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CALTRANS WITHOUT INFORMING Machinist CERRITOS,Mate ILLEGAL MOVE COST Our THEDemocracy CITY OVER $5 MILLION New OrganicsREROUTED Recycling TRAFFIC USS IOWA: Centenarian Recalls His WILL Service ta or Artesia is a city designated flowsISonto arterial streets.” BY BRIAN HEWS The City is claiming that the during the construction period. HOW GOP SEIZING Program to Start The City then cited the nurerouting has caused over $5 “Caltrans has failed to coor- truck route, commercial vehicles merous safety hazards caused by Hews Media ELECTION POWER: in Area CitiesGroup-Los Cer- million in damage to the streets, dinate thus far, and any further over 6,000 pounds are strictly ritos Community News has ob- increased pollution in the area, lack of communication or con- prohibited on the streets, per the rerouting of traffic, concerns that have been voiced by Cerritained a letter, dated September increased traffic noise, and in- sultation with the City and its City Municipal Code.” By Tammy McDuff ‘SLOW-MOTION The Caltrans rerouting of tos residents in calls and emails 6, 2019, addressed to Caltrans creased the safety risk of resi- residents is unacceptable.” dam- to both HMG-LCCN and the from city of2016, Cerritos that Brown dents. The City blasted Caltrans for trucks has caused severe INSURRECTION’ In the September Governor blasts the state agency for reroutFurther the letter states that establishing a detour route on age and increased traffic at peak City.
signed SB 1383 establishing methane The rerouting on Carmenita ing tractor-trailer traffic through Caltrans is in violation of the southbound Carmenita between hours, the extensive damage emissions reduction targets in a statewide takes large trucks by two schools, the City due to I-5 construction project’s final Environmental the I-5 and Artesia Blvd., and alone is estimated “to cost $5.2 Donald Trump has been effort to reduce emissions. Impact Report which obligates eastbound Artesia Blvd. between million to repair,” and the “averStowers Elementary projects. clear about his intentions:and CarmeFollowing this law, all jurisdictions age daily traffic on said streets nita Middle school in addition Shockingly, the rerouting wascollection the agency to coordinate with cit- Carmenita and the I-5. must provide organic waste He is seeking to oust has significantly increased and ies to minimize adverse impacts “Neither stretch of Carmenidone without notifying the City. services to all residential and commercial statewide officialsSee who CALTRANS page 14 customers by January 1, 2022, to ensure stood in his way and organic material is diverted from landreplace them with allies. fills. Organic waste includes food scraps THE ENGINE ROOM aboard the USS Iowa inspected by USS Iowa staff volunteer. and green waste, such as landscaping and pruning waste. Johnson called Truman the best thing By Associated Press By Tammye McDuff Examples of “food waste” include to ever happen to this country, “I admire In the weeks leading up to the deadly fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, seafood, Freeman Johnson was a Machinist’s his politics. He was backed up by politiinsurrection at thejumping U.S. Capitol shellfish, bones, rice, beans, pasta, bread, Mate First Class aboard USS St. Louis dur- cians who were asBY THOM action, out on of Jan. her 6, cara crooked as MARTIN they come. handful of Americans — well-known poligrabbing the boy and helping the cheese, and eggshells. Food waste also ing the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl He never did what they told him to do; he The City of Lakewoodticians, held obscure woman.local bureaucrats — stood includes food-soiled paper, such as com- Harbor. A year or so later, he was assigned had a mind of his own.” up to block then-President Trump’s its annual lunShe took themDonald to Artesia High postable paper plates, paper coffee cups, to Brooklyn Navy Yard and USS Iowa. He The Boiler Room is prettyAward much of as Valor it unprecedented attempt to overturn amedfree cheon on Nov. 6 to thank the men School, where they received napkins, pizza boxes, and milk cartons. was with Iowa for her first commissioning and fair vote of the American people. and women of the Los Angeles ical assistance and were ultimateStarting at the beginning of the year, and the entirety of her WWII service. In thelyyear since, Trump-aligned County Sheriff’s Department and transported to the hospital. ReCR&R Environmental Services and the The 101-year-old veteran revisited the publicans have worked