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The founder of Focus on the Family, James Dobson, will resign as president and chief executive. Dobson formed the beginnings of Focus on the Family in 1977 in Arcadia and moved to Colorado Springs in 1991.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25536
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 9, 2003
Pages
p. D5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 9, 2003
Pages
p. D5
Subjects
Dobson, James
Focus on the Family
Item ID
25735AN
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James Dobson and Focus on the Family are discussed by former right-hand-man Gil Meogerle. Also see accompanying article about rise of Focus on the Family.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper9365
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 13, 1997
Pages
p. D-1 photos
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 13, 1997
Pages
p. D-1 photos
Subjects
Focus on the Family
Dobson, James
Moegerle, Gil
Item ID
9320AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Former Arcadian and leader of Focus on the Family, James Dobson, has become outspoken on many controversial issues.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4736
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 29, 1995
Pages
p. D6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 29, 1995
Pages
p. D6
Subjects
Arcadia Authors - Dobson, James
Item ID
4612AN
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Newspaper Index
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Focus on the Family, a not-for-profit religious organization currently based in Colorado Springs, is raising moral issues of concern to its membership. The voice of Focus on the Family is former Arcadia resident and author Dr. James Dobson.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4570
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 3, 1995
Pages
p. D-6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 3, 1995
Pages
p. D-6
Subjects
Arcadia Authors - Dobson, James
Item ID
4446AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia ranked by niche.com as number 17 in Top 100 Best California towns to raise a family.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34197
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 11, 2015
Pages
p. 1, 16
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 11, 2015
Pages
p. 1, 16
Subjects
Arcadia, California
Families
Item ID
34391AN
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Statue of Hugo Reid family executed by Preston L. Prescott and which stands in Arcadia County Park. This view is from some distance and shows entire pedestal. Shows Reid, wife Victoria, young son and younger daughter. Dedicated October 31, 1937.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs414
Date
c.1971
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Date
c.1971
Subjects
Arcadia County Park
Reid, Hugo
Reid, Victoria
Hugo Reid Family Statue
Statuary
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
412
Collection
Photographs
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Arcadia High School senior Shirley Hung scored a perfect score on the SAT. She is one of three other students in the United States to accomplish this.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper5652
Newspaper
Sierra Madre News
Date
December 7, 1995
Pages
p. 7
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Sierra Madre News
Date
December 7, 1995
Pages
p. 7
Subjects
Hung, Shirley
Item ID
5503AN
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Newspaper Index
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Brian Osier and Mark Thompson, co-owners of Teamates Sporting goods, are organizing a benefit tournament to help the family of Rob Edgell, a West Covina resident who died in May, leaving behind a wife and four children and no life insurance.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper14455
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 1998
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 1998
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Business & Industry - Teamates Sporting Goods
Thompson, Mark
Osier, Brian
Item ID
15012AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia's K-9 Zoli gets his own opioid overdose kit. It contains items which will aid in saving Zoli's life, if he encounters this dangerous narcotic.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35164
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 26, 2018
Pages
p. 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 26, 2018
Pages
p. 11
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department-K-9 Unit
Officer Zoli
Item ID
35353AN
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Arcadia Mayor Peter Amundson defends his speaker of choice at next month's Mayor's Community Breakfast. He has invited H. B. London, of Focus on the Family, a conservative Christian group that opposes same-sex marriage. Residents and activists upset about this choice are organizing two counterevents of their own. Activists are planning a "peaceful" demonstration March 4 outside Arcadia Community Center and a bar-b-que at Pasadena's Unitarian Church for all families. Focus on the Family was founded in Arcadia by Dr. James C. Dobson and believes marriage is meant to be between a man and a woman. Amundson said the event is not about sexuality but about the Arcadia family.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32339
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 25, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Announcement Type
Marriage
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 25, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Announcement Type
Marriage
Subjects
Amundson, Peter
Mayor's Community Breakfast
Focus on the Family
Gay rights
London, H. B., Jr.
Item ID
32537AN
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Mrs. Irene Wiley was freed on the charge that she was wilfully cruel to her 13-year-old daughter Susan Wiley, aka "Genie." The article was written by Lucie Lowery. A 13-year-old girl named Susan Wiley was reportedly a prisoner in her home for all her life until a social worker discovered the abuse. Susan's parents Clark Wiley and Irene Wiley were arrested. The family home is at 6722 Golden West Avenue, in a county area of Arcadia. Susan Wiley was living in an environment of total isolation and deprivation and was malnourished. She cannot talk, is deformed, barely able to walk and is not toilet trained. She has been placed in the care of Children's Hospital. The child has come to be known by the alias "Genie." See VF "Wiley, Susan" for hard copy.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31554
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 16, 1970
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 16, 1970
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Child Abuse
Feral children
"Genie"
Suicides
Wiley, Clark
Wiley, Irene
Wiley, Susan
Item ID
31750AN
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The Noyes family may continue their fight for custody of the baby born by surrogate mother Nisa Bhimani despite the publicity over Bjorna Noyes being a transsexual. Bhimani's lawyer claimed the other would not have backed out of her deal with the Noyes had she been paid as agreed.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper522
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 11, 1981
Pages
p. B-5
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 11, 1981
Pages
p. B-5
Subjects
Artificial Insemination, Human
Item ID
522AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia freelance cinematographer Craig Bonholtzer and family have finished the third real-life adventure videotape, "Swiftwater rescue: California Style."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper12444
Newspaper
Sierra Madre News
Date
February 5, 1998
Pages
p. 12
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Newspaper
Sierra Madre News
Date
February 5, 1998
Pages
p. 12
Subjects
Bonholtzer, Craig
Item ID
12642AN
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Four members of Reyes family start at Arcadia High School. All their names start with J and all are in different grade levels.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34289
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 3, 2015
Pages
p. 16
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 3, 2015
Pages
p. 16
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Foran, Ryan
Reyes family
Item ID
34483AN
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Newspaper Index
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Photo of General John J. Pershing mingling with a group at Ross Field Balloon School. He is accompanied by other officers and there are a number of young boys eager to greet him. Across photo had been written "Balloon School Training" and "1920" and "General Pershing at Arcadia."

