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An ancient Chinese maternity tradition, from the Sung Dynasty (960-1275 AD), known as "Zuo Yue Zi," is translated as "doing the month."It refers to the care of a Chinese woman during the first month after giving birth. The practice is explained here by Wei-Chen Tung, a former registered nurse at Arcadia Methodist Hospital and now an assistant professor of nursing at University of Nevada, Reno. The practice requires new mothers to follow a strict diet and rest for 3-4 weeks following a pregnancy. Tung says a lot of Chinese women still practice this, so hospitals should be aware of this part of Chinese culture. Maternity tourists--women who want to come to the United States to give birth to a full-fledged American citizen, have given rise to businesses that cater to them, such as the maternity home that was shut down in the 1300 block of South Palm Avenue in San Gabriel on March 8. It had been 5 townhomes illegally converted into a maternity home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32365
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 3, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 3, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Asians
Building codes--violations
Chinese culture
Maternity tourists
Tung, Wei-Chen
Mothers
Item ID
32563AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia-born artist Quinton Bemiller is painting a mural to be displayed at The Armory Center for the Arts through March 21, 2010. This work was inspired by the natural environment of Hahamongna Watershed Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31871
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 2010
Pages
p. A18
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 2010
Pages
p. A18
Subjects
Artists
Bemiller, Quinton
Item ID
32068AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia city officials are cracking down on "maternity tourism" boarding houses by dedicating a full-time police detective to investigate the issue. Maternity or birth tourism is a phenomenon in which women, often from China, pay a handsome fee to have their babies in the United States, so the children can be citizens. While that is not illegal, at least five establishments have been shut down for violations, such as unlawfully operating boarding house businesses in residential zones.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33482
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 5, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 5, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Boarding houses
Pregnant women
Item ID
33677AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia couple Harry and Sarah Sneider are fitness trainers. Harry is 69 and Sarah is 66 years old. They say that fitness icon Jack LaLanne, who died last week at the age of 96, was their personal inspiration and friend, whose motivation encouraged them to expand their training business and better inspire others to reach their fitness goals.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32312
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2011
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2011
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Fitness trainers
LaLanne, Jack
Sneider, Harry
Sneider, Sarah
Sports
Item ID
32511AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School senior Andrew Pilavjian is Runner of the Year and Mr. January in the cross-country calendar.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30328
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 19, 2006
Pages
p. Sports 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 19, 2006
Pages
p. Sports 1
Subjects
Arcadia High School - sports
Cross country
Pilavjian, Andrew - biography
Runners
Item ID
30514AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia resident Harry Frank Scolinos, who is a Republican, will try to best Adam Schiff in the candidacy for the 29th Congressional District in November 2004.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26656
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 22, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 22, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Scolinos, Frank
Elections
Item ID
26858AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia resident Rosemary Harry makes bonnets and blankets for the infants born at Methodist Hospital.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25955
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 8, 2003
Pages
p. D6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 8, 2003
Pages
p. D6
Subjects
Methodist Hospital
Harry, Rosemary
Item ID
26156AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arts & Culture spotlight on the new exhibit at the Ruth & Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum. The exhibit is called "Roll 'em!: Motion Pictures Filmed in Arcadia and Surrounding Communities." Photos include Dana Dunn, curator at the museum, and movie posters of "A Star is Born" starring Judy Garland and James Mason, and "The African Queen," starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31724
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 23, 2009
Pages
p. A21
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 23, 2009
Pages
p. A21
Subjects
Dunn, Dana
Film and television
Motion pictures - memorabilia
Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum - exhibits
Item ID
31921AN
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Newspaper Index
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As Assemblyman Tim Leslie sang his Arcadia High School alma mater school song, the State Assembly on June 5th rejected a bill that would bar California public Schools from using Native-American names for their mascots.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25632
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 6, 2003
Pages
p. A4, A11
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 6, 2003
Pages
p. A4, A11
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School - Mascot
Leslie, Tim
Item ID
25832AN
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Newspaper Index
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Betfair Hollywood Park to cease horse racing. Santa Anita Park is positioning itself to pick up racing dates in 2014. Hollywood Park opened June 10, 1938, by motion picture moguls Jack and Harry Warner, of Warner Bros. fame.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33494
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 10, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 10, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Hollywood Park Race Track
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020
Warner, Harry
Warner, Jack
Item ID
33688AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Birth-tourism sites not easily detected.Terry Moore-Corse, a code enforcement officer in Arcadia has encountered three maternity homes in the past six years, most recently in 2009, when a resident reported "a lot of pregnant women" coming out of a house. Beyond building code and business license violations, there is nothing illegal about coming into this country to give birth, according to the U.S. State Department, which issues visas. Maternity tourism is a money-making cottage industry in which wealthy women from Asia pay anywhere from $25,000-35,000 to have American-born infants.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32364
