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Sometime in the very near future, when a police officer stops you for a traffic ticket, you’ll be videotaped. The question is, will you also be seen later on You Tube?

Law enforcement agencies throughout the San Gabriel Valley are looking at plac-ing video cameras or “body cams” on the chest of officers. Currently, many police cars have dash -cameras, which automati-cally turn on when the emergency red lights are turned on.

If your image winds up on You Tube, it’s not likely that the police will be respon-sible for exposing your actions. More than likely the filming will be done by yourself (a selfie), your companion, of maybe some-one else nearby.

That’s because anyone with a smart phone has video capability. Once you take a video, you can easily email it, post it to Twitter it or load it up on You Tube.

While Los Angeles Police Department and the Sheriff’s Department have been ex-perimenting with body cams for some time now, local law enforcement agencies such as Monterey Park and San Gabriel are tak-ing a close look at them too.

Monterey Park Police Chief Jim Smith said city funds have already been budget-ed about $80,000 for purchasing of Body Cams. Most of the money comes from asset forfeiture funds which police share when there is a big drug bust.

Most police agencies have been study-ing the use of body cams long before the police shooting in Ferguson, Mo.

Most agencies favor a small battery power camera that is attached to the front of a police officer’s body.

San Gabriel Chief John Lawton states that they are looking at one body camera that automatically downloads when the officer returns to the police station. If the officer travels back-and-forth to the street or the station, the camera downloads au-tomatically using a WiFi link to a main server.

In a manual system, the police officer will probably have to take off his camera and place it on a docking unit to download the video.

There is also an issue with developing procedures and a bureaucracy for storing and adequately indexing videos so that they can be readily accessed during the legal process. More than likely, the videos will not be available to anyone while an in-vestigation is still on going.

After an investigation is complete, however, the videos might be available through what is called a “PRA” or a Public Records Act request submitted by anyone including lawyers, local news reporters, TMZ or a curious neighbor.

Law enforcement officials are praying that the legislature may some day initiate some kind of legislation that will relieve this burden.

So you don’t think this will be a prob-lem for you? Let’s say you own a small business and someone is accidentally in-

Let the Celebrations Begin!LUNAR NEW YEAR

Lunar New Year celebrations will be held in three local cities this Febru-ary with Monterey Park’s celebration, “the Grand Daddy of them all’ expanded on Garvey Avenue to both east and west sides of Garfield Avenue.

The cities of Alhambra and San Ga-briel join in the celebrations observing the Lunar New Year.

While Monterey Park will lead off the celebrations with a two-day festival on Garvey Avenue on February 7 and 8, San Gabriel has scheduled their fiesta on Sunday, Feb. 15 and Alhambra on Satur-day, Feb. 21.

Over the years it has also called the Lantern Festival and Chinese New Year Festival. Most celebrations are now called “Lunar New Year” celebrations to reflect the diversity of Asian cultures.

This year is being observed as the Year of the Goat. The Goat comes 8th in the Chinese zodiac. The 12 zodiac animals are: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig.

According to one Internet source, people born in a year of

the Goat are generally believed to be gen-tle mild-mannered, shy, stable, sympathet-ic, amicable, and brimming with a strong sense of kindheartedness and justice.

Monterey Park boasts the longest continues running and largest Lunar Year Festival in the San Gabriel Valley.

Celebrations will start on Saturday, Feb. 7 and feature 250 booths along seven blocks of Garvey Avenue between Alham-bra Avenue and Ramona Street.

The event will have two entertain-ment stages, a flower market, two stages, carnival rides, and many food and games booths for children of all ages.

This year’s organizing sponsor is the World Journal Chinese Language News-paper, which has a contract with the city

of Monterey Park.Free Parking and shuttle bus service will be offered at several

locations including Ynez Elementary School, Mark Keppel High School and El Repetto Elementary School.

Admission is free to the celebration, which goes from 10 a.m. (Continued on Page 5)

Police Body Cameras - See You on You Tube?

Dashboard cameras have been in-stalled by many police departments, such as Monterey Park, for more than a decade.

The only question that still remains about cameras placed on police officers is which type or technology is going to be purchased. You can buy a pen that takes videos or even an attachment for eyeglass-es.

