Arcadia resident and college student Eric Bonholtzer won two awards in the College Language Association Creative Writing and Margaret Walker Memorial Prizes. He is a 25-year-old USC student working on his master's degree in English.
The Golden Apple Award was given to Jim and Sharon Eberhardt for outstanding community leadership, especially for volunteering in support of education in Arcadia.
Arcadia painter Ruo Li has won several awards for his landscapes. In January of next year one of his paintings will grace the cover of International Artist magazine.
Due to heavy smoke from the Williams Fire in the Angeles National Forest, schedules at schools were cut back including the postponement of the tennis and water polo matches at Arcadia High School.
Longden Avenue in Arcadia has had a lot of street construction over the last three years, including construction of wheelchair ramps, missing sidewalks, palm trees removed, and new 30 inch water main.
Griff Morrison of Arcadia was selected as district deputy for the San Gabriel Valley at the Elks National Convention. He has been an Elks member for 45 years.
The Arcadia Beautiful Commission presented its annual awards in a ceremony to honor residential and business owners for outstanding landscaping and overall appearances. Business owners awarded were Union 76, Sav-on Drugs, and the Baldwin Plaza.
A profile of Arcadia High student Aarti Jain, captain. She has led the Apaches to four league titles during her career and maintained a 4.0 grade point average. She will attend Princeton in the fall.
Two articles describe the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita Park this year. One is about Victor Espinoza riding a horse called Casino Drive on the track's new Pro-Ride Synthetic surface. The other article is about a 4-year-old filly named Zenyatta, ridden by jockey Mike Smith, that won the first all-female card in Breeders' Cup history.
Arcadia resident Jim Barrett, a 71 year-old retired firefighter, was recently honored by the National Bonsai Foundation with a $1000 1st place prize in the first ever N. American Bonsai Pot Competition.
The Arcadia High School tennis season has been perfect, and the 18-0 Apaches hope to keep it that way when the CIF Southern Section Division II team playoffs begin.
Elizabeth Shin, a freshman at Arcadia High School, won the Music Teachers National Association Junior High Woodwind Auditions for California and the Southwest States Division.