The Pasadena Showcase House of Design features an Arcadia home designed for Lawrence and Josepine Garat Wilcox Barker and built over two years in 1941-1943.
Pasadena Junior Philharmonic Committee has selected an Arcadia estate as the Pasadena Showcase House of Design. It was designed by Roland E. Coates, Sr., for Lawrence and Josephine Garat Wilcox Barker of Barker Brothers Furniture fame.
The state Department of Education has revised its Academic Performance Index rankings. Arcadia Unified School District revisions were: Baldwin Stocker Elementary from 4 to 7; Highland Oaks Elementary from 7 to 8; and Holly Avenue Elementary from 8 to 7.
Plans are underway for "Peacock Corner" at the fountain and entrance at Arcadia County Park at Santa Anita Avenue and Huntington Drive. The bronze peacock will be 8 feet tall.
A pilot program called "Arboretum Explorers" teaches children about nature. It is a 5-day summer camp. Natalia Chang, 8, of Arcadia is shown in a photograph.
Incumbents Maryann Gibson, John McClain, and James Romo, are the only candidates so far to request school board candidacy papers. Forms must be filed by Jan. 17.
New Arcadia police station opens to the public on Friday, October 3, 2003 at 4:30 PM. It is a state-of-the-art facility that is now bigger and better equipped than the old station that has since been demolished. It waas built using an $8 million bond measure in addition to $8 million that had alerady been allocated from the city general fund and city redevelopment funds.
Fourth graders in Dodie Gregg's class at Highland Oaks Elementary School created an 8 - page newspaper after interviewing friends and relatives in honor of the school's Generations Day.
A new $6.7 million Maternal Child Health Center will open in the next several weeks at Methodist Hospital. It is larger and will make mothers and families more comfortable. Jan McEachern is shown in a photo.
A lengthy public commenting period caused the City Council vote on the proposed mall The Shops at Santa Anita to be delayed until 8:00 AM on Tuesday, April 17, 2007.
In Arcadia, 8 schools increased their Academic Performance Index (API) scores and two declined. Dana Middle School and First Avenue Middle School were the schools that showed declines in API scores.
Arcadia High School to celebrate its 50th anniversary. See related stories Arcadia Weekly, p. 25 on September 27, 2001 and Arcadia Weekly, p. 8 on September 20, 2001.
Students in the Arcadia public schools will obseerve Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 27, a week after the national holiday. The change has been brought to the attention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.