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"Baby factories" in Arcadia? City of Arcadia forms a task force to look into the matter of motels, such as Santa Anita Inn, and residential homes, being used to house expectant mothers from overseas, particularly China. These women want their children born in the U.S. to garner citizenship for that child.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33461
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 21, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 6
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 21, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 6
Subjects
Boarding houses
Motels
Pregnant women
Santa Anita Inn
Item ID
33656AN
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An ancient Chinese maternity tradition, from the Sung Dynasty (960-1275 AD), known as "Zuo Yue Zi," is translated as "doing the month."It refers to the care of a Chinese woman during the first month after giving birth. The practice is explained here by Wei-Chen Tung, a former registered nurse at Arcadia Methodist Hospital and now an assistant professor of nursing at University of Nevada, Reno. The practice requires new mothers to follow a strict diet and rest for 3-4 weeks following a pregnancy. Tung says a lot of Chinese women still practice this, so hospitals should be aware of this part of Chinese culture. Maternity tourists--women who want to come to the United States to give birth to a full-fledged American citizen, have given rise to businesses that cater to them, such as the maternity home that was shut down in the 1300 block of South Palm Avenue in San Gabriel on March 8. It had been 5 townhomes illegally converted into a maternity home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32365
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 3, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 3, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Asians
Building codes--violations
Chinese culture
Maternity tourists
Tung, Wei-Chen
Mothers
Item ID
32563AN
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Arcadia Police close 13 maternity homes in a crackdown months after a full-time detective was assigned to address calls about pregnant Asian women living in groups at residences around the city. The pregnant Asian women come to the U.S. so their babies receive U.S. citizenship. Detective James Trabbie became the quality-of-life detective.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33614
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 16, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A9
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 16, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A9
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Trabbie, James
Zoning
Item ID
33809AN
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Birth-tourism sites not easily detected.Terry Moore-Corse, a code enforcement officer in Arcadia has encountered three maternity homes in the past six years, most recently in 2009, when a resident reported "a lot of pregnant women" coming out of a house. Beyond building code and business license violations, there is nothing illegal about coming into this country to give birth, according to the U.S. State Department, which issues visas. Maternity tourism is a money-making cottage industry in which wealthy women from Asia pay anywhere from $25,000-35,000 to have American-born infants.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32364
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 31, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
Announcement Type
Birth
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 31, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
Announcement Type
Birth
Subjects
Asians
Building codes--violations
Maternity tourists
Moore-Corse, Terry
Mothers
Item ID
32562AN
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Dwight Chang of Arcadia is owner of a house on the 1300 block of South Palm Avenue in San Gabriel. The building has been operating as a makeshift maternity ward with 10 newborns and about 12 Chinese nationals, crammed into an illegally converted townhouse. Chang has been warned twice before for operating a business that primarily caters to Asian "maternity tourists." Chang denied any wrongdoing and was fined $800 for building code violations. Children born on American soil automatically become United States citizens, under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Maternity tourism caters to wealthy Taiwanese, Chinese and Koreans. Throughout the past decade, similar set-ups have been uncovered in Rowland Heights, Hacienda Heights, New York, and Quebec.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32355
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 23, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 23, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Asians
Chang, Dwight
Maternity tourists
Item ID
32553AN
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Steve and Yan-Fen Lin, a couple possibly of Arcadia, have been running the illegally modified townhome in San Gabriel, owned by Dwight Chang of Arcadia, as a maternity home for Asian tourists. They violated building codes for setting up a makeshift maternity ward.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32357
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 25, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 25, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Asians
Chang, Dwight
Lin, Steve
Lin, Yan-Fen
Item ID
32555AN
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Rosemary Harry is a volunteer who has made nearly 3000 crocheted hats in the past five years for infants at the maternity unit at Arcadia Methodist Hospital. She has arthritis but loves knitting and crocheting.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31843
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 21, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 19
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 21, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 19
Subjects
Arcadia Methodist Hospital volunteers
Crocheting
Harry, Rosemary - biography
Knitting
Item ID
32040AN
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Martial arts champion, Hollywood actress, and stunt woman, Jing Li, is a martial arts instructor at Washu Action Star Academy in Temple City. She will be a guest at the Arcadia Branch of the American Association of University Women on Monday, November 12. She will present a program about Washu, an exhibition, and full contact sport, and view the documentary film "Autumn Gem," in which Jing Li has a starring role. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 12, November 1, 2012.

