Swell Fills In, [PHOTOS]
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Cub Scout Pack 851 visits Easy Reader
by Jiminy Cricket It was a cool March afternoon when Torrance Cub Scout Pack 851 came to visit the Easy Reader office in Hermosa Beach. While at the office, the pack learned the five different departments that work together to get a newspaper out on time. The departments are: Sales, Production, Editorial, Circulation and Accounting. […]
Monsignor Michael Lenihan passes away
Monsignor Michael Lenihan passed away yesterday at the age of 85. Below is a profile from the ER archives. An obituary is forthcoming. The Voyage of Father Michael Lenihan originally published June 27, 2002 Irish priests have always had a way of getting around, and of having left a lasting impression wherever they went. When […]
St Patrick’s Day Parade, Hermosa Beach, pt. 1 [VIDEO]
St Patrick’s Day Parade, Hermosa Beach, pt. 1
Ugandan Child Soldiers: Voices of the Lost [VIDEO]
Former child soldiers from Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda tell their compelling stories of life in captivity. From Worldvision’s Children of War Rehabilitation Center in Gulu, Uganda they speak of their abductions, being forced to fight, the brutality they witnessed and of lost innocence. Producer: Vicky Collins Photographer: Paul Hillman
Mike Purpus and his protégés [PHOTOS]
Images . Doc Albert Ackroyd allowed Purpus and his protégés to live rent free at his beach front home in downtown Hermosa Beach, providing they cleaned their dishes and didn’t allow girls to spend the night.
Sashi Sushi & Sake Lounge Inaugural Hanami Festival benefitting the Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation and Japan Relief
Sunday, March 27 – The community is invited to the Sashi Sushi & Sake Lounge Inaugural Hanami Festival benefitting the Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation and Japan Relief (through the Red Cross). Celebrate the spirit of springtime and community with a Sashi-style street fair with food, sake, a silent auction and music. 4 – 8 p.m. […]
5K Run for Education and Kid’s Fun Run
Saturday, March 27 – The El Segundo PTA’s annual 5K Run for Education and Kid’s Fun Run will take place rain or shine on Saturday, March 27, 2010 in the streets of El Segundo. Registration is $20 before March 27th. For further information , call 310-322-8672 or email: ptarun4ed@yahoo.com Registration link: http://www.active.com/running/el-segundo-ca/el-segundo-pta-run-4-education-2010 The 3rd Annual […]
Police chaplain is Assembly woman of the year
Hermosa Beach Police Department Chaplain Gila Katz, who volunteered her services at Ground Zero in 2001 and in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina, and helped spearhead installation of a 9/11 memorial bench on the Hermosa greenbelt, has been named Woman of the Year in the 53rd Assembly District. “I am honored to present this award to Gila […]
Beach trench lauded as cutting-edge
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized the city’s cutting-edge Strand Infiltration Trench Project under the beach sand with a 2010 Performance and Innovation in the State Revolving Fund Creating Environmental Success Award. The ceremony in Sacramento last week marked a second honor for the project. Late last year the trench received a 2010 B.E.S.T. […]
About Town
Time travel The Hermosa Murals Project will hold its second annual “Walk in History,” featuring the Roaring 20s, 11 a.m. and again at noon Saturday, April 16 starting from the Community Center, Pier Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway. Participants are encouraged to gather clues along the one-mile course to win gifts and prizes, including $100 […]
Petition boosts tattoo fight
A group of Hermosa residents this week continued its pushback against tattoo parlors, asking the City Council for a halt to the opening of three planned studios, the imposition of earlier closing times, and a moratorium on future parlors. They quickly gathered more than 225 signatures on an online petition to keep tattoo parlors away […]
Mama’s boys bring new blues
When Johnny Mastro met Mama, things could have gone any which way. It was 1993. He was a young harp player recently arrived in Los Angeles from upstate New York. She was the reigning matron of the L.A. blues scene. “Mama” Laura Mae Gross was a hardscrabble woman born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1920. She’d […]
Teachers protest IB program
Fifty teachers from Redondo Union High School stormed the Board of Education Tuesday night to protest the implementation of the International Baccalaureate program. The group included a majority of the school’s department heads and some of the longest-tenured and most respected teachers at RUHS. Their concerns ranged from the cost of the program to what […]