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Arcadia City Council decided that Arcadia residents will not be allowed to change their house addresses, despite concerns some have about the fear of the number four. See same story on November 3, 2011, pages S1 and S2 of San Gabriel Valley edition of the San Marino Tribune.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32636
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 4, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 4, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A8
Subjects
Arcadia City Council--2010-2019
Chinese culture
House numbers
Luong, Daniel (photo)
Property values
Real Estate
Item ID
32833AN
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Newspaper Index
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After a five-year hiatus, Arcadia City Council is considering reinstating a policy that would let property owners pay to be assigned a more auspicious house number, which some believe would improve the value of their home. The number 4 in a street address is considered a bad omen in many Asian cultures. In Mandarin language, the word "four" sounds like the word for death, while the number eight is considered lucky, because it sounds like the word for prosper. Arcadia's Asian population is approaching 60% and most potential buyers will be Asian. In a 3-2 vote, Arcadia City Council endorsed the move in principle and directed staff to report back on the costs involved.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32398
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 15, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 15, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Arcadia City Council--2010-2019
House numbers
Property values
Item ID
32596AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Elks Lodge, which is a non-profit charitable organization, has donated $5,590 since April 2011 to local organizations such as Arcadia High School baseball, City of Hope, Salvation Army, Special Olympics, Children's Wish Foundation and many more. The lodge has been located in Arcadia since 1957, at 27 West Huntington Drive.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32529
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 15, 2011
Pages
p. 14
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 15, 2011
Pages
p. 14
Subjects
Arcadia Elks Lodge
Charities
Organizations
Item ID
32728AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia Fire Department has formed a special relationship with Dean Street Station 105 in Brooklyn, New York. One Voice For Tomorrow is a local non-profit organization that helps raise money for the Dean Street Station Fund and to help the Arcadia Fire Association Widows and Orphan Fund.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30676
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 24, 2002
Pages
p. 24
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 24, 2002
Pages
p. 24
Subjects
Firefighters - firemen
Fundraisers
Hutcheson, Dave
Marston, Ken
Non-profit organizations
One Voice for Tomorrow
September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001
Item ID
30864AN
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Arcadia City Council has agreed to reconsider the controversial policy of not allowing homeowners to change their addresses, after several homeowners complained they can't sell their homes at fair market value, due to a popular Chinese belief that the number four is unlucky. Arcadia Mayor Gary Kovacic said, "...I think we have to look at the true economic impact of this." Councilman Roger Chandler said, "I don't think we should operate public policy on superstition."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32556
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 2, 2011
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 2, 2011
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia City Council--2010-2019
Chinese culture
House numbers
Luong, Daniel (photo)
Property values
Real Estate
Item ID
32755AN
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Arcadia resident Thomas V. McKernan, Jr., president and chief executive officer of Automobile Club of California, has been elected president of the non-profit Los Angeles Police Foundation, which was created to help fund police safety programs.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30034
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 23, 2001
Pages
p. 9
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 23, 2001
Pages
p. 9
Subjects
McKernan, Thomas V., Jr.
Los Angeles Police Foundation
Non-profit organizations
Item ID
30221AN
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Arcadia City Council today will once more reconsider whether to allow customer-requested address changes in light of concerns about a Chinese superstition involving the number four. Since the number four sounds like the word for death in Mandarin and is considered unlucky, some realtors and residents have argued that addresses that end in the number four are more difficult to sell and affect home prices. The cost of processing an address change would be about $2600.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33079
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 3, 2012
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 3, 2012
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia City Council--2010-2019
Chinese culture
House numbers
Luong, Daniel (photo)
Property values
Real Estate
Street addresses
Item ID
33276AN
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Newspaper Index
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Monrovia's Aztec Hotel is showcasing fine art in its non-profit Aztec Art Center Route 66 Gallery. Visitors are not just from Monrovia, but from Pasadena, Duarte and Arcadia. A painting by Manuel Barillas is pictured. The hotel is owned by Kathie Reece-McNeill. The hotel was designed in 1925 by English architect Robert Stacy-Judd and was inspired by Mayan and Aztect structures. The building has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31378
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 5, 2009
Pages
p. B1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 5, 2009
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Art
Aztec Hotel - Monrovia, California
Barillas, Manuel
Historic Buildings
Monrovia Association of Fine Arts
Pettie, Ron
Route 66 Gallery
Reece-McNeill, Kathie
Scully, Richard
Stacy-Judd, Robert
Item ID
31572AN
