Silence is Golden: A Participant’s Perspective in the Speaking without Speaking Event
Silence is Golden: A Participant’s Perspective in the Speaking without Speaking Event By: Austin Sill ( Special to Beacon Media) Experience the full power of your voice, by staying completely silent. Starting on April 24, at 7 pm, young people all over the world took a 25-hour vow of silence to raise money and awareness [...]
Monrovia High School’s Once Upon A Mattress set for May Production
By Susan Motander The Monrovia High School Drama Department is staging the Once Upon A Mattress as its Spring Musical. The production is based on the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, The Princess and the Pea and was originally produced on Broadway with Carol Burnett in the lead. The MHS production will be given in [...]
Pasadena POPS Summer Series in Negotiations with Los Angeles County Arboretum for Upcoming Concerts Beginning in 2012
Pasadena POPS Summer Series in Negotiations with Los Angeles County Arboretum for Upcoming Concerts Beginning in 2012 The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden announced today that it will begin negotiations with the Pasadena Symphony Association to establish a contract to present summer concerts at its 127-acre site in Arcadia, beginning in 2012. [...]
Monrovia Weekly April 28, 2011
March DISARM nets 166 Arrests in Los Angeles County
MARCH DISARM SEARCHES NET 166 ARRESTS, 27 HANDGUNS, SIX RIFLES AND OVER $525,000 IN DRUGS AND DRUG MONEY LOS ANGELES COUNTY – During the month of March, D.I.S.A.R.M. Officers confiscated 27 guns and six rifles, over $525,000 in illegal drugs and drug money, and arrested 166 probationers during 1259 unannounced searches of residences, persons, vehicles, [...]
Monrovia High Football Player Arrested
Monrovia High School Football Player ( # 6) has been Arrested in Attempted Murder Case The Monrovia High School senior and football player pleaded not guilty Monday in Fontana Court to charges of attempted murder, robbery, possession of marijuana and possession of marijuana for sale. Derrick Johnson, 18, of Monrovia, was arrested last week following [...]
Power Outage Hits South Monrovia Monday Morning
About 675 Edison customers are without power when a main power line was disturbed by a squirrel at the corner of Duarte and Myrtle. Crews are on scene repairing the broken power line. Power is reported out at Sante Fe Middle school also as a result of this incident.
Monrovia Weekly April 21, 2011
Monrovia Resident Lou Carno, Well Known Horse Trainer, Passes at 90
Veteran trainer Lou Carno passed away at 5 a.m. Friday at the age of 90, according to his wife of 23 years, Kathy. Known on the backstretches of Chicago and California as “The Silver Fox,” Carno was seldom without his trademark cigar and biting wit. Carno was best known as the trainer of Victory Beauty, [...]
Monrovia Weekly April 14. 2011
