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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 - NOVEMBER 25, 2009 VOLUME 14, NO. 47
Council Tackles Youth Violence, Five-Story Developments BY TERRY MILLER
While there was expected to be a large crowd of people against the proposed five story retail project, hundreds of people showed up at Monday’s city council meeting, the majority of whom were the concerned citizens for youth and youth group organizers as well as church leaders. Sporting T shirts which read “ I’ve Got 99 Problems and my SAFETY is one of them” about 50 young people took part in the proceedings letting city
Lancers End Season with Win, Pulling Season Record to .500
officials know, in no uncertain terms, their concerns. On Monday evening a packed Pasadena city council heard the final report from city council Youth, Families and Neighborhoods Ad Hoc Committee. In fact the meeting spilled out into the halls outside council chambers where a television monitor was set up for those unable to fit into the allotted seating. Councilwoman Jacque Robinson addressed the public with the statistic re-
leased this week that crime is down 24% in Pasadena, however there have been numerous violent crimes and murders particularly affecting and involving young people in the community over the past two years particularly. The concern for activities for youth is still very much on the minds of city council, parents and educators alike. In an attempt to help w it h t he g row ing needs of Pasadena’s youth community, Pasadena Unified
School District’s Rose City High School will host an open house event this coming Friday, November 20 to showcase Advance Path Academics, a new program designed to support, teach and assist high school students who were disengaged from a traditional classroom environment. Advance Path Academics provides an opportunity for students to master the core subjects required to obtain a high school diploma
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Filled to capacity, concerned citizens overflow council chambers Monday night. - Photo by Terry Miller
Arcadia Historical Museum Honors Japanese Americans
Local Princess Launches New Book in Pasadena
Sean Carraway makes a diving catch here during PCC’s 38-22 season-ending victory Saturday at Glendale College’s Sartoris Field. - Photo by Richard Quinton
The 2009 season for the Pasadena City College football team often was a case of the defense trying to make up for the offense and its lack of production. On Saturday night in the team’s season finale, the Lancers’ offense took center stage as it used several top performances by sophomores to dismantle Glendale College 38-22. With this win, the Lancers closed the season at .500, with a 5-5 overall record, and they went 2-4 in the NNC. Glendale finished 4-6 and 1-5 in conference. PCC was paced by sophomore wide receiver Sean Carraway, who had a banner night by making 9 receptions for 172 yards, completing a gadget pass for 39 yards, returning a punt for 26 yards, and even recovering an onside kick to open the second half. Carraway ended his year with 65 receptions for 910 yards as the total catch number is the second-highest receiving mark in PCC history, behind only AllAmerican David Reed’s amazing 111 receptions two years ago. The 5-foot-11, 165-pound
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- Photo by Terry Miller
1942, which allowed local military commanders to designate “military areas” as “exclusion zones,” from which “any or all persons may be excluded.” This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington, except for those in internment camps. It took a mere 46 years for Congress to pass, and President Ronald Reagan sign, legislation which apolo-
Last Sunday local authors Sarah Culberson and Tracy Trivas presented and signed their new book, “A Princes Found,” at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena. Over the past two years Sarah Culberson’s story of the search for her biological parents, and the subsequent revelation of her royal heritage in Sierra Leone, Africa has garnered widespread national media attention. With appearances on CNN, Good Morning America, Inside Edition and plenty of ink in publications from Newsweek and Reader’s Digest to Gla mou r a nd Essence maga zine, Culberson’s story has become a cultural sensation, appealing not only to young, would-be princesses across the country but also offering important lessons about our connections to the mother continent. Now Culberson, longtime girlfriend of Beacon Media Publisher Von Raees, is hitting the road to pro-
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Taka and Michi Nomura were two of the thousands of Japanese Americans who were forcibly “relocated” from their home in Pasadena in Photos by Terry Miller 1942. The couple now in their 90’s visited the museum Saturday. BY TERRY MILLER
As we approach the 68th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, the curators at a local museum have decided to honor thousands of Japanese Americans who were forced from their homes under an order from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The exhibit, at the Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum, explores the temporary assembly center at Santa Anita Race track which was used for the detention of Japanese and Japanese
Americans during World War II. The events that took place nine weeks after Pearl Harbor honors those who were forcibly removed from their homes in the aftermath of the war hysteria and ensuing prejudice. Japanese American internment was the forcible relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese residing in the United States to camps called “War Relocation Camps,” in the wake of Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. The
internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally throughout the United States. Japanese Americans residing on the West Coast of the United States were all interned, whereas in Hawaii, where more than 150,000 Japanese Americans composed nearly a third of that territory’s population, only 1,200 to 1,800 Japanese Americans were interned. Of those interned, 62 percent were United States citizens. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066 on February 19,