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Vietnam veteran Bob Wieland was honored by the Arcadia City Council on Tuesday night. Wieland lost both his legs while serving in the war.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 4, 2002
Pages
p. A3 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 4, 2002
Pages
p. A3 w/photo
Subjects
Wieland, Bob
Item ID
24571AN
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Arcadia resident Bob Wieland, a 65-year-old Vietnam veteran who lost both legs in an explosion, is currently riding a hand-powered bicycle across the country and back to raise money for charities. In the 1980s, he walked across the country on his knuckles. He is an inspirational speaker.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 21, 2011
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 21, 2011
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia people
Athletes
Sneider, Harry
War veterans
Wieland, Bob
Item ID
32700AN
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Arcadia resident Bob Wieland, a 65-year-old Vietnam veteran who lost both legs in an explosion, is currently riding a hand-powered bicycle across the country and back to raise money for charities. In the 1980s, he walked across the country on his knuckles. He is an inspirational speaker.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 25, 2011
Pages
p. 6
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 25, 2011
Pages
p. 6
Subjects
Arcadia people
Athletes
Sneider, Harry
War veterans
Wieland, Bob--biography
Item ID
32704AN
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Arcadian Bob Wieland, 37, a double amputee who lost both legs above the knee in Vietnam, was the featured speaker at a prayer breakfast in his honor.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 7, 1983
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 7, 1983
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Wieland, Bob
Item ID
3486AN
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Sports Channel America has offered Bob Wieland a chance to host his own cable talk show, in which he will present motivational stories about athletes, who, like himself, have beaten the odds. The 45 year old Arcadia resident lost his legs in the Vietnam War.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 12, 1992
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p. A-1 photos
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 12, 1992
Pages
p. A-1 photos
Subjects
Wieland, Bob
Item ID
13AN
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Arcadia resident, Bob Wieland, who lost his legs in Vietnam will do the Los Angeles marathon using his arms to propel himself through the course.

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Newspaper
Los Angeles Times
Date
March 2, 2003
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p. B4
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Los Angeles Times
Date
March 2, 2003
Pages
p. B4
Subjects
Wieland, Bob
Los Angeles Marathon
Item ID
25442AN
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Bob Wieland, Arcadia resident who lost his legs in Vietnam walked the entire Los Angeles Marathon on his hands finishing in 173 hours, 45 minutes in a weeklong journey.

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Newspaper
Los Angeles Times
Date
March 9, 2003
Pages
p. B3
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Los Angeles Times
Date
March 9, 2003
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Wieland, Bob
Los Angeles Marathon 2003
Item ID
25494AN
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Arcadian Bob Wieland, a double amputee who is walking from California to Washington, D.C. on his hands to raise money for world hunger projects, has progressed 161.7 miles on his 3,400 mile journey.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 14, 1982
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 14, 1982
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Wieland, Bob
Item ID
3484AN
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Bob Wieland continues epic 'walk' into history books --- across the U.S. on his hands.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 12, 1984
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 12, 1984
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Wieland, Bob
Item ID
3487AN
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Arcadian Bob Wieland, the double amputee who is walking on his hands to Washington, D.C., finds it impossible to walk in the windblown sand.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 23, 1982
Pages
"p. A-1,2"
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 23, 1982
Pages
"p. A-1,2"
Subjects
Wieland, Bob
Item ID
3485AN
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Bob Baffert, a Hall of Fame horse trainer, had a heart attack in Dubai, where he was preparing a horse named Game on Dude in the $10 million Dubai World Cup. Baffert's assistant Jim Barnes, said from Santa Anita Park, that Baffert was doing well after having three stents inserted into two arteries.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 27, 2012
Pages
p. B1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 27, 2012
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Baffert, Bob
Horse trainers
Item ID
33102AN
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As usual, Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert is the trainer to beat at tomorrow's $1 million Santa Anita Derby. (Photo).

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 3, 2015
Pages
p. B1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 3, 2015
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020
Baffert, Bob
Item ID
34328AN
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Republican Bob Margett and Democrat Brent Decker are set to do battle in a June 6 run-off election for the Assembly seat made vacant in January when Monrovia Republican Dick Mountjoy left the Assembly and took a seat in the State Senate.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 12, 1995
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p. 1 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 12, 1995
Pages
p. 1 photo
Subjects
Margett, Bob
Item ID
4411AN
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Hall of Fame jockey rode Justify, a race horse trained by Bob Baffert, to victory at yesterday's Santa Anita Derby.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 8, 2018
Pages
p. B1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 8, 2018
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Baffert, Bob
Santa Anita Derby
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Smith, Mike
Wilson, Art
Item ID
35337AN
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Bob McAlister of Arcadia is the 1998 president of the California State Club of Winnebago Itasca Travelers.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News The Star section
Date
December 3, 1997
Pages
p. A2 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News The Star section
Date
December 3, 1997
Pages
p. A2 w/photo
Subjects
McAlister, Bob
Item ID
11679AN
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Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert's horse Gabby's Golden Gal (owned by Arnold Zetcher) won the Santa Monica Handicap at Santa Anita Park. The jockey was Martin Garcia.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 1, 2010
Pages
p. B1 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 1, 2010
Pages
p. B1 w/photo
Subjects
Baffert, Bob
Garcia, Martin
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010 - Santa Monica Handicap
Zetcher, Arnold
Item ID
32082AN
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Arcadia Vietnam War Monument placed in Arcadia County Park. It is 22,000 pounds. From 1966-1972, 14 U.S. servicemen from Arcadia became casualties of the war in Vietnam. There are 4 plaques on the monument honoring veterans from World War I, World War II, the wars in Korean, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 1, 17, June 2, 2016.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 26, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 17
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 26, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 17
Subjects
Arcadia Vietnam War Monument Memorial
Glasco, Gene
Holidays-Memorial Day
Veterans
Item ID
34764AN
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Peach Tree Park chosen as city's war memorial site. "Peppermint candy" peach trees will be planted on a 30 x 300 strip of land parallel to the rear of the City Hall in a tiny park to commemorate Arcadia youths who lost their lives in World War II.

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Newspaper
The Journal
Date
January 18, 1950
Pages
p. 4 (See basement box 112.)
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The Journal
Date
January 18, 1950
Pages
p. 4 (See basement box 112.)
Subjects
Peach trees
Item ID
33218AN
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City Councilman Bob Harbicht said he will seek the Republican nomination in 2000 for the State Assembly seat currently held by a former council colleague, Assemblyman Bob Margett.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News The Star
Date
June 23, 1999
Pages
p. 1
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Pasadena Star News The Star
Date
June 23, 1999
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Harbicht, Bob
Item ID
14487AN
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Arcadia Republican Bob Margett, elected to State Assembly by a nearly 3-to-1 margin Tuesday was sworn in before family and friends in what he called an "emotional and meaningful" ceremony.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 9, 1995
Pages
p. A-1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 9, 1995
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Margett, Bob
Item ID
4431AN
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