Posts by Kevin Cody
Redondo Beach Police Beat: A nighttime stand against domestic violence
Ericka Gonzalez is no stranger to domestic violence, having grown up in a home where abuse was on full display. When she was young, she promised herself that she’d one day fight for domestic violence victims — and after graduating from college, she said that the cause called back to her. Now, she is the…
Read MoreFormer Laker Lamar Odom sought peace in Manhattan Beach in 2007
“I hope people go to my funeral because they want to, not because they feel like they have to go,” Lamar Odom said. “At the end of the day, I want to be remembered for who I was, not for what I had. When you’re laying in your hearse, they don’t have a U-haul following it.”
Read MoreTest score reveals and community involvement highlight Redondo Beach State of Education event
Whether he knew it or not, Carl Driezler had been playing a game of hard-to-get with the folks seeking to honor him. Driezler was originally intended to be the award’s recipient in 2014, according to Partners In Education chair Vivian Ibarra. But a scheduling conflict sent Driezler out of the country during Redondo Beach’s State…
Read MoreDel Amo Fashion Center opens new Nordstrom, 55 other new stores
Del Amo Fashion Center celebrates a $200 million remodel Friday morning, including a new 140,000 square foot Nordstrom.
Read MoreBlind tri: Former Marine Steve Walker participates in Ironman World Championships despite blindness
Steve Walker learned he was going blind in 2001. He was 18 years old, a year out of high school and celebrating his first year in the United States Marine Corps. “My eyes were sensitive in the dark, and I had difficulty seeing in the field,” Walker, now 33, said. He was moving…
Read MoreLetters 10/08/15
Dead end idea Dear ER: Is this really a fish the Redondo City Council needs to fry (“Redondo Beach Seeks to rename Torrance Blvd.,” ER Sept. 24, 2015)? Just because the Mayor hates using Torrance as a name within city limits? How ironic that Redondo Beach Boulevard pretty much begins where the city ends. Perhaps…
Read MoreErcole’s Bar’s Gary Moore remembered in Manhattan Beach
Ercole’s Cocktails looked the same on the day of Gary Moore’s wake as it did the day he died at age 86, on August 26, exactly one month earlier. That’s the way he wanted it, the way he wanted it to remain and the way it will remain, said his niece Staci Clark.
Read MoreHermosa Beach Hotdoggers Long Board Championships Presented by Subaru Pacific [Photos by Gaffney]
Over 100 of Southern California’s best longboarders participated in the First Annual Hermosa Beach Hotdoggers Championships Presented by Subaru Pacific on Saturday, October 3. Photographer Steve Gaffney shows just how impressive the competition was
Read MoreKing Harbor ‘legacy’ tenants to be preserved in new waterfront development
The heart of the King Harbor waterfront, CenterCal President Jean Paul Wardy said, will be a public market, similar to San Francisco’s Ferry Building and Seattle’s Pike Place Market. It will include produce stands, butchers, a cheese shop and small retailers as well as “legacy” tenants.
Read MoreFarmers Market opens in downtown Hermosa Beach
The new downtown Hermosa Beach Farmers Market celebrated its grand opening Wednesday with a ribbon cutting attended by city officials, chamber of commerce and local business owners.
Read MoreRedondo Beach City Council to consider mixed-use development moratorium
A 3-2 majority of Redondo Beach’s City Council voted for city staff to write a resolution that would put a temporary halt on building new mixed-use projects throughout the city. But that proposal itself may prove to be a futile, symbolic gesture if a fourth council member isn’t swayed to approve it when it…
Read MoreRedondo Beach names Hawthorne’s Kauffman as new police chief
After a year of searching, Redondo Beach’s police force has a new leader. Keith Kauffman, a Captain with the Hawthorne Police Department, was named as Redondo Beach’s next Chief of Police in a press release issued on Tuesday afternoon. He was the top pick from a field of 39 candidates vying for a position vacated…
Read MoreHermosa Beach Hotdogger Long Board Contest Presented by Subaru Pacific [men’s division gallery 2 of 2]
The Hermosa Beach Hotdogger Championship presented by Subaru Pacific brought together in Hermosa the most extraordinary collection of men and women hotdogger talent since Dewey Weber surfed 22nd Street during the 1960s Golden Age of Surfing.
Read MoreHermosa Beach Hotdoggers Longboard Contest Presented by Subaru Pacific [men’s division gallery 1 of 2]
The Hermosa Beach Hotdogger Championship presented by Subaru Pacific brought together the most extraordinary collection of hotdogger talent to Hermosa Beach since Dewey Weber surfed 22nd Street during the 1960s Golden Age of Surfing.
Read MoreHermosa Beach Hotdogger Surfing Championships Presented by Suburu [women’s divisions]
The Hermosa Beach Hotdogger Championship presented by Subaru Pacific brought together the most extraordinary collection of hotdogger talent to Hermosa Beach since Dewey Weber surfed 22nd Street during the 1960s Golden Age of Surfing.
Read MoreDewey Weber sculpture by Phil Roberts arrives in Hermosa Beach
A 3,000 pound, lifesize size bronze sculpture of Hermosa Beach surfer and surfboard manufacturer Dewey Weber was lifted from a flatbed truck and placed on a pedestal at the entrance to the Hermosa Beach community Center Friday morning.
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