Vol. 54, No.04
Serving the San Gabriel Valley Since 1966
Special Section Temple City, San Gabriel, & ROSEMEAD PAGE 5
Local Events page 2, 3 “Off Beat Happenings”
Entertainment
page 14 - 15
Sports pages 9 - 10
January 27, 2016 Letters to the Editor
page 3
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Arcadia High School Mourns the Loss of Two Brothers by Ryan Foran Arcadia
The Arcadia Unified School District family offers our deepest condolences to the Lin family, their friends and loved ones. We are beyond saddened to learn of the death of the Lin brothers, William and Anthony, who attended Arcadia High School. The thousands of students, staff, friends and family that loved and knew them well in our tight-knit community will feel the loss of the beloved brothers. We know our community will stand united as we go
through this unthinkable tragedy together. We ask everyone to please respect the Lin family’s privacy during this extremely difficult time. While this tragedy did not happen on campus, it will undoubtedly have an enormous impact throughout all our schools. We will provide additional counselors and support services this week when students return to school, and for as long as they are needed. Arcadia Unified prides itself as being a positive leader in this great
community, and will continue to make the well-being of our students and staff a
priority. We appreciate the many condolences and support for the Lin Family. We
know this will continue, and we thank you all.
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Mountain View School District’s School Resource Officer Honored
Past or Current Resident
by Michele Earle El Monte
Jesus Rojas, Mountain View School District’s School Resource Officer (SRO), and member of the El Monte Police Department has been selected as the California-Hawaii Elks Association Enrique Camarena Law Enforcement Award winner for 2015-16. The award recognizes an individual who has gone above and beyond in the field of alcohol and drug awareness prevention, and whose work exemplifies the standards by which Enrique “Kiki” Camarena lived, worked and died. Providing a safe and drug free environment for the citizens of El Monte is a high priority for Officer Rojas. In his second year serving as MVSD’s School Resource Officer he has made a tremendous impact on the students, families and staff and his dedication and effort to educate the students in MVSD’s 13 schools
in drug awareness and prevention greatly impressed the Elks Association. Whether presenting a drug free assembly, conducting a parent workshop on drug prevention, leading a classroom of students in the identification of drugs, organizing Neighborhood Watch meetings to combat drug violence near Courtesy Photo schools, reading to a classroom of students to munity. He is an excellent ing his MBA from Azusa promote literacy, coordinatrole model for the youth Pacific University. He is ing community-wide special and what they can aspire honored to give back to the events, or patrolling the to be. He is a product of community where he grew streets of El Monte, Officer the Mountain View School up and with great pride and Rojas exemplifies the qualiDistrict and attended Payne passion serves the citizens of ties of Agent Camarena. Elementary School, Kranz El Monte. As a homegrown Growing up in El Monte, Intermediate School and success story, Officer Rojas Officer Rojas can relate to graduated from El Monte is a stellar example of what the many challenges and High School before earnstudents can achieve if they temptations that students Officer Honored continued on page 13 face each day in the com-