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Go to PasadenaPress.com for Pasadena Specific News MONDAY, APRIL 15 - APRIL 21, 2019
VOLUME 5, NO. 15
11TH ANNUAL ECLECTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL AND ARTS CRAWL SLATED APRIL 27 BY TERRY MILLER
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he Eclectic Music Festival and Arts Crawl returns to South Pasadena city streets and this time, organizers have turned the volume up to 11 to coin Spinal Tap’s famous line. Timing couldn’t be better for the festival’s 11th year, as two major music events in Pasadena’s Rose Bowl have been postponed. The Rolling Stones had to postpone their U.S. tour which included The Rose Bowl due to Sir Mick Jagger’s heart valve replacement…No worries “I’m on the mend, “Jagger said in a tweet post-surgery. The other major event, The Arroyo Fest, has also been postponed. Not to worry, as South Pasadena has got you covered for a great spring plethora of musical talent all within one day. Lots of great local talent and some big names truly spell out a hit for this year’s Eclectic Fest. Last year, a recordbreaking 60 acts performed on multiple stages around
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The Gin Blossoms will headline the Eclectic Festival in South Pasadena April 27. – Courtesy photo
Missing Hikers Found Safe in San Bernardino Mountains A search team in Cucamonga Canyon found two sets of footprints and began following them. The search team alerted the command post and provided coordinates for the Sheriff’s helicopter, 40King, to fly over the area. The aviation crew spotted a camp fire and two people who they believe were the two missing hikers, Eric Desplinter and Gabrielle Wallace. The crew
prepared for a hoist rescue. It was confirmed these were the two hikers that had been lost for nearly five days. Eric and Gabrielle were flown to the Mt. Baldy Fire Station where they were reunited with their families and loved ones, then evaluated by paramedics to determine if they need further
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Orange County Woman Sentenced to Federal Prison or Unemployment Insurance Fraud A woman was sentenced to 54 months in federal prison for defrauding the state’s unemployment insurance program out of more than one-half million dollars by using stolen identities to submit dozens of bogus claims for “employees” who supposedly worked at sham companies.
Rolanda Ashley, 49, of Anaheim, was sentenced by United States District Judge John A. Kronstadt, who also ordered her to pay $547,904 in restitution to her victims. Ashley pleaded guilty in October 2018 to one felony count of mail
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FORMER WEST COVINA MAYOR FOUND DEAD IN ONTARIO HOTEL According to numerous reports, West Covina Mayor Mike Spence was found dead in an Ontario Hotel room Thursday. The cause of death is not official but speculation is that he may have overdosed on drugs. Last year he was found unconscious at a Holiday Inn Express in the 2000
block of Newport Boulevard shortly after midnight surrounded by drug paraphernalia, authorities said at the time. Officials released a 911 call from the incident in which a woman told an operator, "He may have overdosed. I would say heroin. "Spence was not arrested at the time.