Diving into life together: Jack Baldelli and Ann Muscatt are united by their love of science and adventure
by Chelsea Sektnan Jack Baldelli and Ann Muscat’s mailbox stands out in their a quiet Rancho Palos Verdes neighborhood. It is made partly from a liquid fuel cell once used in a spacecraft and crafted to resemble a diving bell. This artistic flair hints at the fascinating lives of the married couple whose shared passions […]
EDUCATION: MBUSD student performance rises in state tests
by Mark McDermott Every autumn the Manhattan Beach Unified School District receives what school board trustee Bruce Greenberg likes to call its “report card,” or what is more cumbersomely known as the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, a battery of standardized tests required by the state to measure how well students are learning. […]
Spotlight on architecture: 100th birthday party for Malaga Cove home
photos by Tony LaBruno The Carr’s celebrated their family home’s 100th birthday on August 4. The house was the 7th house permitted on the Peninsula. It was built in 1924 and designed by architects David J. Winter and Loyall F. Watson. Winter and Watson were renowned for designing homes that recognized the relationship between architecture […]
DeLamare, Street win Dine N’ Surf’s annual Lobster Mobster 2024
by Garth Meyer A total of 149 SCUBA and free divers turned in lobsters on opening day of the 2024 season, Sept. 27, for Dive N’ Surf’s 48th annual “Lobster Mobster” contest. Prizes were given to the top three participants in each category. SCUBA diver Dave Delamare brought in the largest lobster at 14.7 pounds […]
Palos Verdes resident Tom Smith, flying high at 75
On the day he turned 16, Tom Smith earned his drivers license and his pilot’s license. Since then he’s put more miles in the sky than on the road by Chelsea Sektnan As a boy growing up on Catalina Island, Palos Verdes resident Tom Smith watched Navy jets soar off aircraft carriers and dreamed […]
Beach Cities Olympians Paris competition schedule
Four Hermosa Beach residents, two Redondo Beach residents, a Manhattan Beach resident and a Palos Verdes resident will represent the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris next week. Hermosa residents Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng will compete together in women’s beach volleyball. Hermosa residents Chase Budinger and Miles Evans will compete in […]
The Sacred Garden: The Garden Church in San Pedro feeds the body and the spirit
by Chelsea Sektnan Tucked inside a formerly vacant lot on 6th Street in downtown San Pedro, behind a large, green wrought iron gate, is a dinosaur with a crown of thorns holding a quote from the Gospel of Matthew that says, “I was hungry, and you fed me, I was a stranger, and you […]
Building BeachLife
CORRECTION: In the story “Building BeachLife” (Easy Reader, May 2, 2024), the company that built the BeachLife stages was misidentified. Stage Techs of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., constructed the two main stages, High Tide and Low Tide. Accurate Staging, of Los Angeles, built the festival’s V.I.P. structures and mezzanines. by Garth Meyer […]
Beach Cities Easter Services 2024
Manhattan Beach Manhattan Beach Community Church 303 S. Peck Avenue mbccucc.org Outdoor service, 6:30 a.m. North of Manhattan Beach Pier. Traditional services, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. at the church. Easter Egg Hunt, 10:14 a.m. All services will be led by Rev. Mark Pettis Journey of Faith Church 1243 Artesia Blvd. journeyoffaith.com/easter Two virtual […]
A world of films comes to Rolling Hills
A Chinese lantern Lynn Tang produces movies and runs the Universe Multicultural Film Festival by Bondo Wyszpolski After working hard for many years, establishing her own company and then selling it, Lynn Tang decided to retire and just relax. That didn’t last very long, because soon after she was contacted by a Chinese filmmaker who […]
Call to Pasadena: Tiger Squadron to fly Rose Parade
by Garth Meyer Apart three feet, back three feet and down three feet from each other, the formation planes will arrive over Pasadena with a certain time in mind: 9:13 a.m. and 12 seconds New Year’s Day. The Torrance Airport-based Tiger Squadron graces the Rose Parade as the first civilian formation to be granted the […]
Mira Costa High hoopsters triumph over Palos Verdes in Bay League opener
by Paul Teetor Preston “Master P” Ezewiro grabbed a pin-point pass that found him at the low post, wheeled around two Palos Verdes defenders, and threw down a monstrous dunk. The home crowd roared its approval as if to say, finally, this is what we came for. Thirty seconds later he snagged another clever pass […]
Today’s ‘reefer madness’ – Dr. Bonni Goldstein prescribes a long- banned medicine to help children with epilepsy
by Dexter Ford Pediatrician Dr. Bonni Goldstein, of Palos Verdes, is one of the world’s most prominent authors and researchers in the field of cannabis derivatives to help children affected by tragic, life-destroying conditions. Many of her most serious cases involve severe epilepsy, in which young kids’ brains are ravaged by violent seizures — essentially […]
Brendan Brisson, U.S.A. hockey team eliminated in Slovakia shootout
by Garth Meyer Tied at 2-2 after a 10-minute overtime in the men’s hockey quarterfinals Tuesday night in Beijing, the U.S. sent five players on to the ice for a shootout against Slovakia. One was Brendan Brisson, a 20-year-old forward from Manhattan Beach – who played from age 5-16 in the L.A. Junior Kings program […]
Ice skater Madison Chock’s parents helped launch her Olympic career by moving from Redondo Beach to Michigan
by Garth Meyer Barbara and Wes Chock couldn’t be present when daughter Madison finished fourth with partner Evan Bates in ice dancing, and earned a silver medal in the team competition at the Beijing Olympics. But they helped make it happen. Barbara and Wes Chock took Madison, their only child, to the Promenade Ice […]
The universe beneath our feet
By Richard Foss Rolling Hills resident Kathy Kellogg Johnson tells the story of the founding of her family’s garden products company as though she were there, even though it happened in 1925. A young man with a new engineering degree from USC didn’t have much money or land. His father had lost his fortune […]