Lunch at Big Shrimps
- Brad Haugaard
Jose De Juan Exhibit | Scoby to Play for Monrovia | Open Seats on School Board
~ Artist Jose De Juan's exhibit "Our Shared Light," runs through May 4 at Segil Fine Art, 110 West Lime.
~ Running back Kurt Scoby enrolled at Monrovia High. Plans to play in the fall. http://goo.gl/vjtDN
~ Two open Monrovia School Board seats in November. http://goo.gl/JQMGL
- Brad Haugaard
Paragon Trucking Moves to Monrovia
- Brad Haugaard
Monrovia Police: Stolen Purse, Meth, and Bears Encouraged With Beanbags
Easter Weekend Services in Monrovia
~ Calvary Chapel Monrovia (123 W. Pomona Ave., near Myrtle next to the freeway). Good Friday at 6 p.m. Easter at 7 a.m., 9 a.m., and 11 a.m.
~ Calvary Road Baptist Church (319 West Olive Ave.) Easter Sunday 10:45 a.m.
~ Fellowship Monrovia (Monrovia High Performing Arts Center) - Good Friday 7 p.m.; Easter Sunday 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.
~ First Baptist Church (Encinitas and Palm) - Easter Sunday 10:55 a.m.
~ First Presbyterian Church (Myrtle and Foothill)- Good Friday Service and Concert March 29 at 7:30 p.m.; Easter Sunday 10 a.m.
~ Immaculate Conception (726 Shamrock Ave.) - For Holy Day services call parish office at 358-1166.
~ Live Oak Vineyard Church (1307 S. Myrtle) - Good Friday service at noon. Easter morning service 10 a.m.
~ Monrovia United Methodist Church (140 E Palm Ave) - Call church at 303-2783.
~ New Beginnings Family Church (2780 Peck Rd.) - Good Friday at 6 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m. and Easter Sunday services at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and noon.
~ Restored Life Fellowship (Wild Rose Elementary School 232 Jasmine Ave) - 9:30 a.m. Easter Sunday.
~ St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Foothill and California) - Good Friday 12:10 and 7:30 p.m., Holy Saturday 12:10 p.m. and 7 p.m., Easter Sunday 10 a.m.
My apologies if I missed any. If so, let me know and I will add them right away.
- Brad Haugaard
Monrovia Old-Time Phonograph Collector
- Brad Haugaard
Video: Monrovia Man Meets Bear ... In His House | Inside New Aztec Restaurant | Schools Hire Headhunter Firm
~ Pictures of the inside of the new restaurant going in at the Aztec Hotel. http://goo.gl/fi2WJ
~ School Board hires a search firm to find new superintendent. (Linda Wagner is taking over Anaheim schools). http://goo.gl/1pF7K
- Brad Haugaard
Easter Egg Hunt | E-Waste Recycling | College Fair | Children's Day | Native Plant Tour
~ Electronic Waste Recycling Event Saturday, April 6, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Mt. Sierra College, 101 E. Huntington Dr. Also, ACTS Thrift Shop accepting donations of clothing, furniture, etc. For large item donations call 577-4477 for free pick up.
~ Mt. Sierra College Career Fair, 9 a.m. to noon, April 13. 101 E. Huntington Dr. http://goo.gl/kahg0
~ Dia de los Ninos, Children's Day, at the Library. http://goo.gl/MSnXT
~ Native Plant Garden Tour, including a home in Monrovia. http://goo.gl/6LEIu
Monrovia Over South Pas :-) | Holden Photo Contest
~ On Facebook, Assemblymember Chris Holden, who represents Monrovia, writes: "I need your help with photos that reflect the unique nature of the 41st Assembly District. If you have a great shot of the mountains, or wildflowers or even an iconic building that represents your city, please send a high resolution jpg to my office at: assemblymember.Holden@assembly.ca.gov.
"My staff and I will choose 3 or 4 photos to post on our website and in return, I'll buy lunch for the winners. Take a look at my website: www.asm.ca.gov/holden and you'll see I need your help."
- Brad Haugaard
Representative Judy Chu Picture
Congressional representative Judy Chu, who represents the north edge of Monrovia, posted this photo of herself on Facebook. She posted it without comment but I'm guessing it means she wants the Supreme Court to overturn California's Proposition 8, which defines marriage as between a man and woman.
- Brad Haugaard
Monrovia Police: TwoCars and Bus Collide; Robbers with PepperSpray; Etc.
[Monrovia Police activities from the Police Department's Neighborhood Watch Report for March 21-24. - Brad Haugaard]
Following are the weekend's highlighted issues and events.