One of the key issues being reviewed by law enforcement is procedure such as who and when a camera is turned on and turned off. What if an officer forgets to turn on a camera and something happens? What if he forgets to turn it off and the battery dies? There are a variety of technologies that can be used to turn on a camera auto-matically.

HappyNew Year

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January 2015

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Many people do not read newspapers because they do not know how to. Their parents may not have read newspapers because they had to work two jobs to support the family and didn’t have time. As a result, many of today’s Generation X or the latest generation did not have any newspaper reading -role models. First of all you do not need a computer or a smart phone. You do not need electricity - but you do need light, either artificial or sunlight. What you also need is a lap or table to support the newspaper. If you don’t have either one, just hold it open with your hands. If it’s a small publication like the Journal, you just need a small lap and a pair of hands. You can sit on a bench, in a car in a bus or just stand anywhere. HOW TO START: Some people start reading a news-paper from the back page and then work their way to the front. Some people start on the front-page move to the back. Some people start in the middle, also known as the “center fold.” Either way is okay. SECOND: scan the headlines and check out the pic-tures. If you see an inviting headline, we suggest you read the first paragraph, or lead. If it still interests you, continue reading it until you read the whole thing. If you want to share it with your family or friends, you don’t have to push any keys. You just yell out,” Hey Look at this,” or later on ask your friends, “did you read that article in the Journal.” THREE - It’s also good to have a pair of scissors handy to cut out interesting pictures or stories (you don’t have to scan them and save them which clutters your computer memory.) For especially memorable articles, you can simply post them on your personal bulletin board or the bulletin board in your work location. Please don’t spend a half-an-hour to digitally scan, edit and post on some Facebook type of site. That may irritate some of your friends. FOUR: As you scan the pages, keep a lookout for your favorite column such as Beachcomber (my column) or “Point of Law” written by Monty Manibog. You might also check for puzzles. Some newspapers with larger staffs even have res-taurant reviews, movie reviews and, believe it or not - BOOK REVIEWS. FIVE: CHECK OUT THE ADS: You should also check out the paid ads because there might be a bargain that you want. Or, check out the list of service providers such as a plumber or a dentist, in the business directory because you may eventually need their service. Unlike computer-based systems, you can always come back to them. They will stay on the same page and won’t go away to cyber heaven. SIX: Sharing: if you are reading the Sunday Times, you can share quite a bit. Unlike computers, reading a newspa-per is not a solitary activity, although some people prefer peace and quiet. As you read the sports section, the other person can read about movies or politics in another section. After you finish, trade the sections, or read another section. After you finish reading the newspaper, don’t throw it away! Fold it neatly in case someone in the family wants to read it. Be careful though, because if you have cut out any stories or pictures, they will want to see them. After you are sure you have now more use for the newspaper, it has a second life! Used newspapers can be re-cycled and they are biodegradable. You can wrap the garbage with newsprint because elec-tric garbage disposals never do a 100% job. You can also use it to cover the bottom of the birdcage for you know what. If you have any other suggestions on how to read a printed newspaper, please share them with us. (Please note: this is a draft and I want to add you suggestions.)

Point of Law

Attorney G. Monty Manibog

Terrorists AttackFreedom of Speech

(Editor’s note: Former Monterey Park Mayor, G. Monty Manibog is a regular columnist offering legal tips and perspec-tives to Journal readers.)

Among the universal human rights recognized and protected in the Free World is the freedom of expression, to freely express your views on any subject, the only limitation being that speech that is designed encourage rebellion, sedition or criminal activities.

The right is recognized and protected by the U.S. Constitu-tions 1st amendment.

Radical Islamic terrorists struck again after the New Year on January 3rd with deadly results, attacking and killing 17 people including 12 at the Paris offices of the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo,” long a target of extrem-ists for mocking Islam.

Cutting a swatch of terror through the French Capital for three days, including a running gun battle with police, the three male terrorists were killed and the fourth, a female escaped and is now believed to be in Syria.

These murders were not for political or material gain, but strictly as revenge for literary at-tacks on Islam – extremist Islam, and also to stifle free speech. As a result of those shocking mur-der, almost four million people rallied in Paris in support of the magazine and the slain reporters. Many wore and carried signs” I am Charlie,” identifying with the satirical magazine known for poking fun at and criticizing well-known personalities and groups.

