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‘The Best-Laid Schemes of Mice and Men Gang Aft Agley’ From ‘Tae a Moose’ by Rabbie Burns BY SUSAN MOTANDER
Congresswoman Grace Napolitano and Steve Baker flank Monrovia City Manager Oliver Chi (Center) speaking with KGEM’s Ralph Walker on the inaugural Foothill Extension train ride from City of Hope on Saturday. – Photo by Terry Miller
The Street Rods Seem to Be Staying, But Rudy leaves BY STAFF WRITER For most of the last 25 years, Street Rods Forever has run a car show in downtown Monrovia. A group of merchants in the downtown
allege that the car show last year was not well run. They proposed that the merchants themselves sponsor the car show with the proceeds going to support the Business Improvement District.
Apparently at the urging of a few merchants in the downtown area, Pam Fitzpatrick applied for a special events permit and street SEE PAGE 23
The Old Town Report BY PAM FITZPATRICK Hurray for a successful opening day of our longawaited Gold Line! Too bad about the glitch that temporarily interrupted service from the Monrovia station to Pasadena, but in the long run, this short interruption
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As the great Scots poet Robert Burns noted, “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry,” (rough translation from the Scots by this writer). Such was the case with the Gold Line opening. After all the dignitaries had an opportunity to congratulate each other on bringing the extension of the Gold Line from Pasadena to Azusa on time and within budget, and after the ribbon had been cut, and after thousand lined up throughout the afternoon and evening last Saturday, the line was shut down from Arcadia to Pasadena for almost 24 hours. In the early morning hours of Sunday a big rig lost control going westbound on the 210 Freeway, jumped the center divider, and damaged the light right line. Fortunately no trains were involved and the driver of the truck was able to walk away. According to the Pasadena Fire Department, the truck was fully engulfed in flames when they arrived at the scene. The car pool and left
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will be only a memory. Speaking of the Gold Line, for the last two years I have been asked repeatedly what I think the Gold Line will do “to”, rather than do SEE PAGE 14
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