The Board of Education has approved a new after-school child care program to be conducted by the Santa Anita Family branch of the YMCA at the Holly Avenue Elementary School Youth Hut. About 20 children have been enrolled in the program, which can accommodate up to 35.
A mixed reaction has greeted a bill that recently passed the Senate and is being debated in the Assembly. It attempts to prohibit splinter movements toward secession from an existing county.
The discovery of contaminated soils will slow down a deal on some Arcadia land slated for redevelopment. Emkay Development Co. was planning to build a Residence Inn on the 11-acre site north of Huntington Drive.
Several plans to add additional parking spaces to the downtown area were outlined to interested businessmen. The proposals included re-striping of the existing area and narrowing Wheeler Street, permitting that section to be added to parking lots.
Best Disposal Co. which holds the Arcadia city contract for waste disposal, is on the brink of being sold to Western Waste Disposal. Collection fees may go up.
Arcadia Methodist Hospital has operated the Kathy Kredel Nursery School for the children of all hospital employees for 23 years. Their program is considered innovative.
The Creative Academy of Learning, which has taken over Bonita Park Elementary School, is dedicated to helping physically and mentally disabled children.
Curtailment and changes in the Five Year Capital Improvements program as adopted by the City Council last week have drawn disapproval of some Arcadians.
The Early Childhood Education program, set up in 1973 for a five year span, probably will get only enough money to keep existing programs going and not enough to expand to other schools.