By criticizing extremist Is-lam, however, the magazine drew the wrath and deadly attacks, but infuriating and stirring strong popular sentiments that brought a staggering rally for almost four million people in Pairs, including 17 world leaders from Europe, Africa and elsewhere. Prime Min-ister David Cameron of Britain, President Merkel of Germany and other world leaders marched in solidarity, arm-in-arm, with mil-lions supporting the victims and the right of free speech.

Noticeably “missing in ac-tion” among the many heads of states attending the rally was U.A> President Obama who has even refused to use the terms “ex-tremist” or “radical” in any refer-ence to Islam. This has angered and stymied many in the West.

What is Obama’s problem?

Aren’t Islamists who murder and terrorize people extremists? Radi-cals?

While there are other good grounds, this is the strongest case for impeachment – his posi-tion on Islamic terrorism and the grief and destruction they have wrought.

Guys and gals, c’mon, get that impeachment ball rolling and spread out those petitions for impeachment for presentation to Congress, which alone has the power to impeach a president.

America and the free world cannot afford Obama’s leader-ship.

Monterey Park has unveiled a new Internet tool to help residents and other interested people dig in to the city’s finances including expenses and revenue categories, as well as the city budgets for the last four years.

According to a city press re-leased, the city has “implemented a new online financial tool that allows users to access multiple years of budgetary data and drill down into data more convenient-ly than ever.”

The software for the program was purchased from “OpenGov” software company, in the Bay area. Cost to the city is about $8,000 a year – a bargain by to-day’s software costs.

Monterey Park is one of the few government agencies in Southern California that uses the OpenGov program. The city of Sierra Madre and the Hacienda Heights Unified School District also use the OpenGov program.

The website says the “site is designed to help you understand how the City of Monterey Park, CA spends and receives money.

The public can get into the on-line tool by going to the city web-site at www.montereypark.ca.gov. and searching for“finance”and then clicking on the “Financial Data Transparency Tool.”

This writer looked into the Parks department expense and found that the current budget is $982,986. By clicking on prior years, you find out that the budget for 2012-13 was $853,364. The information was provided in vari-ous forms including a pie chart and a table.

City Unveils New FinanceTransperancyTool

Emily Wu Truong is a Tai-wanese American Community Activist for Mental Health Aware-ness will be a guest speaker for the LAMP Optimist when they meet Saturday, Jan. 17 in the commu-nity room at Monterey Park City Hall.

Meeting starts at 8:45 a.m. with a continental breakfast fol-lowed by a brief business meeting and the guest speaker.

Truong San Gabriel Valley. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology & Social Behavior from the University of California, Irvine. She is the the newly elect-ed Chair of the Asian Coalition of the LACDMH & Chair of Event Programming at NAMI San Ga-briel Valley.

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Double Tree Hotel Project Gets Top Billing

jured on your property. Or may-be you are involved in a family squabble. If the police are called out, they will be video taping the scene and interviews. If there are any lawsuits involved, the law-yers will be lining up for a copy of the video.

There is also the issue of the camera angle. If you have ever seen a challenge call at a football game on television, officials look at the action by using many cam-era angles. Only after seeing all the angles, do they make a final determination.

A camera on a policeman’s chest records only what is in front of him.

A couple of years ago, a po-lice officer delivered a baby that came too early in the bathroom of a small apartment. If he had worn a camera, the entire process would have been video taped. No crime was committed and there is no investigation so the video would be available.

Can you visualize it now on TV news: “Cop delivers baby, news and film at 11 p.m.”

Unlike neighboring cities and school districts, Rosemead and Monterey Park incumbents will have competition for the City Council posts for municipal elections scheduled in March.

Two incumbents in Rosemead and three in Monterey Park will face opposition for the highly prized positions of council members where they get to solve all of the city’s problems and lead them into the new century.

In Monterey Park, incumbents Anthony Wong, Mitchell Ing and Theresa Real Sebastian are seeking re-election. Delario Robinson, Ste-phen Lam and Joe Avila will oppose them.

In the neighboring city of Alhambra, only one candidate opposed an incumbent seeking re-election. Another Alhambra candidate was automatically re-elected because he was un-opposed in his district.

While Robinson is a Post Office executive and president of the Monterey Park Democratic Club, Lam is a downtown businessman who previously ran unsuccessful for City Treasurer. Joe Avila, who describes himself as a handy man, has frequently run city council un-successfully.

