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VOLUME 20, NO. 46
PASADENA COUNCIL RECAP: CITY CONTINUES EFFORTS TO COMBAT HOMELESSNESS Gus HERRERA gherrera@beaconmedianews.com
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ith just one week to go before the Thanksgiving recess, the Pasadena City Council’s latest meeting had a relatively short agenda, but the items approved should provide long-lasting, positive impacts.
The evening’s consent calendar included the approval of two programs that will aid the city’s efforts to combat homelessness. The first will appropriate federal grant funds to the public health department for the Benefit of Homeless Individuals Program. According to city staff’s report, the program will provide “mental health, substance abuse, medical
treatment, and social support services for individuals experiencing homelessness and other serious health problems,” in both Pasadena and neighboring Altadena. Additionally, the city will create three limitedterm, full-time positions to help carry out the work: a nurse practitioner, social worker, and community services representative. The three new staff members will carry out various health services/assessments, as well as serving as important points of contact and case managers for some of Pasadena’s most vulnerable individuals. The Pasadena-based Union Station Homeless Services will be contracted
The Benefit of Homeless Individuals Program and Operation Link will provide critical health and employment services to Pasadena’s most vulnerable citizens. - Photo by Terry Miller / Beacon Media News
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The Rotary Club of Pasadena is Building Bikes for Kids
Staff Writer editorial@beaconmedianews.com
Pasadena Rotary, in collaboration with Altadena and San Marino Rotary clubs, will assemble 300 bicycles on the morning of Saturday, Nov. 18 at the PUSD Maintenance Yard located at 798 West Woodbury Rd. The bicycles, once assembled, will be distributed through The Salvation Army to families in the Pasadena area who
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would otherwise be unable to provide a bicycle for their child at Christmas. The Rotary clubs are supported in this community project by the following organizations: -Huffy Bicycle Corporation who donated bicycles at cost. -Huntington Hospital Foundation, in a commitment to health and safety, donated $4,500 -to be used to purchase helmets which will be distributed with
Eastbound I-210 Ramp Closure
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the bicycles. -Pasadena Community Foundation also donated $500. -Full Circle Cycling Team of Glendora, CA is dedicating staff to provide quality control to -make sure bicycles are assembled properly. -Incycle Bicycles of Pasadena is providing bike locks at cost. The Pasadena Rotary
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT King Charles III… Back to the Future
MAN FOUND GUILTY OF 1988 PASADENA MURDER Staff Writer editorial@beaconmedianews.com
A 55-year-old man was found guilty today of the murder of a jewelry salesman at a Pasadena gas station almost three decades ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Ryan Erlich said Albert Ahmad Clark aka Al Clark was found guilty of one count of first-degree mur-
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der with an allegation that he personally used a handgun in the commission of the crime. Clark is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 10, 2018 in Department H of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Pasadena Branch. The defendant faces 32 years to life in state prison. On Feb. 27, 1988, victim Leroy Galloway was selling jewelry out of his van parked at a gas station on Lake Avenue and Orange
Grove Boulevard, the prosecutor said. According to evidence presented at the trial, Clark killed Galloway by shooting him multiple times. The defendant was arrested and charged with the murder in 1988 but in 1989 the case was dismissed due to a lack of sufficient evidence and the limitations on forensic science at the time. SEE MURDER PAGE 13
HOLIDAY DINING
It’s time to Eat, drink and be Merry
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