WHERE YOUR COMMUNITY NEWS COMES FIRST - Sierra Madre Arcadia Pasadena Altadena and Monrovia March 10, 2008 Volume 2, No. 9 Part Four In Th e Series On Candidates for Offi ce In Sierra Madre, April 2008 Sierra Madre Volunteer Firefighters Ready To Go New Program Paves Th e Way For Automatic Response On The Ballot: Sierra Madre City Council Designation On the General Municipal Election ballot in April, Five candidates are running for City Council. Two of the candidates are incumbents, Enid Jo e and John Buchanan; One candidate, MaryAnn MacGillivary has previously served on the council. One candidate, Th e Sierra Madre Bill Tice, has waged two previous campaigns for a seat and Kevin Paschall, who is running Volunteer Fire for the  rst time. Department has reached a new “I Will Listen To Your Concerns” milestone. Following Kevin Paachall was born and reared in a model similar to Sierra Madre. His candidate statement touts how the city staff s the an impressive list of community service Paramedic program, including volunteering with Pioneer Days SMVFD has launched and Friends of the Pool. He has most recently an auxillary fi re been seen at the city council public comment fi ghter’s program microphone where he denounced the Rotary which will provide Club’s sponsorship of the candidate’s forum. additional support He did, however, participate in the event. (See for our existing related story below). volunteers. Th e city Numerous attempts were made to sit down with Kevin for additional insight as to why will now have two he is running for offi ce. When I last saw him, he was loading signs in the back of his 24 hour fi refi ghters. SMVFD and auxillary volunteers return from a call. truck. We spoke briefl y, but not again before press time. “Th is is a great Photo By S. Henderson/MVO According to an analysis of his campaign literature and statements at the candidate’s enhancement to Sierra Arcadia and other nearby departments. forum, Paschall implies that his Yes On Measure V position is the most important Madre’s Fire Department, it increases our Sierra Madre was not called, despite the reason to vote for him. However, in a random survey around town, few people know operational capacity allowing us to schedule fact the our fi re station was less than a mile much about him. Th e most commonly asked question was, “Who Is Kevin Paschall?” or 2 Paramedics and 2 Firefi ghters, 24 hours a away, because we are not currently a part of “What Does He Stand For?” day,” stated Assistant Chief Steve Heydorff . the Automated Response Team. One of the Kevin’s literature off ers no solution for any problems the city is facing, but he is committed In February, eleven academy certifi ed primary reasons that we are not a part of that to “government transparency, honest and fi scal responsibility.” S. Henderson/MVO fi refi ghters attended the SMVFD’s Mini- team is because of our lack of staff coverage. In The Crossfire: Academy. Th ey will now accompany our According to City Manager Elaine Aguilar fi refi ghters for the next year, earning 300 we cannot pull our limited resources away Non-Candidates Under Scrutiny hours of training. At the end of that time, to fi ght other fi res, especially during the Sitting Council Member Don Watts recently expressed concern regarding what he they will become certifi ed as with the day. In order to participate in the program, perceives as being unfairly criticized regarding his attendance at Sierra Madre community California Firefi ghter 1 designation. Th ey we have to be able to provide assistance to events. will also receive training as EMT’s, another other departments. Although we are not a On an attendance chart that appeared online last week, it was noted that neither Council welcome addition to the city’s public safety part of the program at this time, in the event Member Watts nor Council Member Zimmerman supported through their attendance the eff orts. of need, surrounding departments will assist majority of civic events held around town during the last thirteen months. Th ere will be a total of 29 participants in this Sierra Madre. With the additional staffi ng, Th e document, which questioned whether or not council candidates endorsed by program by June. Th ey will perform normal inclusion in the program is one step closer. Zimmerman and Watts (Paschall and McGillivray) would also follow in their footsteps fi refi ghting duties, including fi re prevention and ignore civic activities. On the list there are 29 events ranging from the last two Citizen and disaster preparedness. Fire Chief Selection Update: of the Year Awards, the Centennial Kick Off and Closing, Little League Opening Day, and One of the benefi ts of this program is In other Fire Department news, the fi rst the Older American Of the Year Award, (partial listing). Many of these events raise money that it will put the city closer to becoming step in the process of selecting a new chief or recognize volunteers that help raise money and/or support city activities. Zimmerman a part of the Verdugo Hills Automatic has been completed. One candidate has attended 0 of 29 but Watts did attend the Centennial Closing Ceremonies. Response Team. At a recent fi re event at the submitted an application and been approved When Watts contacted this paper he explained that this health has been the reason for his Albertson’s Shopping Center on the corner by the rank and fi le fi refi ghters. Th e process absences. Councilman Watts has suff ered at least two strokes and a series of “TIA’s” (oft en of Sierra Madre Blvd. and Michillinda, it was now forwards the application to a professional referred to as mini-strokes), which have impaired his ability to attend anything other than noticeable to observers that the Sierra Madre panel for review. Th at panel will send its’ Fire Department was not called to the scene. recommendations to the city manager. From Th e fi re was attended to by the Pasadena, there council approval is required. Running For Office - Sierra Madre Rotary and League of Women Voters Hold First Public Forum STAR Pasadena City Council Weighs In Photo and Story By Dean Lee PARTY On Blair High School Lockdown Five candidates faced off Tuesday night Tice said, “I too support the police Come Out And Star Controversy By Dean Lee for the fi rst time during a question and initiative, not so that they can have pay Gaze with renowned Pasadena council members asked for a review of procedure answer forum in city hall, outlining raises but to make up for the past,” then astronomer Bob Eklund regarding the city’s emergency notifi cation process aft er a campaign strategies for two open council without taking a breath added, “I too like and the MountainViews- number of their fi eld representatives received no information seats now held by Mayor Enid Joff e and eating ice cream in the park.” Everyone Observer friends and during last Friday’s gun scare at Blair International councilmember John Buchanan, who are laughed. family on Baccalaureate School. both running for reelection April 8. Less than 10 minutes into the forum, “I think we need to look at lessons learned and how we Challenging the incumbents are, lifelong Sierra Made resident Paschall Saturday, March 15th would do things diff erently,” said councilmember Victor newcomer Kevin Paschall, former criticized Mayor Pro Tem Joe Mosca, 7:00 - 9:00 pm at Gordo. “Communication with the council, with our staff , but councilmember Maryann MacGillivray blaming him for all the city troubles. Sierra Vista Park also with the parents, which seems to be a little diffi cult.” Gordo suggested they coordinate where parents might and “Eagle” Bill Tice, who said all he He said Mosca, elected two years ago, for a little star gazing fun! go in a school emergency and also who might meet them wanted was for everyone to eat apple turned his back on voters by suddenly Bring your own telescope there. He also said they should meet with the PUSD about pie and to bring prayer back to city hall. going against an eff ort led by council or view the universe managing large incidents such as at Blair. Tice later added a number of odd ideas, members Kurt Zimmerman and Don through some very special School offi cials responded negatively to the council’s something he takes great pride in. Watts to put the embattled Downtown lenses. For more info call: comments saying that a frenzy of parents showed up to 626-355-2737 or email: Blair aft er learning from students with cell phones that the mvobserver @aol.com school was locked down. “Th e parents were not invited,” said (continued pg. 4) In Celebration of Women’s History Month In Sierra Madre MVO presents: Fran Syverson By Susan Henderson

No stranger to interviews and reporters, longtime Sierra Madre resident Fran Syverson was delighted to sit down and chat. As indicated in our telephone conversation previously, the purpose of my visit was to gain some additional insight into this extraordinary woman and share it with MVO readers. Her modesty was Sierra Madre City Council Candidates (left to right): Kevin Paschall, John overwhelming. Buchanan, Enid Joffe, MaryAnn McGillivray and Bill Tice. A resident of Sierra Madre since 1982, she is a writer by profession. As a matter of fact, Each candidate clearly tried to embrace Specifi c Plan up to a vote of the people she wrote for the Sierra Madre News for Jan their own unique political niche, something that did ultimately happen Reed and the Mountain View News for Beth Buck . “I never missed a week, except one”, she everything from Measure V, passed with the passage of Measure V last year. recalls fondly. Currently, she writes reviews of last year, to opposing 1 Carter now in “Immediately upon his election ‘one’ the Sierra Madre Playhouse for the San Gabriel development. None of the candidates of the candidates changed his tune, Fran at home with her Wistaria Valley Tribune. (cont. page 3) opposed Measure U, doubling the city’s breaking his campaign promise,” Paschall utility user tax to pay for police and said. “Which was to allow the residents of CORRECTION: One Of A Kind: Special Edition February 25, 2008 Th e cover photo features Toni Buckner and Debbie Henderson of the Sierra Madre Library, not paramedics. A number of residents said to Sierra Made to vote on the DSP. Sadly, the Cathy Flammer and Debbie. do so would have been politically unwise. result now, a town divided by bitterness In the story, Duane Waddell was erroneously reported as the owner of the Pasadena Playhouse. Measure U will appear on the same ballot and ranker.” Duane did own a building in what is now Old Pasadena and had a theatre there known as along side all fi ve candidates. (continued on page 3) “Th e Th eatre in the Building”.

MountainViews-Observer 280 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mvobserver.com 2 MountainViews-Observer |March 10, 2008 MountainViews-Observer WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS SENIOR THIS WEEK Pasadena Farmer’s Market HAPPENINGS... Every Saturday to 12:30 p.m. By Pat Birdsall First Debate Bring the kiddies. PHS parking lot FYI: Candidate Kevin Paschall 1 A Special Lady: Fran 2925 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. Th e unsung heroes in this society are those who provide Syverson continuous care for ailing family or friends. Share your feelings with others in like situations at the Caregivers Community Activities Café 322 2 Senior Happenings Support Group provided by Santa Anita Family Services. Sunday Nights Let’s Sing Opera & Broadway nd th Pianist Danny Guerrero & Friends Th e group meets every 2 and 4 Monday of every Looking Up - Bob Eklund 322 Sierra Madre Blvd. Sierra Madre (626) 836-5414 month at 10:00 AM at the Arcadia Community Center. 3 Election Forum Notices For March, it meets only on Monday the 10th and 24th. Beantown For additional info call (626) 574-5130. Troubled Pasadena 45 N. Baldwin Sierra Madre (626) 355-1596 4 Bridge ~Helpful Hints~ Two kitchen staples do double duty... SMEAC: Did You Know? Lucky Baldwin’s Fire Safe Council 21 Kersting Court Sierra Madre (626) 355-1140 *Fill a spray bottle with white vinegar and use it on 5 Police Blotter shower doors to easily remove soap scum and hard- Mary’s Market water deposits. One Of A Kind Alverno Part I 561 Woodland Drive Sierra Madre (626) 355-4534 *Sprinkle baking soda into a wet tub and let it sit for a 6 Pasadena Arts Weekend few minutes. 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Paddy Longitude W118.0, Lattitude N34.2 looked up again and said, “Never mind, I found one.” Legal Notices 11 Saturday: Showers Hi 70s Lows 60s Sunday: Sunny Hi 70s Lows 60s Jeff’s Pics Recipe of the Month: Inside Out Monday: Sunny HI 70s Lows 60s 12 Tuesday: Sunny Hi 70s Lows 60s Wednesday: Sunny Hi Lows Contrary to popular opinion, corned beef 70s 60s and cabbage are as American as apple pie. Peter Dills: Table For Two Forecasts courtesy of the National Weather Service 13 Mountain Clymer Irish immigrants to New York and Boston adopted Adam’s Pack Station corned beef and cabbage as their own—and no wonder, Eastland: National Pastime Mule Packing Demonstration it was fi ve cents a portion in the 1800’s...If you have 14 BIG CAP Saturday, March 15 1:30 PM decided to make corned beef for St. Patrick’s Day, try Picnic Grove at Chantry Flat this recipe as a side dish and you’ll kill two birds with in Big Santa Anita Canyon one stone.. No Blarney...It’s called- The Sierra Madre Woman’s Club Light refreshments packed in by mule! Colcannon held their biggest Spring Sale ever last Dust off your boots and cowboy hats! 6 medium potatoes, peeled and quartered weekend. It was complete with the Easter The Sierra Madre Historical Preservation Society 4 cups shredded cabbage Bunny and plenty of cashiers to handle all has arranged with the Sue and Deb Burgess, 4 T. butter their dough! owners of the pack station, to give us a packing ½ - 1 cup lukewarm milk demonstration with the resident mules. According 6 sliced green onions (if desired) to their web site(www.adamspackstation.com) the Salt & pepper to taste camp is “one of the most popular and historically significant spots in the Angeles National Forest. Boil the potatoes in salted water until tender, about 15 This is thought to be the last pack station of its kind minutes. Meanwhile, cook the cabbage, covered with in the United States.” This is your chance to get up water, boiling for 10 minutes, or until tender. Drain in close and personal with a real live mule, bring your colander. Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a skillet and camera, family, neighbors and friends. The picnic sauté the cooked cabbage for several minutes. Drain the grove is handicapped accessible. Car-pooling is a potatoes and return them to the same pot. Mash until must for this adventure as parking is limited. The smooth. Stir in the remaining butter and the ½ cup milk Forest Service charges a $5 fee for parking. and the cabbage, the green onions (if desired), and salt Directions: East on Sierra Madre Blvd. to Santa and pepper to taste. Serves 4-6. Anita Avenue. North (left turn) and follow the signs to Chantry Flats. Contact: Dane 355-3905 for details or May you get to Heaven a half hour before the car-pool sign-ups Devil knows you’re dead. ~Irish Proverb~

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Activities: Unless listed diff erently, all activities are at the Hart Memorial Park (Senior Center) 222 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre Lunch Program: Monday-Friday- Call (626) 355-0256 to reserve day before. Suggested donation $2.00 for seniors, others- $3.75. Monday: Free Strength Training Class with Lisa Brandley 1:00- 1:45 PM. Tuesday: Bingo- 1:30-3:30 PM .25c per card Yoga: 5:00 PM- Instructor, Andrea Walsh- $5.25 for seniors. Wednesday: Open Th ursday: Game Day- 1:30- 4:00 PM Poker, Bunco, Scrabble, Cribbage, Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Pinochle...you name it. Yoga: 5:00-6:30 PM- For seniors and others who want to go slowly (can be done in a chair) Instructor: Andrea Walsh $5.25 for those 50 & over-$7.00 for those under 50. To register call (626) 355-7394. Friday: Ping-Pong- 2:00-4:00 PM- Not tournament, just for fun. Saturday: Senior Club for those 55 and older- Brown bag lunch at 11:30AM. Meeting at Noon and Bingo: 12:30 PM only .25c per card. Meals-On-Wheels: Meals are delivered to homebound seniors through the YWCA Intervale lunch program M-F with frozen meals for the weekend. $2.00 suggested donation per day. Call Susan Garcia at 858-8382. Monthly Excursions: March 20- Palm Springs Follies- $53.00 per person 8:30 AM- 6:30 PM April 17- Los Angeles Zoo & Autry National Center 9:00 AM- 6:00 PM Cost being estimated at press time. For reservations call Susan Clift on at (626) 355-7394 or stop by and see her at the Hart Memorial Park House- 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM- Monday-Th ursday Free Consultation with Pasadena attorney Geoff rey Chin- 2nd Wednesday of the month- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM-*Appointments are a must. Call Susan Clift on at (626) 355-7394. Confl* icting court schedules can occasionally cause cancellations.

Blood Pressure Clinic Returns! Th e Sierra Madre Paramedics will do blood pressure readings on the 2nd Tuesday of each month 10:00AM-11:30 am

*March 30- Chamber of Commerce Wistaria Festival

MountainViews-Observer 280 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 www.mvobserver.com MountainViews-Observer | March 10, 2008 3 Paschall chimed, in saying residents clearly FORUM (cont. from page 1) do not want Looking Up Paschall said he helped pass Measure V thus high-rise buildings in the downtown. With Bob Eklund keeping his distance from those he called sellouts. He considered himself the needed “We basically went out and got the initiative person to preserve the city. put together and the law passed,” he said, in New Close-Up Views Of Before the candidates answered resident- case someone forgot. derived questions, Buchanan took credit When asked if she thought the Hillside The Moon’s South Pole for creating the city’s paramedic program, management Zone was an asset to the city, a mayor’s blue ribbon program, and was MacGillivray said it was the single reason she IF YOU WERE A LUNAR CRATER NAMED Mayor at the time. He also prided himself decided to run again. SHACKLETON, where would you be located? Why, at in completing the Youth Activity Center and “We all recognize there will be development,” the south pole, of course! Th e rim of a crater at the Moon’s Senior Center. she said. “It’s to say that development will be Photo by Aaron Dominquez south pole, named for famed Antarctic explorer Ernest Joff e did the same, but upped the ante saying managed appropriately so that development Shackleton, is considered a candidate landing site for a she brought the community back together doesn’t impact the community in a negative future manned mission. aft er Measure V. way.” NASA announced last week that it has obtained the highest resolution terrain mapping to “I did everything I could,” she said. “I got MacGillivray lives within feet of the 1 Carter date of the moon’s rugged south polar region, with a resolution to 20 meters per pixel. JPL another phone number called the ‘Mayor- project, but said that she had consulted with a scientists collected the data using the Goldstone Solar System Radar located in California’s mobile’ at my own expense. I started a lawyer to make sure, if elected, she could vote Mojave Desert. Th e imagery generated by the data has been incorporated into animation column in the newspaper called, ‘Coff ee with on the issues dealing with that development depicting the descent to the lunar surface of a future human lunar lander and a fl yover of Joff e’ and had coff ee with many of the local along with Stonehouse. Both are owned by Shackleton Crater. residents.” real estate company Dorn Platz. She also said she put together, “Walk with She also said the city was, and still is, Th e mapping data indicate that the the Mayor,” so people could get her undivided spending too much time negotiating with region of the moon’s south pole near attention. Residents would literally cross the the developers over the projects. Shackleton Crater is much more rugged street to avoid those on opposite sides of A question was asked about oversight on than previously understood. “Th e south Measure V, she said. all city expenses, a hot button issue with pole of the moon certainly would be a MacGillivray, during her opening statement, most residents, which lead to the creation of beautiful place to explore,” said Doug took credit for creating committees that lead the Ad Hoc Finance Committee and fi nally, Cooke, deputy associate administrator to the city’s General Plan and Youth Master Measure U. for the Exploration Systems Mission Plan, having served twice as a councilmember Paschall fumbled his way through his Directorate at NASA Headquarters, and once as mayor over 10 years ago. answer, saying he would look at whether Washington. “We now know the south In answering a question about supporting people were qualifi ed to do their jobs, as well pole has peaks as high as Mt. McKinley Measure V, if elected, Tice said he would like as looking at why so much money is spent on and crater fl oors four times deeper than to see it expanded. attorney’s fees. the Grand Canyon. “I would like to see Measure V put into the Buchanan said they have been open with Th ree times during a six-month period residential neighborhoods in terms of height the public on expenses even though the city in 2006, scientists targeted the moon’s and density.” He said. “ has been criticized countless times for late south polar region using Goldstone’s 70- MacGillivray, Joff e and Paschall all said audits, something not brought up. He did list meter radar dish. Th e antenna, three- Measure V was now the law and their job, a number of cuts the city has made, from less Shackleton Crater quarters the size of a football fi eld, sent as a councilmember, would be to enforce it, tree trimming to closing the public pool half although Joff e said she thought there were the year. a 500-kilowatt, 90-minute radar stream 231,800 miles to the moon. Th e radar bounced off better ways to protect the city from over Joff e said the Ad Hoc Finance Committee the rough-hewn lunar terrain over an area measuring about 400 miles by 250 miles. Signals expanding. put the city fi nances under a microscope, were refl ected back to two of Goldstone’s 34-meter antennas on Earth. Th e roundtrip time, Buchanan seized the opportunity to criticize saying the only option to reduce the budget from the antenna to the moon and back, was about two-and-a-half seconds. everyone. would be cutting services. “Saying that we’re going to enforce the law, MacGillivray said the city needed to “I have not been to the moon, but this imagery is the next best thing,” said Scott Hensley, I think, is just the minimal requirement stop dipping into its reserves and actually a scientist at JPL and lead investigator for the study. “With these data we can see terrain for holding offi ce, you really aren’t saying suggested putting the money back. features as small as a house without even leaving the offi ce.” much.” Tice said he wanted to see city hall converted Previously, the best resolution of the moon’s south pole was generated by the Clementine He said the challenge was to make Measure to a business college. It was not clear if he spacecraft , which could resolve lunar terrain features near the south pole at 1 kilometer per V work. He then said he called for an was serious, as he had joked throughout the pixel. Th e new resolution generated by JPL is 50 times more detailed. economic study of what businesses the city evening and kept everyone laughing. could actually attract. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will provide the next generation of lunar imaging and data. Th is spacecraft is scheduled to launch in late 2008. Th e Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera will retrieve high-resolution images of the moon’s surface and lunar poles Measure U with resolutions to 1 meter. Th ese images will provide knowledge of polar illumination conditions, identify potential resources and hazards, and enable safe landing site selection. Rally To Be Other instruments aboard the orbiter will return data such as temperature maps, ultraviolet Held images, characterization of radiation on the moon, and a high-resolution 3-D map. NASA’s On Sunday, March 16th, from quest for up-to-date imagery of the moon also will benefi t from international missions such 1 to 3pm at the Masonic as Japan’s Selene robotic probe. Lodge at 33 E. Sierra Madre To view animation, terrain maps of the moon’s south pole, and images from this story, Blvd., the Safety Measure visit: 4 U committee will stage http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/mmb/022708.html an informational rally to inform people about Video animation developed from the high-resolution imaging also will air on NASA the initiatives that will Television. For NASA TV downlink and schedule information, visit: be on the April 8th ballot. http://www.nasa.gov/ntv Refreshments will be served, a showcase fi re truck will Come to Our Star Party and See the Moon and Planets for Yourself… be on display, live ragtime piano entertainment will Reduced! THE RESOLUTION may not be quite as high as NASA’s, but our telescopes will give you a take place, and there will Now $825,000 personal peek at the Moon, Mars, and Saturn like you’ve never seen them before. Come to be speakers from the Sierra Madre’s Sierra Vista Park at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, March 15th for the MountainViews– Sierra Madre Volunteer Observer’s First Annual Public Star Party. I’ll be there to meet you and explain what we’re Firefi ghters’ Association seeing as we check out craters at the Moon’s south pole with my telescope, then move on to and the Police Offi cers’ Mars, Saturn, and the great nebula in Orion. Everyone is invited to come and enjoy! Association. Th ere will also If you’d like to learn more, you can contact Bob at [email protected] be a Q and A session. Th e public is invited. SYVERSON (continued from page 1) Her list of professional accomplishments have been many including SM Woman’s Club to Present Editor of the Pico Rivera News. She also worked for the Whittier Annual Games Tea Daily News and was partner in the consulting fi rm of Gardner, Tosh By Phyllis Chapman and Syverson and later, Syverson Tosh Communications. She has An aft ernoon games tea with bridge or a game of your choice is been a member of the Writers Club of Whittier since 1967 and was being hosted by the Sierra Madre Woman’s Club on Saturday, New & Used Author Events President of that group from 2005-2007. Fiction Book Clubs March 29, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., in their clubhouse, the historic Nonfiction Live Music Writing, however was not on her agenda when she entered the “Essick House” at 550 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. in Sierra Madre. Children’s Tutoring workforce. At 16 she entered UCLA and tinkered with the notion of Th is annual benefi t, which supports club charities, is a time to a degree in math. She laughed we she remembered that the tuition savor a wonderful variety of delicious refreshments. It has become was $35 per semester ($175 per semester for out of state students.) known for its tea table extraordinaire. Before long, she changed her interest to fashion design and took a Event Chair Mary Carney invites you to gather friends to come 18 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. job on 7th Street in Los Angeles. “I rememer when I made $2.25 an and play together, or come alone and join a group. hour and I was happy as a clam”, she says. “I had the time of my Tickets are $12.00 each. For tickets and reservations please call Sierra Madre, CA 91024 life.” Carney at 355-6225. 626.836.3200 Fran and husband Howard, email: [email protected] an accountant, met briefl y in web: www.sierramadrebooks.com college. Th ey shared a physics Sierra Madre Kiwanis To class together but never dated. Chamber Of Open: Tue-Sat (10 – 9 pm), Sun (10 – 4 pm) As fate would have it, one day Host while walking down 7th street Commerce To in Los Angeles, she bumped Hold Measure U “Candidates into him again. Th ey have been Forum together ever since - 58 years. The Sierra Madre Chamber Forum” Howard and Fran have raised of Commerce will hold an th three children, two boys and educational forum about the March 18 a girl, however, spinabifi da User Utility Tax initiative, Th e Sierra Madre Kiwanis Fran checks church bulletin claimed the life of their son Measure U, and its companion Club will host a City board for FINCA updates Mark. initiative, Measure UA, Council candidates forum When they moved to Sierra both of which will be on the th on Tuesday, March 18. Th e Madre Fran planned to retired, but became very involved in the April 8 ballot. Th e Forum forum will give residents the community. At one point, she became a Braille transcriber and is scheduled for Wednesday, th opportunity to hear each City transcribed school books for children. She hasvolunteered for Meals March 12 at 6:30pm in Council candidate’s views on on Wheels, been a senior commissioner, member of the Chamber of the meeting room at Sierra current issues, and hear their Commerce and member of the Wistaria Committee. Madre Congregational answers to questions posed An active member of Church located at 154 W. by the audience. Church Of Th e Good Sierra Madre Blvd. Th e event Shepherd, Arcadia - she is open to the general public. Th e candidates running now has a new love - Plans as of press time are for for City Council include the FINCA Foundation the Forum to be presented John Buchanan, Enid Joff e, for International in one of two formats, Maryann MacGillivray, Community Assistance. depending on availability Kevin Paschall, and Bill Th e United Methodist of participants. If a speaker Tice. Women have adopted can be found to speak for Th is event is open to the this project and the the No on Measure U side of public and will be held at the Arcadia women have Ugandan Village Bank courtesy of the argument, there will be a Masonic Lodge, 33 E. Sierra raised over $10,000 for villagebanking.org speaker forum representing Madre Blvd. It begins at women in Haiti (2006) both sides followed by a Q&A 11:30 with lunch catered by and Jordan (2007). Th e project provides micro loans for women in session. If the Chamber is Restaurant Lozano. Th e cost impoverished countries. Each $5,000 raised creates a village bank. unable to fi nd someone to for lunch is $11 per person; Th e slogan, “Small Loans, Big Changes”, explains well how the banks speak for the No on Measure reservations for lunch are work. According the the FINCA website, the program, “provides U position, then an impartial required. To make lunch credit to low-income women involved in commerce and petty trade, speaker will be found to reservations, please call or “microenterprise.” In addition, ‘because the women come together speak on the Measure, with Hank Landsberg at 355-3656 to borrow capital, they began to support one another—and each other’s a Q and A session to follow no later than noon the day businesses. Th e Village Banks became engines of empowerment and aft erwards. before. Anyone who would like to focal points for grassroots community development.’ Residents who want to And the banks, like Fran are a source of empowerment. If you speak against the Measure is asked to contact Beverly hear the presentation but would like to know more about the program or make a donation, do not want to have lunch please email Fran at: [email protected]. Yes, Fran Syverson DeVoy at the Chamber, Remember: (626) 355-5111 or info@ may arrive at noon for any is defi nitely a woman of today. Wife, Mother, Community Servant. available seating. A woman with purpose and meaning in her life, enjoying every bit sierramadrechamber.com. Please be prepared to provide Contact: Hank Landsberg of it. And, I forgot to mention one thing about this busy lady. She is (626) 355-3656 Shop Sierra Madre 81 years young! qualifi cations. MountainViews-Observer 280 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mvobserver.com 4 MountainViews-Observer | March 10, 2008

