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Duarte Performing Arts Center to Host Pasadena NAACP’s Competition
Temple Tribune CITY
Monday edition of the
Monrovia Weekly ArcAdiA Weekly MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 27, 2011 VOLUME IX, NO. VIII
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Governor Temple City Residents Marty and Joe Rockenbach Receive Golden Apple Award Brown Temple City Unified Eliminates School District administrators are proud to announce “S.W.A.G” Marty and Joe Rockenbach are this year’s Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Golden Apple Award recipients. The Temple City community and schools have been benefiting from Marty and Joe’s giving spirit for many years. Marty and Joe became actively involved in Temple City schools as they raised their four children and opened their home to their children’s friends, providing a safe, loving environment for many. Marty and Joe are still active in the lives and activities of their children and 11 grandchildren! Marty and Joe have given countless volunteer hours benefiting the Performing Arts Boosters,
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or the first time the Pasadena branch of the NAACP will participate in a local competition of the NAACP’s Academic Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) for African-American youth and Duarte will play a major role in the youth initiative project. ACT-SO, founded in 1978 by renowned author and journalist Vernon Jarrett, is an enrichment program designed to recruit, stimulate, improve and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African-American high school students. There are 25 categories of competition in the sciences, humanities, performing and visual arts. The local competition will take place at the Duarte Performing Arts Center on April 16. More than 50 students from throughout the San Gabriel Valley are expected to compete in categories including biology, math, original essay, poetry, entrepreneurship, computer science, chemistry, physics, oratory, dance, dramatics, musical instrumental classic/contemporary, vocal, photography, painting and drawing. High school students of African descent, who are citizens of the United States, enrolled in grades 9-12 and are amateurs in the categories of competition are invited to participate. Youth who achieve a gold medal in their category will proceed to compete in the Nationals to be held in July during the 102nd NAACP Convention. Duarte Teen Center
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Joe and Marty Rockenbach, TCUSD’s Golden Apple Award Winners -Photo courtesy of Jerry Jambazian, Temple City Chamber of Commerce
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3rd Annual Hayden slated for Santa Teresita in Duarte Memorial 5K Run, Family Walk and Roll Set for March 12 Hundreds are expected and the entire community is invited to participate in the 3rd annual Hayden Memorial 5K Run, Family Walk & Roll Saturday, March 12. The nonprofit Hayden Child Care Center at Santa Teresita is presenting the event, co-sponsored by the City of Duarte. Participants are invited to register online at www. hayden5k.com. Early registration, prior to March 12, is: $25 for adults, 15 years of age
and older; Children ages 2 to 14, $12; Wheelchair teams, up to three persons, $35. An additional $10 fee will apply for registration on race day, 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Hayden Child Care Center. The 5K Run will begin at 9 a.m., off the campus of Santa Teresita, just east of Buena Vista St. on Royal Oaks Dr., followed by participants in the family fun run, walk and roll. A special children’s fun run starts at 10:30 a.m. The
first half of the fully paved 5K course will take participants east on Royal Oaks Dr. At Royal Oaks School runners will loop back toward the finish line at Santa Teresita on the Duarte Recreational Trail. Medals will be given to the top three male and top three female finishers in each age group. Winners of the children’s fun run will receive ribbons. Following racing competition, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the public is invited
to attend the Family Fitness Festival in Santa Teresita’s southeast parking lot area, 819 Buena Vista St., where there will be games, free health screenings, food, and entertainment. The Hayden Child Care Center assists families in the spiritual, social, and academic formation of children, providing pre-school and kindergarten education. For more information call (626) 359-9592.
Edison Replacing Transmission Towers in Duarte
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outhern California Edison has begun work removing electrical conductors in Duarte on the westerly towers within the Edison property/ easement between Tocino Dr. and Greenbank Ave. and within Hacienda Park and the Rancho Duarte Golf Course. The work
is being done in preparation of replacing tower structures in conjunction with Edison’s Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project (TRTP) to construct new and upgraded transmission lines and substations between eastern Kern County and San Bernardino County.
On Sunday, Feb. 27, work is scheduled between 6 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. at Huntington Dr. at Encanto Parkway for conductor removal. For safety reasons, the affected portion of Huntington Dr. will be closed briefly during that time period. Edison’s Tehachapi
Renewable Transmission Project, once completed in 2015, will deliver electricity from wind energy generators in Kern County south through Los Angeles County and east to San Bernardino County to help meet California’s renewable energy goals.
Governor Jerry Brown’s administration today directed all state agencies and departments to stop spending taxpayer dollars on free giveaway and gift items—such as key chains, coffee mugs and squeeze toys—as part of continuing efforts to cut costs and tackle the state’s budget gap. “Not a cent of taxpayer money should be spent on flashlights, ashtrays or other unnecessary items, most of which likely end up in landfills,” said Governor Brown. “Every taxpayer dollar we save by cutting waste is a dollar than can be used to pay for critical public safety and social services.” A statewide review revealed that from 2007 to 2010 state agencies and departments spent a total of $7.5 million on items including key chains, squeeze toys, pens, hats, trinkets, shirts, cups and other gift items known colloquially as “S.W.A.G,” or “Stuff We All Get.” These include promotional and marketing items across almost every agency in the state. Today’s ban follows Brown’s request earlier this week for the Bureau of State Audits and the Little Hoover Commission to each provide a list of “Top 10 Actions” California can take to cut government waste and increase efficiency. The Governor has also issued Executive Orders to freeze hiring across state government and cut state cell phones and the passenger vehicle fleet in half. These actions are part of Brown’s efforts to save money this fiscal year and to cut $363 million in operational costs next fiscal year. A breakdown of “S.W.A.G” expenditures from 2007 to 2010 is:
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