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Second grade teacher, Victoria Heggem, at Camino Grove Elementary School, has won a federal court battle to pay her union dues to a charity because of religious convictions.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24971
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 17, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 17, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Schools - Camino Grove Elementary School
California Teachers Association
National Right to Work Legal Foundation
Heggem, Victoria
Item ID
25151AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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George Schwary's horse Georgie Boy and jockey Garrett Gomez won the $150,000 Grade II San Carlos Handicap at Santa Anita Park. Georgie Boy was trained by Kathy Walsh. Georgie Boy won last month's Sunshine Millions Spring.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31389
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 22, 2009
Pages
p. C2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 22, 2009
Pages
p. C2
Subjects
Georgie Boy (horse)
Gomez, Garrett (jockey)
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Schwary, George
Walsh, Kathy
Item ID
31582AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia police are searching for a man in his 50s wanted in the attempted kidnapping of a 5-year-old school girl on a field trip to the Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita. He was described as Asian, with gray hair and a bald spot on top of his head. He was 5'8" tall, 170 pounds, with yellow teeth, blue pants, and white sneakers.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31314
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 11, 2008
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 11, 2008
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Abduction
Crime and Criminals
Kidnapping
Item ID
31509AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park jockeys play basketball against Holy Angels School's 7th and 8th grade boys at the annual Jockey Game, part of the school's 60th anniversary celebration.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30410
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Anniversaries
Arcadia Schools
Holy Angels School
Jockeys
Josephson, Claire
Item ID
30597AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School freshman Francis Dean, top tennis player, is shown in photo.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31795
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 5, 2009
Pages
p. C3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 5, 2009
Pages
p. C3
Subjects
Arcadia High School sports - girls tennis
Dean, Francis
Item ID
31992AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Methodist Hospital is currently displaying an exhibit honoring its School of Nursing that operated for 43 years, from 1915 until 1958. The school had graduated about 1500 students. Estella Parker Quist, 92, class of 1931, is shown in a photo.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29710
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 24, 2001
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 24, 2001
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Exhibits
Nursing schools
Nurses
Methodist Hospital
Item ID
29895AN
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Foothill Unity Center had its annual Back to School Distribution event at Santa Anita Park. The project provides new school supplies and clothing for children from kindergarten through 12th grade, to low-income families in Altadena, Arcadia, Bradbury, Duarte, Monrovia, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, and South Pasadena. Dionna Robledo, shown in photo, gives haircut to boy.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31173
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 22, 2008
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 22, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Foothill Unity Center
Robledo, Dionna
Valadez, Terry
Volunteers - volunteerism
Item ID
31368AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School 11th grade student Alison Michener approached Arcadia Police Department about conducting a DUI Awareness Program at school.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29742
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 31, 2001
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 31, 2001
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Michener, Alison
Arcadia High School students
Alcohol
Driving Under Influence (DUI) Awareness Program
California Highway Patrol (CHP)
Item ID
29927AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia High School Class of 2001 graduated 780 students at the Santa Anita Park race track. Valedictorian Vincent Auyeung gave a speech. This was the second year the graduation was held at the race track.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29815
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 21, 2001
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 21, 2001
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Graduations - Class of 2001
Item ID
30000AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Eighth grade students at Foothills Middle School participate in Frontier Days, a celebration of how pioneers lived in the old west. Student Nick Board is shown in a photo.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29030
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 8, 2001
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 8, 2001
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Foothills Middle School
Frontier Days Celebration
Board, Nick
Item ID
29217AN
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Newspaper Index
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On August 25, needy children will go to Santa Anita Park race track to receive free clothes and school supplies from Foothill Unity Center.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29618
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 12, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 12, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Foothill Unity Center
Back-to-School Distribution - 2005
Item ID
29802AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School girls' golf team is improving and hopes to finish in the top five of the CIF Divisional team championships. The article includes a photo of the team.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29173
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 29, 2004
Pages
p. C2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 29, 2004
Pages
p. C2
Subjects
High school athletes
Sports teams
Golf
Girls team sports
Greep, Mike (coach)
Arcadia High School
Lee, Shirley
Aizumi, Ashley
Cerni, Lindsey
Espiritu, Monica
Lee, Katherine
Lai, Jessica
Item ID
29358AN
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Results of the new state test called the CAT-6 (California Achievement Test), which replaces the old SAT-9 test, show that around 70% of the students at each grade level in the Arcadia schools are in the national norm of 50th percentile in reading, and half or more of these students tested at or above the 75th percentile. Each grade level has a breakdown, and comparison with Monrovia students.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31848
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 28, 2003
Pages
p. 16
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 28, 2003
Pages
p. 16
Subjects
Arcadia Schools
California state tests
Students
Test Scores
Item ID
32045AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Celebrity and super model Tyra Banks' television show "Top Model" did a photo shoot at Santa Anita Park Race Track, using semi-nude models. Pete Siberell, Director of Community Service at Santa Anita Park, described it as "kinda sleazy."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31720
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 21, 2009
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 21, 2009
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Banks, Tyra
Models
Television shows
Item ID
31917AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The Foothill Unity Center had its 7th annual Back-to-School distribution of school supplies at Santa Anita Park race track. More than 1,200 low income children from surrounding areas were served.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29660
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 26, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 26, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Back-to-School Distribution - Seventh Annual
Charity events
Foothill Unity Center
Nonprofit organizations
Item ID
29845AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Construction begins on Anoakia luxury housing development, on the former site of Anoakia, Anita Baldwin's mansion, on the corner of Baldwin Avenue and Foothill Boulevard in Arcadia. The Anoakia Mansion was demolished last August to make way for 31 homes to be built by Hover Development Inc. of Newport Beach. Anita Baldwin, daughter of Lucky Baldwin, lived there until her death in 1939. It was used as a girls' school from 1941 to the late 1970s. The new housing development is 19 acres.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33318
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 16, 2001
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 16, 2001
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Anoakia housing development
Anoakia Mansion--history
Anoakia School
Baldwin, Anita
Item ID
33514AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School graduated 801 students at a ceremony at Santa Anita Park. Speakers included class president Pamela Hun and valedictorian Borna Dabiri. Photos of Rachel Reed and Daisey Tsao are inclcuded.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31534
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 19, 2003
Pages
p. 1 w/photos
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 19, 2003
Pages
p. 1 w/photos
Subjects
Arcadia High School graduation - 2003 - commencement ceremonies
Item ID
31730AN
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Budget cuts have caused the Arcadia Unified School District to rely on the Arcadia Educational Foundation to provide summer classes from sports to cooking and English and Math.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28144
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 1, 2004
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 1, 2004
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Arcadia Educational Foundation
Summer enrichment programs
California State budget cuts
Summer school
Item ID
28337AN
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Newspaper Index
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A suspect, described as a Chinese woman in her mid-50s, 5 feet tall and 100 pounds, may have attempted to kidnap a 7-year old girl from Holly Avenue Elementary School. She was unsuccessful and may have mental health issues.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30398
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 15, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 15, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Kidnap
Item ID
30585AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School graduates some 800 students at the commencement held at Santa Anita Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25640
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 14, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 14, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
25840AN
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Newspaper Index
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