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L.A. County Sheriff’s team up with local Sanchez agencies in ‘active shooter’ training at TCHS says Sheriff will investigate OIS in future
another to help better train those less familiar with such a horrific possibility and work with the faculty on how best to protest those who they are left in charge of on a daily
Pasadena Police Chief Phillip Sanchez announced new efforts by his department to increase lucidity in communication with the public and in inquiries of his officers Monday. After months of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) requests, Sanchez says now that all shootings will be investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department effective immediately. “I have great faith in the Sheriff’s Department with respect to their officer involved shooting roll-
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BY TERRY MILLER Politics is an disagreeable business as they say, in fact Mark Twain perhaps said it best “The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.” This latest food for thought involves an alleged Please see page 21
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BY TERRY MILLER Temple Sheriff's Station hosted a major active shooter training drill at Temple City High School Monday involving approximately 100 officers. Law enforcement
officers from El Monte, Arcadia, Alhambra and San Gabriel worked seamlessly with Los Angeles County Fire in a scenario of a shooting attack at a high school . Staff from surrounding areas participated along with stu-
dents who acted as ‘victims’ in the training exercise. This training involved live ‘simmunitions.’ Sergeant S. Morsi Temple Sheriff's Station was one of the coordinating officers who explained how each dept. worked with one
John Harrington takes over 7000 plus brave Sunday heat for annual Sierra Wistaria Festival in Sierra Madre as Mayor of San Gabriel Madre BY TERRY MILLER BY SHEL SEGAL accuses Thousands turned On Tuesday night, John out over the weekend for Harrington was unanimously the annual Sierra Madre Mayor of San Arcadia of appointed Wisteria Festival for food, Gabriel and said he wanted music and a very large vine. transparency in government ‘stealing Susan Henderson, and opposed Jason Pu’s rectreasurer for the Sierra ommendation that there be a Madre Chamber of closed session on the concluwater’ Commerce and festival sion of the investigation into BY SHEL SEGAL
As the water crisis deepens while summer looms for water-ailing Sierra Madre, officials from that town on Thursday accused neighboring Arcadia “of stealing water from a shared Please see page 14
poll-worker misconduct. After a long investigation into the alleged misconduct during the contentious election in which Chin Ho Liao was finally seated, the city has announced the election investigation was over. However, not all are satisfied the investigation is complete. Harrington, along with
real estate agent Phoebe Wang, her mother Yi Li Wang, Denise Gutierrez (wife of ousted Councilman David Gutierrez), Eddie De
chairperson, said while an official count wasn’t yet available somewhere between 7,000 and 10,000 people attended the festival. “That’s an excellent number,” Henderson said of the attendance figure. She added everything
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