
Redondo’s elementary school student obesity rate fell from 20 percent to 6.4 percent between 2007 and 2019, according to a Los Angeles County report. In 2007, The improvement is attributed to Redondo schools implementing the Live Well Kids program, created by the Beach Cities Health District.

Three and a half weeks before the graduation date that had been set the previous year, Redondo Union High School Principal Jens Brandt and his team faced the daunting reality: for the first time in 113 years, the graduating class of the oldest high school in the South Bay would not be walking at Seahawk Stadium.

Twenty minutes before noon on Tuesday, protesters began streaming down Manhattan Beach Boulevard. They mostly walked single file, or in small groups, and were mostly young; some were African-American, some Latino, a few white, a few older. They were uniformly disciplined. Some greeted the police officers who had cordoned off the street. Mayor Richard Montgomery watched from the parking lot overlooking the pier.


