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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1396
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
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Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1395AN
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23 Arcadia High School students capped third-place honors in the California State Finals of the National Bicentennial Competition. The students, in Ron Morris' advanced placement government class, last month won first place in the 22nd Congressional District contest, which included five local schools. Photo.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3077
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 31, 1990
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p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 31, 1990
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p. A-2
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Morris, Ron
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2999AN
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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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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 25, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 25, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Organizations - Rotary Club
Item ID
2098AN
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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
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Hazardous Waste
Item ID
1691AN
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Francis Ching, 60, a native Hawaiian, is retiring after 20 years as supervisor of the Los Angeles County Dept. of Arboreta and Botanic Gardens, which includes the LA County Arboretum in Arcadia.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 1, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 1, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Arboretum
Item ID
466AN
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First Avenue Junior High was one of 3 area schools to receive the state Dept. of Education's Distinguished High School and Middle School Awards. Arcadia's Foothill Jr. High received the award in 1988. The other winners included San Marino High School and the L. A. County High School for the Arts at Cal State Los Angeles.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 22, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 22, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - First Avenue Junior High School
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3045AN
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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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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 29, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 29, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
School Board
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2480AN
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Vons Market, which operates 328 grocery stores in Southern California, has moved its corporate headquarters from El Monte to Michillinda Avenue, between Sunset Boulevard and Huntington Drive. The 240,000 square foot building, a former May Co. store that closed in January 1989, will house 950 Vons employees.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 27, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 27, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Vons Market
May Company
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842AN
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The Arcadia Police Dept. will receive $1,227,823 of a total of $12 million for its part in the largest drug bust in history at a Sylmar warehouse last September. The money will be used to step up drug enforcement, as well as for community programs in drug prevention and awareness. The undercover work was by officer Dean Caputo.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 6, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 6, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Drug Trafficking
Item ID
1480AN
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Arcadian Gary Twombley will leave Washington, D.C. to become part of the 1st group of Peace Corps volunteers to serve in Eastern Europe. Twombley, 24, is preparing with 59 other volunteers, including Elizabeth Oewn, 22, of Pasadena, for 2 years of service in Hungary.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 17, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 17, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Twombley, Gary
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3428AN
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A unanimous City Council adopted a "conservative" $42.5 million 1990-91 budget after fine-tuning some expenditures to the Chamber of Commerce and the workers' compensation program. The city has $33.8 million in reserves going into the 1990-91 fiscal year, and expects another $42.6 million in revenues.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 24, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 24, 1990
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p. A-1
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Budget
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676AN
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Pamela Polagi, 37, an insurance claims adjuster for the Automobile Club of Southern California, who happens to be blind since birth, is profiled.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2204
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 2, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 2, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Polagi, Pamela
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The Board of Education has approved a new after-school child care program to be conducted by the Santa Anita Family branch of the YMCA at the Holly Avenue Elementary School Youth Hut. About 20 children have been enrolled in the program, which can accommodate up to 35.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 16, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 16, 1990
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p. A-1
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Day Care Centers
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1410AN
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Plaza de las Fiestas, a new multipurpose arena in the northwest quadrant of the infield at the Santa Anita Park, has been created to accommodate Family Faire weekend outings for groups of 25 or more, as well as company picnics, concerts, trade shows, equine shows and other special occasions that can share the day with racing.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 3, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 3, 1990
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Subjects
Santa Anita Park 1981 - 1990
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2438AN
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About 35-40% of the city's single-family residences put out recyclables as part of a voluntary municipal recycling program which has been in effect about 18 months and involves 10,000 homes.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 7, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 7, 1990
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Recycling
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Dwain Schenck, 27, who grew up in Arcadia, is project director for AmeriCares, a non-profit relief organization founded in 1982 which is currently helping thousands of refugees who have fled Kuwait for Jordan.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 17, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 17, 1990
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Schenck, Dwain
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The new CAS (2) program, an acronym for Curriculum Alignment System and Comprehensive Assessment System, will replace the California Assessment Program (CAP), the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS), and the District Minimum Proficiency Tests. CAS (2) testing will begin in November for high school seniors, with all other grades to take the test in the spring. Advantages of the new test are given in the article.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 21, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 21, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Test Scores
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3129AN
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A 5-year effort to put $1.5 million worth of computers, laser disc players, videocassette recorders and other high-tech teaching tools into Arcadia classrooms was kicked off by the Arcadia Educational Foundation, an independent fundraising group.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper489
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 31, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 31, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Educational Foundation
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489AN
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The Arcadia Unified School District's scores on the California Assessment Program went up in math for all grades this year, but down in reading in the 3rd and 6th grades, while 8th grade students showed an increase in reading. Other figures are also given in the article, as well as a chart of scores for each AUSD school on page A-2.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 11, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 11, 1990
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p. A-1
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Schools - Test Scores
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3130AN
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The Asian Pacific American Legal Center, which recently persuaded Temple City, Rosemead and Garden Grove to stop restricting the use of foreign languages on business signs, has requested a change in the Arcadia city ordinance that allows only 1/3 of the area of a sign to be in a foreign language. The new ordinance is more restrictive than the law that was deemed unconstitutional in Pomona in 1989 which required at least 50% of a sign to be written in the Roman alphabet.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3317
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 2, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 2, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Signs and Signboards
Item ID
3215AN
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