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Tamara Kato owned the Arcadia franchise of Comfort Keepers, an in-home care service. She celebrated her business' one year anniversary this week. She employed about 30 caregivers that visit and live in clients' homes to help clients enjoy some company and maintain their independence.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31719
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 19, 2009
Pages
p. A11
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 19, 2009
Pages
p. A11
Subjects
Business owners
Kato, Tamara
Item ID
31916AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A picture of Arcadia resident Valerie D'Angelo shows her as she hands in her tax return to the post office on the deadline date, April 17, 2006.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29996
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 2006
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 2006
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
D'Angelo, Valerie
Taxes
Item ID
30183AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia restaurant owner Linda Padilla heads Arcadia Elks Lodge. She and her husband own Joe's Fresh Mex Restaurant.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33806
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 17, 2014
Pages
p. 6
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 17, 2014
Pages
p. 6
Subjects
Arcadia Elks Lodge
Organizations
Padilla, Linda
Item ID
34001AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia 16-year-old Roger A. Lewis, who was struck by a car while bicycling, has died. The accident occurred over the weekend at Santa Anita Avenue and Duarte Road. The driver who struck Lewis was driving a 2008 Chrysler Sebring. Lewis was a former student at Arcadia High School.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33257
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 25, 2012
Pages
p. A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 25, 2012
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
Deaths
Lewis, Roger A.
Traffic Accidents
Item ID
33454AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia ice skater Mirai Nagasu is going to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Friends and family send her off with a party at Arcadia Presbyterian Church. She will skate in the singles competition starting February 23, 2010.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31893
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 8, 2010
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 8, 2010
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Figure skating
Ice skaters
Ice skating
Nagasu, Mirai
Sports
Winter Olympic Games - 2010 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Item ID
32090AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Presbyterian Church celebrating 100 years from 1914 to 2014. A Social Whirl column by Floretta Lauber. See hard copy in VF "Churches."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33791
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 3, 2014
Pages
p. 10
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 3, 2014
Pages
p. 10
Subjects
Arcadia Presbyterian Church
Churches
Lauber, Floretta
Item ID
33986AN
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Newspaper Index
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Roberta Reynolds, 39, an English teacher at Temple City High School, was shot by her husband in an apparent murder-suicide.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30342
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 4, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 4, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder - suicide
Reynolds, Roberta
Item ID
30528AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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9-year-old Maria Lugo came to Arcadia Arcadia Methodist Hospital from Mexico to have a steel plate removed from her chin. It was a follow-up surgery to a softball-size tumor removal she had in April, 2008, at Arcadia Methodist Hospital. Dr. Jon Tyrell, a member of LIGA International, and Dr. B.S. Chandrasekhar operated on her. LIGA International is a non-profit group of medical experts, pilots and volunteers who travel to clinics in Sinaloa, Mexico several times a year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31823
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2009
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2009
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
Subjects
Chandrasekhar, Dr. B.S.
LIGA International
Lugo, Maria
Lugo, Noemi Rocha
Non-profit organizations
Surgeries
Tyrell, Dr. Jon
Item ID
32020AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Mary Chiu sued nursing home Arcadia Health Care Center for the negligent care that her mother Sui Mee Chiu received. In October 2013, an arbitrator ruled that Sui Mee Chiu had been a victim of elder abuse, negligence and wrongful death, and her daughter Mary Chiu was awarded more than half a million dollars. The investigation is still in progress and Public Health is inquiring into the cause of the delay in the final report and closure of this case.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33802
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 13, 2014
Pages
p. A1, A19
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 13, 2014
Pages
p. A1, A19
Subjects
Arcadia Health Care Center
Chiu, Mary
Chiu, Sui Mee
Lawsuits
Los Angeles County Public Health Department
Nursing homes
Item ID
33997AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Virginia Brown recalls memories of early Arcadia having chicken farms everywhere. She has lived in Arcadia since her birth in 1917. Her father Scott Lee came to Arcadia in 1907 to dig water wells. Lee was a graduate of Throop Institute, which became California Institute of Technology. Her mother was Delia Chandler. Virginia Brown talks about where her family lived and her family's friendship with Anita Baldwin. The article includes a photo of Virginia Brown and her parents.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 14, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 17
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 14, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 17
Subjects
Brown, Robert
Brown, Virginia - biography
Chandler, Delia
Lee, Scott
Item ID
32007AN
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Newspaper Index
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Camille Woolsey, of Arcadia, has maintained a friendship with her Scottish pen pal, Sadie Ritchie, for 70 years.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30734
