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Metro and BNSF Railway Amend Shared-Use Agreement for 11.5-Mile Corridor MONROVIA, Calif., April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority (Construction Authority) announced the execution of a critically-needed agreement between the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) and BNSF Railway (BNSF) that will result in BNSF abandoning their rights to use the corridor between (roughly) the future Arcadia and...
MONROVIA, Calif., March 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) from qualified engineering, design and architectural services teams to complete 85% designs for six intermodal parking facilities. The facilities are planned as part of the Foothill Extension from Pasadena to Azusa project, and include one facility per future...
In a very close competition, Santa Monica High School beat Arcadia High School for the title of Regional Ocean Sciences Bowl Champion. The event took place in a lecture hall at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, on Saturday, Feb. 5. Eighteen student teams from throughout Southern California, each with four students and one alternate, competed in the fast-paced, game-show format event.After a final match between Santa Monica High and Arcadia High, with a score of 64-56, the...
A team of five students, four competitors and an alternate, from Arcadia High School won the Regional Science Bowl competition on Saturday, Jan. 22, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif."It came down to one question at the very end," said Arcadia team captain Derek Chou. "And I remember reading about that very topic the night before!"When the final buzzer rang, the score was Arcadia 118, and 122 for Troy High School from Fullerton, Calif. The ball was in...
PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Huntington Memorial Hospital has added a new member and one returning member to its board of directors, Louise Henry Bryson, Chair Emeriti of the board of trustees for the J. Paul Getty Trust and Armando Gonzalez, FAIA, founder and principal of Gonzalez Goodale Architects respectively. "We are excited to have Louise join us at such an important juncture in the healthcare industry. Her extensive media experience and business...
PASADENA, Calif. and RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Dec. 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Hundreds of volunteers will decorate the Bayer Advanced Camelot float with thousands of fresh roses and other flowers as they prepare for the 122nd Rose Parade® on Saturday, January 1, 2011 at 11 am ET (8 am PT). (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101224/AT21862-a ) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101224/AT21862-b ) The Bayer Advanced Camelot float celebrates the beauty of roses and...
MONROVIA, Calif., Dec. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority (Construction Authority) announces the launch of its new website - www.foothillextension.org. The new site is intended to capture the aesthetic essence of the San Gabriel Valley in its design; while providing ease in navigation, robust information sharing, dynamic community calendar features, upgraded media content and more. "Our new site was designed to be a one-stop shop of...
Magnolia Science Academy, Carson, Calif., led by mentor Yunis Karaca and student captain Robert Butler, picked up top honors at the annual Invention Challenge, held Dec. 10, at JPL. The winning device was appropriately named "Catapult. "The event drew more than 260 students and teachers representing 16 schools from throughout Southern California. This year's challenge was to build a unique device capable of lifting an officially supplied ping-pong ball and cause the ball to touch...
Less than three years after obtaining college degrees, a group of early-career employees at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., can now add "rocket launch" to their resumes.Recent graduates who work for JPL launched a sounding rocket 120 kilometers (75 miles) above Earth's surface on Monday, Dec. 6. The rocket flew from the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, with four cameras on board. The cameras recorded real-time ground imagery throughout the...
PASADENA, Calif., Dec 5, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pasadena Tournament of Roses today unveiled a completely redesigned Web site for America's New Year Celebration®. The new site, www.tournamentofroses.com, provides all the latest information for the upcoming Rose Parade® presented by Honda, Rose Bowl Game® presented by VIZIO, and other Tournament of Roses events. Featuring three micro-sites within one, each user who visits the landing page is able to choose which event he or she...
