15 Youth Organizations Receive Athletic Grants

Fifteen Southern California youth organizations have been awarded $431,678 in grants by the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles, the group charged with disseminating the Southland’s share of surplus funds from the 1984 Olympics. A total of $22 million in such grants have been made in the last four years.

The largest of the new grants, $165,000, went to fund Ladies Professional Golf Assn. junior golf programs at Griffith Park, Westchester and Newport Beach.

Other grants included $76,778 for a Major League Baseball program designed to bring baseball to inner-city youths ages 13 to 16; $59,500 to Mt. San Antonio College for a youth program, and $50,000 to the Laguna Niguel Community Services District for a diving platform and installation of a bubble system.

Receiving lesser amounts were the Glendale YWCA; the Charter Oak Gymnastics Club; the American Youth Soccer Organization in Saugus; the Harbor City Little League; the Newbury Park Conquistadores Soccer Club; the Pierce College Disabled Ski Program in Woodland Hills; the Upland Pony League; the West Covina Bruins Junior All-American Football program; the West San Fernando Valley Eagles Track Club; the Santa Monica YWCA and the Sepulveda Roses girls soccer club.