2012_03_26 Temple City Tribune

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Arcadia Ballots Translation Blunder By Terry Miller Arcadia’s nearly 29,000 registered voters received election ballots last week with a crucial blunder in its Chinese-language instructions that could cause some votes to be invalidated at worse and add considerable amount of confusion at best. However, the city is trying to correct the error by mailing out 29,000 postcards detailing the glitch. Additionally, the city has placed ads in this newspaper and others in an effort to allay anxiety. The postcards are at the printers and will be mailed out in due course. According to Arcadia’s City Clerk, a translation error in Chinese appears on the Official Ballot and Ballot page in the Sample Ballot and Voter Information Pamphlet. 29, 000 registered voters received the Please see page 3

Duarte Museum Vulcan Exhibit by ruth longoria kingsland The highly protested and as yet buried in court proceedings Vulcan Materials Company’s excavation of mountainous areas along the Azusa Duarte border is getting a bit more exposure this month as Duarte Historical Museum hosts the Save Our Mountain group’s exhibit detailing citizen efforts to halt mining expansion in the hills behind Duarte. The exhibit opened Wednesday (March 21) and runs through the coming month at the museum, which is located at 777 Encanto Please see page 6

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$18.5 Milllion Gold Line Bridge Taking Shape Former Rosemead Mayor Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges by jim e. winburn

At a cost of $18.6 million, the Gold Line bridge in Arcadia is deemed the “gateway to the San Gabriel Valley” has moved on to an important step in moving the project forward with the wood structure now showing across the 210.The bridge is the first project under construction along the 11.5 mile Gold Line Foothill Extension from Pasadena to Azusa. This image was shot Tuesday morning looking West on the 210 from Santa Anita. -Photo by Terry Miller

San Gabriel City Council Appoints New Mayor as POA Rebuffs City’s Response to Lawsuit

by dena burroughs

Newly appointed Vice-Mayor Mario De La Torre (left) and Mayor Kevin B. Sawkins (right).-Courtesy Photo

the city’s recent response to lawsuit allegations made by the Police Officers’ Association. Please see page 4

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El Monte Celebrates US Army Veteran’s 90th Birthday

by jim e. winburn

What began as a lighthearted occasion for the appointment of a new mayor and vice mayor at Tuesday’s City Council soon turned into harsh rebuke for

Acknowledging he may need to make $38,000 in restitution to a local developer, former Rosemead mayor John Tran pleaded guilty to a single-count federal bribery charge in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, Mar. 20. Tran, who signed a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in February, agreed at his guilty-plea hearing that he may be liable for nearly four times the amount of the $10,000 prosecutors had originally charged him with taking. Rather than face prosecution on obstruction of justice and extortion charges, Tran agreed to plead guilty to bribery, according to federal prosecutors.

Russell McFann smiles during the City of El Monte Veteran’s Day 2011 event. -Photo by Dena Burroughs

U.S. Army Veteran Russell McFann received a special recognition at the El Monte’s City Council meeting in celebration of his 90th birthday, for a life well lived and of contributions to his city and the country. McFann served four years of active duty during World War II as an Artillery Forward Observer with the 36th Infantry Division fighting in France, after which he served another sixteen years in the U.S. Army Reserve. He is well-known in the City of El Monte since he also worked as a teacher at Rosemead High School and at Mountain View High School – 22 years at each institution. After his retirePlease see page 5


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