Redondo Beach: Police Beat
Catalytic thefts The RBPD is investigating a series of thefts of catalytic converters from vehicles that occurred in the past week. According to police reports, suspects used a saw to cut the converters from under the vehicles, usually during early morning hours. Converters have been stolen on several different days and in both north and […]
Redondo Beach Lifeguards honored for ocean, cliff, pier and surfing rescues
Five Los Angeles County lifeguards were presented with Medals of Valor last month for rescues ranging from boaters on the rocks at Catalina to a pier jumper weighted down with a 75-pound lead vest. The awards were presented by Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe, the Redondo Chamber of Commerce and the Beach Cities Health […]
Harman, Knabe ask support for Redondo Beach job program
A Congressional economic stimulus program that funds 19 City of Redondo Beach public works positions, half a dozen Hermosa Beach public works positions, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce’s secretary and 11,000 other public and private sector jobs, county-wide, is set to expire next month. “We need to shame local [Congressional] members not inclined to support it. […]
On Local Government
On land use and religion A great brouhaha is developing over the proposed opening of an Islamic cultural center in a former Burlington Coat Factory store a few blocks from the site of the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan. There are basically three sides in the argument. One says that no one has the right […]
Letters – August 18, 2010
Uncle Irv still kicking Dear ER: I laughed out loud reading Pete Whalon’s 1st Place story about getting the most swats at Redondo High in 1967, specifically when he talked about his drafting teacher, Irv Glushenko (“RUHS King of Swats,” ER April 12, 2010). I started my teaching career at RUHS in 1972. The first […]
Hermosa Beach dog walker begins a journey of 1,000 miles
by Janet Oshiro Making a difference is as simple as walking, as Carol Kozlovich knows. The former market researcher, now a dog walker and animal massage therapist, has added another leg to her journey: striding 1,000 miles for women suffering horrific abuses in the war-ravaged Congo. Kozlovich worked in the corporate world of marketing and […]
Hermosa Beach: About Town – August 18, 2010
Arrest made Police arrested a 30-year-old Encino man after he allegedly threatened to use emailed photos and information against a female victim if she refused to have sex with him. Hermosa Beach Police detectives covertly arranged to meet with the man through a social networking website, and arrested him on suspicion of attempted rape using […]
Hermosa Boy Scout honored
Brennan Danlasky, 14, of Hermosa Beach has just returned from a week at Boy Scout Camp Emerald Bay on Catalina Island, earned through his designation as the Ian White Memorial Campership award winner. The award is sponsored by Lazarex Cancer Foundation of Danville, and administered by Troop 860 in the South Bay, which was Ian […]
Order denied in two-tier tiff
A judge has declined to issue a restraining order to stop the City Council from instituting a “two-tier” pension system that would require future employees to shoulder more of the payments into their pension fund. The city police and firefighter associations asked for the order in the first salvo of a legal battle over future […]
Taste at Beach aids kids’ libraries in Hermosa Beach
by Lisa Duckers The Kiwanis Club of Hermosa Beach loves to help those in need, and Sunday’s fifth annual Taste At The Beach fine wine and food extravaganza will extend a hand to the cash-strapped programs of Hermosa’s public school libraries. The event, 4 to 8 p.m. at the Community Center, on the corner of […]
Hope is held for Hermosa Open
Although the AVP has suspended its operations (see cover story), the president of the California Beach Volleyball Association believes the 41-year-old Hermosa Beach Open tournament will go on again next year. The CBVA serves as a feeder organization for the AVP. CBVA President Chris Brown said he believes funding will be found to resurrect the […]
Beach volleyball will have Hall of Fame in Hermosa
The California Beach Volleyball Association Hall of Fame has finally found a home, at the Hermosa Beach Historical Society Museum. The association has been inducting beach volleyball greats into its Hall since 1992, but the Hall has continued to exist only online, at CBVA.com. When Hermosa Beach Historical Society members contacted CBVA President Chris Brown […]
Hermosa summer concert series is rescued
Hermosa’s popular concert-at-the-pier series, which was thrown into limbo by a lack of funding, will continue uninterrupted this summer. Allen Sanford, owner of the highly regarded music venue St. Rocke, stepped in to produce four shows beginning Sunday, Aug. 22. Sanford stepped in when cash-strapped city officials axed funding for the concert series, as well […]
Hot dog
Thursday, August 19 Pier pleasure Son Del Sur plays salsa from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Redondo Beach Pier. It’s part of the free summer concert series. (310) 508-6161. Teenage angst “13,” the entertaining and successful musical by Jason Robert Brown, concludes this weekend at the Norris Theatre, 27570 Crossfield Drive, Rolling Hills […]
Back to the beach: Manhattan Open’s 50th anniversary this weekend will be clouded by sadness over the absence of the AVP
Fifty years ago, Mike Bright and Mike O’Hara stood on the sand adjacent to the Manhattan Beach Pier surrounded by friends and family, sand chairs, beach towels and coolers. Staring through a net at Mike Higer and Gene Selznick, the duo was one point away from winning the first official beach volleyball tournament held in Manhattan Beach.
Down to business
Three decades of growing popularity couldn’t offset growing financial losses Beach volleyball completed an arc familiar to minor sports last week with the grounding of the AVP. It went from a game played for bragging rights, to a profession, to a game played for bragging rights. In 2008, AVP Manhattan Beach Open winners Todd Rogers […]