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The Arcadia Redevelopment Agency voted unanimously to begin condemnation proceedings of a property at 156 Santa Clara Street. The agency wants to claim the land for retail stores and office buildings. Eminent domain proceedings were begun since the city and the owners of the property have not been able to agree on the value of the property.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 7, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 7, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Community Redevelopment
Item ID
1342AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia police arrested two Arcadia High School students 16, and 15, in connection with a December 11 racial incident in which a cross was burned and anti-Asian epithets were scrawled on the front yard of a home in the 200 block of Arbolada Drive. The two boys were booked for damaging property based on ethnic origin and were released to the custody of their parents.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 10, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 10, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1395AN
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Jef Wheeler, 26, a jazz dance teacher at Arcadia Dance Arts for two years, is currently touring with "Heart Strings" an AIDS benefit sponsored by the Design Alliance to Combat AIDS and the Design Industries Foundation for AIDS. After the Los Angeles show, the troupe will move on to Houston, Miami, New York, Boston and Washington, D. C. Organizers hope to raise $4 million for AIDS research, community education programs and care and services for AIDS patients.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Wheeler, Jef
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3496AN
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The City Council agreed to tighten building restrictions for new two-story homes. Lot coverage will be reduced on two-story homes from 45% to 35%.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 11, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 11, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Building Laws
Item ID
683AN
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Arcadia George A. Bolton, social science instructor at San Bernardino Valley College and Craafton Hills College, Yucaipa, has been included in the recent edition of "Who's Who in California." Bolton is a staff analyst for the department of environmental health services for San Bernardino County, while continuing to teach part-time at the colleges. He was honored after a personal/training study he published received national attention.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 21, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 21, 1990
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p. A-1
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Bolton, George A
Item ID
639AN
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The Arcadia Rotary Club awarded grants totaling $4,990 to 17 teachers at the February 13 Arcadia Board of Education meeting. Grants ranging from $175 to $300 were given to individual teachers to help with special classroom projects. The teachers represented 5 of the 6 Arcadia elementary schools, all 3 junior high schools and both Arcadia and Huntington high schools.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 25, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 25, 1990
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Subjects
Organizations - Rotary Club
Item ID
2098AN
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The Arcadia Unified School District Board of Education backed the idea of a resolution calling for an immediate halt to aerial spraying of malathion. The board's actions came less than a week after the Arcadia City Council unanimously passed a resolution asking for a halt to the spraying.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 28, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 28, 1990
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Subjects
Pesticides
Item ID
2170AN
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Police have arrested nine people who are believed to be members of a San Gabriel Valley Asian gang that has been under investigation in recent months for terrorizing local Asian youths. Four adults and five juveniles were taken into custody after police linked them with a February 15 kidnapping, attempted extortion and assault.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 4, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 4, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Gangs see also Gang Activity
Item ID
1396AN
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Kiewit Pacific Company, a construction firm formerly based in Arcadia and now located in Santa Fe Springs was fined $50,000 for burying 50 industrial drums, of which 2 contained hazardous liquid, on its Arcadia property between 1982 and 1985.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 18, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 18, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Hazardous Waste
Item ID
1691AN
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A many as 60 of the trees on Orange Grove Ave., the "county road" running from Michillinda Blvd. to Santa Anita Ave., could be endangered by a proposed road-widening project currently under consideration by Arcadia and Sierra Madre. The street would be widened from 30 to 36 ft. since the street is considered too narrow for the trash bins that residents often leave in the road, constituting a hazard.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 28, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 28, 1990
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Subjects
Streets - Orange Grove Avenue
Item ID
3286AN
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Mayor Roger Chandler lost his bid for re-election as challengers George Fasching and Joseph Ciraulo and incumbent Robert Harbicht were elected to the Arcadia City Council. Fasching led with 27.2% of the vote, followed by Ciraulo with 22.1% and Harbicht with 19.8%.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 11, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 11, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
City Council - Elections - 1990
Chandler, Roger
Fasching, George
Ciraulo, Joseph
Harbicht, Robert
Item ID
1130AN
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Mary Young, the only woman in Arcadia's history to serve 2 terms as mayor and only the second on the city council, was unanimously elected as mayor while Charles Gilb was elected mayor pro-tem by the newly formed city council.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 22, 1990
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p. A-1 photos - Young and Gilb
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 22, 1990
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p. A-1 photos - Young and Gilb
Subjects
City Council - Elections - 1990
Mayors - Young, Mary
Gilb, Charles E.
Item ID
1132AN
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Test scores of Arcadia Unified School District's seniors rose this year. The reading score was 294 (up 19 points) while math score was 333 (up 20 points). Since 1987-88, students moved from the 77th to the 85th percentile in reading and from the 89th to the 96th percentile in math statewide.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 25, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 25, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Test Scores
Item ID
3128AN
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23 "heroes and heroines" in the Arcadia Unified School District were honored by the Board of Education in the first "Profiles in Excellence" awards. The awards were presented to "individuals who maintain a standard of excellence in their work and who represent those values and qualities which make Arcadia a special place for students." Names and positions of winners are given.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 29, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 29, 1990
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Subjects
School Board
Item ID
2480AN
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David Park, 17, a senior at Arcadia High School, is one of only 6 San Gabriel Valley students to receive a $2000 National Merit Scholarship, on of 1800 nationwide winners. Park is one of only 2 students in California to also be honored in the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, where he is one of 500 national finalists competing for 141 scholar awards.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 9, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 9, 1990
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Park, David
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2114AN
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City Finance Director Alan C. Murphy died of cancer at 34 - just two weeks after receiving a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting and an award for Financial Reporting Achievement by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA). Photo

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 9, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 9, 1990
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Subjects
City Employees - Murphy, Alan
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1161AN
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Gerald A. Parker, last years's City Employee of the Year, has been appointed director of finance. Parker replaces Alan Murphy, who died earlier this month after a long battle with cancer.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 16, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 16, 1990
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City Employees - Parker, Gerald A.
Item ID
1164AN
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A federal judge has ordered Peter Kiewit and its subsidiary, Kiewit Pacific Co., now located in Santa Fe Springs, to pay the city of Arcadia the cost of cleaning up contaminated soil at the Santa Clara Street property it sold to the Arcadia Redevelopment Agency in 1985. The hazardous waste has put a new office building project on hold for more than a year and a half.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 30, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 30, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Hazardous Waste
Item ID
1692AN
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In an informal, long-range planning session, City Council members made a new library and police station two of their top priorities. Last month, the council approves spending $55,000 to hire a consultant, to be chosen at the June 19th meeting, to draw up plans for a new library to replace the overcrowded library.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 13, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 13, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
City Council 1990 - 1999
Item ID
1038AN
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Rose Foreman, 100, an Arcadia resident since 1947 and a Dial-A-Ride user since 1975, has been given a lifetime Dial-A-Ride pass, enabling her to ride for free.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 15, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 15, 1990
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p. B-1 photo
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Foreman, Rose
Dial-A-Ride
Item ID
1639AN
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Newspaper Index
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