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VOLUME 20, NO. 44
WOMEN’S CLUB SHINES A LIGHT ON ARCADIA’S VIETNAM MEMORIAL Gene Glasco, community leader, is working with the Women’s Club to improve the Arcadia Veteran’s Memorial Monica SANCHEZ monicaadeline2@gmail.com
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his Saturday, November 4, the Arcadia Women’s Club is hosting a fundraising dinner and musical military tribute in the historic clubhouse to help raise needed funds for the installation of lighting to illuminate the Arcadia Vietnam War Monument. The Arcadia veterans’ monument was dedicated on May 28, 2016 in tribute to the fourteen Arcadia servicemen who lost their lives in Vietnam between 1966 and 1972. However, it honors all veterans who have served our country. Gene Glasco, Navy veteran, city clerk, 20172018 Citizen of the Year and Founder of the monument, is looking to install six low energy LED lights that will be permanently placed into the cement base surrounding the Monument. “I would really like to illuminate the monument for
nighttime purposes,” said Glasco, “We have had shopping carts sitting there, smoking and drinking near the monument...I think it’s going to deter vandalism and vagrancy.” The lights will come on at dusk and go off at dawn, warding off crime nearby and honoring fallen heroes in an attractive glow. Excited about the project, Glasco said that “On Veterans Day, Memorial Day and other observances, we’ll be able to adjust the lighting to bathe the Monument in patriotic red, white and blue colors, which will really be spectacular.” Fundraising is needed for installation of the lights due to the expense of the bulbs themselves and the construction work required. Each bulb costs $2,000, but they’re “meant to last a couple of decades,” according to Glasco. Glasco was quoted $19,000 for the installation overall. Because of the tricky nature of the electrical installation, Glasco predicts that
Gene Glasco sits in front of the Arcadia Vietnam War Monument. - Courtesy photo / Gene Glasco
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The Danish Prince Who Called Arcadia Home
TWO GREAT CITIES OF ARCADIA; ONE IS IN GREECE
The story of Prince Erik and his home on Santa Anita Ave.
Two civic leaders from different countries bond over Arcadias
Galen PATTERSON, Editorial Intern editorial@beaconmedianews.com
Prince Erik, Count of Rosenborg was a member of the Danish royal family and moved to Arcadia in 1924. Erik was born Erik Frederik Christian Alexander in 1890 as the nephew of the King of Denmark. His status was well known and
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respected in the early 1900s, but contrary to the stereotype royal bloodlines conjure, Erik was different. Newspapers at the time refer to Erik as a “a man of action,” who “wishes to be useful and not ornamental.” Carol Libby, a local historian of the Arcadia Historical Society says Erik “did not like being of royal blood.” Clearly, Libby’s assessment is right, as Erik married
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a Canadian lumber baron’s daughter, Lois Francis Booth in 1924. In order for Prince Erik to marry a commoner, he was forced to renounce his title of royal highness and thus any claim to the throne. Erik was, however allowed to maintain the title of ‘highness’ and remained so when he established his new life in Arcadia. SEE PRINCE PAGE 13
ARTS & ENTERTAINMET San Gabriel Valley Students Perform at “Enchanted: Forest Of Light”
Peter Amundson City of Arcadia Mayor
I have a passion for my hometown, Arcadia. It has been twice this decade voted the best place to raise kids in California. Arcadia is renowned as one of California’s top Cities for education, one of California’s safest cities as well as a best for
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Senior Citizens. Arcadia after an ancient Paradise. California is currently a Arcadia is a place of finalist for Most Business hot summers and mild Friendly City in Los Ange- winters, which receives les County. I live in a great its rain during the fall and place and I am honored to winter months. Arcadia is serve as its current Mayor. a land that is represented Arcadia is rich in history as a paradise in Greek and and caring people who Roman poetry and in the appreciate what we have art and literature of the and how it came to be. Ar- Renaissance. I am talking cadia’s founder thought so about Arcadia, Greece that too and most people SEE TWO GREAT CITIES PAGE 12 believe he named it
Sports
Arcadia Footballers Say “Bring On” Rivalry Game
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