Pasadena Star-News back issues from June 2007:
Sierra Madre begins paramedic program today
Jun 01, 2007; ... SIERRA MADRE - The city is officially rolling out its newparamedic program today. Sierra Madre is the last city in the San Gabriel Valley to get itsown paramedic program, complete with advanced life support forresidents in need ....
Caltech, JPL rocket pioneer dies
Jun 01, 2007 ... ALTADENA - Homer Stewart, an early pioneer of rocket research andone of the developers of the country's first satellite, diedSaturday, May 26, at his home in Altadena. He was 91. A native of Dubuque, Iowa, Stewart came to Caltech for graduateschool in 1936. There he became ...
Foundation awards $700,000 to local non-profits
Jun 01, 2007 ... PASADENA - The Pasadena Community Foundation awarded more than$700,000 in grants to 54 local non-profit agencies during a Fridaymorning "Local Heroes" reception at the University Club. Grants ranged in size from $2,000 to $50,000 and coveredeverything from a $29,000 forklift for ...
Pasadena Foundation
Jun 01, 2007 ... Pasadena Foundation: 63 total grants awarded totalling $700,332 -- CRUMB GRANT: Award, $3,000 -- Oak Crest Institute of Science to upgrade existing computersoftware/hardware $3,000 -- ANONYMOUS GRANT: Award $10,000 -- Eaton Canyon Nature Center to develop ...
Last-ditch effort to save Desiderio buildings
Jun 01, 2007 ... PASADENA - Backers of the Arroyo Center for Art and theEnvironment made a down-to-the-wire appeal Friday for the CityCouncil to save the Desiderio Army Reserve Center buildings they wantto adapt and reuse as museum and educational space. Councilman Steve Madison, whose district ...
High-tech equipment used to defraud ATM customers
Jun 01, 2007; ... SAN MARINO - A team of thieves staking out area ATM machines areusing high-tech equipment to steal personal access and card numbersfrom unsuspecting bank customers, police said. The organized criminals install wireless equipment "cleverlydisguised" to look like part of the ATM, ...
3 arrested in stabbing
Jun 01, 2007; ... Three suspects were taken into custody this week for a stabbingthat occured on May 25 in Temple City. The suspects allegedly beat and stabbed a 20-year-old male TempleCity resident after verbally assaulting him and two of his friends, a19-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl, ...
Arcadia High School lockdown lifted
Jun 01, 2007; ... ARCADIA - Officials locked down Arcadia High School Friday forabout an hour after police were told a student on campus was carryinga gun, a school official said. Arcadia police received a cell phone call around 11:30 a.m. fromsomeone who "sounded like a child" saying someone in ...
Geared up for an overhaul
Jun 01, 2007; ... PASADENA - Cars rocket by at breakneck speed, leaving the groundrattling and the air trembling with the cheers of thousands of fans. At the Indianapolis 500 last weekend, about 30 Art Center Collegeof Design students cheered, too. But they also began gearing up to answer the ...
City honors Vietnamese 'freedom flag'
Jun 01, 2007; ... ROSEMEAD - The city is one of the latest to honor a flag used bythe former South Vietnam, which Vietnamese Embassy officials sayshould be kept in the past. Rosemead City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to adopt aresolution honoring the yellow flag with three horizontal ...
City manager to face scrutiny from council
Jun 01, 2007; ... ROSEMEAD - The City Council plans to evaluate its city manager ata special meeting next week, prompting one former city official tosay that the top executive could be fired. Rosemead Mayor John Tran asked that the council hold a specialmeeting at 5 p.m. on Wednesday at City Hall ...
July 4th event at Bowl still on
Jun 01, 2007; ... PASADENA - The Rose Bowl's annual Independence Day fireworksextravaganza will go ahead as planned this year, although tinder-dryconditions have led Burbank to cancel its traditional July 4 show atthe Starlight Bowl. "We want to let folks know that Pasadena is going to have July ...
Sierra Madre to operate own paramedic program
Jun 01, 2007; ... SIERRA MADRE - A voice from the police scanner airwaves echoedthrough Fire Station No. 1 Friday morning, welcoming Sierra Madre asthe last city in Los Angeles County to have its own paramedicprograms. The announcement from a dispatcher in the Verdugo FireCommunications Center in ...
