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Pacific Asia Museum to hold free festival Pacific Asia Museum will hold a Free Family Festival celebrating the arts and culture of Indonesia on Sunday, March 17, 2013 from 12-4 p.m. Admission to the event and Pacific Asia Museum galleries is free and open
to the public during that time. During the Free Family Festival, visitors can enjoy the special exhibition Marking Transitions: Ceremonial Art in Indonesia, batik demonstrations, hands-on crafts, food samples, traditional
dances from across the nation’s more than 17,000 islands, live gamelan music and shadow puppetry. A full schedule of events will be posted to the Pacific Asia Museum website closer to the event date.
Monrovia firefighter garners MLK award Monrovia Fire Fighter Ernie Moreno was awarded the 2013 Presidential MLK Drum Major honor . The award is given each year to those who have provided extraordinary
acts of service, with reliability and commitment, and who seldom receive recognition. Moreno served as the driving force behind the over 1,000 toys and $6,000 donated to the
Foothill Unity Center for the 2012 Annual Spark of Love Toy Drive, and served in other communities as well to help organize donations to those less fortunate.
Some local school districts in jeopardy Continued from page 1
certification, down from the 188 LEAs serving 2.6 million students reported in Second Interim Status Report for 2011-12 issued in May 2012. “I can say with growing confidence that the worst of California’s school funding crisis is behind us,” Torlakson said. “As this report demonstrates, it will take years to restore our education system to financial health. No one was happy to see California slip to 49th in per-pupil funding, and no one should be satisfied when we move up to 46th or 47th.” The new report shows seven LEAs received a negative certification, and 117 received a qualified certification. Twice a year, the California Department of Education receives Notice of Interim Certifications on the financial status of the state's 1,043 LEAs comprising school districts, county offices of education, and joint powers agencies. The certifications are classi-
fied as either positive, qualified, or negative. A positive certification is assigned when a LEA will meet its financial obligations for the current and two subsequent fiscal years. A qualified certification is assigned when a LEA may not meet its financial obligations for the current or two subsequent fiscal years. This certification allows the LEA's county office of education to provide assistance to the district. A negative certification— the most serious of the classifications—is assigned when a LEA will be unable to meet its financial obligations for the remainder of the current year or for the subsequent fiscal year. This certification means the LEA's county office of education may intervene in the district's finances. The assistance or intervention by the county office of education may include assigning external consultants,
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requiring a district fiscal recovery plan, or even disallowing certain district expenditures. This new list is a compilation of the certifications by LEAs that were due December 15, 2012, and which cover the financial and budgetary status of the LEAs for the period ending October 31, 2012. The certifications reflect whether the LEAs are able to meet their financial obligations for the remainder of the current fiscal year and subsequent two fiscal years, based on projections at that point in time. Because these Interim Status Reports are snapshots in time, the LEAs' financial status may have changed since these certifications were collected. For more information on the school funding crisis, please visit the California Department of Education’s School Financial Emergency Web page.
When All Is Said And Dunn By Bill Dunn When the Dunn Clan moved to Temple City in 1959, there was no Bahooka Family Restaurant two blocks away. That changed in 1976 when the restaurant that opened in 1967 in West Covina, moved to its current and final location on Rosemead Boulevard. It has enjoyed a long and prosperous run there, but that is about to come to an end on March 10th. The owners are throwing in the towel and have sold the place to someone that is interested only in the location, liquor license, and the over 100 fish tanks, but not the Hawaiian/Polynesian motif. There have been conflicting reports as to the exact reason for its closure. One is that the family has health issues. Another has some employee evoking the "let's blame the President and Obamacare" statute and the reason that I believe, is that the owners are just ready to retire. Whichever reason you choose to accept one thing is for sure. When the doors do close the owners will be leaving with a tidy
little nest egg thanks to the cat being let out of the bag that the Bahooka's days are numbered. The joint has been jumping ever since the word got out. Not unlike the morbid curiosity that accompanies the death of a celebrity there has been a constant stream of mourners lining up at the door to say their final goodbyes. When we drove past last Sunday there was a line of easily 50 people waiting to get in for the lunch service. When we drove back by an hour and a half later there were still people waiting to get in. Anyone who has eaten there, and has taste buds, will tell you that this phenomenon is due solely to sentimentality towards the atmosphere of the place and not the food. Which, to be kind to the deceased, can only be described as fair. It was that very sentimentality that led my wife and I to make the two block pilgrimage a couple of weeks ago after hearing the news of its imminent demise. We wanted to refresh our memories as to why we didn't go back more often to some place so close. After we had read some posts on the Internet and Facebook by people moaning about its closure we felt as though maybe we had been ignoring it unjustly. Our memories had not been betraying us. The food and drinks were what we had remembered. The food was just so so and the drinks, even though they tried, were nowhere near
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