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READERS CHOICE 2010
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Thursday, May 6 - May 12, 2010 Volume XV, No. XXVIII
THIS WEEK Loss of an Important Part of Arcadia’s MEASURE CC DEFEATED History Looms: Rescue Plan Underway Threats Don’t Convince Voters By Bill Peters Unofficial election results were posted just two minutes after the official closing time on Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters for the mail-in ballot on the Pasadena Unified School District’s Measure CC, The Quality Education Preservation Act. Although the measure received a plurality of votes, as a parcel tax it would have required 2/3rd approval. With 52.46% in support of the tax, 47.54% rejected the Districts plea for help.
The tally from all 172 precincts was 13,871 voting “yes” and 12,568 voting “no”. According to the Registrar’s website 26,525 ballots were mailed in out of 112,419 registered voters, amounting to 23.59% of all voters. This is about double the total votes cast in the 2009 PUSD school board elections. T he ca mpa ig n wa s marked by threats by Superintendent of the PUSD, Edwin Diaz, who said that critical lay-offs would occur without passage citing
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Talks On Again for Santa Anita Caruso Project
(l-r) Mitchell Bishop, curator of the Historical Collection, Kelly McLeod, owner of Kelly Sutherlin McLeod Architecture, Inc, the named preservationist to work to stabilize adobe, Richard Schulhof, CEO of the Los Angeles County Arboretum, and Sandy Snider from the Adobe Restoration Committee. - Photo by Terry Miller By Bill Peters Concerns over the condition of what has been known as the Hugo Reid Adobe, the historic adobe on the grounds of the Los
Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, have been expressed for years. The roof is in a state of collapse. The walls are weakened. But, finally, a tiny step toward crisis in-
tervention was taken this week as the Arboretum announced that the County will take a serious look at reversing age-related damage to the Adobe. Many hope it’s not too late but
worry whether Arcadians and others will step forward to offer financial help to save their history, a history that includes a wood-frame
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Charismatic development magnate Rick Caruso and Canadian industrialist Frank Stronach who retains control of Santa Anita Park plan to meet within the next few weeks according to numerous sources. The two plan to discuss the controversial retail project in the Santa Anita racetrack - The Shops at Santa Anita - that has been bitterly fought by Westfield for years. A unit of Magna Enter-
tainment in 2005 formed a joint venture with real estate investor Rick Caruso to build a roughly 800,000 square-foot retail development near its Santa Anita Park thoroughbred horse racing track in Arcadia. But the unit last month notified Caruso that it was backing out of the deal, according to court papers. An entity controlled by Caruso has protested the
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Poizner Visits Miller Brewery Gov. Team Champs Honored at Rally Republ ica n g uber natorial candidate Steve Poizner was hot on the campaign trail, just a few weeks before the June Republican primary. On Tuesday, the trailing opponent of Ebay magnate Meg Whitman touted his experience in Sacramento and held a meeting with employees of the Miller-Coors Brewing plant in Irwindale, following a tour of the plant led by company executives. The questions were
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Employees at the Irwindale Miller plant ask questions of Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Poizner during a tour and Q&A session on Tuesday afternoon. - Photo by Terry Miller
Celebrate with Westfield Santa Anita.
T h e 2 010 We t h e People: The Citizen and the Constitution national champions were honored during an Arcadia High School rally Friday afternoon. The Arcadia students were named the winners of the three-day academic competition on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of R ights on Monday in Washington, D.C. More than 1,100 students representing 52 schools from all 50 states, the Dis-
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Treat your Mom to a special performance by the California Philharmonic Orchestra on The Promenade, Sunday May 9th, 4pm–6pm.