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Tournament Of Roses® Announces New Executive Director/ Chief Executive Officer

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2016 - DECEMBER 11, 2016 - VOLUME 9, NO. 49

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles Announce Partnership With LAPD Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles (BBBSLA) President and CEO Tiffany Siart announced a partnership with the Los Angeles Police Department, part of a national mentorship program titled Bigs in Blue, at a press conference at LAPD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. The program pairs law enforcement volunteers, “Bigs”, with children in local communities, or “Littles”. Bigs in Blue provides adult friendship, support and encouragement, as well as positive interaction with members of the LAPD, to young people in underserved communities. The event also recognized the support by the Los Angeles Rams NFL football team to the Bigs in Blue and to BBBSLA. Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) is the nation’s oldest mentorship program, with a mission of pairing children facing adversity, with one on one mentorship relationships. BBBSA recognized a growing need for improved communication and understanding between law enforcement and communities of color and developed Bigs in Blue, now being rolled out in participating cities nationally, in response. BBBSLA realizes that building relationships of trust between young people of Los Angeles and the LAPD will affect lasting and positive change in community relations. "We know that develop-

ing a relationship between law enforcement and vulnerable communities through the power of mentorship can effect transformative change. We have already seen firsthand the life-changing impact that LAPD Bigs, already in our program, have made in the lives of their Littles. And also the incredible impact those littles have made in the lives of their Bigs”, said Tiffany Siart. Charlie Beck, Chief of Police, speaking on behalf of the LAPD, has signed a five-year agreement to provide departmental support to recruit Bigs in Blue mentors from among officers and staff, especially male officers. The mission is to commit a minimum of 20 “Bigs” per year for the period of the agreement. The LAPD partnership goal is to provide positive and supportive role models to boys and girls, inspire community trust, and reduce the incidents of juvenile crime, drug and alcohol use, truancy and other at risk behavior. “Being a trusted community resource is built one relationship at a time. It is more crucial than ever for us to engage with our youth in meaningful ways, particularly with kids in underserved communities, so they have an early, and positive experience with law enforcement, one they may not have had before. The Bigs in Blue of the LAPD

The House of Representatives recently passed H.R. 34, the 21st Century Cures Act, by a vote of 392-26. Over the next ten years, this bill will provide billions of dollars for medical research, includ-

ing $1.8 billion for the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative and $1 billion over two years for grants to states to help combat the opioid epidemic. Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27) voted for the bill and released

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Groundbreaking Ceremony for Marshall Park The City of San Gabriel will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 8 to celebrate the beginning of work on the new Marshall Park. This is the first new park space built in the city in at least two decades, and it will be the first park located south of Valley Boulevard. The 2.24 acre park will be built on the site of the old John Marshall Elementary School, which closed in 2012. The project was made possible through an agreement with the Garvey Unified School District. The Marshall Park project is funded by $4.6 million a grant the city received in SEE PAGE 2

Friends of Foster Children Opens Sugar Plum Trees at Santa Anita Mall

Charlie Beck. - Photo by Terry Miller

21st Century Cures Act to Provide Medical Research Dollars the following statement: “I am proud to support this bipartisan bill that will help advance research and treatments that can save millions of lives. America is a global leader in medical

research, and robust government support has always been essential to that. But even the best medical breakthrough will not help patients if it is too expensive to access, which is why I am troubled

that this bill does not address the skyrocketing drug prices being charged by some pharmaceutical companies. Still, there is much in this legisla-

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Friends of Foster Children (FOFC) is proudly celebrating 40 active years in our community, and 40 years of its annual Sugar Plum project benefiting local youth in foster care during the holiday season. Through December 14th, Friends of Foster Children is at Arcadia’s Westfield Santa Anita Mall. Near Nordstrom on the first floor, FOFC has three Christmas trees loaded with holiday gift wishes from children and local foster youth facilities. Get in the spirit of giving by taking a wish from one of the trees and bringing back an unwrapped SEE PAGE 2


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