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Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
October 27, 2012
Pages
p. 6
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Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
October 27, 2012
Pages
p. 6
Subjects
Actors and actresses
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Li, Jing
Martial arts
Item ID
33382AN
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American Association of University Women (AAUW) - Arcadia Branch Collection

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Start Date
1950
End Date
2016
Contents
American Association of University Women (AAUW)-Arcadia Branch Collection, 1950-2000s The Arcadia branch of AAUW was founded in 1950 and disbanded in 2016. First of three boxes. Chronological Folders 1950-2000s AAUW Bulletin (newsletter), Arcadia Branch 1950-1971 (various months and missing years)…
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Start Date
1950
End Date
2016
Contents
American Association of University Women (AAUW)-Arcadia Branch Collection, 1950-2000s
The Arcadia branch of AAUW was founded in 1950 and disbanded in 2016. First of three boxes. Chronological Folders 1950-2000s
AAUW Bulletin (newsletter), Arcadia Branch 1950-1971 (various months and missing years) The folder for each fiscal year (July through June) 1972-2000, may contain the following items (some items and months may be missing): Bulletin (newsletter) Membership directory Annual report Installation program pamphlet Newsletters AAUW Arcadia Jan 2009-May/June 2015 AAUW Arcadia Branch membership directories 2001-2004
Misc. booklets-AAUW and other women’s organizations
Misc. news clippings
Subjects
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Location
Basement
Box Number
Box 110A
Shelf Number
Shelf H25
Item ID
420AF
Collection
Subject Files
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Judge tells City of Irwindale to just chill out. Request to have Huy Fong Foods' Sriracha chili hot sauce factory shut down was denied. Owner David Tran is an Arcadia resident.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 1, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 1, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Business and Industry
City of Irwindale
Huy Fong Foods
Tran, David
Item ID
33864AN
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Woman's Club of Arcadia will host a luncheon to support global women's health and development, in particular in Afghanistan.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32777
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 12, 2012
Pages
p. 1, 4
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 12, 2012
Pages
p. 1, 4
Subjects
Organizations
Woman's Club of Arcadia
Women's healt
Item ID
32974AN
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30051
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 30, 2001
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
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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Former Arcadia High School student Brittany Klein is now a Women's Professional Soccer player for the Chicago Red Stars.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31494
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 3, 2009
Pages
p. B3 w/photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 3, 2009
Pages
p. B3 w/photo
Subjects
Athletes
Klein, Brittany
Sports
Women's Professional Soccer
Item ID
31689AN
Collection
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Irwindale officials said Huy Fong Foods (the maker of the popular Sriracha hot chili sauce) can continue operations at its plant as long as it doesn't smell. Huy Fong officials said if forced to shut down, 200,000 fewere bottles would be produced per day. David Tran, CEO and founder, is an Arcadia resident.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33695
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 3, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 3, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Business and Industry
City of Irwindale
Huy Fong Foods
Tran, David
Item ID
33891AN
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Women came out to bet on the horses on Ladies' Day at the Races earlier this month.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29968
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 24, 2006
Pages
p. D1, D2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 24, 2006
Pages
p. D1, D2
Subjects
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Ladies' Day at the Races
Women
Horse racing
Item ID
30154AN
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Two of the four Arcadia "tree-sitters"--Julia Jaye Posin and Andrea Bowers--have pleaded no contest to one count each of trespassing, while protesting the destruction of an Arcadia woodland. The two women were fined $60, waived for jail time served, and ordered to do 10 hours of community service. The two other tree-sitters John Quigley and Travis Jochimsen are scheduled to appear in court in late July.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32437
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 29, 2011
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 29, 2011
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Activists
Bowers, Andrea
Environment
Jochimsen, Travis
Oak trees
Posin, Julia Jaye
Quigley, John
Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site
Item ID
32634AN
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Developers hoping to build 31 houses on land where the Anoakia mansion sits have won a court victory that clears the way for the house to be torn down.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper19259
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 6, 2000
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 6, 2000
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Anoakia
Item ID
19501AN
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Arcadia Women's Club will host a fundraiser dinner to help improve Arcadia Vietnam War Monument Memorial with more lighting.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35002
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 2, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 12
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 2, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 12
Subjects
Arcadia Vietnam War Monument Memorial
Arcadia Women's Club
Glasco, Gene
Veterans
Item ID
35192AN
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Arcadia's Morgan McFadden selected as one of 2019 Distinguished Young Women of North Los Angeles County. This program was previously known as America's Junior Miss.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35144
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 5, 2018
Pages
p. 2
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 5, 2018
Pages
p. 2
Subjects
Awards
Distinguished Young Women of North Los Angeles County
McFadden, Morgan
Item ID
35333AN
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Local Arcadia woman Rena Wang plays against China's Xin Wang at 12:30 AM in women's singles badminton at the summer Olympics in London.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33115
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 30, 2012
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 30, 2012
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Olympians
Olympic Games--Summer 2012--London, UK
Wang, Rena
Item ID
33312AN
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