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Pasadena General Plan meeting Feb. 1
The public is invited to a community meeting in February to review draft policies as part of the General Plan update that will help guide the City’s future. The meeting will be held at 9:00 a.m., Saturday, February 1, 2014 at Pasadena City College’s Creveling Lounge (Building CC), 1570 East Colorado Boulevard. Parking is $2 and is available in lots 3 and 4 along South Hill Avenue. The General Plan, a blueprint that guides the City’s future, includes both a land use map and a list of policies. While the map will set the type of uses allowed and the intensity of growth, the policies describe the outcome of the growth. The Please see page 4
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Governor Brown declares Drought State of Emergency With California facing water shortfalls in the driest year in recorded state history, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.Friday proclaimed a State of Emergency and directed state officials to take all necessary actions to prepare for these drought conditions. “We can’t make it rain, but we can be much better prepared for the terrible consequences that California’s drought now threatens, including dramatically less water for our farms and communities and increased fires in both urban and rural areas,” said Governor Brown. “I’ve declared this emergency and I’m calling all Californians to conserve water in every way possible.” State water officials say that California’s river and reservoirs are below their record lows. Manual and electronic readings record
the snowpack’s statewide water content at about 20 percent of normal average for this time of year. The Governor’s drought State of Emergency follows a series of actions the administration has taken to ensure that California is prepared for record dry conditions. In May 2013, Governor Brown issued an Executive Order to direct state water officials to expedite the review and processing of voluntary transfers of water and water rights. In December, the Governor formed a Drought Task Force to review expected water allocations, California’s preparedness for water scarcity and whether conditions merit a drought declaration. Earlier this week, the Governor toured the Central Valley and spoke with growers and others impacted by California’s record dry conditions.
Assistant Principal at Alhambra High resigns after alleged sex abuse goes public Young woman confronts her middle school abuser on You Tube video By TERRY MILLER
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In what can only be described as tremendously courageous, a 28 year old mother of three, Jaime Carrillo, has accused her former middle school teacher – a basketball coach - of sexual abuse when she was in Riverside and only 12 years of age.. The victim videotaped a call to her alleged abuser and posted
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it on You Tube last week – The response has been explicably significant. The video has received more than 75,000 views since it was posted on YouTube Friday. It has also led to an Alhambra High School administrator's resignation and launched a full investigation.
The obviously distressed woman said: "I recently found out where a former teacher of mine has been working," the young woman says in the YouTube video, "and before I was thinking of reporting her for the abuse that she had done to me, since I was 12 years old." The woman in the video then calls her alleged female abuser who was an assistant principal at Alhambra High. She clearly asks to speak to one Andrea Cardosa. "Do you realize that you brainwashed me and you manipulated me and that what you did was wrong?" the woman asks her alleged female abuser. Please see page 5
Wong installed as Mayor of Monterey Park
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Franklin Murdock –man of faith and vision - Publishes Book # 3 By TERRY MILLER
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The Best is Yet to Come is the title of this prolific writer’s latest endeavor about to be published. An author of some considerable note, Murdock lives at the Gables in Monrovia and suffers from macular degeneration. We focused on Murdoch a couple of years ago, now, at 93, he’s about to publish another book – The Best is Yet to Come. On Friday Murdock held a brief press gathering
Anthony Wong was installed as Mayor of Monterey Park in a ceremony Wednesday, January 22, at city hall. The installation ceremony featured remarks by outgoing Mayor Teresa Real Sebastian and the installation of Hans Liang as Mayor Pro Tem. Anthony Wong was first elected to the city council in 2007 and reelected in 2011. He is active in numerous organizations in Monterey Park such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Monterey Park Lions Club. This will be Anthony Wong's second term as mayor, which rotates among city council members every nine and a half months.
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at The Monrovia Community Center announcing the book’s publishing date. Despite this seemingly enormous obstacle for a writer, Franklin Murdoch refuses to let his disability put a crimp in his life and work. His work is deeply religious and thoughtful. Murdock has outlived three wives and says he has somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 plus grand
The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) voted unanimously last week to adopt new rules for the injection of biogas into the state’s natural-gas pipelines, ushering in an entirely new clean-energy industry in the Golden State. Biomethane, a renewable form of natural gas, was previously banned from the California pipelines due to outdated laws and a lack of regulations
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