Windy Week: With gusts as high as...

Windy Week: With gusts as high as 77 mph, the Valley bowed and even bent last week under an onslaught of strong winds. Trees went down and buildings and traffic signals lost power. By Friday night, electricity had been mostly restored, with fewer than 100 customers still without it, said DWP spokeswoman Janet Merlo.

Losers . . . Auto dealer Norman Gray could do nothing but stand by and watch as the Ford dealership he built into the nation’s fifth largest was sold at auction--for millions of dollars less than Gray needed to pay off his debts. . . . It was also a bad week for drive-in movie fans, who saw the Winnetka Drive-In’s last screen come down, to make way for movie theaters, restaurants and shops.

Winner . . . Jim Fenwick, above, architect of championship junior college football programs at Valley and Pierce colleges, parlayed that success into a three-year deal with Cal State Northridge at an annual base salary of $72,000. . . . Fenwick, 44, was named coach of the Matadors on Friday, saying, “We’ll rally this Valley to national prominence.” (C1)

The Week Ahead: Next Friday marks the third anniversary of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. . . . City structural engineer Nick Delli Quadri says there are about 340 buildings damaged in the temblor that remain vacant and unrepaired. Most of them are houses abandoned by their owners and held by lenders.