Michael De Pietro, 8 years old, was injured when he was struck by a car driven by Earl Hummell of Glendora, in the crosswalk at Huntington Drive and Baldwin Avenue. See hard copy of newspaper in Box 51.
Mrs. Melba Andrews, secretary to Planning Director William Phelps, was elected president of the City Employees Credit Union. See hard copy of newspaper in Box 51.
Lifeline: it can truly be a lifesaver. Lifeline is a Methodist Hospital-based personal emergency response system, a direct line to hospital. See hard copy of newspaper in Box 51.
Arcadia Fire Department will observe Fire Service Day with an open house at each of the city's three fire stations. Photo and caption. See hard copy of newspaper in Box 51.
American Senior Living broke ground yesterday on the 54-unit Heritage Park, an affordable senior citizen housing project at 150 Las Tunas Drive. Rent for one-bedroom units is $484, and for doubles, the rent is $708.
Arcadia City Council has gone on record as supporting the building of a new city hall that would be built on the other side of the Civic Center property. Out of three options presented by city manager Bill Kelly, the council consensus was for a new building at a cost of $6.6 million and adjacent to Huntington Drive West.
A history of the Van de Kamp's windmill atop the Denny's Restaurant currently at the northeast corner of Santa Anita Avenue and Huntington Drive. The Arcadia windmill was built nearly 40 years ago as part of an architectural movement called programmatic architecture, or roadside vernacular, wherein the buildings reflected their tenants. See hard copy in VF "Buildings."
The Board of Supervisors has approved a request from the County Department of Public Works to take over jurisdiction on the project to seismically retrofit transit bridges on Colorado Boulevard and Huntington Drive/Second Avenue. The board declared the portion of Colorado Boulevard under the bridge, as well as portions of Huntington Drive and Second Avenue under the transit bridge, to be part of the county system of roads and highways.
Arcadia resident Frank Jones helped save the life of Debora Del Moral in South Pasadena after seeing a fire at an apartment complex on Prospect Avenue.
Forty firefighters battle apartment fire in Arcadia in the 600 block of Windsor Road. The fire appeared accidental. Two units were damaged with an estimated fire loss of $50,000 in contents and $25,000 to the structure.
Four day full closure of Huntington Drive and Second Avenue intersection in Arcadia begins Friday, August 8, for Gold Line Foothill Extension light rail construction.