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An earthquake registering 5.5 on the Richter scale hit Australia's southeast coast at 3:28 PST on Wednesday, December 27, 1989. Newcastle, Australia's fifth largest city, suffered the majority of damage as 11 were known to have died. A city of 500,000, Newcastle has the largest concentration of heavy industry in the country.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 31, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 31, 1989
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p. A-1
Subjects
Sister City - Newcastle, Australia
Item ID
3237AN
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Arcadia teachers are eligible for mini-grants of $100-300 under a program being implemented by the Arcadia Rotary Club. The program will provide funds to district teachers for special projects beginning in February. All teachers, from kindergarten to 12th grade, are eligible to apply.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 13, 1989
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p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 13, 1989
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
Organizations - Rotary Club
Item ID
2097AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia School Board accepted $26,365 in state funding to prevent alcohol and drug use among elementary school students. The money, available on 1/0/90, is being allocated under the Comprehensive Alcohol and Drug Prevention Education Program (CADPE), targeting 4th, 5th, and 6th graders in every district in California.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 3, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 3, 1989
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Elementary Schools
Item ID
2698AN
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Newspaper Index
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Last year, Foothills Junior High students raised $800 for the Peace Corps to go to Lamotrek Atoll, Micronesia, an island in the South Pacific. The Peace Corps Partnership Program allows American schools, clubs and organizations to fund small projects, typically less than $1500. The money will be used to construct a basketball court.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 29, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 29, 1989
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Foothills Junior High School
Item ID
3050AN
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Susan Clavey, the mother of Tanya Clavey (the 16-year old girl who died following a 400-foot plunge off the Santa Anita Canyon Road) asked the Arcadia City Council to close the road's gate at dusk to prevent further fatalities. The gate, normally locked at 10 PM, was unlocked when the accident occurred at 10:15 PM.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 26, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 26, 1989
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p. A-1
Subjects
Streets - Chantry Flat Road
Item ID
3282AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia City Council approved a 6% hike in building fees, such as building permits, conditional use permits, and request for modifications. The increase, set for November 17, will be used to offset the 6% salary hike that city employees received in the 1989-90 budget.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 25, 1989
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p A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 25, 1989
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p A-1
Subjects
Building Fees
Item ID
679AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Automobile Club of Southern California will relocate its Temple City and Monrovia offices to its new facility at 420 East Huntington Drive, Arcadia, beginning October 16.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 8, 1989
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p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 8, 1989
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p. A-2
Subjects
Automobile Club of Southern California
Item ID
757AN
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County supervisors approved a $4.7 million infusion of funds to aid mental health programs in the Children's Home Society in Arcadia. The Children's Home Society, a non-profit organization that places mentally disturbed children in foster homes, will now lose $16,000, instead of the anticipated loss of staff and $32,000.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 8, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 8, 1989
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p. A-1
Subjects
Children's Home Society
Item ID
936AN
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An Arcadia undercover police officer, 28, helped a Drug Enforcement Administration team and the LAPD in Sylmar for the biggest drug bust in history, a cache of 20 tons of cocaine valued at $20 billion. Federal agents also confiscated $10 million in cash.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 4, 1989
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p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 4, 1989
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p. A-2
Subjects
Drug Trafficking
Item ID
1479AN
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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.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 27, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 27, 1989
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p. A-1
Subjects
Hang Gliding
Item ID
1681AN
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Arthur Farr, 46, the band and orchestra leader at Dana Junior High School, has been named the Arcadia Unified School District's 1990 Teacher of the Year. Farr has been teaching band and orchestra at Dana for 23 years, as well as coaching the basketball team and teaching physical education. (NOTE: This article incorrectly identified him as "Allen", but the error was corrected in the issue of October 1.)

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 24, 1989
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 24, 1989
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p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Schools - Employees - Farr, Arthur
Item ID
2833AN
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The Arcadia Redevelopment Agency is looking for developers to submit building proposals for 2 new major development projects on 5 acres of downtown property. The agency wants to house corporate headquarters, business and professional offices, retail stores and restaurants.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 20, 1989
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p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 20, 1989
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p. A-2
Subjects
Community Redevelopment
Item ID
1341AN
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Herb Fletcher, 71, a longtime Arcadian best known for questioning city government, advising local newspapers and comforting senior citizens, died of a heart attack at Arcadia Methodist Hospital.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 17, 1989
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 17, 1989
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p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Fletcher, Herb
Item ID
1620AN
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The Arcadia Redevelopment Agency recently made several changes in its relocation rules that serve as guidelines to move residents and businesses to comparable sites when the city purchases their locations for redevelopment purposes. The new rules, which go into effect January 1, were prompted by new changes in state law and the need for smoother transition periods during relocations.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 13, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 13, 1989
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p. A-1
Subjects
Community Redevelopment
Item ID
1340AN
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Arcadia ranks at the top among US cities with the highest-paid employees, yet charges its residents less for municipal services and receives less aid than most California cities of similar size. No other US city outside California with a population between 10,000 and 50,000 pays its employees more; the average city employee earns $32,767 per year.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 31, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 31, 1989
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p. A-1
Subjects
Economic Conditions
Item ID
1501AN
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The Arcadia Board of Education is considering a new policy that gives students the right to refuse to dissect animals on moral grounds. Such students will have their teachers assign alternative educational projects.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 27, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 27, 1989
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p. A-1
Subjects
School Board
Item ID
2479AN
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Amy Nelson and Kathleen Ashenfelter, both 16,toured the Soviet Union for 3 weeks with the People to People Friendship Caravan, a program which takes 1600 American youths to 50 Soviet cities. It is the largest student educational program in the history of the US and USSR.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 16, 1989
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 16, 1989
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p. A-1 photo
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Nelson, Amy
Ashenfelter, Kathleen
Item ID
2013AN
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Arcadia joined the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito Abatement District, making it one of the last cities in the valley to participate in a mosquito control program. The program is designed to monitor mosquitos that transmit St. Louis encephalitis, a sometimes fatal viral disease.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 6, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 6, 1989
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p. A-1
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Mosquitos
Item ID
1989AN
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The Arcadia City Council approved a 5% tax on interstate and international telephone calls over the strong objections of residents. The tax, which will cost about $.40 per person per month, is expected to generate $225,000 in city revenues, which will help close the gap between the city's general fund expenditures and revenue.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 6, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 6, 1989
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p. A-1
Subjects
Telephone
Item ID
3337AN
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The Arcadia Redevelopment Agency won a $495,000 settlement for removing toxic waste from 1.6 acres of downtown Arcadia land it bought from Clifford C. Bong and Co. last year. The agency sued Bong in April of 1988 to recover the money it spent to dispose of soil contaminated with high levels of lead, cadmium and hydrocarbon wastes. The agreement was reached two days before the June 27 trial was to begin.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 2, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 2, 1989
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p. A-1
Subjects
Lawsuits see Actions and Defenses
Actions and Defenses
Item ID
336AN
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Newspaper Index
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