The Weekly Newspaper of El Segundo
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 111, No. 8 - February 24, 2022
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Professionals.....................13
Classifieds............................4
Crossword/Sudoku.............4
Entertainment......................3
Food.....................................13
Legals............................11-12
Pets......................................14
Police Reports.....................3
Real Estate................7-10,16
Sports.................................2,6
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Thank You to the School Resource
Officers Who Support ESUSD
In honor of National School Resource Officer Appreciation Day. We like to give a huge shout out to SRO Martinez and SRO Gilberts for keeping our schools safe. Photo courtesy El Segundo Unified School District.
Meet Tim Chrisman: Old School
El Segundo High School Grad
By Duane Plank
Tim Chrisman still casts a large El Segundo
Cherchez la Truffe!
Article and photos
by Ben & Glinda Shipley
This story starts out on a bitterly cold
November evening in the ancient Marais
quarter of Paris, at our favorite northern
Italian restaurant on the planet, Enoteca.
Actually, it probably starts out a few hours
earlier, around the corner at our favorite
absinthe bistro on the planet, Chez Janou.
The latter is renowned for its tiny horseshoe
bar and the expert Provençal bartenders
who can identify and recommend every
one of their 53 styles of absinthe—so
we might not be entirely sure about the
bitter cold that evening, but we vividly
recall the rest of it.
We’ve never come close to a bad meal
at Enoteca—a highly unusual circumstance
in the mom-and-pop style of restaurants
we typically patronize in Paris, where
nearly everyone suffers an occasional
off-night, and you just have to roll with
the punches. But that evening, the chef
decided to celebrate truffle season with
fresh truffles in every dish on the menu—
from the carpaccio to the tagliatelle, to the
veal chop, and even the fresh ice cream.
At that point in our lifelong culinary
journey, we knew truffles mainly by
reputation. What we didn’t know was
that 95% of the truffle dishes we’d tasted
were a certified rip-off. If you don’t
spot the thin black or white slices on
your plate—if the dish is flavored with
“truffle oil”—then you’re nearly always
consuming cheap olive oil flavored with
the synthetic chemical 2,4-dithiapentane.
shadow. He has a business in town,
Hydra-Wedge, kids, and grandkids working
and schooling in town, and was a graduate,
in 1962, of El Segundo High School.
The legendary news anchor and writer,
the great Tom Brokaw, penned a book about
who he called “The Greatest Generation,”
regaling readers with stories of the folks who
emerged from the Great Depression in the
late 1920s and surged forward and helped
shape America. But those folks are not the
only “Great Generation” that this country
has nurtured.
Look at El Segundo High in the sixties.
Graduates included Ken Brett, a baseball star
who went on to play for more than a decade
in the big leagues. Attendees at ESHS in the
‘60s also included his brother, Hall-of-Famer
George Brett. And I am sure that there is a
roster of esteemed 60’s ESHS graduates that
I have not mentioned.
Chrisman attended Richmond Street School,
ending up at ESHS. He played basketball and
baseball, joining a “loaded” varsity baseball
squad in his senior year, a team that had
recently included the great Keith Erickson
and Bobby Floyd, athletes who ascended to
draw paychecks at the highest sports levels.
Erickson matriculated to UCLA to be coached
by the legendary John Wooden and then spent
time playing with the Los Angeles Lakers
and became a proud member of the 1971-72
NBA champions.
Erickson later served as the color commentator
for the Lakers, trying to get a word or two
in each broadcast when the great Chick Hearn
captained the team’s simulcasts, putting the
latest Los Angeles win “in the refrigerator.”
Said Erickson, who was a multi-sport dynamo
when he attended ESHS (Chrisman said that the
lanky shortstop had a “cannon of an arm”) of
his friend Chrisman: “Tim is the nicest, kindest,
happiest guy that any of us would be fortunate
enough to know. It is a joy to talk to him; I
always feel better after speaking with him.”
Floyd, who Chrisman said was “all everything”
as a prep baseball player, notched a
six-year major league baseball career. His
claim to fame: he was the shortstop for the
Baltimore Orioles in 1969 who fielded the
final ground ball of a no-hitter tossed by
the great right-hander, Jim Palmer. After his
playing career ended, he began a longtime
coaching career with the Seattle Mariners and
See Tim Chrisman, page 10
See Travel, page 15
Friday
Sunny
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Saturday
Sunny
69˚/47˚
Sunday
Partly
Cloudy
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