Local News in Brief : Recreation Center to Be Named for Finn
Sylmar Recreation Center will be renamed the Howard Finn Community Building in memory of the late northeast San Fernando Valley councilman, the Los Angeles Board of Recreation and Parks Commissioners decided Friday.
The renaming was proposed by a number of Sylmar community activists and supported by Councilman Ernani Bernardi, who gained a large part of Finn’s old district, including Sylmar, in last year’s council redistricting.
Joel Breitbart, assistant general manager of the Recreation and Parks Department, said residents who attended a recent community meeting at the recreation center at 13109 Borden Ave. also supported the name change.
Signs bearing the new name will be installed at a ceremony expected to be held in a few weeks to dedicate a recently completed gymnasium added to the center, Breitbart said.
Finn represented the northeast Valley for five years until his death in August, 1986.
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