In Rosemead, incumbents Polly Low and William Alarcon are fac-ing Rosendo Plasencia and Janet Chin. Plasencia is a professional ac-cess compliance specialist with the L.A. Unified School District. Chin serves on the Garvey School Board and is communications director for State Senator Ed Hernandez.

Polly Low is seeking re-election to her third term on the Council. Alarcon is currently serving as mayor and is a long-time resident of the city.

ARTIST RENDERING of Double Tree Hotel as it would appear on Atlantic Boulevard.

Monterey Park City Planning Commission gave a tentative green light to a major Double Tree Hotel proposed for the site of a former restaurant on North Atlantic Boulevard.

Developers are hoping to construct a six-story, 180-room Double Tree Hotel at the site of the former Sunday Café at 220 N. Atlantic Blvd. Boulevard.

The project came before the City Planning Commission for ap-proval at a public hearing held on Tuesday, Jan. 13. The project will come back to the Planning Commissioner on January 27 for final ap-proval.

Planning Commissioner Mike Hamner gave the hotel high rat-ing and commented about the design and layout of the project. With the blessing of the Planning Commission, the Double Tree Hotel moves to the to the top of the list of several major hotel projects that are being built in the West San Gabriel Valley to accommodate thousands of annual tourists expected here from throughout Asia and the rest of the world.

Tim Powell, vice president for development for the Hilton Hotels, owners of Double Tree Hotels, told the commission that they have full confidence in the success of the project because of the pent-up demand for a three or four-star hotel in Monterey Park. The company has three other hotels in the area.

“There is significant demand in the market,” for this type of hotel, he said.

The Double Tree Hotels are well known world wide to travelers for their quality accommodations and nightly gift of tasty chocolate chip cookies to hotel guests.

The site is bordered on the north by the Bank of Ameri-ca and a 99 Ranch Market on the south. Directly to the east of the site is the six-story Lions Manor senior residential building. Yung Kau, a well-known local architect, on behalf of Hilton Ho-tels, is leading the project’s proponents. Kau is requesting the City Planning Commission approve a Precise Plan and condi-tional use permit to construct and operate the Double Tree Hotel. Monterey Park officials have been long trying to have a national-brand hotel located in the city. Besides bringing prestige to the city, major hotel projects can provide several hundred thousands of dollars in new revenues every year to the cash-strapped city.

The proposed Double Tree Hotel would plug a long-va-cant 1.2-acre site left by the departure of the Sunday Café sev-eral years ago. A previously proposed mixed-use project with ground floor commercial and 200 condo homes was never built. The Double Tree Hotel proposal is one of three hotel proposals along North Atlantic Boulevard being considered by the city.

Also planned in Monterey Park is the A&G (Atlantic and Garvey) project at the southwest corner of that busy intersection. A third hotel -- Courtyard Marriott Hotel has been proposed at the northwest cor-ner of Atlantic Boulevard and Hellman Avenue in Monterey Park. San Gabriel also has approved a major hotel project on Valley Boulevard While the A&G Hotel has gotten approval from the city, residents and officials from neighboring Alhambra are carefully review-ing the Courtyard Marriott. Over the years, the Alhambra neighbors have been concerned with the impact of traffic on their community. At the same meeting, the City Planning Commission initial gave thumbs down on a proposed conversion of a gasoline station at the

southeast corner of Atlantic Boulevard and Garvey Avenue to an office building to house a proposed Wells Fargo Bank.

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Monday, February 9th at 7:00 P.M. Monterey Park Rotary Founda-tion will co-sponsor a City Council Candidates’ Forum in the Monterey Park City Council Chambers, 320 W. Newmark Avenue.

The three incumbent City Council candidates and the three chal-lengers have all been invited to participate in the Forum, which the League of Women Voters will moderate. The Candidates’ Forum is also being co-sponsored by the Monterey Park Journal.

Rotary International is the oldest service organization in the world.

Rotary Club Sponsors MPkCandidates Forum on Feb. 9

The Monterey Park Chamber of Commerce will partner with East Los Angeles College ot sponsor a city council candidates forum on Tuesday, February 3, 6 p.m. at East Los Angeles College.

