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Arcadia will join a coalition of 39 other cities in suing the federal and state governments over a new program regulating storm water runoff from local streets. The federal and state program requires cities to reduce trash runoff by 10 percent a year, until it reaches zero, or pay a fine.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 11, 2002

Pages: p. 9

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 11, 2002

Pages: p. 9

Subjects: Lawsuits; Refuse; Trash

Item ID: 30674AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

New regulations require that Arcadia, among other cities in the Los Angeles River basin, reduce the amount of trash put into the system to "zero tolerance" in twelve years. Arcadia has joined other cities in the Coalition for Practical Regulation to appeal the order.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: March 15, 2001

Pages: p. 9

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: March 15, 2001

Pages: p. 9

Subjects: Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board; Environmental issues - trash; Coalition for Practical Regulation; Appeals

Item ID: 29249AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia will benefit from the State Municipal Advisory Reform Team : Enhanced Report (SMARTER) plan for restructuring local government finance which will help stop the city's dependence on sales tax.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27168

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: January 6, 2000

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: January 6, 2000

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Revenue; Sales Taxes; Taxation

Item ID: 27366AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia Methodist Hospital celebrates its centennial. There were 30 invited guests and local dignitaries, including past chiefs of staff. The hospital began in 1903 in a 2-story house on Hewitt Street in downtown Los Angeles. It was founded by the Women's Home Missionary Society and had 5 beds.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 22, 2003

Pages: p. 19 w/photo

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 22, 2003

Pages: p. 19 w/photo

Subjects: Arcadia Methodist Hospital - history; Centennial

Item ID: 31690AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia had a job growth of 3 percent from 1991 to 1999, according to a report from the San Gabriel Council of Governments. Arcadia job growth netted out at 652.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: February 22, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: February 22, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Subjects: Job Growth; San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership

Item ID: 29231AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Cities of Pasadena, Arcadia, Sierra Madre, and Monrovia are seeking funding for fire training from the federal government (FEMA). They want to establish a training facility on federal property in Arcadia near the 210 Freeway and Santa Anita Avenue.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 19, 2001

Pages: p. 9

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 19, 2001

Pages: p. 9

Subjects: Arcadia Fire Department; Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Item ID: 33493AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Library Board of Trustees voted to post a PATRIOT Act notice, as required by the act. The notice reads, "Although the Arcadia Public Library makes every reasonable effort to protect your privacy, under the federal USA PATRIOT Act (PL107-56), records of the books and other materials you currently have on loan from this library, your inter-library loan requests placed during the past year, or the Internet sites and e-mails that you access through our computers may be obtained by federal agents. That federal law prohibits library workers from informing you if federal agents have asked about or obtained your records.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 4, 2003

Pages: p. 17

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 4, 2003

Pages: p. 17

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library - Library Board of Trustees; Federal laws; USA PATRIOT Act

Item ID: 32130AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Dr. Sheng Chang has been elected mayor of Arcadia. He is the first Asian-American mayor of Arcadia. In 1994, he was the first Chinese-American Arcadia City Council member.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: April 17, 2003

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: April 17, 2003

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Asian-Americans; Chang, Dr. Sheng; Chinese-Americans; Mayors

Item ID: 31421AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Arcadia City Council has approved increasing the funding and total service hours for the Arcadia Transit System. The transit program is funded through federal, state and local money distributed by the Metropolitan Transit Authority.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: June 14, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: June 14, 2001

Pages: p. 8

Subjects: Arcadia Transit; R & D Transportation Services; Buses; Transportation

Item ID: 29997AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The city was awarded $300,000 by the federal government to be used on a project to improve traffic flow along the Santa Anita Avenue corridor. The project calls for installing an underground conduit and interconnecting twelve intersections.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 16, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 16, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Santa Anita Avenue; Traffic

Item ID: 30506AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Local Muslim businessman and resident Fawaz Elmasri, of Lebanese descent, condemns the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He dispels myths about Muslims to promote better relations between Muslims and the communities that are now looking upon his people with suspicion.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: October 25, 2001

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: October 25, 2001

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Elmasri, Fawaz; Ethnic groups; Islam; Muslim-Americans; Muslims; Muslim Public Affairs; September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001

Item ID: 30332AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The history of local restaurant The Derby, since it was originally founded in 1922 as Proctors Tavern, to being bought by jockey George Woolfe in 1938, then sold to Dominic and Lorene Sturniolo, or Sturinolo (article has it spelled both ways) is presented. See VF "Restaurants, Bars, etc." for copy of article.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: August 15, 2002

Pages: p. 12

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: August 15, 2002

Pages: p. 12

Subjects: Business and Industry; The Derby; Restaurant reviews; Restaurants

Item ID: 30721AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Dr. Loretta Huang, President of the Chinese American Education Association of Southern California, presents Arcadia City Council member Gary Kovacic with a service award.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: April 25, 2002

Pages: p. 8

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: April 25, 2002

Pages: p. 8

Subjects: Chinese American Education Association of Southern California; Huang, Loretta; Kovacic, Gary; Organizations

