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California Rain, Snow: Welcome Sight But “Too Little, Too Late” Experts Say
THURSDAY, APRIL 9 - APRIL 15 , 2015
Climate Conditions Have “Exposed Our Hardcore Pasadena House of Cards” Says JPL Scientist
Rain and mountain snow returning to California this week is a welcome sight but will do little to ease the historic drought gripping the state. A storm will pushed across California through Tuesday night, spreading rain across the state as well as delivering much-needed snow to the Sierra Nevada. This comes just days after California Gov. Jerry Brown announced the firstever statewide mandatory water restrictions in an effort to reduce water usage due to the drought. Unfortunately, an end to those water restrictions will not come with this storm. As AccuWeather.com Western Weather Expert Ken Clark Please see page 3
Photos Courtesy California Dept. of Water Resouces
Senator Bob Huff to Seek Michael Antonovich’s 5th District Seat Bob Huff will announce his bid for Antonovich’s seat this Thursday afternoon in Monrovia. Huff is the Senate Republican Leader and has represented Los Angeles County in the State Legislature since 2004. Prior to his service in the Legislature, Bob served on the Diamond Bar City Council from 1995 to 2004. He has nine years of experience in local and regional government, and ten years in the State Legislature representing Los Angeles County. The California League of Cities named Senator Huff their “Legislator of the Year” for his efforts to protect local government’s authority to create economic opportunity for their residents. The founding chair-
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man of the Alameda Corridor East project, Bob was recently honored by Mobility 21 for his leadership on Southern California transportation issues. Senator Huff wrote the nationally recognized “Parent Trigger Act,” expanded school choice for
parents and students and provided more funding for public charter schools. Huff was also a lead negotiator on the statewide water bond and helped secure groundwater contamination funding for a super fund site in the San Gabriel Valley.
- Photo courtesy Senator Bob Huff
Even as the worst drought in decades overwhelms California, and its cities face mandatory cuts in water use, crops like oranges, tomatoes and almonds, eager for a constant supply of water, manage to get into stores nationwide, despite the dearth of the state’s longest drought in history. According to an article in the New York Times on the weekend, how California farmers have pulled off that feat is a case study in “the unwise use of natural resources, many experts say.” According to the Times, farmers are drilling wells at “a feverish pace and pumping billions of gallons of water from the ground, depleting a resource that was critically endangered even before the drought, now in its fourth year, began.” The article continues … “California has pushed harder than any other state to adapt to a changing climate, but scientists warn that improving its management of precious groundwater supplies will shape whether it can continue to supply more than half the nation’s fruits and vegetables on a hotter planet.” Please see page 5
Gang Member Arrested
On Jan. 15th 2015, at about 6:00 a.m., Pasadena Police officers responded to the 500 block of Marengo Avenue regarding a call of shots fired at an inhabited dwelling -- no one was hit by the suspect’s gunfire. The preliminary investigation was handled by patrol officers and subsequently assigned to Detective Anthony Russo, who believed the shooting was gang related. With the assistance of gang officers assigned to the Special Enforcement Section (SES), Anthony subsequently identified Kefvon Camp, an admitted local gang member, as the suspect in the shooting. On March 26, Camp was arrested in Altadena without incident through the combined efforts of Pasadena Police detectives, SES, WSGATF, and Los Angeles County Probation. Search warrants were simultaneously served at Please see page 4
ICE Arrests 87 Los Angeles-Area Gang Members and Associates in Nationwide Surge Nearly 1,000 gang members and associates, including 87 individuals from the Southland, were arrested during Project Wildfire, a nationwide six-week operation targeting transnational criminal gangs led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Project Wildfire, which ran from Feb. 23 to March 31, led to the arrest of individuals tied to more than 40 street gangs in the Los Angeles area, including Barrio Van Nuys, the Eastside Wilmas and 18th Street. Of the individuals taken into custody locally, 70 are being charged criminally, primarily with state violations. The remaining arrestees, including foreign nationals from
Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, were processed on administrative immigration violations and will now face deportation. In the Southland, the Project Wildfire arrests
included a member of the Diamond Street gang taken into custody March 3 at a Los Angeles residence investigators allege was being used to distribute methamPlease see page 5
- Photo courtesy ICE