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Activists turn out in support of impeachment of President Donald Trump. Local congressman Adam Schiff has been at the center of House hearings.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 19, 2019
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 19, 2019
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p. 1
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Activism
Impeachment
Schiff, Adam
Trump, Donald
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Arcadia Rotary Club and Arcadia Chinese Association (ACA) announce plans to restore Fort Rotary, a two-story western-style Boy Scout fort in the foothills behind Monrovia. This is historic, the first coordinated project between these two organizations. Architect Kevin Le from Le Architecture in Monrovia, has already volunteered his time to help. The project is expected to cost up to $140,000. So far, Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has pledged $25,000, ACA has pledged $25,000 and Arcadia Rotary has pledged $22,000 on behalf of Mary Hansen of Arcadia.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 5, 2019
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p. 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 5, 2019
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p. 11
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Arcadia Rotary Club
Arcadia Chinese Association (ACA)
Boy Scouts of America (BSA)
Hansen, Mary
Le, Kevin
Organizations
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Remembering Charles Gilb on Veterans Day. Biography of Charles Gilb, "Potato King," a former Staff Sergeant in the Marine Corps, businessman in the produce industry and former Arcadia City Council member. He served four terms as mayor.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 14, 2019
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p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 14, 2019
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p. 3
Subjects
Arcadia City Council
Biographies
Gilb, Charles
Mayors
Veterans
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Arcadia opens first Veterans' Administration (VA) clinic in the San Gabriel Valley area in eight years, called the Interim San Gabriel Valley Community Based Outpatient Clinic, located at 7 West Foothill Boulevard, Arcadia. It is called interim because this is a temporary location. This is a branch of the West Los Angeles VA Hospital. In an email from Gene Glasco, elected City Clerk, after years of advocacy, this veterans health clinic had its grand opening celebration on August 23, 2019.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 29, 2019
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p. 2
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 29, 2019
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p. 2
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Interim San Gabriel Valley Community Based Outpatient Clinic
Veterans' Administration (VA)
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Arcadia senior citizen Sarah Sneider won gold medal in track and field long jump at 2019 National Senior Games in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 18, 2019
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p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 18, 2019
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p. 3
Subjects
Senior Citizens
Sneider, Sarah
Sports
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Veterans Administration (VA) opens clinic medical offices in May in San Gabriel Valley, in Arcadia, eight years after a VA clinic closed in Pasadena. It is called San Gabriel Valley Community Based Outpatient Clinic and provides--on an interm basis--basic clinical services that do not require surgery, such as physical exams and X-rays. Veterans also will have access to primary care, mental health care, telehealth and basic lab services. It will remain operational for 3-5 years and eventually be replaced by a permanent, full clinic. It is at 7 West Foothill Boulevard.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 27, 2019
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p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 27, 2019
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Medicine
San Gabriel Valley Community Based Outpatient Clinic
Veterans Administration (VA)
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Arcadia Police Department Chief Guthrie has implemented an Area Command Community Partnership Program to effectively address crime issues and improve quality of life issues in the City of Arcadia in its five geographic areas (same as voting districts).

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Mountain Views News
Date
May 4, 2019
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p. 7
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Mountain Views News
Date
May 4, 2019
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p. 7
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Area Command Community Partnership Program
Crime
Item ID
35640AN
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Women are stronger together. The Wandering Foot Quilt Guild meets in Arcadia. This group of women teaches quilting and gives back to the community by giving 50-70 items a month to USC Medical Center for low income people with illnesses.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 14, 2019
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p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 14, 2019
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p. 3
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Brisendline, Marilyn
Charity
Quilting
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Olympic figure skater Mirai Nagasu of Arcadia will be one of the featured speakers at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Youth Empowerment Forum at Pasadena Convention Center today.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 11, 2019
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 11, 2019
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Figure skaters
Nagasu, Mirai
Olympians
Item ID
35632AN
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Author Katie Martin to be keynote speaker for Arcadia Innovation Summit. Her book is called Learner-Centered Innovation: Spark Curiosity, Ignite Passion, and Unleash Genius.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 14, 2019
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p. 10
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 14, 2019
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p. 10
Subjects
Arcadia Innovation Summit
Arcadia Unified School District
Education
Martin, Katie
Item ID
35670AN
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City of Arcadia hosts 45th annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast. Mayor Sho Tay will deliver the State of the City Address on February 7 at the Arcadia Community Center.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 10, 2019
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p. 10
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 10, 2019
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p. 10
Subjects
Arcadia mayors
Tay, Sho
Item ID
35642AN
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Santa Anita Racetrack back in the day. A stroll down memory lane courtesy of Arcadia Historical Society and Arcadia's Best. Photo shown of Clara Baldwin Stocker and her friends at her father's Santa Anita Racetrack in 1907. Clara Baldwin Stocker had a house on Foothill Boulevard and an establishment called "Clara Villa."

