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The San Gabriel Valley Examiner Financial Literacy Bill / B1 Since 1997 • Published in GLENDORA, California A Weekly Adjudicated Publication Serving all of Los Angeles County San Gabriel Valley 25 cents To reach us: Phone: (626) 852-3374 Fax : (626) 852-1904 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.sgvexaminer.com INSIDE STRIVING FOR JOURNALISTIC EXCELLENCE IN LOCAL NEWS Volume XVI, Issue No. 25 June 20 - 26, 2013 INDEX City Notices B14 Classifieds B15 Financial/ Consumer B4 Legal Notices B7 Dayna Mitchell AUSD Manager of the Year / A2 By Jayam Rutnam GLENDORA - The kick-off of "Shop the Avenue" on Saturday June 15, was extremely well attended by Glendora residents and people from the surrounding communities. There were five booths including Glendora Interi- ors, Chris and Wes Purkis Real Estate and Luxe Hair Salon. Annette Nemeth of Glendora Interiors and her assistant Ashley, had a very busy booth, since they were handing out snacks and asking people to register for a raffle drawing. Annette's husband John, who takes care of their Covina office was also present giving them moral support. All the booths had flower arrangements donated by Glendora Florists. This event is held every Saturday from 9 a.m. showcasing the vari- ous business on Glendora Avenue. It is at the Plaza in the Glendora Village and runs in con- junction with the Farmers Market which also functions on Saturdays from 9 a.m. till 1 p.m. The Glendora Farmers Market is steadily gaining popularity with many booths selling organic vegetables and fruits, orchids, spices and unique artisenware. Marilou Vela and Nanette Philips who were at the Hospitality Booth, were seen talking to visitors to the Expo. Visitors to the Farmers Market and the Business Expo spill out onto Glendora Village, where the shops and restaurants do a brisk business. These events are organized by the City of Glendora Business Improvement Dis- trict Advisory Board consisting of Annette Nemeth Chair (Glendora Interiors), Jana Jones Vice Chair (Martha's Candies and Ken Turner Real Estate), Daniel Boyer (Southland Properties), Donald Nolan (Village Eatery) and Dalel Snyder (Glendora Florists). Shop The Avenue - A Big Hit! They stopped by at the "Shop the Avenue" Courtesy Booth, manned by Marilou Vela and Nanette Philips with visitors Marie and Shannon Donatelle and their dogs Avalon, Indian and Colt. APU students Aryanna Smith and Dori Eisenthel. Glendora residents Julie Fletcher, Kathleen Bracer, Jennie Pyle and their dog Rhino. DUARTE - Employees from the Duarte branch of AmericanWest Bank presented the Cory’s Kitchen food bank staff with $989 and 804 food items— the results of their month-long Sum- mer Food Drive. “Employees teamed up with our customers and local businesses all month long in order to make this do- nation a reality,” said Kathy May, Duarte Branch Service & Solutions Manager. “Making this gift to Cory’s Kitchen from our annual food drive is one of the great benefits of working at a com- munity bank that truly cares about what’s impacting residents and then takes action to be a part of the solu- tion.” The drive at the Duarte Branch was part of AmericanWest Bank’s com- pany-wide food drive through the month of May to assist local food banks with stocking their shelves be- fore children are out of school for sum- mer vacation. Overall, AmericanWest Donations Made From One Bank to Another Duarte food bank to receive food, cash from AmericanWest Bank Nathan Kirschenbaum (AmericanWest Bank), Wayne Leamons (Cory’s Kitchen), Mario Figueroa (Cory’s Kitchen) Bank branches in Southern California donated more than $4,500 and hun- dreds of pounds of food to area food banks. “Just last year, Cory’s Kitchen as- sisted more than 65,000 individuals to put food on the table for their families, find job placement, proper business attire and numerous other social ser- vices,” Kathy said. “The entirely vol- unteer staff makes a huge difference for so many here and that’s why we’re making this gift now, to help them continue doing what they do best.” WEST COVINA - Commander George Ogden of VFW Post 8620 ac- cepts a check from Sandra Taylor of the Women's Club of West Covina for the Veterans Memorial Project for West Covina. The Memorial Committee is still raising money to build the project at City Hall. The Memorial will me- morialize all the men and women from West