EL SEGUNDO HERALD May 18, 2017 Page 3 THANK YOU El Segundo Thanks to the community of El Segundo and the Herald for voting us the “Best of the Best” insurance company. Our family is working hard to help you protect all your interests in life, business, home, and auto. It is an honor to serve our many friends & family living in the community of El Segundo. – Sylvia Bagues-Wagner and Michael Wagner “Best Insurance Company” Letters Please Protect Your Dog My street ends near an “entrance” to the unofficial dog run overlooking Hyperion and Scattergood. Many people let their dogs out of their car and allow them to proceed without leash to the entrance. Also, some residents are not restraining their dogs when they are in their driveway or on the front lawn. These animals can quickly bolt to the sidewalk. I have seen the damage that unleashed dogs can do to other dogs. Pet owners should follow the El Segundo City Code. In public places, dogs must be on a leash and controlled. Cleaning up after your dog protects the health of all residents, human and canine. – Paul Young Suspicious Character at My Door A man wearing a hoodie and sunglasses - with hood pulled up to conceal his face, and carrying a cell phone / power cord rang my front doorbell on 5/9/16 at 8:30 am. I didn’t answer immediately, but my Ring doorbell captured video - shows him turning towards front picture window, pausing as he hears my dog barking, says “dog”, then turns towards street. I then watched from bedroom window as he climbed into a black Mercedes SUV and drove off down Grand towards the beach. ESPD said use of high end car is common with gang members - who own or rent - in order not to arouse suspicion when driving around. If you are a member of NextDoor, you can see the photos I posted. If you are on Ring Neighborhoods (app), you can see the video. ESPD also said in such a situation - flash blinds or make a noise so they know you are home - typically looking for easy-access to back yards, homes with no one home and without a dog. Burkley Brandlin Swatik & Keesey LLP AT T O R N E Y S AT L AW Lifetime El Segundo Residents Living Trusts/Wills, Probate, Employment Law, Personal Injury Trust and Estates Litigation, Business Litigation, Civil Litigation 310-540-6000 *AV Rated (Highest) Martindale - Hubbell / **Certified Specialist Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law, State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization Davis & DeRosa Physical Therapy, Inc. Davis & DeRosa Physical Therapy, established in 2003, provides a quaint boutique practice located in El Segundo, California. The 4,000 square foot facility is a well known practice offering its patients private, personal treatment by a licensed therapist at every visit. Patients are guaranteed one-on-one attention for their 45-minute treatment. THE PRACTICE SPECIALIZES IN DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT FOR: Chronic Neck and Back Pain Pre and Post Surgical Rehabilitation Sports Injuries Work Injuries Neurological Disorders Foot and Ankle Disorders (including orthotics) Osteoporosis and other Age Related Disorders Balance and Vestibular Disorders Injury Prevention Troy Davis Owner, PT, DPT • Chris DeRosa Owner, PT, OCS Leo Valenzuela, PT, DPT • Lianne Nakazaki, PT, DPT • Garret Wong, PT, DPT Rachael D’Angelo, PT, DPT • Tami Chang, PT 325 Main Street El Segundo, CA 90245 310.648.3167 www.davisandderosa.com – Bernadette Minton • Medical Research Could Be Looking in the Wrong Direction By Rob McCarthy What would life be like if scientists discovered a cure for heart disease or cancer? A breakthrough end to one or both of these leading causes of death would save 600,000 lives every year, for starters. If research yielded a “silver bullet” that killed cancer in the body and stopped the progression of heart damaged, it would be hailed as a modern miracle. However, it wouldn’t guarantee a long and healthy life for many. Curing cancer might add 3.5 years to the average life expectancy and 4.5 years for heart disease, according to Jay Oshansky, a public health researcher. That’s because of what he calls “competing risks,” which are other physical and mental health conditions that can attach to the body’s organs and cells with age. Because people are living longer than any time in modern history, we’re entering uncharted waters. “Keep in mind we got exactly what we wanted, which were longer lives. But the price we had to pay was a rise in heart disease, stroke and Alzheimer’s,” Oshansky said. People living well into their late 70s and 80s are pushing into unknown medical territory, and it merits more study into the aging process and how to keep people healthy and active for as long as humanely possible, he said. Aging science, Oshansky believes, could beat back cancer, heart disease and the other leading causes of Americans’ death without actually curing them. Researchers of human aging study the human body looking at ways to slow the aging process so that people in their 80s are more like 60-year-olds. Oshansky calls it “pushing off the aging process” and delaying the onset of debilitating diseases. Oshansky is co-author of the book Aging: The Longevity Dividend that describes this emerging science, which is funded at a much lower level than single-disease research efforts run through the Cancer Society or the Alzheimer’s Foundation. When the breakthrough on how to put the brakes on aging comes, Oshansky expects it to dwarf anything being done to slow the progression of cancer. “Aging really underlies everything, though funding for cancer research is far greater,” he says. “This is the next medical advance.” Scientific pursuit involves research dollars --lots of them. Work on aging science is being done close to home, at the University of Southern California’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. Dana Goldman a USC professor and director of the center, is doing research with funding from federal and private sources, including some drug companies and a cancer institute. Goldman co-published a paper with Oshansky and others titled “Society and the Individual at the Dawn of the 21st Century” published in the Handbook of the Psychology of Aging. The paper looked at what’s happening among the older population as the life expectancy moves higher for men and women. U.S. women have pushed the average life span to 80.1, while the men are at 76.4 years. Japanese women are living longest, on average until age 86. Men in Switzerland rank top among males at 80.7 years and outlive American men by more than four years, health statistics show. The leading causes of death for Americans are heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease known as COPD, stroke, Alzheimer’s and diabetes. Yet, medical advances and better treatments are lowering the number of deaths from these six leading killers in the United States. See Medical Research, page 6 Planning Commission from front page could choose to send the matter back to the Planning Commission. The closer look to include detached ADUs came up after El Segundo resident and former City Council member Dave Atkinson addressed the Planning Commission at the May 11 public hearing. Atkinson lobbied for detached ADUs, noting that his lot is larger than most at 12,000 square feet and he wanted to be able to build an ADU for family use. “It’s not fair to say, ‘Well, you can do this, but you can’t do that,’” he said. “We all live here and pay taxes.” After Atkinson spoke, commissioners Nicol and Brenda Newman entertained the idea of including detached ADUs. “I would like to address Mr. Atkinson and his comments because I think they’re really valid,” said Newman. “I think they’re very valid. I think that we [the Planning Commission] did a good job, being very conservative, moving forward, due process, and I think that’s been important… I’m not so sure I disagree with what’s the difference if it’s technically detached.” Commissioner Carol Wingate and Chair Ryan Baldino opposed adding detached ADUs to the ordinance sent to the Council. Said Wingate, “I think one thing we need to remember, at least that I’d like to remember, is that this is a residential community. We have R-1 lots to keep it a residential community. And so we have pride of ownership and people walk down the street and they have their kids play in the street, up and down. And if we turn every lot in El Segundo into an R-2 [R-2 zoning allows two properties on See Planning Commission, page 17
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