The Arcadia Post 247 American Legion members will be leaving their home of 69 years to move to a new meeting place sometime in the next few months. Faced with dwindling funds to finance much-needed repairs for their 2-story hall, the group has sold their property to a development firm that wants to build 40 homes in the area.
The Arcadia Rotary Club awarded grants totaling $4,990 to 17 teachers at the February 13 Arcadia Board of Education meeting. Grants ranging from $175 to $300 were given to individual teachers to help with special classroom projects. The teachers represented 5 of the 6 Arcadia elementary schools, all 3 junior high schools and both Arcadia and Huntington high schools.
The Arcadia Rotary Club awarded small grants to 21 Arcadia Unified School District teachers in a program designed to augment existing school curricula with specially funded projects.
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.
The Assistance League of Arcadia is sponsoring "Operation School Bell," a project which provides over 900 needy San Gabriel Valley children with new shoes, socks, underwear, sweatshirts, and 2 complete outfits each year.
The Assistance League of Arcadia will have teams of puppeteers that use the Japanese "bunraku" technique perform at local elementary schools this fall, addressing divorce, physical abuse and cultural differences.
Dance permits for parties at the Women's Club automatically are denied until the city's Business License Review Committee specifies conditions such as when the music will end, when people must leave, and maximum capacity. The new rules follow complaints against partygoers at a wedding reception in November.
Hate literature has been distributed in Arcadia by the National Alliance, a white supremacist group, and the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization.
Several members of the Arcadia Chinese Association, in addition to Chinese groups from other cities called a press conference together to discuss the recent proposed trip to Taiwan for Police Chief Ronnie Garner.
Several special services provided by the Assistance League of Arcadia are reviewed, including a national program called "The Kids on the Block," which features almost life-size puppets.