Pilfering at pooch park
Jun 01, 2007; ... -- Photo Gallery: 6/01: Disappearingbowls PASADENA Dog lovers here are hot on the trail in the case of themissing water dishes. Five communal water bowls have been stolen in the ...
Renowned scientist dies at 91
Jun 01, 2007 ... ALTADENA - Homer Stewart, an early pioneer of rocket research andone of the developers of the country's first satellite, died May 26at his home in Altadena. He was 91. A native of Dubuque, Iowa, Stewart came to Caltech for graduateschool in 1936 after earning his bachelor's degree ...
Gun scare places school in lockdown
Jun 01, 2007; ... ARCADIA - Officials locked down Arcadia High School Friday forabout an hour after police were told a student on campus was carryinga gun, a school official said. Arcadia police received a phone call around 11:30 a.m. fromsomeone who "sounded like a child" saying a student in band ...
Open-meetings bill passes
Jun 01, 2007; ... A bill tightening restrictions on how city council members makepolicy decisions passed the state Senate this week. Sponsored by state Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, the billwould add to the state's open meeting law, the Ralph M. Brown Act,which states that council members ...
Center in Azusa offers free advice on staying healthy
Jun 01, 2007; ... -- Video: 5/31: Wellness center in Azusa AZUSA - A white sign on the lawn outside the Neighborhood WellnessCenter offers free blood pressure screenings. That's how they get you in the door. Since 1998, Susan McKeever Smith, a nursing instructor at AzusaPacific ...
Officials push area transit projects
Jun 03, 2007; ... WEST COVINA - A gathering of elected officials from throughout theSan Gabriel Valley pledged Saturday to keep pressuring county andstate officials to ensure funding for local transportation projects,including the proposed Gold Line extension to Azusa. The legislators attended a ...
Green Tour touts efficiency
Jun 03, 2007; ... PASADENA - For Mauricio Mejia, Saturday's first city-sponsoredGreen Buildings Tour was more than just a chance to show offPasadena's environment-friendly credentials. "I feel like I'm going to my children's graduation," joked Mejia,the Pasadena Water & Power program manager whom ...
99th kennel club show boasts best of breeds
Jun 03, 2007; ... -- Photo Gallery: 6/02: Kennel Club,All Breed Dog Show PASADENA -- There was ice cream and baked potatoes being offered,but who could resist the "Fresh Liver" sign at Saturday's 99th ...
'Dazzling beam' illuminated area
Jun 03, 2007; ... PASADENA - Light from the largest searchlight in the world onceilluminated Pasadena, picking out places of interest for the pleasureof tourists, and once in a while zeroing in on a spooning couple,much to their dismay. The word "spooning" gives a clue as to when this was. The ...
PUSD finds success in the Pipeline
Jun 03, 2007; ... PASADENA - Stephen Acker took his first after-school creativewriting course in the seventh grade to bone up on his languageskills. The following summer, he decided to learn the computer languageC++. In high school, he gave the robotics class a try, before embarkingon a ...
Panel volunteers work overtime
Jun 03, 2007; ... PASADENA - Many of the political appointees volunteering theirtime to review much of the city's business on its commissions andcommittees are doing so beyond the expiration of their terms. At least 25 people selected by elected officials to serve onvarious advisory bodies - from ...
Man crashes through police department gate
Jun 04, 2007 ... ALHAMBRA - A man was arrested this morning after crashing hisvehicle through a gate at the Alhambra Police Department, alieutenant said. Jesus Trujillo, 28, was held on suspicion ofvandalism after ramming his car through the police department gate tothe employee's parking lot at 211 ...
Schools partner on the arts
Jun 04, 2007 ... SOUTH PASADENA - School districts throughout the San GabrielValley are partnering with a local nonprofit to bolster arts-education programs. South Pasadena, East Whittier and Montebello were among nineunified school districts to join the Los Angeles County ArtsCommission's Arts ...
