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Los Angeles County agrees to a minimum 30-day moratorium on its plan to cut down 11.1 acres of oak and sycamore woodland for a dumping site for debris dredged from the Santa Anita Dam. The site is below Arcadia's Wilderness Park. During this time, opponents to the project will be looking at alternatives and the county will communicate the project's impact to the environmental community.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 9, 2010
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 9, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Santa Anita Dam
Item ID
32453AN
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Bulldozers finished demolishing the 11 acres of oak tree woodlands in Arcadia, at the Los Angeles County Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site yesterday. Four environmental activists, called "tree-sitters," were booked on trespassing and obstruction, then were later released. Los Angeles County Public Works said demolishing the 179 trees to make room for sediment dredged from nearby dams is a flood control effort necessary to ensure public safety. The bitter debate continues. Activists claim the project was not transparent to the public and media.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32292
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 14, 2011
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 14, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Activists
Environment
Kaspar, Michael
Los Angeles County Public Works
Mead, Cheryl
Oak trees
Quigley, John
Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site
Spencer, Bob
Stone, Camron
Item ID
32491AN
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Environmental activists are calling for an independent investigation into a Los Angeles County flood control project--6 days after they failed to stop bulldozers from clearing 11.1 acres of native oak woodland for a dam sediment dump in Arcadia. The group calling for the probe includes Glen Owens, Camron Stone, and "tree-sitters" John Quigley, Andrea Bowers and Julia Posin. Los Angeles County supervisor Michael Antonovich's deputy Tony Bell said the three-year county public works planning process for the sediment project was completely open and the facts were available to the public.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32295
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2011
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Activists
Bell, Tony
Bowers, Andrea
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Owens, Glen
Posin, Julia
Quigley, John
Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site
Stone, Camron
Item ID
32494AN
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Los Angeles County supervisor Mike Antonovich plans to set aside $650,000 of county funds to re-seed the oak woodland habitat in Arcadia that was demolished last week for flood control purposes, after mud and debris dredged from the Santa Anita Dam has been spread at the site. Bob Spencer, spokesman for Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, said there is much more debris poised to come down the hills and "We need to find a solution." Other county wilderness areas face destruction to make way for sediment. Officials are already considering the relocation of sediment from Devil's Gate Dam, which could end up on a 40-acre mature black willow woodland in the Hahamongna Watershed Park. Environmental activists won't let that happen without a fight.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 16, 2011
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p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 16, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Activists
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site
Spencer, Bob
Item ID
32492AN
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Los Angeles County keeps environmental activists and media off the site where the 11 acres of oak tree woodlands are being bulldozed near Wilderness Park. It is called Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site. Activists were unable to save the area from becoming a debris basin. See related story "Razing woodland: protesters watch as trees are cut down" Pasadena Star News, January 13, 2011, p. A1, A7.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 13, 2011
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p. A1, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 13, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A7
Subjects
Activists
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Santa Anita Dam
Item ID
32489AN
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Environmental activists plan to block work crews from clearing 179 oak and sycamore trees, north of Arcadia. Bob Spencer, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, confirmed that construction would begin this morning to clear the 11 acres of trees, to make room for an estimated 500 cubic yards of sediment from Santa Anita Dam, as well as debris from seven other area catch basins. Spencer said, "The purpose behind this project is public safety; the damn built in 1927 does not meet seismic standards. Arcadia city manager Don Penman hopes that the several hundred thousand cubic yards of extra capacity is not an invitation for frequent trucking from other basins.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2011
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Activists
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Santa Anita Dam
Spencer, Bob
Item ID
32488AN
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Los Angeles County Public Works is scheduled to clear 11.3 acres of pristine native oak woodland to dump tons of sediment dredged from Santa Anita Dam. Glen Owens, a founder of the Big Santa Anita Historical Society and a Monrovia planning commissioner, hopes it's not too late for a grass roots effort to oppose or at least postpone the project. The sediment dump would be entirely in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32247
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 29, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 29, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Owens, Glen
Santa Anita Dam
Item ID
32446AN
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More than 11 acres of pristine native oak woodland at the Arcadia/Monrovia border, adjacent to Wilderness Park, are scheduled to be cut down to create a dumping ground for sediment dredge from the Santa Anita Dam, in a Los Angeles County Public Works project. The dam gets cleared out every 20 years or so. About 500,000 cubic yards of dirt and debris clogging the dam will be removed. Glen Owens, a founder of the Big Santa Anita Historical Society and a Monrovia planning commissioner, said the dirt shouldn't be dumped in one of only two native woodlands left in the San Gabriel Valley. Arcadia Councilman Bob Harbicht wants to hold a meeting with the city and county public works officials to clarify plans for the dirt dispersal.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32235
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 22, 2010
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 22, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Owens, Glen
Santa Anita Dam
Item ID
32434AN
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The Arcadia City Council has grounded a proposal that would have allowed hang glider pilots to land their grafts on an unused LA County floodplain in the north end of the city. The 30 pilots of the Mr. Wilson Soaring Society need a landing site because the one used for the last 8 years in Pasadena has been developed with the new Pasadena Rose Court homes.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1682
