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Plastic bag ban hurts financially depressed communities, Antonovich says
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West Nile virus (WNV)positive mosquitoes found in Temple City West Nile virus (WNV)positive mosquitoes found in Temple City A sample of mosquitoes collected from traps placed in Temple City on September 25, 2014 was tested and Please see page 9
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2014 - OCTOBER 12, 2014 VOLUME 19, NO. 40
31 finalists chosen for TOR Royal Court 2015
Top row, from left: #574 Alia Little (Pasadena High School), #593 Savannah Daniel (La Salle High School), #702 Ber-
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gen Onufer (Mayfield Senior School), #756 Alisha Mehdi (South Pasadena High School), #738 Katelyn Stone (La
Salle High School), #608 Madison Triplett (John Marshall Fundamental High School), #578 Kayla Beaumont (Arcadia High
Man convicted of evading officer in El Monte pursuit A 22-year-old man who led police on a televised police pursuit in El Monte last month was sentenced yesterday to three years in state prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Gregory Patrick Flexen of Pico Rivera pleaded no contest to one felony count of evading an officer, willful disregard in case KA107422. Prosecutors said on the evening of Sept. 8, officers identified a vehicle with no front license plate. They attempted to pull over
the driver, who was later identified as the defendant. Flexen ran red lights, drove on the wrong side of the road and traveled at unsafe speeds, prosecutors added. At some point, police set up a spike strip to stall Flexen’s vehicle. After his tires were blown out, the defendant continued driving until he finally came to a stop and was arrested by police. Deputy District Attorney Linda Chilstrom prosecuted the case and it was investigated by the El Monte Police Department.
School) Fourth row, from left: #459 Sophia Hernandez (Maranatha High School), #493 Kaitlin Wong (Flin-
tridge Preparatory School), #522 Gayaneh Puglia (La Cañada High School), Please see page 4
Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich sharply criticized the Governor’s signing of a law banning plastic bags and imposing a $0.10 fee on all paper bags that the grocery stores will collect. “The $0.10 per bag fee will force lower income residents in impoverished communities around the state to pay for paper bags, with little indication of how the money will be spent,” said Antonovich. “This law only further hurts the California economy by jeopardizing thousands of manufacturing jobs and forcing consumers to pay additional fees to grocery stores,” he added. The Progressive Bag Alliance has vowed to collect the necessary signatures to place this issue on the ballot and let the voters decide if the State should continue with such a flawed economic proposal.
Opinion Monrovia landowner questions city’s “Vision” of Station Square BY JAMES MANNING My roots in Monrovia go back to World War II when my father started the Myrtle Avenue Lumber Company on Myrtle Avenue. In fact, my family still has interests in Monrovia with the land we lease to Chevron. These holdings have been long term, to say the least. We are not land flippers but have been long term investors and participants in the growth of Monrovia. Please see page 6
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