Lowery Honored by Harness Group

Times writer Steve Lowery’s story on the Los Alamitos Race Course has won first prize in the 1985 John Hervey Writing Awards competition, sponsored by the U.S. Trotting Assn. and U.S. Harness Writers Assn.

Lowery’s winning story, published in The Times Aug. 19, 1985, centered on Los Alamitos’ difficulty in gaining a niche for itself in the minds of Southern California’s sports fans.