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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2015 - DECEMBER 6, 2015 - VOLUME 20, NO. 48
Foothill Unity Center Annual Thanksgiving Distribution Feeds 600 Families
Volunteers assist Foothill Unity clients with their food packages which, of course, included the all-important Pumpkin Pie Monday morning.
– Photo by Terry Miller
The annual Thanksgiving distribution to large families took place at the Ayres Hall at the Arboretum Monday. Pre-registered families of three people or more were provided with their Thanksgiving food box at the Ayres Hall. This is a combination of families from the Pasadena and Monrovia distribution sites. The clients are from the 11 cities the Center services including Arcadia, Altadena, Baldwin Park, Duarte, Azusa, Monrovia, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, Irwindale, and South Pasadena. Distribution to small families of one to two individuals took place at both sites, Pasadena/191 N. Oak Ave., Monrovia/ 415 W. Chestnut Ave. Each year hundreds of volunteers help out those less fortunate and help Foothill Unity feed thousands in need in our immediate area.
‘Hairspray’ Is a Learning Experience Pasadena City Attorney Accused of Fraud in Conjunction BY SUSAN MOTANDER With McDade Litigation
Monrovia Unified School District is sponsoring another musical this holiday season, but in so doing, more than just an entertaining experience is being produced. Fittingly, there is a learning experience going on as well. This time, the production is Hairspray with four performances on Friday, Dec. 4 at 8 p.m., on Saturday Dec, 5 at 2 and 8 p.m. and finally on Sunday, Dec. 6 at 5 p.m. While several Monrovia High School students are in the cast including China Simpson in the pivotal role of Little Inez, there are even more students working behind the scenes learning stage-raft, a truly marketable skill. Leading and teach-
ing them is Martin Tyler, a Monrovia High School graduate whose first lessons in the field were learned in the high school. After graduating from MHS in 2008 Tyler began working behind the scenes at the Orange County Pavilion, an elegant event center featuring major productions and well-known entertainers. After working throughout this area in the technical aspects of staging productions especially sound and lighting, Tyler returned to MHS to share his knowledge with students. Some of the students have been working for several years on the musicals and other productions at MHS. Among them is Jennifer Little who has been on the
“tech team” for three years. She said part of the reason she enjoys working without the glory of being on stage is the sense of accomplishment she feels when a production is staged. “I like the feeling I get when a show is complete,” she said. Daniel Ramirez who has been working behind the scenes for two years said, “It is cool to see what goes on behind the main show.” Ramirez is finishing his last year at MHS before joining the Marine Corps on its deferred enlistment program. A “newbee” to the tech class is Jorge Loera who is working with his first production this season. His SEE PAGE 5
In court papers filed Tuesday in the Public Records Act litigation over release of the Office of Independent Review Group (“OIR”) Report on the Pasadena Police Department killing of unarmed AfricanAmerican youth Kendrec McDade, the Pasadena City Attorney’s Office was accused of fraudulently misrepresenting that there was an administrative investigation of the killing when there was no such investigation. The court papers were filed by attorneys for McDade’s mother Anya Slaughter and Pasadena organizations seeking police reform,
Pasadena City Attorney Michelle Bagneris. – Photo by Terry Miller
who are Interveners in the lawsuit initiated by the Pasadena Police Officers Association which tried to sup-
press the entire OIR Report. The Interveners’ attorneys cited portions of the OIR Report whose release they obtained a week ago indicating that the Pasadena PD did not conduct any administrative investigation but rather just “repackaged” information from a previous criminal investigation in what the PD called an “administrative review.” However, the court papers allege, as soon as the Pasadena City Attorney began its efforts to redact the OIR Report, they began referring to the process in Court papers as an “administrative invesSEE PAGE 5