Our Energy, Insight Will Carry Us Through an Uncertain Future
Pasadena, California Celebrating 58 years of community service Summer 2020 LAND USE/PLANNING WPRA IN MOTION OPEN SPACE / NATURAL RESOURCES NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY BREAKING NEWS COMMUNITY Our energy, insight will carry us through an uncertain future By Bill Bogaard Former Pasadena mayor and Red-carpet wishes for the real stars WPRA president “Next year I don’t wanna hear about the Oscars or Golden Globes. I don’t want to see a s 2019 drew to a close, Pasadena had single pathetic actor, actress, singer, celebrity or sports person on any red carpet! Next no reason to think that the new year year I want to see nurses, doctors, ambulance crews, care-givers, support workers, police Awould not live up to the theme of the officers, firefighters, shop clerks, grocery store workers, garbage removal crews, delivery 2020 Rose Parade, “The Power of Hope.” The drivers and truck drivers, having free red-carpet parties with awards and expensive goody economy was vibrant, unemployment was bags. If this doesn’t happen it will be the biggest injustice ever!” historically low, and the stock market near — Thanks to Lorraine Clearman, who found this in a Pasadena Next Door app post an all-time high. The new year did pose challenges, of course, the Spanish flu sped across the world, killing City Hall and its Public Health Department such as overdevelopment, affordable housing more than 675,000 in America and as many stepped up to maintain municipal services and homelessness, increasing traffic and as 50 million worldwide. This new pandemic, and to address the many community needs economic disparity between rich and poor.
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