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VOLUME 2, NO. 44
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Petition to San Gabriel Day at the Races Repeal Utility Mission Record 21st Breeders' Cup World Users Tax dedicates Championship victory for jockey Mike Smith Once Again in Original Circulation Vineyard On August 28, 2014, a local group of citizens Project affiliated with the South
San Gabriel Mission dedicated its historic Original Wine Grape Vineyard Project on Thursday, Oct. 23, in mission’s gardens from one of the original vines that started the original wine grape vineyards of the missions in California and supplied many missions with wine in the early mission era. “Like the historic orange tree grove planted in June 2006 in mission’s gardens that came from original trees and is the first original orange tree grove at the mission in decades, this is the first working original wine grape vineyard at the mission in decades,” announced mission Public Relations Please see page 3
BY TERRY MILLER
There were upsets galore during a cool and stormy Breeders Cup at Santa Anita on Saturday. California Chrome took
nothing home, Shared Belief ridden my Mike Smith was essentially knocked out of the Classic and many other notable horses didn’t even place let alone show. However the crowd at
37th Occasional Doo Dah Parade slated Nov. 15 in East Pasadena The Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah Parade will celebrate 37 years of irreverent frolicking on the streets of Pasadena November 15. The 2014 Parade takes place on Saturday, November 15 begining at 11am or whenever Snotty Scotty is ready -in East Pasadena along Colorado Boulevard. On Doo Dah day, the street will swell with a memorable cast of local eccentrics, dissenters, pundits, mutant art cars, lone wolfs, steam punks, makers and merrymakers who comprise the Moveable Feast, Code Blue DeFibs medical satire, Flying Babies Cornhole, Nordic Men and Viking Ship, Toaster Car, Telephonasaurus, Coyote Jeff’s Saucers, Sign Spinners, The Army of Toy Soldiers,
beer boosting rockers Drunk in the Garage, Tortilla Target, The Billionaires, Free Thought Society, Cheesus Chrust Pizza Co., Unich Band, Bearded Ladies, Yiddish Dracula, OC Norml’s Mardi Grass, Partying Parrotheads, Murrugun the Mystic, Man as Giraffe, Recumbent Revolution, legendary Doo Dah
house band, 2014 Queen Narayana, Snotty Scotty & the Hankies, and Secret Santa to close the parade, among others. Last year, dozens of inventive, if zany, art cars and floats accompanied a legion of revelers past the mom-n-pop shops along Please see page 4
the track Saturday took it all in stride while they sipped fine champagne and showed off their finest hats. Bayern, a 3 year old colt, however won the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic
at Santa Anita, withstanding a final surge from Toast of New York to win by a nose. The colt likely earned Horse of the Year honors in the process, but it didn’t come
Pasadena Tax Limitation Committee filed a Notice of Intent to Circulate Petition to place a measure to repeal the South Pasadena Utility Users Tax (UUT) on the ballot for a future election. This is the group’s second attempt to repeal the UUT. In May of 2014, a similar petition failed to meet the requisite number of signatures. The County Clerk found 456 signatures were sufficient, falling short of the requisite 518 required to make the ballot. The UUT makes up $3.7 million of South Pasadena’s operating budget of $24 million. Many residents choose to live in South Pasadena because it offers a high quality of life and outstanding city services. UUT Funds help our
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Brown wins historic fourth term, McDonnell is Los Angeles Sheriff – Adam Schiff re-elected; Prop 47 passes BY TERRY MILLER
Unlike the majority of the nation, election night in California seemed to defy the odds. Democrats prevailed widely across the state in early returns. Jerry Brown gets a fourth term. One big upset, however, was Proposition 47 which voters overwhelming said YES to. This potentially means the release of 10,000 felons from state prison; reduces penalties for stealing guns. Reduces penalties for possession of “date rape” drugs. The proposition was strongly opposed by prosecutors, law enforcement, and the business community and by crime victims and sexual abuse victims. Rep.Adam Schiff
(D-Burbank) who was returned by a large percentage released the following statement after being reelected to represent the
28th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives: Please see page 5