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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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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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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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Newspaper Index
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Arcadian Darlis Clark, who sued the LA Police Dept. for allegedly lying to a judge and falsifying information to obtain a search warrant to search her home in June, 1987, lost her federal civil rights lawsuit in a 6-0 verdict. The LAPD had hoped to link Clark in an investigation of ZZZBest carpet cleaning whiz kid Barry Minkow and organized crime.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 25, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 25, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Clark, Darlis
Item ID
1220AN
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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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p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Streets - Orange Grove Avenue
Item ID
3286AN
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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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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 1, 1990
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Arboretum
Item ID
466AN
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An anonymous donor apparently has withdrawn $225,000 in support of county botanical programs because of concerns about a proposed merger between the L.A. County Natural History Museum and the county Dept. of Arboreta and Botanic Gardens.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 25, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 25, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Arboretum
Item ID
461AN
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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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Subjects
Schools - Test Scores
Item ID
3128AN
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Arcadia police are using SMART, or Speed Monitoring Awareness Radar Trailer, to educate residents into "voluntary compliance" with posted speeds. Placed at various locations, the trailers have a changeable sign for legal speed limits and an electronic readout of the actual speed of each car that whizzes by. The device can read speeds from about 1/4 mile away.

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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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Traffic Regulations
Item ID
3417AN
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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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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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Bill Connolly, 67, has closed his White Eyes Indian Shop, located south of Huntington Drive on First Avenue. First opened in 1964, the property was sold to Don Ta of Alhambra, who plans to open a real estate office.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 3, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 3, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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White Eyes Indian Shop
Item ID
848AN
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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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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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County supervisors called a halt to a plan to merge the Department of Arboreta and Botanic Gardens with the county Museum of Natural History because the county's Economy and Efficiency Commission has not made sufficient progress on it and because the board needs to replace recently retired arboreta department head Francis Ching.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 1, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 1, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Arboretum
Item ID
462AN
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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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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 15, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 15, 1990
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Foreman, Rose
Dial-A-Ride
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1639AN
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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.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 2, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 2, 1990
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Polagi, Pamela
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2179AN
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Profile of All Seasons, located in the Pavilions shopping center on Naomi St., one of the few holiday-oriented businesses that stays open year-round (it changes its inventory every few months).

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 28, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 28, 1990
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Subjects
All Seasons
Item ID
733AN
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The City Council approved a revision of Arcadia's General Plan, the foundation for which all land-use decisions are made, so that regulating growth is one of the main aims of the revised plan. Article includes a list of the Plan's goals and policies.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 16, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 16, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
City Planning
Item ID
1213AN
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Kay Okamoto, 73, a former World War II intern in a Wyoming relocation camp, relived the experience after seeing the current film "Come See the Paradise", which features two of her grandsons, Brian and Scott, working as extras in two scenes.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 13, 1991
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 13, 1991
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Okamoto, Kay
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2028AN
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Newco Waste Systems, the city's trash disposal company, is asking residents who participate in the voluntary curbside recycling program to sort their trash more carefully since some are mixing household waste with yard waste.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 16, 1991
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 16, 1991
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p. A-1
Subjects
Recycling
Item ID
2313AN
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A group of parents plans to ask the school board to cancel the performance of the play "Secrets" at Foothill Junior High since it addresses the issues of AIDS and birth control without, as they see it, meeting state education guidelines because it does not stress abstinence from intercourse as an alternative.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 27, 1991
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 27, 1991
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Race Relations
Item ID
3084AN
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The city's new graffiti removal program has logged at least 72 cases since Jan. 28 in which residents have asked the city to remove graffiti free of charge. In November, for the first time, the City Council allocated $20,000 for graffiti removal.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 14, 1991
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 14, 1991
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p. A-1
Subjects
Graffiti
Item ID
1667AN
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Newspaper Index
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