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A major Fire Depart-ment response put dozens of firefighters, three helicopters and 40 pieces of equipment at the foot of Canyon Park in Monrovia Monday, with assistance from Los Angeles County, Arcadia, Pasadena, Glendale, Monterey Park and the US Forest Service.

Canyon Park was evac-uated as the fire began. No homes or other structures

were threatened and no other evacuations were or-dered.

Monday's three acre fire in the Foothills of Mon-rovia's Canyon Park was put out quickly with a huge mu-tual aid force. The extremely quick air response of three helicopters highlights the effectiveness and lessons learned from the Station Fire last year.

One Monrovia Park Ranger was overcome with

heat exhaustion while fight-ing the flames and was treat-ed and released. The fire was apparently set off by a downed power line, which may have sparked after com-ing in contact with a mylar balloon. Southern California Edison secured the lines and restored power to the area.

Coordination seemed seamless to the casual ob-server but preparation is the

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Extreme Heat Brings Fire Dangers to Valley

Extremely quick work on the ground and from the air quelled this 3 acre fire Monday in Monrovia Canyon. The cause was downed power lines - Photos by Terry Miller

Suspect Arrested in Monrovia Kindergarten Teacher's Death

Jeremy Cook has been arrested for Gross Vehicular manslauter

Cool Jazz Fest At The Arboretum This Weekend

R e d w h i t e + b l u e z z Pasadena Jazz Fest is this weekend August 28 and 29, 2010. 200 plus artists, 23 top acts will entertain thousands of fans gathered at the spectacular outdoor venue the Los Angeles Ar-boretum in Arcadia.

The weekend event, complete with an inter-national food court, four watering holes, a vendors village and kids quar-ters, boasts two stages and such prolific talent as multi-award winner Stanley Clarke, multiple Grammy® winners Rita Coolidge and Take 6 and Grammy® nominated art-ists Doc Powell and Hu-bert Laws.

“This is fantastic,” said Doc Powell, whose signa-ture guitar sound has con-tributed to over 140 record-ings of some of the premier recording stars in Pop, R & B, Jazz and Gospel mu-sic, a critically acclaimed gospel project and 10 top-charting contemporary jazz solo projects. “I have called Pasadena home for more than 15 years and we needed something like the redwhite+bluezz Pasadena Jazz Fest to bring back to the heart of this great city.”

Newer artists James Tormé and Lindsey Harp-er will also be performing as will José Espinosa and

BY TERRY MILLER

Foothill Unity Center; Monrovia YMCA Get 2250 Kids Ready For School in Style with Annual Events

This young fellow was excited to see how his hair looked once cut off his head

at Foothill Unity’s Back to School distribution at Santa Anita.Photo by Terry Miller

New Culinary School Sharpens Students Skills with the Skillet

As food preparation and consumption thereof evolves, many in this com-plex and continuously competitive industry see good culinary arts educa-tion as a vital part of the success of any restaurant or food preparation busi-ness. There’s an emergent demand for detail orient-ed, highly trained gastro-nomic professionals.

It takes more than talent, however, to con-duct a successful, thriving restaurant business these days. Yes, the food has to be very good- perhaps unique, but moreover one has to know how the busi-ness can grow without go-ing into exponential debt.

Hence the arrival in Pasadena of the little school with a big heart and a really cool French name, Ecole de Cuisine.

Ecole de Cuisine’s mission, if you will, is to deliver exemplary culinary training with a strong foun-dation in French Interna-tional technique through individual attention with small classes no larger than 18 persons.

Courses will be of-fered during weekday

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Foothill Unity Cen-ter of Monrovia and the YMCA of Monrovia both sponsor Back to School Giveaways for those in need each year.

In Arcadia last Thurs-day the Foothill Unity cen-ter helped get 2000 kids get ready for the new school year by providing back-packs, haircuts and books all free of charge thanks to the donations of individu-als and corporations in the area.

School starts next week in many areas.

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The suspect in the horrific accident which killed Maggie Clark pled not guilty to all charges and allegations against him on Tuesday in River-side Superior Court. He is charged with 1 count of ve-hicular manslaughter and 2 counts of GBI.

Jeremy Cook, 33, from Moreno Valley remains in custody on $1.025 million despite his lawyer's request for reduced bail.

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19th Amendment Passes - 90 Years Ago Today

The women's organi-zations of greater Pasade-na are sponsoring a

Celebration - of the passage of the amendment which gave women the right to vote 90 years ago today..

From 6 - 8pm this eve-ning, Thursday August 26, celebrants will march around city hall and follow

Donald Skelton is placed under arrestwhen he failed to stop his vehicle and injured 2 people at the fire road block.

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Reminisce Time Again:

“Hello Mabel, will you please ring up Jessie and Earl for me?” Do any of you remember when mak-ing a phone call was that simple? I barely do, we didn’t have a phone at home in those days.

I can remember the phone hanging on my Aunt’s kitchen wall in her farmhouse. There was a handle on the side that you cranked to signal “Cen-tral”, as the operator was called then. “Central” was

on a first name basis with her customers.

I also remember there was no privacy. It was, of course, a multi-party line that included most of the farmers along the old Bu-chanan Road. Everyone knew each other’s ring. So, if a body wanted to know the latest news or gossip she could just pick up the ear horn and listen.

My Aunt’s ring was two longs and a short. More than once I heard her say, “Nellie, are you there too?” There would then be a three way con-versation, long before modern technology.

When we moved to town, we finally got our own phone. Ours didn’t hang on the wall. It sat on a table but it was an up-right. It looked something like a daffodil. The mouth-piece was the flower at the top of the stem and the ear phone hung in a cradle on the side.

We still had a party line but the first-name-Cen-tral was gone. You lifted

the earphone to your ear and if no one was talking you clicked the cradle a couple of times. An un-known voice would come on line and say, “Opera-tor. Number please.” You told her the number you wanted and she put the call through for you.

I remember our first phone number was 4823J. Mother had trouble re-membering the numbers because she was used to calling names. She kept a piece of paper from a “Golden Rod” tablet un-der the phone with the few numbers she ever wanted to call.

Dear readers, we are living in a different world. I just made a business call. I punched a total of eigh-teen numbers, two pound signs and a star. I never did speak with a human. A computer told me that the next time I could save time by using the e-mail address [email protected].

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This title sounds like Snap, Crackle and Pop the cartoon

mascots for Kellogg’s Rice Krispies, but it’s not! In-stead it describes the daily behavior patterns of my cell phone/computer ad-dicted sister-in-law Elaine.

She could easily pass for a Tester of Apple Inc’s array of Electronic prod-ucts. One look at her on one of her busy communi-cations days and you might think she was an alien from outer space, all decked out with an I-Phone bird attached to one ear, an I-Pod/I-Tune player cord in her other ear, and her head down with her right hand extended as she is checking her twitter messages while cackling a return messages back to her awaiting “Twit-teria” of groupies. At the same time she is swaying two and fro with her I-pod

tune player blaring rock music for all those around her within blocks to quiver and shutter. Now strapped to her shoulder is her new I-Pad computer screen equipped with the nearly 250,000 Apps for her im-mediate access to assist her in communicating with the world at large. Yes, “Elec-tronic Elaine” is a walking self-contained communica-tions center.

Well, as the I-Phone has been responsible for the “Twitter phenomenon so has it been responsible for Elaine to become “Twit-terfied”. No matter how you identify her instant messaging procedures, be it ... Twits, Tweets, Peeps or Bleeps they all pretty much mean the same thing ... as she continues to scan the world and send out hundreds of mundane messages into the “Twitter

sphere” each day! Then there is also what

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Oh, how I remem-ber the “Good Old Days” when friends and relatives just sat around on the patio and enjoyed the fun and peace of personal conver-sations while viewing the beauty of this wonderful world, without the need of constant electronic com-munications updates and the useless mundane chat-ter.

Well it's not exactly the well known band performing in Sierra Madre. However, some local rock stars in their own right and almost equally well-known: Sierra Madre Police Chief Diaz and Fire Chief Steve Heydorf are planning something almost as scorching as a blistering Guns N' Roses concert- - the big Chili Cook-off during the Taste of Sierra Madre on Sept. 11

Sierra Madre Police Chief Marilyn Diaz and Fire Chief Steve Heydorff will pull out all the stops for the friendly ‘guns v, hoses' chili cook-off, and hope to serve 300 people some fiery chili combinations at A Taste of Sierra Madre on September 11 in Kersting Court.

While the departments are keeping their respective piquant recipes top secret, Chief Heydorff confirmed that Charlie Childs recipe will be used at the Fire Depart-ment. Childs' cooking was a staple at the department for years, and has been featured

on the Food Network.Proceeds from the

event, including the cook-off will benefit two causes, cleft palate surgeries for children who would otherwise go

without, and Sierra Madre's Youth Activity Center, by funding additional fine arts programs.

Two different level tick-ets at $35 and $20 are now

on sale to taste the food, the fine arts and the music of this first time event. Tickets are available at Savor the Flavor, Best Buy Drugs, The Bottle Shop and Belle’s Nest

in downtown Sierra Madre. More information is avail-able at: www.ATasteOfSier-raMadre.com or by calling event chair, Tom Brady at 626-355-3471.

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evenings to accommodate working professionals who might not otherwise be able to pursue a new ca-reer, or hone their culinary skills.

