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February 23, 2012

Students eat snow on Tuesday after their first snowfall. For the rest of the week it was difficult to get the students to stop eating it.
Alta Vista Elementary students go to science camp and see snow

Ten-year-old Stanley Reinhart had never seen snow before in his life. Two weeks ago during the fifth-grade science camp at Blue Sky Meadow, he had his chance — along with 105 other students from Alta Vista Elementary School.

Jorge Rodriguez, Jose Esculera and Juan Carlos wait for work at the 7-Eleven on Artesia and Felton on Wednesday morning. Photo by Chelsea Sektnan
The City of Redondo Beach’s day laborer petition denied

Day laborers may now legally solicit work from passing vehicles in Redondo Beach after the U.S. Supreme Court this week denied a petition from the City of Redondo Beach to hear arguments for a day laborer ban.

Manhattan Beach community rallies for fired trash man

Gilberto Santillan walked into Angela DuRoss and John Taylor’s Manhattan Beach home one recent afternoon with a red cooler full of hot tamales stuffed with cheese. Santillan, a 55-year-old man who speaks broken English, has been visiting DuRoss and Taylor’s home – and 1,000 other Manhattan Beach homes – every week for more than 15 years. He was their trash man.

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