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Elizabeth Wang, 4, spent a considerable amount of time selecting the perfect pumpkin from the patch.
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Baldwin:
Successful rancher; Big-time Bon-vivant; Founder of Arcadia “Hell, we’re giving away the land. We’re selling the climate” – Lucky Baldwin By Bill Peters W hen Elias Jackson “Lucky” Baldwin acquired the Rancho Santa Anita in 1875, the region was very rural with small populations. Even in Pasadena, the Indiana Colony, formed in 1873, was focused on growing citrus and walnuts, not towns and population. But in a mere 10 years all that changed. Pasadena, incorporated in 1886 had a population of almost 9,000—its incorporation spurred by citizen’s attempts to rid the city of saloons. Real estate was selling and by 1886 a real estate boom was in full swing. Baldwin, a successful rancher and Northern California businessman, saw opportunity in land. Ever the visionary and risk-taking entrepreneur, he signed a contract with the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad Co. in 1885 to
Elias J. “Lucky” Baldwin, a successful entrepreneur and the founder of the City of Arcadia.
bring a line to the ranch—and that would bring buyers to his development dreams. The line reached Santa Anita Ave. in 1886, just in time for Baldwin and his business manager Hyram Unruh to open properties to the public under the development name, “Baldwin”. Monrovia, just to the east, was a bustling center of land sales, but the Baldwin development for unknown reasons simply died. Unruh and Baldwin tried the scheme again in 1887, first with an announced name of “Live Oak”, but as the sales office opened, the development name was changed to “Arcadia” perhaps to extol the virtues of country living over expanding cities such as Los Angeles and Pasadena. This time, Baldwin was successful as 400 lots were sold in four days and almost sold out by April of 1887. “Hell”, Bald-
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Monday, October 19 - October 25, 2009 Volume 2, No. 42
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Four Arrested in Stabbing Near Arcadia High
Governor Signs Three Sen. Liu Bills into Law
By Sameea Kamal
Governor Schwarzenegger has signed three bills to expand adoption and other services for foster children, assist children with parents in prison or jail, and improve statewide transportation planning, Sen. Carol Liu announced. L iu, D -L a Ca nada Flintridge, authored the legislation. October 11 was the deadline for the Governor to sign or veto bills introduced in 2009. “I am pleased the Governor recognized the importance of these issues, particularly for the help that we can offer children and families in need,” Liu said. The bills will become effective along with other new laws on January 1, 2010. The bills are: • SB 118 directs social workers to record when children have parents in prison or jail, which prevents termination of parental rights without notification. • SB 597 makes a number of changes to expand and promote adoption and increase services for children in the foster care system. • SB 391 requires the
Four suspects were arrested just after 7 a.m. Friday morning, Oct. 9, in connection with a stabbing of a 17-year old Arcadia High School student on October 2. The arrest warrants were served at four different locations in the city of Arcadia. Arrested were 19 year old Danny Liu, 20 year old Daniel Chong, 20 year old Kevin Choi, and a 17 year old male, all Arcadia residents with gang affiliation. The suspect, however, did not appear to have any gang-related ties, police said. According to a press release from the Arcadia Police Department, the four suspects were booked at the Arcadia Police Jail on charges of assault with a deadly weapon. Bail has been set at $70,000. Chong and Choi will be housed at Los Angeles County Jail due to pre-existing medical conditions, Liu will be housed at the Arcadia Police Department Jail and the juvenile is being housed at East Lake Juvenile Hall, all pending arraignment. No date has been
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A New Computer for Valerie
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Continuing our quest to make certain that every child in the San Gabriel Valley has the tools necessary for a modern education, Beacon Media and Priceless Computer recently awarded Valerie Cervantes of Monrovia a new computer. Valerie, a sixth grader at Clifton Middle School, told us that her computer she has been using was purchased more than ten years ago and that she was unable to complete
her school assignments using it. Instead, she often had to take a trip to her Cousin’s house all the way down in El Sereno in order to do her homework. We hope that the computer we were able to give her helps her in her studies for many years to come. And we hope that any other students with a need for a new computer let us know by writing an
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