Redondo Beach Community Garden the tip of political iceberg

by Rachel Reeves  Brianna Egan, 25, scanned her notes as she prepared for her presentation before the Redondo Beach City Council. She was pitching a community garden on city land, something she had been envisioning since returning home after a year volunteering with AmeriCorps, educating kids in rural towns about nutrition.  Egan, who’s studying toward…

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Vote count scheduled for Friday, off-year election turnout faulted

by Rachel Reeves City Clerk Eleanor Manzano announced at this week’s Redondo Beach City Council meeting that results from the Mar. 2 municipal election will be tabulated on Friday.  Manzano said her team of 10 people has been working “non-stop” since the election to verify signatures on ballots postmarked by election day.  “We were inundated,”…

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‘Frankie the Ficus’ saved from the saw, at least for now

by Rachel Reeves Mara Lang grew up in a Tree City, or a place where the local government has ordinances for protecting trees. Magnolias, planted around the same time as most homes, in the 1920s, shaded the sidewalks of her neighborhood.  Lang, now the vice president of the South Bay Parkland Conservancy, later moved to…

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Rescue riders

Horse-loving families restore the long-neglected Palos Verdes Stables Once or twice a week for three years, Megan Padilla drove her daughters to Palos Verdes to ride horses.  The commute from Manhattan Beach transported Padilla back a world she had left decades earlier. She’d been a “horse girl” growing up in Lunada Bay. She competed around…

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