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MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2014 - OCTOBER 12, 2014
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Former embattled Pasadena Public Health Director files discrimination claim in Georgia by Terry Miller
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Pasadena’s Joeseph Thomas offense and defense By SHEL SEGAL
ily owned and operated business. Steve Fink learned the deli business from his parents in the 1950s before opening his own for the Pasadena lunch crowd so he could be home for
Word has gotten out in the Pacific League. Joeseph Thomas can run the football. But what some might not yet know – and they’re going to soon find out – is that Thomas can also play defense. Thomas plays running back, corner back and safety for the Pasadena High football team. He said he came to play both sides of the football out of shear boredom. “To be honest, I’m really more of an offensive player,” Thomas said. “When it was time for us to be on defense I would go to the sideline, but I didn’t like sitting on the sideline. I liked being in the game. So, I learned corner and safety and that’s how I got on both sides of the ball.” And while Thomas, a senior, is having success on the gridiron, he’s not afraid to tell you about how well he’s doing in the classroom. “It’s going really good,” he said of his senior year. “My grades are looking awesome, as usual. I have more than a 3.0. And I’m taking an extra elective to help me out and I’ve joined two clubs. So, things are going great.” And that elective he’s taking, he said, is art. “I’m not really a good draw-er, but I’m getting the hang of it,” he said. During the offseason, Thomas said he stays in the football mode by running track,
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Dr. Walsh -Photo by Terry Miller
Last week, Liberty Institute and Parks, Chesin & Walbert, attorneys for Dr. Eric Walsh, filed an official charge of discrimination with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The embattled former Pasadena Health Dept.
head is suing the Georgia Department of Health which offered Dr. Walsh a job in May, which he then accepted. After publicly announcing his selection, top officials suddenly reversed course after learning about sermons Dr. Walsh gave in church in Pasadena.
Public outcry led to Walsh’s demise in Pasadena. Despite being put on paid administrative leave here in Pasadena due to seriously questionable comments, he applied for a job with the Georgia Health Please see page 4
Pasadena Sandwich Company 3rd annual Thanksgiving Share A Meal program underway There are some pretty extraordinary people in just about every community in the United States. Some, however, truly stand out from the crowd. Pasadena Sandwich Company is one such shining example. Facing the tragic loss years ago
by Terry Miller of the patriarch of Pasadena Sandwich Company, the family-owned business stepped up and discovered a world previously unknown. The Pasadena Sandwich Company has been a fixture in Pasadena since 1995 as a fam-