La Cañada History: Man injured when drilling rig falls into ravine

Ten Years Ago

The La Cañada High school Music Parents Assn. was gearing up for its annual three-day carnival on the school campus, which in 2005 was to include rides, food booths and karaoke.

Twenty Years Ago

An 11-month improvement project on Angeles Crest Highway’s Glenola Park got underway with a community effort to pull weeds and plant trees and shrubs donated by Armstrong Nursery. Chairing the project for Friends of Glenola Park was nearby resident Margaret Pankratz.

Thirty Years Ago

St. Francis High School students spirited the fiberglass figure of the Bob’s Big Boy mascot from one spot on the campus to another after it mysteriously appeared on the school’s football field. Police believed it was the same Big Boy that had been missing from the Montrose location of the diner (on La Crescenta Avenue near Verdugo Boulevard) for about three weeks.

Forty Years Ago

Although a much larger crowd had been expected, 200 people turned out for a meeting held in the cafeteria at La Cañada High to hear a presentation of a comprehensive study that had been made by the Cityhood Feasibility Board. The next step was to file an application with the Local Agency Formation Commission and await its approval so that La Cañada and Flintridge could unite as one city.

Fifty Years Ago

Two successive storms in April 1965 brought nearly 9 inches of rain to La Cañada and snow to the San Gabriel Mountains. The season total the town had received as of April 15 of that year stood at 16.85 inches.

Sixty Years Ago

An Azusa man was critically injured after a four-wheel-drive drilling rig he had been riding in tumbled into a ravine where property was being cleared west of Crown Avenue and north of Knight Way for a housing development. William T. Shields, who was working for the Donald R. Warren Engineering Co. when the accident occurred, suffered multiple broken bones after the heavy equipment rolled over him.

Compiled from the Valley Sun archives by Carol Cormaci