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7-year-old Maria Lugo Rocha of Sinaloa, Mexico, is recovering after a surgery to remove a bone tumor from her chin, performed last week at Arcadia Methodist Hospital. LIGA International, a non-profit group of medical experts, pilots and volunteers, helped to bring the girl to Arcadia to have the surgery.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30999
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 9, 2008
Pages
p. News 4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 9, 2008
Pages
p. News 4
Subjects
LIGA International
Non-profit organizations
Rocha, Maria Lugo
Surgeries
Item ID
31194AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia City Council has decided that local non-profit gruops can put up banners at seven locations in the city. The city charges $50 per banner.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30725
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 5, 2002
Pages
p. 19
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 5, 2002
Pages
p. 19
Subjects
Street banners policy
Item ID
30913AN
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Matt Denny's, an Arcadia restaurant, raises over $30,000 for childhood cancer research at its St. Baldrick's Day fundraiser.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34512
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 17, 2016
Pages
p. 2
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 17, 2016
Pages
p. 2
Subjects
Cancer
Matt Denny's Ale House Restaurant
Item ID
34704AN
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Arcadia Kiwanis Club to hold fundraiser to help children in the community.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33213
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 14, 2008
Pages
p. 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 14, 2008
Pages
p. 11
Subjects
Arcadia Kiwanis Club
Cheng, Paul
Organizations
Item ID
33410AN
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The FBI is asking for the public's help in finding the "Fedex bandits" who have robbed banks throughout Southern California including Arcadia on October 24, 2003.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27377
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 14, 2004
Pages
p. A2
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 14, 2004
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Bank robbery
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
27576AN
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Newspaper Index
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Matt Denny's Ale House in Arcadia raises over $46,000 for childhood cancer research at its 11th St. Baldrick's event.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33459
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 21, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 23
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 21, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 23
Subjects
Charities
Fundraisers
Matt Denny's Ale House
Restaurants
Ring, Travis (Arcadia firefighter in photo)
Item ID
33654AN
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Matt Denny's Ale House Restaurant in Arcadia has fundraiser, shaves 160 heads and raises over $67,000 for childhood cancer research. Bruce Marrs and Brad Haney in photo.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33790
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 27, 2014
Pages
p. 1, 15
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 27, 2014
Pages
p. 1, 15
Subjects
Haney, Brad
Marrs, Bruce
Matt Denny's Ale House Restaurant
Item ID
33985AN
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Story regarding a walk to fight hunger and poverty.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 8, 2002
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 8, 2002
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Charities, CROP Walk
Item ID
23234AN
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Newspaper Index
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Local area boy Justin Liu (photograph) helped initiate a school supply drive to help children at Foothill Family Service. He is a member of Boy Scout Troop 351.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28915
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 29, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 29, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Boy Scout Troops --Eagle Scouts
Liu, Justin
Foothill Family Service
Item ID
29106AN
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Newspaper Index
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Annual Taste of Arcadia, an Arcadia Chamber of Commerce event, will take place Monday, September 19 at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. As always, a percentage of proceeds goes to three local non-profit organizations. This year, the beneficiaries are Assistance League of Arcadia, the Boy Scouts of America/Lucky Baldwin District, and the Arboretum Foundation.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32531
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 15, 2011
Pages
p. 1, 13
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 15, 2011
Pages
p. 1, 13
Subjects
Arcadia Chamber of Commerce--Taste of Arcadia
Organizations
Item ID
32730AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Fire Department gets help from Holy Angels School students, collecting stuffed animals to comfort children, on future fire calls.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33212
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly,
Date
February 14, 2008
Pages
p. 30
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly,
Date
February 14, 2008
Pages
p. 30
Subjects
Arcadia Fire Department
Bakey, Stan
Item ID
33409AN
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Arcadia welcomes the 49th Pasadena Showcase House of Design. The house will be a 1941 Monterey Colonial house designed by renowned architect Roland E. Coate. It will be renovated by Southern California's prominent interior and exterior designers and will open for public tours April 21-May 19, 2013. The showcase house is a fundraiser that supports bringing music and art programs to children.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33240
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 15, 2012
Pages
p. 3, 19
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 15, 2012
Pages
p. 3, 19
Subjects
Coate, Roland E.
Historic houses
Hofgaarden, Kathryn
Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts (PSHA)
Pasadena Showcase House of Design
Item ID
33437AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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