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June 23, 2010

Lakers medicine man


After LA’s sudden case of hoops mania finally fades away and the Lakers flags come off the SUV’s it will be a summer of surgery for the newly re-crowned NBA Champion LA Lakers.
Andrew Bynum already has his knee operation scheduled, Kobe Bryant is looking at two and possibly even three surgeries on three different body parts and Luke Walton is considering serious back surgery as the only realistic way to extend his career.

Letters June 24, 2010


Valuing teachers

Dear ER:

Jan Stewart is a hero. It is a shame that she, like many other highly experienced and qualified educators are being thrown under the bus by our incompetent Hermosa Beach politicians in the name of fiscal restraint.

Shinehead headlines World Music Festival at the Lighthouse tonight (June 23)

Local woman raises $133,000 for cancer research

In March, Janice Bender played in her first flip-cup tournament at a local bar. Later that month, she served beer to 400 people at a local church. As if that’s not impressive enough, she also raised several thousand dollars in the process.

School district cuts teachers, books

Parents and teachers filled the boardroom at Redondo Beach Unified School District headquarters Tuesday night in hopes of saving jobs and books. But the school board, facing a $3.6 million budget deficit, reluctantly passed a budget that includes the layoffs of 16 teachers and the elimination of a popular language arts workbook.

Six police officers slated for layoff

The City Council Tuesday night approved a budget that closes a $7.2 million shortfall. But the adopted budget is balanced in part by laying off six police officers and demoting two others.

Another purse almost snatched

For the third time this month, police last week responded to an attempted strong-arm robbery on downtown Manhattan streets. Manhattan

Advocates plan to carry visible guns

Three to five members of a gun-rights group plan to carry unloaded weapons in holsters while picking up trash in western Hermosa, to educate the public on the legal right to bear arms in plain sight in California. Under state law, people may carry ammunition along with the unloaded guns as well. The event is planned for about mid-July.

In Sickness and in Health


Margaret Lazzari doesn’t simply paint isolated subjects, but over several years will delve into different themes, the result being that her oeuvre consists of numerous significant portfolios. There’s the Re-Inventions of Beauty series, the Floating series, the Cancer series, and the Wild Biology series. Each one seems to have accompanied or been precipitated by a life-changing moment in which the artist, now 56, found herself.

About Town

Cleanup, oil The South Bay Chapter of Surfrider Foundation will hold a beach cleanup 10 a.m. Saturday at 26th Street,

Have cello, will travel

The term musical genius is thrown around a bit easily. But in the unusual case of Dave Eggar, it actually applies.

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