The six candidates running for three seats on the council have been invited to participate in the event. This event is free and open to the public. For more information on the candidate forum contact Deana Sewell at (626) 570-9429 or Deana@MPKChamber.org

MPk Chamber SlatesCandidates Forum, Feb. 3

Army Pvt. Andrew G. More-no has graduated from basic com-bat training at Fort Jackson, Co-lumbia, S.C.

He completed nine weeks of training.Moreno is the son of Wendy V. Corona and step-son of Fredrick P. Luna of Alhambra, Calif. He is a 2013 graduate of Mark Keppel High School, Al-hambra, Calif.

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The Monterey Park Woman’s Club will celebrate the 100th anniversary of their foundingat a special event on Febru-ary 25, 2015 at the Service Club House at 1:00 p.m.

MPWC has participated in community wide events and expanded to contribute to non- profit agencies that serve the people in the city and surrounding areas. Atten-dance at the special celebration is open to the public and those wishing to attend may call 626-282-9210.

One of the early projects for the club was establishing the first library that con-tinued until the Bruggemeyer Library was built. At that time the club donated their collection of books to them. Over the years the club has participated in Play Days, the Cherry Blossom Festival, the Fourth of July Event, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer and most recently the new Gera-nium Festival.

The Woman’s Club was formed in 1915 a group of women met in what was then Ramona Acres and a discussion led to the founding of the club.

The Club changed its name to the Monterey Park Woman’s Club when Monterey Park became a city a year later. They established the motto “Work For Some Good” in service to the city. This remains the goal of the club until this day.

Through the years the club has sup-ported Merci, the Boys and Girls Club, Li-brary events, the purchasing of one dog for the MPPD Canine Patrol, with additional

Womans’ Club to Celebrate 100th Year

financial help in support of that program; supported the Mark Keppel Choirs with Music Scholarships and contributions to their program; supporting AAUW Tech Trek with funds for a seventh grade local girl to attend a summer STEM camp on a University Campus; donating toys for the Spark of Love Programs with the MPFD and worked with them in getting Defribu-lators installed in public places.

During war time the women rolled ban-dages, knitted socks and volunteered with both the Red Cross and the USO Programs and have donated to Veteran needs. Many additional projects involving financial help or volunteering have changed as time and conditions have changed but the one con-stant is that the motto of the Monterey Park Woman’s Club of “Work For Some Good” has continued to be upheld.

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LEADERS of the Woman’s Club at at recent meeting. Courtesy Photo

Rosemead, CA—Dr. Jackie Filla, As-sistant Professor of History/Political Sci-ence at Mount St. Mary’s College, will present information from the college’s annual study on the status of women and girls in California.

The presentation will be made at the Joint Winter Conference of the Valley Sunset and Sierra Mar Business and Pro-fessional Women on Saturday, January 31, 2015 at the DoubleTree Hotel Restaurant, 888 Montebello Blvd., Rosemead

The meeting starts at 9:00 A.M. with Dr. Filla being the luncheon speaker. The conference and luncheon is open to all interested people. There is no registra-tion cost for guests, but the cost of the luncheon is $30. Call or E-mail Marjory Hopper (562) 699-6288 or mjhop6334@aol.com to make a reservation or for ques-tions.

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Author to Speak at LibraryNorm Stevens, a local resident, will

be giving a talk on Sunday, February 8, at 2:00 p.m. at the M.P. Library about his new book, “Seeking More of the Sky: Growing Up in the l930’s”

The free program will be in the Friends Room at the library located at 318 S. Ra-mona Street.

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to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 7 and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 8 SAN GABRIELCity of San Gabriel will hold its first annual Lunar New Year Festival, on Sunday,

Feb. 15 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the historic Mission District.The festival will be held on Mission Drive and feature an outdoor stage to be located

in front of the Mission Playhouse. The event will feature live entertainment, food trucks, a beer and wine garden and a street festival with booths for merchants and local busi-nesses and restaurants.

KCM Communications was hired recently by the City of San Gabriel to organize the celebration.

ALHAMBRAAlhambra’s Lunar New Year celebration will be held on Saturday, Feb. 21 and begins with a three-week art exhibit at the Alhambra City Hall. The main celebration is a one-day street festival on Valley Blvd., the heart of the City’s Chinese commercial district in the San Gabriel Valley. The festival’s attendance has increased steadily over the years, now averaging 25,000 according to K&K Communications, organizers of the event.