Item ID: 30433AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Jackie Goldberg's Assembly Bill 2115 to ban the use of American Indian tribes as mascots was defeated.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 30, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 30, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Apache Nation; Arcadia High School Apaches logo; Arcadia High School mascot; Assembly bills; Native American Indian Tribes

Item ID: 30531AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Arcadia Board of Education approved a Local Agency Education plan to bring the district into compliance with the federal No Child Left Behind program, which requires that students meet state proficiency standards by 2013-2014. For California, the standard is 100% graduation with all requirements for University of California admission met.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: June 5, 2003

Pages: p. 20

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: June 5, 2003

Pages: p. 20

Subjects: Arcadia Board of Education; Federal education programs

Item ID: 31709AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Charles Cooper continues his series "Memories of Arcadia" with a story about the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese, where at its height, it housed more than 18,000 people. Japanese had a long local history, dating back to workers on the Santa Anita Ranch, and local residents had the uncomfortable feeling of seeing friends behind the wire at the track.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 11, 2003

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 11, 2003

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Cooper, Charles; Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese

Item ID: 32184AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Asians make up more than 47% of the city's total population of 53,421. The largest group is Chinese-American. John Wuo discusses what makes Arcadia such an attractive city for Asians.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31161

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: March 20, 2003

Pages: p. 1, 13

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: March 20, 2003

Pages: p. 1, 13

Subjects: Asian-Americans; Asians; Chinese; Population; Wuo, John

Item ID: 31357AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia will use federal grant money on a survey of historic buildings, housing rehabilitation and Meals on Wheels program.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: February 15, 2001

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: February 15, 2001

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Federal block grant funds; Historic Buildings; Surveys; Housing rehabilitation - home improvements; Meals on Wheels

Item ID: 29226AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia High School students come to the aid of Apache Native Americans who suffered losses from a brush fire in Cabecue, Arizona.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 4, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 4, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Apache Nation; Arcadia High School - Students; Native American Indian Tribes; White Mountain Tribe

Item ID: 30666AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia Methodist Hospital celebrates its centennial next year. It was founded in 1903 with five beds in a 2-story house in downtown Los Angeles. In 1957, it relocated to Arcadia.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 5, 2002

Pages: p. 16

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 5, 2002

Pages: p. 16

Subjects: Arcadia Methodist Hospital - history; Centennial

Item ID: 30725AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

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Arcadia will join a coalition of 39 other cities in suing the federal and state governments over a new program regulating storm water runoff from local streets. The federal and state program requires cities to reduce trash runoff by 10 percent a year, until it reaches zero, or pay a fine.

New regulations require that Arcadia, among other cities in the Los Angeles River basin, reduce the amount of trash put into the system to "zero tolerance" in twelve years. Arcadia has joined other cities in the Coalition for Practical Regulation to appeal the order.

Arcadia will benefit from the State Municipal Advisory Reform Team : Enhanced Report (SMARTER) plan for restructuring local government finance which will help stop the city's dependence on sales tax.

Arcadia Methodist Hospital celebrates its centennial. There were 30 invited guests and local dignitaries, including past chiefs of staff. The hospital began in 1903 in a 2-story house on Hewitt Street in downtown Los Angeles. It was founded by the Women's Home Missionary Society and had 5 beds.

Arcadia had a job growth of 3 percent from 1991 to 1999, according to a report from the San Gabriel Council of Governments. Arcadia job growth netted out at 652.

Cities of Pasadena, Arcadia, Sierra Madre, and Monrovia are seeking funding for fire training from the federal government (FEMA). They want to establish a training facility on federal property in Arcadia near the 210 Freeway and Santa Anita Avenue.

Dr. Sheng Chang has been elected mayor of Arcadia. He is the first Asian-American mayor of Arcadia. In 1994, he was the first Chinese-American Arcadia City Council member.

The Arcadia City Council has approved increasing the funding and total service hours for the Arcadia Transit System. The transit program is funded through federal, state and local money distributed by the Metropolitan Transit Authority.

The city was awarded $300,000 by the federal government to be used on a project to improve traffic flow along the Santa Anita Avenue corridor. The project calls for installing an underground conduit and interconnecting twelve intersections.

Local Muslim businessman and resident Fawaz Elmasri, of Lebanese descent, condemns the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He dispels myths about Muslims to promote better relations between Muslims and the communities that are now looking upon his people with suspicion.

Dr. Loretta Huang, President of the Chinese American Education Association of Southern California, presents Arcadia City Council member Gary Kovacic with a service award.

Jackie Goldberg's Assembly Bill 2115 to ban the use of American Indian tribes as mascots was defeated.

Asians make up more than 47% of the city's total population of 53,421. The largest group is Chinese-American. John Wuo discusses what makes Arcadia such an attractive city for Asians.

Arcadia will use federal grant money on a survey of historic buildings, housing rehabilitation and Meals on Wheels program.

Arcadia High School students come to the aid of Apache Native Americans who suffered losses from a brush fire in Cabecue, Arizona.

Arcadia Methodist Hospital celebrates its centennial next year. It was founded in 1903 with five beds in a 2-story house in downtown Los Angeles. In 1957, it relocated to Arcadia.