State wildlife officials shot and killed a 130 pound mountain lion in the backyard of a north Arcadia home Sunday night after it killed and dragged away the family's dog.
The Arcadia Rotary Club awarded small grants to 21 Arcadia Unified School District teachers in a program designed to augment existing school curricula with specially funded projects.
The Friends of the Library donated $4500 to help begin an audiotape or "audio book" collection, while the Lions Club donated $500 to purchase a display rack.
The new CAS (2) program, an acronym for Curriculum Alignment System and Comprehensive Assessment System, will replace the California Assessment Program (CAP), the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS), and the District Minimum Proficiency Tests. CAS (2) testing will begin in November for high school seniors, with all other grades to take the test in the spring. Advantages of the new test are given in the article.
Many Arcadia High School students are unhappy with the quality of the photos in the 1998 AHS yearbook, taking away some of the thunder from the school's first interactive CD-ROM yearbook.
Hidden away just north of Arcadia's Santa Anita golf course parking lot are the Santa Anita Greens, which provide a wide range of activities for 139 men and women in the Bowling Green Club.
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.
The Arcadia Unified School District is participating in the Fulbright Teacher exchange Program for the first time. The program is responsible for First Avenue Middle School teacher Michelle Shaw exchanging places with Leena Heinila, a teacher from Helsinki, Finland.
Rhythm Karaoke Club was closed by owners tired of the problems associated with it, such as 2 shootings in 4 months and a recent citation for serving alcohol to minors.