Mountain Views News          Saturday, June 6, 2015

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR MIT SENIORS 

Duarte Kiwanis President, Mirna de Lira Lopez, was pleasantlysurprised at the Senior Awards breakfast for MIT. Two of her interns,
Jesus Velasco and Robert Moran, were selected for scholarshipsfrom the Duarte Kiwanis Club. Jesus and Robert are both interested 
and learning various elements of IT while interning for Mirna at hercompany DLL. Additionally, Robert received a second scholarshipfrom CODA Energy in Monrovia.

Pictured from left, Lois Gaston, Duarte Kiwanis Member, Mirna 
de Lira Lopez, Duarte Kiwanis President, Cheryl Reynolds, DuarteKiwanis President-Elect, Reyna Diaz, Duarte Kiwanis BoardMember, Jesus Velasco and Robert Moran, scholarship recipients.
For further information on speaking or joining the club, contact Dr.
Diane Hernandez at drdiane@drhernandezoptometry.com 


CITY OF DUARTE 2ND ANNUAL 
BARK FOR LIFE AND ANNUAL 
VACCINATION CLINIC JUNE 27 


DUARTE, CA, June 2, 2015 – The community is invited toparticipate in the 2nd Annual “Bark for Life” event, which will beheld on Saturday, June 27th from 7:30-10:00 a.m. at the Duarte TeenCenter, 1401 Buena Vista Street. 

The annual “Bark for Life” event is a fundraising effort to honorthe life-long contributions of canine caregivers and support theAmerican Cancer Society’s mission of eliminating cancer throughresearch, education, advocacy and service. Canine caregiversalong with canine companions, guide dogs, service dogs, therapydogs, police dogs, cancer survivor dogs and diagnostic dogs willcome together to celebrate survivorship and honor caregivers lostto cancer. The event will also feature pet appropriate vendors andadoptions.
The Duarte Public Safety Rabies Vaccination Clinic in collaborationwith VET CARE will run from 8:00-10:00 a.m. They will featurerabies vaccines for $8.00 each, microchip registration for $40and other types of vaccinations will also available upon request.
Residents can also purchase their City of Duarte dog/cat licensesat the event. The yearly fee for unaltered dogs and for spayed/
neutered: $25. Senior citizens, 65 years and older are eligible forone free dog license if the pet is spayed or neutered. Cat licensesfees are $20 if spayed or neutered and $40 for non-neutered cats.

For more information about the events or for volunteer 

opportunities, contact Lauren Worsley with the American Cancer

Society at (626) 676-0377 or via email at lauren.worsley@cancer. 

org. The Duarte Public Safety office can also be contacted at (626)

357-7938. 

About the City of DuarteThe City of Duarte was incorporated on August 22, 1957. Withintegrity and transparency, the City provides exemplary publicservices in a caring and fiscally responsible manner with a 
commitment to our community’s future. For more information visitwww.accessduarte.com or call (626) 357-7931. Follow the City of 
Duarte on Twitter @CityofDuarte. 

DUARTE FAMILIES ARE 
ENCOURAGED TO 
REACH OUT AND 
“TOUCH A TRUCK,” JUNE 18 


DUARTE, CA, June 3, 2015 – Move aside Optimus Prime becausethere are some new trucks in town. The City of Duarte will hold itsinaugural “Touch-A-Truck” free event on June 18th from 1 p.m. to3 p.m. at Encanto Park, 751 Encanto Parkway. From fire to dumptrucks, and squad cars to ambulances, children of all ages will havethe chance to explore and experience trucks of all types at this familyfriendly event. Music, fun activities and free popcorn and ice cream(while it lasts) will also be available on-site for attendees.

The “Touch-A-Truck” is a true community collaborationwith all featured trucks from local agencies and displayed free-ofcharge. 
For more information, contact Duarte Parks and RecreationDepartment at (626) 357-7931.

 About the City of DuarteThe City of Duarte was incorporated on August 22, 1957. Withintegrity and transparency, the City provides exemplary publicservices in a caring and fiscally responsible manner with acommitment to our community’s future. For more information visitwww.accessduarte.com or call (626) 357-7931. Follow the City of 
Duarte on Twitter @CityofDuarte. 

