La Cañada History: Steak fry dinner served up to mark 20th anniversary of junior football in town

Ten Years Ago

Residents of Carmel Road in La Cañada held a neighborhood block party with a twist: personnel from the Los Angeles County Fire Department, including firefighters from Station 82, were there by special request to speak on the subject of emergency preparedness. A public information director for the county Fire Department gave a presentation where he noted the importance of neighbors knowing each other so they can be of more assistance during a catastrophe.

Twenty Years Ago

A pipe broke in the La Cañada Flintridge City Hall offices of the Public Works Department, causing $9,000 in damages before the flooding was discovered.

Thirty Years Ago

The Gladiators, La Cañada’s Jr. All American Football program, in late summer of 1987 celebrated 20 years in the community. Its original founders and adult leaders marked the anniversary with a steak fry.

Forty Years Ago

Members of Church of the Lighted Window (La Cañada Congregational Church) prepared to welcome their new pastor, the Rev. Philip Anderson, who was set to begin his ministry at the historic church on Sept. 18, 1977. He was coming to La Cañada from a church in Sebastopol, Calif.

Fifty Years Ago

It was decided in late August 1967 the La Cañada Unified School District would abandon its 5-3-4 school organization in favor of a 6-2-4 plan that would return sixth graders to elementary school. It was believed that — due to their maturity level — they would better flourish there. The 5-3-4 plan of educating sixth-grade students at Foothill Intermediate School with students in the seventh and eighth grades had been in effect since the fall of 1963.

Sixty Years Ago

Sheriff’s detectives were wondering who broke into the home of a vacationing La Cañada family but took nothing and tried to make it appear the house had not been entered. The Chevy Chase Drive family arrived home to find the front door unlocked. A search revealed someone had pried open a bedroom window screen and the crank-style window, then taken some pains to put them back in place to hide the intrusion.

Compiled from the Valley Sun archives by Carol Cormaci.