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Monday, November 23 -November 29, 2009 Volume 2, No. 48
Study for Traffic Calming to Be Proposed at Next Council Meeting By Sameea Kamal After seeing positive results from a similar initiative in San Fernando, new city manager Jose Pulido has proposed a citywide traffic study and master plan that would give the city the power to resolve problems that state and federal guidelines fail to address. Pulido said the driving force for the study was an accident that occurred on El Monte Avenue and Daines Drive– which he learnt about through watching city council meetings before he was appointed. “I could see the council was getting frustrated because they wanted to take control of traffic issues and they couldn’t,” he said. According to the city manager, the state and federal guidelines have standards that are better suited to large cities, such as a stop sign only being implemented if there are enough collisions to warrant it.
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Federal Stimulus to Fund Improvements to Santa Anita Ave. Clarifying Usage and Adding Bicycle Lanes Top List By Sameea Kamal
tion, only 1,200 to 1,800 Japanese Americans were interned. Of those interned, 62 percent were United States citizens. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt authorized the
With funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the City of Arcadia is preparing to re-stripe the pavement on Santa Anita Avenue in order to clarify lanes and add a bike lane. The stimulus project involves re-striping the street from Foothill Boulevard to the northern city limits, where there is currently no marking for how many lanes there are. “It’s an interesting situation because its wide with a median, but each side of the street is wide enough for two cars to drive side by side when it’s really just intended to be one lane and parking lane,” said City Engineer Phil Wray. “But people derive it; they drive two cars on the road and it shouldn’t be that way.” Wray said the city receives many complaints from drivers confused about the number of lanes, and that the re-striping will stop “daredevils” who try to pass. Due to the low volume of cars on the street, the re-striping will not increase traffic, he said. At the next meeting, the city council will approve the contract to enter into a construction contract, Wray said. The striping will likely begin right after the first of the month. A bike lane will also be added to the wide road, which staff reports say has the potential to be a significant bike corridor for both recreational and residential uses. According to Development Services Director Jason Kruckeberg, the street is heavily used for bikes. “We’re taking advantage of the current situation and trying to plan for the future a little bit,” he said.
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On May 11 three area high school students were involved in a high speed collision on South El Monte Ave. near the disputed Daines Drive intersection. Witnesses told reporters that the car “flew” into the front yard of the home. - Photo by Terry Miller
Friends Used Book Sale, December 4 & 5
Arcadia Historical Museum Honors Japanese Americans
Is it really that time of year again? Thank goodness the Friends of the Sierra Madre Library’s Best Used Book Sale is here just in time for Holiday shopping. Calling all family chefs: A collection of specialty cookbooks are being offered in the (Saint) Nick of time. They’re perfect to help plan holiday meals and tasty new treats for Santa. The Martha Stewart Christmas Cookbook; Marlboro Country Cookbook; One Potato, Two Potato are just a few of the epicurean delight editions on sale. And while you are munching on your Yuletide goodies, enjoy a good Christmas book, such as Christmas in America, and Christmas with Victoria. Art lovers of the world unite! The World of Picasso, W hist ler, Ceza nne, Leonardo, Van Gogh, Michelangelo are amongst a new collection of art books available for purchase at fantastic prices. For the teens the JRR
As we approach the 68th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, the curators at a local museum have decided to honor thousands of Japanese Americans who were forced from their homes under an order from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The exhibit, at the Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum, explores the temporary assembly center at Santa Anita Race track which was used for the detention of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II. The events that took place nine weeks after Pearl Harbor honors those who were forcibly removed from their homes in the aftermath of the war hysteria and ensuing prejudice. Japanese American internment was the forcible relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of approximately
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By Terry Miller
Taka and Michi Nomura were two of the thousands of Japanese Americans who were forcibly “relocated” from their home in Pasadena in 1942. The couple now in their 90’s visited the museum Saturday. Photos by Terry Miller
120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese residing in the United States to camps called “War Relocation Camps,” in the wake of Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. The internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally
throughout the United States. Japanese Americans residing on the West Coast of the United States were all interned, whereas in Hawaii, where more than 150,000 Japanese Americans composed nearly a third of that territory’s popula-