Ecole de Cuisine’s program director is the charming and talented Su-san Park who told us that-for years many students interested in culinary arts education were limited to rather expensive and long courses that didn’t neces-sarily address their specific interest. The long courses often lead the aspiring chef into some sort of organic oblivion complete with a rather heavy loan to repay.

Ecole de Cuisine’s model is to keep it simple, and affordable as well as tailored to the student’s specific career goals.

With the incorpora-tion of business studies and long range plans, students might well be better pre-pared to get into a special-ty like pastries rather than a general, overall cuisine caveat.

Beacon Media recent-ly had the opportunity to meet some of the people involved in the new school and tour the Ecole de Cui-sine on San Gabriel Blvd. The building itself is am wonderful high-ceiling barn type structure which use to be home to a pop-ular Mexican restaurant Los Gueros which had its roots in Monrovia. It was also a Barbecue place of some note. One of my first questions to Susan Park was why another culinary school, particularly at this rather fragile economic time.

Susan Park quickly pointed out the error of my judgment. In fact, it is probably the best time to hone the skills needed to

make a business success-ful according to the staff at Ecole de Cuisine.

“People need to have goals” Park pointed out. Park mentioned a teacher at the Los Angeles County School district who is tak-ing a course so she might better teach her students.

“The market for bet-ter foods has grown” Park said and assured us that fine dining is growing and overall better despite a less than perfect economy.

Park pointed out also that even a less-than-per-fect turnip has merits and can be used creatively by the right chef. “There’s too much waste in the food business” Park asserts.

The 3000 sq. foot building now houses Ecole

de Cuisine has been as-sisted by Episcopal Hous-ing Alliance which was created by the Dicecese of Los Angeles in order to provide local commu-nities with small business kitchen incubators and job training cafes which help people establish their own food based enterprises and acquire the necessary skills beyond those of the culi-nary kind.

The brainchild behind this operation is Joe Col-letti. Joseph Colletti, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Institute for Urban Re-search and Development. He is also an Adjunct As-sistant Professor of Urban Studies at Fuller Theologi-cal Seminary in Pasadena. Much of his experience

focuses around the issues of housing, economic de-velopment, homelessness and fair housing. He is also a member of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and has written several reports concerning social issues for the Diocese as well.

Ecole de Cuisine Pasa-dena (ECP) courses can be completed in as little as 46 weeks.

Students will learn French International tech-niques and principles taught in professional cu-linary schools throughout the world.

ECP’s program is de-signed for students who want to open their own res-taurants or food business, work as private chefs, and pursue careers in fine din-ing, and “boutique” con-cept restaurants, or cafe/bistro type establishments.

The classes have low instructor to student ratios: 1 chef instructor for 12-13 students or 1 instructor and 1 teacher’s aide for classes with 14-18 students.

Chef instructors have years of experience teach-ing at professional schools and working as executive chefs. Guest instructors are recognized experts in spe-cialist fields.

Teacher’s aides who’ve traveled abroad for externships or staged at well known restaurants will bring a “fresh perspective

to the table.” According to the school’s website. The school will use a combi-nation of demonstration, hands-on, and total immer-sion teaching methods.

Classes will be held M-F from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.. Students take one to three classes per

week depending on class cycle.

Ecole de Cusine’s director, Susan Park, is a food historian and rec-

ognized expert in French, North African and North-east Asian cuisines. She wrote three articles for Greenwood’s World Food Cultures Encyclo-pedia, which will be used in ECP’s International Course. She is Project Leader of Green Algeria for Algerian Competences Association .

Her industry experi-ence includes working as a sous chef and pastry chef at a French bistro; teaching; sourcing, consulting and staff training; product and cooking demonstrations at trade shows; gourmet food product development from concept to branding; sales to high end national chains and boutiques; and public relations.

Head of Research and Development- Jeff Tafoya is a graduate of The Cali-fornia School of Culinary Arts. He worked in re-search and development at IHOP corporate. He recently returned to Los Angeles after a two years in Lagos, Nigeria working as Executive Sous Chef for General Foods & Sweets Manufacturing.

As of October students in Pasadena will now have another choice to consider when it comes to culinary education. Bon chance et Bon Appeite. For futher in-

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Jeff Tafoya, Head of Research and Development, Roger Arueta, Shipping and Receiving and Susan Park work on a project at the Ecole de cuisine. The new school offers a unique and relatively inexpensive approach tp cooking schools.Students are encoraged to focus on a speciality and understand business concepts. Photos by Terry Miller

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At a approximately 10:00am Aug 24 Pasadena Police responded to 9-1-1 emergency call in which no information could be immediately obtained from the Wells Fargo Bank in the 300 block West Colo-rado Blvd. While respond-ing to the call, additional in-formation was received that officers were responding to a bank robbery, possibly still in progress. Officers ar-rived and secured the area but the suspect had already fled the scene.

Subsequent investiga-tion by police detectives in-dicates the suspect walked into the lobby of the bank wearing a mask. The sus-

pect took and undisclosed amount of money from the bank.

Witnesses describe the robber as a White male in his mid 30’s, 5’-7” to 5’-9”, with a medium or stocky build, a black hat, grey shirt, blue jeans, and black sunglasses.

“Wells Fargo bank is offering a reward of up to $10,000 in exchange for information leading to an arrest,” says Chief of Police Phillip Sanchez. “Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Pasade-na Police Department De-tective Section at 744-4522 and/or FBI at 888 CANT HIDE (888 226-8443).”

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Cook was arrested pre-viously on the same charge but later released pending toxicology reports.

The District Attor-ney now feels they have a case against Cook who is charged not only with ve-hicular manslaughter but also multiple victims with two prior arrests for DUI turned himself in on Au-gust 19 after an arrest war-rant was issued August 4.

On May 8 Clark was traveling by car to a con-ference in the Inland Em-pire with fellow teacher Janet Dunbar Just outside of Hemet when a large die-sel truck jumped the center divider and plowed into their car cutting it in half. Clark was killed; Clark had taught at Mayflower school for over twenty years, start-ing in 198.

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Monrovia Fine Arts Festival (MAFA) is spon-soring its final Art Walk of this summer on August 28 from 7 to 10 p.m. All the Art Walks occur in Old Town Monrovia.

Among the highlights of the event are live music and gallery receptions at both Paint-N-Play on Myr-tle Avenue and Segil Art Gallery on West Lime Av-enue. In addition, Paint-N-Play will host the first 50 children to paint a ceramic piece (yes its free).

There will be live demonstrations of Raku glazing, plein-air painting and clay sculpture (includ-ing the work of local high

school students and their instructors. The two fea-tured artists for August, Frank Zgonc and Heather Shaw will be working on each others canvases in a “Brush-Off” or “Swap-A-Thon.

The musicians at the Dollmakers/Katywompus will be presenting tradi-tional music. Many Old Town Merchants will be holding sales and other special events. MAFA is working with Soldier’s An-gels Foundation to make cards to send to US troops overseas. MAFA provides the supplies, those attend-ing supply the talent.

Art Walk August 28Old Town Monrovia

California is not, after all, among the applicants that will receive money in the second round of the $4.35 billion “Race to the Top” school reform grant competition, federal education officials said last week.

The U.S. Department of Education said the win-ners are: Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and Wash-ington, D.C.

In the first round, Cali-fornia placed 27th among 41 states that submitted applications, even though state lawmakers approved a contentious package of

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The California Horse Racing Board denied Oak Tree Racing Association to run its fall meet at Santa Anita Park.

It has been a difficult time for horse racing in gen-eral and for Santa Anita Park in particular.

Many contributing fac-tors which include lower attendance and few race horses have beleaguered the industry as a whole but moreover the state man-dated synthetic tracks have caused innumerable prob-lems and complains from horse owners around the world.

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The representatives said they preferred to run the meet at Hollywood Park.

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Oak Tree officials must now resubmit an applica-tion. A race track expert, Michael Peterson, presented his preliminary findings of an inspection of the Santa Anita Track about which he had “concerns.”

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“Greater Tuna.” Can it really be called a play?...or is it a series of skits? It has no discernable plot, but it does have characters. Oh, does it have characters! Twenty of them, in fact. But twenty actors on the Sierra Madre Playhouse’s small stage? No, only two!

Before our very eyes, those two actors become Bertha Bumiller, frenzied mother of some recalci-trant teenagers. They be-come Phinas Blye, who runs for a city council seat every year but never wins. Or Pearl Burras, addicted to killing dogs. In contrast to her, Petey Fisk touts the Humane Society, so hu-mane they even try to save fish. Then there’s the Rev. Spikes who can spout a eu-logy full of virtually every cliché known to man.

This clutter of towns-folk all are in Tuna, the third-smallest town in Tex-as. Through the magic of quick-change artistry, Jus-tin Baker and Dustin Fasch-ing become all 20 of these characters. So believable is Fasching as Bertha that we have to remind ourselves we’re not truly seeing a matronly woman on stage. Bertha lambasts her son Jody for bringing home yet one more dog. “You’ve al-ways got eight or ten dogs following you around!” She cajoles daughter Char-lene who is broken-hearted at again being passed over as a school cheerleader. And who are Jody and Charlene? They’re Bak-er, who one moment is a guy in slovenly jeans and T-shirt, then presto! he’s a red-haired girl with pig-

tails. All this, thanks to the backstage dressers and quick-change artists, Carrie Flores and Melissa Flores.