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World Journal Sponsors2-day Lunar Fest in MPk

World Journal Los Angeles, the city of Monterey Park and the Business Im-provement District Advisory Committee of Monterey Park are co-produce this lunar New Year celebration in the city.

.The festival will be expanded from using five street blocks in 2014 to seven street blocks in 2015, making it the larg-est free street event anywhere in Southern California. In celebrating lunar New Year, it also honors and showcases various cul-tural elements of Southern California.

More than 250 booths will be occu-pied by merchants, organizations and food

vendors in addition to the two stages set up for performing arts presented by scores of groups. The festival will run from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday.

There will be on-site games and activ-ities such as the “Touch the Lucky Wind-mill” and “Get Red Envelopes,” “Mobile Phone Photo Contest” and “Pet Show,” “Kids Fun Game Zone” and “Carnival Rides,” “Lanterns Display” and “Flower Market.”

The most exciting event will be the continuous Lucky Draw of hundreds of prizes, including TV sets, air tickets and many more.

Finalists of the 3rd L.A. Voice sing-ing competition will show their talents and compete for the top places and prizes be-fore an audience of visitors from different parts of Southern California.

The sponsoring group said more than 200,000 visited the two-day festival in Monterey Park in 2014.

City of Alhambra and Chamber of Commerce will host annual Alhambra Lu-nar New Year festival and carnival will be held on Saturday, February 21, 2015 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The festival has more than 200 booths stretching over five city blocks from Gar-field Ave. to Almansor Street on Valley Blvd.

On the entertainment stage, there will be all-day entertainment with folk dance performances and kung-fu demonstra-tions.

Ringing in the New Year, the energetic Lion Dance will be performed at the Wells Fargo outdoor stage.

Admission is free. Parking will be on the streets and nearby shopping centers.

For more event information or joining as a vendor, contact Pinki Chen at kkev-ent@sbcglobal.net (626) 395-9995.

Alhambra PlansLunar New Year Event on Feb. 21

San Gabriel Plans Festival on Feb. 21

San Gabriel will hold its first annual Lunar New Year Festival, on Sunday, Feb. 15 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the historic Mission District.

The festival will be held on Mission Drive and feature an outdoor stage to be located in front of the Mission Playhouse.

The event will feature live entertain-ment, food trucks, a beer and wine garden and a street festival with booths for mer-

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2525. www.Sangabrielchamber.org.Montebello Chamber of Commerce: (323) 721-

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Monterey Park, 318 S. Ramona St. (626) 307-1333. www.ci.monterey-park.ca.us/library

Rosemead, 8800 Valley Blvd., Rosemead (626) 573-5220. www.colapublib.org/libs/rosemead.

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Alhambra Public Library; 101 S. 1st St. Alhambra (626) 5008. www.alhambralibrary.org.

Montebello Library: 1550 W. Beverly Blvd. Montebello. (323) 722-6551. www.colapublib.org/montebello.

East Los Angeles Public Library: 4837 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, (323) 264-0155.

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Auto RepairsCSC Tire & Auto Service2101 W. Valley Blvd., Alhambra Ave. (626) 281-

2501.Rick’s Auto Service. 705 Monterey Pass Road,

Monterey Park. (323) 269-1354.

LAMP Optimist Club. Meets twice monthly at Monterey Park City HallFor meeting information call (626) 572-7450.

Eastside Optimist Club. Meets monthly at local restaurants. For meeting information call (626) 282-9210

Rosemead Kiwanis. Meets on Thursdays at noon in meeting room of the Church of the Open Bible, 7915 Hellman Ave., Rosemead. For meeting information call ( 626) 572-7450.

Monterey Park Kiwanis Club. Meets Weekly at Capital Seafood Restaurant, 755 Garvey Ave., mnterey Park. For meeting information call (626) 840-5240.

Monterey Park Lions Club: Meets weekly at Lions Manor, 215 N. Chandler.. For Information call 626) 428-1877.

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Police seek indenity of burglary suspect, above, who was photographed by security cameras.

Monterey Park Police Department is distrib-uting a photo of a man and woman who may have been involved in a residential burglary on January 12, 2015 between the hours of 10:15 and 10:30 a.m., in the 700 block of Ridgecrest Street.

