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Bears Sighted Across SGV This Week

A Sierra Madre resident spotted a bear on her front steps Sunday as other sightings were reported in Monrovia and La Canada Flintridge.

It was an especially eventful Sunday for bear encounters in the San Gabriel Valley.

While a bear walked into a Monrovia home’s kitchen and , a in the La Cañada and Montrose area and later had to be euthanized.

In Sierra Madre, a more routine bear meeting occurred when a resident at the 300 block of Churchill Road came home to find a bear on the home’s front steps Sunday, Sergeant Rubin Enriquez told Patch.

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The resident apparently made enough noise that shooed away the bear. When SMPD officials arrived they could not find the bear in the area.

A seminar held at Eaton Canyon Saturday offered local residents tips on living with urban black bears.

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