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Thursday, July 23, 2015 - July 29, 2015
COMPLIMENTARY COPY VOLUME 19, NO. 30
Pasadena and Area Cities Give Rousing Reception to Special Olympians BY JOYCE PENG AND TERRY MILLER
The Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015 will take place on Saturday, July 25, in the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the only venue in the world to host two Olympiads (1932 and 1984), two Super Bowls (I and VII) and one World Series (1959). The star-studded show will celebrate the true stars of the Games - the athletes of Special Olympics with exciting entertainment, the Parade of Athletes and the culmination of the Final Leg of the Law Enforcement Torch Run and lighting of the Special Olympics cauldron. Broadcast internationally by ESPN, fans around the world will be able to participate in this memorable start to the World Games! On Wednesday morning Pasadena hosted Special Olympics delegations, including athletes and coaches, from Namibia, Tanzania, and Singapore as part of the Special Olympics World Games
Host Town Program. In the days before the World Games begin Saturday, these delegations will be among more than 7,000 athletes from 177 countries that will be welcomed by Pasadena and surrounding communities. The delegations arrived at Occidental College on Tuesday evening, July 21, after going through a final health check at Loyola Marymount University. The athletes will be sleeping at Occidental College where they will also train in the mornings through July 24, before departing to their assigned athletic villages at USC and UCLA. Host Town Pasadena arranged the city celebration as The Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics arrived in Pasadena on Wednesday, July 22. The Pasadena Unified School District Special Education Department/LEARNS provided
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Special Olympics Athlete Graziano Carrozzo, who represented Italy in the 2007 and 2011 games carries the torch into Pasadena Wednesday morning along with Kristine Krishtal who has served with the North Attleboro PD in Massachusetts – Thousands turned out to greet the athletes on the final leg. – Photo by Terry Miller
Pasadena Considers Strengthening Ordinance to Deter Waste Scavenging
PETA Sues Pasadena Over Failure to Hand Over Records on Seaworld ‘Spy’
BY NICK KIPLEY
BY TERRY MILLER
On Monday night’s meeting of the Pasadena City Council, Gabriel Silva, a Department of Public Works Management Analyst IV, Solid Waste/Recycling, gave a presentation to the council of an ordinance designed to deter largescale scavenging in the City of Pasadena. The main goals of the legislature involved strengthening a preexisting ordinance so that better enforcement of the policy could be implemented. The reason that the DPW is so interested in tightening this policy comes from the fact that large-scale scav-
engers have a detrimental of the legislature has been effect on the city’s recycling expanded so that the term program, Silva noted in his “scavenger” now encompresentation. passes the scavenging of The scope of the orSEE PG. 12 dinance will be expanded under the new legislature to encompass large city events—like the Rose Parade—so that, in the future, such events will hopefully be free of scavengers and their bags of aluminum cans. Silva claims that the Police Department and City Prosecutor’s Office found the language of the original bill written in a way that was difficult to enforce; with this most recent revision, the language Tyron Hampton – Photo by Terry Miller
PETA filed a lawsuit last Thursday morning against the City of Pasadena and PPD Chief Phillip L. Sanchez challenging the city’s failure to comply with PETA’s Public Records Act requests for records relating to “Thomas Jones,” the Sea World protester who attempted to incite animal advocates to perform illegal acts and was recently exposed as SeaWorld employee Paul T. McComb. PETA says “other SeaWorld agents are expected to be revealed in time.” PETA submitted the requests in a move designed SEE PG. 13
- Photo by Terry Miller