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PCC closed its main campus along with the Rosemead campus and Community Education Center at noon, according to the PCC website.

(Daniel Nerio/Courier)
Monitors at the Center for the Arts building announce the campus closure on Friday, Feb. 28th (Daniel Nerio/Courier)

A Public Service Announcement was made earlier issuing flash flood warnings to Azusa, Monrovia, and Glendora residents.

“We basically closed down campus to err out the side of caution,” said Interim Director of Public Relations Valerie Wardlaw. “We’ve been listening to the weather forecast so we don’t want to have our students have to travel back and fourth, [so] we’re locking the doors [and] turning off the lights.”

All of today’s sports events are postponed including the playoff rounds for both the men and women’s basketball, which will happen tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. The men’s team will still travel to Saddleback College and the women’s team will host Canyons.

“From what we heard the traffic that they were going in the direction of what they would’ve traveled is going to be packed,” Wardlaw said. “So the police are saying if you don’t have to go on the highways don’t do it. So we’re not going to take the chances with our teams, knowing that it will take them three hours to get somewhere.”

Some of the staff on campus was even unaware of that the campus would be closed or why. Athletic trainer Patty Gallego was one of them.

“Game on, I’ll be in at 2,” she said in a text at 11:15 a.m. But just a few minutes later she was notified of the cancellation.

“Change that, games are cancelled too!”

Every building will be locked and shut completely except for the Center for the Arts Building, which will still be showing the musical theatre production: Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” tonight at 8 p.m. in Center for the Arts Theatre. The Pamela L. Girard Guest Artist/Master Class Series will also continue tonight at 8 p.m. in the Westerbeck Recital Hall.

“Now the performances are still going on. Our Theater Arts department decided not to cancel,” Wardlaw said. “The show must go on.”

 

 

 

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4 Replies to “PCC campus closed at noon”

  1. Who decided to shut down the place?
    Valerie Wardlaw refers to “we,” but who is that?
    Did her Public Relations office shut the campus down? Campus Police? Or is there a meteorologist on staff now?
    Think of the lives that could be saved by safely shutting down PCC every Friday . . .

  2. Saw a brutal car accident right outside campus on my way to class. Rain in SoCal is a big deal and not worth the risk on the road. They made the right descision by shutting down.

  3. There’s one for the record books.
    Campus closed …. because of rain!
    Every building at PCC has a roof, no?
    Perhaps Admin. has lost their umbrella.

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