MountainViews-Observer PASADENA Southern California A Bridge Over Troubled Waters Earthquake Data Center the fault is a northeast ‘Walkabout’ Prompts dipping thrust fault about seven miles long and has Much To Talk About had recent activity along By Teresa Baxter it. Th e fault may also A community event organized by the Pasadena Playhouse be associated with the District, that was meant to take place in January, was fi nally Verdugo Fault capable of a held this past weekend. Originally the organizers had 6.8 magnitude earthquake cancelled what was to have been the fi rst “walkabout” due to the center’s website says. the torrential rains that preceded the previously scheduled Gordon said the Eagle January date, which turned out to be a beautiful, sunny day. Rock Fault could also Ironically, the re-scheduled date was overcast, drizzly and be associated with the cold. Raymond fault in South Nonetheless, well over 125 people showed up to participate Pasadena. Th at fault is in what was touted as the fi rst Downtown Pasadena Walkabout. Originating from the Pasadena Presbyterian capable of a 7.0 magnitude Church, the goal was to gather volunteers ranging from city quake. offi cials, residents, architects and environmentalists on a Th e 90-year-old La Loma quest to make downtown Pasadena more walkable. Bridge is 378 feet long and Th e event began with a keynote speech from Pasadena considered a sister of the Mayor Bill Bogaard, a sort of pep-talk, in which he stated Colorado Street Bridge. “Pasadena’s vibrant streetscapes provide a lively and dynamic In 1999 a seismic analysis backdrop for walkers. Whether moving briskly or at a slower concluded that the bridge pace, residents, workers and visitors are fortunate that was defi cient in strength and is deteriorating. In 1990, aft er the Loma Prieta Earthquake, all bridges in the city were By Dean Lee councilmember Steve as quartz diorite which is analyzed to determine if Madison said was close similar to granite and very they could withstand a City offi cials confi rmed to impossible to get. Th e common to the area. probable earthquake. last week that the long bridge is in Madison’s “Th ere is no other place Th e bridge is currently awaited redesign of the distinct. the fault could be than two lanes and repairs La Loma Bridge in the Mardirosian said he was under the bridge,” she would include widening Arroyo Seco was put on hopeful they could get said. the bridge two feet hold aft er geologists said more federal money. Gordon has no affi liation on each side to meet The South Lake Ave. Team (L to R): Lambert Giess- a semi active fault may lie Retired PCC petrology with the city but said American Association inger, Marsha Rood, John Smith, Sonia Legayade directly under the bridge. instructor Dr. Janet she knows the area well of State Highway and Gordon said the two ends having taken PCC geology Pasadena is such a pedestrian-friendly community” Project Manager Roubik Th is was followed by a short training session by urban Mardirosian, said they designer and planner, Deborah Murphy on what makes now know the Eagle Rock a great and walkable street. Participants were given a Fault lies between two of walkability checklist to provide a framework for communities the pillars underneath the to share in regards to observing pedestrian safety, walking bridge. environments, consistency of walks, lighting and signage. “Any redesign will have to As a reporter for this paper, I originally planned to observe the participants and report the fi ndings. I then decided—as work around that,” he said a pedestrian and Pasadena resident—to join one of the 25 but assured the project teams for a more informative perspective. Coincidentally, I would still continue. He was assigned to the team covering the South Lake District, said that having to redo my neighborhood. We were to start our jaunt at the Lake some of the bridge design Avenue Gold Line Station and then proceed south on Lake has set the project back to Cordova St., then east to Mentor, fi nally heading back to to at least early next year. the church to share our fi ndings. Currently there is no I met my team, consisting of Marsha Rood, Lambert completion date he said. Giessinger, Sonia Legayade and John Smith. Marsha took He also said they did not the lead as we met at Gold Line station, assessing everything think they could bring in sight with knowledge unfamiliar to me. Lambert was right behind her reinforcing terms I had never heard of actual plans in front of regarding sidewalk widths, tree grating and upheaval. We the city council before were also being trailed by a LA Times reporter during the January 2009 but did La Loma Bridge in relation to where the Eagle Rock fault maybe walk. In conversation, I soon learned the signifi cance of who expect to ask for funding of the bridge are built on students there for years. I was walking with. Rood turned out to be the mastermind from the council in a few Transportation Offi cials behind the event. She has the reputation for being the person months. very diff erent rock types She also said the Eagle requirements. Other responsible for the revitalization of Old Pasadena, the Th e bridge now needs which is consistent with a Rock Fault is exposed in safety features would Playhouse District and South Lake during her 18-year tenure $2 million more than the geological study done by areas and can be seen by include bridge railings as a former Pasadena development administrator. Rood has original estimated $11.5 Wilson Geosciences, Inc. the Eagle Rock Dome in and approach guardrails. recently received a distinguished leadership award from the million he said. Th ey were of Altadena for the city. Eagle rock. “You can see it Historic elements that California Chapter of the American Planning Association, currently looking for a Gordon said, to the west, has a lot of vertical off set,” contribute to the bridge’s and received a similar award from the Los Angeles chapter. the bridge was built on she said. overall appearance, such Giessinger is also very accomplished in his fi eld regarding way to fund it he added. city revitalization. According to a Pasadena City Hall bio, Almost 90 percent of the layered sedimentary rock petrology is the study of as the arches, would be and to the east, in stark rock. left untouched the city Giessinger is a preservation architect and is currently the funding came from two deputy historic preservation offi cer for the City of Los federal grants something contrast, the bridge in on According to the said. an igneous rock known Angeles. He is a former member and chair of the Pasadena Community Development Committee and past member of Blair Lockdown continued from pg. 1 the Pasadena Design Commission. in mind. Tyler asked what the It was among these great minds and the input of John Smith, Assistant Superintendent police, their offi cers “Until the suspect or suspects communications procedure a medical professional and Sonia Legayade from La Cañada George McKenna in a responded at 9:22 a.m. to are positively identifi ed, we was from the city managers that it was agreed Pasadena was aesthetically beautiful. Our telephone message. “Parents the school aft er one student don’t know which student is offi ce. Assistant City team concluded that Mayor Bogaard is right in stating that did come because I think reported to faculty that they in fact the suspect,” he said. Manager, Julie Gutierrez, Pasadena’s vibrant streetscapes provide a lively and dynamic students used cell phones.” saw a gun in the waistband “Keeping their hands above said the entire matter was an backdrop for walkers, but the walk brought observations that Early reports said there was of another person walking on their heads keeps them safe oversight by them and would there is room for improvement regarding the South Lake someone at the school with campus. and keeps the offi cers from be looked into. route in reference to bad street lighting, a lack of weather- a gun although a weapon Detectives announced reacting to hands going into Pasadena Public Information friendly bus stops, and an inadequate amount of trash never turned up. Police said an arrest the next day and pockets and coats and things Offi cer Ann Erdman, said the receptacles. Upon returning to the church we were asked to ammunition was later found charges were fi led against a like that.” city’s Emergency Operations rate our route on a scale of 1 to 6. Th e team unanimously during a search. 17 year-old student. He also said they set up a Center had not been activated agreed that the South Lake Gold Line Station rated a 0, but McKenna also said parents Th e alleged student denied staging area down the street at the time. Had it been, she by the time we crossed Colorado Blvd., it had elevated to 5. became panicked aft er seeing all charges which included to keep order. said, all city personnel would media reports of students criminal threats with a “You can imagine some have been notifi ed and a with their hands over their handgun, gang allegations, students seeing parents and response team from her offi ce “City Beat” heads as if being arrested minor in possession of a gun, vice versa, running to one would have been activated. and led out of classrooms. He and minor in possession of another, it would just throw “A citywide team would have Topics Include Youth Violence added that CNN specifi cally ammunition. His name was the whole order into chaos,” sprung into action,” Erdman Committee, City Manager responded to what was being withheld because of age. he explained. said. “We are reviewing why said on police scanners. Councilmember Chris Councilmember Sid Tyler that did not happen and will Recruitment, PUSD “Th e protocol is that you Holden said that the fi rst made comments saying have it fi xed by next week.” exit the building with your procedure, “for whatever the situation was handled Erdman said the Emergency hands locked behind your reason,” did not present itself professionally by police but Operations Center is Topics on the latest edition of “City Beat,” airing on 55 head.” McKenna said. “Not well. He also said he had heavily criticized city staff activated only by an incident KPAS and the Internet, include next steps for the Youth necessarily hands up like never seen on TV a situation blaming the absence of a commander and in this case Development and Violence Prevention Committee, city you are under arrest, but that where students were let out permanent city manager. that would have been the council recruitment for Pasadena ’s next city manager was the procedure. Th ey did with their hands on their Ironically former Police Chief police. She explained that and issues related to Pasadena Unifi ed School District that with everyone, building heads. Bernard Melekian is acting person plus department vary including the reinvention of John Muir High School. by building, classroom by “Th ere may have been some City Manager but was absent depending on the situation. classroom, fl oor by fl oor.” thoughts that go behind why from the council meeting She also said the city council McKenna said during the that was the chosen way to Moderator Ann Erdman is joined by Pasadena Mayor therefore unavailable for has no jurisdiction over Bill Bogaard, Crown City News anchor Tami DeVine eight hour incident that exit young people from the comment. PUSD schools having their parents were roped off by school,” he said. “It may not “Maybe we were spoiled by own emergency procedures. and Mountain Views-Observer reporter Dean Lee. police and kept a block away. only be helpful to myself, the last city manager,” Tyler Both, Superintendent Edwin He also remarked that the but there maybe others who said, “who I must say was Diaz’s offi ce and the offi ce for “City Beat” replays Mondays at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., phrase “lockdown,” was pondered about that?” very good at letting us know Blair principal Rich Boccia, Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m., Wednesdays at 8:30 a.m., Th urs- actually referring to a practice Holden asked staff to report about almost anything.” declined comment referring days at 7 p.m., Fridays at 8:30 p.m., Saturdays at 5:30 known as “Shelter-in-Place.” back on the rational behind Tyler also said he was told all media inquiries to PUSD’s p.m. and Sundays at 11:30 a.m. Unconfi rmed reports said a the procedure. many parents did not go to Director of Communications Streaming video of all 55 KPAS programming can be number of students cried on Pasadena Police Lt. Alex the staging area, at the Binti Harvey. accessed in real time by going to www.cityofpasadena. cell phones telling parents Uribe said Th ursday over the Staples on South Arroyo net and clicking on City News. For more information they were all suspects. phone that police had the Parkway. Blair is in Tyler’s call (626) 795-5556. According to Pasadena safety of everyone involved district.

MountainViews-Observer 280 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mvobserver.com MountainViews-Observer | March 10, 2008 5 SIERRA MADRE POLICE BLOTTER During the week of Sunday, February 24th to Saturday March 1st the Sierra Madre Police Department responded to approximately 241 calls for service. Monday, February 25th 8:29 AM – Vandalism, 222 W. Sierra Madre Blvd, Memorial Park. A city employee reported graffi ti in the men’s restroom. Th e damage consisted of several 12” to 14” black spray painted letters on two the interior walls. No estimated cost of repair was available. 2:53 PM – Missing person, 300 block East Grandview Ave. Offi cers responded to the 300 block of East Grandview Ave regarding a missing adult male. Th e man, who suff ers from Alzheimer’s, was last seen at 9:00 am as he left for a walk. Th e man was found that aft ernoon by the Monrovia Police Department. He was found walking east bound on the 210 Freeway near the Huntington Drive on ramp. 4:09 PM – Arrest, Grandview Ave and Wilson Drive. Th e Offi cer stopped a man for solicitation. During the investigation it was revealed he had an outstanding warrant for his arrest. Th e man was arrested and released on a written promise to appear. Tuesday, February 26th 10:30 AM – Vandalism, 222 W. Sierra Madre Blvd, Memorial Park. A city employee reported graffi ti in the men’s restroom. Th e damage consisted of several 12” to 14” burgundy and green spray painted letters on the interior walls. No estimated cost of repair was available. 7:26 PM – Assault with a deadly weapon, 100 block of North Baldwin Avenue. A resident reported a vandalism at his apartment complex. During the investigation offi cers met with witnesses and determined a large sand fi lled bucket was thrown through the apartment’s window. Prior to arrival of the police a suspect was seen fl eeing in a brown Lincoln of Mercury 4 door sedan which drove west bound on Highland Ave. Th e bucket barely missed the resident, who was lying on the sofa. As a result of the broken window glass the resident sustained a cut to his ankle. Wednesday, February 27th 10:03 PM – 400 block Crestvale Drive. A resident reported her adult grandson was upset over the break-up with his girlfriend. During the investigation LA County Mental Health were called to assist with the evaluation. As a result of their evaluation he was taken into protective custody and transported to the hospital. Th ursday, February 28th 7:28 PM – Arrest, 322 West Sierra Madre Blvd, Café 322. Th e Offi cer was fl agged down regarding a fi ght involving a male adult and a male juvenile. Th e investigation resulted in the adult male being arrested for battery and great bodily injury to a child. Th e adult male was Sierra Madre Fire Safe Council arrested and transported to the Pasadena Jail for remand. Friday, February 29th ANNOUNCEMENTS & OBSERVATIONS 2:22 AM – DUI, 200 block Manzanita Ave. Th e Offi cer stopped a car for several traffi c From Caroline Brown violations. During the investigation the driver, a Sierra Madre resident was determined to Th e Sierra Madre chapter of the California Fire Safe Council be driving under the infl uence of alcohol. Th e driver was arrested and transported to the meets the fi rst Monday of each month, 7 P.M., in the City Pasadena Jail for remand. Council chambers. On April 7, 2008 the topic will be: “Why 9:46 PM – Arrest, Sierra Madre Blvd and Baldwin Ave. Offi cers assisted Th e Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness is So Important.” Fugitive Taskforce (a multi agency team) with a traffi c stop and arrest of a man Los Angeles resident, a suspect in a recent homicide. During the arrest investigation a large quantity of Our next demonstration of Th ermo-gel will take place Saturday, April 12, at the marijuana, 60.5 grams was discovered in the car. A Pasadena resident and Los Angeles resident Second Annual La Canada/Flintridge Emergency Expo. were subsequently arrested for felony unlawful transport and possession of marijuana. All of metropolitan Los Angeles is preparing for the November 13th Earthquake Saturday, March 1st Scenario. Remember, the professionally trained fi rst responders will take not be 7:24 PM – Arrest, Sierra Madre Blvd and Mountain Trail Ave. Offi cers responded to a able to be everywhere at once. You will have to remember that when you look at reported hit and run traffi c collision. Upon arrival a man and a woman were detained as your neighbor and your neighbor looks back you will each be looking at your local they were leaving the scene of the collision. During the investigation the male passenger was “fi rst responder.” intoxicated and the woman driver was found to be under the infl uence of alcohol. Th e car Are you prepared, as you are reading this right now, for your family to function was stolen and the woman was in possession of stolen property. Th e driver was arrested for for seven to ten days with suffi cient food, water and shelter in the face of a county- driving under the infl uence of alcohol and the passenger for public intoxication. Th ey were wide disaster? transported to the Pasadena Jail for remand. For more information contact SMFSC at 355-0741 or 355-9350. Please e-mail us 9:13 PM – Arrest, 600 block East Del Mar Blvd, Pasadena. Th e victim of a fi ght that occurred at smfi [email protected] as we want to have contact with as many Sierra earlier that evening in the 300 block West Sierra Madre Blvd came to the police station to Madre residents as possible. fi le a crime report. Th e man reported injury to his forehead as the result of being assaulted by his former girlfriend. Th e investigation revealed that this person was a victim of domestic We have a palette of Th ermo-gel fi re protection kits available on consignment via violence by his former girlfriend. Th e former girlfriend was later arrested, in Pasadena for a distributor in Arizona. It arrived during the height of the fi re storms in October/ the crime and transported to the Pasadena Jail for remand. November, 2007. Call 355-0741.

