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MONDAY, JANUARY 06, 2014 - JANUARY 12, 2014 VOLUME 19, NO. 1
12 Year-old arrested after leading peaceful sit-in of SeaWorld float at Rose Parade On New Year’s morning, as SeaWorld's widely criticized float prepared to enter the Rose Parade, PETA supporters wearing "SeaWorld Hurts Orcas" T-shirts—led by 12-year-old Rose McCoy, who jumped the barricade at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to protest SeaWorld's float—ran onto the parade route and sat down in front of the float to make the point that SeaWorld needs to stop imprisoning orcas and depriving them of all that is natural and important to them. She and 18 other protesters—including PETA Senior Vice President and lifelong Pasadena resident Lisa Lange and Gretchen Ryan, who is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair—were dragged from the parade route and arrested. Nearly 100 other protesters carrying signs reading, "Boycott SeaPlease see page 5
Never on a Sunny Day 2014 Rose Parade TV coverage omits arrests, gay marriage BY TERRY MILLER I sometimes wonder about this profession we call journalism. Luckily some newspapers, like Beacon Media’s family of papers, hold true the edict that suppression of the facts equals censorship. If you were one of those watching the broadcasts live New Year’s morning you will have missed 19 people getting arrested for interfering with SeaWorld’s float. You’d also not be able to see the marriage of two men Please see page 6
-Photo courtesy of PETA
Rosemead hit-and-run suspect turns self in A West Covina woman who allegedly killed a senior citizen with her SUV and leaving the scene of the crime turned herself in Monday. Janet Ngo Bowman, 32, was booked on suspicion of hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence when she
125th Rose Parade features first ever gay-marriage BY SHEL SEGAL
appeared at the Sheriff’s Temple Station lobby about 11:30 a.m. Monday in connection with Sunday’s 6:20 p.m. hit-and-run at Marshall Street and Greendale Avenue in Rosemead. Qingrong Chai, 69, of Rosemead was pronounced dead at the scene last week.
Monrovia hires new Public Works director After a lengthy recruitment process, the City of Monrovia has hired a new Public Works Director: Carl E. Hassel, P.EHassel has over 22 years of experience in civil engineering and public works and has spent the last six years as the Assistant Director of Public Works and City Engineer in the City of Azusa. Hassel’s career focus
has been on service to the community and building projects. His expertise lies in major and complicated economic development projects and the facilities work that goes along with them. He also is an expert in dealing with the Metro Gold Line Foothill Construction Authority, having Please see page 10
-Photo by Shel Segal
The 2014 Rose Parade – with millions watching it in person and around the globe – kicked off at 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning with six F-16s from the Air Force’s Thunderbirds screaming up high in uni-
son.
Thousands lined the 5.5-mile parade route – which starts at the Tournament of Roses House on Orange Grove Boulevard, makes a right down the main path of Colorado
Boulevard before venturing left onto Sierra Madre Boulevard and ending at Victory Park, where most of the floats will be on display to the public through Please see page 12
125th 125th Annual Annual Pasadena Pasadena Rose Rose Parade Parade Recap Recap Inside Inside