South Pasadena police release suspect description
Jun 04, 2007; ... SOUTH PASADENA - Police today released a description of a man whomay have harrassed a female student outside South Pasadena HighSchool last week. The man, described as Hispanic around 20 years old, approached the17-year-old girl from behind at Diamond Avenue and Lyndon Street ...
Anti-violence rally to be held tonight at La Pintoresca Park
Jun 04, 2007; ... PASADENA - Community members are invited to an anti-crime rally tobe held tonight at La Pintoresca Park, organizers said. The rally will address the recent wave of race-on-race violencewhich left two dead on May 7 with a view to ending such crimes, saidorganizer Timothy ...
Alhambra residents plead guilty in military secrets case
Jun 04, 2007 ... ALHAMBRA - Three Alhambra residents charged with conspiring toexport U.S. defense secrets to China have pleaded guilty, the U.S.Department of Justice announced Monday. Tai Mak, 57, and his wife, Fuk Heung Li, 49, pleaded guiltyMonday. Their son, Billy Yui Mak, 26, entered his ...
Senate approves new education bills
Jun 04, 2007 ... The California Senate today approved three education billsauthored by State Senator Jack Scott D-Pasadena, chair of SenateEducation.SB 146 would modify the way school district revenue is computed bybasing it on average monthly enrollment instead of average dailyattendance ....
W. Covina pioneer dies at 92
Jun 04, 2007; ... WEST COVINA - Family and friends mourned the passing of Ruth EllenHurst, one of the last of the city's pioneers, who died May 19 at age92. A memorial service for Hurst will be held at 11 a.m. June 23 atthe First Presbyterian Church of Covina, family members said. Hurst was ...
Bridging the gap of safety
Jun 04, 2007; ... PICO RIVERA - A troubled bridge over a busy freeway is stillailing, months after two teens were shot and wounded while scrawlingit with graffiti. Officials from Pico Rivera, the County of Los Angeles, theSheriff's Department, Caltrans, Union Pacific Railroad and thebridge's ...
Around Pasadena
Jun 04, 2007 ... PASADENA - Jody Noiron, supervisor of Angeles National Forest,will present a program "Challenges Facing Angeles National Forest:2007 and Beyond" at the Pasadena Sierra Club meeting Wednesday atEaton Canyon Nature Center, 1750 N. Altadena Drive. The program will include an update ...
Schools get aid for arts programs
Jun 04, 2007; ... SOUTH PASADENA - School districts throughout the San GabrielValley are partnering with a local nonprofit to bolster arts-education programs. South Pasadena, East Whittier and Montebello were among nineunified school districts to join the Los Angeles County ArtsCommission's Arts ...
Valedictorian
Jun 04, 2007; ... MONROVIA - For four years, Justine Gray maintained straight A's atMonrovia High School, earning her the honor of valedictorian for theclass of 2007. Outside the classroom, Gray donated more than 1,000 hours ofcommunity service during her high school career, earning her thetitle ...
Authorities warn about ATM fraud scheme
Jun 04, 2007; ... SAN MARINO - A team of thieves is staking out Southland ATMs,using high-tech equipment to steal personal access numbers fromunsuspecting bank customers, police said. The team of organized criminals installs wireless equipment"cleverly disguised" to look like part of the ATM, which ...
Retirement home has new director
Jun 04, 2007; ... ALTADENA - The venerable Scripps Home retirement facility,recently renamed Scripps Kensington, has a new executive director. Maureen Beith, a recreation therapist who moved up through theranks since starting part time at Scripps eight years ago, willreplace longtime head Jim ...
Chantry Flat is cleaned up for fire season
Jun 04, 2007; ... SIERRA MADRE - More than 100 Los Angeles County firefightersconverged on the road to Chantry Flat Monday morning to do some muchneeded gardening. With the help of tractors and dump trucks, they tackled the dryvegetation on either side of the asphalt to minimize the fire ...
Bill would financially aid illegal immigrant students
Jun 04, 2007; ... Ignoring the governor's veto of last year, a legislator has againintroduced the California Dream Act, which would provide statefinancial aid for students who enter into the U.S. illegally. Authored by state Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, the bill wouldgive foreign students ...
