Arcadia Chamber of Commerce board member Edward Wong recently received high honors from NASA and Space Flight Mechanics for his critical work on the guidance system that guided the Mars rover Curiosity to its highly successful renedvous with the Red Planet. His awards were presented during the 24th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting in Santa Fe,…
Savers, the national thrift chain with nearly 330 locations across North America, is celebrating the opening of its sixth store in Southern California and a continued partnership with Hope Services and the Epilepsy Foundation of America. The celebration of the Arcadia area location will kick off on Thursday, March 6 with an 8:45 a.m. ribbon-cutting…
Cynthia Kurtz, President and CEO of the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership, will receive the 2014 Heart in Hand Humanitarian Award at Foothill Unity Center‘s 15th Annual Golden Plate Awards on Saturday, April 26, at The Trinity Ballroom in Pasadena, co-chaired by Arcadia Mayor Mickey Segal with his wife Lee. The award, the Center’s highest…
You won’t want to miss the 2014 Women’s Business Summit, a forum dedicated to providing modern methods to entrepreneurs on March 12, 2014. Come out and hear from inspiring woman on ways to improve the success of your business.
Congrats to Chamber member HUTdogs and Chamber board member Dave Finstrom for landing a radio gig on the CBS station KROQ (106.7) providing weekly one-minute Constant Contact e-mail tips for small businesses. (Click play on video below to hear the first one…) You can read more details and find all the tips and info on…
Jerry Dominguez, owner of Printing Control, gave great tips and insight to how businesses could use Facebook to get more exposure for their business on Thursday, Feb. 20, at the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce’s monthly Networking Breakfast, sponsored by Rose Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary. Dominguez demonstrated different ways you could interact on Facebook to…
The City of Arcadia’s Economic Development Manager Jerry Schwartz was honored last week with a prestigious Golden Apple for being an Outstanding Parent Volunteer Parent at the San Gabriel Unified School District. Schwartz, whose oldest son Aaron is a freshman year at the University of California Berkeley, and whose younger son Benjamin is a sophomore at…
Thanks to NTDTV for TV news coverage of this month’s Government Affairs Forum, with interviews of the City Council candidates… The candidates were interviewed at the Forum by TV network NTD LA, which had three representatives at the meeting, including NTDTV contributor & Business Development Cindy Cheung, reporter Sherry Liu, and Anne Lu, director…
Printing Control hosts an interactive networking demonstration on how you can use Facebook to get more exposure for your business on Thursday, Feb. 20, at the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce’s monthly Networking Breakfast, sponsored by Rose Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary. Alex DiPeppe’s Italian Restaurant will also receive recognition as an Arcadia Business Icon presented…
Here’s an update on progress of the Foothill Gold Line light rail extension project. Six new stations from Pasadena to Azusa are on schedule for completion by September 2015, project managers say: