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AIDS Service Center, Pasadena Closes Doors After 28 Years
LOCAL NEWS
Volume 19, No. 19
By terry miller
Boy Scout Troop 141 Celebrates 100 Years P. 18
SPORTS
Arcadia Baseball Capitalizes on Mistakes; Shuts Out Pasadena 4-0 P. 23
ENTERTAINMENT AIDS Service Center Executive Director Anthony Guthmiller (in red jacket) holds court at last year’s Big Night Out. - Photo by Terry Miller
Local Musician Talks About Teaching, Making His Album P. 12
BUSINESS
Tennessee for Global Destination Imagination
Business Profile: WolfPack Fitness P. 31
EDUCATION
Elkins Avenue in the Arcadia Highlands being graded for development in the early Fifties.
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Arcadia Council Puts Zoning Revamp Two Arcadia High School on Hold; Exempts Highlands from Teams Off to Historical Preservation by joe taglieri
Pasadena Unified Names Prinicipal at Eliot Arts Magnet Middle School P. 32
Pasadena-based AIDS Service Center (ASC), one of Los Angeles County’s most distinguished non-profits helping people living with HIV/AIDS, is apparently closing its doors. For 28 years ASC has relied on Federal monies. In 2012, the government’s funding model changed, requiring ASC to provide medical care to its clients rather than through a third party. In an effort to make certain there was no interruption in care, ASC delegated its federally contracted programs to the Pasadena Public Health Department to deliver these medical services. The transition of medical care to an outside organization reduced ASC’s overhead yet also eliminated a primary source of funding. The organi-
Officials postponed efforts to restructure zoning regulations and exempted the Arcadia Highlands neighborhood from a forthcoming historical preserva-
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tion ordinance due to an ongoing lawsuit Highlands residents filed against the City Council, the city attorney announced Tuesday.
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The lawsuit, filed in March by a group called Save the Arcadia Highlands, seeks to force SEE PG. 18
Two of Arcadia High School’s Destination Imagination teams are going to compete at Destination Imagination Global Finals 2015 May 20-24 in Knoxville, Tennessee. “Kneel two JelZ” won 3rd place at State tournament (Northern CA and Southern CA) of Destination Imagination on March 28 after winning 1st place at L.A. Regional tournament on Feb. 28. Kneel two JelZ competes in the challenge of “The Improvisational Games.”
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