Alexandra Aiken, daughter of Victoria and Thomas Aiken of Arcadia, is one of six students from the San Gabriel valley to accept appointments to United States service academies.
Arcadia resident Thomas McKernan Jr., president and CEO of the Automobile Club of Southern California, has been awarded the 1995 Drucker Center Alumni Award for Outstanding Executive Achievement.
Proposition D is a ballot initiative scheduled for the city's April 1996 ballot. It is designed to update the City's charter and would make the library a city department. If passed, Proposition D would reduce some of the library board's power and make the city librarian responsible to the city manager.
Vincent M. Fortanasce, M. D., an acclaimed neurologist, will be honored with a special "Order of Merit" by Alpha Auxiliary of the Methodist Hospital Foundation.
Arcadia High School's state champion Constitution Team is in Washington D. C., vying for the national title in an interscholastic competition on constitutional principles.
5 year old Arcadian Jeff Kettle got his wish to tour the Arcadia Police Department. Jeff, who is suffering from lymphoma, has only a 5-20 percent chance of living a year.
Matt Wiegand and J. D. Ziska recently completed Level 1 of the Future Astronaut Training Program at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center at Hutchinson, Kansas. Photos.
Joseph I, 15, a 9th-grader at Foothills Junior High School has been named one of 15 semifinalists in the instrumental music category for the Music Center's Second Annual Spotlight Award. The Spotlight Award Ceremony and Dinner will be held March 5 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Mr. I has also been invited to attend master classes given by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.