Monrovia Weekly – May 14th, 2009
Mother’s Day Makeover at Salon of Paris a Huge Hit
3rd Annual Event Helps Bolster Self-esteem in Women Presented by The Salvation Army Pasadena Tabernacle and Salon of Paris in Arcadia, 15 plus women were treated Monday, to entire makeovers to help improve their self esteem. Many of the women who were involved in drug or alcohol abuse are being treated at Salon of Paris [...]
Monrovia Police Blotter
During the last seven day period, the Police Department handled 529 service events, resulting in 111 investigations. Following are the last week’s highlighted issues and events: Brandishing a Firearm. On April 30 at 11:18 a.m., an officer responded to a business parking lot in the 300 block of West Huntington regarding a suspicious subject. The [...]
Local Cable Firm Supplying Internet Hookup for New Monrovia Library
Champion Broadband, a Monrovia-based supplier of video, internet and phone services, has donated the internet cabling for public computers at the new Monrovia Public Library. Champion Broadband cabling and modems will be supplying 10 megabits and more of internet access power to the Library’s public workstations – more than three times the speed of typical [...]
Best Buy Opens in Duarte
Hundreds turned out for the long anticipated opening of the new Best Buy in Duarte. A joint Duarte/Monrovia Chamber Grand Opening ceremony was held on Thursday, May 7th, featuring not only the traditional ribbon-cutting with local officials, but an announcement by store General Manager Marisel Mosqueda that Best Buy was donating $5,000 each to the [...]
Monrovia Day Parade Road Closures
(Beginning at 4 p.m., Thursday 5/14) Myrtle Ave. (Huntington to Foothill); Chestnut Ave. (Primrose to Ivy); Maple Ave. (Primrose to Ivy); Olive Ave. (Primrose to Ivy); Colorado Blvd., (Primrose to Ivy); Lemon Ave.(Primrose to Ivy); Lime Ave. (Primrose to Ivy); Palm Ave. (Primrose to Ivy)
Parade Lineup – 2009 Monrovia Day Parade "Books on Parade"
1 M.P.D. – Motorcycle Officers 2 Monrovia Police Explorers – Honor Guard 3 Centre Stage (Banner) Walkers 4 GRAND MARSHALL: Wendelin Van Draanen= 5 Clifton Middle School Band & Spirit Marchers 6 Council Member Joe Garcia 7 Council Member, Tom Adams 8 Council Member, Becky Shevlin 9 Council Member, Clarence Shaw 10 Linda B. Proctor- [...]
Duarte Family Home Burglarized and Vandalized
Sheriff’s Detectives and City Continuing Investigation Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detectives and members of the Sheriff’s gang unit are continuing to investigate the burglary and vandalism of a Duarte family’s home on Friday night (May on Broach Ave., near Galen Street. The perpetrators spray-painted racial slurs and gang symbols throughout the house and on the [...]
MoRocks Meetup
The Monrovia Rockhounds is a nonprofit organization interested in things related to rocks such as minerals, gems, fossils, lapidary, jewelry, and rock collecting since 1957. The Monrovia Rockhounds will meet on Thursday May 21st at 7:30 pm, in the basement of the United Methodist Church, 140 E. Palm Ave. in Monrovia. The program is by [...]
Pancakes!
Monrovia Fire Department held its annual pancake breakfast Saturday at which residents got to sample not only their culinary skills but also hone their own firefighting skills. Pictured here is Kevin Stern, 7, a student at Plymouth School who was getting some pointers on attacking a fire with a real fire hose. – Photo by [...]
