2013_01_14_Glendale Independent

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INDEPENDENT MONDAY, JANUARY 14 - JANUARY 20, 2013

Glendale’s RD White Elementary School evacuated after false bomb scare

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VOLUME 2, NO. 2

Kenton Nelson’s art, in vitreous mosaic, perks up Old Pasadena

At approximately 9:00 am Jan 7 an anonymous call was received at RD White Elementary School located on the 700 block of E Doran in the City of Glendale of a possible bomb on campus. School officials evacuated the campus to Whole Foods located in Glendale at the intersection of Glendale Ave and Lexington. All 880 students are accounted for and no device was found.

President signs Rep. Schiff DNA bill into law Legislation would award grants to states to implement DNA collection for felony arrestees President Barack Obama signed Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-Burbank) legislation, the Katie Sepich Enhanced DNA Collection Act of 2012 (H.R. 6014), into law. Originally introduced in 2010 by Schiff, Katie’s Law bears the name of Katie Sepich, a college student who was raped and murdered in 2003 in New Mexico. Her attacker was arrested several times over subsequent years but was never linked to Katie’s Please see page 6

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

Chinese New Year Festival - Feb. 2-3 in Monterey Park February 2-3, 2013 at Garfield and Garvey Avenues in downtown Monterey Park. The expanded 2013 Chinese New Year event will feature over 200 booths of delicious food from local restaurants, specialty items and gifts, all-day-long live entertainment on two stages, carnival rides and more on an expanded plan on Garvey Avenue. For more information please visit the city’s special events page at http://www. ci.monterey-park.ca.us/index.aspx?page=817.

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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 6

Governor Brown proposes 2013-2014 Budget Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today proposed a balanced state budget that boosts investment in education, implements health care reform and keeps California on a long-term path to fiscal stability. This budget builds on the work of the last two years to eliminate the ongoing deficit. “The budget cuts made in the last two years and the passage of Proposition 30 make it possible to both live within our means and to increase funding for education,” said Governor Brown. When Governor Brown Please see page 5

-Photo by Terry Miller


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