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Montebello E-News

 May 15, 2009

 People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippman

[If this is a criticism, then are Montebello educators and elected officials being criticized for the culture and curriculum being imparted to our young?]

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Keep the music alive.  2009 Mighty Oiler Band, dinner and awards banquet, $20.00 per person, Friday, May 15, 2009, 6:00 p.m-12:00 a.m., Quiet Cannon, Montebello, California.  Must be paid in advance to reserve a seat.  To make arrangements, contact Deborah Rodriguez at 323-314-4400, any of the Montebello Oiler Band Board of Directors or Band Director Shaun Kuri.  New Band Director Shaun Kuri and the MOB have done an outstanding job this year, come celebrate the year with us in Montebello!!!  Thank You in advance for all that you do to support the band!

Do you know about Simon’s?  The Montebello Historical Society is sponsoring the 2009 "Return to Simons" on Saturday May 23, 2009, at Vail High School. Limited space is available.  Prepaid tickets are required.  For further information please call Josie at (562) 692-4129 or Carmen at (714) 939-9037.  Simon’s used to be a large brickyard in the south of Montebello.  If you look at old bricks, you might see the Simon’s stamp.

Give Credit Where Due.  Would you opine that our city government, with regard to sharing information, were not people-friendly because there was too much manipulation of the letter of the law rather than concentration on the spirit of the law?  On the other hand, with the marked improvement in the city Web site, we now have a useful calendar of coming meetings:  (1) Tue., May 12, 2009, 4:30 PM, Youth Commission Meeting; (2) Wed., May 13, 2009, 6:30 PM, City Council Meeting; (3) Tue., May 19, 2009, 6:30 PM, Planning Commission Meeting; (4) Thu., May 21, 2009, 5:00 PM, Culture and Recreation Commission Meeting; (5)  Tue., May 26, 2009, 6:00 PM, Civil Service Commission Meeting.  www.cityofmontebello.com

City extends comment period.  Unfortunately, this information is not at the city Web site.  With regard to the draft environmental impact report, “DEIR”, for the Montebello Hills Specific Plan, a plan to put the hills to different uses in coming years;  the deadline for public comment has been extended to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 28, 2009.  For more information, www.cityofmontebello.com/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=39&targetID=1 .

    … Carbon monoxide does not destroy any cells within your body. So how does it hurt you?

    Your blood contains a substance called hemoglobin, which carries oxygen throughout your body. But hemoglobin bonds to carbon monoxide 234 times more powerfully than it bonds to oxygen, according to the October 2002 issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

    If your hemoglobin is bound to carbon monoxide instead of oxygen, then it cannot carry oxygen to the cells of your body. Your cells suffocate.

    Television works in much the same way. It doesn't necessarily hurt you directly. You can watch nothing but "Little House on the Prairie" and "Leave it to Beaver" and go months without seeing sex or violence. So how could TV be bad?

    The real question is, "What else could I do with my time if I wasn't sitting in front of the TV?" We only have 24 hours in a day. And two hours spent watching TV equals two hours spent not reading, not hiking, not having a conversation with neighbors, not romping with the children, not baking a cake, not playing a musical instrument… .  http://takeyourvitaminz.blogspot.com/2009/03/
rethink-your-television-consumption.html