Construction will begin in September on a new district office for the Automobile Club of Southern California. The building is part of the redevelopment project on east Huntington Drive.
Three offices of the Automobile Club of Southern California will be combined when a new Arcadia district office opens in 1989 on Huntington Drive between Second and Fifth Streets.
The Automobile Club of Southern California will relocate its Temple City and Monrovia offices to its new facility at 420 East Huntington Drive, Arcadia, beginning October 16.
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.
The family of David Taylor, an Arcadia High School student who was killed in a bicycle accident last year, has presented a claim of $500,000 to the Arcadia School District. The claim was denied by the school board and turned over to the district's insurance company.
Rung "RC" Tang, 44, is battling leukemia and preparing for a second trial against Southern California Edison Co., who she claims is responsible for exposing her to radiation while she worked at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in the mid 1980's.
The Arcadia intersection of Huntington Drive and Sunset Blvd. was one of the nine worst in Los Angeles County in 1998 according to a study by the Automobile Association of Southern California.
Both the Board of Education and the City Council have denied $1.5 million in claims against them filed by Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. O'Brien, parents of Timothy Sean O'Brien who was struck and killed by an automobile as he was crossing Campus Drive last November 6th.
Dr. Jack Wainschel, one of the few experts in the U.S. on snake and venomous insect bites, resigned from the staff of the Methodist Hospital because the hospital requires him to carry malpractice insurance which he claims is too high.
Thomas McKernan, Arcadia resident, recently retired as CEO of the Automobile Club of Southern California. He had worked with the Auto Club for 46 years. On May 1, he was succeeded by Robert Bouttier. McKernan has been elected to chairman of the Auto Club's board of directors. He will continue with several national responsibilities, including serving on the National AAA board of directors, chairing its planning and strategy effort. He will serve as vice chair of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
Rung "RC" Tang, 44, settled her lawsuit against Southern California Edison Co. on the eve of a retrial for charges of causing her cancer from radiation exposure. Tang dropped all claims in exchange for an undisclosed amount of money.
Del Schrader, 65, a resident of Arcadia since 1943 and longtime Southern California newsman, died of a heart attack. He retired in January as a copy editor for the Daily News in Van Nuys.
Arcadia resident Thomas V. McKernan, Jr., president and chief executive officer of Automobile Club of California, has been elected president of the non-profit Los Angeles Police Foundation, which was created to help fund police safety programs.