It’s not just the cos-tumes and wigs that make the rapid-fire imperson-ations work. It’s also the way in which Baker and Fasching immerse them-selves fully into each suc-ceeding characterization. Facial expressions, voice pitch, body language all convey who each Tuna person is. Moreover, it’s their pantomimicry that helps carry the story. Watch Bertha shoo Jody’s dogs out her kitchen door, and you half expect to see one of the curs! Listen to the twangs as the musician tunes his fiddle, and you forget that he’s holding only air between his fin-gers.

What a fun evening as respite from our late sum-mer’s heat! Arrive a bit early, and you can “read all about it” in the “Greater Tuna News,” the evening’s programme. It’s packed with tongue-in-cheek news items to acquaint you with the Tuna residents you’re

about to meet onstage. While Don Berg-

man’s set is sparse, it couldn’t be more fitting. Full-height panels allow the actors easy entry and exit. Painted red, white and blue, the panels evoke Tuna’s focused patriotism and conservative bent, where the Smut Snatchers are active and even the Lion’s Club may seem too liberal. Two tables, each with two chairs, comprise most of the furniture, and double for anything from a kitchen table to a casket. A console dial radio provides some of the sound effects, including the news broad-cast from the local station, OKKK.

Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard created “Greater Tuna,” which, along with three other “Tuna” shows are long-time summer stock favorites.

Guilford Adams, him-self a Texan, is enjoying his debut as a Playhouse director, bringing us the little vignettes of Tuna’s cross-section in this fast-paced, robust comedy.

Christine Soldate is producer and also the “Tuna News” reporter and editor. With publisher Susan Henderson, she de-signed the program.

In addition to being the actors’ dressers, the Floreses are stage manag-ers, assisted by Julie Bull. Jason Mullen is lighting de-signer, with Rick Taylor as assistant. Barry Schwam is sound designer, and Rick Taylor sound and light tech.

Anne Marie Atwan is in charge of properties. Lois Tedrow is credited with costume design, with Annette Hardy as stylist to Vera Carp. Donald Song-ster did the production photography, and Kate VanDevender created the poster art. Philip Sokoloff is publicist.

“Greater Tuna” is in such sharp contrast to the previous complex, intel-lectual drama, “Arcadia,” that it beautifully points up the versatile range of plays being brought to us at the Sierra Madre Playhouse.

“Greater Tuna” will continue at the Sierra Madre Playhouse week-ends through Sept. 25. Cur-tain time is 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:30 p.m. for Sunday matinees. Admission is $20 general, $17 for seniors (65+) and students (13-17), and $12 for children 12 and under.

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BY FRAN SYVERSONLa Salle High School

began its school year on August 19 as 171 new fresh-men joined the Lancer stu-dent body. The Welcome Orientation on August 18 featured small groups of freshmen with their “Se-nior Class Buddies” on a tour of the campus, video presentations and a run-through of classes. A pizza lunch was followed by a rally.

At La Salle High School, there are 742 stu-dents from ninth through twelfth grades; with a ma-jority that live in the San Gabriel Valley. La Salle is dedicated to excellent stu-dent performance in aca-demics, arts and athletics. To maintain our Catholic identity, two-thirds of our entering freshmen accep-tances are of the Catholic faith. In addition, 15% of

our students are from low income families and re-ceive full or partial tuition assistance through the San Miguel and Brother Celes-tine Scholarship Funds.

The La Salle Lanc-ers field 22 teams on the varsity level. Student Life, visual and performing arts, honor and service societ-ies, student clubs and or-ganizations, and student television broadcasts and publications, provide a healthy and warm commu-nity atmosphere for all La Salle students. During the last 5 years 99.5% of our graduates have gone on to college with 88% going to 4-year institutions. La Salle High School is accredited by the Western Catholic Education Association (WECA) and Western As-sociation of Schools and Colleges (WASC).

171 Freshmen Join La Salle as Fall Classes Begin

Hundreds of children from the Monrovia, Du-arte and Arcadia commu-nities will be going back to school equipped with tools for success including new backpacks, school sup-plies, stylish haircuts and encouragement from the Santa Anita Family YMCA and friends.

SAFYMCA hosted its annual Back to School Family Night for families in need, Aug. 21 with more than 400 children and par-ents. The event also of-fered an evening of swim-ming, face painting, crafts, dinner, and workshops for students and their parents to help prepare them for a successful school year. Families were also pro-vided with grocery bags and boxes of food to take

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event coordinated by the SAFYMCA’s Youth Al-liance were Abundant Life Church, Jesus is Lord Christian Center, Calvary Chapel of Monrovia, Cas-tillo’s Barber Shop, Du-arte Area Resource Team (D.A.R.T) volunteers, Trader Joe’s, Market Grill, Jake’s Roadhouse, and Rudy’s Mexican Restau-rant.

“We are grateful to our partners for their generous outpouring of support for children and families in the community. Because of their efforts children and their parents will be much better prepared for the new school year,” said Ulises Gutierrez, Youth Al-liance coordinator.

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This Saturday, August 28 from 4:00 to 7:00pm, the City of Arcadia will hold a patriotic concert featuring the 1st Division Marine Band, recognition of local WWII Veterans (several of whom will be in attendance), and a pre-sentation to retiring KTLA Newsman and WWII Vet-eran Stan Chambers.

The concert continues a long Arcadia tradition of supporting and recogniz-ing the service and sacri-fices of local veterans and active duty military. This event will take place on the lawn at City Hall, 240 West Huntington Drive. Kid’s activities begin at 4:00pm; the program, presentation to Mr. Chambers and oth-er local Veterans will occur at 4:40pm; and the band starts playing at 5:00pm. A computer station will be set-up for guests to stop by and send an e-mail mes-sage of support to men and women currently serving in our country’s military.

Everyone is welcome to at-tend and enjoy the music, show our local veterans how much they are ap-preciated, and wish Mr. Chambers well as he ends his incredible journalism career.

Stan Chambers is one of the most beloved and honored members of broadcast journalism in Southern California. Multiple generations have grown up watching Stan as he reported on ma-jor events and breaking news. At 87 years old Stan has announced his retirement after 63 years at KTLA. Stan has reported on more than 22,000 sto-ries since 1947 including the Bel Air fires, the Bald-win Hills dam break, the Northridge earthquake, Robert Kennedy assassi-nation, the Frank Sinatra, Jr. kidnapping, the Nevada A-bomb test, the Manson family murders, the case of the Hillside Strangler, the Rodney King beat-

ing story, coverage of the visit of Pope John Paul II to Los Angeles, the Watts and Los Angeles Riots. Stan was also the reporter for KTLA’s annual broad-cast of the Tournament of Roses Parade. The story that still stands out as the defining moment of his ca-reer – and one that many Arcadians remember – is his coverage of the tragic death of 3-year old Kathy Fiscus in 1949. The little girl fell down a well shaft while playing in a field in San Marino. With equip-ment that would now be considered primitive, Chambers and his col-league Bill Welsh provided 27.5 hours of continuous live coverage, reporting every step of the ultimately unsuccessful rescue effort.

This year, one of the winners of the Stan Cham-bers Journalism Awards, an essay contest for high school seniors, was an Ar-cadia High School senior.

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SEEK (Special Education for Special Kids) has be-gun a groundbreaking new program for older autistic and special needs children that fills the gap often left when children move on from intensive early behav-ior training and transition into adulthood. The new program helps prepare the young adult for secondary education, employment, more indepen-dence and builds self-esteem. In addition, the pro-gram aims to help these children learn to make choices and to advocate for what they need, skills that are often left unfulfilled in spe-cial needs chil-dren.

B e l i e v e d to be the first program of its kind in South-ern California, it augments stan-dard regimens by adding an intense training model usually reserved for younger children. This pioneering model, using the Applied Behavioral Analysis system (ABA), has been developed by the clinical staff at SEEK, an agency that has been serving autistic and special needs children and their families since 2000.

“When you think of a typical child’s develop-ment,” says Dr. Randy Campbell, Clinical Direc-tor for SEEK, “by the time they’re in their mid to late teens, they are able to make some choices about what they’re going to do the rest of their lives. The opera-tive word here is ‘choice.’

“For special needs kids,” he continues, “choice is a rare option. In terms of employment, there are usually programs that put these kids in a temporary job slot where they make a unit of something to sell.

Up to now, the program-ming community has only considered putting kids in job slots, but has not con-sidered working with these kids to help them decide what they want to do. Our Community Participation Training (CPT) program helps them learn how to choose. And in doing that, we can lead them to make their own occupational choice and have a more enriched life.”

According to Dr. Campbell, up to now, most

CPT programs were a form of monitored care, taking children for outings but not including a routinely struc-tured form of additional life skills training.

The core of SEEK’s Community Participation Training began several years ago with a discussion between a client’s mother and Grace Chang, Direc-tor of Research and Staff Development at SEEK. “Her son was getting older and she didn’t know what to do for him,” says Ms. Chang. “She told me ‘I know he will never be able to take complete care of himself, I know he will not be totally independent, but all I want for him is that his life be filled with color.’”

Ms. Chang began working with that young man and today, he is SEEK’s oldest client. At 28, he has two jobs, can take the bus himself, and, when angry, can man-

age his anger. SEEK’s effective work with him informed the dynamics of their program for older children and their new CPT program.

