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Thursday, March 3 - March 9, 2011
At about 4:00 a.m. Sunday, the Pasadena police department received a call of “Shots Fired” in the 1000 block of Armada Dr. Officers responded to the call and checked the area but nothing was found. At approximately 5:22 a.m., an employee of the city parks department patrolling the area of the Rose Bowl parking lot notified Pasadena Police that as he was arriving for work he saw a Black male lying in a dirt area of
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BY TERRY MILLER John Crawford, who ran an unsuccessful bid for a council seat last year, has filed an “Administrative Claim” regarding the Sierra Madre Water Rate Increase. The letter which was hand delivered and a copy sent via US mail to City Manager Elaine Aguilar, was stamped as received Feb. 24, 2011 In the letter, Crawford demands the city of Sierra Madre “Immediately Repeal the Ordinance after receipt of this administrative claim letter”. To do so, the matter, of course, would have to be agendized by city council. Crawford claims the city did not adequately notify owners (re: prop 218) and also that the notice originally sent out did not “contain the reason(s) for the proposed rate increase as required by Proposition 218.” Additionally Crawford
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Emily Quach 12, Deniece Caraballo, 11, Victoria Medina, 11, Pauline Tjhin, 12, Christine Back 11, and William Zhang, 11 are the core members of First Avenue School’s Cancer Awareness Club. Teacher Doug Townsend helped the kids get organized. –Photos by Terry Miller BY TERRY MILLER Sixth grade First Avenue Science teacher, Doug Townsend, attended a Relay For Life kickoff party for the Arcadia Relay in January. Aside from getting personally involved in the community event
held each summer to raise funds for cancer research, Townsend did something a little extra this year. He noticed the handmade piggy banks which adorned each table and after checking with event chairman Carter Spruill,
Organizers Plan to Protest Arcadia Mayor Amundson’s Breakfast Friday March 4 BY TERRY MILLER
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his newspaper has been flooded with letters, e mails and comments on our websites in reaction to Mayor Amundson’s decision to spend city monies on a speaker from Focus on Family to speak at the annual Mayor’s Community Breakfast. There has been outrage, on both sides of the issue, regarding not only the rights of the gay community but also the rights of Amundson to choose whomever he desires to speak at the event. Several local groups and individuals have publically voiced their disapproval of
the choice of H B London who is slated to speak at the Friday breakfast at a recent city council meeting. Feeling unheard, several in the LGBT community including Pastor Rick Eisenlord countered the perceived bigotry with an All Family Barbeque Sunday in Pasadena. The idea was to encourage more free thinking and dialog between those who may have differences in lifestyles, sexual or otherwise. The protest this Friday will be held at 7 AM outside the site of Mayor’s Breakfast at Arcadia Community Center, 365 Campus Drive.
he brought one back to his classroom hoping to spark a little extra interest in his classroom about the American Cancer Society and the purpose of Relay for Life. What happened next is something quite ex-
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traordinary, according to Townsend. “The kids just ran with the idea when I told them how and where the money would be used! It is all them, their enthusiasm and energy is electric,”
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Pasadenans Required to Stop Outdoor Watering March 17 to 28 On Monday the Pasadena City Council declared a Level 4 Water Shortage Emergency during the temporary shutdown of a major regional water pipeline from March 17 through March 28. The city will enforce a total ban on outdoor watering with very few exceptions until pipeline deliveries resume. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD), which supplies about 60 percent of Pasadena’s water, is planning a seismic retrofit of the F.E. Weymouth Water Treatment Plant in La Verne and will stop all water deliveries to Pasadena and neighboring cities through its upper feeder pipeline during the project. For those 10 days, Pasadena must rely solely on its groundwater and reserves. “Even though this shortterm supply cut is severe, we
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Sierra Madre Mayor Mosca Delivers Upbeat State of City Address Despite Dark Clouds in State Forecast It was standing room only when we arrived at the very first official State of the City address Monday evening. The event was designed for Mayor Joe Mosca to recap the city’s achievements. The mood of the evening festive and confident with a little help from a number of songs sung by Sierra Madre Elementary School students which included the timeless classic “Let there be Peace on Earth.” After the many songs performed enthusiastically by young Sierra Madre pupils it was time for the adults to get down to business. Bu the time the 30 plus minute presentation by the students was
complete, there was room for the majority of those present to take a seat in the million dollar community room. Commenting that the 3rd graders were a hard act to follow, Mayor Pro tem John Buchanan introduced Mayor Joe Mosca. “I am very excited that tonight we are meeting in our newly remodeled Sierra Madre Community Room. This is one of our most recent accomplishments. Some of you may recall what the room looked like before it was updated – now we look forward to greater use of this facility for events such as this. “Mosca opened his remarks. He continued: “In fact,
just two weeks ago the Library’s “One Book One City program” used this room for a talk with the author of this year’s book, On Gold Mountain by Lisa See. The
Joe Mosca - Photo by Terry Miller
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