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Temple Tribune Monrovia Weekly ArcAdiA Weekly MONDAY, MARCH 11 - MARCH 17, 2013 VOLUME 18, NO. 10
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MUSD students link to International Space Station
20 students pose questions to Kevin Ford, Chris Hadfield and Tom Marshburn 220 miles from Earth
Incumbents Yu and Chavez re-elected Nicholas J. Lisk, 501, 11%. Vincent Yu, 1,643, 35%. Matthew J. Wong, 907, 20%. Tom Chavez, 1,586, 34%. As of March 5, 2013, 10 p.m. All precincts reporting; includes vote-bymail ballots. Precinct turnout: 1,089, Vote-by-mail turnout: 1,537, Overall voter turnout: 2,626, Voter turnout rate: 15%. Current rankings may change depending on provisional ballots, which will be reviewed starting March 7. There are 213 provisional ballots. Under state law, election results must be certified by March 30. Those results will be certified at the March 19 City Council meeting, 7:30 p.m., at 5938 Kauffman Ave. At that meeting, the elected City Council members will be sworn in to serve their four-year terms. A new Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem will also be selected; those named to the post will serve for one year.
Incumbents rule Rosemead Rosemead’s election for three open council seats, incumbents Steven Ly, Margaret Clark and Sandra Armenta led challenger Janet Chin, according to reports. Ly, and Clark, led with the voters followed by Armenta. Chin came in last. Ly wanted to improve Rosemead's infrastructure and support public safety efforts to reduce crime.
The highlight of several activities was the downlink from the Space Station which put several Monrovia Unified School District’s fifth grade students in direct communication with 3 astronauts on the space station. The festivities began
on Saturday with a Science Expo on the Monrovia High School campus. Various groups including the local ham radio operators, JPL, Rockwell Collins, the Planetary Society along with others set up informational booths to introduce students to various aspects
City of Azusa receives $653,000 grant from MTA
of science and space exploration. At the expo students were able to ask questions of engineers an other scientist involved in space exploration. There were laser demonstrations, re-
The City of Azusa has been awarded a $653,000 grant from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority under the Fiscal Year 2012-13 Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Planning Grant Round 3. The funding will be used for a multi-year effort that analyzes the areas within a quarter mile of the two Azusa Gold Line stations and proposes regulatory changes to promote transit oriented development. A major component of this effort will be to have land use planning based economist to begin the process of analyzing the areas surrounding the two Azusa Gold Line stations and, in addition to determining the highest and best use of areas surround the stations, analyzing the five previous Redevelopment Agency property areas held by the City. Final reports are expected to include analysis of the economic climate, retail and housing trends, the highest and best use of
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Tim Thompson ( retired from JPL ) and Shelly Bonus who enthusiastically led the event Tuesday look on as the students talk to the astronauts on the International Space Station. -Photo by Terry Miller
BY SUSAN MOTANDER Monrovia High School and its Math and Science Academy (MASA) brought the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) a little closer to home for many Monrovia school students.
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San Gabriel city election Teacher layoffs protested in El Monte Liao joins incumbent Kevin Sawkins
BY SHEL SEGAL In a surprising turn of pared to De La Torre’s 19.2 events, now that provisional percent, meaning Liao reballots have been counted in ceived strong support in prothe San Gabriel City Munici- visional and mail-in balloting pal Election from Tuesday, it counted since press time on appears that candidate Chin Wednesday. Ho Liao has unseated incumLiao joins incumbent bent Mario De La Torre for Kevin Sawkins – a member the third and final seat for the of the so-called “Team San San Gabriel City Council, ac- Gabriel” – and business attorcording to the San Gabriel ney Jason Pu on the council. City Clerk’s office on Thurs- Sawkins has now received day. 20.5 percent of the vote, Liao has received 20.3 while Pu garnered 21.3 perpercent of the vote as com- cent.
BY DENA BURROUGHS Students, teachers, and residents protested teacher layoffs on Mar. 6 during the El Monte Union High School District (EMUHSD) Board meeting. People spilled out of the meeting chambers while their “Educate Not Edu-Cut!” chants could be heard from down the block. Dozens carried posters telling passerby cars to “Hunk if you love teachers,” and “Don’t cut teachers… It hurts.” Please see page 5
Students, teachers, and parents demonstrate outside the EMUHSD quarters on March 6. -Photo by Dena Burroughs