TCUSD Board Elects Officers
The Temple City Unified School District Board of Education elected 2010 officers at its annual organizational meeting on December 7, 2009. Rachel LaSota was elected as Board President; Matt Smith, Vice President; and Janet Rhee, Board Clerk. Outgoing Board President Ridley thanked his fellow Board Members, Superintendent Kang-Smith, and District administrators and staff for their [...]
Ralph Walker – The Man, the Myth the Legend
Last Tuesday evening the Monrovia City Council honored Ralph Walker for what Mayor Mary Ann Lutz called “not so quiet service to this community for many, many years”, a time span in which Mr. Walker has been enlightening and challenging the citizens of Monrovia and engaging news makers on local issues via his television talk [...]
Beacon Media Publishes Annual Readers’ Choice Issue
Yesterday Beacon Media, publisher of the Pasadena Independent, Arcadia Weekly, Monrovia Weekly, Sierra Madre Weekly and Temple City Tribune published the 2009 Readers’ Choice edition across all of it’s newspapers. This popular guide to the restaurants, retail stores, home & garden services and other businesses in the San Gabriel Valley has become an annual tradition [...]
Celebrating a Quarter-Century of Racing
This Weekend’s Breeders’ Cup Offers Incredible Chance to See World’s Best Thoroughbreds in Action.
Local Princess: Found, and Headed to Vroman’s
New Book by Local Author Offers Story of an American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected them All. On Sunday, November 15th at 3:00pm, Sarah Culberson and Tracy Trivas will present and sign their new book at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena. Over the past two years Sarah Culberson’s story of the search [...]
Arcadia’s Natalie Innocenzi Selected as 2010 Rose Queen
Arcadia resident Natalie Anne Innocenzi,16-year-old Rose Princess and student at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, was selected by the Tournament of Roses as the 92nd Rose Queen this morning. Speaking with the Pasadena Independent last week after being selected as one of the seven finalists, Innocenzi said she was humbled by her selection at that she [...]
Our Next Young Computer Wiz: Dadrian Tran
Temple City’s Dadrian Tran loves “The Simpsons,” and if this shared love (obsession) of ours’ were reason enough to give him a new computer, it surely would have been good enough for me. But of course, there are better reasons why this bright eighth grader from Oak Ave. Elementary chose to send us an essay [...]
Overtime: A Modest Proposal
In college and high school football an overtime procedure is used to determine the winner. This method is sometimes referred to as a “Kansas Playoff “or “Kansas Plan” because of its origins for high school football in that state. What Follows is a Brief Summary of the Rules: 1. A coin toss determines which side [...]
Referees: No Overtime Pay, No Overtime Play
Hard Fought Game Forced to End in Tie as Officials Refuse Overtime The officiating crew at Friday night’s football match up between the Temple City Rams and Arcadia Apaches told coaches for both teams that there would be no overtime, citing the fact that they would not be paid overtime for the extra work involved [...]
