La Cañada History: School selects first all-female ASB office

Ten Years Ago

A study session was held for the La Cañada Flintridge City Council, during which it learned of two ideas for a $25 million project to replace the Community Center (then known as the Roger Barkley Community Center) with a new building. The center’s board told the board they believed they could raise 40% of the costs from within the community, but the rest would have to come from a combination of city and grant funding. Aaron Solomon, then director of the center, said the building needed replacing because of increasing costs to maintain the old building, the demand for additional courses to be offered there, and to allow more children to attend the center’s preschool. Neither proposal came to fruition.

Twenty Years Ago

Robert J. Stanley was introduced to the LCF City Council as the newest member of the city’s planning department. Stanley, who today is director of development, came to La Cañada City Hall from the city of Walnut, were he had served as a senior planner.

Thirty Years Ago

Flintridge Riding Club hosted the four-day Flintridge Amateur Horse Show. The show’s finale was the $25,000 Chrysler Grand Prix of Flintridge, a world cup qualifying event. The course designer was Richard Jeffrey, an internationally-acclaimed designer whose courses were used in the Olympics.

Forty Years Ago

For the first time in the school’s history, for the 1976-77 year, all of the top offices in the La Cañada High School Associated Student Body were held by young women: President Bernadette Burkett, Vice President Dana Fugleso, Secretary Shelly Bamattre and Treasurer Antoinette Burkett.

Fifty Years Ago

Negotiations were underway to bring a Van de Kamp’s bakery to the north side of the 800 block of Foothill Boulevard. Applicant Robert Genofile said that if it were approved it would be the seventh in a chain of the company’s restaurants.

Sixty Years Ago

The La Cañada Sportsman’s Club was offering classes in a nationwide hunter safety program. The class was open to all interested La Cañada boys at no charge, each of whom would receive a certificate of completion once they’d completed the course.

Compiled from the Valley Sun archives by Carol Cormaci.