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 Trask Boy Scout Camp in the San Gabriel Mountains has a new multi-purpose building, thanks in part to the Arcadia Rotary Club. The building is named after Arcadia resident Nick Pokrajac.
A $1,040 gift was presented to the Arcadia Unified School District by the Lions Club for the Lions-Quest Skills for Growing Program designed to help steer students away from alcohol and drug use.
17 students at Arcadia Alternative High School signed up as owner/operators of Medi-Kit Company, part of a 13-week Junior Achievement program sponsored by the Arcadia Rotary Club. The Medi-Kit auto safety first-aid kits sell for $8.
Arcadia Alternative High School students, sponsored by the Arcadia Rotary Club, have sold $4000 worth of auto aid kits made by their student-owned company, Medi-Kit.
Jim Hauser, a 40-year resident who is active in the Arcadia Red Cross, Arcadia Historical Society, and the Rotary Club, was named Senior Citizen of the Year.
Broadway stars Dale Kristien and Bill Hutton gave a benefit concert at the Arcadia Community Center to benefit the Arcadia High School Athletic Booster Club.
The Arcadia Rotary Club has dedicated the conference room of the newly remodeled and expanded library in memory of the Methodist Hospital chaplain, Paul Johenk, who died in 1993. The article includes a profile of Johenk.