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Mountain Views News
Date
December 22, 2018
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p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
December 22, 2018
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p. 6
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Baldwin, Clara
Baldwin Stocker, Clara
Clara Villa
Santa Anita Racetrack
Item ID
35544AN
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Arcadia Citizen’s Financial Advisory Committee releases last report. The committee, an independent, ad-hoc advisory body of civic volunteers empaneled by the City Council to review the City’s General Fund long-range financial forecast and provide recommendations to the City Council for cost containment and/or revenue enhancements, recently released its final report. The 40-page report includes 15 recommendations to Arcadia City Council to address the $8,000,000 structural budget deficit. A key recommendation is for the city to consider increasing the city’s local sales tax rate by ¾ of one cent in order to maintain current levels of services.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 20, 2018
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p. 12
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 20, 2018
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p. 12
Subjects
Arcadia Citizen’s Financial Advisory Committee
Arcadia city budget
Arcadia City General Fund
Sales tax
Item ID
35548AN
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Taking the A Train: Metro nixing colors. Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority is getting rid of the colored names of the train lines and switching to letter names. The transition period will begin in about nine months, during which both colors and letters would be used, then the colors will be phased out. The revamped Blue Line to Long Beach will become the A Line. The Red Line subway will become the B Line. Parts of the Green Line will become the C Line. The Purple Line will become the D Line. The Orange Line bus rapid transit in the San Fernando Valley will be the F Line. The Silver Line rapid busway will become the G Line. The Gold Line light rail from Azusa to Los Angeles will be renamed once the downtown Regional Connector is completed at the end of 2021 or early 2022.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 2018
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p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 2018
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Metro
Trains
Transportation
Item ID
35541AN
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How Arcadia gained a rare piece of history. Riyo Sato was a developing artist by the time she was sent to the Santa Anita Assembly Center at Santa Anita Park, in 1942, before being transferred to Wyoming, to a different detention facility called “Heart Mountain.” She left behind sketches of Santa Anita Park which will be displayed at the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 13, 2018
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p. 1, 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 13, 2018
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p. 1, 11
Subjects
Artists
Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage
Hashimoto, Pam
Hicks, Dana, Dr.
Japanese-Americans
Japanese Internment Camps
Patterson, Galen
Santa Anita Assembly Center
Sato, Riyo
Item ID
35540AN
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Maha Hakim, 52, of Arcadia, was struck by a car in the 1100 block of Duarte Road at 3:30 PM on Friday, November 30, and died of her injuries at Huntington Memorial Hospital. She was attempting to walk across the road near Sunset Blvd.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 3, 2018
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p. A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 3, 2018
Pages
p. A7
Subjects
Hakim, Maha
Item ID
35528AN
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Arcadia brothers Eric and Richard Dong (they attend San Marino High School) receive Outstanding Young Philanthropists award. They offered piano lessons to kids at the Union Station family center. They gave money and talked to the kids about investing in the stock market. With profits they made from their investments, they established the Richard and Eric Dong Endowment Fund for Union Station to provide scholarships for children in sports, music and the arts, leadership, and human rights promotion, to buy books for the family library; to fund staff appreciation and recognition and to finance the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights educational programs.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 15, 2018
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p. 10
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 15, 2018
Pages
p. 10
Subjects
Dong, Eric
Dong, Richard
Philanthropy
Item ID
35522AN
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Arcadia Highlands Home Owners Association (AHHOA) holds annual meeting on Dec 6 and Highland Oaks Elementary at 10 Virginia Road.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 8, 2018
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p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 8, 2018
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p. 3
Subjects
Arcadia Highlands Home Owners Association (AHHOA)
Homeowners Associations (HOA)
Item ID
35512AN
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Arcadia Stage presents “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” adapted and directed by Whitney LaBarge and produced by Steven Volpe.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
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p. 8
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
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p. 8
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Arcadia Auditorium
Arcadia Performing Arts Center
Duchetta, Marco
Ganley, Joe
LaBarge, Whitney
Stellern, Dominique
Zhou, Alex
Stubbs, Brady
Saha, Pourobee
Keleshian, Michael
Volpe, Steven
Item ID
35489AN
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Arcadia Mayor Sho Tay pays tribute to Cherry Liu as the Oct 2 City Council Meeting was adjourned. Liu, 50, who was murdered by her estranged husband August 1, who then turned the gun on himself in a murder-suicide. Liu was a long-time resident of Arcadia and volunteered for the City of Arcadia, frequently acted as an interpreter for city staff to help bridge the gap between cultures.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 4, 2018
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p. 1, 13
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 4, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 13
Subjects
Liu, Cherry
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35483AN
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