Mountain Views News          Saturday, December 18, 2010

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Mountain Views News Saturday, December 18, 2010

Holiday Food and Toy Distribution 

Sunday-Monday, December 19-20

Food box packing slated for Saturday as Foothill Unity Center prepares to share holiday 
cheer with 1,852 local families, including 2,988 children

Saturday, December 18: hundreds of volunteers who have worked for months to gather, 
sort and package food items and children’s toys and clothing for this event will go into 
overdrive. The goal: to get all food boxes packed and to set up the Arboretum’s Ayres 
Hall for the huge influx of clients expected to attend the two events. (Volunteers must be 
preregistered to participate.)

Sunday, December 19, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.: the Center will welcome families with children. 
2,988 youngsters are expected to attend this giant party, where they’ll do art projects 
with Paint ‘n Play; get goody bags from SimplyHelp and be entered in a drawing for 
special gifts like bicycles and iPods. The highlight of the day will be a chance to hobnob 
with Santa himself. Each family will take home a holiday food box, packed to family size, 
with a meat and the makings for a festive holiday dinner. Every family will also receive 
an opaque bag prepacked with new toys and clothing for each child. This allows parents 
to wrap the gifts and give them to their children as a part of their own holiday traditions 

Monday, December 20, 8 a.m. to 12 noon is reserved for adult clients.

Key sponsors of the event include 3M Unitek, A Foundation For Kids, Alverno High 
School, Arcadia Real Estate Professionals, AT&T, Cal Tech, Candy Cane String Lights, 
Century 21 Ludecke, Certified Grocers, Church of the Good Shepherd, City of Monrovia, 
Clairbourne School, Corporate Center Pasadena, Creative Woman, Inc., Curves, 
Domenico’s Monrovia, Duarte Promise, ELS The Outlet, First Presbyterian Church, Foothill 
Federal Credit Union, Foothill Gym, Foothill Unity Center Auxiliary, George Cassat, 
Georgina-Fredrick Childrens Foundation, Girl Scouts of the San Gabriel Valley, Gold 
Wind Road Riders Assn., Green Dot, Henry’s, Immaculate Conception, Jakks Pacific, 
Kaiser Permanente, Major Cart Service, Marshalls, Minuteman Transport, Model A Club, 
Monrovia Chamber of Commerce, Monrovia Unified School District, Monrovian Restaurant, 
PCL Construction Services Inc., Peach Café, Peter Hoffman, Pink Transfer, Santa 
Anita Church, Spark of Love, ABC7, StorBox, Street Rods Forever, The Gas Co., Verizon, 
Vons Employees and Wells Fargo Bank. 

Many of of the toys and clothing items were gathered through Foothill Unity Center’s 
Holiday Angel Program, which invites community members, businesses and organizations 
to “adopt” paper angels with children’s wish lists written on them. The program is 
co-chaired by volunteers Dottie Percy-Ward, Christi Anderson and Catherine May.

About Foothill Unity Center 

As the Community Action Agency for the Foothill Area, Foothill Unity Center, Inc. is the 
voice for the poor in our local communities. Operating with a small staff and a corps of 
dedicated volunteers, the non-denominational organization distributed over four million 
pounds of groceries to thousands of very low-income families last year. It also provides 
crisis and health services, clothing, limited motel vouchers, and referrals for the homeless 
and local people in need. Clients meet stringent income guidelines and are recertified 
annually. Foothill Unity Center, Inc. is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) corporation.

 For 30 years, the Center has been a community-based organization, relying on local individuals, 
businesses and organizations to support its work to help local people in need. 
Information on donating to or volunteering at the Center can be found at www.foothillunitycenter.
org and the Foothill Unity Center Facebook page.

Holiday Decorating Award Winner!


MOUNTAIN VIEWS NEWS WINNER: Best Neighborhood Decorations - Monrovia

DUARTE’S FIRST SNOW DAY WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 22ND 

Our partner THINK (Teaching, Helping, Inspiring & Nurturing Kids) Together the Duarte Unified School District 
after school program will bring a free snow day to Duarte youth 13 and under next Wednesday, December 
22nd from 11:00am to 1:00pm to kick off their winter school break. Twenty tons of snow will be brought into 
Duarte Park adjacent to Duarte’s Teen Center at (1400 Buena Vista St Duarte, CA 91010).

Children who might not have seen snow before will also have the opportunity to sled down a man made hill (sleds 
will be provided, do not bring your own sled). In order to keep everyone in the holiday spirit the event will have 
plenty of Christmas music and an ornament making workshop. THINK Together will also provide the first 300 
youth with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and Duarte Kiwanis will serve hot cocoa. 

Parents and youth will be able to interact with LA County Fire, LA County Sheriff, LA County Probation Department. 
Volunteer organizations making Duarte’s first Snow Day possible are Duarte’s Kiwanis, High School’s 
Duarte Area Resource Team (D.A.R.T.), and Middle School’s Caring Helping Youth Leading in Life (CHYLL). 

Parent’s and educators are also invited to attend a free Drug and Gang Awareness Workshop at the Teen Center 
from 12:00 to 1:00pm. 

For more information about Duarte’s Snow Day, please call Duarte Public Safety Crime Prevention Specialist Aida 
Torres at (626) 359-5671, ext. 316. 

