Mountain Views News          Saturday, June 14, 2014

SECTION BSATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2014 
AROUND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY 
SECTION BSATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2014 
AROUND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY 
TEAM AMERICAN ROCKETRY CHALLENGE FINALISTS 


Troop Leader Jossalyn Emslie, Madeline Emslie, Supervisor Antonovich, Hannah Kim, 
Vienna Murillo 

LOS ANGELES COUNTY — Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich recognized mem-bers of the San 
Gabriel Valley Girls Scouts Troop 353 for advancing to the national finals of the Team American 
Rocketry Challenge finals. 

Co-sponsored by NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, the Team American Rocketry 
Challenge is an annual model rocket competition for students in grades 7 to 12. Started in 


Made possible with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the Los Angeles County Department 
of Public Health. 
Drifting Secondhand 
Smoke Affects 
Everyone! 
The poisonous chemicals in secondhand tobacco smoke 
affect any and everything it comes in contact with, 
including your children and pets. You and your loved 
ones deserve a clean air environment, with protection 
from unwanted secondhand tobacco smoke in your home 
and community. 
Join the Coalition for Clean Air Residential 
Environments (C.A.R.E.) of Sierra Madre. For a 
cleaner, safer, and healthier community. 
For more information, contact: 
caresierramadre@gmail.com 
(626) 229-9750 
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY ADDS 12,240


JOBS By: Cynthia Kurtz, President SGVEP 

Hallelujah! The San Gabriel Valley added 12,240 
jobs in 2013 - the largest yearly job increase 
since the recession devastated the local economy 
causing the loss of 55,000 jobs in less than two 
years.

 Healthcare is leading the San Gabriel Valley's 
recovery adding close to 8,000 jobs in 2013 and 
between 26,000 and 29,000 jobs over the last 
decade. Healthcare now accounts for 115,200 of 
the region's 645,400 jobs. Over the last 10 years, 
the largest job growth has been in physician 
offices (+5,000 jobs), hospitals (+3,900 jobs), 
home healthcare services (+1,900 jobs), and 
outpatient care centers (+1,800 jobs). 

 We aren't talking about administrative jobs in 
doctor offices and hospitals which are included 
in the ad-ministrative and support services 
sector. These jobs are health practitioners -
people with M.D. degrees and professionals 
who are registered or licensed to provide health 
services like dental hygienists or dieti-tians. 
These are good paying jobs with average annual 
salaries between $55,000 and $64,000.

 The growth in healthcare has also generated 
job growth in other related industries. Scientific 
research and development services, 

management and 

technical 

consulting, and 
pharmaceuticaland medical 
manufac-turing are 
also adding jobs.

 Healthcare is not 
the only sector 
adding jobs. 2013 
saw an increase of 
3,200 jobs in leisure 
and hospitali-ty - 
the businesses that 
support tourism. 
This is on the heels 
of adding 2,900 jobs 
in 2012. Tourism is 
a growing industry 
throughout Los 
Angeles County 
and 2013 was a 
banner year with a 
record 42.1 visitors 
coming to the LA 
region. These visitors spent a record $16.5 
billion.

 The SGV is benefiting from these 
visitors - especially from Chinese 
tourists. They come to the SGV to 
visit friends and family, to see the 
Lio Fang Yuan Garden - Garden of 
Flowing Fragrance - at Huntington 

Library, to visit the Hsi Lai Temple and of course 
to enjoy authentic Asian foods - just as good as 
back home.

 The average SGV hotel occupancy rate increased 
to an impressive 77.4 percent in 2013 - up from 
61 percent in 2009. The average SGV room rate 
was $129.89 - up from a low of $118.52 in 2010. 
Don't be surprised to see some new hotels in the 
SGV. When it comes to tourism...we're hot.

 Another bright spot in the SGV economy 
is international trade. Our valley has a high 
concentration of international trade businesses. 
Some 6.7 percent of the region's total jobs are in 
international trade com-pared with a total of 5.3 
percent in Los Angeles County.

 The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handled 

14.3 million containers in 2013 - a 3.4 percent 
in-crease over 2012. The outlook for increased 
trade in 2014 and 2015 is good. California's top 
trading partners are expected to continue to 
experience strong growth. We certainly haven't 
"recovered" yet. We still need 29,000 jobs to get 
back to the employment total in 2008 - a number 
we are unlikely to reach before the end of 2015. 
However, adding 12,240 jobs in a year is a good 
reason to celebrate. 
Photo courtesy SGVCC 


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