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Thursday, OCTOBER 27, - NOVEMBER 2, 2011
Community News, Arts & Opinions Since 1996
Advertise your business here. Call 626.301.1010 Volume XVI, No. XXXXIII
San Gabriel Promise Made to Army Buddy 59 Years ago Fulfilled … School With the Help of Good old Google Board All it took was a little help from his wife and the little search engine that could Candidate Assaulted at School Carnival Files Police Report Against Scott Svonkin
Scott Svonkin, pictured here at a Los Angeles County Schools Teacher of the Year event allegedly assaulted school board candidate Andrew Ammon Saturday
-Photo by Terry Miller
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an Gabriel School Board Candidate Andrew Ammon, 25, attended a school carnival at Coolidge Saturday afternoon, not as a candidate running for school board but this
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Beverly and David Mills say that without Google they may never have found the owner of the ring he had held for 59 years -Photo by Terry Miller
By Terry Miller n November 15, 1952 Rosemead resident Arvin David Mills received his draft notice to report to Fort Snelling in Minneapolis. From there he was transfered to Fort Knox, Kentucky
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Hundreds Protest Trader Joe's in Monrovia On Friday, October 21, after a noon picket and rally at the Huntington Plaza Trader Joe’s, Florida farm workers and their student, faith and community allies marched past the store in Huntington Plaza and then to Trader Joe’s corporate headquarters for one of the “largest CIW rally in California since the successful conclusion of the
Taco Bell Boycott.” Farm workers and consumers holding various signs marched a mile together at the fast-growing company’s headquarters to express their impatience with Trader Joe’s refusal to participate in the widelyacclaimed Fair Food Program and organizers plan
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where he was to specialize in rifle training. During those 16 weeks of training Mills made many friends but one in particular stuck in his memory all these years. This man, Peter Herz-
ing was from St. Mary’s PA. After completing basic training they received their respective orders, Mills was the only one who was ordered to stay stateside. He was an Expert Rifleman and was or-
dered to teach stateside. It was a tense time in military lives as the Korean War was taking center stage and most men drafted assumed they were going into combat - with a very strong possibility
they might not come back. Bonds were quickly formed and trust and honor was not an exception, it was the unwritten rule.
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Police Shut Down a State-of-the Art Hydroponic Marijuana Operation
Pasadena Man Appointed Deputy Director of California Toxic Substance Control by Governor Brown
The Pasadena Police Department’s narcotic’s team ended a two month investigation by serving a series of search warrants in the cities of Baldwin Park, North Hollywood and Pasadena. The culmination of the investigation led to the seizure of over 125 cul-
Brian Johnson, 56, of Pasadena, has been appointed deputy director for enforcement at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Johnson has been the principal partner for ICF Consulting since 2007. He served as the manager for the envi-
tivated Marijuana plants, packaged Marijuana for purpose of sales and U.S. currency. Narcotic investigators discovered a sophisticated hydroponic Marijuana facility in Baldwin Park that
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ronmental division for the City of Santa Monica from 2001 to 2006, after serving as an environmental coordinator from 1988 to 2001. This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $126,588. Johnson is a Democrat.