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Monday edition of the
Monrovia Weekly ArcAdiA Weekly MONDAY, MAY 16 - MAY 22, 2011 VOLUME XVI, NO. XIV
Monrovia Kicks off 125th Anniversary Celebration In true civic pride style with a hometown parade, Monrovia didn’t disappoint the hundreds who lined Myrtle Avenue Thursday night to see the big birthday parade and clap for their favorite entry. Humor always gets our attention and librarian’s win this year, hands down, for their eternal quest to get people away from Google and other computer related research tools. Armed with signs that read “Librarians…the Human Search Engine”, librarians got the most laughs from the adults but some teens were too bust texting to see the irony. While parade entries were down considerably this year, the enthusiasm was not. The parade was perhaps the shortest of all parades Monrovia has ever put on. One couple had just put their chairs down and about to start enjoying the pizza they purchased when they discovered the last entry had just past them by. Mayor Mary Ann Lutz belted out “Happy Birthday Monrovia….125 years”
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Watch out Google…there’s a new search engine in town, actually not so new really. The librarian in this picture wants to let everyone know that libraries were the original. – Photo by Terry Miller
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Department of Parks and Recreation Temple City Plans Events Beach Blast Dance Rescheduled The Beach Blast Dance originally scheduled for May 20 is now set for June 3, 7 to 9 p.m., at Live Oak Park. The event provides 6-8th graders one final opportunity to hang with their classmates before school ends for the summer. Reception for Mary McCune, Temple City’s Outstanding Older American for 2010 A special reception to honor Mary McCune, Temple City’s Outstanding Older American for 2010, is planned for Saturday, May 21 in the Community Room adjacent to City Hall. The reception starts at 1:30 p.m. Please join us in thanking Mary for the countless hours she contributed, and continues to provide, to the Temple
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PROJECT ONE: Bowen Du, 19 years old from Arcadia, One Camera, One Year, One City – Monrovia Charged with Vehicular Manslaughter 52 Photographers will Photograph Monrovia During the in Death of Tennager 125th Anniversary of the City -Local Photographer Brings
Back Black and White Film to Capture Monrovia Life
R
ick Keshishi said he “has had the great pleasure of having his business in city of Monrovia since 1998, met many great people and companies and enjoyed every single day working here.” Keshishi has come up with a unique way of honoring the city in which he does business. Keshishi is introducing a unique “Project One” which is a B&W film photography project for a 52 week period dedicated exclusively to capturing
the essence of the city of Monrovia. The objective is to have 52 Photographers, taking pictures of/in the city of Monrovia and life in the city. Photoworks will supply a vintage manual focus Canon A1 Film Camera with a 50mm Lens, loaded with Kodak CN-400 B&W Film. Each photographer will have the temporary possession of the camera for seven days, at the end of which will return the camera for processing to “Photoworks By Rick”.
The film will be processed, printed and returned to the photographer. Each photographer will then choose one favorite photograph to be enlarged to an 8x12 picture, which will be framed with a beautiful matted 16x20 black frame. At the end of 52 weeks we will have a Gallery reception where we’ll invite city officials and VIPs to the show which
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Bowden Du to Surrenders to Police
Arcadia Police investigate the fatal accident last month – Photo by Terry Miller
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office filed a felony vehicular manslaughter charge today on the driver involved in a fatal collision that occurred in Arcadia in April. On Sunday, April 10, 2011, at about 6:40 p.m., Bowen Du, 19 years old, from Arcadia, was driving a 1997 Lexus westbound in the 600 block of Duarte Road, Arcadia, when his vehicle struck two teenage pedestrians, crossing the street in a mid-block crosswalk. Tragi-
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