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 31, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
Announcement Type
Birth
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 31, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
Announcement Type
Birth
Subjects
Asians
Building codes--violations
Maternity tourists
Moore-Corse, Terry
Mothers
Item ID
32562AN
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Newspaper Index
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A chart shows school enrollment numbers from 1998 to 2004. More than 40 percent of the public school districts in California are experiencing declining enrollment. Experts say it is due to a decline in the birth rate and families' migration patterns.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29449
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 13, 2005
Pages
p. A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 13, 2005
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District
Enrollment
Schools - West San Gabriel Valley
Item ID
29634AN
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Newspaper Index
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Democratic State Controller Steve Westly will formally announce today he is running for governor in 2006. The kickoff event is being held in a friend's house in Arcadia, the city where he was born.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29563
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 18, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 18, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Westly, Steve
Gubernatorial elections - 2006
Item ID
29747AN
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Newspaper Index
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Dwight Chang of Arcadia is owner of a house on the 1300 block of South Palm Avenue in San Gabriel. The building has been operating as a makeshift maternity ward with 10 newborns and about 12 Chinese nationals, crammed into an illegally converted townhouse. Chang has been warned twice before for operating a business that primarily caters to Asian "maternity tourists." Chang denied any wrongdoing and was fined $800 for building code violations. Children born on American soil automatically become United States citizens, under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Maternity tourism caters to wealthy Taiwanese, Chinese and Koreans. Throughout the past decade, similar set-ups have been uncovered in Rowland Heights, Hacienda Heights, New York, and Quebec.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32355
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 23, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 23, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Asians
Chang, Dwight
Maternity tourists
Item ID
32553AN
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Erica Wu's parents are ready to cheer for their daughter, competing in table tennis in the summer Olympics in London, UK, on August 3. Wu, 16, was born and raised in Arcadia and attends Westridge School in Pasadena.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33113
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 28, 2012
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 28, 2012
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Olympians
Olympic Games--Summer 2012--London, UK
Pao, Johan
Ping pong
Table tennis
Wu, Erica
Wu, Peter
Item ID
33310AN
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Newspaper Index
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Fired Arcadia High School cross country coach James O'Brien questions reason for dismissal. The Arcadia Unified School District's Board of Education upholds its decision to not reappoint Mr. O'Brien as head coach for the 2013-2014 year. He will continue to teach at Arcadia High School.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33562
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 6, 2013
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 6, 2013
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia High School sports--coaches
Arcadia High School teachers
Arcadia Unified School District Board of Education
Cross-country
O'Brien, James
Item ID
33757AN
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Newspaper Index
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A green-colored golden retriever puppy named Wasabi was born to Goldie, owned by Peter Tseng of Alhambra. Greg Hardy, the veterinarian at Best Friends Pet Hospital in Arcadia, said when puppies are born, sometimes there is a green discharge that could stain their fur, but will usually wash off. Wasabi's case is unusual.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29790
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 24, 2005
Pages
p. U20
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 24, 2005
Pages
p. U20
Subjects
Hardy, Greg
Puppies
Golden retrievers
Tseng, Peter
Item ID
29975AN
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Newspaper Index
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A handful of Republicans are vying for a seat in the 59th Assembly District including Anthony Adams and Harry Scolinos. The political mudslinging has started even though the June primary election is eight months away.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29727
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 30, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 30, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Politics
Politicians
Assembly districts
Republicans
Item ID
29912AN
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Newspaper Index
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Harry Lee, a 73-year-old Chinese American sheriff from Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, is visiting Arcadia as part of a fundraising tour for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Deputy Disaster Relief Fund. He will be attending the Oak Tree Racing Association's Mid-Autumn Festival luncheon.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29747
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 21, 2005
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 21, 2005
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Sheriffs
Lee, Harry
Asian Americans
Chinese Americans
Hurricane Katrina
Law enforcement officers
Item ID
29932AN
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Newspaper Index
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Harry Sneider and his wife Sarah Sneider, of Arcadia, are leaders in physical fitness for senior citizens. Sarah Sneider recently won 10 gold medals in the 2011 San Gabriel Valley Senior Olympics.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32420
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 18, 2011
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 18, 2011
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Fitness trainers
People
Physical fitness
Senior Citizens
Sneider, Harry
Sneider, Sarah
Item ID
32619AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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