Mayor's Community Breakfast Raises Much Needed Funds for Campership Program
Coordinating Council Receives Check from City, More Funds Still Sought The City of Arcadia Wednesday presented the Arcadia Community Coordinating Council Campership Fund with a check for $780 to go towards funding the program which sends underprivileged children to summer camp. The money was raised through the sale of tickets to last month’s wildly successful [...]
Kiwanis Honors Longden Elementary School Students Jimmy Hu, Spencer Liu, and Tommy Xia
Kiwanis Club of Temple City was pleased to have honored three outstanding students from Longden Elementary School. Accompanying the students was office clerk Mrs. Sue Anderson. Jimmy is 11 years old, in Ms. Jenning’s class. Jimmy and has two younger brothers and enjoys swimming. Jimmy said, “The best things about Longden are learning new things, [...]
TCUSD Guidance Programs Receive Awards
TCUSD is pleased to congratulate and celebrate La Rosa Elementary School and Oak Avenue Intermediate School for receiving awards for their 2009 Support Personnel Accountability Report Cards (SPARCs) from the Los Angeles County Office of Education. La Rosa Elementary School received the Governor’s Trophy. This special recognition was given to only three schools in the [...]
Local Jockeys, Trainer, Return from Derby to Race Again
Jockeys Joe Talamo of Monrovia, Garrett Gomez of Arcadia and Mike Smith of Sierra Madre were at Churchill Downs for last Saturday’s Kentucky Derby as was Arcadia trainer Bob Baffert. Horse racing is the stuff of dreams and the dreamers got stardust—and mud—thrown in their faces. On a sloppy track in Kentucky a 51-1 longshot, [...]
TCUSD Opens Kindergarten Registration
Temple City Unified School District is now registering kindergarten students for the graduating class of 2022. If your child was born on or before December 2, 2004, they are eligible to register for Kindergarten. Temple City Unified School District continues to receive positive recognition for student achievement from the State of California for Academic Performance [...]
Assembly Bill Banning Trucks on SR 2 Passes Transportation Committee Unanimously
Last week the State Assembly Transportation Committee voted 14 – 0 in favor of AB 1361 authored by local Assemblymember Anthony Portantino and co-authored by State Senator Carol Liu. If enacted, AB 1361 will ban trucks along State Route 2 between Big Pines Highway and I-210 in La Cañada Flintridge and place a minimum fine [...]
Fire Inspections Start in Local Foothills Cities
Most of the local foothill communities are beginning fire inspections in May if they have not already begun. These inspections are done in the high risk areas which include the wildland urban interface. Each city notifies those property owners affected by the clearance requirements. For information contact the fire prevention office in the community in [...]
