Long-time City Clerk Elaine Doerfling to retire as Hermosa mulls Measure CC

In 1966, Elaine Doerfling, proud owner of a recently purchased home in Hermosa Beach, took a phone call from her aunt. The aunt, who like most of Doerfling’s large extended family was still living in the Midwest, did not share her niece’s enthusiasm about the new digs.“She said, ‘What are you doing in Hermosa Beach?