Humorist Dorothy Denne (photo) honored by Arcadia City Council for her 23 years of laughter as the long-time Arcadia Weekly columnist of "Dorothy's Place." See also page 5, Fasching's Car Wash tribute to Denne.
Betty Rochefort, President of the Friends of the Library, joins Gloria and S.H. Wen and Kent Ross, City Librarian at the Arcadia Public Library, during a recent Day at the Races benefit for the Arcadia Public Library Foundation. S.H. Wen is a member of the Foundation Board.
Ryka Aoki, a novelist of speculative fiction from Rosemead has written a book set in the San Gabriel Valley. Its title is Light from Uncommon Stars. She drops in local landmarks such as the Donut Hole in La Puente and the Arcadia Santa Anita Plaza.
Dorothy Cunningham, born 1919, is a long-time Arcadia resident. She wrote the social column in the Arcadia Tribune for about 20 years. In this photo, she is probably about age 95. Dorothy was from Whidbey Island, WA and lived in Arcadia for at least 55 years. She worked as a nurse practitioner. Then, she wrote a column for the Arcadia Tribune for 22 years after a council person asked her to write it. She quit the column at age 90.
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.