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Glendale beeline - first to operate entire low floor fleet Glendale Beeline has purchased ten new low floor compressed natural gas (CNG) transit buses. The low floor transit buses provide step free entrance ways, offering improved passenger accessibility and maneuverability. “With the December delivery, Glendale Beeline becomes the first public transit agency in Los Angeles County to operate with an entire fleet of low floor buses,” stated Kathryn Engel, Transit Manager for the City. The low floor entrances make it easier for passengers of all abilities to board the bus. Faster passenger boarding reduces dwell time at the bus stops and improves travel speed. The bus delivery marks a milestone Please see page 4

Transit detectives seek help identifying attempted murder suspect in Monterey Park

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19 - DECEMBER 25, 2013 - Volume 1, No. 19

San Gabriel Valley based non-profit ‘Here to Serve’ helps families of critically ill children

San Gabriel couple featured on eharmony. com float January 1

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Two-year-old Hazel Hammersley plays with a stethoscope while undergoing a recent treatment – Courtesy photos

We all know what time of year it is. It’s a month of reflection, compassion, friends and family and celebrating the holidays. What most of us don’t know is what it is like to face the holidays as a family with a critically ill child or parent of young children. Enter Here to Serve, an innovative and emerging nonprofit based in the San Gabriel Valley that helps families year-round, that have loved ones who are experiencing a life-threatening

health crisis, with much needed non-medical assistance. “I am a mother and a wife who has been through life-threatening medical events with both my husband and son,” said Here to Serve Founder/CEO Kathleen Quintas, a long-time resident of Sierra Madre. “I understand the pain, the financial struggle, and feelings of helplessness that afflict these families who are trying to keep their life together as they care for a critically ill loved one.

I saw a gap in coordinating resources and identifying and providing available services for families, and I felt it was my duty, even calling, to assist them.” Such feelings of helplessness are often magnified during the holidays. Through its Adopt-A-Family program, Here To Serve is purchasing Christmas gifts for the families it assists who have a child in medical crisis or, as is often Please see page 3

Glendale Police Chief Robert Castro sworn in today

Detectives assigned to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Transit Services Bureau (TSB) seek to identify a man who stabbed a passenger while the two rode a Metro bus. The incident occurred after 7:00 PM on November 3, 2013, while the bus travelled through the City of Monterey Park. In video footage acPlease see page 3

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On Monday, December 16, 2013, Chief Robert Castro officially began his duties as the Chief of Police for the City of Glendale. On Thursday, December 19, Robert Castro will be sworn in as Glendale’s new Chief of Police in a formal ceremony at the Police Department Community Room, 131 N Isabel at 3:00 pm. Chief Castro comes to Glendale after serving as Chief of Police for the city of Glendora. Chief Castro

began his law enforcement career working for the City of Glendora as a police cadet in 1985. He was hired as a police officer in 1986 and worked his way up through the ranks to Chief of Police. As the Police Chief of Glendora, Castro transformed the police department into a highly effective and efficient organization, an evolution hastened by the Great Recession. Difficult fiPlease see page 2

Four-year-old Natalie Avalos of San Gabriel Valley

Sally Yeh and Kenton Wong are a normal, everyday couple living in San Gabriel, California. They met, fell in love and were married in the fall of 2011. What is unique about Sally and Kenton is they met on the popular dating website eHarmony.com and were a featured commercial couple in 2012.On New Year’s Day, Kenton and Sally will be featured on a brand new eHarmony float in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, along with six other couples celebrating the finding of “Everlasting Love”, as Natalie Cole performs This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) live from the float.

Assemblyman Mike Gatto invites public to draft the United States' first ever "Wiki Bill" Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles) announced a “groundbreaking opportunity” to allow individual citizens to draft a piece of legislation directly via an online Wiki. Citizens can visit the "Wiki bill's" website, and by using an interface similar to Wikipedia's, they can propose, draft, and edit a bill,

which Gatto has committed to introducing, after a consensus emerges. This is the first purely crowdsourced piece of legislation in the United States. Assemblyman Gatto has advocated for using technology as a tool for citizen engagePlease see page 5


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