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Deputies Government shutdown is over, White House says take down illegal indoor marijuana grow in Temple City; guns recovered in Covina On Tuesday, October 15, 2013, at 2pm, Investigators from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Operation Safe Streets Bureau - Asian Gang Team executed a fourlocation search warrant after a two-month long illegal cultivation of marijuana investigation in Temple City, unincorporated community of Valinda, and city of Covina. Over two hundred marijuana plants and cultivation equipment were seized from the residence at the 4800 block of Glickman Avenue in Temple City. An AK-47 type assault rifle, and an AR-15 type assault rifle, along with a handgun, were seized from Please see page 6

Wednesday, President Obama signed legislation to reopen our government and pay our bills. “Because Democrats and responsible Republicans came together, the first government shutdown in 17 years is now over,” he said today in the White House Press Briefing room. “The

first default in more than 200 years will not happen. These twin threats to our economy have been lifted.” There was no economic rationale for all this, President Obama said. “Over the past four years, our economy has been growing, our businesses have been creating

makes and enforces all rules, regulations, and bylaws necessary for the administration, government and protection of the Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library. The Board meets the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. in the Friends Room of the Library. Meetings are usually about two hours in length. Special meetings may be scheduled as needed. Applications are available at the Monterey Park City Clerk's office located in the lobby of City Hall at 320 W. Newmark Avenue, Monterey Park or on the Commissions, Committees

& Boards section of the city website at www.ci.montereypark.ca.us. Deadline for application submissions is November 7, 2013. The Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library is the city's public library located at 318 South Ramona Avenue, Monterey Park, CA 91754. Library hours are: Sunday 1-5 p.m.; Monday & Tuesday 12-9 p.m.; Wednesday & Thursday 10 a.m.-6: p.m.; Friday 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; and closed on Saturday. For more City of Monterey Park news and information, please visit the city website at www. ci.monterey-park.ca.us.

jobs, and our deficits have been cut in half,” he said, “but nothing has done more to undermine our economy these past three years than the kind of tactics that create these manufactured crises.” The way business is done in Washington has to change, President Obama said.

‘Oh thank heaven’ … you can now pay Glendale bills at a convenience store

Because we’ve all got a lot of work to do on behalf of the American people – and that includes the hard work of regaining their trust. Our system of self-government doesn’t function without it. And now that the government is reopened, and this

Glendale Water & Power (GWP) customers can now pay their GWP bill, in cash at any nearby 7-Eleven store. The utility partnered with Pay Near Me, a California based cash payment processing network. Pay Near Me gives GWP customers the convenience of paying their utility bill 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in less than 60 seconds at any 7-Eleven store. Each GWP bill will have its own unique bar code printed on the back of the bill. Customers will now have the convenience of taking their GWP bill to any 7-Eleven store, have the clerk scan the bar code on the back of the bill, and customers can pay any amount up to the total in cash only, for a small convenience fee of $2.99 per transaction. Each bill

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President Barack Obama makes remarks in the Press Briefing Room at the White House, Oct. 16, 2013. -Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

Seat open on the Library Board of Trustees for the Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library Applications are now being accepted for a vacancy on the five-member Board of Trustees for the Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library. It is for a three-year term. Applicants must be a City resident and a registered voter. The applicants are interviewed and appointed by the City Council at a Council Meeting. The appointee does not receive any compensation and can be reappointed for another consecutive three-year term by the City Council when his or her term expires. Under Municipal Code 2.80.050, the five-member Library Board

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Pomona Council deadlocked on solid waste ‘Transfer Station’ in residential neighborhood West Covina is one of many cities considering this transfer of refuse BY TERRY MILLER For almost 2 years the institutions of Inland Empire Sponsoring Committee have brawled to keep a regional waste transfer station from being built in Pomona. They won at the Planning Commission, but the applicant appealed to the City Council. Recently only two council members voted against certification of the Please see page 2

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