Librarian Monique Sugimoto looking back 100 years

True to founder’s vision – The 100th anniversary of Frank Vanderlip’s vision will be celebrated across the Peninsula by Elka Worner In 1923, visionary banker Frank Vanderlip, Sr. and the Palos Verdes Project held a car rally in Malaga Cove to entice potential property buyers to an area covered in coastal sagebrush and agricultural fields.…

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Swans’ ways

Dancers Samantha Striplin, and Cammi Malicse bring personal interpretations to Swan Lake by Elka Worner Award winning Peninsula dancers Samantha Striplin, 14, and Campbelle “Cammi” Malicse, 16, will perform in the lead roles of Odette and Odile in the Peninsula School of Performing Arts’ upcoming production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. “Samantha and Cammi are two…

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Historical home approval nears

by Elka Worner A 1913 craftsman home in North Hermosa Beach may become the first residential property in the city’s history to receive a historic landmark designation. “We’re going to recommend approval,” Hermosa Beach Senior Planner James Atkins said of the three-bedroom property located at 2204 Monterey Blvd. The city council will address the nomination…

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No women, but smoking OK when these guys joined Kiwanis

by Elka Worner When they joined the Kiwanis Club, ash trays lined the bingo tables, the Greatest Generation ran the show and women weren’t allowed. The next four decades changed all of that. Two weeks ago, at the Hermosa Kiwanis hall, four Kiwanians were honored for more than four decades of service in the Hermosa…

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Porta potties substitute for Opening Day

by Elka Worner After a yearlong delay, construction has resumed on a new restroom at Clark Field, but the project will not be completed, as had been anticipated, in time for the Hermosa Little League opening day on Saturday. “Our players, their families and friends have been anxiously awaiting the completion of the bathroom at…

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Age of experimentation must end, fentanyl panel says 

by Elka Worner “People want to know, ‘Is it really that bad or is it something that happens in back alleys?’ I hate to say it, but no. It’s extremely prevalent right here in our Beach Cities and in the South Bay,” Hermosa Beach Police Chief Paul LeBaron said at a Beach Cities Health District…

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Hatano Farms – The Flower of the Peninsula

Doug Hatano recalls growing flowers with his father, James, who leased land on the Peninsula after spending three years at the WWII Poston Relocation Center in Arizona by Elka Worner As Doug Hatano walks the weed-covered fields that were once his father’s farm, he thinks of the rich legacy left by his father, and generations…

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Scholars’ scholar

President Biden appoints former professor Dr. Carmen Estrada Schaye  to Fulbright Scholarship Board by Elka Worner On any given day, Dr. Carmen Estrada Schaye receives about 200 emails. The former professor, political activist and businesswoman usually responds to her messages within minutes. But an email she received last December gave her pause. It said she…

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HBPD blue goes green

by Elka Worner The Hermosa Beach Police Department is nearly halfway to its goal of a zero-emission fleet. The fleet includes two Teslas and two Ford Hybrid SUVs for patrol. Of the police department’s 39 vehicles, 17 are hybrid or electric, and comply with Hermosa’s Green Fleet Action Plan, adopted in 2013. The plan calls…

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Goal setting firefighter Erin Regan

Former professional soccer player Erin Regan has made it her goal to increase the number of female firefighters by Elka Worner After Tiger Woods crashed his SUV traveling 85 mph down Hawthorne Boulevard last year,  firefighters from Rolling Hills Estates Fire Station 106 were credited with saving his life. They smashed the SUV’s windshield with…

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