Time travel
The Hermosa Murals Project will hold its second annual “Walk in History,” featuring the Roaring 20s, 11 a.m. and again at noon Saturday, April 16 starting from the Community Center, Pier Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway.
Participants are encouraged to gather clues along the one-mile course to win gifts and prizes, including $100 for first place and $50 for second place. Commemorative T-shirts also will be available.
“This is an event you won’t want to miss,” organizers said. “This is your chance to learn more about the history of Hermosa. Some of the historical stops will include facts about what architecture influenced our city, which celebrities lived and vacationed in Hermosa, and the birth of many of our service organizations that still exist today.”
A local youth choir and band will entertain, and special Charleston and fox-trot dance demonstrations will be offered.
For more see www.hermosamurals.org.
The nonprofit Hermosa Murals Project plans to place 10 large murals on exterior walls around town. Renowned mural artist Art Mortimer and his assistant artist Hilary Wootton have been working atop twin scissor lifts to create the first mural, a recreation of a 1924 photo of downtown Hermosa, on a north-facing wall of the municipal parking structure.
Hermosa migration
Some 120 Hermosa Valley School seventh graders will walk over to Redondo Beach on the morning of Thursday, March 31 to get an early start on that day’s Earth Month activities, featuring a rededication of an updated “Wyland Wall,” the huge gray whale migration mural across an exterior wall of the AES power plant.
The kids, in groups of 30, will participate in educational activities including a water education center and hands-on art, in the area of the power plant on Harbor Drive and the Sea Lab across the street.
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of “Wyland Wall 31” at the power plant, Wyland is restoring the mural this month, adding new colors and animals to reflect Southern California’s coastal marine life.
The mural will be re-dedicated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday, March 31. The event 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. will feature live music, eco-art activities, environmental education exhibits, and food provided by local restaurants, at the site of the future Shade Hotel, across from the AES plant at 655 N. Harbor Drive.
Emergency survey
The city’s Emergency Preparedness Advisory Commission is asking residents to answer a 20-question survey that will help gauge levels of preparedness for events from natural disasters to terror attacks. The survey is found at http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22BYTLNDL4Z/. ER
