Seven county mental health clinics, including the Arcadia Mental Health Center, face imminent closure as a result of a $15.9 million cut in the Mental Health Services Department budget.
Article discusses Arcadia Historical Society's search for a home for Anita Baldwin's piano as well as other artifacts. The piano, shipped around Cape Horn, is now located at Anoakia, Anita Baldwin's former home.
The Arcadia Educational Foundation, a non-profit public benefit corporation, is now in the process of incorporating. The purpose of the organization is to provide financial support to the school district. Several other cities in the area have formed similar organizations.
With the Arcadia Historical Society museum building now completed on the inside, the society's board of directors is planning to appoint committees to catalog and determine how to display its collection of artifacts.
Mental health service advocates will lobby to secure additional state funding for the county's mental health clinics. Of the 1000 patients who regularly seek treatment at the Arcadia Mental Health Center, half may no longer be served if the clinic closes.
With Arcadia's Foulger Ford now following Arcadia Suzuki out of town, Arcadia stands to lose about $230,000 in sales tax revenue per year, just short of 1% of the city's $23.699 million budget.
Due to Los Angeles County budget cuts which will take a $154,465 bite out of the outpatient center's funding the Arcadia Mental Health Center will be losing five therapists who have been seeing 450 to 500 patients a year and keeping them out of hospitals and institutions.
Up to 1000 mentally ill people in Arcadia and surrounding cities will be left with nowhere to turn for treatment if the Arcadia Mental Health Clinic closes on September 1.
Barbara Wild is the new administrator at the California Home for the Aged Deaf. Biographical details on Ms. Wild are offered. Activities at the home are outlined.
Los Angeles Superior Court has stopped the closure of 3 mental health clinics scheduled to close until a hearing on the legality of the cutbacks can be heard.
Closure of the Arcadia Mental Health Center and four other Los Angeles County centers was delayed by the State Supreme Court until it can hear the case.
Concept plans for a $14 million eight-story building at 333 E. Huntington Drive have been approved by the Redevelopment Agency. The 4.7 acre site is owned by Bob Low of Arcadia Datsun.