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Thursday, May 28, 2015 - June 3, 2015
Volume 19, No. 22
Community News, Arts & Opinions Since 1996
“Heroes in the Shadows”
Five Day Veterans Job Fair Honors the Fallen and Provides Services for the Living With the close of Memorial Day events, one continues with a weeklong event dedicated to honoring the fallen while serving the living. Presented by The Vet Hunters Project, in conjunction with the City of Pomona, the fourth annual “Heroes in the Shadows” San Gabriel Valley Homeless Stand Down kicked off yesterday with more than 400 attendees. The five day event runs through Friday May 29 at the Pomona National Guard Armory located at 600 South Park Avenue in Pomona. On Wednesday, May 27, the event featured a veteran job fair presented by the Employment Development Department. In the morning, seven cars were donated to deserving veterans in need, marking the most amount of vehicles donated by the Vet Hunters in a single day. The Vet Hunters Pro-
Family Festival Productions Moves From Monrovia to Arcadia By terry miller
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Dr. Terrence Baruch Installs Interactive Monitors in Westfield Mall
Family Festival Productions, Inc. (FFPI) has informed the merchants that are part of Monrovia’s Friday Night Family Street Fair that they have been selected to operate a ‘festival’ on Friday evenings in Arcadia and distributed a flyer this past week notifying vendors. FFPI has run the Friday evening event virtually since its inception in Monrovia. Last fall, the council decided not to renew its contract with Family Festival Productions and instead granted only a sixmonth extension of that agreement and ordered the matter be reviewed after an SEE PG. 17
Remembering Our Veterans and Their Families
The ‘Heart Attack Blues’ Doctor Wants to Save Your Life By joe taglieri and terry miller As heart attacks claim more lives each year nationwide than any other cause of death, an Arcadia-based doctor has launched a crusade to increase awareness that he hopes will lead to reduced lag time between the onset of symptoms and applying a key life-saving medical procedure. Dr. Terrence Baruch is the director of Methodist Hospital’s Cardiac Catheterization Lab, which provides what he describes as the most effective treatment to date for countering the SEE PG. 16
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Mayor Michael D. Antonovich issued the following Memorial Day message prior to his annual event at Arcadia’s County Park Saturday: “On the 40th anniversary of D-day, President Ronald Reagan said, ‘One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it is the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.’ On Memorial Day, we remember and pay tribute to fallen heroes and their families, to appreciate the blessings of liberty and recognize the power and virtue of
their sacrifice. And in their honor, we resolve to be ever vigilant in preserving liber-
ty and peace throughout the world. At Gettysburg, PresiSEE PG. 16
- Photo by Trevor Stamp