Arcadia Episcopal Church of Transfiguration buys land between Camino Real and Las Flores on 1st Avenue. They plan to build a temporary church building and a Sunday School building.
Consecration services were held for the new $270,000 West Entry Development of the Church of the Good Shepherd, United Methodist. Article describes the project.
Rev. Dr. James R. McCormick is leaving his post as minister at the Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist. He is going into private enterprise at the management level. Biographical notes included.
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.
A food distribution center sponsored by the Presbytery of San Gabriel should open its doors in Arcadia on September 15, the first step in providing more complete care for the homeless and hungry in the mid-San Gabriel Valley. The temporary distribution point will be at Village Presbyterian Church of Arcadia, 2733, 10th St.
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 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has announced the completion of its newest chapel in Arcadia, located at Foothill Blvd. and Baldwin Ave. The structure is described in detail.
Arcadia City Council agreed to extend a moratorium against commercial buildings with rear windows facing residential properties. Action followed earlier urgency ordinance ... passed at request of residents on Laurel Avenue.
Jim Bateson, as fire prevention specialist, frequently gives talks at schools and clubs on fire prevention. He is also involved in arson investigation.
Souders expects to retire after his two-year interim contract as superintendent expires. Souders has been with the Arcadia schools since 1955. He discusses problems facing the schools.
Bruce Low, general manager of Arcadia Datsun, isn't particularly happy with the city. Reason stems from an about-face by the City Council last winter when it decided in favor of retail commercial developments that would bring sales tax revenue to the city.
Arson is suspected in a $150,000 fire that gutted a brand new office building at 411 South First Avenue on September 11. The building housed the law offices of Pike, Wilson and Cosso.