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MountainViews-Observer 280 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mvobserver.com 6 MountainViews-Observer | March 10, 2008 Women In Business: One Of A Kind: Historical Synopsis Featuring unique homes & gardens and the people who create them A Special Women’s History Month Series Photos and Story By Chris Bertrand By La Quetta M. Shamblee

Today’s roster of business owners is in sharp contrast to Alverno: Historical Sierra Madre the traditional, mandated-cultural role of women as wives and mothers, with the exception of “women folk” preparing for careers as teachers, nurses and secretaries up through Landmark Part 1 the 1960’s. The first national program to acknowledge and organize professional women was done to capitalize on Chris Bertrand The thirteen East after World War their experience to support military efforts during World acres of Dr. Jarvis Barlow’s Alverno II. War I. The U.S. War Department established the Women’s estate at Michillinda and Highland still War Council through a federal grant, which resulted in remain intact in these days, safe for now When I attended the formation of The National Federation of Business and from plans for subdivision and condo the Sierra Madre Professional Women’s Clubs in 1919. Groundwork laid by construction large parcels. The Alverno Centennial dinner here the women’s suffrage movement starting in the mid-1800’s, Villa, originally known as Villa del Sol D’ last year, I chatted in resulted in a woman’s right to vote with the passage of the Oro, translates to Home of the Golden the buffet line with a 19th Amendment on August 26, 1920. This voting right Sun. Completed in the early 1920’s, gentleman who grew up provided the means for women to engage in economic the Villa included a four bedrooms nearby, a friend of one activity on a scale as never before. of servant’s quarters within the house, of the Barlow children. a coach house, pool and bath house, He reminisced about Harvard Business School professor, Nancy Koehn, notes, tennis court, chicken coop and several the cook’s double duty “Women have always been in business,” as she points to additional outbuildings. at the Villa. When research about the key roles that women played in the summer lunches were development of cottage industries and establishment The choice of the unusual exterior color of benevolent societies in the early American economy. has been attributed to Mrs.. Barlow, who complete, this staff member was assigned However, for more than one hundred years, the law is said to have toasted quite a number restricted a woman’s participation in the economy, aside of pieces of bread to identify just the lifeguard duty at the Alverno Villa Front Villa’s pool, to monitor from running her household. right orange-brown color. To my eye, according to one document. The Sisters it appears to be the “Burnt Sienna” of the children’s swimming activities, A steady parade of women business owners continues including this gentleman from time to of St. Francis used the Villa for a novitiate, my Crayola 64-pack collection from my and used the rods in order to drape over to march along the trails blazed by a number of early childhood. time. Alas, the pool was filled in when pioneering women entrepreneurs, who would certainly the property was sold to a religious order them and create a “dormitory” area for the young women who came in as marvel at the level of economic activity generated by the who built a girls’ high school on Oprah Winfrey’s and Martha Stewart’s of today. Millions the property. novices. Three separate bedroom areas surrounded the upstairs hall. A multi- of other women business owners are making their marks in Many stories circulate about the room master suite included his and hers businesses that span all industries, from sole proprietorships history of the property, and some baths and a discreet viewing window to to corporations with hundreds of employees. of them cannot be substantiated observe activities in the foyer. The girls’ Research compiled by The Center for Women’s Business with the archival information rooms adjoined, and the boy’s bedroom Research within the past two years indicates there are on hand at Alverno. One story I was separate. An elaborate call system more than 10 million women-owned businesses in the have heard several times around allowed staff to be summoned to a U.S. Seventy-five percent (or 7.7 million) of these firms town, suggests that Barlow particular room. The dining room call are majority-owned (51% or more) by women, employing wanted to put a tuberculosis button was inset into the floor, under 7.1 million people and generating more than $1 trillion in sanitarium on the Alverno site, the table, so wait service could be revenues. California has more women-owned businesses but Alverno representatives unobtrusively requested by the tap of a than any other state, with an estimated 1.4 million. indicate this is a misconception, Alverno Villa Front foot. and don’t believe this was ever Cindy Mc Loughlin, Facilities Manager, Forty-two percent of all businesses owned by people of intended by Dr. Barlow. would be delighted if those with color are owned by women, with Asian women having When I moved here, a long time Dr. Barlow himself was a TB patient, documentation, pictures, history the highest business survival rate. Although women start resident, Amy Putnam, called my and reportedly spent quite a bit of information and personal insights would businesses at twice the rate of men, fewer than 5% of attention to the Villa, reminding me to time recuperating on couches in the contact Alverno (and me for a possible women-owned businesses reach the threshold of $1 million keep an eye out for it when watching library, surrounded by five or six of his further article) at 626-355-3463, to add dollars in annual revenue. Those that do typically market films and television shows. You’ll see favorite canines, and a chilled supply to the Alverno archives. their products nationally, and more than 80% of those are the home’s very unusual and identifiable members of formal business organizations, associations of his favorite cocktails in the tin-lined If you have interest in renting the villa color briefly in recurring scenes of drawers of the cabinets. The or networks as compared to 61% represented by those the current television series, “Cane”. Barlow Hospital for Respiratory generating less than $1 million a year. The Villa is used frequently for movie, Illness still operates in Los This month’s column will salute local women engaged television, commercial and print photo Angeles. shoots, and included “Legally Blonde” in the building and management of businesses. Women’s and “Princess Diaries”. The Villa recalls a lifestyle of History Month presents an opportunity to highlight and another era, with huge, grand celebrate several local entrepreneurs who continue to make Alverno was designed to be a one third halls for reception, entertaining history, building upon the groundwork laid by those early scale (though I have read and heard a and dining and a sumptuous women trailblazers. quarter to two-thirds scale) replica of the library of Philippine mahogany Villa Collazi near Florence, Italy, reputed For additional information on women businesses and for Dr. Barlow’s library retreat related resources: to have been built by Michelangelo. on the main level, plus a Highly respected architect,Wallace utilitarian kitchen area for staff Neff, who specialized in contemporary Office of Women’s Business Ownership, Entrepreneurial use. Architect Neff’s signature Development adaptation of Mediterranean and use of extensive wrought iron Spanish colonial Architecture, created for a personal or organization event, http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/onlinewbc/ is displayed throughout. Of particular index.html this Sierra Madre masterpiece. Neff note is the curved balustrade and the contact the Events Coordinator for the created estates for Hollywood celebrities, unique covered entry of wrought iron Villa, Sandi McQuilken, Santa Anita including the Marx Brothers, Samuel Gardens at 626.444.3377 or info@ National Association of Women Business Owners and glass. This stunning entry design, www.nawbo.org Mayer of MGM studios, Claudette or the view to the sunken garden often sagardens.com. Colbert and many others, after catches my eye when the building is becoming the “hot” architect for the featured in films and television. Part 2 of the Alverno story still to come! well-heeled movie crowd. According to Alverno documents from the 40’s The Barlows intended to install a pipe or 50’s, Neff commented “Expensive organ in the home, with plans to store houses are my business, and social the pipes in the basement, along with housing is my hobby.” Grand Southern the wine cellar. A large grill was put in California estates paid the bills, yet he the staircase, but the pipe organ never received industry and humanitarian came to be. acclaim for the thousands of his low Upstairs, another huge hall for family use cost igloo style gunite (used for pool had great iron rods between the walls, construction) houses, constructed in reinforcing the structure, reportedly Africa, South America and the Middle due to the weight of the heavy tile roof,

PASADENA ART WEEKEND MARCH 14 TO 16 Art Weekend is One of Pasadena’s Largest Cultural Events Pasadena, Calif. -- Art lovers will experience a feast for the senses at Pasadena Art Weekend, a three-day celebration of the visual and performing arts that encompasses a citywide arts open house, Art Night, on Friday, March 14; Art Talk, a tribute to the spoken word on Saturday, March 15, and Art Market, one of the largest outdoor exhibitions of works for sale by students in Southern California, on Sunday, March 16. In all, attendees at Pasadena Art Weekend can experience more than 20 exhibitions, performances and cultural activities over three days. All Pasadena Art Weekend activities are free and open to the public. At-a-glance activities during Pasadena Art Weekend are as follows: Art Night, Friday, March 14th – 6 pm to 10 pm Pasadena’s cultural institutions will open their doors for free during Art Night Pasadena, offering a rich sampling of art, artifacts and music. Art Night is a multi-year partnership among numerous cultural institutions with the Cultural Affairs Division of the City of Pasadena offered every October and March. Art Talk, Saturday, March 15th – 11 am to 5pm Art Talk represents a cross-section of artists exploring the spoken disciplines featuring cutting edge performance and theater artists in this first-ever presentation of the living word in the Playhouse District. Genres range from storytelling to recitations, poetry readings to theatre, as well as a film screening. Art Talk will take place at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center. Art Market, Sunday, March 16th– 10 am to 5 pm Old Pasadena’s most popular fine arts market focuses exclusively on work by students, faculty and alumni from Art Center College of Design and Pasadena City College. Famed KCRW DJ Raul Campos will be spinning deep exotic rhythms to set the mood from 12:00 noon to 4:00 P.M. Now in its fifth year, the Art Market is a great opportunity to find innovative productions by emerging artists, illustrators, ceramicists, and the next generation of environmental and industrial designers experimenting with different media. And, any purchases benefit 100% the artists and students directly. The Art Market occurs in the alleys and Courtyard at One Colorado. General Public: For more information on any Pasadena Art Weekend event, the public is asked to call 800.307.7977 or visit www.pasadenaartweekend.com. MEDIA: Please contact Josefina Mora at 626.744.0340 [email protected] g

MountainViews-Observer 280 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mvobserver.com MountainViews-Observer | March 10, 2008 7 Alverno, Arroyo Paci c Academy, La Salle, Maranatha, Pasadena High School, St. Francis, Sierra Mesa Middle School,  e Barnhart School,  e Gooden School, Field Elementary, Sierra Madre Elementary School, Bethany Christian, St. Rita’s, Wilson Middle School, Odyssey Charter School, Norma Coombs Ed Alternative School, Weizmann Day School and the PASADENA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT La Salle Faculty Reads To Madison Barnhart Students Participate In Students Photos and Story By John Blackstock Biotech Program SCHOOL DIRECTORY For the 3rd year, students Members of the La Salle High School faculty and from Arcadia’s Barnhart administration read to students at Madison Elementary Middle School will be Alverno High School School in Pasadena as part of Read Across America, participating in the Amgen – 200 N. Michillinda Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 the nation’s largest reading Bruce Wallace Biotechnology (626) 355-3463 celebration sponsored by the Lab Program, an outreach Head of School: Ann M. Gillick National Education Association. program that excites E-mail address: [email protected] Th e event also celebrated the students about the wonders of scientifi c discovery. Arroyo Pacifi c Academy birthday of Th eodor Seuss Geisel. Funded by the Amgen 41 W. Santa Clara St. Arcadia, Ca, (March 2, 1904 – September 24, Foundation in collaboration (626) 294-0661 1991) who was an American with the Foundation for Principal: Phil Clarke writer and cartoonist best known Pierce College and the Los Summer Taylor, Leanne E-mail address: pclarke@arroyopacifi c.org for his classic children’s books Angeles / Orange County Norden, Joseph Cook under the pen name Dr. Seuss, Biotechnology Center, the Barnhart School Montgomery says, “Th e kids 240 W. Colorado Blvd Arcadia, Ca. 91007 including Th e Cat in the, Hat program was designed to love the hands on lab experience; promote scientifi c literacy and (626) 446-5588 Green Eggs and Ham, How the it’s a fantastic addition to the Head of School: Joanne Testa Cross Grinch Stole Christmas and One inquiry. It introduces students school curriculum. Many to cutting edge biotechnology Kindergarten - 8th grade Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. students come back from high website: www.barnhartschool.com Ms. Delia Swanner, La techniques and labs that are school and tell us they were the Salle’s Librarian, and Mrs. Needless to say the day was fi lled used by biotechnology fi rms, Julie Ickes, Read Across with readings from the many Dr only ones who knew what a Bethany Christian School agricultural companies and micropipette was or how small America Coordinator at Seuss books. crime scene investigators. 93 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Madison and a first grade a micro liter was. Th ey had a (626) 355-3527 teacher discuss book Mrs. Julie Ickes, a fi rst grade Th e program gives students great head start on DNA and teacher at Madison Elementary, hands on experience with Principal: James Lugenbuehl choices. how it is manipulated.” E-mail address: [email protected] coordinated the event and dozens advanced scientifi c equipment Barnhart School is an of volunteers like digital micropipettes and independent K-8 school located Th e Gooden School read to the gel electrophoresis chambers, in Arcadia, California that is 192 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 elementary which separate DNA fragments accredited by the California (626) 355-2410 students at according to size. Th e student’s Association of Independent Head of School: Patty Patano labs will parallel work that Schools (CAIS). Founded website: www.goodenschool.org M a d i s o n . has earned Nobel Prizes for More than in 1958, Barnhart’s mission prominent scientists. In one of is to provide an unparalleled LaSalle High School 45 million the labs, students will attempt educational experience in 3880 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. p e o p l e to fi nd a specifi c location in an atmosphere of caring and (626) 351-8951 volunteered their own DNA. Th is location respect that fosters intellectual Principal: Patrick Bonacci to participate helps to make tPA, a protein curiosity and a love for website: www.lasallehs.org in the 11th used in dissolving blood clots. learning. Barnhart’s unique annual Read Th e protein is administered to Virtues curriculum embraces Norma Coombs Alternative School America Day, heart attack victims to reduce ethnic, religious and cultural 2600 Paloma St. Pasadena, Ca. 91107 according to the incidence of strokes. Th e diversity empowering students (626) 798-0759 Ms. Delia Swanner, La Salle’s Librarian, students will do this using PCR, to become responsible, caring Principal: Dr. Vanessa Watkins the National reads to first graders at Madison Elementary a molecular biology technique. E-mail address: [email protected] E d u c a t i o n and committed citizens in their in Pasadena Barnhart is one of two middle communities. Association. schools in Los Angeles County Odyssey Charter School participating in the program For more information on 725 W. Altadena Dr. Altadena, Ca. 91001 that is typically introduced Barnhart School visit www. (626) 229-0993 Positions May Be In Peril At PUSD at the high school level. barnhartschool.org or call 626- Head of School: Lauren O’Neill Barnhart science teacher Grace 446-5588. website: www.odysseycharterschool.org By Teresa Baxter Pasadena High School A special meeting was held last Tuesday to confront the 2925 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. impending budget cuts that are due to a deteriorating ALVERNO (626) 798-8901 state economy, based on the 2008-09 Governors’ Principal: Dr. Derick Evans Budget, which would eliminate $10 million of funding Two Nights Only! website: www.pasadenahigh.org for the Pasadena Unifi ed School District. Alverno High School’s spring musical Pasadena Unifi ed School District Th is prompted what will be the fi rst of many 351 S. Hudson Ave. Pasadena, Ca. 91109 meetings in which the Board of Education will hear Pippin (626) 795-6981 recommendations on how to recoup funds lost. Th e by Stephen Schwartz website: [email protected] meeting was led by Assistant Superintendent for St. Rita Catholic School Business Services, Michele McClowry. March 14 & 15 322 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Pasadena High School’s Gladys Edwards Theater (626) 355-9028 McClowry started with the positives, by noting 2925 E. Sierra Madre Blvd Principal: Joanne Harabedian that $1 million of mandated cost reserves from the website: www.st-rita.org “Approach to Excellence” program could be applied to Tickets are $8 in advance or off set the shortage. Th e district also recently received $12 at the door. Sierra Madre Elementary School a $2 million insurance settlement as a result of fl ood 141 W. Highland Ave, Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 damage at Marshall Fundamental Secondary School (626) 355-1428 and there are several local restricted programs and Principal: Gayle Bluemel grants that have balances which can likely be brought E-mail address:[email protected] back to the general fund to create revenues of $3.3 Sierra Madre Middle School million. Superintendent Edwin Diaz was quick to point 160 N. Canon out that taking these one-time savings would eliminate C a m p EnriChmEnt Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 (626) 836-2947 them from much needed areas, such as conferences Grades K–6 Grades K–8 and staff development in the future. June 16–JuLY 25 June 23–JuLY 24 Principal: Gayle Bluemel Contact person: Garrett Newsom, Asst. Principal “Obviously we have to start here because this is available E-mail address: [email protected] money that will take us a long way towards balancing Weizmann Day School next year’s budget,” he said. “It isn’t a solution over three 1434 N. Altadena Dr. years, but it is going to have an impact in relationship Pasadena, Ca. 91107 to implementing some of the initiatives that we started. (626) 797-0204 We’re going to have to prioritize, we’re going to have to Lisa Feldman: Head of School go aft er grants, and we’re going to have to aggressively go aft er external resources in order to keep the forward Wilson Middle School momentum going within the district.” 300 S. Madre St. Pasadena, Ca. 91107 (626) 449-7390 Th is led to the remaining $6.7 million defi cit that Principal: Ruth Esseln needed to be faced with discussion and additional E-mail address: [email protected] recommendations. According to the “Agenda Item 2” Pasadena Unifi ed School District report presented by McClowry, there are suggested 351 S. Hudson Ave. eliminations of personnel in the areas of consultation, Pasadena, Ca. 91109 custodial work, staffi ng ratios and a general district (626) 795-6981 reorganization. Website: [email protected] “Th is is going to be a signifi cant impact in relationship to classifi ed positions…we’re looking at signifi cant TUTOR.COM reductions in certain departments very consistent with 3_4_.indd SIERRA 1 MADRE PUBLIC LIBRARY CARDHOLDERS2/25/2008 12:21:57 PM what was recommended by the Gibson cost savings Get Free online HOMEWORK HELP! Live help report.” said Diaz. “We’re trying to re-think and re- sessions with real tutors for 4th through 12th establish the whole district level of organizational grades and college introduction level students. structure and support services.” Available Every day from 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm Foothill • Math • Science • Social Studies • English Health programs and Special Education effi ciency of Grades 4-12 and College Intro Computer Services services are also under scrutiny, but it was agreed that GO TO: www.sierramadre.lib.ca.us all mandated services will continue to be provided. 20+ years in Sierra Madre we had to read in just call this a high recommendation. PC Computer Repairs English was about I highly recommend this book if & Electronics Consulting The Solution? the Titanic and was you’re looking to read a book that has TRISH’S By Trisha Collins extremely long and raw truth, romance, creativity, soul, boring. Aft er such a disappointment, and love, and joy. Th is Dave Felt 355-8315 horrible experience modern book covers it all. TRUTH with the previous I would give Th e House on Mango Street book, I was 5 stars and 3 thumbs up (I’m sure once Usually, the reason most teenagers come convinced this “Mango Book” would to school is for their friends and not the you read this book; you too will want be just like it: irrelevant and tiring. Boy, to contribute a thumbs up). Cisneros actual work. It may sound selfi sh, but was I wrong. we teenagers don’t really have much gives the reader the bare reality while passion for others’ things that don’t have In fact I was extremely wrong. Th is book presenting it in a beautiful and poetic anything to do with us. Th at includes has to be one of my all time favorites tone, making this book a true classic. schoolwork, which most oft en seems now; it practically changed my life. Never again will I literally judge a book pretty irrelevant to our present and future Aft er you pick up this book, it’s pretty by its cover, or title, or anything for that daily lives. Almost everyday I ask myself hard to put down. I was completely matter. I think teachers should give kids in Algebra II how Cramer’s Rule and hooked aft er the fi rst page, drawn into more material that they can actually the quadratic equation is going to help Cisneros use of mixing poetry in her relate to. I’ve never been more excited me in life. In World History, I question series of vignettes. Each of the vignettes to write a Literary Analysis Essay on what knowing the date of King Henry tells its own little story, but when you a book in my life, and many of my IIIV’s rule has top do with anything at string them all together they tell an even peers feel the same. Maybe that’s what all. Recently in my English class, I was greater truth. It’s remarkable. it’s really all about. People are always given an assignment to read a “classic”, Just so you know, this is not a book looking for ways to make school more Th e House on Mango Street, by Sandra review. Personally, I can’t stand major fun and interesting for kids to help Cisneros. When I received my copy of newspaper book reviews. Th ey always “bridge the gap”. Maybe all you need to the book, I could tell I wasn’t going to seem to tell you the whole story, do to make school important to them is like it already. What did this book have ruining the magic of the reader fi nding to show them how what they’re learning can be put into play everyday. to do with me? Besides, the last book everything out on their own. I would MountainViews-Observer 280 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mvobserver.com 8 MountainViews-Observer | March 10, 2008

MountainViews- Observer Publisher/ Editor Susan Henderson City Editor OPINION

Dean Lee Measure U Faces Strong Stuart Tolchin On... Sports Editor Opposition - Anti-Tax Brad Eastland LIFE Photography Movement Opposed To UUT Increase And The Winner Is..Ia Jacqueline Truong By Hail Hamilton Lina Johnson Ir A Sign Of Security Or Decay? Contributors As the April 8 election Th is systematic defunding of the public nears, Sierra Madre residents are beginning sector has had a devastating eff ect on Pat Birdsall to discuss the pros and cons of the police business as it becomes harder and harder Well, ithe Academy Awards have passed and almost been forgotten, Bob Eklund initiative and the proposed utility user to hire qualifi ed employees at reasonable but I woke up wondering whether next year it will be necessary to Jeff Brown tax (UUT) increase. Th is is both good and salaries who are willing to live in California add a new category: “Best acting performance by an American actor Stuart Tolchin bad. How we fi nance the city for the next cities. Th ese dynamics would suggest that in movies that people have actually seen.” few years is good. Having our utility bills one answer must be simply to raise the Kim Clymer-Kelley Doesn’t it seem kind of strange that the four major acting awards increase is bad. aggregate level of taxation in the state. were won by non-Americans; wonderfully talented people who Peter Dills Nobody hates paying more taxes than But part of the reason Sierra Madre probably merited their awards but who don’t happen to be fl uent in Hail Hamilton I—and don’t be mistaken utility fees are residents have been so unwilling to tax English, or so it seemed. In some ways, I guess, it’s all about merit in Rich Johnson taxes. I’m no diff erent than most Sierra themselves is the widespread, and oft en the present. Th ings change. Chris Bertrand Madre residents. If you raise my taxes you correct, perception that City Hall squanders I’m all for change, I guess, and the idea that the actor who gives the their resources. best performance should win the award certainly sounds right but, Virginia Hoge had better have a damn good reason, or I’m adamantly opposed to them. Call me anti- aft er all, we know that the awards are just a device to sell movies and Mary Carney Th e City of Sierra Madre has developed a I think there really are other factors to consider. Th e best supporting tax in my views on taxation. But I accept culture in which advancement is based on actor categories, male and female were won by Javier Bardem and Caroline Brown the necessity of taxes, even if I hate to pay an antiquated testing system that oft en has Tilda Swinton, both spectacularly talented actors from what used to La Quetta Shamblee them. little or no relation to work performance, be far away places. A nominated male actor, but also a non-winner, Vivianne Parker I am not a member of the larger anti- while seniority determines who keeps was 84 year old Hal Holbrook, an American icon - a great actor who Teresa Baxter tax movement that exist in California, a jobs during layoff s and who gets the best is identifi ed with two legends that still infl uence the present day. One is Mark Twain, who toured the world presenting the new face movement with outspoken allies here in assignments and work shift s. Far too oft en, th Student Correspondents Sierra Madre who are absolutely opposed the people who head departments are given of 19 Century America and who authored Huckleberry Finn, a Pasadena High School their jobs based on their political loyalties novel so great that even the kids of today have heard of it. Th e other to any new taxes! great American legend played by Mr. Holbrook is, of course, Deep Alverno High School California’s anti-tax movement has rather than their management skills or Th roat, forever lurking in the shadows trying to save America from Oak Crest Institute won signifi cant victories over the past expertise. Presidential incompetence and dishonesty. (Where is he when we of Science 30 years. In 1978, Proposition 13 froze All of these organizational problems need him?) Trish Collins property tax rates and required voter undermine the public’s faith in local In the best supporting actress category, and also overlooked, was approval of special-use taxes, which were government and its willingness to support Ruby Dee, a great force in African-American theatre. Ruby Dee and Editorial Cartoonist formerly levied by local legislatures. In tax increases. her recently deceased husband, Ossie Davis, were deeply involved Ann Cleaves 1986, Proposition 62 greatly expanded in the civil rights movement, were both American icons, and were the mandatory voter approval of tax Th e simplistic “meat-axe” approach known as extraordinarily dedicated and talented people struggling Web Master increases in most jurisdictions, requiring of cutting all departments by an equal against American racial discrimination. She deserved to be honored John Avery a majority vote on general taxes. Finally, percent does not make government more – it would have made us all feel good. in 1996, Proposition 218 added even more effi cient. Quite to the contrary, services But what does all this sentiment have to do with the acting For Advertising Inquiries are simply cut, either overtly or covertly, contact: limitations on taxation and required voter performances of 2008? Shouldn’t these awards be based upon only approval of property-related assessments, effi ciencies are not achieved, and what the specifi c performance before the academy voters--you know the JULIE PUTERBAUGH fees, and charges. results is a further diminution of public “what have you done for me lately school of thought”? Maybe my 626-836-6524 services, decrease in the quality of life, and point can best be understood if we look at the “Best Performance In addition, Proposition 218 extended by an Actress” category. A pre-awards favorite in that category was the limitations on revenue collection to more reasons for small businesses, middle MountainViews-Observer class homeowners and municipal workers 74 year-old Julie Christie playing a woman who is in the process (Mountain View News) has been all California jurisdictions, including of gradually forgetting her past, as evidenced by her inability to adjudicated as a newspaper of cities and counties, which some argued to fl ee the city for communities that meet General Circulation for the their expectations. remember her husband who dutifully continues to visit her at the County of Los Angeles in Court were outside the reach of Proposition 62. Home for the Aged. Wait – you cry – stop – Julie Christie is not an Case number GS004724: for the Together, these three initiatives placed American Actress – never was and never will be. Yes, I know, she is City of Sierra Madre; in Court Th is cycle is not only destructive and Case GS005940 and for the City unprecedented limits on the ability of local wasteful but unnecessary. Rather, a balance the exception to prove the rule that I can’t quite express. Appearing of Monrovia in Court Case No. governments to levy taxes and generate must be achieved whereby levels of service, in such fi lms as Billy Liar, Julie Christie is identifi ed with New Wave GS006989 and is published every revenue. post World War II British pictures that showed the resilience of the Friday at 37 Auburn Avenue, Suite effi ciency of delivery, cost, and system of English people emerging from the gritty deprivations of the war 7, Sierra Madre, California, 91024. Th e anti-tax movement and the ineffi ciency payment converge to a socially acceptable All contents are copyrighted and and starting new lives. She was plucked from these roles and paired may not be reproduced without of government are linked together in norm. Th is means that any solution must with other international actors like Omar Sharif, Tom Courtnay, and the express written consent of the multiple ways. Years of chronically de- incorporate two things: (1) short-term Alec Guinness in the great, highly expensive and highly acclaimed publisher. All rights reserved. All funding the public sector have caused proposals that might help balance next American hit movie, Dr. Zhivago. For people of my age, it was and submissions to this newspaper become the property of the large swaths of the public realm to fall into year’s budget, and (2) longer-term plans is one of our all time favorites, depicting the demise of an entire MountainViews-Observer and disrepair. When California ranks 33rd that will make city government both more historical epoch as described by a Nobel Prize winning author and may be published in part or whole. in the country in total yearly spending effi cient and cost eff ective. viewed by just about everybody. It is the “Gone With the Wind” of Opinions and views expressed by my era and its music eternally plays in our minds. Th e lasting power the writers printed in this paper do per pupil in California’s primary and Whether a new and improved UUT is the not necessarily express the views secondary schools, it’s no wonder many of the fi lm reminds us of a time in America when we were strong and opinions of the publisher or staff best way to address Sierra Madre’s current enough to view movies with international stars, movies that depicted of the MountainViews-Observer. parents have lost faith in the public fi nancial shortfall is uncertain. What is historical injustices, as an example of America’s emerging strength MountainViews-Observer is schools. Similar trends are visible in the certain is that the passage of the UUT and ability to bring stability and security to a new era. Well folks, wholly owned by Grace Lorraine public abandonment of parks and transit Publications, Inc. and reserves will open the door in to other User Taxes. times have changed, and it feels like we’ve peaked and that everything the right to refuse publication of systems. What’s next? is unstable and insecure. It’s downright scary! I guess that’s my point advertisements and other materials – awards for Hal Holbrook, Ruby Dee, and Julie Christie might not submitted for publication. have changed the world and might not even have been merited, but All letters to the editor and at least for the moment recognizing these giants might have helped to correspondence should be sent to: Letters To The Editor maintain the illusion that we are still connected to our past strength MountainViews - Observer 280 W. Sierra Madre Bl. #327 Dear Susan: and are correcting past wrongs and are busy building a better world Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 paper, and you printed it. member of the Chamber of – if only for a few hours on a Sunday night. Phone: 626-355-2737 I hope you will allow me Well, what can I say? I believe in truth – and it goes without saying Fax: 626-609-3285 Apparently, in my attempt Commerce, and right now email: [email protected] to use your paper to clear that there have been great shift s of power and infl uence in the up some confusion that to avoid confusion, I created there is a lot of coverage of world that have left us all to face an uncertain future. Sometimes, confusion, and at least one the Wistaria Festival on my I guess, even I want to turn out the lights and watch a movie or an MountainViews- has come to my attention. Recently, I received an of your readers reacted in website and in my paper. award show and pretend that everything is still peachy keen. Bring Observer a negative manner towards Some of those articles, on Busby Berkeley and the showgirls…or, at least Fred Astaire and e-mail from one of your Ginger Rogers. Remember the Titanic- we can dance until we slide readers telling me that your paper because of it. either altered somewhat or Mission Statement exactly as they appear, are into the sea. your paper had “lift ed your Th ere have been other Pleasant Dreams – maybe, like the movies it’s all an illusion. The traditions of bit about the SMVFA and articles that have appeared being sent to the Chamber the community Measure U almost word- in your paper that were staff for distribution to Want To Send A Letter To The Editor? newspaper and for-word…without any similar to or word for word other local media. Since my the concerns of our attribution.” Th is person duplications of what has relationship with you and You can send it via fax, U. S. Mail or e-mail. readers are this was concerned about what appeared in the paper I write your paper has improved newspaper’s top they called plagiarism on for, SGV Weekly, or on my recently, I have in some Fax: 626-609-3285 priorities. the part of your paper. website, SierraMadreNews. cases submitted directly to Email: [email protected] Net. And that will happen you, as was the case with We support While I understand that the article in question. a prosperous the appearance as things again. Th e reason for that is US Mail: 280 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. #327 community of well- occurred might lead a that sometimes the coverage In the future, to avoid Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 informed citizens. person to believe that had that is in my paper or on unwarranted (though my website is information understandable in this case) All submissions to this newspaper become the property of the MountainViews- We hold in high happened, I informed the Observer and may be published in part or whole. Opinions and views expressed by regard the values reader, and with this letter that an organization I am speculation that your paper the writers printed in this paper do not necessarily express the views and opinions working with would like to is engaging in inappropriate of the publisher or staff of the MountainViews-Observer. Anonymous material will of the exceptional want to inform readers of not be accepted see distributed more widely publication of my work, quality of life in your paper who might have Sierra Madre’s April Ballot our community, similar thoughts, that the than just those two venues. I will try to remember to In those instances, I may either remove my name City Council Races: including the reality is diff erent than the John Buchanan, Incumbent perception. submit my work, or a slightly from the coverage in my magnificence of our altered version of that paper, or include it in my Enid Joffe, Incumbent natural resources. I attended the SMVFA work, to the organization distribution to you. Mary Ann McGillivray Integrity will be our meeting in question, and Kevin Paschall for distribution as a press To the reader (s?) that guide. wrote the story for my release, because it may be Bill Tice paper, with my byline. I was (were) concerned, I City Clerk: more appropriate that the appreciate you looking out then modifi ed it slightly, press release come from Nancy Schollenberger, Incumbent and took my name off it, for me. But in this case, it Karma Bell the involved organization was a false alarm. so that people reading than from a writer for a City Treasurer your paper would not be “competitor paper,” even if Bill Coburn George Enyedi confused when they saw that writer is a part of the Publisher, Salvatore Tesoro, III my name on an article in a organization releasing the SierraMadreNews.Net BALLOT MEASURES: diff erent paper than the one information. Associate Editor, Measure P Police Initiative I write for. 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The business was conducted by: CA 90814. The business is conducted as: was filed in the office of the County AN INDIVIDUAL. The fictitious SILVER HAMMER COMPANIES, INC. Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Felix A. AN INDIVIDUAL. I declare that all false, is guilty of a crime.) This statement 915 W. Foothill Blvd Claremont, CA Romero 174 S. Glendora Ave West Covina, was filed with the County Clerk of Los Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name business name referred to above was information in this statement is true and Statement must be filed before that time. filed on 01/10/2005. Original File #05- 91711. The business is conducted as: CA 91790. The business is conducted as: correct. (A registrant who declares as true Angeles County on Feb 21, 2008. The A CORPORATION. I declare that all AN INDIVIDUAL. I declare that all registrant (s) has (have) commenced to The filing of this statement does not of 0070010. I declare that all information information, which he or she knows to be itself authorize the use in this state of a in this statement is true and correct. information in this statement is true and information in this statement is true and false, is guilty of a crime.) This statement transact business under the fictitious correct. (A registrant who declares as true correct. (A registrant who declares as true business name or names listed above on Fictitious Business Name in violation (A registrant who declares as true was filed with the County Clerk of Los of the rights of another under Federal, information, which he or she knows to information, which he or she knows to be information, which he or she knows to be Angeles County on Feb 20, 2008. The 02/21/2008. false, is guilty of a crime.) This statement false, is guilty of a crime.) This statement NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement State, or common law (See section 14411 be false, is guilty of a crime.) . registrant (s) has (have) not commenced at seq. Business and Profession Code) This statement was filed with the was filed with the County Clerk of Los was filed with the County Clerk of Los to transact business under the fictitious expires five years from the date it Angeles County on Feb 13, 2008. The Angeles County on Feb 19, 2008. The was filed in the office of the County First filing: County Clerk of Los Angeles County business name or names listed above. 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 on Feb 14, 2008. The registrant (s) has registrant (s) has (have) commenced to registrant (s) has (have) commenced to NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name transact business under the fictitious transact business under the fictitious Statement must be filed before that time. 080820DV (have) ended to transact business under expires five years from the date it The filing of this statement does not of the fictitious business name or names business name or names listed above on business name or names listed above on was filed in the office of the County 070801MG File No. 20080239712 02/06/2008. 11/01/2007. itself authorize the use in this state of a listed above on 02/14/2008. Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Fictitious Business Name in violation FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NOTICE-The Fictitious Name NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement Statement must be filed before that time. STATEMENT expires five years from the date it expires five years from the date it of the rights of another under Federal, Statement expires five years from The filing of this statement does not of State, or common law (See section 14411 The following person (s) is (are) doing the date it was filed in the office of was filed in the office of the County was filed in the office of the County itself authorize the use in this state of a business as: Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name at seq. Business and Profession Code) the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Fictitious Business Name in violation First filing: LINE FOR HEALTH Business Name Statement must be Statement must be filed before that time. Statement must be filed before that time. of the rights of another under Federal, 1949 W. 20th St The filing of this statement does not of The filing of this statement does not of 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 filed before that time. The filing of this State, or common law (See section 14411 080815MG Los Angeles, CA 90015 statement does not of itself authorize itself authorize the use in this state of a itself authorize the use in this state of a at seq. Business and Profession Code) Full name of registrant (s) is Fictitious Business Name in violation Fictitious Business Name in violation the use in this state of a Fictitious First filing: 080816DV File No. 20080279144 (are)Enrique Bueso Cruz and Lizeth Business Name in violation of the of the rights of another under Federal, of the rights of another under Federal, 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 Sabellon 1949 W. 20th St Los Angeles, State, or common law (See section 14411 State, or common law (See section 14411 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME rights of another under Federal, State, 080810SJ STATEMENT CA 90015. The business is conducted or common law (See section 14411 at seq. Business and Profession Code) at seq. Business and Profession Code) as: A GENERAL PARTNESHIP. First filing: First filing: The following person (s) is (are) doing at seq. Business and Profession Code) 080811MG File No. 20080305855 business as: I declare that all information in First filing: 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME this statement is true and correct. 080801MG 080805MG FAST EDDIE TRUCKING 02/22; 02/29; 03/07 and 03/14, 2008 STATEMENT 1206 S. Lomita Blvd Unit 6 (A registrant who declares as true 070805 The following person (s) is (are) doing information, which he or she knows 080802MG File No. 20080263955 080806MG File No. 20080286650 Harbor City, CA 90710 business as: Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Jaime to be false, is guilty of a crime.) This 070806 File No. 20080263437 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NATIONWIDE SALES AND LEASING statement was filed with the County STATEMENT STATEMENT nd Gonzalez 1206 S. Lomita Blvd Unit 6 STATEMENT OF 5318 E. 2 St #584 Harbor City, CA 90710. The business Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb ABANDONMENT OF USE OF The following person (s) is (are) doing The following person (s) is (are) doing Long Beach, CA 90803 08, 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME business as: business as: Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Andre is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. nd I declare that all information in this commenced to transact business under The following person (s) has (have) ACCESS DOORS COMPANY WAHBA’S MAINTENANCE SERVICES Love 5318 E. 2 St #584 Long Beach, the fictitious business name or names 985 W. Foothill Blvd Unit C 1507 Wesely Ave statement is true and correct. (A registrant abandoned the use of the fictitious CA 90803 The business is conducted who declares as true information, which listed above on 03/14/2008. name: Claremont, CA 91711 Pasadena, CA 91104 as: AN INDIVIDUAL. I declare that NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Wanes he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a DAGY’S FASHION all information in this statement is true crime.) This statement was filed with the Statement expires five years from 1457 Washington Blvd SILVER HAMMER COMPANIES, INC. Wahba1507 Wesely Ave Pasadena, CA and correct. (A registrant who declares the date it was filed in the office of 985 W. Foothill Blvd Unit C Claremont, 91104. The business is conducted as: County Clerk of Los Angeles County on Los Angeles, CA 90007 as true information, which he or she Feb 15, 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) the County Clerk. A new Fictitious The name of registrant(s) is (are) Rosa CA 91711. The business is conducted as: AN INDIVIDUAL. I declare that all knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) Business Name Statement must be th A CORPORATION. I declare that all information in this statement is true and not commenced to transact business under Veliz 1832 W. 20 St Los Angeles, CA This statement was filed with the County the fictitious business name or names filed before that time. The filing of this 90007. The business was conducted by: information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb statement does not of itself authorize correct. (A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be listed above. AN INDIVIDUAL. Current File #06- 21, 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement the use in this state of a Fictitious 2081065. I declare that all information information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) This statement commenced to transact business under Business Name in violation of the false, is guilty of a crime.) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los expires five years from the date it was filed in this statement is true and correct. the fictitious business name or names in the office of the County Clerk. A new rights of another under Federal, State, (A registrant who declares as true was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb 19, 2008. The listed above 01/2000. or common law (See section 14411 at Angeles County on Feb 13, 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) commenced to Fictitious Business Name Statement must information, which he or she knows to NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement be filed before that time. The filing of this seq. Business and Profession Code) be false, is guilty of a crime.) . registrant (s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious expires five years from the date it First filing: transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on statement does not of itself authorize the This statement was filed with the was filed in the office of the County use in this state of a Fictitious Business 02/22; 02/29; 03/07 and 03/14, 2008 County Clerk of Los Angeles County business name or names listed above on 02/19/2008. Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name 070801MG 02/06/2008. NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement Name in violation of the rights of another on Feb 13, 2008. The registrant (s) has Statement must be filed before that time. under Federal, State, or common law (have) ended to transact business under NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement expires five years from the date it The filing of this statement does not of 070802MG File No. 20080241254 expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County (See section 14411 at seq. Business and the fictitious business name or names itself authorize the use in this state of a Profession Code) First filing: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME listed above on 02/13/2008. was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Fictitious Business Name in violation STATEMENT NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before that time. 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 of the rights of another under Federal, 080816DV The following person (s) is (are) doing Statement expires five years from Statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of State, or common law (See section 14411 business as: The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a the date it was filed in the office of at seq. Business and Profession Code) 080817DV File No. 20080272501 WEST COAST ARCHITECHTURAL the County Clerk. A new Fictitious itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation First filing: 12150 Bloomfield Ave Unit V Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Business Name Statement must be 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 STATEMENT Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 filed before that time. The filing of this of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See section 14411 080811MG Full name of registrant (s) is (are) State, or common law (See section 14411 at seq. Business and Profession Code) The following person (s) is (are) doing statement does not of itself authorize business as: Enrique J. Saucedo, Carlos Ochoa the use in this state of a Fictitious at seq. Business and Profession Code) First filing: 080812DV File No. 20080306311 and Alex Fernandez 12150 Bloomfield First filing: 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 HOG HEAD MANAGEMENT Business Name in violation of the FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 775 Rose Ave #8 Ave Unit V Santa Fe Springs, CA rights of another under Federal, State, 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 080806MG STATEMENT 90670. The business is conducted as: A 080802MG Long Beach, CA 90813 or common law (See section 14411 The following person (s) is (are) doing Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Gideon GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. I declare at seq. Business and Profession Code) 080807MG File No. 20080289794 business as: that all information in this statement 080803MG File No. 20080263954 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Thomson and Kianna Daneil 775 Rose First filing: COMPUTER REPAIR SERVICES, Ave #8 Long Beach, CA 90813. The is true and correct. (A registrant who 02/22; 02/29; 03/07 and 03/14, 2008 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT COMPUTER REPAIR PRO’S, declares as true information, which he STATEMENT The following person (s) is (are) doing business is conducted by: A GENERAL 070806 LAPTOP DESKTOP REPAIR PRO’S, PARTNESHIP. I declare that all or she knows to be false, is guilty of a The following person (s) is (are) doing business as: COMP-U-REPAIR crime.) This statement was filed with business as: RAVING & FX information in this statement is true and 070807 File No. 20080246444 17758 Palo Verde Ave correct. (A registrant who declares as true the County Clerk of Los Angeles County STATEMENT OF STELLAR TAX & ACCOUNTING 174 S. Glendora Ave Cerritos, CA 90703 on Feb 08, 2008. The registrant (s) has 985 W. Foothill Blvd Unit C West Covina, CA 91790 information, which he or she knows to be ABANDONMENT OF USE OF Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Mustafa false, is guilty of a crime.) This statement (have) commenced to transact business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Claremont, CA 91711 Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Phuong Hussain 17758 Palo Verde Ave Cerritos, under the fictitious business name or Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Vo 174 S. Glendora Ave West Covina, was filed with the County Clerk of Los The following person (s) has (have) CA 90703. The business is conducted as: Angeles County on Feb 14, 2008. The names listed above on 01/19/2006. abandoned the use of the fictitious SILVER HAMMER COMPANIES, INC. CA 91790 . The business is conducted AN INDIVIDUAL. I declare that all NOTICE-The Fictitious Name 985 W. Foothill Blvd Unit C Claremont, as: AN INDIVIDUAL. I declare that all registrant (s) has (have) not commenced name: information in this statement is true and to transact business under the fictitious Statement expires five years from IGLESIA DE CRISTO CA 91711. The business is conducted as: information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true the date it was filed in the office of A CORPORATION. I declare that all correct. (A registrant who declares as true business name or names listed above. RESTAURAZION information, which he or she knows to be NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement the County Clerk. A new Fictitious 2385 Glenrose Ave information in this statement is true and information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) This statement Business Name Statement must be correct. (A registrant who declares as true false, is guilty of a crime.) This statement expires five years from the date it was filed Altadena, CA 91101 was filed with the County Clerk of Los in the office of the County Clerk. A new filed before that time. The filing of this The name of registrant(s) is (are) information, which he or she knows to be was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb 21, 2008. The statement does not of itself authorize false, is guilty of a crime.) This statement Angeles County on Feb 19, 2008. The Fictitious Business Name Statement must Alfonso Sanchez 2385 Glenrose Ave registrant (s) has (have) not commenced be filed before that time. The filing of this the use in this state of a Fictitious Altadena, CA 91101. The business was filed with the County Clerk of Los registrant (s) has (have) not commenced to transact business under the fictitious Business Name in violation of the Angeles County on Feb 13, 2008. The to transact business under the fictitious statement does not of itself authorize the was conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. business name or names listed above. use in this state of a Fictitious Business rights of another under Federal, State, Current File #2007-1037304. I declare registrant (s) has (have) commenced to business name or names listed above. NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement or common law (See section 14411 at transact business under the fictitious NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement Name in violation of the rights of another that all information in this statement expires five years from the date it under Federal, State, or common law seq. Business and Profession Code) is true and correct. (A registrant who business name or names listed above on expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County First filing: 02/06/2008. was filed in the office of the County (See section 14411 at seq. Business and declares as true information, which he Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Profession Code) First filing: 02/22; 02/29; 03/07 and 03/14, 2008 or she knows to be false, is guilty of a NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before that time. 070802MG expires five years from the date it Statement must be filed before that time. 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 crime.) . The filing of this statement does not of 080817DV This statement was filed with the was filed in the office of the County The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a 070803MG File No. 20080241582 County Clerk of Los Angeles County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Statement must be filed before that time. Fictitious Business Name in violation 080818DV File No. 20080278200 on Feb 11, 2008. The registrant (s) has of the rights of another under Federal, FICITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT (have) ended to transact business under The filing of this statement does not of of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See section 14411 The following person (s) is (are) doing itself authorize the use in this state of a State, or common law (See section 14411 STATEMENT the fictitious business name or names at seq. Business and Profession Code) The following person (s) is (are) doing business as: listed above on 02/11/2008. Fictitious Business Name in violation at seq. Business and Profession Code) First filing: JEANETTE CLEANING SEVICES of the rights of another under Federal, First filing: business as: NOTICE-The Fictitious Name 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 GKS PLUMBING INCORPORATED, 6481 Florence Ave Statement expires five years from State, or common law (See section 14411 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 080812DV Bell Gardens, CA 90201 at seq. Business and Profession Code) 080807MG 3N1 PLUMBING the date it was filed in the office of 1662 W. 215th St Full name of registrant (s) is (are) the County Clerk. A new Fictitious First filing: 080813MG File No. 20080306006 Jeanette Martinez 6481 Florence Ave 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 080808MG File No. 20080289715 Torrance, CA 90501 Business Name Statement must be FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Full name of registrant (s) is (are) GKS Bell Gardens, CA 90201. The business filed before that time. The filing of this 080803MG FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT is conducted as: AN INDIVIDUAL. STATEMENT PLUMBING INCORPORATED, 1662 W. statement does not of itself authorize The following person (s) is (are) doing 215th St Torrance, CA 90501. The business I declare that all information in the use in this state of a Fictitious 080804MG File No. 20080263515 The following person (s) is (are) doing business as: this statement is true and correct. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME business as: is conducted by: A CORPORATION. Business Name in violation of the LA GAVIOTA SEAFOOD & MEAT I declare that all information in this (A registrant who declares as true rights of another under Federal, State, STATEMENT NOVA PRODUCTIONS STORE information, which he or she knows The following person (s) is (are) doing 13157 Shaver St statement is true and correct. (A registrant or common law (See section 14411 728 E. Arrow Hwy who declares as true information, which to be false, is guilty of a crime.) This at seq. Business and Profession Code) business as: Baldwin Park, CA 91706 Pomona, CA 91767 statement was filed with the County CALIFORNIA SEAGRAVE Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Belonna he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a First filing: Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Jorge crime.) This statement was filed with the Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb 02/22; 02/29; 03/07 and 03/14, 2008 17160 Alburtis Ave Artesia, CA 90701 Vo 13157 Shaver St Baldwin Park, CA and Cenorina Guerrero 728 E. Arrow 08, 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) Full name of registrant (s) is (are) 917061. The business is conducted as: County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 070807 Hwy Pomona, CA 91767. The business is Feb 15, 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) commenced to transact business under CALIFORNIA SEAGRAVE, INC A CORPORATION. I declare that all conducted as: HUSBAND AND WIFE. the fictitious business name or names 17160 Alburtis Ave Artesia, CA 90701. information in this statement is true and commenced to transact business under the 070808RC File No. 20080271536 I declare that all information in this fictitious business name or names listed listed above 02/08/2008. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The business is conducted as: A correct. (A registrant who declares as true statement is true and correct. (A registrant NOTICE-The Fictitious Name CORPORATION. I declare that all information, which he or she knows to be above on 02/15/2008. STATEMENT who declares as true information, which NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement Statement expires five years from The following person (s) is (are) doing information in this statement is true and false, is guilty of a crime.) This statement he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a the date it was filed in the office of correct. (A registrant who declares as true was filed with the County Clerk of Los expires five years from the date it was filed business as: crime.) This statement was filed with the in the office of the County Clerk. A new the County Clerk. A new Fictitious FRV GLASS AND MIRRORS information, which he or she knows to be Angeles County on Feb 19, 2008. The County Clerk of Los Angeles County on Business Name Statement must be false, is guilty of a crime.) This statement registrant (s) has (have) commenced to Fictitious Business Name Statement must 11512 Virginia Ave Feb 21, 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) be filed before that time. The filing of this filed before that time. The filing of this Lynwood, CA 90262 was filed with the County Clerk of Los transact business under the fictitious not commenced to transact business statement does not of itself authorize Angeles County on Feb 13, 2008. The business name or names listed above on statement does not of itself authorize the Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Felix under the fictitious business name or use in this state of a Fictitious Business the use in this state of a Fictitious Ramos 11512 Virginia Ave Lynwood, registrant (s) has (have) commenced to 02/19/2008. names listed above. Business Name in violation of the transact business under the fictitious NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement Name in violation of the rights of another CA 90262 NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement under Federal, State, or common law rights of another under Federal, State, . The business is conducted as: AN business name or names listed above expires five years from the date it expires five years from the date it or common law (See section 14411 at 06/02/2006. was filed in the office of the County (See section 14411 at seq. Business and INDIVIDUAL. I declare that all was filed in the office of the County Profession Code) First filing: seq. Business and Profession Code) information in this statement is true NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name First filing: expires five years from the date it Statement must be filed before that time. 