“We want our clients to be able to choose, but how do you teach that skill?” says Ms. Chang. “It’s not in any curriculum, it only comes through life experi-ences. We get them ready for that experience.”

With the 28 year old young man, they found out he loved math and

loved working with numbers. “As part of his CPT pro-gram,” says Ms. Chang, “we hunted for a job where he could use this skill. We thought of the library, be-cause he also likes books. We helped train him for a job stacking books and he loved it. But then he came to us and was

able to tell us what else he wanted. With that one step, telling us what he wanted, advocating for himself, we saw how profoundly the training works.”

Today, the young man has a second part time job as an accountant’s assistant and still works part time at the library.

“This is such an im-portant program” says Dr. Campbell, “I’m amazed we don’t have hundreds of thousands of these pro-grams. Too often, with developmentally disabled children, parents are at a loss, they never take their child out because it can be an ordeal. The future for many of these kids is sitting in a house, shut in, in front of TV. It doesn’t have to be that way for most of these kids.”

For more information on SEEK’s CPT program, contact Sandra Chamorro, at 626-943-7772, ext. 110.

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Continued from page 1Extreme Heat and Downed Power Lines Cause Brush Fire

key to effective response in any fire, but particularly in high risk areas like the forest.

The actual cause of the fire is unofficially downed power lines, possibly due to a mylar balloon striking a power pole.

Residents of the affected area of Monrovia were with-out power for several hours while Edison rushed to re-pair downed lines.

In the ensuing confu-sion of the road closures to allow Firefighters and other emergency vehicles access for structure protection, one man was arrested for not obeying police officer's repeated orders to stop his vehicle.

The driver was arrested at gunpoint by Monrovia po-lice officers after an Edison worker attempted to stop the vehicle by standing in front of the car. The driver proceeded to put his foot on the gas and the Edison em-ployee was literally holding on to the hood as the driver attempted to continue. Mon-rovia police officers ran to the window of the car and order him out at gunpoint. The driver also allegedly hit

a Forest Service Captain in the process.

Donald Skelton was arrested and transported to Monrovia PD for book-ing on numerous charges. Skelton, who is in his 70's is charged with two counts of ADW (Assault with a Deadly Weapon) as he hit two people with his car. His bail was set at $80,000.

The victims of the as-sault are a Southern Cali-fornia Edison worker who attempted to help the police stop the vehicle, and a Capt. in the National Forest Ser-

vice who also attempted to stop the vehicle.

In other fire news the Kern County Fire is current-ly at 1,308 acres and only 30% contained.

The potential for large fires will remain elevated across Southern California through Thursday due to the well above normal tempera-tures. The grass and brush are now very dry due to ex-tended period of warm and dry weather over the past weeks. The public is urged to remain cautious due to the very high fire danger.

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Upon the retirement of Lynn Beckenhauer and Carole Kunz, Mark Dilbeck, President of Dilbeck Real Estate, announced that Barry Jones will take over the lead-ership of the firm’s La Cana-da Flintridge office.

“Yes, after a 33-year career with our company Carole and Lynn are retir-ing to spend time traveling and enjoying family,” said Dilbeck. “They will sorely be missed by all of us.” Lynn not only co-managed the La Canada office but was also a Senior Executive Vice Presi-dent for the past 25 years and both Lynn and Carole have served on Dilbeck’s Chari-table Foundation since its conception.

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It is Henry’s goal to “leverage the Colleges and Universities with the abun-dance of capital to create new businesses which will bring hundreds of new jobs to our great Valley.”

The first start-up com-pany is entitled “Talkwheel,”

Founder and CEP Jeff Har-ris says their innovative software will revolutionize face-to-face real-time group discussions. This software platform could revolutionize social networking, business communications, online educational courses, email-text-chatting and group col-laborations according the news release.

“Henry’s vision is to create an employment and technological center in the San Gabriel Valley on a path to becoming the next Silicone Valley, as they antic-ipate Talkwheel becoming, … most widely used software in the history of the internet.”

Hosted at the San Ga-briel Valley Economic Part-nership, located at 4900 Riv-ergrade Road in Irwindale, California 91706 the three day event begins this Thurs-day August 26 and Friday 27th at 6:00 P.M., Saturday at 11:00 A.M. .

The San Gabriel Valley Hi-Tech Incubator is an in-novative hi-tech software de-velopment group that is col-laborating with supporters in the San Gabriel Valley .

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Century 21 Ludecke Inc. is announcing the launch of the 21st Century Child: Picture the Future photo-sharing contest. By participating, families throughout Arcadia can help raise money to benefit children and families living with autism.

Nationally, the Cen-tury 21® System and its philanthropic partner, Eas-ter Seals, are asking fami-lies in the United States – whether personally af-fected by autism or not – to visit 21centurychild.com and share a favorite photo of their child (ages five and younger) and an inspira-tional message. After the photo is uploaded, par-ticipants are encouraged to share their photo and fundraising campaign pro-file with family, friends and others through their social network. For every photo uploaded, the Century 21 System will make a dona-tion to the cause*.

Beginning August 1 and running through Sep-tember 30, this innovative

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All money raised by the 21st Century Child: Picture the Future photo-sharing contest will help Easter Seals and Act for Autism provide families affected by autism with the assistance they so des-perately need, including emotional support, equal access to treatment and in-novative coping strategies.

“Century 21 Ludecke Inc. is proud to support the Easter Seals’ Act for Autism campaign and we hope our local families will do the same,” said Michael Ludecke. “By signing up at 21centurychild.com, sharing with your social network and driving dona-tions, your child’s photo can do a world of good.”

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Con-trol, autism now affects 1 in every 110 American chil-dren and the lifetime cost of caring for a child with autism ranges from $3.5 million to $5 million****.

“As the fastest-growing developmental disability, autism is on the minds of many families across the nation,” said Dr. Patricia Wright, Easter Seals’ na-tional director of autism services. “We want them to know that autism is treat-able and with the proper therapy and support, these children can go on to live fulfilling and meaningful lives.”

Complete rules and regulations are available at www.21centurychild.com.

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“Salute to the Care Givers…It’s a Family Af-fair” will be held on Sat-urday, September 11, 2010 from 11:00am – 2:00pm, during the FREE 6th an-nual SET for LIFE Expo 50+ at 925 South Sham-rock Avenue. The event will also offer free health screenings and over 30 vendors from around Southern California will be on hand to provide re-

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“During the Annual SET Expo 50+, families will have access to numer-ous resources under one roof, giving seniors and their families’ access to the

latest education and infor-mation to make informed choices. New this year are free screenings and activi-ties for grandchildren” said BaLinda Dillard, SET for LIFE Board President.

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Munich---In dramatic fashion Kim Rhode accom-plished a handful of things at the International Shoot-ing Sports Federation 2010 World Championships in Women’s International Skeet. First, Rhode won the World Championship title by shooting an overall score of 97/100 targets. In addi-tion, she won an all-impor-tant quota place for the USA Olympic Shooting Team at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

In addition, Rhode and her teammates, Haley Dunn and Amber English won the International Skeet Team gold medal. With her World Cup wins in Acapulco and Beijing and this World Championship in Munich, she has now surpassed the threshold of 45 points which is required to qualify for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Rhode now has 53 points and a commanding lead in the race to earn the right to represent the USA in these upcoming Games.

Rhode added “All the hard work and training that has gone into this one day makes this win especially sweet when I was able to secure a quota slot for the 2012 Olympic Games for Team USA.”

2010 has been an-other watershed year for the four-time USA Olympic medalist. Last month Rhode won the U.S. Nationals in International Skeet and is currently ranked #1 in the World. Her quest to make all-time Olympic history by earning her fifth straight Olympic medal in her fifth straight Olympic games is starting to come to the attention of the entire Olympic Movement. This has never been accom-plished by any U.S. athlete in an individual sport.

A couple of weeks ago, Kim’s record quest was included as one of the “sto-

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Rhode was very aware of what was riding on this last round and joked, “No pressure, right? I was defi-nitely feeling the excitement for the match.”

As she enters inside the two-year mark before the 2012 London Olympic Games, she is very appre-ciative of the efforts of those around her whom have pro-vided continued support for all of the costs of her train-ing, travel and competition.

Rhode acknowledged “Quite simply, the costs for a competitive shooter are among the highest in the entire Olympic world. I could not succeed without the support of the United States Olympic Committee and USA Shooting as well as my amazing sponsors. In addition, there are those who are closest to me who are the “wind beneath my wings” and they know how much I appreciate their sup-portive efforts.”

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Recent trends in con-sumer behavior are compro-mising the future of millions of California school children.

The economy has caused many parents to eliminate or cut back on preventive health care such as comprehensive vision ex-ams

Lady Gaga’s teen fans are attempting to copy her huge, computer-generated, anime-style eyes seen in her Bad Romance video with illegal Circle contact lenses obtained without a prescrip-tion on a foreign website

Overcrowded class-rooms due to education budget cuts mean teachers and school nurses are less likely to detect potential vi-sion problems

The California Opto-metric Association is con-cerned that undetected vi-sion problems will cause more students to fail or do poorly in school, leading to low self-esteem that lasts a lifetime. Parents are urged to be on the lookout for warning signs and to invest in their child’s future by

scheduling a back-to-school vision exam.

