Attitude cures
Melody Lomboy-Lowe was six-years-old, wearing a Girl Scout Brownie uniform, and sitting next to her parents in a doctor’s office when she heard the word everyone fears—cancer. Not wanting to shield Melody, her parents insisted she hear her diagnosis—acute lymphoblastic leukemia—when they did. Her chance of surviving one year was fifty percent. Thanks to having […]
Sun lights way
Eight-year-old Teresa Chi-Ching Sun played blissfully on a bridge in China, oblivious to the danger her family faced during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1943. The Wang family of nine had quickly packed their belongings, embarking on a perilous journey through land occupied by the Japanese army to reach a safer region of China. The […]
Hemosa Beach urges County to approve beach volleyball tournaments
by Dan Blackburn Hermosa Beach leaders agreed at Tuesday’s city council meeting to write a letter to Los Angeles County and the State of California officials, advocating resumption of some youth and adult recreational league activities. Brandy Villanueva, the city’s emergency management coordinator, said she expected some changes in COVID-19 protocols, beginning April 1, when […]
Hermosa Beach hires deputy city manager from Newport Beach
by Dan Blackburn A month after Hermosa Beach City Manager Suja Lowenthal was granted a four percent raise, Lowenthal has hired an assistant whose base annual pay will be $137,369. City council members decided last August that Lowenthal’s performance, since her 2018 hiring, justified a pay hike, to $236,868. The council approved the increase at […]
Calendar: 3-18-2021
Ongoing Health Study The Beach Cities Health District is seeking participants for a Healthy Minds Brain Study. Participants must be 55 or older and live in Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach or Redondo Beach. For more information, call Nicole Lunde at 310-374-3426, ext. 120. Shakespeare by the Sea Audiences will think they are there in […]
Pickleball noise puts city in a pickle with players, neighbors
by Dan Blackburn In the end, there was no quick resolution to a perceived problem posed by pickleball played on Kelly Courts in Hermosa Beach, despite efforts by city officials to measure and maybe mitigate the sounds of the game. Responding to what he described as “the ongoing resident complaints regarding noise impacts to those […]