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CERT Training coming to South El Monte in December
Monrovia WEEKLY Temple MONDAY, DECEMBER 2 - DECEMBER 8, 2013 VOLUME 18, NO. 48
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Breakfast with Santa and Holiday Snow Festival in Arcadia - Saturday, Dec. 7
Temple Sheriff’s Station, in partnership with the City of South El Monte, is hosting a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training course. The CERT program is an all-risk, all-hazard training. This valuable course is designed to help you protect yourself, your family, your neighbors and your neighborhood in an emergency situation. CERT is a positive and realistic approach to emergency and disaster situations where citizens may initially be on their own and their actions can make a difference. While people will respond to others in need without the training, one goal of the CERT program is to help them do so effectively and efficiently without placing themselves in unnecessary danger.
An Arcadia tradition, breakfast with Santa on Saturday, December 7th at the Arcadia Community Center, 365 Campus Drive will delight area children. Breakfast with Santa is $10 per person and includes breakfast, photos with Santa (one photo ticket per child only) and holiday entertainment. There will be two options for breakfast: 8:30-9:30am (#10276) or 10:30-11:30am (#10277). Registration is underway and space is limited. You can register by walk-in, mail-in or online, just go to the City’s website at www.ci.arcadia. ca.us under the Recreation and Community Services Department. The breakfast fills up quickly so get your registration requests in to assure your spot! For new registrants, please remember to include your proof of residency/child’s birth with your forms and online submittals, if you have not already done so. This information is required and will delay the process if not provided. For more information, please contact
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2014, there will be more carnival rides and new entertainment for all ages, including live band performances on Saturday and Sunday and food trucks on Friday. There will be a Temple City High School “All Class” Reunion as well as a Reunion for Past Camellia Festival Royalty. This year’s theme “OH THE BOOKS I CAN READ!” was suggested by theme winner, Aidan Garner, a First Grader at Emperor Elementary and announced by General Chairperson of the Camellia Festival of Temple City for 2014, Dawn Tarin at the October 24th Kick-Off attended by committee members and local dignitaries. The
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Human remains found in Basset and Carson belong to San Gabriel Valley woman The human remains found at two Los Angeles County water treatment plants in Basset and Carson have been identified as 27-year-old Erin Lynn Cruz of the East San Gabriel Valley. Cruz was last seen alive in the La Puente area during the late evening hours on Wednesday, October 23, 2013. The cause of death has not been determined. Sheriff’s Homicide detectives are asking that anyone who saw the victim after the 23rd of October or has any information about this incident to please contact Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at
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Temple City Camellia Festival Committee invites you to join them in celebrating the 70th Annual Camellia Festival Ever wonder where the phrase “Temple City Home of the Camellias” originated? Well it all happened 70 years ago when in 1944 the Women’s Club of Temple City chose a flower and slogan for the community and put it to work by crowning a Queen (eight month Sharon Ray Pearson) who was then driven down Las Tunas Drive escorted by a handful of Camp Fire Girls handing out Camellia blossoms to pedestrians. While this humble celebration has blossomed over the years, it continues to be a celebration of the youth in our community. This year, to celebrate the 70th Annual Camellia Festival, which will take place February 21-23,
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Festival Committee invited youth groups and organizations who are interested in becoming a part of this landmark celebration through building a float, marching in the parade, or operating a game or novelty booth to turn in application as soon as possible at the Camellia Festival Office as deadlines are fast approaching. In addition, if you are a First Grader in the Temple City Unified School District, or reside in Temple City, you can be part of the Camellia Festival Royal Court. Royal Court Applications must be turned in to the Camellia Festival office no later than December Please see page 7
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Student leader of the 1989 pro-democracy hopes to return to China to visit aging parents Wu'er Kaixi, one of the ten most wanted student leaders of the 1989 pro-democracy movement in China declares his intention to turn himself in to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region authority of China as he attempts to enter Hong Kong on November 24, 2013. Wu'er Kaixi has not seen his parents in 24 years. “Friends, Hong Kong Citizens, Greetings! I, Wu’er Kaixi, am subject to a most-wanted warrant issued by the Chinese government in 1989 by the Beijing Public Security Bureau and promulgated as an edict nationwide by the Ministry of Public Security. I hereby make an appeal to the Hong Kong
SAR and to the world. I am willing to turn myself in to the Chinese authorities. I urge the SAR government, based on Chinese law, and by my own agreement, to exercise its judicial power and extradite me to the Chinese authorities. As someone who is wanted by the Chinese government, why am I attempting turning myself in to the Chinese government, and why am I doing it in Hong Kong, which has its own laws, according to the constitutional principle of “One Country, Two Systems?” Moreover, why am I doing this in transit at Hong Kong International Airport? The reason is because it is my
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