Families Get Fit at the 2013 Run, Ride and Walk Event
By Chelsea Dickerson
June 3, 2013 • 127 views
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El Monte More than 90 residents took advantage of the sunny Spring weather to join the City of El Monte at the 2013 Family Fit Run, Ride and Walk event on Saturday, May 11. The event, hosted by the Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department in partnership with Bike SGV, was designed to encourage... Read more »
Little Green Oasis at Madrid Middle School
By Sherri Robbins, Amigos de los Rios
June 3, 2013 • 109 views
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El Monte For years, the roughly 850 students attending Madrid Middle School in El Monte called the area just past their back steps "the Bones." It was, literally, a dump – a no-man’s land between the school and an old metal factory littered with abandoned sofas, TVs, mattresses and other household... Read more »
Click It or Ticket Campaign
, By Chelsea Dickerson
June 3, 2013 • 111 views
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El Monte The El Monte Police Department will lend their support to the national Click it or Ticket Campaign running from May 20 to June 2. As travelers plan their Memorial Day holiday, El Monte Police urges all motorists to buckle up. "As we kick off the busy summer driving season, it is important... Read more »
Affair of the Heart
By Victoria Yu
June 3, 2013 • 71 views
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Arcadia High School On Mar. 16 at the 29th Annual Affair of the Heart dinner, ASB Accountant and previous Facilities Manager Mrs. Kathy Patterson was recognized, along with four other honorable figures at AHS, for their outstanding work of making AHS the wonderful place it is today. Directing the dinner... Read more »
Payne School Fifth Grader Earns 1000 Accelerated Reader Points
By Michele Earle
June 3, 2013 • 97 views
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El Monte Payne Elementary School sixth grader, Mineda Tour’s passion for books, and love of reading has catapulted her to the head of her school as she earned 1000 Accelerated Reader points in the school’s Accelerated Reader (AR) program. AR is a successful reading product from Renaissance Learning... Read more »
STUDENT’S CORNER
By Yesenia Melgar
June 3, 2013 • 38 views
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SUMMER AIR It will officially be summer on June 21, 2013, and just imagine what the temperatures will be! It’s the perfect time to go swimming, or hang out at the beach with our friends causing mayhem, and enjoying one another as many of us will be moving on to a fast paced year. Either way, we are... Read more »
SCUBA Show 2013
June 3, 2013 • 238 views
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Long Beach The SCUBA Show, America’s Largest Consumer Dive Expo, will take place June 8-9, 2013 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. It is the 26th year of this popular event. The show will consist of 76,000 square feet of diving related exhibits including new and revolutionary... Read more »
Fifth Annual Long Beach Funk Festival
By Julie Meigs Korinke
June 3, 2013 • 224 views
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Long Beach The culture and sustainability series Summer And Music (SAM) announced exciting acts for its fifth annual Long Beach Funk Fest (LBFF), which will take place Saturday, July 6, from noon to 11 p.m. at the Downtown Long Beach Promenade (east of Pine Avenue between 1st & 3rd Streets). 2013... Read more »
Los Angeles International Fern Society
June 3, 2013 • 300 views
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LAIFS FERN AND EXOTIC PLANT SHOW & SALE June 8 2013, Saturday - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. & June 9, Sunday 9 am to 3pm Sunday For the last 45 years LAIFS, the Los Angeles International Fern Society, has put on a show that is open to the public. The juried show will have around 250 rare and exotic... Read more »
Memorial Day Annual Clean Up a Great Success
By Janice Wiggins White
June 3, 2013 • 64 views
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El Monte We want to thank everyone that was there to help up clean up the Savannah cemetery and get it ready for our Memorial Day Ceremony. Thank you, Detective Larry Fry and the Community Service Workers from El Monte, for showing up and cleaning around the headstones. They have done a great job... Read more »
