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VOLUME 20, NO. 30
CITY MANAGER MERMELL ELECTED VOTING REPRESENTATIVE FOR STATE-WIDE SEPTEMBER CONFERENCE Pasadena City Council holds final meeting before summer hiatus by Gus HERRERA gherrera@beaconmedianews.com
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Pasadena City Manager Steve Mermell center, is flanked by councilman Tyron Hampton on left and Mayor Terry Tornek on right. - Photo by Terry Miller / Beacon Media News
t their final regular meeting before a month-long summer hiatus, the Pasadena City Council elected City Manager Steve Mermell as the designated voting delegate for the League of California Cities Annual Conference, to be held from Sept. 13 to 15 in Sacramento. Assistant City Manager Julie Gutierrez will serve as the council’s alternate selection. As representatives for Pasadena at the annual conference, Mermell and Gutierrez will learn about legal and legislative updates and discuss relevant (sometimes controversial) state-wide issues. Council’s consent calendar for the evening approved a roof restoration project for the Pasadena Senior Center, resurfacing of Hill Avenue (from the northern city limit to Maple Street), and a funding agreement with the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) for the Pasadena non-potable water project, phase 1. Both the Senior Center and Hill Avenue SEE PAGE 11
Pasadena Shooting Victim Succumbs to Injuries by Staff Writer On Monday evening, July 24, at about 11:36 p.m., Pasadena Police Department patrol person-
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT Royal Treatment at Old Pasadena’s First Gastropub
nel responded to the 400 block of N. Marengo Avenue regarding a report of shots heard and a male heard yelling. Officers arrived on scene and found a single
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gunshot victim, a Hispanic male in his 30’s. Pasadena Fire Department paramedics arrived and transported the victim to a SEE PAGE 10
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Chris Mann to Headline Arcadia Performing Arts Center Inaugural Gala
DMV AND PASADENA PD SCORE BIG AT SOCCER GAME SUNDAY AT ROSE BOWL 31 drivers busted for illegal use of disabled parking placards by Terry MILLER tmiller@beaconmedianews.com
Some underhanded soccer fans got a lot more than they bargained for Sunday when
these off side fans professed to be disabled in order to get privileged parking that’s reserved for those who are genuinely handicapped or disabled. As a result, investigators
with the California Department of Motor Vehicles cited 31 people Sunday for illegally parking in handicap spaces at the Rose Bowl, according to a SEE PAGE 10
SPORTS Why Archery Is The Sport For You
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