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 and correct. (A registrant who declares Statement must be filed before that time. 080818DV 02/22; 02/29; 03/07 and 03/14, 2008 as true information, which he or she was filed in the office of the County The filing of this statement does not of The filing of this statement does not of 070803MG Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name itself authorize the use in this state of a knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) itself authorize the use in this state of a 080819SJ File No. 20080279667 This statement was filed with the Statement must be filed before that time. Fictitious Business Name in violation Fictitious Business Name in violation 070804MG File No. 20080241253 The filing of this statement does not of of the rights of another under Federal, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME County Clerk of Los Angeles County of the rights of another under Federal, STATEMENT STATEMENT OF on Feb 14, 2008. The registrant (s) itself authorize the use in this state of a State, or common law (See section 14411 State, or common law (See section 14411 ABANDONMENT OF USE OF Fictitious Business Name in violation at seq. Business and Profession Code) The following person (s) is (are) doing has (have) not commenced to transact at seq. Business and Profession Code) business as: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME business under the fictitious business of the rights of another under Federal, First filing: First filing: The following person (s) has (have) State, or common law (See section 14411 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 ULTIMATE CLEANING SERVICE name or names listed above. 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 18308 E. Glalatea St abandoned the use of the fictitious NOTICE-The Fictitious Name at seq. Business and Profession Code) 080808MG 080813MG name: First filing: Azusa, CA 91702 Statement expires five years from Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Norma WEST COAST ARCHITECTURAL the date it was filed in the office of 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 080809MG File No. 20080263783 080814DV File No. 20080297152 12150 Bloomfield Ave Unit V 080804MG FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Quiroz 18308 E. Glalatea St Azusa, CA the County Clerk. A new Fictitious FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 91702. The business is conducted by: Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 Business Name Statement must be STATEMENT STATEMENT The name of registrant(s) is (are) 080805MG File No. 20080289714 The following person (s) is (are) doing AN INDIVIDUAL. I declare that all filed before that time. The filing of this The following person (s) is (are) doing information in this statement is true and Enrique Saucedo 12150 Bloomfield statement does not of itself authorize FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME business as: business as: Ave Unit V STATEMENT NU.VISION CONSTRUCTION correct. (A registrant who declares as true the use in this state of a Fictitious MR HANDYMAN ONLINE information, which he or she knows to be Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670. The Business Name in violation of the The following person (s) is (are) doing 16173 Harvey Dr 12110 Armsdale Ave business was conducted by: AN business as: Fontana, CA 92336 false, is guilty of a crime.) This statement rights of another under Federal, State, Whittier, CA 90604 was filed with the County Clerk of Los INDIVIDUAL. The fictitious business or common law (See section 14411 at SUNLIGHT NETWORKS Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Full name of registrant (s) is (are) name referred to above was filed on 174 S. Glendora Ave Francisco Echeverria 16173 Harvey Angeles County on Feb 15, 2008. The seq. Business and Profession Code) Jesse James Garza 12110 Armsdale registrant (s) has (have) not commenced 01/19/2006. Original File #20006- First filing: West Covina, CA 91790 Dr Fontana, CA 92336. The business Ave Whittier, CA 90604. The business 0138637. I declare that all information 02/22; 02/29; 03/07 and 03/14, 2008 Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Jim is conducted as: AN INDIVIDUAL. is conducted as: AN INDIVIDUAL. to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. in this statement is true and correct. 070808RC Tran 174 S. Glendora Ave West Covina, I declare that all information in this I declare that all information in this (A registrant who declares as true CA 91790 statement is true and correct. (A registrant NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement statement is true and correct. (A registrant expires five years from the date it information, which he or she knows to 060801MG File No. 20080208163 1. The business is conducted as: AN who declares as true information, which who declares as true information, which be false, is guilty of a crime.) . INDIVIDUAL. I declare that all he or she knows to be false, is guilty of was filed in the office of the County FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME he or she knows to be false, is guilty Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name This statement was filed with the STATEMENT information in this statement is true and a crime.) This statement was filed with of a crime.) This statement was filed County Clerk of Los Angeles County correct. (A registrant who declares as true the County Clerk of Los Angeles County Statement must be filed before that time. The following person (s) is (are) doing with the County Clerk of Los Angeles The filing of this statement does not of on Feb 08, 2008. The registrant (s) has business as: information, which he or she knows to be on Feb 13, 2008. The registrant (s) has County on Feb 20, 2008. The registrant (have) ended to transact business under false, is guilty of a crime.) This statement (have) commenced to transact business itself authorize the use in this state of a ADVANCED SMOG TEST ONLY (s) has (have) not commenced to transact Fictitious Business Name in violation the fictitious business name or names CENTER was filed with the County Clerk of Los under the fictitious business name or business under the fictitious business listed above on 02/08/2008. Angeles County on Feb 19, 2008. The names listed above on 02/01/2008. of the rights of another under Federal, 9614 E. Garvey Ave #C name or names listed above. State, or common law (See section 14411 NOTICE-The Fictitious Name South El Monte, CA 91732. registrant (s) has (have) commenced to NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement Statement expires five years from transact business under the fictitious expires five years from the date it at seq. Business and Profession Code) Full name of registrant (s) is (are) expires five years from the date it First filing: the date it was filed in the office of Fernando Jacinto 9614 E. Garvey business name or names listed above on was filed in the office of the County was filed in the office of the County the County Clerk. A new Fictitious 02/20/2008. Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 Ave #C South El Monte, CA 91732. Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name 080819SJ Business Name Statement must be The business is conducted as: AN NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement Statement must be filed before that time. Statement must be filed before that time. filed before that time. The filing of this INDIVIDUAL. I declare that all expires five years from the date it The filing of this statement does not of The filing of this statement does not of statement does not of itself authorize was filed in the office of the County itself authorize the use in this state of a 080820DV File No. 20080305417 information in this statement is true itself authorize the use in this state of a FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME the use in this state of a Fictitious and correct. (A registrant who declares Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Fictitious Business Name in violation Fictitious Business Name in violation Business Name in violation of the Statement must be filed before that time. of the rights of another under Federal, STATEMENT as true information, which he or she of the rights of another under Federal, The following person (s) is (are) doing rights of another under Federal, State, knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) The filing of this statement does not of State, or common law (See section 14411 State, or common law (See section 14411 or common law (See section 14411 at itself authorize the use in this state of a at seq. Business and Profession Code) business as: This statement was filed with the at seq. Business and Profession Code) AZTECA IMPORTS seq. Business and Profession Code) County Clerk of Los Angeles County Fictitious Business Name in violation First filing: First filing: First filing: of the rights of another under Federal, 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 683 Santa Fe Ave on Feb 04, 2008. The registrant (s) has 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 Los Angeles, CA 90021 02/22; 02/29; 03/07 and 03/14, 2008 (have) not commenced to transact State, or common law (See section 14411 080809MG 080814DV 070804MG at seq. Business and Profession Code) Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Rosa business under the fictitious business First filing: 080810SJ File No. 20080297282 Maria Calderon 683 Santa Fe Ave Los name or names listed above. 080815MG File No. 20080289794 Angeles, CA 90021. The business is 070805 File No. 20080271609 NOTICE-The Fictitious Name 02/29; 03/07; 03/14 and 03/21, 2008 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF Statement expires five years from 080804MG STATEMENT STATEMENT conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. I MountainViews-Observer 280 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mvobserver.com 10 MountainViews-Observer | March 10, 2008 CITY OF SIERRA MADRE CALIFORNIA Invites applications for Sierra Madre Police Department POLICE SERGEANT I $4,248.42 - $5,450.20 CalPERS 3% @ 55 Application Deadline: 4:00 p.m. Thursday, March 13, 2008 LEGAL NOTICES Position: The City of Sierra Madre is seeking an experienced the application are subject to investigation and verification. the date it was filed in the office of the Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb 02/15; 02/22; 02/29 and 03/07, 2008 and committed police professional who possesses outstanding County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business 05, 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) 060810DS leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills to serve Resumes may be attached to completed application forms as Name Statement must be filed before commenced to transact business under the Sierra Madre community. Under general supervision the supplemental information, but will not be accepted in lieu of that time. The filing of this statement the fictitious business name or names 060811EH File No. 20080231863 Police Sergeant is responsible for supervision, assignments, an official application form. The most qualified candidates does not of itself authorize the use in listed above on 02/05/2008. STATEMENT OF and reviews subordinates work; enforces rules, regulations, will be selected to participate in an interview process, this state of a Fictitious Business Name NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement ABANDONMENT OF USE OF policies and general orders; advises and assists in patrol, followed by a practical test for the successful candidates. All in violation of the rights of another expires five years from the date it was FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME detective, juvenile, and desk supervisory operations. Performs candidates who meet the minimum qualifications will remain under Federal, State, or common law filed in the office of the County Clerk. The following person (s) has (have) complex and responsible law enforcement supervision and candidates until a final offer is accepted by the candidate (See section 14411 at seq. Business and A new Fictitious Business Name abandoned the use of the fictitious planning. who most closely meets the requirements of the City. The Profession Code) First filing: Statement must be filed before that time. name: City may conclude that none of the candidates, even those 02/15; 02/22; 02/29 and 03/07, 2008 The filing of this statement does not of ARTESANIAS “EL RINCON Qualifications who meet the minimum qualifications, are appropriate for the 060801MG itself authorize the use in this state of a MEXICANO” position. Fictitious Business Name in violation 611 N. Occidental #4 The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree in public 060802MG File No. 20080207591 of the rights of another under Federal, Los Angeles, CA 90026 administration or a related field. A minimum of 10 years of The successful outside candidate must pass: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME State, or common law (See section The name of registrant(s) is (are) police experience with at least 2 years as a Corporal/Agent or • Background investigation; and STATEMENT 14411 at seq. Business and Profession Fabiola Cienega 611 N. Occidental #4 above is desirable. Strong writing skills, the ability to foster • Pre-employment medical exam, including a The following person (s) is (are) doing Code) First filing: Los Angeles, CA 90026. The business good working relationships, and to motivate and develop physical agility and a drug/alcohol screening; and business as: 02/15; 02/22; 02/29 and 03/07, 2008 was conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. others are essential qualities. • Psychological screening; and SAN JUAN DE DIOS BAKERY 060806MG The fictitious business name referred to License or Certification Requirements • Polygraph; and 2102 N. Long Beach Blvd above was filed on 08/23/2007. Original • Valid Class-C California driver’s license • Reference and background verification, including a Compton, CA 90220. 060807JJ File No. 20080215288 File #20007-1980815. I declare that all • Requires a POST Advanced certificate. A POST- credit screening. Full name of registrant (s) is (are) STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL information in this statement is true and approved supervisory course is required within one year of • References will not be contacted until a mutual Miguel Mendez Roman 2102 N. Long FROM PARTNERSHIP correct. (A registrant who declares as appointment to position. interest has been established. Beach Blvd OPERATING UNDER FICTITIOUS true information, which he or she knows Compton, CA 90220. The business BUSINESS NAME to be false, is guilty of a crime.) Salary and Benefits Please attach POST certification to application. is conducted as: AN INDIVIDUAL. The following person (s) has (have) This statement was filed with the • Salary range: $4,248.42 - $5,190.67 per month. Salary Immigration and Reform Act of 1986 I declare that all information in withdrawn as a general partner (s) County Clerk of Los Angeles County will be negotiated based on qualifications. In compliance with the Immigration and Reform Act of this statement is true and correct. from the partnership operating under on Feb 07, 2008. The registrant (s) has • Up to $630 per month for health, dental, and vision 1986, all new employees must demonstrate eligibility to (A registrant who declares as true the fictitious business name of THE (have) ended to transact business under insurance for employee and family; plus 25% of the cost in legally work in the United States by providing required information, which he or she knows MUSIC NOTES the fictitious business name or names excess of $630/month. documentation. to be false, is guilty of a crime.) This 3027 W. Valley Blvd listed above on 02/07/2008. • $50,000 A D & D and life insurance policies & PERS Equal Opportunity Employer statement was filed with the County Alhambra, CA 91803. NOTICE-The Fictitious Name level II survivor benefit is provided. The City does not make employment decisions based on sex, Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb The fictitious business name statement Statement expires five years from the • PERS retirement – City participates in the CalPERS race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, marital 04, 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) for the partnership was filed on date it was filed in the office of the retirement system. City pays full employee share and counts status or physical handicap, except when such qualifications commenced to transact business under 04/30/2007. Current File No. 2007- County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business toward final retirement compensation. No participation in are appropriate occupational qualifications. the fictitious business name or names 1035390. The full name of registrant(s) Name Statement must be filed before social security. 3%@55 listed above. is (are) Iris Sandra Cepeda Perez 3027 that time. The filing of this statement • Annual paid leave of 88 vacation hours (for first four Employment Standards NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement W. Valley Blvd Alhambra, CA 91803. does not of itself authorize the use in years), 11 paid holidays, and 96 hours of sick leave with a Employment with the City of Sierra Madre is contingent upon expires five years from the date it was The business was conducted by: A this state of a Fictitious Business Name wellness bonus program. meeting the medical standards of the position. A candidate filed in the office of the County Clerk. PARTNERSHIP. I declare that all in violation of the rights of another • Uniform allowance: $700 annually. must pass a pre-employment physical examination, including A new Fictitious Business Name information in this statement is true under Federal, State, or common law • 3/12 work schedule a drug/alcohol screening and a reference and background Statement must be filed before that time. and correct. (A registrant who declares (See section 14411 at seq. Business and • Flexible spending accounts for medical and child-care check. The City of Sierra Madre makes reasonable The filing of this statement does not of as true information, which he or she Profession Code) First filing: expenses. accommodations for disabled persons, considering each itself authorize the use in this state of a knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) 02/15; 02/22; 02/29 and 03/07, 2008 • $5,000 signing bonus, $2,500 payable upon appointment, situation on an individual basis. Please make direct requests Fictitious Business Name in violation This statement was filed with the County 060811EH and $2,500 after passing 18 month probationary period. for accommodation to Community & Personnel Services. of the rights of another under Federal, Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb 05, The provisions of this job announcement do not constitute an State, or common law (See section 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) ended 060812EH File No. 20080231888 Application Process expressed or implied contract. Any provision contained in 14411 at seq. Business and Profession transacting business under the fictitious STATEMENT OF Application deadline: Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 4:00 this job announcement may be modified or revoked without Code) First filing: business name or names listed above on ABANDONMENT OF USE OF p.m. Candidates should send a completed application and notice. 02/15; 02/22; 02/29 and 03/07, 2008 02/05/2008. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME current resume to Miguel Hernandez, Personnel Analyst, Questions 060802MG NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement The following person (s) has (have) Sierra Madre City Hall, 232 West Sierra Madre Boulevard, expires five years from the date it was abandoned the use of the fictitious Sierra Madre CA 91024. Applications can also be faxed to Questions may be directed to Miguel Hernandez at (626) 060803MG File No. 20080215576 filed in the office of the County Clerk. name: (626) 355-2251. 355-7135 or at [email protected]. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME A new Fictitious Business Name EROSE STATEMENT Statement must be filed before that time. 1056 W. 47th St Applications must be completed and demonstrate that the Applicants may wish to visit the City’s official website The following person (s) is (are) doing The filing of this statement does not of Los Angeles, CA 90037 minimum qualifications are met. All statements made on – www.cityofsierramadre.com – for further information. business as: itself authorize the use in this state of a The name of registrant(s) is (are) CROSBY’S CARE Fictitious Business Name in violation Camelia Scott 1056 W. 47th St Los 696 Gleu Ave of the rights of another under Federal, Angeles, CA 90037 . The business was City of Sierra Madre Glendale, CA 91206 State, or common law (See section conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. The NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Full name of registrant (s) is (are) 14411 at seq. Business and Profession fictitious business name referred to CROSBY’S CARE, LLC 696 Gleu Ave Code) First filing: above was filed on 04/16/2007. Original Glendale, CA 91206. The business is 02/15; 02/22; 02/29 and 03/07, 2008 File #20007-0905860. I declare that all To: City Wide conducted as: A LIMITED LIABILITY 060807JJ information in this statement is true and COMPANY. I declare that all correct. (A registrant who declares as From: The City of Sierra Madre ~ Department of Public Works information in this statement is true 060808MG File No. 20080207840 true information, which he or she knows Subject: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT and correct. (A registrant who declares STATEMENT OF to be false, is guilty of a crime.) as true information, which he or she ABANDONMENT OF USE OF This statement was filed with the County F.Y. 2008 ~ 2009 knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb 07, Applicant: City of Sierra Madre This statement was filed with the The following person (s) has (have) 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) ended County Clerk of Los Angeles County abandoned the use of the fictitious to transact business under the fictitious on Feb 05, 2008. The registrant (s) has name: business name or names listed above on The City of Sierra Madre gives notice, pursuant to State of California law, that the (have) commenced to transact business ADVANCED SMOG TEST ONLY 02/07/2008. under the fictitious business name or CENTER NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement City Council will conduct a public hearing to consider the Community Development names listed above 02/05/2008. 9614 E. Garvey Ave #C expires five years from the date it was Block Grant 34th year ~ FY 2008 ~ 2009 NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement South El Monte, CA 91733 filed in the office of the County Clerk. expires five years from the date it was The name of registrant(s) is (are) Kenny A new Fictitious Business Name filed in the office of the County Clerk. Ngo 9614 E. Garvey Ave #C South El Statement must be filed before that time. DATE & TIME OF HEARING PLACE OF HEARING A new Fictitious Business Name Monte, CA 91733. The business was The filing of this statement does not of Statement must be filed before that time. conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. The itself authorize the use in this state of a The filing of this statement does not of fictitious business name referred to Fictitious Business Name in violation City of Sierra Madre City of Sierra Madre itself authorize the use in this state of a above was filed on 07/20/2005. Original of the rights of another under Federal, Fictitious Business Name in violation File #05-1713758. I declare that all State, or common law (See section City Council meeting City Council Chambers of the rights of another under Federal, information in this statement is true and 14411 at seq. Business and Profession Tuesday, March 25, 2007 232 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. State, or common law (See section correct. (A registrant who declares as Code) First filing: 14411 at seq. Business and Profession true information, which he or she knows 02/15; 02/22; 02/29 and 03/07, 2008 Meeting begins at 6:30 pm Sierra Madre, CA. 91024 Code) First filing: to be false, is guilty of a crime.) . 060812EH 02/15; 02/22; 02/29 and 03/07, 2008 This statement was filed with the County 060803MG Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb 04, 060813EH File No. 20080233086 All interested persons may attend this meeting and the City Council will hear them 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) ended STATEMENT OF with respect thereto. 060804MG File No. 20080224152 to transact business under the fictitious ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME business name or names listed above on FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 02/04/2008. The following person (s) has (have) Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) FY 2008 ~ 2009 The following person (s) is (are) doing NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement abandoned the use of the fictitious business as: expires five years from the date it was name: R. M. A. 1111 filed in the office of the County Clerk. HELEN’S BEAUTY SALON The proposed program consists of the following components: 9824 Holmes Ave A new Fictitious Business Name 4070 Tweedy Blvd Ste C Los Angeles, CA 90002. Statement must be filed before that time. South Gate, CA 90280 Exchange CDBG Unallocated Funds Fiscal Year 2008-2009 $54,219.81 Full name of registrant (s) is (are) The filing of this statement does not of The name of registrant(s) is (are) Exchange CDBG Unallocated Funds $ 6,439.81 Ricardo Martin 9824 Holmes Ave Los itself authorize the use in this state of a Priscilla Paz 4070 Tweedy Blvd Ste C Angeles, CA 90002. The business Fictitious Business Name in violation South Gate, CA 90280. The business Total $54,219.81 is conducted as: AN INDIVIDUAL. of the rights of another under Federal, was conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. I declare that all information in State, or common law (See section The fictitious business name referred to this statement is true and correct. 14411 at seq. Business and Profession above was filed on 04/16/2007. Original City of Hawaiian Gardens for General Fund Dollars (A registrant who declares as true Code) First filing: File #20007-0905860. I declare that all Sixty Cents (.60) on the Dollar ($1.00) $32,531.89 information, which he or she knows 02/15; 02/22; 02/29 and 03/07, 2008 information in this statement is true and to be false, is guilty of a crime.) This 060808MG correct. (A registrant who declares as statement was filed with the County true information, which he or she knows Total CDBG funds allocated: $54,219.81 Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb 060809AN File No. 20080223501 to be false, is guilty of a crime.) 06, 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) STATEMENT OF This statement was filed with the County commenced to transact business under ABANDONMENT OF USE OF Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb 07, Total General Funds received from the fictitious business name or names FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) ended listed above on 02/08/2008. The following person (s) has (have) to transact business under the fictitious City of Hawaiian Gardens exchanged NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement abandoned the use of the fictitious business name or names listed above on for allocated CDBG funds. $32,531.89 expires five years from the date it was name: 02/07/2008. filed in the office of the County Clerk. EL PARRAL NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement A new Fictitious Business Name 2800 Firestone Blvd expires five years from the date it was Statement must be filed before that time. Bellflower, CA 90280 filed in the office of the County Clerk. The filing of this statement does not of The name of registrant(s) is (are) Cesar A new Fictitious Business Name Posted: March 3, 2008 itself authorize the use in this state of a Sosa 11918 Heritage Cir Downey, CA Statement must be filed before that time. Suzi McConnell, Administrative Assistant Fictitious Business Name in violation 90240. The business was conducted The filing of this statement does not of of the rights of another under Federal, by: AN INDIVIDUAL. The fictitious itself authorize the use in this state of a Department of Public Works State, or common law (See section business name referred to above was Fictitious Business Name in violation 14411 at seq. Business and Profession filed on 11/08/2006. Original File #06- of the rights of another under Federal, correct. (A registrant who declares as FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME expires five years from the date it was Code) First filing: 2482926. I declare that all information State, or common law (See section true information, which he or she knows STATEMENT filed in the office of the County Clerk. 02/15; 02/22; 02/29 and 03/07, 2008 in this statement is true and correct. 14411 at seq. Business and Profession to be false, is guilty of a crime.) The following person (s) is (are) doing A new Fictitious Business Name 060804MG (A registrant who declares as true Code) First filing: This statement was filed with the County business as: Statement must be filed before that time. information, which he or she knows to 02/15; 02/22; 02/29 and 03/07, 2008 Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb 07, RAMIREZ FASHION The filing of this statement does not of 060805MG File No. 20080223749 be false, is guilty of a crime.) . 060813EH 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) ended 1638 ½ Washington Blvd Unit 4A/4C itself authorize the use in this state of a FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME This statement was filed with the County to transact business under the fictitious Los Angeles, CA 90007. Fictitious Business Name in violation STATEMENT Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb 06, 060814 File No. 20080232017 business name or names listed above on Full name of registrant (s) is (are) of the rights of another under Federal, The following person (s) is (are) doing 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) ended FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 02/07/2008. Nicasio Ramirez 1638 ½ Washington State, or common law (See section business as: to transact business under the fictitious STATEMENT NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement Blvd Unit 4A/4C 14411 at seq. Business and Profession M & W MOBILE CARWASH AND business name or names listed above on The following person (s) is (are) doing expires five years from the date it was Los Angeles, CA 90007. The business Code) First filing: DETAILING 02/06/2008. business as: filed in the office of the County Clerk. is conducted as: AN INDIVIDUAL. 02/07; 02/15; 02/22 and 02/29, 2008 16505 Vanowen St #220 NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement eTronicGlobal.com, eTronic Global A new Fictitious Business Name I declare that all information in 050807 Van Nuys, CA 91406. expires five years from the date it was 1443 Calle Linda Statement must be filed before that time. this statement is true and correct. Full name of registrant (s) is (are) filed in the office of the County Clerk. San Dimas, CA 91773 The filing of this statement does not of (A registrant who declares as true 0802MBP File No. 20080356486 Melvin J. Romero and William R. A new Fictitious Business Name Full name of registrant (s) is (are) itself authorize the use in this state of a information, which he or she knows FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Escobar 16505 Vanowen St #220 Statement must be filed before that time. Shant Asadovrian 1443 Calle Linda Fictitious Business Name in violation to be false, is guilty of a crime.) This STATEMENT Van Nuys, CA 91406. The business is The filing of this statement does not of San Dimas, CA 91773. The business is of the rights of another under Federal, statement was filed with the County The following person (s) is (are) doing conducted as: COPARTNERS. I declare itself authorize the use in this state of a conducted as: COPARTNERS. I declare State, or common law (See section Clerk of Los Angeles County on Jan business as: that all information in this statement Fictitious Business Name in violation that all information in this statement 14411 at seq. Business and Profession 23, 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) BEAR MANAGEMENT is true and correct. (A registrant who of the rights of another under Federal, is true and correct. (A registrant who Code) First filing: commenced to transact business under 171 E. Grand View Avenue declares as true information, which he State, or common law (See section declares as true information, which 02/15; 02/22; 02/29 and 03/07, 2008 the fictitious business name or names Sierra Madre, CA 91024. or she knows to be false, is guilty of a 14411 at seq. Business and Profession he or she knows to be false, is guilty 060815EH listed above on Jan 23, 2008. Full name of registrant (s) is (are) crime.) This statement was filed with the Code) First filing: of a crime.) This statement was filed NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement Mary Lou Caldwell and Gordon Wayne County Clerk of Los Angeles County 02/15; 02/22; 02/29 and 03/07, 2008 with the County Clerk of Los Angeles 050805MG File No. 20080167102 expires five years from the date it was Caldwell, 171 E. Grand View Avenue, on Feb 06, 2008. The registrant (s) has 060809AN County on Feb 07, 2008. The registrant FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME filed in the office of the County Clerk. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024. , The (have) commenced to transact business (s) has (have) not commenced to transact STATEMENT A new Fictitious Business Name business is conducted as: A LIMITED under the fictitious business name or 060810DS File No. 20080159115 business under the fictitious business The following person (s) is (are) doing Statement must be filed before that time. LIABILITY COMPANY. I declare that names listed above 01/29/2008. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME name or names listed above. business as: The filing of this statement does not of all information in this statement is true NOTICE-The Fictitious Name STATEMENT NOTICE-The Fictitious Name LT INVESTMENTS itself authorize the use in this state of a and correct. (A registrant who declares Statement expires five years from the The following person (s) is (are) doing Statement expires five years from the 4312 Friar Circle Fictitious Business Name in violation as true information, which he or she date it was filed in the office of the business as: date it was filed in the office of the La Verne, CA 91750. of the rights of another under Federal, knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business ROSENFELD AND ASSOCIATES County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Full name of registrant (s) is (are) Mike State, or common law (See section This statement was filed with the Name Statement must be filed before 133 N. Swall Dr Name Statement must be filed before Lopez and Tony Toy 4312 Friar Circle 14411 at seq. Business and Profession County Clerk of Los Angeles County on that time. The filing of this statement Beverly Hills, CA 90211 that time. The filing of this statement La Verne, CA 91750. The business is Code) First filing: February 29, 2008. The registrant (s) does not of itself authorize the use in Full name of registrant (s) is (are) does not of itself authorize the use in conducted as: COPARTNERS. I declare 02/07; 02/15; 02/22 and 02/29, 2008 has (have) not commenced to transact this state of a Fictitious Business Name Benjamin Rosenfield 133 N. Swall Dr this state of a Fictitious Business Name that all information in this statement 050806MG business under the fictitious business in violation of the rights of another Beverly Hills, CA 90211. The business in violation of the rights of another is true and correct. (A registrant who name or names listed above. under Federal, State, or common law is conducted as: AN INDIVIDUAL. under Federal, State, or common law declares as true information, which he 050807 File No. 20080153475 NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement (See section 14411 at seq. Business and I declare that all information in (See section 14411 at seq. Business and or she knows to be false, is guilty of a FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME expires five years from the date it was Profession Code) First filing: this statement is true and correct. Profession Code) First filing: crime.) This statement was filed with the STATEMENT filed in the office of the County Clerk. 02/15; 02/22; 02/29 and 03/07, 2008 (A registrant who declares as true 02/15; 02/22; 02/29 and 03/07, 2008 County Clerk of Los Angeles County The following person (s) is (are) doing A new Fictitious Business Name 060805MG information, which he or she knows 060814 on Jan 28, 2008. The registrant (s) has business as: Statement must be filed before that time. to be false, is guilty of a crime.) This (have) commenced to transact business THE CHILDREN’S PLAYHOUSE The filing of this statement does not of 060806MG File No. 20080216103 statement was filed with the County 060815 File No. 20080232247 under the fictitious business name or 700 S. Ave 60 itself authorize the use in this state of a FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Clerk of Los Angeles County on Jan 25, STATEMENT OF names listed above 01/28/2008. Los Angeles, CA 90042. Fictitious Business Name in violation STATEMENT 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) not ABANDONMENT OF USE OF NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Full name of registrant (s) is (are) of the rights of another under Federal, The following person (s) is (are) doing commenced to transact business under FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Statement expires five years from the Abigail Lucy Manhey 700 S. Ave 60 State, or common law (See section business as: the fictitious business name or names The following person (s) has (have) date it was filed in the office of the Los Angeles, CA 90042, The business 14411 at seq. Business and Profession KEY BRIDE, TRANIC IMAGE listed above. abandoned the use of the fictitious County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business is conducted as: AN INDIVIDUAL. Code) First filing: 931 Palm Ave #A NOTICE-The Fictitious Name name: Name Statement must be filed before I declare that all information in 02/29; 03/7; 03/14 and 03/21,2008 San Gabriel, CA 91776. Statement expires five years from the M.A.B.A. TRUCKING that time. The filing of this statement this statement is true and correct. 0802MBP Full name of registrant (s) is (are) date it was filed in the office of the 2812 S. Hobart Blvd does not of itself authorize the use in (A registrant who declares as true Cathryn Cong 931 Palm Ave #A San County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Los Angeles, CA 90018 this state of a Fictitious Business Name information, which he or she knows FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Gabriel, CA 91776. The business is Name Statement must be filed before The name of registrant(s) is (are) in violation of the rights of another to be false, is guilty of a crime.) This STATEMENT conducted as: AN INDIVIDUAL. that time. The filing of this statement Michael Brown 2812 S. Hobart Blvd under Federal, State, or common law statement was filed with the County File No. 08-0347857 I declare that all information in does not of itself authorize the use in Los Angeles, CA 90018. The business (See section 14411 at seq. Business and Clerk of Los Angeles County on Jan The following person(s) is (are) this statement is true and correct. this state of a Fictitious Business Name was conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Profession Code) First filing: 253, 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) doing business as: ACJ LEATHER (A registrant who declares as true in violation of the rights of another The fictitious business name referred to 02/07; 02/15; 02/22 and 02/29, 2008 not commenced to transact business COMPANY, 122-A EAST FOOTHILL information, which he or she knows under Federal, State, or common law above was filed on 05/05/2006. Original 050805MG under the fictitious business name or BLV #150, ARCADIA, CA 91006. Full to be false, is guilty of a crime.) This (See section 14411 at seq. Business and File #20006-0028888. I declare that all names listed above. name of registrant(s) is (are) ALDEMAR statement was filed with the County Profession Code) First filing: information in this statement is true and 05806MG File No. 20080125046 NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement MARTOS, 122-A EAST FOOTHILL

