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MORE ELECTION RESULTS pasadenaindependent.com Thursday, NOVEMBER 07 - NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Voter turnout low in Monrovia:

Volume 18, No. 45

Community News, Arts & Opinions Since 1996

Two days at the races:

30th Annual Breeders' Cup brings exciting racing to Santa Anita

Williams and Zucco elected to MUSD

Kang knocks out Reyes from Duarte Council New blood forced one incumbent out of Duarte city council Tuesday in the election for three spots on the Duarte City Council. The Mayor and one other keep their seats. Samuel Kang, a firsttime candidate, came in second place and earned 18 percent of the votes in Tuesday’s election. Mayor Margaret Finlay topped the ticket with 21 percent of the votes and incumbent Tzeitel ParasCaracci took the third and final seat with 17 percent of the votes.

San Gabriel election results surprise many By Shel Segal

nose victory over Will Take Charge in the $5 million Classic at 1 ¼ miles on Nov. 2. It was the second Grade I win at the meet for Mucho

The three candidates endorsed by the San Gabriel Teachers Association were elected to the San Gabriel Unified School District Board of Education in Tuesday’s election. Gary Thomas Scott led all vote getters with 29.58 percent of the vote, Philip Hu received 28.96 percent of the vote and Ken Tcheng got 23.93 percent of the vote. Not making the cut was Maribel ArreolaGonzalez, who received 17.63 percent of the vote. Tcheng said he is excited to now be on the board. “I’m really happy with the result,” he said. “I’m happy and excited to get rolling. Priority number one is to get our arms around the local control funding formula

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By Susan Motander Newcomer Terrance Williams will join incumbent Alexandra Zucco on the Monrovia Unified School District Board. The two received the top number of votes in Tuesday’s off-season election which drew only 3285 voters of the 24,480 registered voters in the district. The final vote tallies were: T. G. Williams 1,127 34.31% Alexandra Zucco 933 28.40% Ryhiyyih N. Yuille 732 22.28% Scott K. Pomrehn 493 15.01% Williams and Zucco will not be sworn in until the December meeting of the Board.

INSIDE

Sierra Madre jockey Gary Stevens came out of retirement to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic Saturday aboard Mucho Macho Man. -Photo by Terry Miller

By Terry Miller Record crowds filled the stands at Santa Anita for the 30th annual Breeders’ Cup Classic thoroughbred horse races – one of the

most prestigious events in the horse racing industry. Climaxed by a Breeders’ Cup Classic that “typified everything that’s right about Thoroughbred racing--the beauty, the drama

Neil stays in Sierra Madre Rooster rescued By Terry Miller

and the rhythmic oneness of both horse and rider” --Mucho Macho Man was a near-unanimous choice as Horse of the Meet in Santa Anita’s Autumn Media Poll, by virtue of his thrilling

EXCLUSIVE Former Temple City Mayor, Cathé Wilson, 81: Life after serving 2 years in prison

By Terry Miller

on the Neil the Pig story in this week's Sierra Madre Weekly. Our guy who edits the paper, Terry Miller, did some digging and came up with the guilty parties. And

Paramedics and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies rushed to treat former Temple City mayor Cathé Wilson in a Los Angeles court room June 22, 2011 after she screamed and convulsed when a judge sentenced her to four years in state prison on bribery and perjury charges. Wilson, then 78, buried her face in her hands and then appeared to gag and shake in her chair as Los Angeles

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-Photo by Terry Miller

Just ask Neil the pig: Flattery will get you on page one! According to our friends over at Sierra Madre Tattler, John Crawford’s post last week, our cover story on Neil was a hit. “There is some very good reporting

-Photo by Terry Miller


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