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City of Arcadia officials will be traveling to China and Taiwan two two weeks to foster a sister-city relationship by meeting with local government officials there to learn more about government services, residential development and the culture in an effort to better serve Arcadia. More than 50% of Arcadia residents are of Chinese and Taiwanese heritage. The trip tentatively set for March 9-April 1 will cost an estimated $65,000 with $20,000 of it donated by Chinese companies. See VF Sister City.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34070
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 8, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 8, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia City Council--2010-2019
Beck, Tom
Companhia de Comercial Dingyuan Limitada
Sichuan Arrow Recovery Technology Company Ltd.
Sister City
Tay, Sho
Wuo, John
Item ID
34264AN
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Experts question donations for travel. Delegation from Arcadia City Hall given $30,000 from two Chinese firms and one local developer for trip to Asia, including Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong in China and Taipei, Taiwan. Government and ethics experts say the cash donations to the City of Arcadia for this trip raises concerns about transparency and influence. The trips are designed study sister city relationships, learn about the culture and talk to Chinese and Taiwanese officials. Those traveling include Mayor John Wuo and his wife, Council Sho Tay and wife, Councilman Tom Beck, City Attorney Stephen Deitsch, City Manager Dominic Lazzaretto, Fire Chief Kurt Norwood, Recreation Director Sara Somogyi, Public Works Director Tom Tait, and George and Sandy Wuo, who are relatives of the mayor. See VF Sister City.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34072
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 23, 2015
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 23, 2015
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia City Council--2010-2019
Companhia de Comercial Dingyuan Limitada
Perfect Brothers Development Co.
Sichuan Arrow Recovery Technology Company Ltd.
Sister City
Taixing, China
Item ID
34266AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia City Council approves $30,000 for officials' trip to China and Taiwan. The purpose is to foster a better understanding of Asian culture in order to better serve Arcadia, which is heavily populated by residents from China and Taiwan. Establishing sister city relationships with Chinese and Taiwanese municipalities is another goal of the trip. See VF Sister City.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34071
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 19, 2015
Pages
p. 1, 14, 15
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 19, 2015
Pages
p. 1, 14, 15
Subjects
Arcadia City Council--2010-2019
Sister City
Item ID
34265AN
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California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) warned City of Arcadia of gift limits regarding the trip to China and Taiwan that city officials are planning for cultural learning and sister city relationships. See VF Sister City.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34073
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 23, 2015
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 23, 2015
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Arcadia City Council--2010-2019
California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC)
California Political Reform Act
Sister City
Item ID
34267AN
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Newspaper Index
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Trip to China and Taiwan called off by Arcadia City Manager Dominic Lazzaretto, in light of recent "questions" about city officials' motives. The $30,000 in donations to fund part of the trip will not be accepted. See VF Sister City. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 1, February 26, 2015.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34074
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 26, 2015
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 26, 2015
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia City Council--2010-2019
Lazzaretto, Dominic
Sister City
Item ID
34268AN
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Newspaper Index
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Officials cancel China trip, react to allegation of impropriety. See VF Sister City.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34075
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 26, 2015
Pages
p. 1, 15
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 26, 2015
Pages
p. 1, 15
Subjects
Arcadia City Council--2010-2019
Sister City
Item ID
34269AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia City Council hears residents' concerns about large housing development and its associated loss of native sycamore trees. Council official abandons China and Taiwan (sister city) trip for now.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34115
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 5, 2015
Pages
p. 15
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 5, 2015
Pages
p. 15
Subjects
Arcadia City Council
Mansions
Sister City
Trees
Item ID
34309AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Marching Koalas School Band from Arcadia's Sister City, Newcastle, Australia, will visit the city for the second time in five years.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3340
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 18, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 18, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Sister City - Newcastle, Australia
Item ID
3236AN
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Arcadia will receive a coveted international city award for its sister cities program with Newcastle, Australia, in ceremonies on Saturday, July 21, at the conclusion of the 24th annual Sister Cities International Conference in Denver, Colorado.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3338
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 28, 1984
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 28, 1984
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Sister City - Newcastle, Australia
Item ID
