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Gloria Molina termed out – Hilda Solis favored for County Supervisor
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Holden honors Sierra Madre holocaust survivor Helen Rotenberg Lewin
The Fab Four's Roots are in Temple City
BY SHEL SEGAL It’s been a long time in coming, but for the first time since the first Bush administration there will be a new Los Angeles County supervisor from the First District. Term limits are forcing longtime Supervisor Gloria Molina to say goodbye to the post that covers a large portion of the San Gabriel Valley and East Los Angeles County. Vying for the seat is one very-known name and two others trying to win the ticket to the Board of Supervisors, according to a published report.
Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena) Monday honored Holocaust survivor Helen Rotenberg Lewin of Sierra Madre at a ceremony at the State Capitol. For the past ten years, the California State Assembly has honored survivors and their families during Please see page 30
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The Fab Four have played around the world as John Paul George and Ringo as this mock-up of the Let It Be album depicts. -Photos by Terry Miller
BY SHEL SEGAL They might have been inspired from the Lads from Liverpool, but the Fab Four can actually trace its roots to the musical hotbed of Temple City. Founded by 1989 Temple City High School graduate Ardy Sarraf, the group started from modest beginnings before growing. “We got started about 1996 in L.A. at a Beatle convention called ‘Beatle Fest,’” Sarraf said. “My group
from Temple City High School that included Mike McCarthy and Steve Welch, we just there just to play some Beatles’ songs in a battle of the bands. We didn’t dress up like the Beatles. We didn’t talk like them. We just played some songs. And we won.” Sarraf said the band just kept getting better and better. “We won four years in a row and that got the attention of some professional Beatle tribute guys,” he said. From there Sarraf said he got to travel to many
different countries and places as a Beatle, like Japan, Korea, Canada and even getting to play for U.S. military installations in Guam. As he is Paul McCartney on stage – but a natural righthander – Sarraf said he had to take the time to re-teach himself how to play lefthanded guitar and bass as to be more authentic in the band’s shows. “I taught myself how to play left-handed guitar,” Sarraf said. “I bought a lefthanded Hofner bass and
spent six or seven months just trying to get the chords down, the rhythm of that down and how to hold it.” While Sarraf said he started his musical career at church, it was a historical event that changed his life forever in many ways. “As a kid I grew up in choir and churches and stuff,” Sarraf said. “But when John Lennon was killed in 1980 I remember my sister had a scrap book with all Please see page 31
$2.5 Million contract advances design for the 12.3 mile Azusa to Montclair light rail project At their April meeting, the Foothill Gold Line board of directors unanimously voted to award a $2.5 million contract to the AECOM team for the next phase Please see page 17
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