“It is extremely impor-tant for children to regularly visit an optometrist, given that the earlier vision prob-lems are detected, the more responsive the visual system will be to treatment,” says Dr. Elise Brisco of the COA. “Some 80 percent of learn-ing during the first 12 years is done through vision. It is our most valued and used sense.”

Parents should note if their children display any of the following behaviors, which may indicate a vision problem. Most vision prob-lems are correctable when caught early but can lead to permanent vision loss if un-treated. (See www.eyehelp.org for more):

UAre contact lenses a good idea for children?

Contact lenses are ap-propriate for many younger children and have proven social and visual benefits. According to a recent study in the journal Optometry and Vision Science, children as young as eight can man-

age the responsibility and handling of contact lenses when they follow the op-tometrist’s advice on proper care of lenses.

Parents should be aware, however, if their child expresses interest in illegal Circle contacts in order to mimic Lady’s Gaga’s look in her newest video. Circle lenses are being sold online from sites outside of FDA ju-risdiction and without prop-er prescriptions and fitting. They can lead to potential and permanent vision loss.

If their child is interest-ed in contacts in any form, parents need to see an op-tometrist who can determine which patients can safely wear lenses and determine the correct prescription strength so eyes are protect-ed from damage.

What problems will the optometrist check for?

The visual skills neces-sary for learning go far be-yond the ability to see 20/20.

Visual acuity is mea-sured at several distances so students can comfortably and efficiently read, work on

the computer and see the blackboard.

Focusing is an impor-tant skill that is tested. Eyes must be able to focus on a specific object and to easily shift focus from one object to another. This allows the child to move visual atten-tion from a book to the blackboard and back.

Visual alignment and ocular motility are evalu-ated. Ideally, the muscles that aim each eye converge so that both eyes are aimed at the same object, refining depth perception.

Binocular fusion (eye teaming) skills are assessed. These skills are critical to co-ordinate and align the eyes precisely so the brain can fuse the pictures it receives from each eye into a single image.

Eye tracking skills are tested to determine whether the child can track across a page accurately and ef-ficiently while reading, and can copy material quickly and easily from the black-board or another piece of paper.

Testing preschoolers’ color vision is important because a large part of the early educational process in-volves the use of color iden-tification.

Eye-hand-body coordi-nation, critical for handwrit-ing, throwing a ball or play-ing an instrument, and visual perception, used to interpret and understand visual infor-mation like form, size, orien-tation, texture and color per-ception, are important visual functions that are reviewed.

Overall eye health is de-termined by examining the structures of the eye.

Parents can check the COA website at www.eye-help.org for a list of vision problems the optometrist will check for in a compre-hensive exam (rather than the simple vision screenings provided in school) so that parents and children can be prepared. They can easily find a local optometrist that focuses on developmental/children’s vision by clicking on the “Find an EyeDoc” link on www.eyehelp.org.

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17 Year Old Ashley Laderer Is often mistaken for the famous Lady Gaga and she's proud of it. Ashley, an aspiring model and straight A student just happens to be Beacon photographer and Editor Terry Miller's Niece. Ashley, however, does not use anime eye contacts that could damage her vision. Photo by Bee Tree Photography


THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEYECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP

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day, August 15, through Saturday, August 21, the Po-lice Department responded to 1,001 calls for service of which 132 required formal investigations. The following is a summary report of the major incidents handled by the Department during this period.

Sunday, August 15:A traffic stop was con-

ducted at Second and Cali-fornia around 12:22 a.m. for excessive speed. The odor of an alcoholic beverage was de-tected on the driver’s breath and person, and the passen-ger initially provided officers with a false name and date of birth. The passenger also ad-vised that there was a gun in the glove compartment, and indeed a loaded handgun was found. A 25-year-old male Hispanic driver was ar-rested for DUI and carrying a loaded firearm, and a 23-year-old male Hispanic passenger was arrested for obstruction.

Around 1:36 a.m., units responded to the 100-to-1 Bar, 100 West Huntington, in reference to an alterca-tion between a patron and an employee. Investigation revealed that a 24-year-old male Hispanic was bother-ing other patrons and fought with the doorman. The sus-pect was taken into custody for disorderly conduct/drunk in public and for a $30,000 outstanding misdemeanor warrant.

Monday, August 16:Between 4:30 p.m. and

5:40 p.m., an auto burglary occurred at the 24-Hour Fit-ness parking lot located at 125 North First. Unknown suspect smashed a car win-dow and stole a purse.

Loss prevention person-nel from Macy’s advised that they had detained two sisters for theft around 6:43 p.m. The juveniles concealed store merchandise while in a fitting room and left the store with-out making payment. Ad-ditional stolen property from American Eagle Outfitters, H&M, and Forever 21 were also recovered. Private per-sons’ arrests were made, and the 16 and 17-year-old Cau-casian suspects were taken into custody for commercial burglary.

Tuesday, August 17:A commercial burglary

occurred between 4:00 p.m. on August 16 and 6:45 a.m. on August 17 at a construc-tion site located in the 00 block of Hacienda. Un-known suspect(s) stole tools and a front door totaling about $6,490.

Shortly after 4:00 p.m., a bank robbery occurred at Bank of America, 180 North Santa Anita. A male Asian, 5’6” to 5’7”, 140 pounds, with a moustache and goatee, presented a demand note and claimed to have a gun. Fearing for her safety, the bank teller gave the suspect money from her cash drawer.

Wednesday, August 18:Between 3:45 p.m. on

August 17 and 7:47 a.m. on August 18, a commercial bur-glary occurred at the Dana Middle School construction site. Unknown suspect(s) climbed over a chain link fence, pried open a storage container, and stole about $9,550 in tools and welding equipment.

Around 5:19 p.m., units responded to the 800 block of Fairview regarding a mur-dered victim found inside an apartment unit. A 47-year-old male Caucasian was blud-

geoned to death. A few days later, the victim’s 44-year-old brother was arrested for the homicide.

Thursday, August 19:JC Penney’s loss pre-

vention personnel detained a male juvenile for theft around 6:37 p.m. The 14-year-old Hispanic was seen conceal-ing a pair of tennis shoes in a shopping bag and then left the store without paying. A private person’s arrest was made, and the juvenile was charged with commercial burglary. Additional stolen property from Zumiez and The Scream were also recov-ered.

Units were dispatched to the 100 block of East Haven around 8:23 p.m. The victim claimed that two male Cau-casian suspects struck him in the face and midsection. He had visible injuries and was transported to a nearby hos-pital for treatment. The vic-tim declined prosecution so a report was taken for docu-mentation purposes.

Friday, August 20:Shortly after 4:30 p.m.,

a car was found idling in the intersection of Second and Bonita. Officers detected the odor of alcohol in the vehicle and found an unconscious female in the driver’s seat. The 23-year-old Hispanic lat-er awoke and a field sobriety test was conducted. It was determined that the woman was operating the vehicle while intoxicated and was ar-rested for DUI.

A victim came to the station around 5:47 p.m. to report a grand theft that oc-curred between 4:00 p.m. on August 19 and 8:00 a.m. on August 20. The victim be-lieves that her wallet was sto-len at the Foreign Exchange store located at Westfield

Mall on the 19th.

Saturday, August 21:An auto burglary oc-

curred between 8:00 p.m. on August 20 and 8:00 a.m. on August 21 in the 400 block of West Duarte. Unknown sus-pect smashed a car window and stole a $2,000 laptop computer.

Around 2:33 p.m., units responded to Wells Fargo Bank, 444 East Huntington, regarding a commercial bur-glary. A male African-Amer-ican suspect disguised 30 rolls of pennies by placing a dime on the top and bottom of each roll in order to steal about $140 from the bank.

Sierra Madre PDDuring the weeks of

Sunday, August 8th, to Sat-urday August 25th, the Sierra Madre Police Department responded to approximately 644 calls for service.

Wednesday, August 11th10:22 PM – Robbery,

300 block West Sierra Madre Blvd., Three suspects robbed a male juvenile at gun point. One suspect pointed a silver colored handgun and stole the juvenile’s I-Phone and skateboard. The subjects fled westbound on West Sierra Madre Blvd. in a four door burgundy Honda, partial li-cense plate number 6C. The suspects were all described as male whites wearing black “hoodies”. One suspect had blonde hair and freckles. The total loss was reported at $400.00. Saturday, August 14th:

8:11 AM – Grand Theft, 00 block Esperanza Ave. Sus-pect stole gardening equip-ment from the bed of pick-up truck. The truck was parked in the apartment complex carport area. The crime oc-curred between 7:30 pm, Friday, 8/13 and 7:30 am, Saturday, 8/14. Stolen were a leaf blower, weed eater, and hedge trimmer. The loss was estimated at $425.00. Thursday, August 19th:

11:08 PM – Prowling/Peeking in Doors and Win-dows, 300 block West Mon-tecito Ave. A suspect de-scribed as a white man with close cut hair was reported looking into the windows of an occupied home. Officers detained a suspect nearby who matched the descrip-tion, and they arrested him for an outstanding warrant. The prowling case is still un-der investigation.

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The Monrovia Coordi-nating Council will begin its new season on September 13. Usually the group meets on the first Monday of every month in the Fireside Room at Monrovia’s First Presby-terian Church, but that day falls on Labor Day each year and so the meeting is delayed one week each Sep-tember. The meeting will begin at 7:30 a.m.

