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Health & Fitness – Torrance Memorial earns best in state
Torrance Memorial Medical Center was founded in 1925 by Jared Sidney and Helena Childs Torrance to provide quality health care services to South Bay, Peninsula and Harbor residents. Today, Torrance Memorial offers the most current and effective medical technologies rendered in a compassionate, caring manner. No longer just a hospital, Torrance Memorial Medical Center includes […]
‘You have a choice to make’: Alex Gray talks to local teens about vaping, social media, and the power of choice
Editor’s note: Professional Surfer Alex Gray, a South Bay native, has been doing a tour of local schools to give a talk that he first began giving 15 years ago after the death of his brother Chris from a heroin overdose. Working with South Bay Families Connected, Gray is now using the talk to […]
Ukulele Festival – Bakithi Kumalo, of ‘Graceland’ fame, brings his U-bass to Fest
by Mark McDermott A strange little instrument somehow found its way to a house in Soweto, a township in the Gauteng province of South Africa that forms part of the city of Johannesburg, sometime in the early 1960s. The instrument was small and whimsical and virtually unknown in that part of the world. Bakithi Kumalo […]
Tales of the Magic Uke: The Los Angeles International Ukulele Festival celebrates the four-string wonder
The Los Angeles International Ukulele Festival celebrates the four-string wonder The Los Angeles International Ukulele Festival celebrates the four-string wonder by Mark McDermott Nobody knew how the instrument ended up on the top shelf of a bookcase at the Beloff family’s summer home in Connecticut. In fact, until that day in 1991 when his father-in-law happened […]
Two men found dead on Torrance Beach
by David Mendez Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding two men found dead on the beach in Torrance this morning. According to Torrance Police Department Sgt. Alexander Martinez, police were called in at 6:58 a.m. on Aug. 30 to perform a welfare check on a man found along the shore, but well away from the […]
Santa rewards Ratopia surfers with fun waves
by Mike Purpus Every Saturday before Christmas, Nick Weber presents the Ratopia Surf Classic at Torrance Beach. The contest was founded in 2005 to raise funds for 22-year-old local surfer Denny Bales, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Since the contest’s ounding, it has raised $150,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Every year Santa […]
Temple Emet vigil
A prayer vigil in memory of those killed at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh last month was held Friday at Temple Emet in Torrance. Eleven candles were lit by Temple President Diana Wolff, and Sisterhood President Wendy Wengrow as the individual names of the 11 victims were read by Rabbi Cantor Didi.
Spotlight on the hill – Palos Verdes 25th Anniversary Concours
World Class Vintage and Classic autos and planes
Spotlight on the hill – Chef Shafer, The Depot present PTN Halloween Ball
Halloween in Old Torrance at The Depot