Glendora Citizens of the Year

Ida and Joe Fracasse have been named 1991 Citizens of the Year by the Glendora Chamber of Commerce.

The Fracasses are being honored for their work with the Historical Society, Friends of the Library, Kiwanis and Kiwaniannes, CrimeStoppers, League of Women Voters, Charter Oak PTA, Glendora Welfare Society and EYE-DAS, a support group for the partially sighted.

They will be honored at a banquet at 6 p.m. April 23 at the Grand, Grand Avenue and Foothill Boulevard. Tickets, at $32.50, may be obtained from the chamber at 224 N. Glendora Ave.

Lawren Edwards, program manager of the Work Activity Center at the Assn. for Retarded Citizens--San Gabriel Valley in El Monte, has been elected chairman of Associated Rehabilitation Industries. Associated Rehabilitation is a group of 35 centers in Southern California that try to protect developmentally disabled people from unscrupulous businesses.

Ken Nelson of Covina has been appointed deputy director of project development for the Los Angeles regional office of the California Department of Transportation. Nelson, 50, had been chief of the public transportation and rail branch of the Caltrans District 7 office, which covers Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

Mr. and Mrs. Lowrey B. McCaslin of La Canada Flintridge have donated a seven-foot white marble statue of a woman holding an urn to the Arboretum in Arcadia.

The statue, valued at $100,000, was sculpted by French artist Louis Aime LeJeune in 1930. It was commissioned by Anita Baldwin, daughter of Lucky Baldwin--who once owned the land that is now the Arboretum--for her estate, Anoakia, on Baldwin Avenue in Arcadia.

The McCaslins acquired the statue when they bought Anoakia, formerly the site of a private school. The property is planned for development.

Janet M. Paulson, vice president for nursing services at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Los Angeles County Fair Assn. in Pomona.

Paulso, of Diamond Bar joined the hospital as supervisor of the emergency department in 1970 and became director of nursing services in 1973. She fills a vacancy on the fair board created by the death in Dr. William P. Walker in December.