LAKIN LEGACY: A featured achievement of Chancellor...

LAKIN LEGACY: A featured achievement of Chancellor Thomas G. Lakin was spending more money on the county’s community college district stepchild, Oxnard College. . . . So a day after the youthful chancellor died suddenly, that college mourned: “How can such a horrible thing happen to such a nice person?” instructor Carmen Eblen said. (B1). . . Lakin drew heat for his commitment to the Oxnard campus, but operated by a standard set by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands during challenge and controversy.”

FATHER AND SON: When Capt. Michael Porrazzo took command recently of the Ventura CHP office, he followed by 27 years his father’s Ventura reign. . . . “There’s a row of pictures of all the commanders that have ever been here. I recall coming down here and seeing my dad’s picture on the wall. So it was sort of natural for me to move here,” said Porrazzo, 47. . . . He and his deceased father, Harold Porrazzo, may be unique for the California Highway Patrol. “In my time, there’s never been a commander who was followed by his son.”

PARADISE REGAINED: Thirty years ago, when crime was low and schools were new, the San Fernando Valley was their refuge. Today, the children of those urban refugees are finding clear skies and safe streets in Thousand Oaks. (Valley Business, Page 10.) . . . “We could not be happier,” resident Jeanine Price said. . . . And now, increasingly, the business world is seeking out the Conejo Valley.

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER: The mother was the first woman mayor of Santa Paula. The daughter will be the first woman city manager of Ventura. (B1) . . . Eleanor Crouch’s daughter Donna Landeros, 46, will come home as a $105,000-a-year manager 28 years after she graduated from Santa Paula High. . . . “She wasn’t one of those kids you had to nag to do her homework,” said father Bill Crouch, a structural engineer.