Arcadian Luben Balabanoff, a Bulgarian by birth, was in Dresden, Germany when it was bombed during World War II. Retired now, he has spent the last 10 years making travel films and touring with them.
Jeff Julian, and eighth grader at Dana Junior High School, has more than 200 swimming trophies and is nationally ranked according to Swimming World magazine.
Ground-breaking ceremonies for the new Walter R. Hoefflin Jr. wing were held recently. This opens phase two of the hospital's $22.7 million three-year-expansion and remodeling program.
More than 400 rosebushes from the Arcadia Rose Garden were moved to the Arcadia High School campus. The city is planning to build a senior citizen center on the rose garden's former site.
Arcadia Councilman Don Pellegrino has been cleared of charges filed more than two years ago that he had violated the Political Reform Act because of alleged conflicts of interest.
Council revises tax for admissions over race track protests. The revisions recommended apply to the existing admissions tax (a tax on other events, entertainment, amusement or competition other than horse racing held on premises with a capacity of 1,000 or more.)
Arcadia police seized more than 154 lbs. of cocaine worth an estimated $70 million and arrested 4 Colombian nationals in the largest drug haul in the city's history. Homes on Fairview Avenue, Arcadia Avenue and Huntington Drive were raided.
The Friends of the Arcadia Public Library's 30th annual book sale drew larger than usual crowds, with sales amounting to more than $9000, $1000 more than sales made in 1987.
A disappointing turnout of less than a dozen people (mainly real estate developers) attended the public meeting to discuss phase I of the Downtown Arcadia Revitalization Study held Tuesday, July 31. One idea offered at the meeting was to create an "Avenue of the Thoroughbreds." More interaction with business owners affected by such suggestions was hoped for.
Services were held Wednesday for George Robert Secrest, a retired police sergeant of the Arcadia Police Department, who died June 9. Secrest had been a law enforcement officer for 26 years. Recently he had been employed by Huntington Bank.
Mark Douglas Pryor, 19, arrested after an undercover investigation at Arcadia High School, has been placed on three years formal probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service work. He was convicted of selling less than an ounce of marijuana to a woman who turned out to be an undercover officer. He was the first of eight defendants arrested to raise an entrapment defense.
Funeral services pending for Marion McGrew Woodard, an Arcadia resident for nearly half a century and a retired teacher and guidance counselor at First Avenue School in Arcadia.
Scott H. Mittman spoke to the Rotary Club of his experiences in Israel made possible in part by a graduate fellowship sponsored by the Rotary Club. He spent the year studying neurobiology.
A new senior retirement hotel has been approved by the Arcadia Planning Commission over the objections of both the development's neighbors and a competitor. The 110-room project will be located at the site of what is now a mortuary at 607-611 West Duarte Road.
Former Arcadian Jeff Froke spent five years studying the parrots living wild in the San Gabriel Valley. He describes the different varieties and how the flock came to be established in the areas.