By Ruth SOWBY

Food and bake sale goodies were front and center at the youth fundraiser of the La Crescenta congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Saturday afternoon, April 12. Middle school and high school students manned the booths selling the food and sweets.

A youth service auction also took place in which the kids’ services were offered for pay. Three hours of babysitting may cost the buyer $60 unless another buyer bid over that price. Other youth services included yard work, an evening cake delivery and pet sitting.  

A popular car at the classic car show was a 1956 Chevy Bel Air owned by Larry Gillins that drew a bunch of lookie-loos. Old cars are important to the Gillins family. When Gillins was a child, his parents would take him and his five siblings in the Chevy to Bob’s Big Boy. 

In fact, said Gillins, “My parents fell in love at Big Boy’s. Cars have always been a part of their romance.”   

When his four kids were small, Gillins would regularly take them for rides in his ’67 Volkswagen Squareback. Invariably, they would wind up at the car shows at Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank.  

All proceeds from the fundraiser and car show will support Girls’ Camp and Boys’ Camp. The girls will go to Big Bear; the boys to Raging Waters.