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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014 - NOVEMBER 30, 2014 - VOLUME 19, NO. 47
Neighborhood Gleaning Organization Branches out to Join Food Forward
BY TERRY MILLER AND JENNIFER SCHLUETER 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 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 people to do business and use the small airfield more regularly. Please see page 3
Zach Selby started the company known as Fruit for All in Arcadia -Photo by Terry Miller
BY TERRY MILLER
In 2010, an Arcadia high school student started ‘Fruit for All’, a family and neighbor-run organization that would send groups of volunteers out to harvest backyard fruit from local trees ( often called glean-
Arcadia Post Office has a Screw Loose - Really In the last couple of weeks, we’ve been reporting on the rather unusual relocation of the drivethrough mail boxes behind Arcadia’s main post office
to the street on Santa Clara. The placement of these boxes now has caused considerable controversy over Please see page 5
ing ), then donate 100% to food banks in the area. See Zach Selby, the founder, noticed how much fruit his family’s guava tree produced, but even after eating it and giving plenty away, they still had
more than they knew what to do with. Not wanting this food to go to waste, Zach was inspired to harvest and donate the fruit off his tree (such as to Foothill Unity in Monrovia). His work quickly caught on in the
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community, as more and more pickers and fruit donors joined the cause. In no time, the organization Fruit for All was formed. News Flash: Not every Please see page 4
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Duarte Unified School District Announces Candidates for Open Board Seat The Duarte Unified School District Governing Board is holding a meeting at Northview Intermediate School, 1401 Highland Ave., Duarte, on Thursday, December 4, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. At that time they will interview and make a provisional appointment to fill one Board vacancy. The selected candidate will take the oath of office and begin the provisional term at the board meeting on December 11, 2014. Four candidates applied for the appointment and have cleared the requirements including being at least 18 years of age, be a resident of the Duarte Unified School District, be a registered voter in the State of California, and not be disqualified from holding civil office by the constitution or any law of the State of California. The four applicants are: Jim Dinsmore, David Hall, Swati Puri, and Cheryl Taylor.
Monrovia Passes Emergency Cigarette and Tobacco Sales in Pharmacies may Ordinances to Prevent be Eliminated “Mansionization” BY SUSAN MOTANDER In response to large pub- ditions to existing residences. lic turnouts at both city counAs Steve Sizemore, Dicil meetings and a meeting rector of Community Develof the Historic Preservation opment, explained, this time Commission, the Council period will give city staff time passed two emergency ordi- to prepare a time frame for nances at its regular meeting potentially longer moratoria. on Tuesday, November 18. He said staff would report The first ordinance creates back to the council at its a 45 day moratorium on the December 16th meeting on issuance of demolition per- plans for public hearings and mits for houses constructed other research necessary to before 1940. The second put in place a more complete prohibits issuing building plan for the retention of Monpermits for the same time rovia’s older homes and the period for construction of maintenance of the character new homes or substantial ad- of its neighborhoods.
The California Board of Pharmacy recommends that pharmacies and stores that contain pharmacies no longer sell cigarettes and tobacco products.
At their October 29, 2014 meeting, board members unanimously approved a policy statement that recommends the elimiPlease see page 4