The Weekly Newspaper of El Segundo Herald Publications - El Segundo, Torrance, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, Lawndale, & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 105, No. 18 - April 28, 2016 Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.....................14 Classifieds............................4 Community Briefs...............3 Crossword/Sudoku.............4 Film Review..........................6 Legals............................ 12,13 Obituaries.............................3 Real Estate.....................7-11 School Spotlight..................6 Sports....................................5 Weekend Forecast Students Compete in the National Engineering Competition ESHS Engineering Team were presented “Best Business Case” Award at the National Championship for the Real World Design Challenge in Washington D.C. on April 23, 2016. Pictured: Thomas Lynch, Pierce Nebel, Cory Lund, Joe Kelly, Daniel Tilney, Kieran McCarthy and teacher Steven Eno. Picture taken by Dan Nebel. • Local Business Owner Sees Fruits of Charity First-Hand in Visit to China By Brian Simon While most people have a “good feeling inside” when they donate to a cause, there can be a sense of disconnect especially if the contribution goes into a general pool and one doesn’t know anything about the beneficiary. But then there is the case of Ed Su, a longtime local business owner (he runs Studio Printing in El Segundo and also did layout work for the Herald in the late ‘90s) who along with his wife became involved with a non-profit charity a few years ago. The Peach Foundation, an organization based out of Foster City near San Francisco but with its main operating offices in China, supports children in that Far East country—mainly in the Yunnan province. It is one of the poorest regions of China where many families can’t afford to send their kids back to school after completion of an elementary education. As Su explained, “The Chinese government pays for the education from grades one to nine, but after that the families have to pay for the schooling. For some of the rural farmers with their very, very low incomes, it’s almost impossible.” Su learned about the Foundation from his wife’s sister-in-law, whose friend started the organization about 10 years ago. “While my wife’s sister-in-law was recovering from her breast cancer treatments, she became heavily involved with Peach Foundation and still travels to China at least three times a year to visit with the children and their families,” Su said. “The desire to help these children is what kept her going and motivated to beat her cancer and she always said that Peach Foundation and the kids saved her life.” Seeing the positive impact that the Foundation made on a family member prompted Su to put the organization on his radar and make an annual donation. He also alerted his fellow Rotarians in El Segundo and the club now sponsors a couple of children every year. But Su never truly realized how much a contribution meant to a particular child until he had the chance to see it first-hand. “Every October Peach Foundation arranges a trip for their sponsors, donors and volunteer to a different region of the Yunnan province to get a better understanding of what the Foundation does and how they find the kids to support,” Su said. And so he recently went on the trip, which lasted 10 days. He learned how, where and what kind of families receive the support. It’s only $300 per year for the education—an amount that may seem like a drop in the bucket to many of us, yet hopelessly unaffordable to those impoverished over there. During the visit, Su spent countless hours trudging through backroads on buses and stopped at various rural farms seemingly in the middle of nowhere. “We saw the parents of the children and the environment in which they lived,” Su said. “No matter how tough See Business Owner, page 14 Stellar ESUSD Employees Recognized by School Board By Duane Plank The Tuesday night meeting of the El Segundo Unified School District School Board featured special presentations honoring District Classified Employees of the year, Educators of the Year, and Middle School principal Jack Plotkin, who was recently selected as the principal of the year by the Region 14 branch of the Association of California School Administrators (ASCA). Human Resources Executive Director Dylan Farris had the honor of presenting to the Board the four District employees who were selected as Classified Employees of the year. They are Shirley Taylor (Child Nutrition), Pedro Gonzalez (Maintenance, Operations and Facilities), Joji Remsberg (Para-Educator), and Maurine Jennings (Office and Technical). Taylor has worked at the Richmond Street cafeteria for more than sixteen years, and runs her kitchen “with precision and order.” Gonzalez, who has worked at the High School for the past 17 years, uses his years of experience in the different areas of maintenance and operations to make himself a valuable asset to the District in his position as head custodian. Remsburg has worked for the District for the past fifteen years, serving as both the Reading Lab aide and Special Education instructor at Center Street. Currently Friday Sunny 67˚/55˚ Saturday AM Clouds/ PM Sun 67˚/56˚ Sunday Sunny 70˚/56˚ See School Board, page 3
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