Arcadia Chapel of Remembrance Funeral Home has merged with and moved to Douglass & Zook Chapel of Remembrance Funeral Home at 600 E. Foothill Boulevard, Monrovia, CA 91016. Its telephone number is (626) 358-3244 or (626) 447-8148. All records from Arcadia Chapel of Remembrance have been transferred to Douglass and Zook.
A mortuary seeking to expand into the cremation business met with unexpected protests this week from the sizeable Asian population that it was hoping to serve.
Terry J. Harmon, funeral director and co-owner of Chapel of Remembrance Funeral Home in Arcadia, was given the "Funeral Director of the Year" award at the California Funeral Directors Convention on May 7, 2008, in Long Beach.
The City Council gave preliminary approval Wednesday to an expansion of the Arcadia Public Library that may add 15,000 square feet of space at a cost of about $3.5 million.
A newly formed company won preliminary approval Tuesday to provide cable TV service in Arcadia even though Arcadia is already served by Adelphia Communications.
A 75-year-old building at 330 East Duarte Road, which was purchased as a chapel for the Wesleyan Holiness Community Chapel Church, is considered to be unsafe and "in complete disrepair" by the Arcadia Planning Commission.
The Arcadia Planning Commission has given Reverend John Maynard of the Wesleyan Holiness Community Chapel Church one year to bring his church property up to city safety standards.
Arcadia planning commission has given preliminary approval to a request to operate a residential recovery center for women battling alcoholism. The Spencer Recovery Center would be located at 180 West Huntington Drive.
Approval was given by the Planning Commission to a group which wants to open Marquee West in the former bowling alley on Morlan Place. The owners plan to bring various musical groups to the facility. There will be no drugs or liquor allowed.
The preliminary 1978-79 Arcadia School District budget has been approved. Public hearings will be held in September prior to the passage of the final budget.