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Thursday, December 21, 2017 - December 27, 2017
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VOLUME 20, NO. 51
MONROVIA DRIVE THROUGH MAIL BOXES TARGETED BY THIEVES AND VANDALS Post Office Drive through Boxes locked between 7 p.m.-7 a.m.
Terry MILLER tmiller@beaconmedianews.com
Trying to mail a holiday card or a bill? Simple advice, don’t use Post Boxes. Take your letter inside the Post Office. In recent months many area postal boxes have been tampered with resulting in serious losses not only for residents but also for the Post Office itself. It has been reported that thieves have devised ways to collect stamped mail from unsuspecting postal customers who intended the letter go to a different recipient. The trend is particularly bad during the holidays where a mail thief may attach double sided tape to a long piece of cardboard and insert into a box and retrieve whatever mail they can. There are numerous tricks these criminals use but suffice to say, your mail is, sadly, no longer safe in a mail box.
Boxes with snorkel shoots used in drive-up locations are having the snorkel shoots capped off and locked after the final collection and reopened the next morning. – Photo by Terry Miller / Beacon Media News
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MONROVIA PUBLIC HEARING TO ADDRESS PROPOSED WATER RATE ADJUSTMENT
THE MONROVIA OLD TOWN REPORT Pam FITZPATRICK
Here we are, just a few days before Christmas, and we’re still having fun in Old Town. Next Saturday will be our final Santa Breakfasts of the season. Here’s the schedule: Jake’s Roadhouse (9 a.m.), Oh Mulberry Bush (10 a.m.) and Rudy’s Mexican
Restaurant (11 a.m.). The gifts this year were donated by Jakk’s Pacific, Spin Master, and various local donors. It was particularly sweet this season when we found we were short on gifts, and several individuals stepped up and donated, making sure
Scheduled for January 16 that every child received at least a small gift from Santa at each breakfast. The normal rush of holiday parties is on in town, with restaurants packed with party-goers. As I’ve SEE OLD TOWN PAGE 10
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
LIFESTYLE
One-Stop Bottle Shop:
Christmas
Recently, the City initiated the Proposition 218 process that must be followed prior to adopting any proposed water rate adjustment. Here in Monrovia – and throughout the San Gabriel Valley – water rate adjustments
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Hollywood
Valley Municipal Water District (Upper District) in order to address the water supply shortage in the Main San Gabriel Basin following the historic, decade-long drought. By instituting SEE WATER RATES PAGE 11
SPORTSOlympic Power Meets
Arcadia Apaches Soccer Begins League Action
Harry
Potter at Universal Studios
Vendome Wine & Spirits
will be needed in order to absorb new fees being passed down to the nearly 30 water producers in our region. These fees are being levied on the City by the Main San Gabriel Basin Watermaster (Watermaster) and the Upper San Gabriel
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