La Cañada History: Unseasonable storm hits LCF

Ten Years Ago

La Cañada Flintridge city leaders in September 2006 expressed their concerns about the possible negative effects of a 710 Freeway extension would bring to children and senior adults who lived and played in close proximity to any resulting increased traffic. City Hall invited the USC Children’s Environmental Health Center to review a $500,000 Metro study; the review backed the city’s stance.

Twenty Years Ago

The Crescenta-Cañada Family YMCA was gearing up for its first Health and Fitness Fair and planning a formal dedication for it renovated facility, where $3.5 million in improvements had been made.

Thirty Years Ago

La Cañada High School administrators decided that when the school reopened for the new term on Sept. 8, 1986, it would be without its designated smoking area, which had been in place since March 1978. The closure was decided after the passage of Assembly Bill 4085, outlawing smoking areas on high school campuses, effective Jan. 1, 1987. The school officials thought it would be wise not to wait until the middle of the school year to shut it down.

Forty Years Ago

An unseasonable storm arrived in La Cañada on Sept. 5, 1976, bringing wind, 1.42 inches of rain and lightning bolts that knocked out power transformers.

Fifty Years Ago

Some eyebrows were raised in heavily Republican La Cañada when Democrats opened a campaign office on the 600 block of Foothill Boulevard, just two doors away from the Republican headquarters. The president of the La Cañada Democratic Club, Arthur Burke, said the chief goal of his group was to get voters registered in time to participate in the Nov. 8, 1966, election.

Sixty Years Ago

Actor-singer Dennis Morgan, who at home went by the name of Stan Morner, let the Valley Sun know that he and his wife, Lillian, had completed the sale of their house on Alta Canyada Road and were moving to their 90-acre ranch in the San Joaquin Valley. The Morners had been very active in the community during their 10 years of residency here, with Stan having once been named honorary mayor of the town. He was also instrumental in the establishment of Two Strike Park in neighboring La Crescenta.

Compiled from the Valley Sun archives by Carol Cormaci.