The Wilderness Park, now to be known as the Arcadia Wilderness Preserve, will be open to the general public on weekdays and to non-profit organizations and small groups that have reservations on weekends.
Arcadia High School held a drive and collected $800 toward a municipal auditorium. A non-profit corporation is being established and it will be the nucleus for an auditorium drive to begin in September 1977.
In its efforts to raise money for the Arcadia School District, the Arcadia Educational Foundation is conducting a direct mail campaign to enlist community support for their efforts.
How can you help the Arcadia Educational Foundation? The Arcadia Educational Foundation (AEF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1981 in response to substantially reduced federal and state funding for California public schools, administered by parent and community member trustees, to raise funds for Arcadia Unified School District. AEF runs the annual summer school program, offers $25000 in teacher grants each year, funds district-wide phone and text communication system, and has also funded teacher positions due to state-wide budget cuts.
Arcadia Elks Lodge, which is a non-profit charitable organization, has donated $5,590 since April 2011 to local organizations such as Arcadia High School baseball, City of Hope, Salvation Army, Special Olympics, Children's Wish Foundation and many more. The lodge has been located in Arcadia since 1957, at 27 West Huntington Drive.
Dwain Schenck, 27, who grew up in Arcadia, is project director for AmeriCares, a non-profit relief organization founded in 1982 which is currently helping thousands of refugees who have fled Kuwait for Jordan.
Eric Waterhouse is the founder of the non-profit Theaterquest, an organization with a goal to produce summertime drama productions with local teenagers. He is an Arcadia resident.
About 1500 people went to a hearing before the county Commission on School District Organization to discuss the possible transfer of Sierra Madre schools from the Pasadena Unified School District to the Arcadia Unified School District. The hearing is the first step in a long process that involves approval by the state Board of Education and local voters before an area can transfer to another school district.
Arcadia's CHOICESS, a non-profit organization that assists the developmentally disabled, had ten volunteers who participated in the Los Angeles Marathon and raised money for the group.
Since beginning its scrip program citywide in September, the Arcadia Educational Foundation is now selling (indirectly) about $25,000 worth of groceries a week and thereby raising $1500 weekly for the Arcadia School District.
Canning-Hunger, a non-profit organization that raises money to help feed hungry children, has been authorized to paint residential curb addresses throughout the city.
Focus on the Family, Arcadia's 5th largest employer, has run out of room and may have to leave town. The mushrooming non-profit organization with a Christian radio, publishing, counseling, film and television ministry, could leave within 6 months to a year.
County supervisors approved a $4.7 million infusion of funds to aid mental health programs in the Children's Home Society in Arcadia. The Children's Home Society, a non-profit organization that places mentally disturbed children in foster homes, will now lose $16,000, instead of the anticipated loss of staff and $32,000.
The Arcadia Fire Department has formed a special relationship with Dean Street Station 105 in Brooklyn, New York. One Voice For Tomorrow is a local non-profit organization that helps raise money for the Dean Street Station Fund and to help the Arcadia Fire Association Widows and Orphan Fund.
In a letter to the Tribune, Chairman Charles Gilb says that the auditorium project is ready to move forward. A non-profit corporation has been set up and this will make donations tax-deductible. Committees will soon be formed. People may contact the committee by writing: Arcadia Auditorium Committee P. O. Box 60 Arcadia, California 91006
Citizens Organized for Police Station (COPS) was formed to educate residents and gain their support for the bond issue needed to finance a new police station. Santa Anita Park has donated $30,000 to the newly formed organization.
Annual Taste of Arcadia, an Arcadia Chamber of Commerce event, will take place Monday, September 19 at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. As always, a percentage of proceeds goes to three local non-profit organizations. This year, the beneficiaries are Assistance League of Arcadia, the Boy Scouts of America/Lucky Baldwin District, and the Arboretum Foundation.
The Arcadia Unified School District is undergoing a massive renovation project incorporating all 10 campuses. Seven of the campuses are under construction, six of which will be completed by September, when two others will go into construction phase.
Budget cuts have caused the Arcadia Unified School District to rely on the Arcadia Educational Foundation to provide summer classes from sports to cooking and English and Math.
The Boy's Christian League will not be permitted to distribute literature through the schools unless the Arcadia School Board changes its policy. National organizations such as the Scouts, the YWCA and the YMCA now have this permission.