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Helen Weakley will be honored by the Board of Education for outstanding service. She has been a bus driver for the district since 1965. She also trains bus drivers. Biographical notes included.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2963
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1982
Pages
p. A-2 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1982
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p. A-2 photo
Subjects
Schools - Employees - Weakley, Helen
Item ID
2890AN
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Ernest "Cal" Ford recently retired after 27 years of driving a school bus for Arcadia School District. Ford is a second generation school bus driver. His father drove a school bus for Arcadia in the 1930's.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2908
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 29, 1980
Pages
p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 29, 1980
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
Schools - Employees - Ford, Ernest
Item ID
2835AN
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Isabelle Stires is retiring after 19 years in the Arcadia Unified School District. This past year Mrs. Stires has been teaching second grade at Camino Grove School. Before that she taught second and third graded at Bonita Park School. She and her husband plan to travel.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2953
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 18, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 18, 1982
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Employees - Stires, Isabelle
Item ID
2880AN
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The Supreme Court has prohibited school districts from charging home-to-school bus fares. During the 1987-88 school year, approximately 800 students paid $59 a quarter for bus service in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2633
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 4, 1988
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 4, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
School Children - Transportation
Item ID
2572AN
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Kindergartners living three quarters of a mile or more from their school will be eligible for free bus transportation.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2635
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 11, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 11, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
School Children - Transportation
Item ID
2574AN
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The Creative Academy of Learning, which has taken over Bonita Park Elementary School, is dedicated to helping physically and mentally disabled children.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3148
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 11, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 11, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools, Private - Creative Academy of Learning
Item ID
3062AN
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The School Board suspended all school bus fees for students in the district and discontinued the home-to-school transportation service for the majority of students to make up for the lost revenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2634
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 18, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 18, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
School Children - Transportation
Item ID
2573AN
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Carolyn Searfoss, a bus driver for the Arcadia Unified School District, has been active for 12 years in the Arcadia Music Club, the parent support group for the band and orchestra. Among other things, she attempts to measure and fit some 200 uniforms for members of the band.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2943
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 5, 1981
Pages
p. A-6 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 5, 1981
Pages
p. A-6 photo
Subjects
Schools - Employees - Searfoss, Carolyn
Item ID
2870AN
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The Board will decide May 11 which two of four elementary schools to close next fall. Bonita Park is the most likely candidate for closure. Comments pro and con on the four schools under consideration (Santa Anita, Holly Ave., Bonita Park and Baldwin Park) are given.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2738
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 30, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 30, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Closure
Item ID
2672AN
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Barring the passage of Measure B on the June 16 ballot, Bonita Park and Santa Anita elementary schools will be closed.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2739
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 14, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 14, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Closure
Item ID
2673AN
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At the Board of Education meeting there was some discussion of the Space Utilization Committee's recommendation to close two elementary schools, Bonita Park and Baldwin Stocker. Robert Kladifke, a member of the committee, objected to closing the newest and most educationally modern school in the district, Baldwin Stocker. Two public hearings are scheduled.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2730
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 13, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 13, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools-Baldwin Stocker Elementary
Schools - Closure
Item ID
2664AN
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Arcadia School District will continue to charge fees for bus transportation for students despite uncertainties caused by a Court of Appeals ruling and a pending state Supreme Court decision.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2632
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 24, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 24, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
School Children - Transportation
Item ID
2571AN
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Petitions are being circulated that are aimed at thwarting the possible closure of two elementary schools. The savings would amount to only .7% of an $18 million school budget - not enough to justify closing the schools, according to the parents of students at Bonita Park and Baldwin Stocker.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2733
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 18, 1980
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 18, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools-Baldwin Stocker Elementary
Schools - Closure
Item ID
2667AN
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Article discusses need to close one or more of the Arcadia schools in 1981. A committee has been appointed to study the matter. Likely candidates for closure are Bonita Park, Santa Anita and Holly Avenue elementary schools. The vacated property might be used as a senior citizen center.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2724
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 15, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 15, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Closure
Item ID
2658AN
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After 19 years as an employee with Arcadia Unified School District, Virgil J. Goode has retired. Goode worked over the years as custodian, groundsman and bus driver.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2913
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 19, 1980
Pages
p. A-9
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 19, 1980
Pages
p. A-9
Subjects
Schools - Employees - Goode, Virgil J.
Item ID
2840AN
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Arcadia school officials have declined an offer by local Assembly- man Richard Mountjoy to try to get a legislative waiver for the district so it won't have to replace classrooms that were never inspected by the state architect.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2682
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 6, 1987
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 6, 1987
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools
Item ID
2618AN
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On February 27, 1979, James Hooper, an Arcadia mailman, entered an Arcadia residence through a window when he heard moaning inside. An elderly woman, living alone, had fallen and broken her hip. On February 26, 1981, Hooper again heard moaning sounds at the same residence and entered to find the same woman had again fallen. She was taken to the hospital.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2273
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 12, 1981
Pages
p. A-7
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 12, 1981
Pages
p. A-7
Subjects
Postal Service - Hooper, James
Item ID
2242AN
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Jean Voznick, president of the Arcadia Teachers Association, presented the teachers' case to the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce. Some of her statements were later rebutted by Superintendent Ed Ryan.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 9, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 9, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Employees
Item ID
2741AN
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The Space Utilization Committee will probably recommend the closure of two schools. Consensus was that one of the two should be Bonita Park, the smallest elementary school in the district. Committee members are still studying which other school to pair with Bonita Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2728
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 16, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 16, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Closure
Item ID
2662AN
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Jean Phillips, a teacher who started the first kindergarten at Camino Grove Elementary School in 1953, is retiring.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2936
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 7, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 7, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Schools - Employees - Phillips, Jean
Item ID
2863AN
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