Suspicious Vehicle / Warrants – Suspect Arrested
March 22 at 10:33 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 200 block of Madeline regarding a suspicious occupied vehicle. While officers were checking on the subjects inside the vehicle, a resident contacted one of the officers. He advised the officer that a male subject with a backpack had left very quickly at the first sight of the patrol car. Officers checked the area and found the subject walking south on Mountain, north of Foothill. The subject was found to have three no-bail warrants, two for narcotics and one for burglary. The subject was arrested and taken into custody.
Injury Traffic Collision / Unlicensed Driver
March 22 at 5:02 p.m., a three vehicle traffic collision occurred in the 3000 block of Peck Road. Two vehicles struck each other in the intersection. One of the vehicles continued on, striking an MTA bus. One passenger on the bus complained of pain. The drivers of the vehicles were not injured. One of the drivers was found to be unlicensed and was cited for the offense. The injured person on the bus declined medical treatment.
Petty Theft With Priors – Suspect Arrested
March 23 at 5:03 p.m., a suspect was observed leaving a business in the 500 block of West Huntington with bottles of cologne he did not pay for after he concealed them in a paper bag. He was detained by store loss prevention. Officers arrived, and the suspect was taken into custody without incident. He was determined to have a very long criminal history with numerous convictions and past prison time for theft.
Residential Burglary
March 24 at 4:27 p.m., officers responded to the 700 block of Ocean View regarding the report of a residential burglary. The point of entry was an unlocked kitchen window, and the loss was several items of jewelry taken from the master bedroom. The burglary occurred sometime between 4:00 p.m. on March 23 to 7:00 p.m. on March 24. A neighbor noticed a suspicious subject leaving the victim's driveway during the time of occurrence. The subject is described as a male white adult, very tall, wearing a white, long-sleeve t-shirt and jeans. The neighbor did not see the subject carrying anything. Investigation continuing.
Attempt Robbery
March 25 at 1:55 a.m., dispatch received a call reporting a robbery in the 200 block of Melrose. The victim was in front of his residence, smoking a cigarette, when a vehicle pulled up and the occupants asked him for directions. When the victim approached the vehicle, the occupants demanded money from him. The victim replied that he didn't have any money, and one of the suspects sprayed him in the face with pepper spray. The suspect vehicle then fled south on Melrose. The victim was treated at the scene and taken to a local hospital for an apparent allergic reaction to the pepper spray. The empty canister of pepper spray was recovered at the scene. The investigation is continuing.
Study Says AeroVironment Drones Safe to Fly at Night
- Brad Haugaard
More Filming for Monrovia?
From the newsletter: "It is felt that such an agreement would facilitate making the process easier and less time-consuming for the film companies. Because many of the film companies in Los Angeles prefer to shoot on locations within 30 miles of the studios (which Monrovia is), the city could once again become a mecca for filming."
The report adds that Film LA plans to be at an April City Council meeting.
- Brad Haugaard
Monrovia Library: Calling All Book Scribblers!
- Brad Haugaard
Opinion: Patch's Push to Modify Legal Ads Law is a Good Thing
If you have followed MonroviaNow for a long time, you may recall me expressing serious doubts about the ability of AOL's Patch chain of local-news websites - including Monrovia Patch - to survive. I still have doubts, but in reading this article ( http://goo.gl/6iheU ) I find that AOL is pushing to have an antiquated law changed, and if it succeeds I think the California Patch websites could survive and maybe even thrive. Years ago I wrote my assemblyman urging just such a change, but maybe with AOL's clout something will happen.
This antiquated law requires that legal notices (those tiny-print columns of text that you used to skip over in the back of your newspaper when you used to read a newspaper) must be printed in a newsPAPER. The logic, which was probably good in the 1800s, was that there is certain information that businesses and local governments must put in front of the eyes of the public, and so those businesses and governments must buy advertising to do that. And that, of course, is a nice source of revenue for newspapers.
But today, newspapers are declining and online news is growing, and it is increasingly reasonable that online-only publications be allowed to accept legal advertising if they can show they have adequate readership.
Obviously, this would benefit Patch and other local online-only media (maybe even MonroviaNow), but I suspect newspapers will have a conniption fit as that is probably one of the few revenue sources keeping their paper versions alive. But newspapers could still run legal ads (in paper or online), so the only real difference is that newsPAPERs wouldn't be the ONLY venue for running the ads.
Now, a related argument is this: Why require legal ads at all since a government database can make the information just as easily available to the public as if it was published in a local news outlet?
Hmm... good point. The only arguments I can think of in reply are that the government may see value in pushing the information out there where it is in people's faces, or it may see value in supporting local news media, but I gotta admit, those responses are pretty weak.
- Brad Haugaard