The suspects were captured on security cam-eras committing the burglary.

Suspect number one is described as a female Hispanic or white, 18-25 years of age, 5-foot-3 to 5-foot-5, thin build, with brown/red shoulder length hair, and light skin. Suspect two is de-scribed as a male Hispanic, 5-foot-5 to 5-foot-7, heavy set, and dark complexion.

Lt. Bill Cuevas said the Monterey Park Po-lice department is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the suspects depicted in the photo-graphs.

“If you know the persons in the photographs or have information regarding this case we urge you to contact the Monterey Park Police Depart-ment Detective Bureau at 626-307-1226 or the on duty watch commander at 626-307-1200,” the city press release stated.

The Monterey Park Police Department re-minded all residents to secure all windows and doors when they will be away from their home and report suspicious activity, persons, and vehicles to their local police department.

Police Seek Burglars TargetingLocal Homes

Monterey Park & West Valley JournalJanuary 2015 Page 7

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Mayor Liang, Mayor Pro-Tem Chan, Councilmembers Ing, Real Sebastian and Wong:

My apologies for poor time management as a speaker on the Master Bicycle Plan speaker on last Wednesday’s (12/3) Coun-cil agenda. Unfortunately, what I presented was probably less important than what I didn’t get to. You may remember I said I would be back tomorrow. Well this is “tomorrow.”

As I recall, I left you in Amsterdam, trying to make the point that developing safe bicycle routes in built up areas is a huge challenge requiring great creativi-ty. What I didn’t get to was a con-cern I share with Councilmember Real Sebastian: bike trails on hilly streets.

To its credit, Monterey Park is composed largely of view pro-viding hills: great for looking

out the window; not so great for bicycle navigation. When Coun-cilmember Real Sebastian noted that, the Bike-SGV speaker sug-gested that electric bicycles were the future and that those would mitigate the hill climbing prob-lem. That may or not be. I suggest that for now, though, bike routes be designed around safety and inclusiveness. And in that regard, I further suggest that among the first routes approved should be one that circles Monterey Park.

The route shown in the at-tachment is relatively flat and is 10.6 miles in length. It goes up Potrero Grande to Del Mar, then north to Graves, west to New, north to Hellman, west to Chan-dler, south to Garvey, west to Monterey Pass, southwest to Flo-ral, east on Floral to Collegian, a couple of blocks south to Chavez/Riggin, East to Fulton, 2 blocks down to Markland and east from there back to Potrero. To provide a very secure enhanced Class 2 bicycle lane we might want to consider making Hellman a one way street for automobiles, dedi-cating one auto lane to bicycles.*

Having an enhanced, rela-tively flat circumference route connecting directly with a repre-sentative aggregation of the City’s streets provides us the options necessary to develop a safe bicy-cle network within the city.**

To get a sense of how well the route would serve us, it would be terrific to institute it for the an-nual Earth Day ride.

* Potential bonus: Having a bike lane on Hellman could cause Alhambra residents to use it and encourage construction of Alhambra

routes connecting to it.**Actually a small part of

the route, between Potrero Grande and Graves, would be in County territory and require M.P.

negotiations with that entity. That shouldn’t be much of a problem since the intent of the Master Plan is to encourage inter-

jurisdictional connec-tions and, as I read it, County-Monterey Park route connections are not yet proposed.

Terry De Wolfe, Monterey Park resident and bicylist

Commentary on City’s Bicycle PlanEditor’s Note: The following is a continuation of a commentary regarding the proposed City Bicycle Plan addopted by the Cty Council recently.

Two leading Monterey Park residents will be honored February 26 as “People Who Make a Difference,” the annual awards event sponsored by the Monterey Park Democratic Club.

This year’s honorees will be Janet K. Yu, a trustee on the Monterey Park Library Board, and Christ Reyes, a life-long Monterey Park residents and city employee.

Rosemary Reidy, chair of this year’s event, said nominees for the non-partisan Democratic Club award must be city residents and cannot be club members or elected officials.

Reyes and Yu will be honored at a dinner scheduled February 26 at the NBC Seafood Restaurant in Monterey Park. Dinner seats are available at $35 per person and may be reserved by contacting Reidy at (626) 232-8475 or (626) 459-9011. Her email address is rosemarytu@gmail.com.