The Council is a group which meets monthly to coordinate activities in Monrovia. Membership consists of individuals, or-ganizations, institutions and businesses offering services or participating in activities in Monrovia. Each month the group meets to share in-formation about upcoming events.

A major focus of the council is eliminating sched-uling conflicts. According to Kate Clark, the new pres-ident of the council, “The shared information is then included in the Community Calendar, which is distrib-uted via e-mail to all Coor-dinating Council members,

our public-access cable sta-tion, KGEM, the official city newsletter “Monrovia Today”, and local newspa-pers such as the Monrovia Weekly, as well as provided to various other organiza-tions and individuals within our Community.

The council also sup-ports young people in the community through its Youth Leadership Awards and the annual camper-ship program which gives financial assistance to local children to enable them to attend summer camp.

Annual membership in the council is only $15 00 per person or organiza-tion. The meetings consist of a continental breakfast for a donation of only $2 and a sharing of informa-tion regarding upcoming events. In order to keep the meetings to less than an hour and a half, individual announcements are limited to 2 minutes per group. At-tire is business-casual and the seating is open (i.e. sit next to a friend or make a new one).

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up with a rally in City Hall Courtyard with speeches, live entertainment and food.

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stan-ton became inseparable colleagues in the fight for women's emancipation. After the Civil War, Susan B. Published The Revolu-tion, a magazine which was centered around the Women's Suffrage Asso-ciation. Their motto was: “The true republic-men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.” Susan B. became the acknowledged spokeswoman for the cam-paign and was considered one of the most famous and respected woman in America. Elizabeth Cady

Stanton' progress was cur-tailed until her children were grown.

In the town of Roch-ester, Susan B. Anthony , along with with her friends Guelma Mc Lean and Han-nah Mosher and a dozen other women registered for the election of 1871.

The following day forty other women fol-lowed in her footsteps. On election day fifteen of these women including Susan B. succeeded in voting. Susan B. was arrested and found guilty. She was ordered to pay a fine of one-hundred dollars and replied, “May it please your honor, I will never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty.” The fine remains unpaid to this very day.

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CITY OF ARCADIA NOTICES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGBEFORE THE ARCADIA CITY COUNCIL

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in the Arcadia City Hall Council Chamber, 240 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia, California, the Arcadia City Council will conduct a public hearing to establish plan check and permit fees regarding Water Efficiency Landscaping. At said time and place an opportunity will be afforded all those interested and the public in general to be heard. All persons are hereby advised that should any person desire to legally challenge any action taken by the City Council with respect to the above matters and this public hearing, such person may be limited to raising only those issues and objec-tions raised by such person or other persons at or prior to the time of the public hearing. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in a City meeting, contact the City Clerk’s Office at (626) 574-5455 at least three (3) working days before the meeting or time when such special services are needed. This notification will help City staff in making reason-able arrangements to provide you with access to the meeting. A cost report showing the basis for the proposed fees will be available for review by the public at the Office of the City Clerk ten (10) days prior to the public hearing. For further information regarding the proposed fees, please contact Jim Kasama, Community Development Administrator at (626) 574-5442 dur-ing normal business hours, which are Monday through Thursday between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. and on alternate Fridays, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. All persons are invited to appear and provide testimony at the public hearing. In addition, all persons are invited to provide written and other evidence at or prior to the public hear-ing.

James BarrowsCity Clerk

Publish August 26, 2010.

OTHER PUBLIC NOTICES

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. 09-0064277 Title Order No. 09-8-189408 APN No. 5379-036-047 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 06/05/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER.” Notice is hereby given that RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., as duly appointed trustee pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by SAU T NGUYEN, A SINGLE WOMAN, dated 06/05/2006 and recorded 06/09/06, as Instrument No. 06 1272349, in Book , Page ), of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, State of California, will sell on 09/10/2010 at 1:00PM, At the front entrance to the Pomona Superior Courts Building, 350 West Mission Blvd., Pomona, Los Angeles, CA at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash or check as described below, payable in full at time of sale, all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust, in the property situated in said County and State and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. The street address and other common designation, if any of the real property described above is purported to be: 1200 WEST HUNTINGTON DRIVE 1, ARCADIA, CA, 91007. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance with interest thereon of the obligation secured by the property to be sold plus reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $348,333.45. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept cashier’s checks drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. Said sale will be made, in an “AS IS” condition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, advances thereunder, with interest as provided, and the unpaid principal of the Note secured by said

Deed of Trust with interest thereon as provided in said Note, plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. If required by the provisions of section 2923.5 of the California Civil Code, the declaration from the mortgagee, beneficiary or authorized agent is attached to the Notice of Trustee’s Sale duly recorded with the appropriate County Recorder’s Office. DATED: 08/16/2009 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. 1800 Tapo Canyon Rd., CA6-914-01-94 SIMI VALLEY, CA 93063 Phone/Sale Information: (800) 281 8219 By: Trustee’s Sale Officer RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. FEI # 1006.64387 8/12, 8/19, 8/26/2010

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Title Order No.: 280521574 Trustee Sale No.: 52594 Loan No.: 399015852 APN: 8515-017-160 You are in Default under a Deed of Trust dated 07/20/2007. Unless you take action to protect your property, it may be sold at a public sale. If you need an explanation of the nature of the proceedings against you, you should contact a lawyer. On 09/01/2010 at 10:00AM, FCI Lender Services, Inc. as the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 7/27/07 as Instrument #20071775956 of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, executed by: Deborah R. Harris, an unmarried woman, as Trustor Solution Fund Inc., as Beneficiary WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). At the West side of the Los Angeles County Courthouse, Southeast District, 12720 Norwalk Blvd., Norwalk, CA, all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County, California describing the land therein: LOT 62 OF PARCEL MAP NO. 15525, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 163 PAGES 11 TO 14 INCLUSIVE FO MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY. The property heretofore described is being sold “as is”. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 904 South Canyon Blvd, Unit B, Monrovia CA 91016. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $245,675.79 (Estimated) Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. Regarding the property that is the subject of this notice of sale, the “mortgage loan servicer” as defined in California Civil Code § 2923.53(k)(3), declares that it has obtained from the Commissioner a final or temporary order of exemption pursuant to California Civil Code section 2923.53 and that the exemption is current and valid on the date this notice of sale is recorded. The timeframe for giving a Notice of Sale specified in Subdivision (a) of Section 2923.52 does not apply to this Notice of Sale pursuant to California Civil Code Sections 2923.52 or 2923.55. Date: 8/3/10 FCI Lender Services, Inc., as Trustee 8180 East Kaiser Blvd., Anaheim Hills, CA 92808 Phone: 714-282-2424 For Trustee Sale Information log on to: www.rsvpforeclosures.com or call: 925-603-7342. Vivian Prieto, Vice President FCI Lender Services, Inc. is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. (RSVP# 200557)(08/12/10, 08/19/10, 08/26/10)

NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALEMAR INVESTMENTS LP VS TRACY DU CASE NO: GC032569 R Under a writ of Execution issued on 12/17/09. Out of the L. A. SUPERIOR COURT, PASADENA, of the NORTHEAST DISTRICT, County of Los Angeles, State of California, on a judgment entered on 08/13/04. In favor of MAR INVESTMENTS, L.P. DBA MAR CENTER and against DU, TRACY Q. AKA DU, TRACY QIAN; LE, WEI WAI showing a net balance of $1,845,445.31 actually due on said judgment. (Amount subject to revision) I have levied upon all the right, title and interest of said judgment debtor(s) in the property in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, described as follows:LOT 3 IN TRACT NO. 6548, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 82, PAGE 45 OF MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY, LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. Commonly known as: 523 W. LE ROY AVENUE, ARCADIA CA 91007 Public notice is hereby given that I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in lawful money of the United States all the right, title and interest of the deb-tor(s) in the above described property or so much as will be sufficient to satisfy said writ or warrant with interest and all costs on 09/01/10, 10:00 AM at the following location.STANLEY MOSK COURTHOUSE111 N. HILL STREET, ROOM 125BLOS ANGELES, CA90012(X) This sale is subject to a mini-mum bid in the amount of $0.00. (Subject to revision) Prospective bidders should refer to sections 701.510 to 701.680, inclusive, of the Code of Civil Procedure for provisions governing the terms, conditions and effect of the sale and the liability of defaulting bidders.Creditor’s AttorneySTEVEN W. HASHIMOTO

WONG & MAK, LLP790 E. COLORADO BLVD, STE 790PASADENA CA 91101Dated: 07/30/10Branch: Los AngelesLEROY D. BACA, SheriffBy: MISTY DOUGLAS, DeputyOperator Id: E455555 Para obtener esta informacion-traduccion en Espanol llame a este numero: (213) 974-6613 NOTE: IT IS A MISDEMEANOR TO TAKE DOWN OR DEFACE A POSTED NOTICE BEFORE THE DATE OF SALE. ( Penal Code section 616)

Publish: August 12, 19, 26, 2010

Los AngelesDepartment of the Treasurer and Tax Collector

Notice of Divided Publication

Pursuant to Sections 3702, 3381, and 3382, Revenue and Taxation Code, the Notice of Sale of Tax Defaulted Property Subject to the Power of Sale in and for the County of Los Angeles, State of California has been divided and distributed to various newspapers of general circulation published in said County for publication of a portion thereof, in each of the said newspapers.