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Date
1920
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Date
1920
Subjects
Balloon School
Pershing, John J.
Physical Description
9x11 b&w
ID
222
Collection
Photographs
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Large group of people sitting at a long table with other people sitting at other tables and some people standing. A man at the end of the main table is holding a sign which reads EATON FOR PRESIDENT. Charles Eaton is standing next to his seated wife, laughing. The man next to Mr. Eaton is holding a sign on which I LIKE EATON is printed.

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Date
unknown
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Date
unknown
Subjects
Eaton, Charles B.
Eaton, Billie
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1377
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Photographs
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Small Spanish-style home. Address, at the time of the photo (1927) was 2747 Olive Street in Temple City. Numbers on Olive Street were changed and same house in 1980 has street number of 10159. This was girlhood home of Vera Van Houten and her family. The children went all the way through Arcadia schools as this home was in Arcadia School District.

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Date
c.1927
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Date
c.1927
Subjects
Van Iwaarden, Vera Van Houten
Olive Street
Houses
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1041
Collection
Photographs
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Arcadia couple, Bob and Shirley Wilson, celebrates 65 years of wedded bliss. They were married in 1951 at Church of the Good Shepherd in Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 11, 2016
Pages
p.13
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 11, 2016
Pages
p.13
Subjects
Anniversaries
Marriages
Wilson, Bob
Wilson, Shirley
Item ID
34834AN
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The Santa Anita Fashion Park has a gender-neutral family bathroom which opened in early October.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper11650
Newspaper
Los Angeles Times San Gabriel Valley weekly
Date
December 19, 1997
Pages
p. 7
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Newspaper
Los Angeles Times San Gabriel Valley weekly
Date
December 19, 1997
Pages
p. 7
Subjects
Santa Anita Fashion Park
Item ID
11861AN
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Newspaper Index
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Murder trial. Deyun Shi, man accused of revenge on family. The prosecutor said Shi, a Chinese citizen, had plan to flee to Hong Kong after killing his 2 teenage nephews in Arcadia and an attack against his wife. Shi faces life in prison without parole if convicted in the January 22, 2016 killings of 15-year-old Anthony Lin and 16-year-old William Lin, and of injuring his wife the day before. The boys were bludgeoned to death in their home in the 400 block of Fairview Avenue in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36642
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 1, 2024
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 1, 2024
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Lin, Amy
Lin, Anthony
Lin, William
Shi, Deyun
Murders
Trials
Collection
Newspaper Index
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