Around Pasadena
Jun 01, 2007 ... TEMPLE CITY - Three white people taken into custody May 25 onsuspicion of attacking three African Americans at a fast-foodrestaurant in Temple City could be charged with hate crimes,authorities said. Christopher Mitcheltree, 18, and two boys ages 16 and 17 werebooked on ...
Foothill weighs bus fare raises
Jun 01, 2007; ... Bus fares in the San Gabriel Valley could go up this winter asFoothill Transit struggles to cope with increased costs and slippingfunding. While the $1 base fare for local buses would not increase,officials are contemplating increases to monthly passes, transferrates, discounted ...
Age doesn't slow down 93-year-old Altadenan
Jun 02, 2007; ... ALTADENA -- For many years, George Feinstein has said his goal wasto reach age 100 and then run the Boston Marathon and win a monetaryprize offered to anyone that age who completes the race. He's still short of that, but Feinstein, 93, of Altadena iscompeting today in the 15th ...
Fire code plan gets heated response
Jun 02, 2007; ... ROSEMEAD -- A proposed ordinance giving the city manager authorityover the fire code has prompted threats of a lawsuit by county fireofficials, who say the change is connected to a stalled project. Los Angeles County Fire Department officials said they rejected aValley Boulevard ...
Spiritual leader Lama Surya Das to visit Pasadena
Jun 02, 2007; ... PASADENA -- For a self-possessed society that shrugs off onefailed self-help fad in exchange for the next, Lama Surya Dassuggests a more time-tested solution. A Jewish kid from Long Island who emerged from two decades inTibet as a Buddhist Lama, Surya Das, who will speak in ...
Picture dims for Art Club plans
Jun 02, 2007; ... PASADENA -- Backers of the Arroyo Center for Art and theEnvironment made a down-to-the-wire appeal Friday for the CityCouncil to save the Desiderio Army Reserve Center buildings they wantto adapt and reuse as museum and educational space. But at a City Hall meeting with about 20 ...
Bills would fast-track science, math teachers
Jun 02, 2007; ... PASADENA -- Two bills aimed at minimizing the shortage of math andscience teachers in public schools will be vying for funds from thestate Legislature next week. The California Math and Science Teachers' Initiative (SB 858)would fund the training and certification of about 1,500 ...
Pair accused of burglarizing dozens of cars
Jun 02, 2007; ... -- Photo Gallery: 6/01: Stolenmerchandise confiscated SAN DIMAS -- Two transients are accused of burglarizing dozens ofcars from Fontana to Pasadena over the past month, officials ...
Enriching inmates' existence with books
Jun 03, 2007; ... In 1973, the Prison Library Project was founded by Ram Dass(Richard Alpert, Ph.D. of Harvard University) and Bo Lozoff inDurham, N.C. In 1986 the group relocated to Claremont and is now a communityservice project of the Claremont Forum, a nonprofit organizationwhose ...
Political 'hired gun' draws fire
Jun 03, 2007; ... ALHAMBRA - Less than a month after a Monterey Park city councilmanfiled a lawsuit against Melrose Castillo, the young politicalmaverick tied to local council campaigns, former Alhambra CityCouncilman Efren Moreno has filed a complaint against the man hedescribes as a "hired gun." ...
Truth from a former gangster
Jun 03, 2007; ... EDITOR'S NOTE: On Dec. 28, 2004, five gunshots pierced the frontdoor of high-ranking Mexican Mafia member Brian Harris, seriouslywounding him. But unlike most gang shootings, this time the victimtalked, helping to put others behind bars. In interviews and lettersover a six-month period, ...
<span class="columnistHeadlineName"> Larry Wilson: </span> 'He told me he would kill me'
Jun 04, 2007; ... LOS ANGELES - A young man testified Monday that a Pasadenanaccused in the July 2005 slaying of a 16-year-old Pasadena boy hadsexually assaulted him in the past and threatened to kill him and hisfamily if he didn't destroy evidence connecting the defendant to thekilling. "Why did ...
Theft suspects shot dead by police
Jun 03, 2007; ... Two of the four men suspected of stealing an arsenal of handgunsfrom a San Bernardino gun shop were shot dead by police Friday duringa shootout that followed a high-speed chase. Tobari Barnes, 26, of West Covina died at the scene. The otherthree suspects were arrested and taken to ...