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 27, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 27, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Hang Gliding
Item ID
1681AN
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Environmental activists gathered at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration to demand an investigation into the county's destruction last week of oak woodland in Arcadia. Shown in photo are activists Camron Stone, John Quigley, Andrea Bowers and Julie Posin.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32298
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 19, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 19, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Activists
Bowers, Andrea
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Posin, Julia or Posin, Julie
Quigley, John
Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site
Stone, Camron
Item ID
32497AN
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Homeowners in the Highland Oaks area of Arcadia showed up at City Hall to list their concerns about a private tennis club proposed for flood control land near their homes.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2352
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 22, 1987
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 22, 1987
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Recreation
Item ID
2310AN
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Never a dull day for Pasadena Humane Society's animal control officers. Officer Greg Murphy has been working this area for decades, and has rescued animals from Rose Bowl, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles County Arboretum, Descanso Gardens, and other landmarks.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 1, 2023
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p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 1, 2023
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Murphy, Greg
Pasadena Humane Society
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A moratorium on new liquor store construction has been extended. The original moratorium would have run out before the August 2 date set for a public hearing before City Council.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 27, 1988
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 27, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Alcohol - Law and Legislation
Item ID
344AN
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An L. A. County Public Works employee found the remains of a human body in the flood control basin in northeast Arcadia. The age and identity are unknown.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 31, 2003
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p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 31, 2003
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Human remains
Death
Item ID
27410AN
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John Quigley, the last of the protesting "Arcadia four" tree-sitters, took a deal from prosecutors and pleaded no contest to a single count of trespassing. He has a $60 fine, which was waived for jail time served, three years of informal probation, and 20 hours of community service at a nonprofit agency.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 12, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 12, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Activists
Environment
Oak trees
Quigley, John
Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site
Item ID
32696AN
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Editorial. Carlos Aguilar writes about Tongva natives' "Creation Myths and all of this rain." He warns that Santa Anita Dam above Sierra Madre runs the risk of overflowing as do several other 14 dams built in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 2, 2023
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p. H2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 2, 2023
Pages
p. H2
Subjects
Aguilar, Carlos
Rain
Santa Anita Dam
Weather
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A new developer has been selected by the Arcadia Redevelopment Agency to build on the vacant lot at the corner of Huntington Drive and First Ave., the site of the now defunct Falzone project. The agency selected Halferty Development Co. of Pasadena to build a 2-story professional and financial office building on the site.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1314
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 23, 1985
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 23, 1985
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Community Redevelopment
Item ID
1313AN
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Los Angeles County Arboretum. $8 million cleanup and restoration of Baldwin Lake sought. Flood control district assigns funding; expense to go before supervisors in July. Baldwin Lake is severely polluted centerpiece of the county Arboretum, visited by 400,000 people annually. The 144-year-old lake, dug out by 19th century real estate pioneer Elias Jackson “Lucky” Baldwin on his estate, has been dying a slow death because of the accumulation of street runoff laced with heavy metals, automobile brake fragments and other chemicals that create algae blooms and strong odors. Supervisor Kathryn Barger is championing the project.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 9, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 9, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Barger, Kathryn
Los Angeles County Arboretum
Los Angeles County Department of Public Works and Flood Control District
Pestrella, Mark
Item ID
35608AN
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General information on flood control channels in Arcadia.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 28, 1935 p. 1 (Santa Anita Wash)
February 11, 1936 p. 1 (Santa Anita Channel)
September 12, 1936 p. 1 ( " )
May 19, 1936 p. 1 (improvements by Los Angeles County proposed)
July 15 [sic - should be July 17], 1936 p. 1
July 19, 1936 p. 1 (study of Orange Grove, El Monte, Santa Anita Wash areas)
August 4, 1936 p. 1 (El Monte)
September 19, 1936 p. 1 ( " )
September 24, 1936 p. 1 ( " )
September 30, 1936 p. 1 ( " )
October 13, 1936 p. 1 ( " )
December 23, 1936 p. 1 (Arcadia-Sierra Madre control)
April 6, 1938 p. 1 (relief fund sought)
June 8, 1938 p. 1 (Santa Anita Wash)
September 7, 1938 p. 1 (El Monte)
September 17, 1938 p. 1 (Santa Anita Wash)
September 22, 1938 p. 1 (Eaton Wash)
September 27, 1938 p. 1 (report of suitable sites for control)
October 4, 1938 p. 1 (Santa Anita Wash)
August 24, 1939 p. 1 (Little Santa Anita creek control)
July 17, 1941 p. 1 (canyon project)
August 21, 1941 p. 1 (Santa Anita Canyon
September 11, 1941 p. 1 (Santa Anita Wash)
February 25, 1943 p. 1 (Snata Anita flood control)
June 23, 1953 p. 1 (special project)
November 19, 1953 p. 1 (Colorado Blvd. storm drain)
December 24, 1953 p. 2 (action urged by Hillings)
February 1, 1954 p. 1 (status in Arcadia as of January 1954)
February 18, 1954 p. 1 (Federal action)
February 25, 1954 p. 1 (basin)
May 6, 1954 p. 1 (El Monte)
July 1, 1954 p. 1 (wash maps)
October 28, 1954 p. 1 (Flood Control District approves bridges over washes)
November 8, 1954 p. 1 (State Dept. Water Resources approves bridges)
November 11, 1954 p. 1 (protest denial of bridge for Sandra Ave.)
