital Los Angeles opened the doors of its new outpatient services center in Arcadia on Nov. 1, bringing the clinical expertise of its doctors, nurses and staff to area residents. The outpatient center is known as Children’s Hospital Los Angeles - Arcadia and is located at 468 E. Santa Clara St. A variety of outpatient services are offered, including gastroenterology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, pulmonology, otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat) and pediatric surgery. Laboratory and radiological services are also available and more specialty services will be added in the near future. The Arcadia Weekly had a brief tour of the facilities Tuesday and got a change to speak with a patient, Evan Hill, 14 months who brought his parents along for an eye check up with Dr. Mark S. Borchert. An obviously experienced pediatric and nuro-Ophthamologist, Dr. Borchert’s sense of humor quickly engrossed his young patient while at the same time examining his eye movements in response to his finger puppets or his tongue sticking out. Evan’s mother, Helen and Dad Jerell were pleased with not only the results of their child’s exam but also the convenience of the location. As Monrovia residents,
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Fundraising Worker Removed from Ralph's market in Arcadia At approximately 2:30 Monday afternoon, A Ralphs supermarket manager at 2nd and Foothill was made aware of a suspicious fundraising effort outside his store. Complaints had been made that a man collecting for a company a called Zero Poverty Now was actually ensuring that his pockets were well lined instead
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TaTas and the TSA Young volunteers like Kiley and several other girl scouts and brownies assisted Foothill Unity Center with their annual giveaway at the Arboretum on Monday afternoon. Donations were down considerably this year. - Photo by Terry Miller Turkeys, hams, cranberry sauce, stuffing and desserts are the basics at most family holiday celebrations. But for hundreds of
local families who are struggling through hard times, none of them would be on the menu without generous neighbors willing to share
the season’s bounty. With its annual holiday food and toy distributions just weeks away on December 21 and 22 in Ayres Hall
at the Los Angeles County Arboretum in Arcadia, Foothill Unity Center was struggling to locate enough
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Harry Potter’s Freddie Stroma and Cinderella’s Veronica Dunne Visit Westfield Mall Westfield Mall held a special meet and greet with Freddie Stroma, (star of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)_and Cinderella’s Prince Charming . Veronica Dunne as Cinderella and Benny Harris as Buttons on Friday Evening. Cinderella is playing this season at the El Portal Theatre. www.cinderellalivela.com . Hundreds
of kids lined up to see the popular Harry Potter actor plus get a sneak peak of what Cinderella is all about. The performance of Cinderella is Nov. 27 through Dec 17. After a brief performance, the actors sat down and signed autographs for about an hour at Westfield’s Promenade.
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Veronica Dunne flanked by Freddie Stroma and Benny Harris - Photo by Terry Miller
By Susan Motander Last Week I was listening to talk radio while driving to a medical appointment. Caller after caller complained to the host about the new scanners being used by the Transportation Safety Administration. Most of the men calling in were concerned about the “intrusive” nature of the body scans and the more intrusive pat downs with (gasp) the screeners using the fronts of their hands. I thought of those callers as the examiner manipulated my breast into the xray devise for my annual mammogram. I laughed at the mental image of those men who called about someone touching their “junk” enduring similar manipulation of their precious personal parts. Trust me guys, the person pushing and tugging to get my teat into the right
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