MountainViews-Observer 280 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mvobserver.com MountainViews-Observer | March 10, 2008 11 The filing of this statement does not of Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. (See section 14411 at seq. Business and LEGAL NOTICES (cont.) itself authorize the use in this state of a Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of Profession Code) First filing: BLV #150, ARCADIA, CA 91006. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Fictitious Business Name in violation of The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a 03/07; 03/14; 03/21 and 03/28, 2008 This Business is conducted by: AN STATEMENT the rights of another under Federal, State, itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of 090803ED INDIVIDUAL. Signed: ALDEMAR File No. 08-0322087 or common law (See section 14411 et seq. Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, MARTOS. This statement was filed The following person(s) is (are) doing Business and Professions Code) the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. 090804ED File No. 20080357847 with the County Clerk of Los Angeles business as: HUGO PET PRODUCTS, Publish: MountainViews Observer or common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and Professions Code) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME County on 02/28/08. The registrant(s) LLC, 23708 WELBY WAY, WEST 03/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31/2008 Business and Professions Code) Publish: MountainViews Observer STATEMENT has (have) commenced to transact HILLS, CA 91307. Full name of Publish: MountainViews Observer 03/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31/2008 The following person (s) is (are) doing business under the fictitious business registrant(s) is (are) HUGO PET FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 03/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31/2008 business as: IGLESIA DE CRISTO DE name or names listed above on 2/28/08. PRODUCTS, LLC, 23708 WELBY STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME LA REGION ESTE NOTICE- This Fictitious Name WAY, WEST HILLS, CA 91307. This File No. 08-0383946 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 915 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd Statement expires five years from the Business is conducted by: AN LLC. The following person(s) is (are) STATEMENT File No. 08-0375157 Los Angeles, CA 90011 date it was filed in the office of the Signed: REUBEN BAHAR. This doing business as: ELLIOTT File No. 08-0376443 The following person(s) is (are) doing Full name of registrant (s) is County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business statement was filed with the County INVESTIGATIONS, ELLIOTT AND The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: UNITED SAFETY (are) IGLESIA DE CRISTO LOS Name Statement must be filed prior to Clerk of Los Angeles County on ASSOCIATES, 673 E. LAS FLORES business as: R L W CATERING SERVICES, 260 W. ARROW HWY., SANTIFICADOS 915 E. Martin Luther that date. The filing of this statement 02/25/08. The registrant(s) has (have) DR., ALTADENA, CA 91001. Full SERVICE, 12350 IMPERIAL HWY., BLDG. H, SAN DIMAS, CA 91773 Full King Jr. Blvd does not of itself authorize the use in commenced to transact business under name of registrant(s) is (are) BRENDA NORWALK, CA 90650. Full name of name of registrant(s) is (are) UNITED Los Angeles, CA 90011. The business this state of a Fictitious Business Name the fictitious business name or names J. ELLIOTT, 673 E. LAS FLORES DR., registrant(s) is (are) RICHARD LEE SAFETY SERVICES, 260 W. ARROW is conducted as: A CORPORATION. in violation of the rights of another listed above on 2/21/08. ALTADENA, CA 91001. This Business WALKER, 12325 IMPERIAL HWY., HWY., BLDG. H, SAN DIMAS, CA I declare that all information in under Federal, State, or common law NOTICE- This Fictitious Name is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. NORWALK, CA 90650. This Business 91773. This Business is conducted by: this statement is true and correct. (See section 14411 et seq. Business and Statement expires five years from the Signed: BRENDA J. ELLIOTT. This is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. A CORPORATION. Signed:. This (A registrant who declares as true Professions Code) date it was filed in the office of the statement was filed with the County Clerk Signed: RICHARD LEE WALKER. statement was filed with the County Clerk information, which he or she knows Publish: Mountain Views Observer County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business of Los Angeles County on 03/05/08. This statement was filed with the County of Los Angeles County on 03/04/08. to be false, is guilty of a crime.) This 3/03, 03/10, 3/17, 3/24/2008 Name Statement must be filed prior to The registrant(s) has (have) commenced Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/04/08. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced statement was filed with the County that date. The filing of this statement to transact business under the fictitious The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb 29, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME does not of itself authorize the use in business name or names listed above on to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) not STATEMENT this state of a Fictitious Business Name 1/1/86. business name or names listed above on 3/1/2008. commenced to transact business under File No. 08-0322021 in violation of the rights of another NOTICE- This Fictitious Name N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious Name the fictitious business name or names The following person(s) is (are) doing under Federal, State, or common law Statement expires five years from the date NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires five years from the date listed above. business as: ART & DESIGN IRON (See section 14411 et seq. Business and it was filed in the office of the County Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County NOTICE-The Fictitious Name WORKS, 1473 VIRGINIA AVE., Professions Code) Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the BALDWIN PARK, CA 91706. Full Publish: Mountain Views Observer Statement must be filed prior to that date. Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. date it was filed in the office of the name of registrant(s) is (are) BRENDA 3/03, 03/10, 3/17, 3/24/2008 The filing of this statement does not of Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business TELLO, 2458 STROZIER AVE., itself authorize the use in this state of a The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Name Statement must be filed before SOUTH EL MONTE, CA 91733. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Fictitious Business Name in violation of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of that time. The filing of this statement This Business is conducted by: AN STATEMENT the rights of another under Federal, State, Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, does not of itself authorize the use in INDIVIDUAL. Signed: BRENDA File No. 08-0322082 or common law (See section 14411 et seq. the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. this state of a Fictitious Business Name TELLO. This statement was filed with The following person(s) is (are) doing Business and Professions Code) or common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and Professions Code) in violation of the rights of another the County Clerk of Los Angeles County business as: LATINO’S BEAUTY Publish: MountainViews Observer Business and Professions Code) Publish: MountainViews Observer under Federal, State, or common law on 02/25/08. The registrant(s) has (have) SALON, 4311 E. COMPTON BLVD., 03/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31/2008 Publish: MountainViews Observer 03/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31/2008 (See section 14411 at seq. Business and commenced to transact business under RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA 90221. 03/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31/2008 Profession Code) First filing: the fictitious business name or names Full name of registrant(s) is (are) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 0803MBP File No. 20080390749 03/07; 03/14; 03/21 and 03/28, 2008 listed above on N/A. ELIZABETH MENDEZ, 7320 EXETER STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 090804ED NOTICE- This Fictitious Name ST. #3, PARAMOUNT, CA 90723. File No. 08-0383863 STATEMENT STATEMENT Statement expires five years from the This Business is conducted by: AN The following person(s) is (are) doing File No. 08-0392581 The following person (s) is (are) doing 090805MG File No. 20080331437 date it was filed in the office of the INDIVIDUAL. Signed: ELIZABETH business as: FAST LANE TRUCKING, The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business MENDEZ. This statement was filed 6590 LONG BEACH BLVD., LONG business as: SAN INSURANCE, INC., 712 TRINITY EWARE STATEMENT Name Statement must be filed prior to with the County Clerk of Los Angeles BEACH, CA 90805. Full name N. AVALON BLVD., WILMINGTON, 1325 Valley View Avenue The following person (s) is (are) doing that date. The filing of this statement County on 02/25/08. The registrant(s) of registrant(s) is (are) ANDREW CA 90744 Full name of registrant(s) is Pasadena, CA 91107. business as: does not of itself authorize the use in has (have) commenced to transact HOWARD, 6590 LONG BEACH (are) SAN INSURANCE, INC., 712 N. Full name of registrant (s) is (are) FReK this state of a Fictitious Business Name business under the fictitious business BLVD., LONG BEACH, CA 90805. AVALON BLVD., WILMINGTON, CA Liam J. Wylie, 1325 Valley View Ave., 3836 Prospect Ave #5 in violation of the rights of another name or names listed above on N/A. This Business is conducted by: AN 90744. This Business is conducted by: A Pasadena, Ca. 91107, The business is Culver City, CA 90232 under Federal, State, or common law NOTICE- This Fictitious Name INDIVIDUAL. Signed: ANDREW CORPORATION. Signed: MARCO conducted as: AN INDIVIDUAL declare Full name of registrant (s) is (are) (See section 14411 et seq. Business and Statement expires five years from the HOWARD. This statement was filed with RIOS (MGR). This statement was filed that all information in this statement Michael A. Piacentino 3836 Prospect Professions Code) date it was filed in the office of the the County Clerk of Los Angeles County with the County Clerk of Los Angeles is true and correct. (A registrant who Ave #5 Culver City, CA 90232. Publish: Mountain Views Observer County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business on 03/05/08. The registrant(s) has (have) County on 03/06/08. The registrant(s) has declares as true information, which he The business is conducted as: AN 3/03, 03/10, 3/17, 3/24/2008 Name Statement must be filed prior to commenced to transact business under the (have) commenced to transact business or she knows to be false, is guilty of a INDIVIDUAL. I declare that all that date. The filing of this statement fictitious business name or names listed under the fictitious business name or crime.) This statement was filed with information in this statement is true FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME does not of itself authorize the use in above on N/A. names listed above on 03/06/08. the County Clerk of Los Angeles County and correct. (A registrant who declares STATEMENT this state of a Fictitious Business Name NOTICE- This Fictitious Name NOTICE- This Fictitious Name on March 6, 2008. The registrant (s) as true information, which he or she File No. 08-0241327 in violation of the rights of another Statement expires five years from the date Statement expires five years from the date has (have) not commenced to transact knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) The following person(s) is (are) doing under Federal, State, or common law it was filed in the office of the County it was filed in the office of the County business under the fictitious business This statement was filed with the business as: DMC ASSOCIATES, 1037 (See section 14411 et seq. Business and Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name name or names listed above. County Clerk of Los Angeles County RUTLAND AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, Professions Code) Statement must be filed prior to that date. Statement must be filed prior to that date. NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement on Feb 26, 2008. The registrant (s) has CA 90042. Full name of registrant(s) Publish: Mountain Views Observer The filing of this statement does not of The filing of this statement does not of expires five years from the date it was (have) commenced to transact business is (are) MICHAEL R. WESLER, 1037 3/03, 03/10, 3/17, 3/24/2008 itself authorize the use in this state of a itself authorize the use in this state of a filed in the office of the County Clerk. under the fictitious business name or RUTLAND AVE., L.A., CA 90042. Fictitious Business Name in violation of Fictitious Business Name in violation of A new Fictitious Business Name names listed above on 02/25/2008. This Business is conducted by: AN FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME the rights of another under Federal, State, the rights of another under Federal, State, Statement must be filed before that time. NOTICE-The Fictitious Name INDIVIDUAL. Signed: MICHAEL STATEMENT or common law (See section 14411 et seq. or common law (See section 14411 et seq. The filing of this statement does not of Statement expires five years from the R. WESLER. This statement was filed File No. 08-0339603 Business and Professions Code) Business and Professions Code) itself authorize the use in this state of a date it was filed in the office of the with the County Clerk of Los Angeles The following person(s) is (are) doing Publish: MountainViews Observer Publish: MountainViews Observer Fictitious Business Name in violation County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business County on 02/08/08. The registrant(s) business as: M&R MERCHANDISE 03/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31/2008 03/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31/2008 of the rights of another under Federal, Name Statement must be filed before has (have) commenced to transact OULET, 15640 LEFFINGWELL RD., State, or common law (See section that time. The filing of this statement business under the fictitious business WHITTIER, CA 90604. Full name of FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 14411 at seq. Business and Profession does not of itself authorize the use in name or names listed above on 5/11/03. registrant(s) is (are) ROSA M. COTA, STATEMENT STATEMENT Code) First filing: this state of a Fictitious Business Name NOTICE- This Fictitious Name 14505 JALON RD., LA IRADA, CA File No. 08-0383862 File No. 08-0376434 03/7; 03/14, 03/21, and 03/28,2008 in violation of the rights of another Statement expires five years from the 90638, GUILLERMINA MADRID, The following person(s) is (are) doing The following person(s) is (are) doing 0803MBP under Federal, State, or common law date it was filed in the office of the 8425 JELLIN LANE, PICO RIVERA, business as: HOWARDS CATERING business as: SO-CAL AUTO SALES, (See section 14411 at seq. Business and County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business CA 90660. This Business is conducted SERVICE, 630 N. SEPULVEDA #616, 14175 LEFFINGWELL RD., WHITTIER, 090801ED File No. 20080348709 Profession Code) First filing: Name Statement must be filed prior to by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. EL SEGUNDO, CA 90245. Full name CA 90605. Full name of registrant(s) is FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 03/07; 03/14; 03/21 and 03/28, 2008 that date. The filing of this statement Signed: ROSA M. COTA. This of registrant(s) is (are) ANTIONETTE (are) ADRIAN FRANCISCO BERDOTE, STATEMENT 090804ED does not of itself authorize the use in statement was filed with the County HOWARD, 630 N. SEPULVEDA #616, 12246 AEGEAN ST., NORWALK, CA The following person (s) is (are) doing this state of a Fictitious Business Name Clerk of Los Angeles County on EL SEGUNDO, CA 90245 . This Business 90650. This Business is conducted by: business as: 090805MG File No. 20080331952 in violation of the rights of another 02/27/08. The registrant(s) has (have) is conducted by: A CORPORATION. AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: RICHARD SUNNY’S GIFTS, MING QIU, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME under Federal, State, or common law commenced to transact business under Signed: ANTIONETTE HOWARD. LEE WALKER. This statement was filed QIU PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, STATEMENT (See section 14411 et seq. Business and the fictitious business name or names This statement was filed with the County with the County Clerk of Los Angeles HILCOM The following person (s) is (are) doing Professions Code) listed above on N/A. Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/05/08. County on 03/04/08. The registrant(s) has 1005 E. Las Tunas Dr #650 business as: Publish: Mountain Views Observer NOTICE- This Fictitious Name The registrant(s) has (have) commenced (have) commenced to transact business San Gabriel, CA 91776 A CLASSY PARTY TO REMEMBER 3/03, 03/10, 3/17, 3/24/2008 Statement expires five years from the to transact business under the fictitious under the fictitious business name or Full name of registrant (s) is (are) 804 Milwood Ave date it was filed in the office of the business name or names listed above on names listed above on N/A. PHEOGON, INC. 1005 E. Las Tunas Venice, CA 90291 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Dr #650San Gabriel, CA 91776. Full name of registrant (s) is STATEMENT Name Statement must be filed prior to NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires five years from the date The business is conducted as: A (are)Veronica Sanchez Morales File No. 08-0339511 that date. The filing of this statement Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County CORPORATION. I declare that all 804 Milwood AveVenice, CA 90291. The following person(s) is (are) doing does not of itself authorize the use in it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name information in this statement is true The business is conducted as: AN business as: ELEGANT PRINT & this state of a Fictitious Business Name Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. and correct. (A registrant who declares INDIVIDUAL. I declare that all LABELS, 1105 WESLEY AVE., in violation of the rights of another Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of as true information, which he or she information in this statement is true PASADENA, CA 91105. Full name under Federal, State, or common law The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) and correct. (A registrant who declares of registrant(s) is (are) ERNESTO (See section 14411 et seq. Business and itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of This statement was filed with the as true information, which he or she MEDINA, 1105 WESLEY AVE., Professions Code) Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, County Clerk of Los Angeles County knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) PASADENA, CA 91105. This Business Publish: Mountain Views Observer the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. on Feb 28, 2008. The registrant (s) has This statement was filed with the is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. 3/03, 03/10, 3/17, 3/24/2008 or common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and Professions Code) (have) commenced to transact business County Clerk of Los Angeles County Signed: ERNESTO MEDINA. This Business and Professions Code) Publish: MountainViews Observer under the fictitious business name or on Feb 26, 2008. The registrant (s) has statement was filed with the County FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Publish: MountainViews Observer 03/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31/2008 names listed above not. (have) commenced to transact business Clerk of Los Angeles County on STATEMENT 03/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31/2008 NOTICE-The Fictitious Name under the fictitious business name or 02/27/08. The registrant(s) has (have) File No. 08-0315749 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Statement expires five years from the names listed above on 02/26/2008. commenced to transact business under The following person(s) is (are) doing FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT date it was filed in the office of the NOTICE-The Fictitious Name the fictitious business name or names business as: SELECTED BRANDS STATEMENT File No. 08-0384190 County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Statement expires five years from the listed above on N/A. OF THE WORLD, 17855 E. VALLEY File No. 08-0375350 The following person(s) is (are) doing Name Statement must be filed before date it was filed in the office of the NOTICE- This Fictitious Name BLVD., CITY of INDUSTRY, CA The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SPEEDY CATERING that time. The filing of this statement County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Statement expires five years from the 91744. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) business as: JORGE’S GET AROUND SERVICE, 6709 LA TIJERA BLVD. does not of itself authorize the use in Name Statement must be filed before date it was filed in the office of the ASE PROFITABLE INVESTMENTS, TRANSPORT, INC., 11670 KILLIAN #834, L.A., CA 90045. Full name of this state of a Fictitious Business Name that time. The filing of this statement County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business INC., 17855 E. VALLEY BLVD., ST., EL MONTE, CA 91732. Full registrant(s) is (are) ANTHONY L. in violation of the rights of another does not of itself authorize the use in Name Statement must be filed prior to CITY of INDUSTRY, CA 91744. name of registrant(s) is (are) JORGE’S SMITH JR., 6709 LA TIJERA BLVD. under Federal, State, or common law this state of a Fictitious Business Name that date. The filing of this statement This Business is conducted by: A GET AROUND TRANSPORT, INC., #834, L.A., CA 90045. This Business (See section 14411 at seq. Business and in violation of the rights of another does not of itself authorize the use in CORPORATION. Signed: TANYA 11670 KILLIAN ST., EL MONTE, CA is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Profession Code) First filing: under Federal, State, or common law this state of a Fictitious Business Name CHAVERRI. This statement was filed 91732. This Business is conducted by: A Signed: ANTHONY L. SMITH JR.. 03/07; 03/14; 03/21 and 03/28, 2008 (See section 14411 at seq. Business and in violation of the rights of another with the County Clerk of Los Angeles CORPORATION. Signed: ROBERTO This statement was filed with the County 090801ED Profession Code) First filing: under Federal, State, or common law County on 02/22/08. The registrant(s) ACOSTA. This statement was filed with Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/05/08. 