TWO DRINKING FOUNTAINS IN 
OLD TOWN GETTING FIXED 


Last week, we were made aware of problems with two drinkingfountains in Old Town that were not functioning. The first drinkingfountain was the old Wishing Well Drinking Fountain, and the otherdrinking fountain is the one located in the walkway between ChangThai Bistro and Pinkberry. It appears that the Wishing Well DrinkingFountain was totally inoperable, while the drinking fountain locatedin the walkway was leaking and in need of maintenance.

Staff did look into both of these issues this past week, and we arehappy to report that both drinking fountains are currently gettingfixed and should be fully repaired within the next week or two. Itappears that there was a mechanical failure with the valve connectedto the water line at the Wishing Well Drinking Fountain, and newparts have been ordered and the work has been scheduled. As forthe other drinking fountain in the walkway, our crack staff at PublicServices fixed the leak, polished the equipment, and ordered somenew replacement parts that should be here soon. We will continueto monitor these drinking fountains, and all of the other drinkingfountains we have, moving forward! 

Mountain Views-News Saturday, June 6, 2015 

MONROVIA POLICE BLOTTER 

Following are the weekend’s highlighted issues and events. To see acomplete listing of crimes reported, go to the City of Monrovia websiteand click on the crime mapping link. Sign up to follow us on Twitter for 
police notifications. 

Vehicle Burglary May 29 at 2:45 a.m., a vehicle burglary was reportedin the 900 block of West Huntington. The victim’s vehicle was parkedand locked in a parking stall. Unknown suspect(s) smashed the victim’spassenger window and removed property that was left on the frontpassenger seat. The investigation is continuing. Bear Incident May 29at 10:03 a.m., and officer responded to a residence in the 800 block ofWildrose regarding a bear. The homeowner saw a bear rip the metalscreen off of the crawl space under her house, but didn’t know if thebear had crawled inside the space. The officer checked the crawl spaceand the surrounding area, but the bear was gone from the location. 

Bear Incident May 29 at 2:44 p.m., a resident in the 800 block of EastFoothill called police and reported a bear swimming in the backyardpool of the home. An officer arrived and saw a juvenile bear in thebackyard. He attempted to get the bear to move back into the foothills,
however, it wouldn’t leave the area. The officer then deployed twobeanbag rounds at the bear, which successfully influenced the bear toreturn to the foothills. 

Bear Incident May 29 at 3:14 p.m., officers were dispatched to the800 block of Crescent on the report of a very large bear in a resident’sbackyard, but when officers arrived, the bear was gone. Callers beganreporting the bear walking along Hillcrest. Officers responded toHillcrest and located the bear in a backyard at the base of a large tree.
They discovered her two cubs at the top of the tree. The mother beganwalking toward the officers, so two beanbags rounds were deployed ather, causing her to run away from the officers. She jumped a fence intoanother yard and then couldn’t be found. The Department of Fish andWildlife responded and stayed in the area until the cubs came downout of the tree to reunite with their mother and they all returned to thefoothills. 

Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol – Suspect Arrested May 29 at

8:25 p.m., a non-injury traffic collision was reported in the 800 blockof Monterey. The investigation revealed that one of the motorists wasdriving under the influence of alcohol. The driver was arrested, takeninto custody, and held for sobering. 
Unlicensed Driver / Incident Report – Suspect Arrested May 30 at 1:17a.m., an officer stopped a motorist for a vehicle code violation. Further 
investigation revealed the motorist was an unlicensed driver and wasfound to be in possession of documents containing other people’s socialsecurity numbers. The suspect was arrested and taken into custody.
The officer determined the suspect was using the social securitynumbers for employment purposes. The investigation is continuingand the report will be forward to the IRS to protect potential victimsfrom receiving IRS penalties for unreported income. 

Warrant Arrest May 30 at 2:02 a.m., an officer was on patrol andstopped a motorist for a vehicle code violation in the area of Peckand Emery. The officer discovered the motorist had an outstandingwarrant for his arrest. The warrant was issued by the El Monte PoliceDepartment. The officer arrested the suspect for the warrant and ElMonte police officers responded to the Monrovia jail and took custodyof the suspect. 

