About Us

There’s probably no city of 11 square miles and 56,000 people anywhere else in the world that offers a national forest, County arboretum, internationally renowned horse race track, one of the top school districts in the state, the 2008 ladies U.S. figure skating gold medalist, the 2008, 2009, and 2010 Rose Queens, and was named the best city in the state to raise a family two years in a row by Business Week in November 2008 & 2009.
Thus, ArcadiasBest.com and its companion e-mail newsletters were created to showcase the best of this remarkable city of Arcadia through short videos, photos, blogs, news, calendar, and resource information, celebrating all the city has to offer to residents and visitors of all ages and interests.
ArcadiasBest.com, conceptualized and launched in early 2007 by owner Scott Hettrick, spotlights and profiles the best people, places, activities, businesses, and new developments.
As Scott is the sole producer of content for the site, he encourages you to send him any of announcements or calendar items, tips, and links to your videos and photos (cityofarcadiasbest@gmail.com).
Advertising of all sorts is also available; check out the Arcadia web site ad rates and options.
Technical credits
The 2012 redesign and technical maintenance and operation are the work of Glenn Abel of Calabasas, Calif. The site design is Glenn’s modification of the WordPress theme News, from StudioPress.
Original music accompanying most of the videos was composed primarily by Don Bodin of Endocrinemusic.
Scott’s personal and professional background
With this site, Scott, who is Executive Director of the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the Arcadia Public Library board of trustees, board director of the Arcadia Historical Society, and on the board of the Arcadia Downtown Business Association, is sort of returning to his days in the early 1980s as the program director for a local cable system in Independence, Mo., historic hometown of President Harry S Truman (with whom he walked alongside to school many mornings in the 1970s), where he enjoyed producing TV programs about the people and the town in which he lived.
Scott is a native Philadelphian who was raised primarily in Missouri before moving his wife Betty and daughters Chelsea and Brittany to Arcadia in 1991.