03/07; 03/14; 03/21 and 03/28, 2008 (See section 14411 et seq. Business and has (have) commenced to transact the County Clerk of Los Angeles County The registrant(s) has (have) commenced 090802MG File No. 20080340789 090805MG Professions Code) business under the fictitious business on 03/04/08. The registrant(s) has (have) to transact business under the fictitious FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Publish: Mountain Views Observer name or names listed above on 2/22/08. commenced to transact business under the business name or names listed above on STATEMENT 090806MG File No. 20080331079 3/03, 3/10, 3/17, 3/24/2008 NOTICE- This Fictitious Name fictitious business name or names listed N/A. The following person (s) is (are) doing FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Statement expires five years from the above on 2/08/08. NOTICE- This Fictitious Name business as: STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME date it was filed in the office of the NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires five years from the date LONG BEACH REAL ESTATE, LONG The following person (s) is (are) doing STATEMENT County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County BEACH LENDING business as: File No. 08-0348635 Name Statement must be filed prior to it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name 10775 Los Alamitos Blvd THE SKYE PROJECT The following person(s) is (are) doing that date. The filing of this statement Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. Los Alamitos, CA 90720 10961 Palms Blvd #2 business as: FAMOS ENTERPRISE does not of itself authorize the use in this Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of Full name of registrant (s) is (are) RAD Los Angeles, CA 90034 LIMITED, 17921 CONTADOR DR., state of a Fictitious Business Name in The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a REAL ESTATE 10775 Los Alamitos Blvd Full name of registrant (s) is ROWLAND HTS. CA, 91748. Full violation of the rights of another under itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of Los Alamitos, CA 90720. The business (are)Emerson Bantegui 10961 Palms name of registrant(s) is (are) POSEDON Federal, State, or common law (See Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, is conducted as: A CORPORATION. Blvd #2 Los Angeles, CA 90034. TRUCKING, INC., 17921 CONTADOR section 14411 et seq. Business the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See section 14411 et seq. I declare that all information in The business is conducted as: AN DR., ROWLAND HTS., CA 91748. and Professions Code) or common law (See section 14411 et seq. Business and Professions Code) this statement is true and correct. INDIVIDUAL. I declare that all This Business is conducted by: A Publish: Mountain Views Observer Business and Professions Code) Publish: MountainViews Observer (A registrant who declares as true information in this statement is true CORPORATION. Signed: LIAN 3/03, 03/10, 3/17, 3/24/2008 Publish: MountainViews Observer 03/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31/2008 information, which he or she knows and correct. (A registrant who declares MA. This statement was filed with the 03/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31/2008 to be false, is guilty of a crime.) This as true information, which he or she County Clerk of Los Angeles County on FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement was filed with the County knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) 02/28/08. The registrant(s) has (have) STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb This statement was filed with the commenced to transact business under File No. 08-0367346 STATEMENT File No. 08-0384191 26, 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) County Clerk of Los Angeles County the fictitious business name or names The following person(s) is (are) doing File No. 08-0383605 The following person(s) is (are) not commenced to transact business on Feb 26, 2008. The registrant (s) listed above on N/A. business as: CUTTING EDGE, 2665 The following person(s) is (are) doing doing business as: SPEEDY SMITH under the fictitious business name or has (have) not commenced to transact NOTICE- This Fictitious Name S. SANTA FE AVE., VERNON, CA business as: LIBERTY HEALTHCARE TRUCKING, 630 N. SEPULVEDA #635, names listed above. business under the fictitious business Statement expires five years from the 90058. Full name of registrant(s) is STAFF PROVIDER, 132 SO. EL SEGUNDO, CA 90245. Full name of NOTICE-The Fictitious Name name or names listed above. date it was filed in the office of the (are) MARIA D. HERNANDEZ, 301 N. VERMONT AVE. STE. #201, LOS registrant(s) is (are) MAURICE LAMAR Statement expires five years from the NOTICE-The Fictitious Name County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business BANNA AVE., COVINA, CA 91724. ANGELES, CA 90004. Full name of SMITH, 630 N. SEPULVEDA #635, EL date it was filed in the office of the Statement expires five years from the Name Statement must be filed prior to This Business is conducted by: AN registrant(s) is (are) MARIA L. DE SEGUNDO, CA 90245. This Business County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business date it was filed in the office of the that date. The filing of this statement INDIVIDUAL. Signed: MARIA D. LEON, 102 SO. MANHATTAN PL. is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Name Statement must be filed before County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business does not of itself authorize the use in HERNANDEZ. This statement was filed #106, LOS ANGELES, CA 90004. Signed: MAURICE LAMAR SMITH. that time. The filing of this statement Name Statement must be filed before this state of a Fictitious Business Name with the County Clerk of Los Angeles This Business is conducted by: AN This statement was filed with the County does not of itself authorize the use in that time. The filing of this statement in violation of the rights of another County on 03/03/08. The registrant(s) has INDIVIDUAL. Signed: MARIA L. DE Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/05/08. this state of a Fictitious Business Name does not of itself authorize the use in under Federal, State, or common law (have) commenced to transact business LEON. This statement was filed with the The registrant(s) has (have) commenced in violation of the rights of another this state of a Fictitious Business Name (See section 14411 et seq. Business and under the fictitious business name or County Clerk of Los Angeles County on to transact business under the fictitious under Federal, State, or common law in violation of the rights of another Professions Code) names listed above on N/A. 03/05/08. The registrant(s) has (have) business name or names listed above on (See section 14411 at seq. Business and under Federal, State, or common law Publish: Mountain Views Observer NOTICE- This Fictitious Name commenced to transact business under the N/A. Profession Code) First filing: (See section 14411 at seq. Business and 3/03, 03/10, 3/17, 3/24/2008 Statement expires five years from the date fictitious business name or names listed NOTICE- This Fictitious Name 03/07; 03/14; 03/21 and 03/28, 2008 Profession Code) First filing: it was filed in the office of the County above on 2/28/08. Statement expires five years from the date 090802MG 03/07; 03/14; 03/21 and 03/28, 2008 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Clerk. 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A new Fictitious Business Name The filing of this statement does not of STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME business as: GRIMALDI’S TRUCK Fictitious Business Name in violation of Statement must be filed prior to that date. itself authorize the use in this state of a The following person (s) is (are) doing STATEMENT SERVICE, 1562 McCOMAS ST., the rights of another under Federal, State, The filing of this statement does not of Fictitious Business Name in violation of business as: The following person (s) is (are) doing POMONA, CA 91706. Full name or common law (See section 14411 et seq. itself authorize the use in this state of a the rights of another under Federal, State, HSJM ENTERPRISES, INC. business as: of registrant(s) is (are) SEBASTIAN Business and Professions Code) Fictitious Business Name in violation of or common law (See section 14411 et seq. 7340 Firestone Blvd #121 MUTUAL LOCAL BUSINESS ARMANDO GRIMALDI, 1562 Publish: MountainViews Observer the rights of another under Federal, State, Business and Professions Code) Downey, CA 90241 DIRECTORY, MLBD, MUTUAL McCOMAS ST., POMONA, CA 91706. 03/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31/2008 or common law (See section 14411 et seq. Publish: MountainViews Observer Full name of registrant (s) is (are) COMMERCIAL LENDING, MCL This Business is conducted by: AN Business and Professions Code) 03/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31/2008 HSJM ENTERPRISES, INC. 7340 501 W. Garvey Ave #106 INDIVIDUAL. Signed: ALDEMAR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Publish: MountainViews Observer Firestone Blvd #121Downey, CA Monterey Park, CA 91754 MARTOS. This statement was filed STATEMENT 03/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31/2008 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 90241. The business is conducted as: Full name of registrant (s) is (are)Pak with the County Clerk of Los Angeles File No. 08-08-0383861 STATEMENT A CORPORATION. I declare that all K. Lau 501 W. Garvey Ave #106 County on 02/25/08. The registrant(s) The following person(s) is (are) doing FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 08-0358100 information in this statement is true Monterey Park, CA 91754. The business has (have) commenced to transact business as: DK TRUCKING, 12325 STATEMENT The following person(s) is (are) and correct. (A registrant who declares is conducted as: AN INDIVIDUAL. business under the fictitious business IMPERIAL HWY. #154, NORWALK, File No. 08-0357951 doing business as: THE LOAN as true information, which he or she I declare that all information in The following person(s) is (are) doing MODIFICATION GROUP, 4343 knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.) this statement is true and correct. name or names listed above on 2/07/00. CA 90650. Full name of registrant(s) rd NOTICE- This Fictitious Name is (are) DEONTRE O. KING, 12325 business as: NOVELTY PRODUCTS, CRENSHAW BLVD. 3 FLOOR, LOS This statement was filed with the (A registrant who declares as true Statement expires five years from the IMPERIAL HWY. #154, NORWALK, 500 S. ANDERSON STREET, L.A., ANGELES, CA 90008. Full name of County Clerk of Los Angeles County information, which he or she knows date it was filed in the office of the CA 90650. This Business is conducted by: CA 90033. Full name of registrant(s) registrant(s) is (are) HOMER JACKSON, on Feb 29, 2008. The registrant (s) has to be false, is guilty of a crime.) This County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: DEONTRE is (are) DA TOYS GROUP, INC., 500 5923 LA BREA AVE., L.A., CA 90056. (have) commenced to transact business statement was filed with the County Name Statement must be filed prior to O. KING. This statement was filed with S. ANDERSON ST., L.A., CA 90033. This Business is conducted by: AN under the fictitious business name or Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb that date. The filing of this statement the County Clerk of Los Angeles County This Business is conducted by: A INDIVIDUAL. Signed: HOMER names listed above. 26, 2008. The registrant (s) has (have) does not of itself authorize the use in on 03/05/08. The registrant(s) has (have) CORPORATION. Signed: MANUEL JACKSON. This statement was filed with NOTICE-The Fictitious Name not commenced to transact business this state of a Fictitious Business Name commenced to transact business under the ARCADIA (PRES.). This statement was the County Clerk of Los Angeles County Statement expires five years from the under the fictitious business name or in violation of the rights of another fictitious business name or names listed filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 02/29/08. The registrant(s) has (have) date it was filed in the office of the names listed above. under Federal, State, or common law above on N/A. County on 02/29/08. The registrant(s) has commenced to transact business under the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business NOTICE-The Fictitious Name (See section 14411 et seq. Business and NOTICE- This Fictitious Name (have) commenced to transact business fictitious business name or names listed Name Statement must be filed before Statement expires five years from the Professions Code) Statement expires five years from the date under the fictitious business name or above on N/A. that time. The filing of this statement date it was filed in the office of the Publish: Mountain Views Observer it was filed in the office of the County names listed above on 10/23/07. NOTICE- This Fictitious Name does not of itself authorize the use in County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business 3/03, 03/10, 3/17, 3/24/2008 Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name NOTICE- This Fictitious Name Statement expires five years from the date this state of a Fictitious Business Name Name Statement must be filed before Statement must be filed prior to that date. Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County in violation of the rights of another that time. The filing of this statement it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name under Federal, State, or common law does not of itself authorize the use in MountainViews-Observer 280 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mvobserver.com 12 MountainViews-Observer | March 10, 2008 From the Inside Out An Ongoing Series of Personal Points of View on Health By Mary Carney Jeff’s Pics Our Amazing Cell Walls..... By Jeff Brown e Book Reports I never know when I’ll fi nd something that is exciting to me. With as much Krueger’s Men: Th e Secret Nazi Counterfeit Plot and the Prisoners of Block 19 reading as I do, it sometimes seems as if the “been there, done that, familiar by Lawrence Malkin (2006) with that” becomes a distressfully recurring pattern resulting in “ho hum”. Th is book is about how the Nazis planned to destroy the British economy during However … I learned something about the structure of cell membranes over the weekend that had WWII. Bernhard Krueger is put in charge of more than 140 mostly Jewish my jaw on the fl oor. Graphic No. 2 that represents the cell membrane structure was developed by prisoners who were artists, printers, metal plate makers or master counterfeiters pioneers Davson and Danielli between 1935 and 1955! Obviously this info had not yet gotten into before they were assembled at the death camp. Th ey were forced to produce the school books when I was studying biology! millions of counterfeit dollars to be dumped on the international market. We learn how these men tried to use sabotage and intelligence to foil the plot and A cell membrane (I drew this one) is made up of essential fatty acids (lipids) in a to save themselves, but fi nally produced near perfect money that was spread “two tailed” straight pin shape. Th e round head of the “pin” is able to absorb water, throughout Europe and had a profound eff ect on the British economy. Th e men while the two tails, also composed of lipids (EFAs), repel water. had begun work on American currency, but the war ended. Th e book off ers a A cell wall has two rows of these “pin” shaped well-researched and fascinating part of WWII history. structures - one with the round “heads” facing out while their tails face in, and the second layer with Why Women Should Rule the World by Dee Dee Myers (2008) the heads facing in and the tails reaching towards the other tails. Myers was the fi rst woman White House Press Secretary. She states why she wrote the book, “Th is is not about excluding men. I love men but there is plenty Interspersed between these phospholipid structures are various of room for more women at the top, not because it’s the right thing to do this, proteins that escort cell nutrients from the outside of the cell walls to but because it is more in our self interest to have more women in the public life; inside of the cell walls, and the “no longer needed” stuff from the inside to the outside. Th ere are so everyone wins. Th ey make the world a better place, the economy works better, many great movable images of how they work together available on the web - I urge you to go to your government becomes more responsive to people‘s needs, women work towards a computer right now and search on “cell membrane structure”. better quality of life for everyone. Th is is not automatic, it’s just that woman bring Because of these images, I now understand “why” EFAs (essential fatty acids) and the right proteins, diff erent priorities, more focus on human and social issues and they expand the are so essential to our health. And now, when someone says “nanotechnology”, I also now understand scope of problems they address. Statistics show that corporations with more that, if important micronutrients can be surrounded by an EFA shell, these nutrients can be more senior women do fi nancially better. Th is is an unstoppable force of history right rapidly absorbed by cells, replenishing the supplies the cells need to do their jobs. now. More women than ever are heads of Ivy league colleges and corporations. More woman are Presidents of countries around the world.” It’s time for this now. Myers is currently a political analyst, EFAs are one of the main components of our cell structure. If we’re low on EFAs, our cell membrane media commentator, and a former consultant to NBC’s Th e West Wing. eventually weakens and holes are created. When cell wall damage occurs, the cholesterol molecules that patrol among the water repelling tails are our front line troops that throw their bodies into the Th e Seeker’s Guide-Making Your Life A Spiritual Adventure by holes to plug them up. Whenever your medical and lab tests report cholesterol along walls, or arteries, Elizabeth Lesser (2000) previously published as “Th e New American Spirituality” or layered anywhere outside the barracks (the water repelling lipid tails), it’s because they’ve been Elizabeth Lesser speaks to America’s many religious, metaphysical, psychological, trying to repair damage to the cell walls, and keep the cells operating. and ancient traditions that have fl owered into our present day spirituality. She So, what’s damaging those outside cell walls? Acids. Lots and lots of acids. Yes, we need some acids, takes us along in her journey as she followed her personal religious path through in the right places, and at the right times. We need, for example, enough hydrochloric acid (HCl) Buddhist monasteries, Christian churches, African and Native American traditions, to help break down the foods in our stomach so the various other enzymes and fl uids have a better etc. She discusses why so many Americans are coming to their own personal form of chance of doing their jobs during the digestive process. Lots of health problems are due to too little religion. She also off ers numerous suggestions on fi nding your own path and truth. HCl, compounded by too many anti-acids to “sooth” the stomach when it really needs more acid. A great look and help thru the myriad of religious beliefs by one person who took the journey herself. But too much acid? You remember those two articles on pH back in January that some readers said they couldn’t understand? Well, if you have an ongoing saliva pH below 5.6, your body fl uids are so Recommended by Jack Reacher: acid that they start dissolving your cell membranes faster than repair can occur. Th en you are moving Robert Ludlum’s Th e Bourne Betrayal[Hardcover] by Eric Van Lustbader. into truly serious disease and illness states. Drugging, cutting and radiation will not correct the acid Jason Bourne, in this new novel, joins the war on terror in another gripping macho tale! state; rather the fear and stress those treatments cause will help create even stronger acid conditions. Remember, only one 12-ounce can of a soft drink requires 32 equivalent 12-ounce cans/bottles of Book pics can be purchased or ordered at Sierra Madre Books (836-3200) water to neutralize it … Email recommendations or comments to jeff [email protected] If your saliva is between 5.6 and 6.6, your cells have an ongoing fi ght to keep operating. Th is leads to cell, and muscle and nerve infl ammation that accumulates into to increasing aches, and pains, and general feelings of stiff ness and discomfort. So, when the doctor says - “you have infl ammation”, what you need to understand is that you’re way too acid, and your poor cell walls are having a real hard Scene One - Take One DVD Review time of it. And again, there is no drug that is going to change that. If you have too many of the wrong fats, the water reducing tails become quite “stiff ”, when you’re Ed Wood (1994) R doing well with your essential fatty acids, those tails become much more fl exible, the cell walls are Director Tim Burton’s wonderful black and white study of Ed Wood “the worst then more fl exible, and your larger muscles move more easily and are more fl exible and more pain- fi lmmaker in Hollywood history” with great performance by Johnny Depp, who plays free, as well. the zany director with a sunny disposition who loved to direct his bad fi lms while dressed in women’s undergarments. Also playing in an Oscar winning performance Healing truly is an “inside” job - and it happens from the inside out. In addition to taking your EFAs is Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi. Sarah Jessica Parker and Bill Murray co-star. Very internally, consider using them as skin lotions. It’s the fastest way to get their support to the cells that unusual, campy and fun fi lm. need them most. Flexibility, here I come! Love for Lydia (1979) (4-Disc Series) In this Masterpiece Th eatre TV miniseries adapted from the semi-autobiographical novel by H.E. Bates, English pastoral life and the red hot Jazz Era come alive as we witness a young girl’s change from shy teen to wild fl apper. Th e young and giddy heiress, Lydia Aspen, dances the Charleston as easily as she fl its from one eligible bachelor to another, among them a struggling and long suff ering young writer convinced that he’d be the heroine’s one true love if only given the chance. Th e cast includes Jeremy Irons in one of his early major roles. To Have and Have Not (1944) William Faulkner and Jules Furthman wrote this Howard Hawks classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall (who fell in love with each other on the set). Bogie plays Harry Morgan, a charter boat owner who falls for Bacall, who plays a seductive petty thief. Th e fi lm is very entertaining from the beginning. Th is was Bacall’s fi rst fi lm. She was 19 years old and beautiful. Bogey is an apolitical American overseas who, as in Casablanca, winds up fi ghting the Nazis. Walter Brennan as Bogey’s side-kick is fun to watch. Th e story has intrigue, action, danger, beautiful women, fun music with Hoagy Carmichael, wonderful characters, comedy and great dialog. Get The Best Rates For ADVERTISING Call (626) 836-6524 or email us at: [email protected] LEGAL NOTICES (continued from page 11) this state of a Fictitious Business Name listed above on 02/25/2008. Original File #2006-1687940. I declare VIE A PARIS BAKERY in violation of the rights of another NOTICE-The Fictitious Name Statement that all information in this statement 1610 W. Redondo Beach Blvd #11 under Federal, State, or common law expires five years from the date it was is true and correct. (A registrant who Gardena, CA 90247. Full name of (See section 14411 at seq. 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MountainViews-Observer 280 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mvobserver.com MountainViews-Observer | March 10, 2008 13 TABLE FOR TWO By Peter Dills Bargains - Part Two I received an email last week, with the person asking me how people could aff ord to eat out with everything being so expensive at the moment. Gas prices are hitting $4, coff ee is $5.00 and a McDonalds’ (not that this snob would know) meal will cost you $6.00. How can you aff ord to go out and eat with those prices? So I pulled out the old, and I mean old, wallet and found that only a few bucks were available, you know gas prices and all. Th e answer is Happy Hour!!! Th e Happy Hour comes for all of you hard working employees out there that just couldn’t wait to get off work and get a drink before dinner. Happy Hours have changed over the year,s with the stricter driving laws. Happy Hour has evolved from buy- one get-one-drink to discounted drinks with deep discounts for the food. In the 1920’s it was a Navy slang for a period of entertainment. Happy Hour fi rmly captured the public’s attention when, in 1959, a Saturday Evening Post article described the word “happy” to mean slightly drunk. Happy Hour has been an aft er-work ritual ever since. I have rounded up a few of the better spots in the area, and listed them in no particular order. Th e oldest restaurant in Pasadena, open for over 85 years, isMijares at 145 Palmetto. Mijares off ers reduced drinks specials plus some above average complimentary (FREE!) wings, enchiladas and chips. Good Monday through Th ursday. (626) 792- 2763. C27 License No. 909813 Islands! Yes, Islands, located on East Foothill Blvd and at Th e Paseo Pasadena. Th ey off er an assortment of ½ price appetizers and $1.00 off beer and selected spirits. Happy Hour goes from 4 PM to 7 PM. (626) 351-6543 Il Fornaio off ers complimentary food between 3 PM to 6 PM, Mon thru Friday. Selections include pizza, pasta and sandwiches and drinks that are at a special price; located in Miller’s Alley off the corner of Fair Oaks and Colorado. (626) 683-9797 Always busy for Happy Hour is McCormick and Schmick’s, 111 N. Los Robles in Pasadena; awarded by some on-line users as ‘Th e Best-of-the-Best’ Happy Hour in town. Answers To Last Week’s Crossword Prices range from $1.95 to $4.95. Th ere is always a beer and wine of the day, usually around the $3.00 mark. Appetizers include Buff alo wings, oysters, mussels and a $1.95 cheeseburger that is a meal itself. Heck I have had a KOBE Beef Burger at other places, for $15. (626) 405-0064. Also available in Burbank. Did I miss any of your favorites? If so Email me at thechefk [email protected]. Speaking of Mijare’s, watch Th e Chef Knows this Sunday Night at 8 PM in KJLA; we visit Mijare’s Restaurant The Mountain Clymer By Kim Clymer-Kelley Career Day