Possession of Methamphetamine / Under the Influence of 
Methamphetamine – Suspect Arrested May 30 at 9:38 p.m., an officerwas dispatched to a business in the 500 block of West HuntingtonDrive regarding suspicious subjects loitering behind a store. When theofficer arrived, he contacted the subjects and determined one of them, 

HOMELESSNESS AND PARK 
CONDUCT COMMITTEE BEING 
RECONVENED 


During the past several weeks, staff has been working to review theeffectiveness of our current response to the homelessness issues thatexist in our community, and to assess potential responses to newtransient population issues that have arisen more recently. To thatend, Chief Hunt has worked to reconvene the Homelessness and 
Park Conduct Committee to review the effectiveness of our current 
strategies, as well as discuss potential adjustments moving forward.
Our current efforts have been based on the recommendations 
developed by the Homelessness & Park Conduct Committee thatwas established in 2014. The six ideas that the group came up withinclude: 

1. Community Outreach Educational Programming
2. Directed Giving Campaign
3. Populate the Parks with Programs
4. Neighborhood Park Watch
5. Video Surveillance Cameras 
6. Restorative Court ProgramOf late, new issues transient oriented concerns have been raised, and 
we plan on engaging the committee in a discussion regarding thefollowing items:
§ Assess strategies for addressing the rise in transient populationsliving in recreational vehicles throughout the City
§ Determine next steps for the directed giving campaign
§ Discuss current status of the six initial recommendations adoptedby the City CouncilThe committee will be meeting here again in the next week or two,
and we will be sure to keep everyone apprised of the progress that wemake here moving forward. 
EMERGENCY BOOSTER PUMP 
REPAIRS NEEDED FOR THE 
MOUNTAIN AVENUE 
BOOSTER STATION 


One of the City’s most important booster stations is located at510 South Mountain Avenue. That facility, which is known asthe Mountain Avenue Booster Station, feeds both the Cloverleaf 
Reservoir and the other portions of the Cloverleaf Pressure Zone. Intotal, 90.95% of all of the water supplied to customers runs throughthis particular booster pump location.
It appears that one of the critical booster pumps (Booster 2-4) atthe Mountain Avenue Booster Station has been inoperable sinceFebruary 2005. This situation does need to be resolved, as we arerelying on our other pumps at the station operating at full capacity inorder to be able to supply enough water to our customers during oursummer months. In fact, our team observed that during the summerof 2014 that we on several occasions nearly ran out of water for theCloverleaf Pressure Zone due to the fact that our remaining booster 

a female, was under the influence of methamphetamine. She was alsofound to be in possession of a small amount of methamphetamine anda glass methamphetamine pipe. The suspect was arrested and takeninto custody. 

Possession of Metal Knuckles / Minors in Possession of Alcohol – 
Suspects Arrested May 30 at 11:04 p.m., an officer was patrolling the 200block of East Olive when he noticed two suspicious subjects loiteringin the alley. The officer attempted to contact the subjects and they ranfrom him. The officer eventually found the subjects hiding behind avehicle and discovered they were minors that were consuming alcohol.
The officer also found metal knuckles beneath the vehicle where the 
juveniles were hiding. The juveniles were arrested and released oncitations to their parents. 

Armed Robbery June 1 at 2:03 a.m., officers responded to the400 block of South Myrtle on the report of a robbery that hadjust occurred. The female victim reported she had been robbedapproximately 15 minutes prior at the intersection of Myrtle andHuntington. She told the officers she had left a bar in the 400 blockof South Myrtle and had walked to Huntington and Myrtle alone.
A red Chevrolet Camaro drove up next to her and stopped. A malepassenger exited the vehicle, pointed a black handgun at her anddemanded she give him her purse. The victim refused, so the suspectgrabbed the purse and they began to struggle with it. She told him totake everything except her phone. The male driver then leaned overthe passenger seat, pointed another gun at the victim, and orderedthe other suspect to shoot her. Distracted, the purse was pulled fromthe victim’s grasp and its contents fell onto the ground. The suspectbegan picking up the contents and putting it back into the purse. Thefemale picked up her phone. Once all the contents were back in thepurse, the suspect walked up to the female and grabbed her phone.
Both suspects then fled in the vehicle west on Huntington. Officerssearched the area for the suspects, but were unable to locate them.
This investigation is continuing. 

