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Harry Horak of Arcadia is 100 years old today. He is a World War II veteran and retired tax accountant. Includes more biographical information.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36136
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 19, 2021
Pages
p. A3, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 19, 2021
Pages
p. A3, A7
Subjects
Centenarians
Horack, Harry
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Veterans group and Arcadia Mayor April Verlato celebrate World War II veteran Jack McEwan's 100th birthday. He was a pilot on a B-17 bomber from 1942-1943.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35631
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 9, 2020
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p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 9, 2020
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p. 3
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McEwan, Jack
Verlato, April
Veterans
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Decorated vet to celebrate 100th birthday. U.S. Air Force vetean Edward Lopez was a fighter pilot in both World War II and the Korean War. Born in Los Angeles and living in Arcadia for more than 50 years, he is one of the last living members of the Air Force's 365th Fighter-Bomber Group known as The Hell Hawks, a reserve fighter squadron in the U.S. Marine Corps. See hard copy in VF People.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36505
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 15, 2023
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 15, 2023
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p. A1, A4
Subjects
Centenarians
Lopez, Edward J.
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Arcadia man's 100th birthday to be family affair. Art Del Rey turns 100 this weekend. He is a World War II veteran (United States Navy). He had a successful career in real estate and started his own business in 1963, Art Del Rey Realty, Inc. in Arcadia, which thrives to this day.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36569
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 5, 2023
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 5, 2023
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p. A3
Subjects
Art Del Rey Realty, Inc.
Centenarians
Del Rey, Art
Realtors
Senior Citizens
Veterans
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Interview with author Brad Pearson who wrote the book The Eagles of Heart Mountain. He tackles the injustice of Japanese-American incarceration through the exploits of a World War II camp football team. Article mentions many evacuees were detained at Santa Anita racetrack in Arcadia before being shipped out.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35880
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 10, 2021
Pages
p. C7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 10, 2021
Pages
p. C7
Subjects
Authors
Football
Japanese-Americans
Pearson, Brad
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
World War II
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Pasadena native and World War II veteran Weston Embree celebrates 100th birthday. Embree's father Guy founded Embree Buses Inc., a Pasadena institution. Weston Embree met his wife Shirlee, originally of Arcadia, at the Methodist Church.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36326
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 2, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 2, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A4
Subjects
Centenarians
Embree, Shirley
Embree, Weston
Embree Buses Inc.
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Former Arcadian Jeff Froke spent five years studying the parrots living wild in the San Gabriel Valley. He describes the different varieties and how the flock came to be established in the areas.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper610
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 28, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 28, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Birds
Item ID
610AN
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Arcadia Library presents Japanese Artist's Journey. The life and legacy of artist J.T. Sata will be the subject of a virtual program on October 10, presented by Arcadia Public Library in partnership with Japanese American National Museum. The book J.T. Sata: a Japanese Immigrant in Search of Western Art will be discussed by authors Frank Sata (son of J.T. Sata) and Naomi Hirahara. (J.T. Sata and family were imprisoned at Santa Anita Assembly Center during World War II).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35834
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 8, 2020
Pages
p. 7
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 8, 2020
Pages
p. 7
Subjects
Artists Immigrants Japanese-Americans Hirahara, Naomi Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese Sata, Frank Sata, J.T. Takeda, Bryan
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Dallas Stars' Robertson enjoys record-setting season. Jason Robertson, Dallas Stars left wing, was born in Arcadia and moved to Michigan when he was 10.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36469
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 16, 2023
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p. B2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 16, 2023
Pages
p. B2
Subjects
Athletes
Dallas Stars
National Hockey League
Los Angeles Kings
Professional sports
Robertson, Jason
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Track, music world revered Jerry Moss. Jerry Moss, co-founder of A & M Records in 1962, was known as a big horse racing fan and owner of the great mare Zenyatta, the only female to win Breeders' Cup Classic in 2009 at Santa Anita Park. He was also a member of the California Horse Racing Board. He was 88 when he died on August 16 in his Bel Air home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36526
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2023
Pages
p. B8
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2023
Pages
p. B8
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Moss, Jerry
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Both the Board of Education and the City Council have denied $1.5 million in claims against them filed by Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. O'Brien, parents of Timothy Sean O'Brien who was struck and killed by an automobile as he was crossing Campus Drive last November 6th.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 5, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 5, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Actions and Defenses
Item ID
5AN
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Arcadian Melody Bodor reviews her European tour with the America's Youth in Concert orchestra. Bordor, a violinist, competed with high school musicians from all over the United States for one of the 96 positions.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper637
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 24, 1980
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 24, 1980
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Bodor, Melody
Item ID
637AN
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An international businessman was abducted from his Arcadia home and later released the same evening after his abductors demanded he pay them $1 million. He was told that he would be contacted the next day with instructions about where to put the money, but no money has been paid. This is the first kidnapping of this type in Arcadia, although there have been four other kidnappings in the San Gabriel Valley since last October.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1395
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 5, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 5, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1394AN
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Thousands of Arcadians, many of them members of Neighborhood Watch groups, participated in National Night Out.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2020
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 14, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 14, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Neighborhood Watch
Item ID
2012AN
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Arcadia police believe they put a dent in the local distribution of cocaine and marijuana with the arrest last week of an Arcadian, his son and daughter.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1475
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 11, 1987
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 11, 1987
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Drug Trafficking
Item ID
1474AN
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Scott H. Mittman spoke to the Rotary Club of his experiences in Israel made possible in part by a graduate fellowship sponsored by the Rotary Club. He spent the year studying neurobiology.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2109
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 8, 1981
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 8, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Organizations - Rotary Club
Item ID
2094AN
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Arcadian Bob Wieland, a double amputee who is walking from California to Washington, D.C. on his hands to raise money for world hunger projects, has progressed 161.7 miles on his 3,400 mile journey.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 14, 1982
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 14, 1982
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p. A-1 photo
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Wieland, Bob
Item ID
3484AN
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Judge rejects Bob Baffert's stay, delays suspension to April 4. Kentucky Horse Racing Commission suspended trainer Bob Baffert for questions surrounding dead race horse Medina Spirit having the corticosteroid betamethasone in his system when he won the Kentucky Derby last year. Medina Spirit has been stripped of that title.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36205
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 22, 2022
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p. B2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 22, 2022
Pages
p. B2
Subjects
Baffert, Bob
Horses and horse racing
Kentucky Derby
Kentucky Horse Racing Commission
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Arcadian Art Bean has been interested in hang gliding since he was a boy. Biographical notes included.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper598
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 8, 1981
Pages
p. A-8 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 8, 1981
Pages
p. A-8 photo
Subjects
Bean, Art
Item ID
598AN
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The 2024 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Royal Court has a Halloween moment. They spent the evening trick-or-treating at the Tournament House in Pasadena. Naomi Stillitano of Arcadia, who was crowned the Rose Queen last week, was dressed as Cupid from the movie "Valentine's Day."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36567
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 1, 2023
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 1, 2023
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade-2024
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade-Royal Court
Arcadia High School students
Halloween
Stillitano, Naomi
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