Covina who died while serving Commander George Ogden of VFW Post 8620 accepts a check from Sandra Taylor of the Women's Club of West Covina. Women's Club of West Covina Donates to the Veterans Memorial Project in the armed forces protecting our country. The committee is over half way there to their goal with funds needed for the project. If you would like to donate to the Veterans Memo- rial Project, you may call 626-337- 2102 and leave a message and phone number for VFW Commander George Ogden and he will return your call. By Joan Hallidy GLENDORA - The Glendora Woman's Club Annual Fashion Show and Luncheon continues to be an en- tertaining and successful event, ac- cording to ways and means co-vice president Mary Moore and Marilyn McLamore, and show chair Barbara Maslowski. Helping to make this event so successful were a committee of 30 Woman's Club volunteers, department donors, 30 merchant donors, the lun- cheon served by Ritz Catering, and Glendora Woman's Club Fashion Show a Success Some of the participants in the Glendora Woman's Club Annual Fashion Show are, from left to right , Rev. Luff Johnson, escort for the models; clubmembers serving as models, Pat Overstreet, Alisis Proctor, Marge Burroughs, Helen Stoland, Barbara Whitton, and Chris Ormond; Erin Solis, fashion commentator from Draper's and Damon's and stage at right, Jay C. Munns. Photo by Rose Myers four local publications. More than 130 members and guests gathered in the decorated ballroom and viewed the latest spring and summer fashions from Draper's and Damon's of Pasadena, with commentary by Erin Solis. Featuring fashions modeled by Glendora Woman's Club members, the show included several categories of women's apparel. Decorations and table arrangements were coordinated in the show's theme of "Designer Sketches." Providing the music during the show was Jay C. Munns at the keyboard. Proceeds from the club's annual event will go toward the club's ser- vice projects and philanthropies, said Club President Sue Bauer. For information about club member- ship, call (626) 335-8911 or for infor- mation about renting the clubhouse for a special event, call (626) 335-7010. Azusa Women’s Club presented two $500.00 Scholarships to local Azusa Students. The recipients are Amber Sessler and Heidi Carreon. Amber graduated from Azusa High School with a grade average of 4.43. She will be going to Tulane University in New Orleans. Her major will be Biomedial Eng. Heidi graduated from Gladstone High School with a grade average of 4.14 and will be entering USC to study Journalism. Azusa Women’s Club has a Schol- arship Dinner once a year during Oc- tober Golden Days. This Scholarship program is to sponsor students from the Azusa area to help them to further their studies at a university. Donations are welcome for this cause. For fur- ther information, Please call Ilean Ochoa at 626-334-7969 Azusa Women’s Club Scholarships Presented
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June 20 - 26, 2013 S.G.V. EXAMINER A1
The San Gabriel Valley Examiner
Financial Literacy Bill / B1
Since 1997 • Published in GLENDORA, CaliforniaA Weekly Adjudicated Publication Serving all of Los Angeles County
San Gabriel Valley
25 cents
To reach us:Phone: (626) 852-3374
Fax : (626) 852-1904 E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.sgvexaminer.com
INSIDESTRIVING FOR JOURNALISTIC EXCELLENCE IN LOCAL NEWSVolume XVI, Issue No. 25 June 20 - 26, 2013
INDEX
City Notices B14Classifieds B15Financial/ Consumer B4Legal Notices B7
DaynaMitchell
AUSD Manager of the Year / A2
By Jayam Rutnam GLENDORA - The kick-off of "Shop the
Avenue" on Saturday June 15, was extremelywell attended by Glendora residents and peoplefrom the surrounding communities. Therewere five booths including Glendora Interi-ors, Chris and Wes Purkis Real Estate andLuxe Hair Salon. Annette Nemeth of GlendoraInteriors and her assistant Ashley, had a verybusy booth, since they were handing outsnacks and asking people to register for araffle drawing. Annette's husband John, whotakes care of their Covina office was alsopresent giving them moral support. All thebooths had flower arrangements donated byGlendora Florists. This event is held everySaturday from 9 a.m. showcasing the vari-ous business on Glendora Avenue. It is at thePlaza in the Glendora Village and runs in con-junction with the Farmers Market which alsofunctions on Saturdays from 9 a.m. till 1 p.m.
