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Week in Review

Updates on the tragic murder of Brandon Jackson, two bills introduced by Assemblyman Portantino, a priest in residence at St. Elizabeth's resigned over evidence that he shielded an abusive priest, a tragic murder trial set to begin, and much more.

SUNDAY: Kristi Kellogg on 's grand reopening celebration in which hundreds of shoppers visited the family-owned shop last weekend.

MONDAY: Brandon Jackson, the 18-year-old Muir High student who was last weekend, was a member of the football team and the Mentoring and Partnership for Youth Development (MPYD) program, according to Patch columnist Gregory Middleton, who about youth in the program having a frank discussion with Capt. Steve McLean of the Altadena Sheriff's Station. Read about Jackson's football coach's reaction to the tragedy , and check out Middleton's about what the community can do to prevent youth violence. Also, you can learn how to donate to the Brandon Jackson Memorial Fund .

MONDAY: With a new governor in California, Assemblyman Anthony Portantino is to push his legislation about setting time limits for crime labs to process rape kits that are used to present physical evidence in the prosecution of sexual assault offenders. The previous governor vetoed a similar bill by Portantino last year.

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MONDAY: A priest in residence at St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church, Monsignor Michael Meyers, with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles last week after church officials realized he had cleared a priest, who admitted sexually abusing a teenager in the 1960s, to work at a San Dimas church. A church official said that Meyers would continue to be in residence at the St. Elizabeth's for the time being.

TUESDAY: Almost four years after Mesha Arshaz Dean Monroe Miles of Altadena as he attempted to prevent Dean and Vanessa Marie Ochoa from kidnapping Ochoa's four year old son, Dean's murder trial is finally set to begin next month. Dean claims she shot Miles in self-defense, though her partner Ochoa changed her plea last year to guilty on all counts. Ochoa will be sentenced to more than 14 years in state prison a couple weeks before Dean's trial will begin.

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WEDNESDAY: At the meeting Tuesday night, a county Parks and Recreation Department official that the proposed Farmers' Market at Loma Alta Park is on target to be opened in April. The department is in contact with two organizations to run the market, one of which is run by Rick Hernandez and Manny Hernandez, who ran the short-lived market at Sacred Heart Church.

THURSDAY: The Pasadena City Council and moved forward with geographic sub-districts for the election of school board members, but it's not clear whether Altadena will get its own seat on the school board. Altadena will be represented in the upcoming election reform process by two committee members appointed by Supervisor Michael Antonovich.

FRIDAY: A Pomona man during a routine traffic stop in near the intersection of Lake Avenue and New York Drive in Altadena. During the stop, the man, 33-year-old Stephen Bullock, took off running. After pursuing Bullock on foot, deputies struggled with him and then opened fire when he reached for a gun in his waistband.

FRIDAY: State and county officials that the illegally built wall in the Rubio Canyon streambed, which neighbors and activists said could cause damage to surrounding properties, pipes, and other infrastructure, will finally be removed in about a week or so. The official said the property owner, Moninder Birdi, has been compliant ever since being notified last September that he was not allowed to build the retaining wall, even though it was on his own property.

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