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former staff member goes to court Adrienne Thompson in lawsuit against Citrus College. PG. 5
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2018 | VOL LXXII ISSUE 1
Orange is back
Citrus College performing arts graduate stars in the new season of “Orange is the New Black”. PG. 11
where does the fruit go?
See what happens to the fallen fruit on campus. PG. 7
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Glendora to host town hall meeting on sanctuary city BY JAMES DUFFY V EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
JDUFFY@CCCLARION.COM
& VICMAN THOME
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER VTHOME@CCCLARION.COM
The Glendora City Council voted 4-1 to hold a town hall meeting about the city’s stance on California’s “sanctuary” law on July 24. Glendora city council voted in closed session to join a friend of the court brief challenging the legality of the state Senate Bill 54, which prohibits state and local police from turning undocumented immigrants for federal law enforcement. The council held the vote after consecutive meetings in council chambers were packed by protesters. Azusa Pacific University philosophy professor Teri Merrick formed and heads the Glendora group, “Welcome to Glendora,” whose purpose she said is to make the city “inclusive.” Merrick said she spoke with council member Gary Boyer after learning about the council’s decision. She said she told Boyer that the he should not have signed the amicus brief in closed session and “that it sent the wrong message.” At the meeting Gary Boyer repeatedly rejected the assertion that the Glendora City Council opposed SB 54. “Where this garbage came out that we voted to oppose SB 54, I have no idea,” Boyer said. Boyer said that articles in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune misrepresented the council’s position. Before voting to oppose SB 54 on May 8, the council sent a letter in April to the governor explicitly opposing the law. In the letter, the council “urges our state elected officials and the Governor to Oppose SB 54 as it will surely create less safe communities.” Only council member Karen Davis opposed joining the amicus brief. Boyer said to the Clarion he opposed SB 54. “I see it as a law enforcement issue,” Boyer said. Boyer said that federal law enforcement agents are more likely to arrest innocent immigrants if they cannot cooperate with local agencies. “They’ll have that local knowledge of who’s who,” he said. While Boyer said he does not regret his vote, some on the council appear to be reconsidering their position. “It hurts me that people think we hate people, but Glendora is a welcoming city,” Glendora Mayor Mendell Thomson said. The council is facing growing opposition in the historically conservative community. Glendora went for President Donald Trump in 2016. S E E C O U N C IL • PA GE 5
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Brianna Sewell Clarion
White pride of the foothills: Local redline munities across Los Angeles County. The practice was known as redlining. Like parts of south Glendora, south Azusa is illustrated in red and deemed “hazardous” to underwrite mortgages. Grading and color-coding U.S. neighborhoods was practiced across the nation. Districts receiving low ratings correspond with mortgage value disparities today across the Los Angeles County. Public officials contacted by the Clarion in Azusa, Covina and Glendora were unaware of the practice in communities where the majority of Citrus College students reside. Glendora councilmember and real estate broker Gary Boyer called linking historical inequality to the present “odd” and a “stretch.”
BY SAYEDAH MOSAVI OPINIONS EDITOR
SMOSAVI@CCCLARION.COM
A government agency established in 1933 to refinance homes affected by the Great Depression left a legacy of segregation in communities around Citrus College. The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation recruited appraisers to survey land for development and mortgage lending. Agency surveyors focused on another factor - residents’ race. “This is an old area which was developed as a Mexican district,” a surveyor’s report says about South Azusa. “Improvements are substandard. Many of them being nothing but shacks.” Historical documents compiled by the University of Richmond’s “Mapping Inequality Project” show how extralegal segregation divided com-
MAP COURTESY OF: Mapping Inequality
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