49 company teams set for Aerospace Games
The 20th Aerospace Games take place Saturday at El Camino College, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., with 49 teams made up of South Bay aerospace companies’ employees.
Events include volleyball, ultimate frisbee, soccer, dodgeball, tug-of-war, water ball toss, human pyramid and “executive golf” (putting).
The first event, preceding Saturday, is a canned food drive with all items donated to El Segundo’s Community Alliance to Support and Empower (CASE).
Northrop Grumman won the Games last year and SpaceX won in 2022.
Before a 2020-21 hiatus due to the pandemic, Northrop Grumman took the championship in 2018 and 2019 and SpaceX won it the two years before that.
Redondo Beach Ballet receives county grant
The Redondo Beach Ballet was named a recipient of a $15,300 grant for arts initiatives July 19, given by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture.
The non-profit dance company will use the funding to support new ballet productions at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.
The gift is one of 318 countywide (a total of $6.4 million), part of the Organizational Grant and Community Impact Arts Grant programs.
The money is intended by L.A. County officials to address “systemic inequity in arts funding.”
Applications were reviewed by 105 peer panelists and the L.A. County Arts Commission, which is appointed by the County board of Supervisors.
Redondo Beach Rotary Club begins 100th year event
The Rotary Club of Redondo Beach starts its “100 Days of Kindness” event this week, culminating in its 100th anniversary celebration in Seaside Lagoon Nov. 9.
A kick-off party will be held Thursday, July 25 from 5-7 p.m. at the waterfront Riviera Mexican Cantina, featuring city and school board leaders. The Redondo Beach Rotary Club supports local schools, community, youth and vocational services.
“Waikiki Dreams” book talk Saturday at Library
Author Patrick Moser will give a talk Saturday, July 27, about his new book “Waikiki Dreams: How Southern California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture.”
The event runs from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. at the Redondo Beach Main Library, second floor. Moser is the author of “Surf & Rescue: George Freeth and the Birth of the California Beach Culture” (University of Illinois Press, 2022). A bust of Freeth is featured on the Redondo Beach Pier.
Moser, a professor of French and creative writing at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, moved to Manhattan Beach in his youth at age 17, then Hermosa Beach a year later and “lived the surfer life.”
Sailboats race from Santa Barbara to King Harbor Friday
Friday and Saturday, July 26-27, King Harbor Yacht Club hosts the finish of the annual Santa Barbara to King Harbor race. Sailboats leave Santa Barbara, round Anacapa, the smallest of the Channel Islands, then turn toward Redondo Beach, many arriving late into the night or early Saturday morning. ER
