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Thursday, April 7 - April 13, 2011
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Pasadena Pundits Dub this Year’s Doo Dah “The Rosie Parade”
Pasadena City Council called for the drafting of a smoking ordinance that could ban renters from smoking in their own apartments. City Council directed staff to draft a ordinance that would ban smoking in common areas of apartment buildings by the summer; ban smoking in all proposed multi-unit housing; require a disclosure of the law in rental, lease or purchase agreements by January 2012 and all out ban of smoking in apartment units by January 2013.
Temple City’s Council Discusses Road Issues and Green Initiatives BY MICHELLE R. BROWN Temple City Council made a number of ceremonial announcements and presentations during
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Rosalind Schoen (aka Rosie), 17, was overwhelmingly selected by the Doo Dah judges to be the next Queen to preside over the parade April 30 - Photo by Terry Miller
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BY PATTY HURLEY AND TERRY MILLER uring this year’s eclectic and truly outrageous Doo
Keep the Lights On Second in a Series of Reports from Japan BY MIKU KOACH The duration of the past weeks following the tragic earthquake that hit Japan on March 11th has been one strife after another with the tsunamis that swept away cities and the subsequent nuclear crisis in Fukushima. Unfortunately though, the aftermath of the quake still arises as Japan’s efforts to recover progresses. One of the more preva-
lent after effects has been the power rationing in the form of scheduled blackouts in the Kantou region of Japan, which includes cities such as Tokyo and Yokohama. Though it has not been officially stated, the rationing of power has been said to lasting well throughout the summer and is approximated to end in the winter
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Dah Queen Tryouts, a delightful and bubbly 17-year old Alverno High School
student, who dubbed herself “Red Rosie”, was selected to reign over The
2011 Doo Dah Parade, April 30. Sierra Madre’s Rosalind Schoen, 17, was
selected as Pasadena Doo Dah Queen to a standing
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Suspect Threatens Fruit for All Celebrates Girlfriend - Now Held for First Anniversary Psychiatric Evaluation BY SUSAN MOTANDER On Sunday, April 3, 2011, just before 8:00 p.m., the Monrovia Police Department received a call from a woman living on Shady Oaks Drive. She said she had fled her home when her boyfriend, Daniel Simpson, threatened her with a sword. She and a female friend left leaving the suspect inside. She reported that Simpson was also armed
with a handgun and a rifle. The girlfriend told police that she had seen Simpson with ammunition for the pistol. When police arrived at the residence, they found the suspect barricaded in the house and refusing to cooperate with them. MPD Officers surrounded the location and
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-Photo by Terry Miller Fruit for All picks and distributes fruit to area food banks
As we told you a few months ago, not every teenager is preoccupied with texting, computers, video games and Facebook. In
fact, when we met Arcadia High School student Zach Selby who spends a good
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