In addition to the to the award dinner, the two recipients will also have their names placed on an honor banner which hangs in the city Library. Janet Yu, and her family have lived in Monterey Park for more than 24 years. She is married to Charles and they have a son, Andrew, a student at Mark Keppel High School.

Besides serving on the Library Board she is also active with the Mark Keppel PTSA, Boy Scouts and LAMP Optimist Club. Her prior service has included a number of community programs.

Chris Reyes has been employed by the City of Monterey Park for 20 years and currently is Superintendent of Parks. He was vice president and past president of the Monterey Park General Employ-ees Association for over a 16-year period. He has also been involved as a volunteer in many community projects over the years.

He graduated from Don Bosco Technical Institute with an AA degree in business management. His son Christopher Jr. is also a Don Bosco alumnus. His mother, Mary Louise Reyes is also a Monterey Park resident.

Demos to Honor Janet Yu,Chris Reyes at Anual Event

By Susie LingChinese Historical SocietyThe Chinese Historical

Society of Southern Califor-nia (CHSSC) just released their 37th issue of Gum Saan Jour-nal, featuring “Voices of the San Gabriel Valley.”

“San Gabriel Valley seems always changing, always on the move,” said CHSSC Presi-dent Don Loo. Through a se-ries of seven articles featuring community-minded political and educational leaders, Gum Saan Journal documents some of these recent changes.

Dr. Loo continues, “It was in the 1980s that the cities of the San Gabriel Valley were first identified as Chinese American ethnoburbs – or ethnic suburbs. Monterey Park was nicknamed ‘the first suburban Chinatown’ and ‘Man-darin Park.’

But there are many nuances to the San Gabriel Valley experi-ence. The 626 region (area code of the San Gabriel Valley) is more than just boba and ethnic restau-rants.”

Professor Susie Ling of Pasa-dena City College adds, “San Ga-briel Valley’s Chinese American population is very diverse.

There are people like the Lowe family that has lived in Pasadena for five generations and there are new illegal immigrants; there are multi-million McMan-sions and there are overcrowded apartment neighborhoods; there

are students headed for Harvard and there are parachute kids who work hard to get straight F grades.”

One of the featured articles is by Robert S. Joe, incoming mayor of South Pasadena. Robert Joe’s father immigrated from Canton in 1930 through Angel Island. Joe said, “Each community [in the San Gabriel Valley] is unique.

That the cities are unique and different is not a bad thing; it makes life more interest-ing. There are always new tech-nological trends and new social concerns. The ethnic composi-tion of the San Gabriel Valley is not the only change.”

An illustration of this chang-ing ethnic dynamics is at one of the most important social service agencies, the Asian Youth Center (AYC), in the City of San Ga-briel.

Ken Tcheng, born in Laos, is Board President of this 25-year old Center and on the San Gabriel School Board. He said, “AYC serves youth and their families in Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnam-ese, Spanish, and English.

Approximately 43% of our clients are of Asian Pacific de-scent, and about 35% are of La-tino descent.” Dr. Cathy Wei of PCC shows another example of multi-ethnic dynamics, “Our Global Club on campus recently showcased Chinese opera singers juxtaposed to Italian opera sing-ers. We had a student show with

Chinese folk dancing and Latin salsa dancing; everybody had fun.”

Another article in Gum Saan Journal features David Yuen, president of the Greater San Gabriel Valley Lodge of the Chinese American Citizens Alli-ance, and a resident of Rowland Heights. C.A.C.A. was estab-lished in 1895 to protect civil rights of Chinese Americans. Yuen said, “It is an interesting time for Chi-nese Americans. Our lodge has members of Caucasian and Mexi-can descent. We are allies with other Asian Americans.”

“The Chinese Histori-cal Society’s mission is to promote interest and under-standing of Chinese Ameri-cans,” said the Society’s president, Dr. Don Loo.

“This is not easy as the contemporary dynamics of Chinese American commu-nities metamorphosize with new global realities.

There are economic and sociopolitical variables to be studied. We cannot live with old stereotypes.”

For more information about the Chinese Histori-cal Society or its Gum Saan Journal, see www.chssc.org.

Chinese Historical SocietyCompletes Annual Journal

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