People are finally wearing facemasks in public By Terry Miller Apple indeed has proved to be a little ahead of the curve, especially with their application known as FaceTime. Little did Tim Cook realize, however, just how important its name would become. From the beginning, the pandemic we know as COVID-19 has worried the world….
Ulises Gutierrez sat down with me recently via Zoom, to discuss the moment he found out he had COVID-19 and the struggles he had to overcome: the physical and emotional pain, and the stigma associated with it.
Everywhere you look, there doesn’t seem to be any good news coming from the COVID-19 virus pandemic that has swept the globe. It’s all doom and gloom with no end in sight. But if you talk to those who are on the front lines, especially in the health care industry, you’ll find reasons for hope….
In nearly a weeklong celebration, Jack McEwan is honored by his fellow servicemen and Arcadia Mayor April Verlato By Galen Patterson The elderly men slowly trickled into the rear dining room of Coco’s in Pasadena. They are all veterans, most of them from World War II, a handful from Vietnam. Ordinarily, they gather on the…
By Galen Patterson The Arcadia Rotary in conjunction with the Arcadia Chinese Association (ACA) has announced plans to restore Fort Rotary at Camp Trask in Monrovia. The rehabilitation of the fort marks the first official coordinated project between the Arcadia Rotary and the ACA. “This is a historic event,” said chairman of the project and…
By Galen Patterson The Arcadia Rotary in conjunction with the Arcadia Chinese Association (ACA) has announced plans to restore Fort Rotary at Camp Trask in Monrovia. The rehabilitation of the fort marks the first official coordinated project between the Arcadia Rotary and the ACA. “This is a historic event,” said chairman of the project…
By Terry Miller A new book, “Arroyo” by Chip Jacobs, has recently been published by Rare Bird Books. The novel has a heavy focus on one of Pasadena’s most iconic, mysterious and forlornly rather notorious structures. For decades, hundreds of people have leaped to their deaths 150 feet from the Colorado Street Bridge onto the…
By Chang Tzi-chin, Minister of the Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan, R.O.C. (Taiwan) Concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii hit a historic high of 415 parts per million in May 2019. The World Meteorological Organization has also released data showing that June 2019 was the hottest month in history,…
By Alex Cordero Lupe Duarte, multiple myeloma project manager at City Of Hope, will be flying out of the country for the first time in her life to Patagonia, Argentina to cross over glaciers and hike through deep valleys to raise awareness for multiple myeloma, an incurable type of cancer that develops in plasma cells….
APF pays tribute to Dorothy Denne’s dedication to community By Terry Miller On Saturday evening Oct. 19, the Arcadia Community Center saw some extremely remarkable, albeit unsavory, Halloween characters strut their stuff at the Arcadia Police Foundation’s (APF) Halloween Hoopla. It was all in good fun, of course, and a very special night devoted to…