3234AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia City Council denies consideration for first application in the Friendship Cities Program, proposed by council member Sho Tay for a friendship between Arcadia and Dongfang City, Hainan Province, China. A majority of council members are concerned about the politics in supporting a city in China that is currently embroiled in the South China Seas protests, such as Hong Kong.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35622
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 21, 2019
Pages
p. 11
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 21, 2019
Pages
p. 11
Subjects
Arcadia City Council-2010-2019
Friendship Cities Program
Tay, Sho
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Newcastle, New South Wales, Arcadia's Australian sister city, walked away with all the honors in recent competition staged by Australia Sister Cities Association in Alice Springs. Reg Mason, vice-president of Newcastle Sister City Committee is in town for first reunion of Arcadia High School band members and other Arcadians who were in Newcastle last July.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3329
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 10, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 10, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Sister City - Newcastle, Australia
Item ID
3225AN
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Two teachers and sixteen students from Newcastle, Australia, Arcadia's sister city, were here for a visit.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3339
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 29, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 29, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Sister City - Newcastle, Australia
Item ID
3235AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia is one of 27 American cities and their sister cities that will receive Reader's Digest's 24th annual Sister Cities International Award.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3322
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 2, 1986
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 2, 1986
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Sister Cities International Award
Item ID
3219AN
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Newspaper Index
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Kimberlee Scott has been presented with the 1983 Max Fiddler/David Lister Sister City Youth Achievement Award.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3331
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 7, 1983
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 7, 1983
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Sister City - Newcastle, Australia
Scott, Kimberly
Item ID
3227AN
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Newspaper Index
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John Bunton is a reporter for The Star, a weekly paper published in Arcadia's sister city, Newcastle, Australia. Bunton has been visiting in the U.S. with his family.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3327
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 1, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 1, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Sister City - Newcastle, Australia
Item ID
3223AN
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Newspaper Index
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A high school marching band from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, Arcadia's Sister City, will march in the Pasadena Rose Parade on Jan. 2, 1984.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3330
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 3, 1983
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 3, 1983
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Sister City - Newcastle, Australia
Item ID
3226AN
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Newspaper Index
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A group under the direction of the Arcadia Friendship Club will visit Tripolis, Greece, Sister City of Arcadia. A special proclamation honoring Tripolis' Mayor Tasos Sehiotes and Greek Independence Day has been prepared for presentation.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3344
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 30, 1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 30, 1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Sister City - Tripolis, Greece
Item ID
3239AN
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Newspaper Index
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Seven of the nine members of the Arcadia Sister City Commission, headed by the chairman, Ron Street, will travel to Phoenix, Arizona., on July 23, to accept an international city award for the city programs with Newcastle, N.S.W., Australia, and Tripolis, Greece.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper620
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 30, 1983
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 30, 1983
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Boards and Commissions
Item ID
620AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Mayor's Breakfast / State of the City and Methodist Hospital update at Community Connections by Joan Schmidt. Mayor Peter Amundson was born and raised in Arcadia and spoke about what a great city it is to live, love, learn and leave a legacy. He spoke about the great Arcadia Public Library with its 42 high tech computers.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35155
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
April 14, 2018
Pages
p. B1
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Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
April 14, 2018
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Amundson, Peter
Arcadia City Council-2010-2019
Schmidt, Joan
Item ID
35344AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia City Council member Sho Tay aims to bridge city's cultural gap between Chinese immigrants and Caucasians. Tay says there are three distinct batches of Chinese immigrants. The first came from Taiwan in the 1980s and went to college here. The second came from Hong Kong after Tiananmen Square, and the third, most recent, batch is from mainland China. They came with wealth.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34641
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 11, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 13
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 11, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 13
Subjects
Asian-Americans
Chinese-Americans
Chinese immigrants
Tay, Sho
Item ID
34833AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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