Monrovia Library Reading Club to Rip Up Books | Gang Member Sentenced | Hong Kong Market | Vegetables

~ Monrovia Library's Summer Reading Club will take discarded books and "fold them, paint them, tear pages out, cut them into shapes, stamp them, glue them, re-bind them...in other words, transform them into altered works of art." http://goo.gl/SwZnK

~ Monrovia gang member sentenced for 2008 shooting that paralyzed teen. http://goo.gl/IKX3S

~ A peek at the work going on inside the new Hong Kong Market on Duarte Road. http://goo.gl/yvFUe

~ Pictures from the latest Produce in the Park. http://goo.gl/B6sGf

- Brad Haugaard

Star-News Election Endorsements

Star-News endorsements for Tuesday's election. http://goo.gl/U16oP

- Brad Haugaard

Info on Monrovia 32nd District Congressional Candidates

Interviews by Patch of the three candidates for U.S. House of Representatives for the 32nd District, which includes Monrovia except the area north of Hillcrest-Greystone. (Click the "Open Checked" button). http://goo.gl/6kR9M

- Brad Haugaard

Line Down the Street for Monrovia Yogurtland Opening

The grand opening at Yogurtland was apparently quite a success, judging from this line down the street. http://goo.gl/6iyBH

- Brad Haugaard

Contributors to 41st Assembly District Candidates

A good overview of who is contributing how much to the candidates for the 41st Assembly District. http://goo.gl/TUpF9

- Brad Haugaard

Monrovia Fire Responds to Problem in Park

Six Monrovia Fire units responded to a report of a woman feeling poorly at the falls in Monrovia Canyon Park today.

- Brad Haugaard

AeroVironment Gets Initial Order on Possible $65.8 Million Order

AeroVironment gets a initial $15.8 million order from the US Army for its Raven drone, with a total projected value of $65,889,191. http://goo.gl/knCI4

- Brad Haugaard

Monrovian Sentenced for Hit and Run

Monrovian sentenced to six months for hit-and-run. http://goo.gl/FPNyw

- Brad Haugaard

Interviews with Candidates for 41st Assembly District

Here are Patch interviews with all the candidates for the 41st Assembly District. Click the "Open Checked" button to see them all at once. http://goo.gl/c502s

- Brad Haugaard

School Board Budget Session | KNX Pictures | Huff Amendment Denied

~ The Monrovia School Board will hold a special meeting to study the 2012-13 budget situation. Comment: Should be a cheerful event. http://goo.gl/CdoWg

~ Photos of KNX broadcasting from the Monrovia Coffee House on Myrtle today. http://goo.gl/SgBTM

~ Video: Senator Bob Huff, who represents Monrovia, asks the Senate for an amendment to make it easier to fire teachers guilty of serious abuses of students. He said it currently takes up to eight years to get rid of such teachers. His amendment was voted down. http://goo.gl/N5dm6

- Brad Haugaard

Lunch at Shanghai Gourmet

Lunch at Shanghai Gourmet, new place in the shopping center near Fifth on Duarte Road. We passed on the pig stomach and sea cucumber and got sauteed beef with orange peel and the spicy chicken. Came with soup and tea. Chopsticks only. Really delicious! And lots. Had to take some home. My favorite was the beef but both were great. And cheap. $13.90 for both meals and a Coke.

- Brad Haugaard

Gold Line Funding

The California State Assembly has passed AB 1600 to extend the Gold Line to Montclair in San Bernardino County and making the San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG) a non-voting member of the Authority.

 

Also, the the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments has decided to withhold support of a proposal to permanently extend the Measure R sales tax until it is made clear whether the money will be used to extend the Gold Line to Claremont.

Source: Gold Line press release

 

- Brad Haugaard

Gold Line Progress

Crews are finalizing the form-work and installing over 500 tons of reinforcing steel for the bridge's superstructure and outrigger (or main cross-beam). Once completed in early June, 2,100 cubic yards of concrete will be placed to form the main bridge structure. The photos above show the significant progress made on the bridge by the Skanska team in the last few weeks.

Nearly 80 full-time engineers and designers are currently hard at work designing the Pasadena to Azusa project. Some elements of the design are close to - or at - 85%; while most are at around 60% completion. This process will continue through 2012, with construction starting in earnest in September.

As design progresses, FTC crews are out along the corridor conducting pre-construction activities. During the last several weeks, crews have begun demolishing the abandoned track in Arcadia, as well as demolishing the Colorado Boulevard bridge, which crosses Colorado Boulevard just west of Santa Anita Avenue.  

Source: Gold Line press release

If you would like to attend a Gold Line open house, see details here: http://goo.gl/vunqM

- Brad Haugaard

Monrovia Mayor on Radio | Yogurtland Celebration Saturday

~ Mayor Mary Ann Lutz reports on Twitter that she is being interviewed by KNX Radio at 7:20 a.m. today. KNX is broadcasting live from Old Town Monrovia today. UPDATE: If you missed it, Mayor Lutz said that Monrovia is "more than just a town, it is a community," and she told the story of Samson the hot tub bear.

~ Yogurtland (on Myrtle near Foothill) is having a grand opening celebration tomorrow (Saturday) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free yogurt from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free Sanrio t-shirts for the first 100. Free $5 gift card for first 50. Balloons for kids.

- Brad Haugaard

Monrovia Company Helps Electric Vehicles Drive from Seattle to Canada

Electric vehicle chargers from Monrovia's AeroVironment now make it possible to drive an electric vehicle from Seattle to the Canadian border. http://goo.gl/t6Jis

- Brad Haugaard