and matured it a bit. Aft er a visit to the F.B.I. building in Is there anyone out there Washington when I was 12, I saw how real life sleuths besides me who is still trying to fi gure out what they want to functioned. It was fascinating to see all of the labs and Leap Year 2008 be when they grow up? I sat down to write my column today training facilities and to hear about all of the intriguing cases Sadies Hawkins Day Is The 29th and, in an eff ort to avoid doing so as long as possible (geeez!!! that they had dealt with there at “headquarters.” Th is was I thought this would get easier as time went by, but it just gets real…this was something that I could REALLY do. I set my Solution: harder every week) anyway…with my fi nely tuned and well sights on becoming an F.B.I. agent…for a few months…then A P I A R T O S S R O T developed avoidance skills working at their peak effi ciency, along came “Star Trek” and the fi rst moon landing. Y I instead started a job search online…scanning through the Th at was it! I was sold and determined. I was going to be an C O L L I E Y U L E A R E ads on Monster.com for hours, trying to fi nd something ASTRONAUT… one of the fi rst female space pioneers. And S I L I C P R O X Z A P interesting for me to pursue. As I did so, I began to think so it remained right through college application time. When A about all of the things throughout my life that I have “wanted people asked my mom what I wanted to be and what I was F A R C E B Y G O N E to be when I grow up” and I realized that I have never really going to study in college, she would kind of roll her eyes to let decided. them know how ridiculous she thought it was and then told U P S U S A U R G E Th e fi rst thing that I can recall wanting to be (besides Glenda them…”She thinks she’s going to be an astronaut.” I found it L E A P A D E P T L Y the Good Witch of the North or a mermaid …not much a little disheartening and by the time I had to decide which money in either of the engineering programs to which I had been accepted I T R U E S T T R O Y O A K of those gigs) was would attend, I had changed my mind and my major from a tightrope walker aerospace engineering to art. R I D G E S T R I P L E in the circus. I did make use of my art degree for many years, but only A L I W E E P E E R I L Y Th is came about because it was something that I was good at. I enjoyed because of a deck some of the jobs. I did displays for stores, newspaper layout, A N A G R A M K N E E of “Old Maid” ad design, magazine illustration and even designed some E T C H G O V E N D cards that I had. collectibles for a Japanese version of the “Franklin Mint”. Th ey had a circus Th rough all of this I was constantly trying to fi gure out what M A R A C A P E P S I theme and one of the characters on the cards was a beautiful I really wanted to be doing. I started work on an MBA and girl dressed in a pink tutu, carrying a parasol and balancing a masters in Art Th erapy. When computers came along, I B R A E C H O L E N T I L gracefully on a wire. took classes in computer graphics. I got my certifi cation to E R N D E U S E N S U R E She was so beautiful and her job was so substitute teach and my massage therapist certifi cate. I all but exciting to me that I wanted to be just like completed 3 certifi cate programs at PCC in various aspects R Y E E D G E A T T E S T of television production. I took up writing, and ran the pack her when I grew up. I practiced outside in A GIFT FROM HEAVEN: my yard by walking the edge of my sand box. station. Yet through all of this, I never really felt that I had DENNIS PRAGER Convinced that I was nearly ready for the big found my calling (except for the Pack Station…I would have Elizabeth House, the only shelter for homeless, top, I felt I needed to test my expertise. Upon stayed there for life, had circumstances allowed…though I pregnant women in the San Gabriel Valley climbing to the top of the swing set with the am sure that I would still have been exploring other things – will hold “Era for Change” benefi t on March on the side from time to time.) 29 at Oakmont Country Club in Glendale intent of walking across the top rail, I realized that I was Nationally syndicated radio host Dennis Prager, will afraid of heights. As I laid across the rail, clinging for dear So here I am…ready to move on again…still looking….still For Angelina Coe, Executive Director of Elizabeth life and screaming for my mother to get me down, I decided trying to answer that age old question “What do I want to House, Dennis Prager is a “gift from Heaven.” that perhaps I needed to reevaluate my choice of careers…as be when I grow up?” Maybe that question has never been “I cannot begin to describe how thrilled we are that soon as I was safely on the ground answered for a reason…maybe somewhere deep inside me I a speaker as renowned as Dennis Prager has agreed and I could regain my composure. realized one important and frightening thing…that if I ever do to be celebrity speaker at our annual benefi t An Era for Change,” I turned my sights on ballet instead decide, I would actually have to “grow up”. But I will continue says Coe. “At Elizabeth House, our programs address not only (she did look like a ballerina too) my quest…keep myself open to all of the possibilities out the physical needs of women in a crisis pregnancy, by providing but I quit my dance lessons when there, pour over the want ads and the career and adult school them with a safe home, but their emotional and spiritual needs as well. Dennis is a perfect match for Elizabeth House because they kept me from seeing my hero catalogs, research every new thing that I hear of that piques his show oft en discusses the same issues we focus on here.” Mighty Mouse on Saturday morning my interest in my pursuit of the answer. I will keep searching Th e event will take place on Saturday, March 29 at the Oakmont cartoons…I guess even at 5 you have for that elusive and divine inspiration, but you know what…. Country Club in Glendale. Th e gala will begin at 6:30 p.m. with your priorities. TV just ain’t what it used to be. a reception and silent auction; dinner will follow at 8 p.m. For I believe the next thing that I decided more information, to donate an auction item, become involved, on was a cowgirl…probably from or purchase tickets call 626.577.4434 or visit www.elizabethhouse. watching too much “Bonanza” and net. my favorite cartoon host “Sally Starr” (those of you from the Philly area will remember her, I think). 3%26).'9/53).#% Wistaria Shuttle Tickets Now Available Online My mom ordered me a cowgirl outfi t from the Sears catalog. Th e Chamber of Commerce has It was red with white trim and a black yoke with fringe and announced that tickets for the shuttle to stars across the chest and had silver-trimmed fake mother of '%-0,5-").' the Wistaria Vine can now be purchased pearl buttons down the front. I was thrilled. I would put on ,OCALLY/WNED/PERATED online at: www.SierraMadreChamber.com. that outfi t and my mom’s tall black boots and ride my black stallion rocking horse off into the sunset. !)2#/.$)4)/.).'(%!4).' Th e Wistaria Festival is just weeks away, on March 30th, and now is the time to make I remember donning the entire outfi t and, with my “Sally 3!,%3 3%26)#% sure you get tickets at the time that you Starr” doll in hand, traipsing down to a meet “Sally Starr” ).34!,,!4)/. want to view the vine. Cost of the tickets at the grand opening of a local milk store. I proudly showed is $10, and tickets are distributed based on her my doll and she gave me her 8x10 glossy black and white one-hour time increments, to eliminate autographed photo. My fascination with horses and the west &2%%%34)-!4%3 overcrowding at the Vine. 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MountainViews-Observer 280 W Sierra Madre Blvd. No. 327 Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024 Office: 626.355.2737 Fax: 626.609.3285 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mvobserver.com 14 MountainViews-Observer | March 10, 2008 SPORTS OH-EIGHT “BIG ‘CAP” FAILS TO LIVE UP TO Back Page Journal PAST EDITIONS....BUT WHO CARES? By Brad Eastland Steroids: The New A horse called Heatseeker won the Santa Anita Handicap last week, slogging his way down the stretch and through the rain to National Pastime best a fi eld of thirteen four-footed anvil salesmen. By Brad Eastland, Sports Editor Sorry to be so harsh. Th e 5-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway is a I promised ball and the coff ee ball; anything nice horse, but in years past the only way he gets this close to a “Big myself I was to make that potato skip and dip, ‘Cap” fi eld is through the general admission gate. not going to baby. When they fi nally abolished For this is no ordinary race, the Big ‘Cap. It has been won by do a column the spitball long about 1920, many Seabiscuit, who was the best racehorse to compete during the on Steroids, of its practitioners, most notably the Depression and has had a couple of movies made about him. It has but aft er great Burleigh Grimes, were actually watching Roger Clemens twist in the allowed to keep using it until they been won by Vigors (this reporter’s all-time favorite), who rallied wind these last few weeks trying to retired! No need to take someone’s from more than 20 lengths behind in his Big ‘Cap, in a closing keep from getting in trouble with the livelihood away, right? What a great rush so ridiculously furious that upon him was soon bestowed United States Congress just because country. What a great game. the well-earned nickname “Th e White Tornado”. It was won by he lied about baseball stuff , well, I Gaylord Perry greased and Affi rmed, who nearly thirty years later is still the last horse to win just can’t help myself. Vaselined and snot-smeared the the Triple Crown. It was won by Spectacular Bid, who set the world Don’t get me wrong, I am no baseball long aft er the spitball and record for a mile-and-a-quarter right here at Santa Anita, and is Clemens apologist. I think he’s all its relatives were banned. Th at’s by any possible measuring stick the greatest horse in Santa Anita lying through his teeth, I think he’s cheating. So he cheated his way right history. And it was won by John Henry, the indefatigable gelding, juiced to the gills, and even before I to the Hall of Fame. So did Whitey was pretty sure he was on the juice I Ford and Don Sutton. (Elston an ugly cuss who won multiple Grade One stakes races, who banked thought he was kind of an arrogant Howard admitted to regularly over $6 million bucks back in the 80s (back when $6 million actually Heatseeker Is No Seabiscuit....But He Doesn’t Care stubborn jerk. But you know what? cutting the ball on his shin guard for bought you something), and who was so awesome and inspiring a Photo By Brad Eastland I don’t care! Roger Clemens is not Ford before throwing it back to him.) quadruped that a certain local bearded sportswriter once wrote a a big villain of the Steroids Era, the None of these men are pilloried like whole novel about him. ilk of, say, Commissioner Bud *Selig, Mr. Bonds, who, though quite likely Heatseeker, on the other hand, had never even competed in a Grade One stakes (even in an era when Grade Ones aren’t even Grade who was instrumental in actually guilty of something, hasn’t even failed enabling and perpetuating the a drug test yet. And admit it, you Ones), and had banked only $330 thousand dollars in his mediocre 14-race career. With a resume like that, you’d think he would have problem. So what if Clemens took laughed back in the 80s, when you been a monstrous longshot. Nope. He went off at only 7-to-1, paying a very normal-sounding $16 dollars to win for each two-dollar Steroids to try to gain an advantage? saw that video of the nail fi le fl ying ticket. (In his defense, he did run faster than the other thirteen slow-pokes who snuck into the race, so what more do you want?---he Again, I don’t care. And neither do out of pitcher Joe Niekro’s pocket-- might well ask in rebuttal if he could.) you. -you didn’t write your Congressman But the good news is that Santa Anita, as both a business and a purveyor of peerless sports entertainment, is doing just fi ne. Th e What am I trying to say? Well, about it.... crowd was outstanding for a drizzly day, 41,377 thrill-seekers stopping by. Th e track put on quite a show. Th ey gave the betting public this is pretty earth-shaking stuff , Th en there’s Norm Cash. Th e so I want you to brace yourself. Tigers fi rst baseman never hit higher a whopping eleven competitive races to digest, three of them major Stakes aff airs. Longshots and big payoff s were the order of the day, Ready? Here goes: Americans don’t than .286 in his career---except with several winning horses going off at double-digit, “boxcar” odds. Th ere was a tremendous Micro-brew festival in the infi eld, for give a tinker’s damn about Steroids in in 1961, when he belted 41 home runs those with a taste for the fi ner things in life. And no one seemed to care that Nature rained on Santa Anita’s parade yet again. baseball. and led the league in batting with an Santa Anita President Ron Charles and Publicity Director Mike Willman have this legendary track throbbing with excitement again. Th at’s right. Doesn’t make sense, astonishing .361 average. Because Th e Micro-brew festival is just one good example; over 11,000 beer-loving racegoers crammed the infi eld festival tents to sample the huh? At least if you go by the outrage he corked his bat! He admitted it. good stuff . invariably displayed by many sports He even demonstrated it, drilling an columnists, who write with an angry, 8-inch hole in the barrel in front of All-in-all, the 2008 Big ‘Cap was a rousing success, even without any Seabiscuits or John Henrys to stoke the coals of legend: “In this rabid froth whenever Clemens opens reporters, then fi lling it with sawdust, economy and with the disastrous meet that we’ve had to date, we are his mouth or whenever Barry Bonds glue, and cork. And he is not hated. absolutely thrilled with the way everything went,” said Willman. comes to their town. He is not vilifi ed. Rather, he remains But it’s true. I believe the average in baseball lore one of its beloved So if you want to learn more about the history of horse racing American baseball fan is as blasé clown princes. (He once came to the in America, keep reading the Mountain Views-Observer. And if and hypocritical about the dangers plate to face greasy-fast Nolan Ryan you want a day of sports entertainment that will stay in your mind of performance-enhancing drugs as carrying a table leg instead of a bat. and stick to your ribs, come on out and spend an aft ernoon at is the average American football fan How do you hate a guy like that?) beautiful Santa Anita Park in Arcadia---once again the Great Race or American basketball fan or boxing Th en there is Pete Rose. Ol’ Place---and see for yourself what all the fuss is about.... fan or cycling fan (Assuming for a Charlie Hustle broke the most moment that there actually are any sacred commandment of baseball, American cycling fans.). “Th ou Shalt Not Gamble”, and then Editor’s note: Among the 41,377 was 11-year-old Robbie Eastland, We do care about bashing Barry lied about it for 15 years. And attending his fi rst Big Cap. What Rob enjoyed most about the Bonds, of course. Sportswriters despite a rap sheet and personal day was watching the races from way up in the Press Box with his tell us to, so we do. But Mr. Bonds’ conduct resume that makes Bonds dad, along with the excellent (and free!) buff et lunch Santa Anita crime isn’t so much Steroids as it look like the Pope, he remains, for provides for all the sportswriters.... is lack of likeability. Yes, he is a the common baseball fan, one of the bit of a crab at times. So when we most beloved fi gures in the game. are told not to like him we use the Because in a nation that celebrates Steroids thing as our best and most cheaters, Rose achieved the holy convenient excuse. Yet we showed trifecta: he cheated on his wife, no national angst when documented cheated on his taxes, and he cheated drug cheats like Jason “I Admit It” the game. Ergo, we loved him. And Giambi took their drugs, or Andy “I still love him. It’s for certain that no admit it too, but you all know what ballplayer in history ever got more a basically good and honest person political mileage out of running to I am” Pettitte or Rick Ankiel or Troy fi rst aft er a walk.... Glaus or Neifi Perez (who?). Mike Schmidt and Henry Aaron Seriously, where’s the outrage? have both admitted to occasionally Were you outraged when you heard taking amphetamines before a game. that any of these guys were dirty? Did you know that? Th is is not a No. Oh sure, we gave proven drug secret, ‘Google’ it up if you don’t gulper Rafael Palmeiro a hard believe me. But they are beloved, so time, and Mark McGwire too, but nobody cares. Ex-Met John Milner only because the former lied to us says ex-teammate Willie Mays-- in a classic, Clintonesque, fi nger- -yes, the great and beloved Mays wagging moment before Congress, himself, but by this time pretty old and because the latter---who we had and worn out---had a bottle of “red come to believe was Paul Bunyan juice” (liquid amphetamines) in his in spikes---wimped out. We did locker. And if you believe Dave not vilify them because of the actual Parker, Dale Berra and other ex- drug taking. Pittsburgh Pirates players, no less a Th e bottom line is that if beloved fi gure than the great Willie we Americans really and truly Stargell would pass out greenies to his cared about the proliferation of teammates before games! But Stargell performance-enhancing drugs in ended up about 300 homers behind sport, we should have and would have Bonds. And he was usually pretty been excoriating these confi rmed nice to reporters. Meaning he just cheaters right from the get-go. But wasn’t good enough or rude enough we didn’t and we don’t. Why not? to merit our collective hatred.... Weren’t they all attempting to gain And of course every “an unfair competitive advantage” baseball executive before 1947 Sports News? over their peers? Sure. But none cheated the whole country, and in of these folks had the audacity to fact the whole Human Race, when [email protected] win seven Cy Young Awards like they conspired annually to keep Clemens, or threaten and then break black players and Latin players out the so-called greatest record in of the game. Racism, the biggest American sports, as did Bonds. shell game there is. But we didn’t So then WHY don’t we care? mind that because that’s the way we Because, historically, we are a were too. nation of cheaters. We cheat on Baseball is the National Pastime everything. We cheat on our taxes, and, deep down, the most beloved we cheat on our wives. We drive game within the whole crazy fabric too fast and run red lights and of American history, because it drive drunk. I rarely play golf with doesn’t pretend to be any more noble someone who doesn’t improve his lie or virtuous or holier-than-thou than during his round, at least once. As we are. Except when it comes to the children we learned early on how greatest record in American sports, to cheat on tests, how and when of course. to lie to our parents, even how to So the next time Mr. Bonds comes plagiarize a college thesis or two. to your town, just sit back and enjoy (Not me, bless my soul, but I know the show. He’s the best since Th e a couple guys who did .) And of Babe, you might as well get used to course we learned to cheat ourselves the idea. And he’s only got a year or with our own drugs, which some of so left in him (assuming anyone even us guys only thought enhanced our gives him a job this year), so before performance.... he’s too weak to drag his tired old And that’s why we have always loved carcass up to the plate, you should baseball. Because baseball has always try to appreciate a talent that may tolerated---indeed celebrated---the never come again. But even if you lovable cheater. don’t share that view, don’t boo him It’s impossible to say exactly when because some frustrated, revenge baseball players and managers began driven, power-mad sportswriter tells to cheat, but I’ll bet it was about fi ve you to, and for God’s sake don’t boo minutes aft er the game was invented. him over Steroids. Remember: other I bet that in the fi rst inning of the than the fact that he’s stronger, richer, fi rst game, some enterprising coach ruder, has quicker bat speed, and stole a catcher’s sign, or maybe that chooses to ignore most sportswriters same wily catcher “framed” a pitch rather than blindly follow them that was a ball into a strike. Heck, down the road to Hypocrisy, other back in the late 1800s the spitball than all that, he’s just a cheater. Just was legal. So was the the licorice like you.

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