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Health care workers and employees at Arcadia Methodist Hospital voted to unionize. They voted to join Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union (CHEU) for a stronger collective voice on patient care issues, especially in improving safe staffing.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 30, 2020
Pages
p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 30, 2020
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Arcadia Methodist Hospital
Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union (CHEU)
Employees
Health care workers
Labor unions
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Food company executives Feng Wu Lam, who owns South El Monte based Golden Food, Inc. and her husband Wei Wen Wu, the company's manager, face insurance fraud, wage theft charges. They are accused of underreporting their payroll to workers' compensation insurance carriers by about $4.5 million between 2015 and 2019. They are both Arcadia residents.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Insurance fraud
Lam, Feng Wu
Wage theft
Workers' compensation insurance
Wu, Wei Wen
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Fire Department will lay off four employees due to budget cuts.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 15, 1998
January 22, 1998
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 15, 1998
January 22, 1998
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Budget
Fire Department
Layoffs
Item ID
26134AN
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Newspaper Index
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Vons Companies will close 11 supermarkets, lay off 250 employees, and dramatically cut executive salaries and benefits following a $20.9 million quarterly loss.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 1993
Pages
p. A-1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 1993
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Vons Companies
Item ID
622AN
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Newspaper Index
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City Council passed a rosy 1999-2000 budget, restoring numerous cuts and giving many city employees their first raises in six years.

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Pasadena Star News The Star
Date
June 23, 1999
Pages
p. 1
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Pasadena Star News The Star
Date
June 23, 1999
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Budget
Item ID
14486AN
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Newspaper Index
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Three firefighters and a fire technician will be laid off February 1 in the latest cost-cutting move in the city's five-year struggle to balance the budget.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 1998
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 1998
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Fire Department
Item ID
12110AN
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Newspaper Index
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Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests continue to build momentum across the nation and around the world demanding justice for the death of George Floyd and bringing the issue of systemic racism to Arcadia, where hundreds gathered to protest at Arcadia County Park.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 11, 2020
Pages
p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 11, 2020
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Activism
Black Lives Matter
Floyd, George
Protests
Racism
Taylor, Breonna
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Republican Bob Margett and Democrat Brent Decker are set to do battle in a June 6 run-off election for the Assembly seat made vacant in January when Monrovia Republican Dick Mountjoy left the Assembly and took a seat in the State Senate.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 12, 1995
Pages
p. 1 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 12, 1995
Pages
p. 1 photo
Subjects
Margett, Bob
Item ID
4411AN
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Donald D. Pellegrino, 53, died of a heart attack Christmas Eve during a family gathering at his Arcadia home. The 35-year Arcadia resident was elected to the City Council in 1978 and served as mayor in 1982, 1983, and 1985 during his 8 years on the panel. Photo.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 30, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 30, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
City Council 1980 - 1989
Pellegrino, Donald E.
Item ID
1039AN
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Methodist Hospital has started publishing what appears to be the first Spanish-language community health magazine in the San Gabriel Valley.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 7, 1995
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 7, 1995
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Hospitals - Arcadia Methodist Hospital
Item ID
5395AN
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Arcadia High School offers unique peer mentoring program for students with autism. Upperclass students mentor their peers with autism. The program has been around for six years. Genevieve Huffman, speech pathologist at Arcadia High School, is founder of this program. She explains that autism is a neurobehavioral spectrum disorder that can include a range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communications, and others, and also reflects the wide variation in strengths possessed by each person with autism.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 11, 2021
Pages
p. 8
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 11, 2021
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Autism
Huffman, Genevieve
Peer mentoring programs
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Exactly a year after the Sierra Madre earthquake, the Arcadia Post Office remains shored up by wooden beams. Renovation of the structure may begin soon.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 28, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 28, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Earthquakes
Item ID
92AN
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Newspaper Index
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More than seven months after Arcadia's post office was damaged in the Sierra Madre quake, it remains shored up by wooden beams. Preliminary plans for renovation have been developed.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 9, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 9, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Postal Service
Item ID
27AN
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Rancho High School may be renamed Rancho Alternative School and allowed to house additional programs.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 26, 1997
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 26, 1997
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Schools - Rancho High School
Item ID
10273AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Six of the Arcadia Unified District's 11 schools have new principals.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 11, 1991
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 11, 1991
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Employees
Item ID
2808AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School graduates are listed. Six outstanding seniors are highlighted.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 13, 1991
Pages
p. B-10 photos
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 13, 1991
Pages
p. B-10 photos
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
3004AN
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26 local schools earn high honors, the 2023 California Distinguished Schools award, including Hugo Reid Elementary, Camino Grove Elementary, Highland Oaks Elementary, Rancho Learning Center, Baldwin Stocker Elementary, Holly Avenue Elementary and Longley Way Elementary School from the Arcadia Unified School District.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 13, 2023
Pages
p. A3, A9
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 13, 2023
Pages
p. A3, A9
Subjects
Arcadia Schools
Awards, honors, recognitions
Baldwin Stocker Elementary School
California Distinguished Schools
Camino Grove Elementary School
Highland Oaks Elementary School
Holly Avenue Elementary School
Hugo Reid Elementary School
Longley Way Elementary School
Rancho Learning Center
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History-Rancho Santa Anita (1838-1947)

