Arcadia Methodist Hospital's Crystal Ball 2014, is the most special one ever, featuring entertainment by legendary singer/songwriter Paul Anka. Floretta Lauber and Gene Glasco in photo.
Santa Anita Park race event 2012 Sunshine Millions tomorrow. Horse named Caracortado is shown with jockey Paul Atkinson (from a 2010 Preakness Stakes photo).
Arcadia High School will present "Oklahoma" the musical, on March 22-24, and March 29-31. It stars Shirish Sarkar, Paul Nestor, Ariana Rayoza, Alex Garcia (photos).
Arcadia's election picks up steam. At last Wednesday's candidate forum, Measure A, which could repeal the Utility Users Tax (UUT) and the Saving Arcadia Ballot Initiative (rational development standards on new construction), dominated the questions from the audience at Arcadia Public Library. Includes photos and statements from each candidate.
Paul Graf, 90, of New Albany, Indiana, came back to Arcadia to see Santa Anita Park again. He had been based there as a United States Army staff sergeant during World War II, when the track was turned over to the Army Ordnance Corps for training purposes and was officially renamed Camp Santa Anita. Graf said he used to run for exercise on the Anita Chiquita training track, which was eliminated when the Santa Anita Fashion Park was built in the 1970s. Graf had arrived at Camp Santa Anita around November 1942, after the site had already been used as the Japanese Assembly Center. Photo shows Graf holding an issue of Man O' War, a newspaper issued by army personnel at Camp Santa Anita.