{"id":7347,"date":"2012-03-04T09:45:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T17:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=7347"},"modified":"2012-03-04T09:45:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T17:45:36","slug":"four-council-election-events-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=7347","title":{"rendered":"Four Council Election Events Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted 3\/4\/12 &#8211; <\/em>There will be four City Council election events in the next eleven days, looks like the election cycle is in full swing.<\/p>\n<p>Harry L. Embree VFW Post 3208 will host a candidate forum, open to the public, at the Senior Center from 1:30 to 3:30 on Sunday, March 11th.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday March 13, the Candidates Forum will present all candidates who are running for City Council.\u00a0 Candidates will state their positions on important issues and will takes questions from the audience.\u00a0 An optional lunch will be available, for $10.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, March 14<sup>th<\/sup> from 6:30 to 8:30pm, the Council is sponsoring a Candidate forum, which  will be moderated by the League of Women Voters, Pasadena Area.\u00a0 The  forum will be held in City Council chambers in City Hall, 232 W. Sierra  Madre Blvd.\u00a0 Residents will have the opportunity to put their questions  in writing for the candidates.\u00a0 The League will have \u201cquestion sorters\u201d  on hand to provide your questions to the moderator.\u00a0 According to the  rules of the forum provided by the LWVPA, \u201cthe  sorters will compile similar questions together, for the moderator. It  is each Moderator\u2019s option to ask, or not ask, the Sorters themselves to  condense\/rephrase recurring questions on a topic. The Sorters become  screeners only for questions inappropriate to a forum. They will  intervene for reckless inflammatory questions or for very personal ones.  The moderator attempts to present questions covering the widest range  of issues.\u201d\u00a0 There is no charge to attend, and the public is invited.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, March 15<sup>th<\/sup>,  the Chamber presents its March Mixer, annually hosted by the Sierra  Madre Woman\u2019s Club at their historic clubhouse, \u201cEssick House,\u201d located  at 550 W. Sierra Madre Blvd.\u00a0 The mixer will be held from 5 to 7pm, and  attendees will have the opportunity to meet and greet the Council  candidates.\u00a0 Each candidate will be introduced an have an opportunity to  speak for 2 \u2013 3 minutes, but the rest of the time they will be mingling  with the attendees, who will also have the opportunity to sample the  culinary skills of the Woman\u2019s Club.\u00a0 As this is a fundraiser for the  Chamber, admission will be charged, at the reduced rate of $5\/person.<\/p>\n<p>All seven Council candidates have confirmed their intent to attend both Chamber events.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact the Chamber at (626) 355-5111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted 3\/4\/12 &#8211; There will be four City Council election events in the next eleven days, looks like the election cycle is in full swing. Harry L. Embree VFW Post 3208 will host a candidate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[136,30,139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}