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Will ‘LA Partyworks’ Continue to Run Monrovia’s Friday Night Street Fair?
COMPLIMENTARY COPY VOLUME 19, NO. 31
BY TERRY MILLER AND SUSAN MOTANDER Last week the city of Monrovia issued a warning to Los Angeles Partyworks demanding that the company comply with the terms of their contract to run the Friday evening Monrovia Street Fair. This action came just days after Kurt Anderson, who has long been affiliated with the prior manager of the Friday event, presented the city council with a long list of what he called violations of the agreement with the city. At that time Monrovia City Manager Oliver Chi stated that the oversight committee in charge of the Friday night event had already scheduled a meeting for the next day. By the end of last week rumors were pandemic. Chi acknowledged that a notice of termination had
been sent to the company. He explained that this was the manner prescribed by the contract to notify that company when it was not in compliance with the contract. Chi said that while the new managers “have been effective in expanding the event and making layout changes,” he also said there “have been a couple of significant concerns.” Chi acknowledged that there had been “good feedback” regarding the music and other aspects of the Friday Street fair. However, he also noted that he and the oversight committee had real concerns about the set up and take-down of the event as well as about the general SEE PG. 7
The changeover from Family Festival to LA PartyWorks has caused some serious problems for some merchants and the city alike. – Photo by Terry Miller
Murder Victim Shot by High School Football Teammate
75’ Pine Tree Outside Kidspace Falls; Injures 8 Children, 2 Critical
BY TERRY MILLER 24-year-old Joe McMahon was shot to death early last Friday morning in Chapman Woods by a former football teammate at San Marino High School and member of the 2009 graduating class. Joe McMahon, a former associate producer on the television reality series ‘The Deadliest Catch,’ was pronounced dead at the scene at approximately 2:20 SEE PG. 14
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A 75-foot pine tree fell on a group of children, injuring eight, two of them critically, outside Kidspace Children’s Museum in Brookside Park just south of the Rose Bowl at approximately 4:50 p.m. on Tuesday. The two children in critical condition were transported to USC Medical Center. One of those two children is Joy Thomas from Hamilton School. Joy is in critical SEE PG. 15
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