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Paula Lewis, 38, is cured of diabetes after being the first patient to undergo a pancreas/kidney transplant in a program started a month ago at UCLA Medical Center.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper987
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 27, 1993
Pages
p. A-3 photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 27, 1993
Pages
p. A-3 photo
Subjects
Lewis, Paula
Item ID
987AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Rosalie Dunham, who moved to Arcadia 10 year ago, is the Senior Citizen of the Year. After the death of her husband 8 years ago, she and her friend Marilyn Morrison began Starting Over, a group for people who have suffered a loss. She also started a follow-up group called Branching Out.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper162
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 12, 1993
Pages
p. H-3 photo; Hometown section
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 12, 1993
Pages
p. H-3 photo; Hometown section
Subjects
Senior Citizen of the Year - 1993
Dunham, Rosalie
Item ID
162AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Reuben Vizcarra was among just 18 people nationwide to receive a bronze medal from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. Vizcarra rushed to the aid of a woman as she was being stabbed by her estranged husband.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper11661
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
Deeember 21, 1997
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
Deeember 21, 1997
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Vizcarra, Reuben
Item ID
11872AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadian Lauranne Gillett, 48, turned herself into police and admitted that she embezzled more than $40,000 from the VIP Travel Agency in Sierra Madre.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper165
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 28, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 28, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
165AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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2023 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade's Rose Court profiled with their hobbies. Sahanna Rajinikanthan, one of the Royal Court, is from Arcadia and enjoys baking. She made it to the state championship for the VEX Robotics Competition and enjoys volunteering as a singing coach in the language of Araneri, passing on her Indian culture to her students.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36399
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 19, 2022
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 19, 2022
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade-2023
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade-Royal Court
Arcadia High School students
Baligh, Salia
Ballard, Bella
Denoncourt, Zoe
Cortez-Peralta, Michelle
Crick, Adrian
Rajinikanthan, Sahanna
Rose queens
Wittenberg, Uma
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A 20-year old baby sitter from mainland China testified about the events she said led to her enslavement by Arcadia couple Dianyi Zhia and Hua Jiang. See also Pasadena Star News, July 23, 1997, p. A1.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper10088
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 22, 1997
Pages
P. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 22, 1997
Pages
P. A1
Subjects
Zhai, Dianyi
Jiang, Hua
Item ID
10042AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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House of Representatives appropriations bill to offer money for shuttle system to forest area. Nearly $1 million will provide for project to local areas. US Forest Service planning a shuttle to Chantry Flat, a forest site north of Arcadia and Sierra Madre, that links to trails and Sturtevant Falls.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35990
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 18, 2021
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 18, 2021
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Chu, Judy
Forests
Transit
Transportation
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Virginia Kay, 92, Pasadena Star-News advice columnist for more than 50 years, died at her Arcadia home. Her real name was Arline Osman-Powers. She is profiled.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper147
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 16, 1993
Pages
p. H-3 photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 16, 1993
Pages
p. H-3 photo
Subjects
Kay, Virginia see Osman-Powers, Arline
Osman-Powers, Arline
Item ID
147AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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One of the High School Athletes of the Week is Zoe Sprecher, from Arcadia High School. Her sport is golf and she is a junior. Includes her stats.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36542
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 13, 2023
Pages
p. B2
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 13, 2023
Pages
p. B2
Subjects
Arcadia High School sports
Arcadia High School students
Profiles
Sprecher, Zoe
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Profile on centenarian Margaret Nahgy Davis of Azusa. In 1955, her husband Warren was hired to lead a new Church of God in Arcadia. During their first week in Arcadia, their third child Debbie had meningitis. After Warren died, Margaret remarried Ed Davis.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36357
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 11, 2022
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 11, 2022
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Centenarians
Davis, Margaret Nahgy
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Newspaper Index
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Bail was set at $1 million for Arcadian Hua Jiang, charged with enslaving a 20-year old woman from China. Her husband and co-defendant, Dianyi Zhai, will remain in custody without bail for several additional charges.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper9564
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 6, 1997
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 6, 1997
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
9519AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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After 12 years on the City Council and three terms as mayor, Mary Young has announced she will retire from City government.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper11660
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 18, 1997
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 18, 1997
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
Subjects
Young, Mary
Item ID
11871AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Whittier woman,102, embraces change. Story about Mildred Mellin and husband George Mellin. George died in 2016. He had retired after 26 years of military service and became a teacher at Arcadia High School. Her secret to longevity is one Coors Light every night with popcorn.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36455
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 26, 2023
Pages
p. A3, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 26, 2023
Pages
p. A3, A6
Subjects
Centenarians
Mellin, George
Mellin, Mildred
Collection
Newspaper Index
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After 18 years during which she rose from part-time secretary to president, Jana Costuma will leave the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce by the end of June.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper12145
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 31, 1998
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 31, 1998
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Chamber of Commerce
Costuma, Jana
Item ID
12341AN
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Newspaper Index
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After 18 years during which she rose from part-time secretary to president, Jana Costuma will leave the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce by the end of June.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper12294
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 31, 1998
Pages
p. A3 w/photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 31, 1998
Pages
p. A3 w/photo
Subjects
Chamber of Commerce
Costuma, Jana
Item ID
12506AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Swifties are beyond excited. Singer Taylor Swift's fans are taking Metro transit trains and shuttles to see her perform at Inglewood's SoFi Stadium. Fans Viridiana Gonzalez and Victoria Kravitz took the A-Line from Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36518
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 4, 2023
Pages
p. A1, A9
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 4, 2023
Pages
p. A1, A9
Subjects
Gonzalez, Viridiana
Kravitz, Victoria
Light rail transit
Metro A-Line (Formerly Metro Gold Line)
Musicians
Swift, Taylor
Transportation
Collection
Newspaper Index
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36163
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A5
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Newspaper
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
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Obituary/death notice. Alice Ann Formanack, a 72-year-old grandmother, died after inhaling smoke from a fire in her home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper15965
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 6, 1998
Pages
p. A1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 6, 1998
Pages
p. A1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Formanack, Alice Ann
Item ID
16722AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Former Arcadia and San Marino Police Chief Robert Stanley Seares died on June 15. He was 89.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper14447
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 1998
Pages
p. A2
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 1998
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Seares, Robert
Item ID
15004AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Patsy Chang Kote, a live-in housekeeper, was arrested Monday at the Arcadia home of Ruth LeBerthon on suspicion of elder abuse and grand theft after she admitted tricking the 92 year old woman in her care into cashing pension checks and then taking the money.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper10852
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 1997
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 1997
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Kote, Patsy Chang
Item ID
11197AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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