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Monrovia Weekly ArcAdiA Weekly MONDAY, JANUARY 24 - JANUARY 30, 2011 VOLUME V, NO. IV
Arcadia Mayor says he's “Appalled that a few activists have tried to hijack my Mayor's Breakfast by wanting to censor my choice of speaker” BY TERRY MILLER Arcadians may remember a couple of years ago when the controversial conservative talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger was selected as keynote speaker for the Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast in Arcadia. Schlssinger’s appearance and subsequent media coverage caused quite a hulababloo in town and readers were very vociferous on both sides of the issue. This year, Arcadia’s Mayor, Peter Amundson, has selected The Rev. H.B. London Jr., vice president of ministry for Focus on Family whose charter holds similar right wing, anti-gay marriage views. The matter came up at City Council last week when a resident asked the mayor to reconsider his choice for speaker. Additionally an email came to media outlets addressed
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Mayor Armundson During a recent re-election campaign debate. –Photo by Terry Miller
Mayor Fernando Vizcarra will reflect on the City’s accomplishments and expectations February 1 Mayor Fernando Vizcarra will reflect on the city’s accomplishments and expectations February 1 at his State of the City Address. Open to the public, the event starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple City Council Chambers, 5938 Kauffman Ave. The mayor’s address will stream live at www.templecity. kgem.tv and broadcasted the following day on public access channels 3 (Charter Cable) and 99 (AT&T UVerse). “My presentation will focus on the City Council’s commitment to turn city government from status
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quo to high performing,” said Mayor Vizcarra. “I’m going to talk about what we accomplished in 2010 and what’s ahead for 2011.” Among other things, the mayor will discuss the Rosemead Blvd. improvement project, investment along Las Tunas Dr. and the proposed Temple City Plaza project – the city’s newest retail development in almost 20 years. Also for discussion is the city’s upcoming work program that focuses on accountability, public participation and quality of life initiatives. For more information, call (626) 285-2171.
Mayor Vizcarra at a recent city council meeting –Photo by Terry Miller
uesday night, the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority (Construction Authority) Board of Directors certified the Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Foothill Extension Pasadena to Azusa. The Supplemental EIR augments the Final EIR approved in 2007 for the project, and evaluates a number of project modifications that have arisen since the original document was certified. Approval of the Supplemental EIR environmentally clears those project updates, and prepares the project for final design and construction to begin later this year. Project modifications evaluated in the Supplemental EIR include a 25acre Maintenance and Operations (M&O) Facility site in the city of Monrovia, new parking locations at the Irwindale and Monrovia stations, reconfiguration of the intersection of Mountain Avenue and Duarte Road and replacement of two existing bridges along the 11.5-mile alignment. The site for the M&O Facility is in the city of Monrovia, and bounded by Evergreen Avenue on the north, Shamrock Avenue on the east, California Avenue on the west and Duarte Road on the south. “Approval of the SEIR is an important step in our process to ready the Foothill Extension Pasadena to Azusa for final design and construction” said Habib F. Balian, CEO of the Construction Authority. “It is especially important that we identified and environmentally cleared a site for the M&O Facility, a criti-
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