Public Auction Notice (R&TC 3702) Of Sale Of Tax-Defaulted Property Subject ToThe Power Of Sale (Sale No. 2010A)

Whereas, on June 29, 2010, I, MARK J. SALADINO, Treasurer and Tax Collector was directed by the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County, State of California to sell at public auction certain tax-defaulted properties which are Subject to the Power of Sale. Public notice is hereby given that unless said properties are redeemed prior thereto, I will, on October 18, 19, and 20, 2010, at the hour of 9:00 a.m. at the Fairplex Los Angeles County Fair-grounds, 1101 W. McKinley Avenue, Building 8, Pomona, California, offer for sale and sell said properties at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or cashier’s check in lawful money of the United States for not less than the minimum bid. If no bids are received on a parcel, it will be re-offered at the end of the auction at a reduced minimum price.

The minimum bid for each parcel is the total amount necessary to redeem, plus costs, as required by Section 3698.5 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.

Prospective bidders should obtain detailed information of this sale from the County Treasurer and Tax Collector. Pre-registration and a $5,000 deposit in the form of cash, cashier’s check or bank issued money order is required at the time of registration. No personal checks, two-party checks or business checks will be accepted for registration. Registration will be from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., starting Tuesday, September 7, 2010, at the Treasurer and Tax Collector’s Office located at 225 North Hill Street, Room 130, Los Angeles, California, and will end on Friday, October 1, 2010, at 5:00 p.m.

If the property is sold, parties of interest, as defined by Section 4675 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, have a right to file a claim with the County for any proceeds from the sale, which are in excess of the liens and costs required to be paid from the proceeds. If excess proceeds result from the sale, notice will be given to parties of interest, pursuant to law.

All information concerning redemp-tion, provided the right to redeem has not previously been terminated, will upon request be furnished by MARK J. SALADINO, Treasurer and Tax Collector.

If redemption of the property is not made according to the law before 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 15, 2010, which is the last business day prior to the first day of auction, the right of redemption will cease.

The Assessor’s Identification Num-ber (AIN) in this publication refers to the Assessor’s Map Book, the Map Page, and the individual Parcel Number on the Map Page. If a change in the Assessor’s Identification Number occurred, both prior and current Assessor’s Identification Numbers are shown. An explanation of the parcel numbering system and the maps referred to are available from the Office of the Assessor located at 500 West Temple Street, Room 225, Los Angeles, California 90012.

A list explaining the abbreviations used in this publication is on file in the Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector, 225 North Hill Street, Room 130, Los Angeles, California 90012, or telephone 1(213) 974-2045.

I certify under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed at Los Angeles, California, on August 4, 2010.

MARK J. SALADINOLos Angeles CountyTreasurer and Tax CollectorState of California

The real property that is subject to this notice is situated in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, and is described as follows:

PUBLIC AUCTION NOTICE OF SALE OF TAX-DEFAULTED PROPERTY SUBJECT TO THE POWER OF SALE(SALE NO. 2010A) 2674 AIN 5383-028-049 LUTZ,ARNOLD LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES $2,499.00 3076 AIN 5769-030-026 CARL-SON,LISA TR LISA CARLSON TRUST LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES $1,914.00 3079 AIN 5771-033-019 BLUTH,CHARLES P TR BLUTH TRUST LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES $3,869.00 3081 AIN 5780-020-034 SUNG,PING-HSUN AND SU-YING LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES $1,288.00

Publish: August 23, 30, and Sep-tember 6, 2010.

DEPARTMENT OF THETREASURER AND TAXCOL-LECTOR

Notice of Divided Publication

NOTICE OF DIVIDED PUBLICA-TION OF THE PROPERTY TAX DEFAULT(DELINQUENT) LISTMade pursuant to Section 3371, Revenue and Taxation Code

Pursuant to Sections 3381 through 3385, Revenue and Taxation Code, the Notice of Power to Sell Tax Defaulted Property in and for Los Angeles County, State of California, has been divided and distributed to various newspapers of general circulation published in the county. A portion of the list appears in each of such newspapers.

I, Mark J. Saladino, County of Los Angeles Tax Collector, State of California, certify that:

Notice is hereby given that the real properties listed below were de-clared to be in tax default at 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 2008, by operation of law. The declaration of default was due to non-payment of the total amount due for the taxes, assessments and other charges levied in 2007-08 tax year that were a lien on the listed real property. Property upon which a nuisance abatement lien has been recorded shall be subject to sale if the taxes remain unpaid after three years. The name of the assessee and the total tax, which was due on June 30, 2008 for the 2007-08 tax year, is shown opposite the parcel number. Tax defaulted real property may be redeemed by payment of all unpaid taxes and assessments, together with the additional penalties and fees, as prescribed by law, or it may be paid under an installment plan of redemption. If the 2007-08 taxes remain unpaid on non-residential property after June 30, 2011, the property will be subject to sale at public auction in 2011. All other residential property that remains unpaid after June 30, 2013, will be subject to sale at public auction in 2014.

All information concerning redemp-tion of tax-defaulted property will be furnished, upon request, by Mark J. Saladino, Treasurer and Tax Collector, 225 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, California 90012, 1-(888) 807-2111 or 1-(213) 974-2111.

I certify under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed at Los Angeles, California on August 4, 2010.

MARK J. SALADINOTREASURER AND TAX COLLEC-TORCOUNTY OF LOS ANGELESSTATE OF CALIFORNIA

Assessees/taxpayers, who have disposed of real property since January 1, 2007, may find their names listed for the reason that a change in ownership has not been reflected on the assessment roll.

ASSESSOR’S IDENTIFICATION NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION

The Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN), when used to describe property in this list, refers to the Assessor’s map book, the map page, the block on the map (if applicable), and the individual parcel on the map page or in the block. The Assessor’s maps and further explanation of the parcel numbering system are available in the Assessor’s office.

The following property tax defaulted on July 1, 2008, for the taxes, assessments, and other charges for the fiscal year 2007-08:

LISTED BELOW ARE PROPERTIES THAT DEFAULTED IN 2008 FOR TAXES, ASSESSMENTS AND 0THER CHARGES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2007-2008.AMOUNT OF DELINQUENCY AS OF THIS PUBLICATION IS LISTED BELOW. ACEVEDO,MANUEL SITUS 2002 STAGIO DR MONROVIA CA 91016-4752 8509-023-019 $11,450.02 ADAMS,CORINNE L SITUS 1846 10TH AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-4433 8509-001-020 $10,340.08 ARAGON,SONDRA A SITUS 340 W WALNUT AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-3346 8506-003-010 $17,737.12 BECKWITH,LAWSON D SITUS 279 VALLE VISTA AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-2312 8518-009-007 $14,226.26 BERMUDEZ,ROSIE SITUS 859 W 13TH ST NO 2 AZUSA CA 91702-1940 8617-017-078/S2006-010/S2007-010 $1,476.04 BROOKS,ERIC A SR AND RAMONA SITUS

