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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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Terrance M. Towner, former Pasadena resident and school superintendent in Los Gatos, will be next superintendent for the Arcadia Unified School District. The Arcadia Board of Education selected Towner after a 4-month search. He replaces Stephen Goldstone, who left in September to become superintendent with the Chino Unified School District. Mr. Towner will earn $91,000 per year.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 11, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 11, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Schools - Superintendent
Item ID
3101AN
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John Allsbury, 39, the Arcadia auto broker accused of felony grand theft, was found guilty of nine felony counts of grand theft and nine misdemeanor counts of operating his auto brokerage without a state license. Sentencing was scheduled for March 9 in Los Angeles Superior Court.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 14, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 14, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Auto Marketing Concepts
Item ID
754AN
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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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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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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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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 28, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Pesticides
Item ID
2170AN
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Ten Arcadia High School students have been selected as National Merit finalists, placing them among 14,000 competing for the 6100 available Merit Scholarships. The seniors are Kenneth Branson, Sidney Chung, Enrique Colayco, Bonnie Flinn, Norbert Hsu, Jacqueline Luk, Douglas McCreary, Regina Momblanco, David Park and Henry Tseng.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 28, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 28, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
3000AN
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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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Newspaper
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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Rebecca Switzer, a math instructor at Arcadia High School, was one of 10 Los Angeles County teachers selected as a finalist in the Jaime Escalante Mathematics Teacher Awards program.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 21, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 21, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Employees - Switzer, Rebecca
Item ID
2882AN
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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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Incumbent councilwoman Mary Young is scheduled to take the gavel as the new Mayor of Arcadia. In the election, about 22% of the city's 25,000 registered voters participated. Here are the final results: George Fasching, 27.2%, 3996, Roger Chandler, 14.7%, 2162, Joseph Ciraulo, 22.1%, 3242, Charles Chivetta, 9.4% 1368, Robert Harbicht, 19.8%, 2907, Eileen Stephan, 6.9% 1014

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 15, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 15, 1990
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p. A-1, 2
Subjects
City Council - Elections - 1990
Mayors - Young, Mary
Fasching, George
Ciraulo, Joseph
Harbicht, Robert
Chandler, Roger
Chivetta, Charles
Stephan, Eileen
Item ID
1131AN
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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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Newspaper
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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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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p. A-1
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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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 9, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Park, David
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2114AN
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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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The Arcadia Post 247 American Legion members will be leaving their home of 69 years to move to a new meeting place sometime in the next few months. Faced with dwindling funds to finance much-needed repairs for their 2-story hall, the group has sold their property to a development firm that wants to build 40 homes in the area.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 10, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 10, 1990
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Organizations - American Legion Glenn Dyer Post #247
Item ID
2081AN
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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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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 17, 1990
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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 group of Duarte residents has vowed to appeal a 3-2 Planning Commission decision permitting the Anoakia School to relocate to a Duarte neighborhood.

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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
Subjects
Schools, Private - Anoakia School
Item ID
3057AN
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The school board elected new officers for the 1990-91 year. These include G. Michael Allison, President; Robert Kladifko, vice president; and James Bryant, secretary.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 4, 1990
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p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 4, 1990
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
School Board - Elections
Allison, G. Michael
Bryant, James
Kladifko, Robert
Item ID
2558AN
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