Larry Wilson: All are one at the Esalen institute
Jun 03, 2007 ... For Americans of a certain age, to think of Esalen - the Big Surhuman-potential institute - is to recall baths in the all-night hotsprings clinging to the glorious cliffs, the yoga yurts, the rows oforganic kale rolling over the hills, the California-indigenous woodenarchitecture built ...
Changes coming for cargo hauling
Jun 03, 2007; ... In a state that continues getting more congested and polluted,moving a stapler or a stereo from China to a living room inBakersfield has gotten increasingly more difficult and expensive. So much so that state policymakers are wrestling with themultibillion-dollar question of how ...
Council leaves door ajar for reusing Army building
Jun 05, 2007 ... PASADENA - When the city's final proposal for the Desiderio ArmyReserve Center goes to the Federal Government on Friday it will bethe basic concept approved by the City Council in April: that the 5.1prime acres under the Colorado Street Bridge be used for affordablehousing, park space ...
Gang-related shooting in Pasadena
Jun 05, 2007 ... PASADENA - A man was shot in the arm last night on the 1300 blockof North Marengo Avenue. The shooting, which occurred at 10:30 p.m., appeared to be gangrelated, said detective Lt. John Dewar of the Pasadena PoliceDepartment. The victim had parked his vehicle on the street ...
Rusnak to leave Arcadia
Jun 05, 2007; ... ARCADIA - Rusnak announced Tuesday that it will be pulling itsMercedes-Benz dealership out of the city, despite the city's on-going efforts to help it assemble properties to expand. "The continued uncertainties and the City's inability to deliverthe properties are no longer ...
Boys and Girls Clubs have a nurturing role
Jun 05, 2007; ... The Boys and Girls Clubs of Pasadena, currently celebrating their70th anniversary, are low in profile and high in impact. The 30-member staff, led by President and CEO Hilary Crahan and her 23-member board of directors, gives top quality care and instruction tomore than 5,000 babies, ...
U.S. to get proposal for Desiderio
Jun 05, 2007; ... PASADENA - When the city's final proposal for the Desiderio ArmyReserve Center goes to the federal government on Friday, it will bethe concept approved by the City Council in April: that the 5.1 primeacres under the Colorado Street Bridge be used for affordablehousing, park space and ...
Rosemead city manager could be fired
Jun 05, 2007; ... ROSEMEAD - The city's top executive could find out today if he isout of a job.The Rosemead City Council will meet in a closed session meeting toevaluate the performance of City Manager Andrew Lazzaretto, who hasbeen with the city since March 2006. According to ...
Around Pasadena
Jun 05, 2007 ... PASADENA Concerts in the Park, the Pasadena Senior Center'seclectic musical series, will be held from June 19 to Aug 28. Concerts in the Park are free every Tuesday evening from 6 to 7p.m. in Pasadena's historic Memorial Park bandshell, the LevittPavilion. This summer the ...
Justine Gray: Straight-A student, busy volunteer, valedictorian
Jun 05, 2007; ... MONROVIA - For four years, Justine Gray maintained straight A's atMonrovia High School, earning her the honor of valedictorian for theclass of 2007. Outside the classroom, Gray donated more than 1,000 hours ofcommunity service during her high school career, earning her thetitle ...
Agencies train for school shooting
Jun 05, 2007; ... -- Video: Police Exercise at ELAC MONTEREY PARK - Several agencies Tuesday trained at East LosAngeles College on how to deal with armed shooters on a schoolcampus. Onlookers watched two fake gunmen, "injured" students, specialpolice units with tanks and heavy weaponry, and ...
Hilton reports to jail
Jun 04, 2007; ... LYNWOOD - Hotel heiress Paris Hilton reported to jail late Sundayevening to begin serving a 23-day sentence for violating herprobation, officials said. Hilton surrendered to authorities at the Twin Towers jaildowntown, but was booked at the Century Regional Detention Facilityin ...
Detectives investigate death
Jun 04, 2007; ... SOUTH SAN GABRIEL - Sheriff's homicide detectives rolled to adeath investigation in the 7200 block of Toll Drive late Sundaynight ....