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The Massage Therapist Regulations ordinance, approved November 5 by City Council, places regulations on the licensing of massage therapists and the activities of businesses offering massage services. It regulates business hours, uniforms, customers' bodily coverings and suggestive ads.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30692
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 21, 2002
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 21, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Business and Industry
Massage therapy
Ordinances
Item ID
30880AN
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Arcadia City Council adjusts an ordinance pertaining to massage therapists. The ordinance originally required 500 hours of training for a massage therapist to have a license in the city. The council decided to let currently employed therapists substitute on the job hours for any shortage in training under 500 hours. The Council also dropped a requirement for windows in rooms where therapy is provided and decided therapists will not be required to wear white. The therapist will be required to have an identification card in his/her possession but will not be required to display it.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31219
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 10, 2003
Pages
p. 19
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 10, 2003
Pages
p. 19
Subjects
Business licenses
Massage therapists
Ordinances
Spas
Item ID
31414AN
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Massage therapists will have to pay a $265 fee to be licensed in Arcadia under a new city ordinance. A background check will be done on applicants and they will be fingerprinted.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30769
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 12, 2002
Pages
p. 20
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 12, 2002
Pages
p. 20
Subjects
Business and Industry
Fees
Licenses
Massage therapy
Item ID
30957AN
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City officials have extended a moratorium on issuing massage therapy business licenses by another 10 1/2 months. Believing that such businesses are often a front for prostitution, officials first enacted a 45-day ban on October 21 on all new license applications for businesses that supply massages as a secondary service. The extension would give authorities time to study the issue more.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31288
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 20, 2008
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 20, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Business licenses
Massage parlors
Massage - regulations
Spas
Item ID
31483AN
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Arcadia City Council members voted to place a 45-day moratorium on all new license applications for businesses that supply massages as a secondary service such as spas, acupuncturists and chiropractors. Arcadia will also stop issuing new licenses to massage therapists. Arcadia is overwhelmed by the surge in license applications and concerned about the possibility of prostitution. The ban could be extended for up to one year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31264
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 24, 2008
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 24, 2008
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p. A1
Subjects
Business licenses
Massage therapists
Zhang, Amanda
Item ID
31459AN
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A state law scheduled to take effect in September is expected to set standards in the massage industry. Arcadia City Manager Don Penman commented that the new law may not stop people who want to commit a crime and do illegal acts. In the last few months of 2008, Arcadia shut down seven massage busineses for illegal activities.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31588
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 2009
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Business and Industry
Massage
Item ID
31784AN
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Arcadia City Council has approved a new contract with the Pasadena Humane Society (PHS) to provide animal services to Arcadia. The contract is for $69,838, a 3% increase over the current year's agreement. The city has contracted with PHS since 1994. PHS handles dog licensing, answers calls for service and offers low-cost spay and neuter clinics. Other items were approved, including a contract with Engineered Plumbing Inc. for water mains and valves, the purchase of Mobile Data Terminals for the Arcadia Fire Department from Nida Companies, and massage therapist permits.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31456
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 15, 2003
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p. 1, 25
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 15, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 25
Subjects
Animal control
Arcadia City Council meetings - 2001-2010
Pasadena Humane Society (PHS)
Item ID
31649AN
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State officials have shut down 5 Arcadia massage parlors and fined one business $1.83 million for alleged labor code violations. Inspectors discovered that employees were not being paid hourly wages but got paid every time a massage was given. New Life Acupuncture at 610 E. Live Oak was fined $1.83 million for allegedly violating laws requiring employers to provide pay stubs and workers' compensation insurance. The four other locations fined were Ocean Health Center, C.H. Health Center, Arcadia Spa, and Best Health Center. The fines and closures continued a crackdown on massage-related businesses in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31354
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 5, 2009
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 5, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
California Department of Industrial Relations
California Employment Development Department (EDD)
Labor laws
Massage parlors
New Life Acupuncture
Item ID
31549AN
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City council denied an ordinance that would restrict residents from feeding peafowl on private property.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30360
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
City Council Meetings - 2001-2010
Ordinances
Peacocks
Peafowl
Item ID
30547AN