405 E CHERRY AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-4212 8515-010-028 $141.18 BROWN,DENISE SITUS 600 ROYAL OAKS DR MONROVIA CA 91016-3628 8515-002-038 $700.27 BUGARIN,RITA V SITUS 1072 W CALLE DE LA LUNA APT 0003 AZUSA CA 91702-1733 8617-003-065 $11,424.24 BURGA,PERCY AND BUR-GA,MARIO SITUS 620 TERRADO DR MONROVIA CA 91016-3791 8526-015-016/S2006-010/S2007-010 $34,097.49 CONLON,RUTH A AND CON-LON,SUSAN K SITUS 839 DI-AMOND ST MONROVIA CA 91016-3827 8507-017-037 $2,116.95 CRAIG,CHRISTOPHER SITUS 805 WILDROSE AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-3033 8517-027-025/S2007-010 $473.01 DESORMEAUX,KENT J AND SONIA M SITUS 110 E COLORADO BLVD MONROVIA CA 91016-2804 8516-027-027 $49,164.19 EASTERLING,ALICE L SITUS 446 E DUARTE RD MONROVIA CA 91016-4603 8513-013-050 $39,654.23 ELKAIM,ERIC SITUS 235 W MAPLE AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-3329 8508-005-017 $1,819.00 FROST,LINDA M SITUS 321 NORUMBEGA DR MONROVIA CA 91016-2444 8518-021-017 $1,684.51 GARCIA,GUADALUPE SITUS 356 W SAINT ANDREWS LN AZUSA CA 91702-1445 8617-014-105 $7,494.47 GARCIA,GUILLERMO AND MARGARITA SITUS 1948 SHAMROCK AVE DUARTE CA 91010-3141 8513-015-047 $4,767.68 GARRETT,JACK AND IDA SITUS 719 W VIRGINIA ANN DR AZUSA CA 91702-1845 8617-008-001 $863.76 GRAY DEPRIEST,DEBRA L SITUS 408 MONTANA ST MONROVIA CA 91016-4027 8508-004-043 $7,347.85 GRIFFIN,RENE B SITUS 865 W 13TH ST APT 0002 AZUSA CA 91702-1941 8617-017-073 $2,056.37 HARRIS,DEBORAH R SITUS 904 S CANYON BLVD UNIT B MONROVIA CA 91016-3581 8515-017-160 $8,147.03 HERNANDEZ,THAYDE SITUS 2457 GRAYDON AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-4921 8510-023-011/S2006-010/S2007-010 $5,086.42 IBARRA,BENJAMIN AND DIANA SITUS 159 N SUNSET PL MONROVIA CA 91016-1907 8504-021-005 $4,268.07 INGRAM,DENNIS AND SANDRA SITUS 2543 ANSLEY AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-5019 8510-018-012 $3,948.30 JONES,JEFFERSON AND GWENDOLYN SITUS 523 LOS ANGELES AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-4228 8515-011-024 $1,234.45 KEENER,ANDERSON W AND LORETTA L SITUS 218 W GREYS-TONE AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-2109 8519-013-008 $3,962.71 KELLY,JAMES P SITUS 258 EL NIDO AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-1551 8503-012-008 $12,985.67 KENT,KATHRYN L SITUS 735 NORUMBEGA DR MONROVIA CA 91016-1816 8523-003-009 $3,533.33 LEONE,ELSA M SITUS 517 S MYRTLE AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-2813 8516-023-086 $30,526.30 LOBBY,DENNIS AND CAMILLE SITUS 402 W HILLCREST BLVD MONROVIA CA 91016-1504 8504-007-011 $17,441.22 LOPEZ,GABRIELA SITUS 206 N MOUNTAIN AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-2437 8518-036-006/S2006-020 $316.35 MARLEN,OSCAR AND CLAUDIA SITUS 1136 S MYRTLE AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-4170 8508-012-023/S2007-010 $25,695.89 MARTIN,DAVID TR DAVID P MARTIN TRUST SITUS 26 HIDDEN VALLEY RD MONROVIA CA 91016-1601 8520-003-029 $23,326.47 MENDOZA,JOSE R AND BERTA E SITUS 117 MONTANA ST MONROVIA CA 91016-4108 8508-011-024/S2006-010 $805.43 MESBAH,FREDERICK F AND JOSEPHINE T SITUS 265 ME-LROSE AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-2140 8504-006-007 $21,554.05 MILLNER,CHARLES N JR SITUS 626 HURSTVIEW AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-4647 8513-015-037 $2,622.91 MUDGWAY,DAVID G AND ZARATE-MUDGWAY,SUSAN L SITUS 123 MELROSE AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-2138 8504-004-012 $6,629.97 MYRTLE AVENUE PROPERTIES LLC SITUS 901 S MYRTLE AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-3426 8508-006-015 $70,713.10 NICOLA,RAYMOND H JR AND IRMA H SITUS 268 N ENCINITAS AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-2208 8519-028-003 $12,346.91 PENA,DAVID AND TERRY SITUS 168 N GARFIELD PL MONROVIA CA 91016-1919 8504-022-022/S2006-010/S2007-010 $973.98 PITTS,ORWILDA L SITUS 137 E CHERRY AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-4121 8508-012-042 $2,272.72 PRADA,DONNA SITUS 854 DIAMOND ST MONROVIA CA 91016-3828 8507-018-025/S2006-010/S2007-010 $43,030.38 RALPHS,ADAMS S AND STACEY TRS RALPHS

TRUST SITUS 227 W PALM AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-5730 8516-002-017/S2006-010 $1,175.26 REECE,KATHRYN A SITUS 112 MELROSE AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-2139 8504-003-019 $8,784.17 SITUS 101 N MAGNOLIA AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-2132 8504-003-020 $26,274.47 SITUS 311 W FOOTHILL BLVD MONROVIA CA 91016-2148 8504-003-021 $60,328.54 8504-003-022 $14,571.76 8520-018-017 $1,159.35 ROMERO,WILLIE SITUS 329 GENOA ST NO A MONROVIA CA 91016-4556 8507-005-118/S2006-010/S2007-010 $20,180.32 SRE CALIFORNIA 4 LLC SITUS 1875 S MOUNTAIN AVE MONRO-VIA CA 91010-4270 8513-003-031/S2007-010 $160,212.43 T ORRES,RAMON T AND ANA R SITUS 302 E ALTERN ST MONROVIA CA 91016-5012 8513-006-012 $7,631.28 THOMPSON,MARY A TR MARY A THOMPSON TRUST SITUS 1106 W CALLE DE LAS ESTRELLAS AZUSA CA 91702-1607 8617-004-021 $391.01 TORELLI,GIULIANA TR GIULTA-NA TORELLI TRUST SITUS 619 W PALM AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-2634 8505-012-007 $50.59 TRIPLETT,NELSON J AND RO-BERTA SITUS 209 SHRODE AVE MONROVIA CA 91016-5027 8513-005-029 $7,024.19 UPDEGRAFF,JAMES T SITUS 550 W FOOTHILL BLVD UNIT B MONROVIA CA 91016-2031 8505-011-026 $6,071.20 WAGON WHEEL VILLAGE INC SITUS 208 W LEMON AVE MO-NROVIA CA 91016-2711 8516-024-027/S2007-010 $961.50 WILSON,JANINE M SITUS 618 VAQUERO RD MONROVIA CA 91016-3748 8526-015-036 $16,187.64 WINSOR,ROBERT S AND WIN-SOR,LEAH 8520-006-002 $155.29

Publish: August 23 and 30, 2010.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE(UCC Sec. 6105)Escrow No. 10-1108-SKNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made. The name(s) and business address(es) of the seller(s) is/are: YOUNG KI HONG, 150 N. SANTA ANITA AVE, #520, ARCADIA, CA 91006Doing business as: GREEN CAFEAll other business name(s) and address(es) used by the seller(s) within the past three years, as stated by the seller(s), is/are: NONEThe name(s) and business address of the buyer(s) is/are: SUNG HUI BAIK, 941 N. MONTEREY ST, #5, ALHAMBRA, CA 91801The assets being sold are generally described as: FURNITURE, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT, TOOLS, GOODWILL, TRADE NAME, LEASEHOLD INTEREST, LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS ALL TRANSFERABLE PERMITS AND LICENSES AND ALL INVENTORY OF STOCK IN TRADE and is located at: 150 N. SANTA ANITA AVE, #520, ARCADIA, CA 91006The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: NEW STAR ESCROW and the anticipated sale date is SEPTEMBER 14, 2010The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2.The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: NEW STAR ESCROW, 3030 W. 8TH ST #401, LOS ANGELES, CA 90005 and the last day for filing claims by any creditor shall be SEPTEMBER 13, 2010, which is the business day before the anticipated sale date specified above.Dated: 8-10-10SUNG HUI BAIK, Buyer(s)PCTS LA155267 ARCADIA WEEKLY 8/26/10

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“I am truly look-ing forward to the redwhite+bluezz Pasadena Jazz Fest,” said Kevin Eu-banks.

The weekend event features a line-up of top jazz and blues musicians who will be performing during the star-studded festival August 28 and 29, 2010. Located at the spec-tacular Los Angeles Arbo-retum and Botanic Garden in the greater Pasadena area of California, the fes-tival hours are 10:00am - 10:00pm with Kidspace on hand both days from 11:00am - 6:00pm.

“Kidspace is a fantas-tic addition to our festival that offers something for everyone,” said Andre C. Vener who is co-producing the redwhite+bluezz Pasa-dena Jazz Fest along with his Pasadena Entertain-ment partners Robert and Denise Zeilstra and Byron and Christine Miller. By-

ron Miller, also an ac-complished musician, will perform during the festival with the redwhite+bluezz All Stars with a tribute to Michael Jackson. “The fest also boasts an international food court, four watering holes, a vendors village and two stages of some of the hottest and most re-nowned artists performing at a beautiful venue.”

“We are thrilled to bring Kidspace and many of its fun-filled edu-cational activities to the redwhite+bluezz Pasadena Jazz Fest,” said Yvonne Chavez-Lombardi, Kid-space’s associate director of Education. “The Arbo-retum is an ideal setting for Kidspace as it mirrors our focus on nature, learn-ing and family fun, amidst first class music from some of the greatest jazz and blues musicians. The Pas-adena Entertainment team is known for producing spectacular events and this will undoubtedly create a memorable experience for the entire family.”

Continued from page 1 Cool Jazz Fest This Weekend

Go, Go Power Rang-ers! The second annual Power Morphicon will morph the Pasadena Con-vention Center into Ranger Central. Power Morphicon will feature exclusive pan-els, guest appearances, and a silent auction the week-end of August 27-29, 2010. More than one thousand a t t e n d -ees will enjoy ex-p anded offerings this year, featuring a variety of en-g a g i n g e x p e r i -ences in-cluding more than twenty specialty vendors, costume contests and a Power Quest Trivia Game. This year the convention welcomes the master toy licensee, Bandai America Incorporated, as the premier sponsor.

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the 2010 Power Morphi-con,” said Mark Schaffner, Executive Vice President of Toys for Bandai Amer-ica Incorporated. “The di-verse fan base is a testament to the brand’s pop culture dominance for nearly 20 years, and we look forward to creating imaginative and innovative Power Rang-

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Anita and the Yanks recently performed at Make Music Pasadena - Photo by Terry Miller

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SACRED NATION GOSPEL CHOIR | DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND GREG PORÉE | JACQUES LESURE | LINDSEY HARPER

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