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Steve Burd, Safeway chairman and CEO, told analysts that parent company of Arcadia-based Vons/Pavilions expects to continue rebounding from the 5-month labor strike that ended March 2004. Safeway reversed losses with a $202.7 million fourth-quarter profit in 2004.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29428
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 22, 2005
Pages
p. C3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 22, 2005
Pages
p. C3
Subjects
Safeway
Vons / Pavilions --profits and earnings
Labor strikes
Item ID
29612AN
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Newspaper Index
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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
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 2009
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Business and Industry
Massage
Item ID
31784AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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No end seen for market strike. Labor dispute between employees of Vons Pavilions, Albertsons and Ralphs grocery stores.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33101
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 16, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 9
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 16, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 9
Subjects
Albertsons
Grocery Stores
Labor strikes
Ralphs
Vons Pavilions
Item ID
33298AN
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Newspaper Index
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The City Council signed an agreement with the Arcadia police officers that will cost $1.66 million over the next 4 years. Contract details are given.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30946
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 2008
Pages
p. Local 2
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 2008
Pages
p. Local 2
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Labor contracts
Labor unions
Item ID
31141AN
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Newspaper Index
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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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Newspaper Index
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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
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 24, 2008
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 24, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Business licenses
Massage therapists
Zhang, Amanda
Item ID
31459AN
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The Arcadia City Council will decide on an ordinance to regulate massage therapy. Provisions will regulate massage therapists, practitioners or technicians, and require them to have identification cards from the police and a business license. The ordinance contains other restrictions.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30636
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 31, 2002
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 31, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City Council Meetings - 2001-2010
Massage - regulations
Item ID
30824AN
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Newspaper Index
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City administrators and negotiators for the Arcadia Police Department have not yet reached a contract agreement. Officers want an immediate 10% raise for the first year and 4% increases the second and third years. City council has offered salaries that would make Arcadia police the second or third highest paid in cities surveyed.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30852
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 20, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 20, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Arcadia Police Officers Association Union
Labor contracts
Salaries
Item ID
31040AN
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Newspaper Index
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Safeway Inc.'s profit slid 4% in the second quarter as the nation's number 3 supermarket chain continued to battle lingering effects from last winter's polarizing labor strikes.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28858
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 28, 2004
Pages
p. B5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 28, 2004
Pages
p. B5
Subjects
Business and Industry
Supermarkets
Strikes --Labor disputes
Safeway Inc. --Vons/Pavilions
Financial profits
Item ID
29049AN
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Newspaper Index
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Montecito Fine Arts College of Design, which had campuses in Monrovia, Arcadia, and Brea, has shut down, leaving 1200 students stranded and employees owed thousands in unpaid wages.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31589
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 5, 2009
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 5, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Art schools
Lether, Rochelle
Montecito Fine Arts College of Design
Item ID
31785AN
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Newspaper Index
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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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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 12, 2002
Pages
p. 20
Subjects
Business and Industry
Fees
Licenses
Massage therapy
Item ID
30957AN
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A new $6.7 million Maternal Child Health Center will open in the next several weeks at Methodist Hospital. It is larger and will make mothers and families more comfortable. Jan McEachern is shown in a photo.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29476
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 14, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 14, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Methodist Hospital-Maternal Child Health Center
Babies
Baby care
McEachern, Jan
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Item ID
29661AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The Administration at Arcadia High School had to institute a new policy against freak dancing or "freaking" after students got too wild at the Homecoming Dance. Freaking is a kind of dancing in which dancers grind against each other's pelvises. Students who attended the Winter Casual dance had to sign a contract "to conduct themselves appropriately both on and off the dance floor."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29831
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 28, 2005
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 28, 2005
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Dances - Winter Casual Dance - freak dancing -freaking
High School students - social life and customs
Item ID
30016AN
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Newspaper Index
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Air quality concerns were raised by track employees over fumes and breathable fibers being emitted by the artificial track known as the Cushion Track, which was treated for drainage problems by Pro-Ride Racing in late August. Cal/OSHA hired Colin Young, a certified industrial hygienist to study health risks posed by the track. Young will recommend the artificial race track poses "absolutely no health risks."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31190
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 5, 2008
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 5, 2008
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Artificial turf
California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA)
Cushion Track
Pro-Ride Racing
Young, Colin
Item ID
31385AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Last winter's 4 1/2 month strike had a devastating impact on Safeway Inc., parent company of Vons/Pavilion headquartered in Arcadia. First quarter profits fell 73.5 % to $43.1 million from $162.6 million during the same quarter for the prior year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28710
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 23, 2004
Pages
p. B3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 23, 2004
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Business & Industry - Safeway Inc. -- Vons/Pavilion -- profits
United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW)
Supermarkets & grocery stores
Labor union disputes -- strikes
Item ID
28897AN
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Newspaper Index
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Local city governments in the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier are realizing the future costs of pensions and retirement benefits for their employees. The costs will be enormous and city governments need to save money for their future obligations. Arcadia's retiree medical cost is $375,062 this year and its unfunded health liabilities for current employees and retirees is $10.3 million. Unfunded health liability is the amount that would be needed to pay for all health obligations to current employees if they were to retire today, and for all retirees. Other cities' obligations are shown in a chart.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31422
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 29, 2009
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 29, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
City Employees
City governments
Local governments
Municipalities
Pensions
Retirement benefits
Item ID
31615AN
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Newspaper Index
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Edmund Wu of Arcadia, founder of AMAC Violin Center, donated two chinese-made violins and a viola to the University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28031
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 12, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 12, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Music Schools - AMAC Violin Center
Wu, Edmund
Phnom Penh -- University of Fine Arts
Item ID
28225AN
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Newspaper Index
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Monrovia's Aztec Hotel is showcasing fine art in its non-profit Aztec Art Center Route 66 Gallery. Visitors are not just from Monrovia, but from Pasadena, Duarte and Arcadia. A painting by Manuel Barillas is pictured. The hotel is owned by Kathie Reece-McNeill. The hotel was designed in 1925 by English architect Robert Stacy-Judd and was inspired by Mayan and Aztect structures. The building has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31378
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 5, 2009
Pages
p. B1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 5, 2009
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Art
Aztec Hotel - Monrovia, California
Barillas, Manuel
Historic Buildings
Monrovia Association of Fine Arts
Pettie, Ron
Route 66 Gallery
Reece-McNeill, Kathie
Scully, Richard
Stacy-Judd, Robert
Item ID
31572AN
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Newspaper Index
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A group of Arcadia firefighters who had gone to New York City to help after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were so profoundly affected that they organized a fundraiser to benefit widows and orphans of the New York Fire Department and Arcadia Fire Department. Those who went were Captain Hutcheson, Captain Trabbie, John Beveridge, Craig Stogner, Cody Cerwin and paramedic Mike MacGregor.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30614
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 3, 2002
Pages
p. 14
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 3, 2002
Pages
p. 14
Subjects
Arcadia Fire Department - 2001-2010
Firefighters
Fundraisers
New York Fire Department
September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001
Item ID
30802AN
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Newspaper Index
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Los Angeles County's unemployment rose to 5.1% in September, up from 4.9% in August and 4.6% a year earlier. In the local community, Arcadia's unemployment number is 800, or 2.9%.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30757
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 20, 2007
Pages
p. Local 3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 20, 2007
Pages
p. Local 3
Subjects
Employment Development Department (EDD)
Jobless rates
Unemployment
Item ID
30945AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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