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Volume 18, No. 2
Community News, Arts & Opinions Since 1996
Kenton Nelson’s art, in vitreous mosaic, perks up Old Pasadena
Task force located stolen trademark plastic products worth in excess of $115k at Broadway Plastics In the evening hours on January 2, 2013, members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Industrial Plastic Theft Task Force, out of Industry Sheriff Station, located stolen trademark plastic products worth in excess of $115,000.00 at two related locations. The South El Monte Please see page 5
Huell Howser dead at 67
Kenton Nelson works on the installation Tuesday morning high above Intelligentsia Coffee. -Photo by Terry Miller
BY TERRY MILLER Pasadena artist Kenton Nelson is about to complete one of his more ambitious projects in Old Pasadena. For this installation, scaffold-
ing has been erected and a hefty climb was in order to get to the nearly completed mosaic Tuesday morning. Nelson, perhaps best known for his striking, colorful paintings, many of
Garvey School Board member responds to notice of recall petition -Photo by Terry Miller
BY TERRY MILLER Huell Howser popular host of the public-television travel show “California’s Gold,” died Sunday of natural causes, television station KCET announced Monday. The news came suddenly, only two months after Howser announced Please see page 10
BY JIM E. WINBURN The Garvey Education says, “The Garvey District Association announced on community demands Ms. Jan. 3 that they are moving Chin be recalled in order forward with the recall of to restore integrity to our Garvey School Board Mem- School Board and District.” ber Janet Chin. The group is accusing According to the teach- Chin of conflict of interest ers’ association, its petition and voting for a contract exfor recall was approved by tension and pay raise for the the Los Angeles County Reg- district’s superintendent Dr. istrar-Recorder/County Clerk Sandra Johnson. on Jan. 2, and the association As part of their now has begun its campaign ‘Grounds for the Recall,’ the to collect signatures. association claims that Chin In a statement released voted to extend Superintenby Michael Drange, presi- dent Johnson’s contract and dent of the Garvey Education Association, the notice Please see page 17
which have adorned magazine covers like the New Yorker over the years, is thrilled with this new project and delighted to offer his vision to Pasadena residents. As a painter, R. Ken-
ton Nelson “brings to his canvases a trimmed and exact world: youthful, robust figures; clean and painted structures; landscapes that are polished and orderly. All those elements com-
bine to support the central theme in his work and the core of his canvases, the fight against loneliness,” according to Sullivan Goss Please see page 13
Animal rights advocate sues HBO over equine deaths during filming of ‘LUCK’ at Santa Anita The Associated Press and other media outlets reported Thursday that an animal-rights advocate who oversaw working conditions on the canceled HBO series “Luck” has sued the network and the American Humane Association, claiming horses on the show were grossly mistreated. Barbara Casey’s lawsuit which was filed Monday, Dec 31 in Los Angeles claims underweight, sick and drugged horses were used in the making of the Please see page 2
-Photo by Terry Miller