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Thursday, March 17 - March 23, 2011
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John Shear 90, Local Artists to Showcase their Shields Girl Work during Wistaria Festival from Horse this Sunday, March 20 Veteran Santa Anita Paddock Guard John Shear was injured Saturday as he threw himself in front of a young girl in order to protect her from a loose horse, prior to the running of the third race. Shear, a former jockey who recently celebrated his 90th birthday, has been a fixture at Santa Anita for decades. Prior to the incident, he was in his normal position holding the rope on the west entrance of the track’s walking ring. Sea and Sage, a 3-yearold gelding who had started twice previously at the current meet, was in the walking ring with nine other horses who were readying for the upcoming race. Sea and Sage wheeled, freeing himself from his handler and in a 180 degree about-face, sprinted towards the opening Shear was guarding just outside the walking ring. As seen live on simulcast television, Shear, instead of
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Volume XXIV, No. XI
The Color Pink - Students and Parents Wear Pink to Support Those Who Received Pink Slips
No Pink Slips – AUSD Issued pick slips to many classified employees Tuesday. How many will actually be laid off may not immediately be known. However, parents showed their support throughout the district by staging protests such as this at Highland Oaks. -Photo by Terry Miller Concerned students and parents protested (in pink) the pink slips at Arcadia schools to express their concern over the state budget crisis and its effect on AUSD local schools. Each school in Arcadia Unified School District will feel the effects of the budget crisis as 105 teachers and staff
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City of Pasadena Issues Fraud Alert A woman calling herself an environmental health inspector with the Pasadena Public Health Department has been approaching local restaurants, claiming to be there to inspect their premises for safety violations in exchange for cash payment. City of Pasadena environmental health inspectors always carry official city identification and business cards, do not handle cash transactions under any circumstances and always provide official inspection reports. If you are approached by anyone falsely claiming to be a city of Pasadena employee, call the Pasadena Police Department at (626) 744-4241 so a report can be filed.
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received notification that their positions may be cut for in the 2011-2012 school year. Parents and students participated in “Wear Pink Day” on March 15, by passing out flyers and holding signs on the side-
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80th Anniversary of Goodwill Garden at Sierra Madre School Saturday March 19 Star Higgins paints a twisted vine of the world’s largest Wistaria plant in Sirerra Madre Monday morning. This Sunday, the general public will have an opportunity to view the vine during the annual Wistaria Festival – Photo by Terry Miller BY TERRY MILLER This Sunday, March 20, 2011 – the first day of spring- when thousands
will be in town to see the historic vine on Hermosa from 9 am – 4 pm, lo-
cal painters will be at the
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Pray For Japan Special Dispatch to Beacon Media from 16 year old local student, Miku Koach who is in Japan on a Junior year study program: This is the first in a series of her first hand experiences of the massive 9.0 Quake that hit Friday that has devas-
tated Japan and its people. March 11, 2011 breaking news spread throughout the world of the massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit the Pacific Ocean nearby Northeastern Japan causing damage with
blackouts, fire and tsunamis. My schoolmates and I were in Hokkaido then, the north island of Japan. Four of us were lying in the snow reminiscing and tak-
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Lew Watanabe will be on hand Saturday for the 80th Anniversary of the Goodwill Garden – Photo by Terry Miller BY TERRY MILLER Sierra Madre School will host a special event commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Goodwill Garden at Sierra Madre School this Satur-
day, March 19. Lectures on the history and other aspects of the garden will be will be held in the Arts
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