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Release of redacted OIR Report on McDade - judge issues 20-day stay
rec McDade. However, the OIR Report will not be immediately released because Judge Chalfant concurrently granted the request of the Pasadena Police Officers Association (“PPOA”) for a 20 day stay on enforcing the order so that it could seek to overturn Judge Chalfant’s order in the Court
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By Terry Miller and Jennifer Schlueter airport in 1969 for $3 million. There are five Los Angeles county-operated airports — in El Monte, La Verne, Compton, Pacoima and Lancaster . The renaming of the airport was suggested years ago by Gabe Lopez, a pilot who flies his 1940 Stearman regularly out of the small airport. Lopez felt that the more regional name would attract more
Pasadena awarded grant for 2015 summer, afterschool meal programs
people to do business and use the small airfield more regularly. The third annual El Monte Airport Fly-in and Open House Sunday at the small but exciting little airport included all kinds of vintage aircraft including such beauties as a 1929 Travel Air 4000, Curtis Wright plane owned
of Appeal. Pasadena Police Department officers Matthew Griffin and Jeffrey Newlen shot and killed Kendrec McDade in 2012 after a false report that two youths with guns had robbed a victim; the officers chased Mc-
El Monte Airport renamed San Gabriel Valley Airport County and local officials renamed Los Angeles County’s airfield in El Monte Sunday. Now it is officially known as the ‘San Gabriel Valley Airport’ Sunday during the annual air fair and open house. The airport was built in 1936, Los Angeles County Department of Public Works Aviation Division Chief Richard Smith said. Los Angeles County bought the
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The City’s Human Services and Recreation Department received a $50,000 grant from the National League of Cities (NLC) to streamline afterschool and summer meal programs for Pasadena-area children. The department will also receive customized technical assistance, access to best practices and national experts, and opportunities for peer learning. Pasadena is among 13 cities receiving grants ranging from $30,000 to $50,000 because of a continued commitment to combatting childhood hunger through year-round meal programs. Fourteen percent of Pasadena residents live below the federal poverty level. During the 2013-14 school year, 68 percent of Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) students were approved for free and reduced meal benefits, according to PUSD. The grant funding will help the City, PUSD and community partners achieve the long-term goals of creating a coordinated, citywide system for providing child nutrition programs; reducing the lunch-to-breakfast meal gap; and increasing awareness of the citywide child nutrition program. “This opportunity aligns with the strategies in our school-city-community work plan to continue offering services that improve student out-
Attorney Carre Harper is flanked by Kendrec McDade’s parents at a protest outside city hall in 2012 -Photo - Photo by Terry Miller
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant Friday entered a judgment ordering the release of a redacted version of the Office of Independent Review Group (“OIR”) Report on the Pasadena Police Department’s shooting of the unarmed young African-American youth Kend-
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