The Glendora Farmers Market is steadilygaining popularity with many booths sellingorganic vegetables and fruits, orchids, spicesand unique artisenware. Marilou Vela andNanette Philips who were at the HospitalityBooth, were seen talking to visitors to theExpo. Visitors to the Farmers Market and theBusiness Expo spill out onto Glendora Village,where the shops and restaurants do a briskbusiness. These events are organized by theCity of Glendora Business Improvement Dis-trict Advisory Board consisting of AnnetteNemeth Chair (Glendora Interiors), JanaJones Vice Chair (Martha's Candies and KenTurner Real Estate), Daniel Boyer (SouthlandProperties), Donald Nolan (Village Eatery) andDalel Snyder (Glendora Florists).
Shop The Avenue - A Big Hit!
They stopped by at the "Shop the Avenue" Courtesy Booth, manned by Marilou Vela and Nanette Philips with visitors Marieand Shannon Donatelle and their dogs Avalon, Indian and Colt. APU students Aryanna Smith and Dori Eisenthel. Glendoraresidents Julie Fletcher, Kathleen Bracer, Jennie Pyle and their dog Rhino.
DUARTE - Employees from theDuarte branch of AmericanWest Bankpresented the Cory’s Kitchen food bankstaff with $989 and 804 food items—the results of their month-long Sum-mer Food Drive.
“Employees teamed up with ourcustomers and local businesses allmonth long in order to make this do-nation a reality,” said Kathy May, DuarteBranch Service & Solutions Manager.“Making this gift to Cory’s Kitchenfrom our annual food drive is one ofthe great benefits of working at a com-munity bank that truly cares aboutwhat’s impacting residents and thentakes action to be a part of the solu-tion.”
The drive at the Duarte Branch waspart of AmericanWest Bank’s com-pany-wide food drive through themonth of May to assist local foodbanks with stocking their shelves be-fore children are out of school for sum-mer vacation. Overall, AmericanWest
Donations Made From One Bank to AnotherDuarte food bank to receive food, cash from AmericanWest Bank
Nathan Kirschenbaum (AmericanWest Bank), Wayne Leamons (Cory’s Kitchen),Mario Figueroa (Cory’s Kitchen)Bank branches in Southern Californiadonated more than $4,500 and hun-dreds of pounds of food to area foodbanks.
“Just last year, Cory’s Kitchen as-sisted more than 65,000 individuals toput food on the table for their families,
find job placement, proper businessattire and numerous other social ser-vices,” Kathy said. “The entirely vol-unteer staff makes a huge differencefor so many here and that’s why we’remaking this gift now, to help themcontinue doing what they do best.”
WEST COVINA - CommanderGeorge Ogden of VFW Post 8620 ac-cepts a check from Sandra Taylor ofthe Women's Club of West Covina forthe Veterans Memorial Project for WestCovina. The Memorial Committee isstill raising money to build the projectat City Hall. The Memorial will me-morialize all the men and women fromWest Covina who died while serving
Commander George Ogden of VFW Post 8620 accepts a check from SandraTaylor of the Women's Club of West Covina.
Women's Club of WestCovina Donates to theVeterans Memorial Project
in the armed forces protecting ourcountry. The committee is over halfway there to their goal with fundsneeded for the project. If you wouldlike to donate to the Veterans Memo-rial Project, you may call 626-337-2102 and leave a message and phonenumber for VFW Commander GeorgeOgden and he will return your call.