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Letters
Pen pals
Ritchie, Sadie
Woolsey, Camille
Item ID
30922AN
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Newspaper Index
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Southern California Edison (SCE) workers continued their round-the-clock efforts to restore the San Gabriel Valley's power grid following the extensive damage that occurred during early Thursday's windstorm. The hardest hit customer areas were Arcadia, Altadena, Covina, Duarte, El Monte, Montebello, Monrovia, Rosemead, San Gabriel and Temple City. About 135,000 SCE customers remained without electricity.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32708
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News,
Date
December 3, 2011
Pages
p. A6
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Pasadena Star News,
Date
December 3, 2011
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
Disasters
Southern California Edison (SCE)--electricity utility
Emergencies
Weather
Wind and windstorms
Item ID
32905AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Monica Rodriguez, a 27 year old pregnant woman from El Monte, died at Arcadia Methodist Hospital. The family believes she died of complications from the H1N1 virus (swine flu). The family is considering legal action against Greater El Monte Community Hospital because she went there to be treated October 14 and 15, but was sent away with medicine and cough syrup, instead of admitting her.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31774
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 30, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A15
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 30, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A15
Subjects
Deaths
Rodriguez, Monica
Swine flu - H1N1 virus
Item ID
31971AN
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Newspaper Index
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Dorothy Denne, longtime Arcadia humorist, "Mother of the Force" honored by Arcadia Police Foundation at the Arcadia Police Foundation's Halloween Hoopla. Arcadia Mayor April Verlato and her husband attended. For 20 years, Dorothy wrote a weekly column called "Dorothy's Place" in Arcadia Weekly. She was a teacher for her career and has been a volunteer at the Arcadia Police Department. In 2015 she spearheaded the effort to bring back the K-9 program.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35595
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 24, 2019
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 24, 2019
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Arcadia Police Foundation
Denne, Dorothy
Miller, Terry
Volunteers
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Newspaper Index
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73-year-old Jesus Plasencia Lopez from El Monte has been arrested for a fatal hit-and-run. He allegedly drove a Saturn that hit Guey-Ying Wu and her husband Chia Wu at Santa Anita Avenue and Camino Real Avenue in Arcadia. Lopez is being held at Los Angeles County Jail on $50,000 bail.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29555
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 7, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 7, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Fatal automobile accidents
Hit-and-run
Lopez, Jesus Plasencia
Wu, Guey-Ying
Wu, Chia
Arrests
Item ID
29739AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Unified School District (AUSD) introduced the new $7.5 million Facilities and Maintenance Yard Tuesday, which is the culminating project of the $218 million Measure I bond that spanned more than ten years. This school bond measure was voted on and passed by the Arcadia community in 2006. Jim Leahy, retired Executive Director of Facilities was honored for his contribution.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35283
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 20, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 20, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District (AUSD)
Leahy, Jim
Item ID
35472AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Dave Lewis, who grew up in Arcadia, will be working as the director of Recreation and Community Services.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31038
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 13, 2003
Pages
p. 16
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 13, 2003
Pages
p. 16
Subjects
City of Arcadia - employees
City of Arcadia - Recreation and Community Services Department
Lewis, Dave - biography
Item ID
31233AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School senior Arrushi Walia was given the Youth Trailblazer Award at the fourth annual Women in Green Forum for making an extraordinary impact through environmental leadership within her community. She has been a leader in sustainability on her school's campus.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33620
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 19, 2013
Pages
p. 10
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 19, 2013
Pages
p. 10
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Awards
Walia, Arrushi
Item ID
33815AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Michael Oddenino against Arcadia High School softball coaches Ed Andersen and Don Riggio. Oddenino claimed Riggio yelled at his daughter causing her emotional distress.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29972
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 29, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 29, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Andersen, Ed
Oddenino, Michael
Riggio, Don
Arcadia High School - sports
Coaches
Lawsuits
Softball
Item ID
30159AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Christina Aragon, Assistant Superintendent of business services at Arcadia Unified School District, totaled her district car that she uses as a personal vehicle. It is part of her salary package. Arcadia School Board members and Superintendent Mimi Hennessy defended Aragon in media coverage.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30202
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 28, 2002
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 28, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Aragon, Christina
Arcadia Unified School District
Automobile accidents
Cayer, Margaret
Takamura, Vickie
Item ID
30389AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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