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BUSINESS PROFILE:

ARCADIA:

A Flea in Her Ear

EpicSpaces

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EDUCATION:

Arcadia Unified School District Announces 2015-16 Teacher of the Year Pg. 30

COMPLIMENTARY COPY VOLUME 19, NO. 37

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Thursday, September 17, 2015 - September 23, 2015

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Everything’s Coming Up Roses

Royal Court Hopefuls Descend on Tournament House in Search of Adventure BY TERRY MILLER

Several hundred ‘selfies’ were the big order of the day as hundreds try out for a coveted spot on the Royal Court.

– Photo by Terry Miller

Part II - Monrovia History: Doña Lucinda Garcia and Big Jim Espinosa

Without trying to being too cliché, it really is time to stop and smell the roses in Pasadena … particularly at Tournament House, Pasadena’s answer to Buckingham Palace, where officials have been very droughtconscious yet managed to maintain the spectacular rose garden in time for the 2016 Rose Court tryouts. Hundreds of young women (plus a couple of brave young men) started the long, nail-biting process Saturday after which several hundred ‘selfies’ were the big order of the day. And,

where better? The Rose Garden, of course. The fun continued Tuesday as hundreds more compete for a position on the seven-member court of Pasadena’s Royalty. While hundreds of Pasadena-area young women interviewed for the prospect to be part of the 2016 Tournament of Roses Royal Court Saturday, participants from Pasadena and surrounding communities also vie to represent their communities, schools and SEE PG. 18

Foothill Gold Line Monrovia Station Dedication Draws Hundreds

BU SUSIE LING By the early 1900s, there was a small MexicanAmerican community in Monrovia. It wasn’t until the 1970s that the MexicanAmerican population grew larger than Monrovia’s African-American community. Faced with racial discrimination and economic hardships, Mexican-Americans helped each other and formed a tight social network. Two of the leaders of this pioneering community were Lucinda Garcia and

James Espinosa. “My grandmother, Lucinda Valentine Garcia, was born on Valentine’s Day in 1880 in Pomona,” said Rosalind Olivas. Lucinda was the granddaughter of Ygnacio Palomares of Rancho San Jose. In fact, her bloodline goes back to Roque Jacinto de Cota (1724-1798), one of the Spanish soldiers that accompanied the original 44 pobladores, or settlers, SEE PG. 16

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- Photo by Trevor Stamp

Olivas of Monrovia.

- Photo courtesy of Henry Olivas, Jr

The Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority dedicated the Monrovia Station in a ceremony this Sat-

Now Open! 11am-10pm Daily ~ Lunch, Happy Hour, Dinner

urday, Sept. 12, 2015. This and other station dedicaSEE PG. 17


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