By Joan HallidyGLENDORA - The Glendora
Woman's Club Annual Fashion Showand Luncheon continues to be an en-tertaining and successful event, ac-cording to ways and means co-vicepresident Mary Moore and MarilynMcLamore, and show chair BarbaraMaslowski. Helping to make this eventso successful were a committee of 30Woman's Club volunteers, departmentdonors, 30 merchant donors, the lun-cheon served by Ritz Catering, and
Glendora Woman's Club Fashion Show a Success
Some of the participants in the Glendora Woman's Club Annual Fashion Showare, from left to right , Rev. Luff Johnson, escort for the models; clubmembersserving as models, Pat Overstreet, Alisis Proctor, Marge Burroughs, HelenStoland, Barbara Whitton, and Chris Ormond; Erin Solis, fashion commentatorfrom Draper's and Damon's and stage at right, Jay C. Munns. Photo by RoseMyers
four local publications.More than 130 members and guests
gathered in the decorated ballroom andviewed the latest spring and summerfashions from Draper's and Damon'sof Pasadena, with commentary by ErinSolis. Featuring fashions modeled byGlendora Woman's Club members, theshow included several categories ofwomen's apparel.
Decorations and table arrangementswere coordinated in the show's theme
of "Designer Sketches." Providing themusic during the show was Jay C.Munns at the keyboard.
Proceeds from the club's annualevent will go toward the club's ser-vice projects and philanthropies, saidClub President Sue Bauer.
For information about club member-ship, call (626) 335-8911 or for infor-mation about renting the clubhouse fora special event, call (626) 335-7010.
Azusa Women’s Club presented two$500.00 Scholarships to local AzusaStudents. The recipients are AmberSessler and Heidi Carreon. Ambergraduated from Azusa High Schoolwith a grade average of 4.43. She willbe going to Tulane University in NewOrleans. Her major will be BiomedialEng. Heidi graduated from GladstoneHigh School with a grade average of4.14 and will be entering USC to studyJournalism.
Azusa Women’s Club has a Schol-arship Dinner once a year during Oc-tober Golden Days. This Scholarshipprogram is to sponsor students fromthe Azusa area to help them to furthertheir studies at a university. Donationsare welcome for this cause. For fur-ther information, Please call IleanOchoa at 626-334-7969
Azusa Women’s Club Scholarships Presented
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WEST COVINA - Recently,the Rotary Club of West Covinahad a special guest speaker.World War II Veteran, LesClemmer, who is 96-year-old,came on board to talk with theRotary members during a lun-cheon at the South Hills Coun-try Club. This was to coincidedwith the Memorial Day periodat the end of May.
Clemmer, who followed thefirst speaker, George Ogdenwho is a Vietnam veteran, spokeabout his time during the Viet-nam war. Clemmer talked aboutserving on the aircraft CarrierIntrepid. He shared with them
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Les Clemmer, a 96-year-old WWII veteran, speaks to the WestCovina Rotary Club.
the various attacks on his air-craft carrier which included atorpedo attack and a number ofKamikaze attacks. He alsobrought in a number of bookswith pictures to share with themembers.
Rotary President DrexelSmith, who emceed the event,thanked the WWII lieutenantfor sharing his war time expe-riences with the members.
President Smith wanted todedicate this luncheon meetingin memory of those veteranswho lost their lives while fight-ing for our country and all theveterans who have departed.
GLENDORA - The AR-DENT Group, A RevolutionaryDynamic Entrepreneurial Net-working Team, held an event"An Afternoon to SupportFGUS" in conjunction with aVELVET trunk show at bou-tique Fiorina. Both Fiorina andthe ARDENT's goal was di-rected towards helping supportthe Foundation for GlendoraUnified Schools. Many of SanGabriel Valley's fashion enthu-siasts attended and enjoyed anafternoon filled with food,drink, music and giveaways. A
Fiorina's Velvet Trunk Show / ARDENTGroup's "An Afternoon to Support FGUS"
portion of all proceeds from theVELVET trunk show and "AnAfternoon to Support FGUS"went directly to the Foundationfor Glendora Unified Schools(FGUS). FGUS is a nonprofitbenefit corporation whose pri-mary purpose is to provide fi-nancial support, facilitate com-munity involvement and en-hance student learning for theGlendora Unified School Dis-trict. For more information, visitwww.shopfiorina.com andwww.ardentgroupinfo.com
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