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PASADENA PODCASTING KCET BOOK CLUB
THE CHANGING FACE OF ARCADIA
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Team Tanzania Looks Forward to Upcoming 10th Trip to Africa
To date, more than 120 professionals - physicians, specialists, surgeons, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, laboratorians, veterinarians, administrators, carpenters, school teachers and school children, and many other talented people have given their time and talents to the people of Tanzania. - Courtesy Photo
VA Long Beach Celebrates Veteran Survivors of Cancer
Veteran’s Affairs (VA) Long Beach Healthcare System (VALBHS) and more than 200 Veteran cancer survivors, as well as those currently in treatment, celebrated life after cancer last
Wednesday, Feb. 3. The formal ceremony began at 2 p.m., including remarks from Michael W. Fisher, Medical Center director, and comments from a Veteran survivor of can-
Kimberly A. Shriner, M.D., founder and director of the Huntington Hospitalbased non-profit The Phil Simon Clinic, a multidisciplinary facility that provides comprehensive medical and psychosocial care for persons infected with HIV, always knew she wanted to go to Africa after watching the feature film “Born Free” as a child. Though she was not sure when, how, or why her travels would take her there. But as an old Tanzanian proverb says, “A wise person will always find a way.” And so she did in a most remarkable process; turning what started as a small passion project into a more than decade long journey spanning two continents and changing thousands of lives along the way. Enter The Phil Simon Clinic Tanzania Project. Its goal: for Shriner and her team of volunteers to work in conjunction with several government and private health care facilities in Arusha, Tanzania, to provide clinical care, education, psychosocial support, and infrastructure assistance to those agencies involved in HIV/AIDS, internal medicine, and orthopedic and reconstructive surgery. The project began in 2000 at a time when the HIV epidemic was raging SEE PAGE 6
Monrovia Fire Chief Resigns to Take Over Chief Role in El Segundo
cer, who shared his story. After the formal ceremony, the event advanced to an information fair, with Yoga, Tai-Chi, and Healing Touch SEE PAGE 3
BY SUSAN MOTANDER Monrovia’s Fire Chief Chris Donovan has resigned, effective Feb. 11. He will be taking over the role of fire chief for the City of El Seg-
undo. Donovan who has been Monrovia’s chief for 10 years said he appreciated his time here, but that he is looking forward to new challenges with his new position. “I’ll
be trading the Wildland Urban Interface for high-rises and an oil refinery,” Donovan said. He explained that he SEE PAGE 5