November 15, 1954 p. 1 (Sandra to get bridge)
November 18, 1954 p. 1 (Sandra bridge)
December 9, 1954 p. 1 (Sandra bridge)
February 7, 1955 p. 1 (Lanan Canyon pipe line)
July 25, 1955 p. 1 ( Michillinda drain)
October 6, 1955 p 1 (Michillinda drain)
August 1, 1955 p. 1 (schedule plan)
August 22, 1955 p. 1 ( " )
November 3, 1955 p. 24 (Arcadia Wash improvement)
June 7, 1956 p. 1 (map)
March 7, 1957 p. 1 (Baldwin channel)
May 6, 1957 p. 1 (Baldwin channel)
September 1, 1958 p. 1 (County budget for Arcadia)
March 23, 1959 p. 1 (Santa Anita Wash)
July 30, 1959 p. 1 (Santa Anita Wash)
September 26, 1968 p. 1 (Santa Anita Flood Control Committee)
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 28, 1935 p. 1 (Santa Anita Wash)
February 11, 1936 p. 1 (Santa Anita Channel)
September 12, 1936 p. 1 ( " )
May 19, 1936 p. 1 (improvements by Los Angeles County proposed)
July 15 [sic - should be July 17], 1936 p. 1
July 19, 1936 p. 1 (study of Orange Grove, El Monte, Santa Anita Wash areas)
August 4, 1936 p. 1 (El Monte)
September 19, 1936 p. 1 ( " )
September 24, 1936 p. 1 ( " )
September 30, 1936 p. 1 ( " )
October 13, 1936 p. 1 ( " )
December 23, 1936 p. 1 (Arcadia-Sierra Madre control)
April 6, 1938 p. 1 (relief fund sought)
June 8, 1938 p. 1 (Santa Anita Wash)
September 7, 1938 p. 1 (El Monte)
September 17, 1938 p. 1 (Santa Anita Wash)
September 22, 1938 p. 1 (Eaton Wash)
September 27, 1938 p. 1 (report of suitable sites for control)
October 4, 1938 p. 1 (Santa Anita Wash)
August 24, 1939 p. 1 (Little Santa Anita creek control)
July 17, 1941 p. 1 (canyon project)
August 21, 1941 p. 1 (Santa Anita Canyon
September 11, 1941 p. 1 (Santa Anita Wash)
February 25, 1943 p. 1 (Snata Anita flood control)
June 23, 1953 p. 1 (special project)
November 19, 1953 p. 1 (Colorado Blvd. storm drain)
December 24, 1953 p. 2 (action urged by Hillings)
February 1, 1954 p. 1 (status in Arcadia as of January 1954)
February 18, 1954 p. 1 (Federal action)
February 25, 1954 p. 1 (basin)
May 6, 1954 p. 1 (El Monte)
July 1, 1954 p. 1 (wash maps)
October 28, 1954 p. 1 (Flood Control District approves bridges over washes)
November 8, 1954 p. 1 (State Dept. Water Resources approves bridges)
November 11, 1954 p. 1 (protest denial of bridge for Sandra Ave.)
November 15, 1954 p. 1 (Sandra to get bridge)
November 18, 1954 p. 1 (Sandra bridge)
December 9, 1954 p. 1 (Sandra bridge)
February 7, 1955 p. 1 (Lanan Canyon pipe line)
July 25, 1955 p. 1 ( Michillinda drain)
October 6, 1955 p 1 (Michillinda drain)
August 1, 1955 p. 1 (schedule plan)
August 22, 1955 p. 1 ( " )
November 3, 1955 p. 24 (Arcadia Wash improvement)
June 7, 1956 p. 1 (map)
March 7, 1957 p. 1 (Baldwin channel)
May 6, 1957 p. 1 (Baldwin channel)
September 1, 1958 p. 1 (County budget for Arcadia)
March 23, 1959 p. 1 (Santa Anita Wash)
July 30, 1959 p. 1 (Santa Anita Wash)
September 26, 1968 p. 1 (Santa Anita Flood Control Committee)
Subjects
Flood Control
Item ID
3928AN
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New state-of-the-art library coming to Arcadia. The Los Angeles County Public Library will replace the current branch in unincorporated Arcadia (4153 East Live Oak Avenue) sometime in 2017 at a new site at 22 West Live Oak Boulevard. It will cost about $9 million from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors capital projects funding.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2016
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2016
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Antonovich, Michael
Libraries
Los Angeles County Public Library-Live Oak Branch
Patrick, Skye
Item ID
34840AN
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