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COMPLIMENTARY COPY VOLUME 20, NO. 8
Nominations for Veteran of the Year Sought
Assembly Member Holden is seeking nominations to honor the 41st Assembly District’s 2016 Veteran of the Year. The program has been developed to honor a Veteran from the 41st District whose community service and work have made a positive impact. The 41st Assembly District includes Altadena, Claremont, La Verne, Monrovia, Pasadena, San Dimas, Sierra Madre, South Pasadena, Upland, and portions of Mt. Baldy and Rancho Cucamonga. In order to qualify, the Veteran must reside or perform community service within the 41st Assembly District. The Veteran may be nominated by a resident or representative from a school, private and nonprofit organization, municipality, chamber of commerce, and/or any other organization within the 41st Assembly District (no self-nominations please). One Veteran will be selected and recognized in Sacramento at a recognition ceremony in June 2016. Please think about a Veteran who is positively contributing to the community. Deadline is March 24, 2016. For more information, please contact Matthew Lyons at Matthew. Lyons@asm.ca.gov or (909) 624-7876.
‘Spamalot’ Comes to Monrovia High School BY SUSAN MOTANDER The Monrovia High School drama department is mounting a production of ‘Spamalot’ next week on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings. All three performances will be at 7 p.m. in the Taylor Performing Arts
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Herb Stevens, 95, was a formal Naval officer whose offical title was ‘ Specialist X.’ Stevens was based in Vienna, Austria under Navy Captain Winterholler.
Opinion: Cheerleading Mother Fuming at Monrovia High School BY STEPHANIE ROSA Cheerleading is a sport most schools support as they do the other sports they host. At Monrovia High School this is not the case. Cheer is always overlooked by the administration and has undergone major changes year after year. A team is only as good as its leadership. I personally believe administration is in charge of the overall
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team and leadership should start there. This is my daughter’s second year on MHS cheer and it has been a fight from day one. I thought this would be a great experience for her to learn teamwork, grow sisterly bonds, and do something she enjoyed. However, what we got was miscommunication, lack of leaderSEE PAGE 12
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The Old Town Report BY PAM FITZPATRICK Monrovians embrace change – we just don’t like to be there when it happens! We get a little nervous during election time; we get fussy when the coffee changes at our favorite restaurant, and we definitely don't like changes to our local events. Time to brace ourselves: change is comSEE PAGE 13