Armed Robbery – Suspects Arrested On June 1 at 1:13 a.m., an officeron patrol stopped a red Chevy Camaro on Foothill for a traffic violation.
The vehicle was occupied by two male subjects in their twenties. Thesubjects claimed they were looking for an address and were distracted.
The driver was let go with a warning. Shortly after, a female victim wasrobbed of her Verizon note pad by two male suspects in a red ChevyCamaro with handguns. Officers searched for the suspects and vehicle,
but were unable to locate them. On June 1 at 10:27 p.m., the officerthat made the original traffic stop saw the vehicle and suspects stoppedat Madison and Foothill. A high-risk stop was made with the assistanceof the Foothill Air Support helicopter. A search of the vehicle revealedtwo Airsoft guns and the property stolen in the robbery. The suspectswere arrested and taken into custody, and the vehicle was stored asevidence. 

Hit and Run Traffic Collision / Driving Under the Influence – Suspect 
Arrested June 2 at 10:02 p.m., officers responded to a traffic collision atColorado and Mayflower. One of the vehicles tried fleeing the scene andthe other driver chased after the vehicle. Both vehicles stopped at Oliveand Monterey until officers arrived. Further investigation revealed thefleeing driver had been drinking alcohol. The driver was arrested fordriving under the influence. There were no injuries from the collision. 

Domestic Violence – Suspect Arrested June 4 at 12:06 a.m., officersresponded to the report of a female yelling for help in the 1800 blockof South Mayflower. Officers arrived and located the house where thescreaming was coming from. Investigation revealed the female subjecthad attacked her husband while he was trying to go to sleep. Thehusband had visible injuries to his neck and face. The wife was arrestedfor domestic violence. 

pumps could not quite keep up with the customer demand on our 
water systems.
To further exacerbate the situation, during a very recent inspection,
staff determined that one of the remaining critical booster pumps(Booster 2-1) at the Mountain Avenue Booster Station is in need ofmajor repairs. While that booster pump is operating now, staff iscertain that the pump will fail at some point in the near future.
Given this situation, we are currently undertaking emergency repairsto Booster Pump 2-4 at the Mountain Avenue Booster Station toensure that we will not have a system failure should Booster Pump2-1 stop working. 

ENHANCEMENTS TO THE MUD /
DEBRIS BARRIERS DEVELOPED BY 
OUR PUBLIC SERVICES TEAM 


In an effort to continually develop improvements for our residents,
our Public Services Team recently hit upon an inexpensive andbrilliantly simple solution to a problem that was vexing residents onHighland Place who had mud / debris barriers installed.
After the last rain event, while the barriers worked beautifully, wefound that the holes that are used to hold the mud barriers in placewere getting filled with debris. After looking into the issue, our teamfound some plumbing caps that would fit into the holes, and weinstalled about a dozen of them to see if they would hold up to theweathering and the street sweeper. Upon additional review, it turnsout that the plumbing caps solution does work great, and we are nowin the process of coordinating the implementation of this projectthroughout Highland Place. 

YOUTH SOCCER ENDS A 
SUCCESSFUL SEASON 


The spring soccer semi-final and championship games were playedon Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at Recreation Park. The semi-final gamewas played between the Boys and Girls Club, Shamrock Falcons andthe Mayflower Mariners. The winner of that game advanced to playBradoaks Bobcats for the championship title! The Boys and GirlsClub team came out strong from the beginning and eventually wonthe semi-final game by a score of 4-2.
The Championship game was nothing short of a thriller! Bradoaksscored a goal in the first half and then the defenses took over. Neitherteam scored after that, and Bradoaks won the championship title 1-0!
The final standings for this season’s successful youth soccer season 
were: 

1. Bradoaks Bobcats 
2. Shamrock Falcons 
3. Mayflower Mariners
4. Monroe Lions 
5. Wild Rose Bears 
The final awards program for the season was also held on Thursday,
May 28, 2015 at the Community Center. A great season, and many
thanks to the players, staff, and volunteers that made it all possible! 
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