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Thursday, June 25, 2015 - July 1, 2015
VOLUME 19, NO. 26
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Huge Weekend Planned for Santa Anita Track
American Pharoah Will Greet Race Fans Saturday – Season Closes Sunday Cal Phil Opens Summer Season Saturday Night with Beatles & Beethoven
BY TERRY MILLER
Triple Crown champion American Pharoah arrived back at his barn at Santa Anita last Thursday from Churchill Downs. Arriving First Class on ‘Air Horse One,’ the Triple Crown winner seemed relaxed albeit a bit tired from his travels. The three-year-old colt, owned and bred by Ahmed Zayat and trained by Bob Baffert, landed at Ontario International Airport from Louisville Thursday morning, around 9:45 a.m. He was transported with a sixunit law enforcement code 3 escort to Santa Anita. SEE PG. 15
L: Triple Crown champion American Pharoah is walked by trainer Bob Baffert as Jockey Victor Espinoza looks on proudly. The colt returned from Churchill Downs last Thursday to Santa Anita via a flight on ‘Air Horse One’ to Ontario. From there the multi-million dollar horse received a four-vehicle police escort, code 3, to Santa Anita. R: Maestro Victor Vener. - Photos by Terry Miller
City Files Lawsuit Seeking Recovery of Embezzled Funds
Pasadena Council Discusses Energy Solutions, Opts to ‘Stay the Course’
BY STAFF WRITER The City of Pasadena has filed a civil lawsuit seeking recovery of monies allegedly embezzled from its Underground Utilities Fund, Pasadena City Attorney Michele Beal Bagneris announced. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court against former City employee Danny Wooten; his wife, Laveta Wooten; Tyrone Collins, Collins Electric; the Southern California Evangelistic Jurisdic-
tion Center; New Covenant Christian Fellowship Center and Melody Jenkins. A city audit completed in November 2014 documented as many as 296 potentially fraudulent invoices had been submitted to the city for check payments in excess of $6.4 million. The money came from the Underground Utilities Fund that pays for moving overhead power and communications lines underground. SEE PG. 12
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During Monday night’s meeting of the Pasadena City Council, the municipal services committee recommended the council adopt the Pasadena Water and Power (PWP) 2015 Power Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). The plan examined alternative ways in which the PWP might meet the city’s energy load capacity through to the year 2034, and primarily recommended a “stay the course” line of
action. “Staying the course,” in this situation, meant that PWP continue acquiring most of its electricity from the Intermountain Power Project (IPP), a primarily coal-fired electric generating station that is slated by law to switch over to natural gas no later than 2025, and whose contract with the city is interminable and set to expire in 2027. The committee’s proSEE PG. 13
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