Angel girl: Manhattan Beach’s Alex Curry becomes the face of the Los Angeles Angels
Alex Curry, the new host of Angels Weekly. Photo courtesy of Fox Sports West This isn’t a story you’d expect to emerge from the environs of Sand Dune Forest. In the mid-1990s, a feral-eyed dark-haired girl could be found running through the trees surrounding Sand Dune Park in north Manhattan Beach. Her family, the Currys, lived on the street just above the park. Alex Curry was the oldest of four sisters, and one of the ringleaders of the 32 kids who lived on the street. She’d dubbed the patch of trees Sand Dune Forest, and it was perfectly natural that this was her domain – her mother, Peggy, and father, Tim, raised their daughters to appreciate nature and the joy of playing outdoors. “I was Pocahontas like every other day in the forest,” Curry recalled. “It was ideal.” They were a natural-living family. Tim Curry, in fact, founded a natural energy drinks company, and Peggy founded Growing Great, a program which has since become a national model that teaches school children gardening and nutrition from a young age. “I appreciate it now, but growing up it was hard, because nobody else ate organic – seriously, who packs fruit with carrots to take to school?” Curry said. “I am so…
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