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THURSDAY, JUNE 4 - JUNE 10, 2009 VOLUME 14, NO.45
$40,000 Reward Offered in 2007 Arcadia Robbery
Ladies were asked to don fabulous hats Saturday. Hats as we all know, are without a doubt the staple of the outfit - generally widebrimmed, Southern Belle inspired and decorated with silk flowers, bows and ribbons! There was no shortage of these, each with its own individual story at the 300 club. -Photos by Terry Miller
Methodist Hospital Foundation and Club 300 Committee Hold Vintage Derby Races at the Track And Away they Go…”KENTUCKY DERBY” - CLUB 300 STYLE….. As invited guests found their way down the famous steps of t he Cha ndelier Room at Santa Anita Saturday, a beautiful voice
announced each guest as if they were at an event at Buckingham Palace. Guests then had a formal photo taken by none
other than the mother of the Rose Queen. So in actuality, guests were meeting Royalty, the Queen Mum of Pasadena to be precise!
Met hod i st Hospit a l Foundation and the Club 300 Committee held its annual Kentucky Derby Satur-
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ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT Sierra Madre Mountain Search and Rescue Locate Missing Hiker Gently Down Sierra Madre Pool
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On May 24 at 2:29 p.m., Monrovia police officers responded to a missing person report at a camp in the 1100 Block of North Canyon. On May 23 at approximately 10 p.m., a male adult camper walked away from his camping group. The camper was in a tent with two friends when he stated he was upset about a breakup he had with his girlfriend five months prior. He then walked out of the tent, but did not take his backpack, water, cell phone, or any other personal items he had taken to the camp.
On May 24, in the early morning hours, his friends realized the subject had not returned and they notified camp staff. After a search of the trails and the surrounding camp grounds, the Monrovia Police Department was called. Monrovia officers checked with the subject’s family and they advised they had not seen or heard from him. Sierra Madre Mountain Search and Rescue were called out along with the Foothill Air Support Team helicopter to
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T he A rcadia Cit y Council on Tuesday voted to match the $20,000 reward offered by the Los Angeles County Supervisor’s Office for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect in a robbery and murder at a local Arcadia restaurant in late 2007. The combined reward now totals $40,000. O n 11-2 5 - 0 7 a t a p proximately 9:25 p.m. the pictured suspect entered the Osaka Ya Sushi Restaurant where he shot and k i l led t he v ict i m /ow ner and robbed the restaurant before fleeing out the back door. Much of the incident
was captured on surveillance video. The victim leaves behind a wife and two small children. The suspect is a Black
WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS
Lobbying: It Takes a Buck to Make a Buck
Monrovia Musician Told to Move On by Police Last Week, Decides to Try His Luck Again
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BY BILL PETERS
On Thursday, the Monrovia Weekly and each of Beacon Media’s newspapers ran an article about a single father of a five-year-old trying to raise funds for his child’s future and complete his education. The day after the article appeared in our newspapers and online, Jake Lenaburg was approached by two Monrovia Police Officers who told him that he needed a permit to play his guitar at that location. Lenaburg packed up his guitar and headed to city hall. En Route, Lenaburg stopped by the offices of Beacon Media News, somewhat dejected and upset that he might not be able to continue his quest to make a better life for him and his daughter. When we contacted the officer at the watch commander’s desk Friday, he denied that Lenaburg was approached by Monrovia officers; they said it was probably CHP. The officer told us he didn’t think they had a male and female officer on duty in the city. But Lenaburg assures us that the officers were, in fact, from Monrovia PD. According to the Monrovia Police Dept., it is illegal to solicit money near a freeway off-ramp. We were told that it is a state law and enforceable.
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Our cities find that in order to get back some of its citizen’s tax dollars, they have to spend money lobbying elected officials to see that projects get funded and all our local cities turn to professional lobby firms to help them. Just last Wednesday, Sierra Madre hosted a dedication ceremony of the Mira Monte Reservoir at Turtle Park to announce that their $8 million project, made possible largely through lobbying efforts in Washington, had come to fruition. The project consisted of several phases. The first phase was the removal and replacement of the existing steel reservoir which had been put into service in 1928. As this phase was completed, the City reports, “The second removal and replacement of the partially underground steel tank west of Mt. Wilson Trail Road was initiated. The final phase of the project consisted of the construction of a new pump house, exterior architectural work, landscaping of the park, and replacement of water system piping throughout the location.” Mira Monte Reservoir was installed in 1928 and has been in successful service since. But in 1997, the Army Corps of Engineers Seismic Reliability study determined
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