to the path acfor Fire Department, as well as the Because of clear her selfless City of Bellflower will launch the new Iowa on December 16. next time. community volunteers who pro- tions, the City of Lakewood reOrganics Recycling Program. He was full of fascinating stories and In battleground states Bridget and beyond, tect and serve Lakewood. cently awarded with Rethe Resident’s will put food scraps in the details about the war and it was an absolute publicans are taking hold of the once-overBridget Perrizo, a staff memMayor’s Award at the city’s angreen waste container in addition to yard thrill to allow this remarkably-agile cenlooked machinery of elections. While the ber at Artesia High was honored nual Awards of Valor ceremony. waste. An organics decal will be placed tenarian to visit his old duty station at the effort is incomplete and uneven, when she helped two people that "I always wondered outside what I on the lid of your container outlining ac- bottom of Boiler Room #4. experts on democracy and Democrats are was being attacked by a dog. would do when faced with a situOn the trip down to Boiler Room #4, ceptable materials. sounding alarms, warning that the United Bridget, was headed back to ation like this one," said Perrizo. The collected organic material will be Johnson had no issues shimming down the a “slow-motion insurwork from lunch when sheStates spot- is witnessing "By the grace of God, I had the delivered to one of CR&R’s compost fa- ladder, “On the St. Louis at Pearl Harbor, rection” with a better chance of success ted a dog attacking a woman and courage to take action. I'm so FREEMAN JOHNSON was aboard the I was assigned to Boiler Room #3,” said than Trump’s failed power grab lastand year. young boy. The dog had knocked glad that both the mom son USS St. Louis during the attack on Pearl See ORGANIC page 2 Johnson, “We were in the Navy yard to reThey are point to aand mounting list of evithemon to the the USS ground and they were okay, I'm so honored to Iowa. pair #3.” Johnson served on the St. Louis Harbor. He then served dence: Several candidates who deny screaming for help. receive this award.” until 1942. Because he had to crawl into Bridget immediately Trump’s took loss are running for offices that tight he said he didn’t lot of Waste Resources TRASH piles up at a condominium complex in spaces, Hawaiian Gardens. The see Citya chose Seeelection HERO page 15 could have a key role in the of the wasBrian in Johnson’s what happened, but hebegin also said it probably Incorporated as their new hauler, who said they would immediately trash pick up. Photo Hews. day. Some new controls next president in 2024. In Michigan, the and gauges were added, the ship now burns saved his life. Republican Party is restocking members Originally, Johnson joined the Navy diesel fuel, but for the most part, it is still of obscure local boards that could block when he was 19. “I was a very small cog in outfitted with 1942 steel. By Brian Hews “Look at that,” Johnson declared, “the approval of an election. In Wisconsin and a very big machine,” he said. “We had just Pennsylvania, the GOP-controlled legisfinished breakfast.” Johnson remembered bilge is dry!!” It was a moving journey to latures are backing open-ended “reviews” in time with Johnson as he demoment that he felt the vibration the travel BYMarcelo BRIAN Balboa HEWS grew up on the “Poorthe leadership, no foresight included of several defaultback letters, scribed his daily duties. He inspected the of the 2020 election, modeled on a deeply streets of Cerritos, attending collegeon here machine gun on the him.under “ThatCalifornia’s Public the situation, typical of deck this above which, packing 49000, and the escape hatches saying “We flawed look-back in Arizona. The efforts before going on to was theformer first sign we knew Resource something Code was Section While rotting trash is accumuCity Council,” Hawaiian about half a second to decide if a tor- are poised to fuel disinformation and anger great things lating in many partsachieve of Hawaiian termination. Gardens wrong,” Mayor he Reysaid. 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HIGH staff-member Bridget Perrizo received thedoAward of made 127 appearances spanning that two-thirds of Republicans not beWe werestaff happy that President Harry days to address the situation. The voluminous report Valor from Lakewood for saving two in a dog attack. See TRASH page 15 See SOCCER page 9 Truman dropped the bomb.” See IOWA page 9 See ELECTION page 6
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