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Monrovia Weekly ArcAdiA Weekly MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 6, 2011 VOLUME X, NO. IX
Temple City High Graduate Commands Final Flight on Space Shuttle Discovery
Temple City High graduate Steve Lindsey is aboard the final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery - Photo courtesy of NASA
Discovery, blasted off last week into orbit for the final time, commanded by Temple City High School graduate Steve Lindsey, on
a journey that marks the end of the shuttle era. The six astronauts on board, all experienced space fliers, were thrilled
to be on their way to the International Space Station after a delay of nearly four months for fuel tank repairs. Discovery is the
oldest of NASA’s three surviving space shuttles and the first to be decommissioned this year. Two missions remain, first by
Atlantis and then Endeavour, to end the 30-year pro-
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Organizers Plan to Protest Amundson’s Controversial Mayor's Breakfast - March 4 BY TERRY MILLER This newspaper has been flooded with letters, e mails and comments on our websites in reaction to Mayor Amundson’s decision to spend city monies on a speaker from Focus on Family to speak at the annual Mayor’s Community Breakfast. There has been out-
rage, on both sides of the issue, regarding not only the rights of the gay community but also the rights of Amundson to choose whomever he desires to speak at the event. Several local groups and individuals have publically voiced their disapproval of the choice of H
B London who is slated to speak at the Friday breakfast at a recent city council meeting. Feeling unheard, several in the LGBT community including Pastor Rick Eisenlord countered the perceived bigotry with an
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Mayor Amundson has angered many in the community with his choice of an anti-gay speaker at the Community Breakfast
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De Anza Expedition Re-enactment Set at San Gabriel Mission on March 19 Juan Bautista de Anza expedition arrival in the 1700s at San Gabriel Mission will be re-enacted on Saturday, March 19, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a Living History Camp. Authentic living historians from the 1774-1776s, Soldados Californios (Spanish ‘leatherjacket’ soldiers) and other people will be re-enacting the de Anza party’s arrival at San Gabriel Mission on its way to found San Francisco. Scheduled is reproduced artifacts, period music, dancing by “Yesteryears Dancers,” activities for children; historic camps, demonstrations; and more. In 1776, Americans fought for their independence in the East, and Daniel Boone led several families into the wilderness to colonize Kentucky. The same year, Juan Bautista de Anza led almost 300 people over 1,200 miles to settle Alta California. It was the first overland route established to connect New Spain with San Francisco, announced Steve Clugston, a founding member of Soldados Californios. “On January 4, 1776, the expedition reached San Gabriel Mission, its first outpost of the Spanish empire in (Alta) California,” said Clugston. “Colonel Anza had visited the mission at its first site on his March 1774 trip, and the current site on his colonizing expedition. He remained there January 4-6, 1776.” From the Anza diary; “I ate at the mission of San Gabriel. After going a league we passed the site of the old mission, where the huts were still standing. At
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