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Arcadia resident and LAUSD educator Jenny Lu writes book encouraging girls to enter STEM fields. Her book is titled Emma Ren: Robot Engineer and is aimed at children ages 4-8.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35944
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 25, 2021
Pages
p. 2
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 25, 2021
Pages
p. 2
Subjects
Arcadia Authors
Arcadia residents
Lu, Jenny
Teachers
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The surprising Anna May Wong. Like many, author Katie Salisbury was startled to learn of the star, then couldn't stop looking. Wong was a famous Chinese-American movie star in the 1920s and 1930s and had her own television series in the early 1950s. Salisbury's nonfiction book about Wong's life is titled Not Your China Doll. The author is half-Chinese and grew up in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36657
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 24, 2024
Pages
p. C4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 24, 2024
Pages
p. C4
Subjects
Actresses
Arcadia Authors - Salisbury, Katie
Nonfiction books
Wong, Anna May
Collection
Newspaper Index
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All-Area Baseball. Pasadena Star News names Mike Ebner of Maranatha High School, as Player of the Year. All-Area team consists of four from Arcadia: Pitcher Ian Hoffstetter, Infielders Danny Chavez, Alex Dolan, and Jack Esguerra.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36261
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 2022
Pages
p. B2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 2022
Pages
p. B2
Subjects
Baseball
Chavez, Danny
Dolan, Alex
Ebner, Mike
Esguerra, Jack
Sports
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Newspaper Index
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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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Los Angeles County: official count of confirmed novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases at 662; one of the fatalities younger than 18 years of age. There are 4 cases in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35690
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 25, 2020
Pages
p. A3, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 25, 2020
Pages
p. A3, A4
Subjects
Coronavirus-COVID-19
Epidemics
Diseases
Illnesses
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Pandemics
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Chen Suen becomes first Asian American fire chief in Arcadia. He takes over from Barry Spriggs who retired November 8, after 29 years of service. Suen is an Arcadia resident. He emigrated from Taiwan. He graduated from Arcadia High School, and attended Loyola Law School, UC Irvine, and Santa Ana College, before spending the last 18 years with Arcadia Fire Department.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36371
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 15, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 15, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A7
Subjects
Arcadia Fire Chiefs
Arcadia Fire Department
Asian-Americans
Spriggs, Barry
Suen, Chen
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Obituary/death notice. Arcadia leader Roger Chandler dies. Law enforcement professional (more than two decades in LA Sheriff's Department, Chief of Police for LA Housing Authority, created Hawaiian Gardens Police Department) and longtime resident served 24 years on Arcadia City Council.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36105
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 16, 2021
Pages
p. A3, A5
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 16, 2021
Pages
p. A3, A5
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Chandler, Roger
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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
Pages
p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 9, 2020
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
McEwan, Jack
Verlato, April
Veterans
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Arcadia Resident Receives Cal State Faculty Innovation and Leadership Award. James Brady, an anthropology professor at Cal State L.A. and Arcadia resident, has received the Faculty Innovation and Leadership Award for his mentorship of students.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35825
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 27, 2020
Pages
p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 27, 2020
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Arcadia residents
Awards-honors-recognitions
Brady, James
Professors
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Indictment implicates Baldwin Park's ex-city attorney Robert Tafoya in $70,000 bribery scheme to help secure cannabis permit from a vote by Councilman Ricardo Pacheco. Special agents with the FBI and IRS arrested former Compton Councilmember Isaac Galvan, 36, and another person, a 50-year-old Arcadia resident, who is the owner and operator of a cannabis grower that obtained a permit in Baldwin Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36548
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 24, 2023
Pages
p. A1, A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 24, 2023
Pages
p. A1, A8
Subjects
Bribery
Baldwin Park, California
Cannabis
Crime and Criminals
Tafoya, Robert
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107-year-old Caridad Papa dances through life full of blessings. She is a former resident of Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35789
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 9, 2020
Pages
p. A11
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 9, 2020
Pages
p. A11
Subjects
Asian Americans
Centenarians
Filipinas
Papa, Caridad
Rivera, Anissa
Senior Citizens
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Arcadia High School student Stanley Liu, in photo, entered and earned second place at the annual Los Angeles County Science Fair, which staged its competition online this year due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Liu's project was a microfluidic device capable of pinpointing biomarkers associated with disease in human blood plasma. He will be a finalist for the International Science and Engineering Fair.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35692
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 1, 2020
Pages
p. A3, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 1, 2020
Pages
p. A3, A4
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Coronavirus-COVID-19
Epidemics
Liu, Stanley
Los Angeles County Science Fair
Pandemics
Collection
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Jockey Flavien Prat wins 6 consecutive races at Santa Anita Park's winter-spring meet. He became the fourth rider to win 6 races on a single card twice at the Arcadia track, when he accomplished this during Friday's eight-race program.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35937
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 13, 2021
Pages
p. B8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 13, 2021
Pages
p. B8
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
Jockeys
Prat, Flavien
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
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Obituary/death notice. Family, friends mourn loss of Arcadia resident Arekel Carranco after fatal hit-and-run on Huntington Drive on June 30, by a 17-year-old driver.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36513
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 20, 2023
Pages
p. 27
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 20, 2023
Pages
p. 27
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Carranco, Arekel
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Caridad Papa is 110 years old, a super centenarian, whose wish is no more wars. She is a longtime parishioner of Holy Angels Catholic Church in Arcadia. She is a former resident of Arcadia. She grew up in The Philippines, married, raised 5 children, and settled in California. Candy Colayco is her daughter.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36523
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 13, 2023
Pages
p. A3, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 13, 2023
Pages
p. A3, A6
Subjects
Asian Americans
Colayco, Candy
Centenarians
Filipinas
Papa, Caridad
Rettig, Kevin, Reverend
Rivera, Anissa
Senior Citizens
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Effort underway by Arcadia resident and environmentalist Cameron Stone to save historic Adams Pack Station after Bobcat Fire destroyed 15 of the 100-year-old cabins in Big Santa Anita Canyon above Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35853
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 15, 2020
Pages
p. 12
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 15, 2020
Pages
p. 12
Subjects
Adams Pack Station
Bobcat Fire
Fires
Stone, Cameron
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New app Sound Mind provides music and visual therapy with a focus on meditation and mental health. A veteran Brian Femminella and an Arcadia resident Travis Chen created the app.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36102
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 11, 2021
Pages
p. 1, 13
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 11, 2021
Pages
p. 1, 13
Subjects
Apps
Arcadia residents
Chen, Travis
Femminella, Brian
Mental health
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Technology
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Arcadia City Clerk Gene Glasco retires after 12 years. Photo of Glasco with Arcadia City Council. See VF for hard copy.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36674
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 20, 2024
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 20, 2024
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia City Clerks
Glasco, Gene
Retirements
Veterans
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Arcadia High School's Orchesis Dance Company presents first in-person production in two years. It is called Maze of Memories.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36229
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 28, 2022
Pages
p. 8
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 28, 2022
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Arcadia Performing Arts Center
Fong, Jolie
Liu, Athena
Orchesis Dance Company
Wu, Ashley
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Arcadia High School badminton team completes a historic undefeated season with a perfect 22-0 record, winning their third CIF championship title in four years. Coach Mike Stiles formed the team nine years ago in 2016 and will be retiring at the end of this season.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36686
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
May 18, 2024
Pages
p. 16
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Mountain Views News
Date
May 18, 2024
Pages
p. 16
Subjects
Arcadia High School sports-badminton
Ng, Derrick
Stiles, Mike
Wang, James
Wong, Leo
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Newspaper Index
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