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Start Date
1838
End Date
1947
Contents
1. Chain of title. Three copies given to Arcadia Public Library on the Rancho's fiftieth anniversary. 2. "Santa Anita Rancho history told in book." News clip, circa 1956. 3. "Our community." Article from Arcadia Savings and Loan brochure. 4. "Arcadia, City of Arcadia." San Gabriel Valley Adver…
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Start Date
1838
End Date
1947
Contents
1. Chain of title. Three copies given to Arcadia Public Library on the Rancho's fiftieth anniversary.
2. "Santa Anita Rancho history told in book." News clip, circa 1956.
3. "Our community." Article from Arcadia Savings and Loan brochure.
4. "Arcadia, City of Arcadia." San Gabriel Valley Advertiser, February 26, 1969 by I. Hope.
5. "Arcadia gets publicity." News clip, 1927 copied from Alton Green's scrapbook.
6. "The Romance of Rancho Santa Anita." Booklet by Rancho Santa Anita, circa 1948. Eight copies.
7. Lasca Leaves, October 1967. Three copies.
8. "The Romance of the Ranchos." Booklet by Palmer Conner, Title Insurance and Trust Company, 1941. Six copies. Insert of 1919 map of Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Los Angeles County.
9. "Rancho Santa Anita ... trials of ownership." Lasca Leaves, December 1975. Two copies.
10. "The people of Rancho Santa Anita, Part II." Lasca Leaves, July 1956.
11. "From romance to racehorses." Westways, February 1974.
12. "Ranch Santa Anita." Section of the book, Brief Sketches of the History of the Ranchos San Pascual, Santa Anita ...etc. by J.M. Miller.
13. Lasca Leaves, December 1975.
14. a. "Historic Santa Anita: the development of the land." Brochure by the Arboretum, circa 1976. 14b. Historic Santa Anita the Development of the Land, undated. 14c. Historic Santa Anita the Development of the Land, originally printed by California Arboretum Foundation 1976, Revised and reprinted by Los Voluntarios 2006.
15. "Expedients." Four pages detailing Reid's claim. Copied from the collection of Huntington Library.
16. "Santa Anita Ranch, Rancho Santa Anita." Articles from The Westerner's Brand Book, published by Los Angeles Corral, 1956.
17. "The old and new Santa Anita." Westways, January 1948.
18. "Chain of horticulture." Lasca Leaves, July 1951.
19. "The restorations at Rancho Santa Anita." Lasca Leaves, January 1961.
20. "Background to Rancho Santa Anita." By Florence Slocum, circa 1969.
21. "People say." Arcadia Tribune, February - April, 1941. A series of eight articles commemorating Rancho Santa Anita's 100th birthday.
22. "Rancho Santa Anita 'Place of Many Waters.'" Lasca Leaves, October 1967 by Susanna Bryant Dakin.
23. Historic calendar of events of Ranch Santa Anita. Peacock Call, September/October 1978.
24. Manuscript of Mrs. C.W. (Emma Elinor Hines) Young. From the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, October 1978. Photocopy of handwritten manuscript and typed copy.
25. "Owners and cattle brands of the Rancho Santa Anita." The Branding Iron, June 1979 by Jack McCaskill.
26. "The Baldwin legacy." Lasca Leaves, June 1976 by Sandy Snider.
27. "Santa Anita Rancho - history told in book." Pasadena Independent, January 11, 1953. Pasadena Star News, September 23, 1956.
28. "Pasadena the Crown of the Valley: a souvenir." Pasadena Board of Trade, 1893-1894 by E. Norman Baker. From the historical collection of William F. Salisbury.
29. "Rancho Santa Anita - 'Place of Many Waters'." Junior League Community News, October 1957 by Susanna Bryant Dakin.
30. "Rancho Santa Anita's colorful past." News clip, undated.
31. "Rancho Santa Anita, chuck full of early California memories; one of the Southland's most beautiful spots." Arcadia Tribune, December 6, 1937, page 1.
32. "Historic ranchos' sale recalls pioneer days." Los Angeles Times, April 5, 1936, Part V, page 1.
33. "Two famous holdings to be subdivided soon. Santa Anita and La Cienega Ranch acreage purchased for vast residential development." Los Angeles Times, April 5, 1936, Part V.
34. Town Rambler by Marjorie Hesse: description of Rancho Santa Anita and the arrangement of the rooms at the old adobe house as told by Miss Lena McCulley and second cousin of E.J. "Lucky" Baldwin, Mrs. H. H. Cross. Arcadia Tribune, June 22, 1938. Copied from Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #1, April 1936-Jan. 1, 1939. Arcadia Historical Society.
35. "The Romance of California Land Titles" by Stuart O'Melveny. Title Insurance and Trust Company, 1928. (Rancho Santa Anita mentioned on page 13.)
36. Rancho Santa Anita and the development of San Marino and Sierra Madre. From pages 91, 93, 94, 100 of the book Pasadena Area History by Manuel Pineda and E. Caswell Perry (1972).
Subjects
History-Rancho Santa Anita (1838-1947)
Physical Description
2 folders
Item ID
103AF
Collection
Subject Files
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Arcadia High School students took first place for the second year in a row in the regional competition of the National Bicentennial Competition on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

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Newspaper
Star Tribune
Date
December 13, 1992
Pages
p. A-2
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Newspaper
Star Tribune
Date
December 13, 1992
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
299AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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All Arcadia Unified School District's elementary schools earn historic acclaim in California's coveted 2023 Distinguished Schools Program. The award winning Arcadia elementary schools are Hugo Reid Elementary, Camino Grove Elementary, Highland Oaks Elementary, alternative learning program Rancho Learning Center, Baldwin Stocker Elementary, Holly Avenue Elementary and Longley Way Elementary School.

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Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
January 14, 2023
Pages
p. 7
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Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
January 14, 2023
Pages
p. 7
Subjects
Arcadia Schools
Awards, honors, recognitions
Baldwin Stocker Elementary School
California Department of Education
California Distinguished Schools
Camino Grove Elementary School
Highland Oaks Elementary School
Holly Avenue Elementary School
Hugo Reid Elementary School
Longley Way Elementary School
Rancho Learning Center
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Newspaper Index
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