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The Arcadia City Council debated the issue of more parking on the west side of Baldwin Avenue, next to the Hub Center, between Duarte Road and Naomi Avenue. The Council approved the revision to the adult business ordinance, adopted an anti-loitering measure for gang members, and more.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31451
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 8, 2003
Pages
"p. 1, 18"
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 8, 2003
Pages
"p. 1, 18"
Subjects
Arcadia City Council meetings - 2001-2010
Parking
Item ID
31644AN
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City Council adopted regulations for new construction to try to meet state rules on storm water runoff.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30507
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 8, 2002
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 8, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City Council - 2001-2010
Construction
Storm water runoff
Trash
Item ID
30694AN
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Magna Entertainment Corp. (MEC) attorney Greg Scoggins appeared before a special meeting of the California Horse Racing Board to explain the impact of its bankruptcy. Track employees and horsemen will likely be protected. Satellite wagering locations that receive 2% commission on bets placed through their facilities will likely have to line up in court with other creditors to collect what is owed to them.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31405
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 7, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 7, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A8
Subjects
Bankruptcy
Magna Entertainment Corp. (MEC)
Santa Anita Park 2001-2010
Scoggins, Greg
Item ID
31598AN
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Eighty local Falun Gong practitioners go on a 268-hour vigil representing the 268 practitioners who have died from persecution in China. Three Arcadia women began a 7-day hunger strike in front of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 30, 2001
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 30, 2001
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Falun Gong
Strikes
Protests
Chinese Consulate
Zhang, Xiuhua
Zhang, Renee
Ying, Shue Quing
Item ID
30238AN
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Joe Borland, a physical therapy business owner in Arcadia, will not be running for City Council, even though he took out nomination papers and gathered more than enough signatures of residents. He changed his mind about running when he learned he might have to pay up to $2000 to have his ballot statement translated into Chinese and Spanish. He has issues with the erosion of English as the sole language of public affairs.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29879
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 21, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 21, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Borland, Joe
City council elections - 2001-2010
Candidates
Item ID
30065AN
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Early tallies in the City Council elections show Bob Harbicht, Peter Amundson and John Wuo in the lead. Measure A, calling for a train bridge over Santa Anita Avenue, appears to have passed.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29986
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 12, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 12, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
City council elections - 2001-2010
Measure A
Ballot measures
Item ID
30173AN
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Arcadia City Council has accepted a grant for $42,026 from the MTA in Proposition C funds to help operate Arcadia Transit. Other City Council items were discussed.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30567
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 29, 2002
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p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 29, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Transit
City Council Meetings - 2001-2010
Metropolitan Transportatin Authority (MTA)
Item ID
30755AN
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Backers of an initiative that would bring slot machines to Santa Anita Park and other California racetracks now have five months to collect enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27464
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 20, 2004
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 20, 2004
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park 2001 - 2010
Gambling
Gaming Revenue Act of 2004
Item ID
27661AN
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Arcadia Public Library will have a new conference room constructed and will remodel the existing room into offices and a work area. An office will be created for the Friends of the Library. This is the first phase and the contract was awarded to K & S Design for $106,500. Phase 2 of the project, to be completed at a later date, will include a teen center and an enlarged international language area.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31563
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 26, 2003
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p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 26, 2003
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Public Library - 2001-2010 - remodeling
City Council Meetings
Item ID
31759AN
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29063
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 15, 2001
Pages
p. 9
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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
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Newspaper Index
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City Manager Bill Kelly presented a "flat line budget" to the city council. Kelly said current uncertainties in state funding will not be resolved until after the election. The city will revisit the budget at midyear.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30362
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 6, 2002
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 6, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Budgets
City Council Meetings - 2001-2010
Item ID
30549AN
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Newspaper Index
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