The wall angel is made up of small angels, all decorated by volunteers. Kaiser 
Permanente volunteers did this wall. In the foreground are boxes of good from 
the 2009 Holiday food drive. Photo courtesy of Foothill Unity by Jon Didier

Duarte Seeking Volunteers for 2011 
Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count

 The City of Duarte is seeking volunteers to assist in the 2011 
Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count which will take place 
the nights of Jan. 25 through Jan. 27.

Volunteers can make an important impact in the lives of 
homeless men, women and children by assisting in the 
count effort. Data from the count is critical to addressing the 
complexities of homelessness and planning how best invest 
public resources, raise public awareness, identify the needs of 
homeless people, provide vital services to the homeless, and 
ultimately move families and individuals into housing. 

Every two years volunteers from across the nation hit the 
streets to better understand what homelessness looks like in 
their communities. Due to Los Angeles County’s size and 
population, the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is the 
largest in the nation. Some 4,000 volunteers will be required 
to make the count. 

Volunteers are teamed up, trained, given all needed supplies, 
and deployed to designated areas within the County to 
enumerate the homeless. Volunteers will be expected to 
devote approximately three hours of their time.

 For more information, visit http://theycountwillyou.
org/ or contact Kelly Koldus at (626) 357-7931 ext. 262. 

City of Duarte Awarded $70,000 
Grant for Disaster Planning

 The City of Duarte has been awarded 
a $70,000 grant for disaster planning 
from the California Department 
of Housing and Community 
Development (HCD). Funds will be 
used to update the City’s 2004 Natural 
Hazard Mitigation Plan, required to be 
updated every five years. Duarte will 
work with the California Emergency 
Management Agency (CalEMA) on the 
plan to ensure compliance with state 
law. The grant funds will also allow 
the City to supplement the Natural 
Hazard Mitigation Plan by adding a 
brush clearance program, as well as 
development of detailed geotechnical 
studies to better determine seismic 
hazard zones with the City of Duarte.

 For more information, contact 
the Duarte Community Development 
Department at (626) 357-7931, ext. 
262. 

Monrovia Police Blotter


During the last six day period, the Police Department handled 470 service events, 
resulting in 93 investigations. Following are the last week’s highlighted issues and events:

Vehicle Burglary
On December 3 at 7:51 a.m., an officer responded to the 200 block of East Colorado 
regarding a vehicle break-in. The victim had parked his vehicle in front of his residence 
in the evening and locked and set his alarm. He left the driver side window down about 
two inches. He returned to his vehicle in the morning at 7:45 a.m., and saw the driver 
side door open. He checked inside and determined several CD’s, approximately $10 in 
change, and the vehicle’s registration and insurance card were missing.

Grand Theft Auto / Vehicle Recovered
On December 3 at 9:34 a.m., an officer was dispatched to the 300 block of South 
Primrose regarding a stolen vehicle. The victim had parked and locked his vehicle on 
the street in the evening. He returned to his vehicle the next morning and found it was 
gone. He is in possession of the only key and no one had permission to take the vehicle. 
Late in the afternoon, a teletype was received from Baldwin Park Police Department 
advising that the vehicle had been recovered by their agency. An officer responded to 
the towing company to dust the vehicle for possible fingerprints.

Theft from a Vehicle
On December 3 at 9:39 a.m., an officer was dispatched to the 800 block of Valley View 
regarding a theft from a vehicle. The victim reported an iPod and a Blackberry phone 
charger were taken from her vehicle during the night. The victim did not know if the 
vehicle was locked. There were no signs of forced entry.

Vehicle Burglary
On December 4 at 9:38 a.m., an officer responded to a business in the 700 block of East 
Huntington on the report of vehicle burglary. The female victim parked and secured her 
vehicle in the parking lot and went inside at 7 a.m. She returned to her vehicle a short 
time later and saw a window was broken out and property was taken. 

Felony Vandalism - Suspect Arrested
On December 4 at 1:48 p.m., a caller reported her neighbors, a mother and son, were 
causing a disturbance. Officers responded to the residence in the 100 block of East 
Cherry and contacted them. The son had broken several windows on his mother’s 
vehicle. He was arrested for felony vandalism and was taken into custody.

Vehicle Burglary
On December 4 at 8:23 p.m., a female victim called to report her vehicle had been 
broken into while she was at a business in the 700 block of East Huntington. Unknown 
suspects smashed a window on her vehicle and took the victim’s purse from the front 
seat. 

Battery Report
On December 5 at 12:17 a.m., security at a business in the 300 block of South Myrtle 
was removing an intoxicated subject who was refused service. While being escorted out 
of the club, the subject struck one of the security officers. The subject was restrained 
by employees and sustained a small laceration to the back of the head. The subject 
was taken to a hospital for treatment of his injury. The establishment did not desire 
prosecution.

Commercial Grand Theft
On December 5 at 1:04 a.m., a resident from the 1400 block of California called police 
to report a suspicious subject inside the yard of a business in a green pickup truck. 
Officers responded to the location and observed the vehicle leaving the location. The 
suspect drove to a nearby alley, where he abandoned his vehicle and fled. Containment 
of the area was set up, and the suspect was found hiding on top of a storage container. 
Irwindale Police Department responded with a police canine unit and the suspect was 
taken into custody without further incident. Officers located stolen copper wire in the 
bed of the suspect’s vehicle. The suspect was arrested for grand theft.


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