Mike Boyadjian, owner of Arcadia Tires, 15 E. Duarte Road, brought his wife and young son and one of his best and longest customers to the March 21 Networking Breakfast sponsored by Rose Hills Memorial Park & Mortuaries and hosted by Rod Salazar of Stubbies Promotions to share in Boyadjian receiving the first new monthly Arcadia Business Icon plaque and…
Over 200 members from 8 Chambers of Commerce had a great time on Thursday evening at the new Irwindale Event Center. The entry fee included lots of great food & beverages provided by the Event Center and local restaurants, as well as fantastic raffle prizes such as certificates for 20 laps around the race track,…
Arcadia is the only city in which residents voted overwhelmingly to tax themselves $8 million to help pay for a bridge to carry the Gold Line train over the major artery of Santa Anita Avenue, and the only city along the 11.5-mile foothill extension line to exercise the option of creating a customized station in…
Two dragons wound there way through the entire Westfield Santa Anita mall Saturday, including through a Chinese gate underneath a 120-foot dragon hanging in center court, before heading up the escalator and out to the Promenade and the south end stage area to greet hundreds of people gathered for the Lunar New Year entertainment festivities.…
The filmmaker and star of dozens of mostly Spanish-language movies, Alejandro Alcondez, literally rolled out the red carpet Friday (Feb. 22, 2013) for the grand opening of his new Alejandro Alcondez Mexican Grill, Dining & Dancing restaurant at 57 Wheeler in the historic Downtown Arcadia area just off First Avenue north of Huntington Drive. Alcondez…
Andrew Gregson of The Executive Factor introduced several fun new networking interactivities for the several dozen attendees at this morning’s monthly networking breakfast at the Santa Anita Golf Course, sponsored by Rose Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary. First he had everyone stand and pat their neighbor on the back and say “Good job, well done.”…
Dozens of food and dessert vendors provided a plethora of taste options to the hundreds of attendees at Methodist Hospital’s 18th annual Mardi Gras Feb. 12 at Santa Anita Park’s spacious Sirona’s Restaurant and bar venue. See photo galley of just a few of the vendors below… [flagallery gid=87 name=”Mardi Gras”] The fun-filled event with…
New Arcadia legislative representatives Assemblymember Ed Chau (49th District) and California senator Dr. Ed Hernandez, whose 24th district was recently assigned Arcadia as part of last year’s realignment introduced themselves to a business lunch gathering of the San Gabriel Valley Public Affairs Network Feb. 8 at Arcadia Chamber of Commerce member Embassy Suites. Newly-elected 41st Assembly…
Arcadia Unified School District Superintendent Joel Shawn gave an in-depth State of the District update to the Government Affairs attendees at the monthly Forum held in the Chamber conference room Feb. 5, including a discussion of the County’s proposed water parcel “fee” and its effect on the School District. He gave details of a new…
Two new members were introduced at “Meet the Ambassadors” this morning by Personal Ambassador, Sylvia Ramos of Dilbeck Real Living, who is also a Chamber board member and chairman of the Ambassadors committee. Adam Libman is a tax accountant. His company believes that through aggressive tax reduction strategies you will have the increased cash flow…