The Weekly Newspaper of El Segundo
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 110, No. 20 - May 20, 2021
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Professionals.....................10
Classifieds............................4
City Council..........................2
Crossword/Sudoku.............4
Entertainment......................3
Legals.............................. 9,10
Pets......................................12
Police Reports.....................4
Real Estate.......................5-7
Sports.............................. 3,11
Weekend
Forecast
Friday
Sunny/
Wind
75˚/62˚
Saturday
Sunny
73˚/61˚
Sunday
Sunny
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El Segundo Girls Varsity Soccer
Team Celebrates Their Win
This celebratory photo was taken right after the El Segundo Girls Varsity Soccer Team beat Wilson High from Hacienda Heights in a 2-1 victory advancing the team to CIF Round 3. CIF Round 3 is Tuesday,
May 18th, against Temescal Canyon High at Lake Elsinore. Laying Down: Trinity Parascandola, Michaela Turner. Front Row: Chelsie Charles, Katie Callahan, Marisa Herrera, Annika Klishevich, Natacha
Lee, Annika Nelson, Nili Kovacs, Lizzie Kapoor, Ciera Doggett. Back Row: Skip Jones, Delaney McRoberts, Akanisi Sorovakarua, Makana Burns, Savannah Schartz, Dalia Ramirez, Holly Wilbanks, Izabella
Munoz, Jaden Fode, Barcelona Heredia, Charlie Gerson, Abby Martinez, Shelby Lyon. Photo courtesy Susan Callahan.
Robert Strock Works to Solve
Homelessness in Los Angeles
By Kiersten Vannest
One of the biggest and most contentious
issues Los Angeles faces today is its homelessness
El Segundo High School Mascots “Elmer
the Eagle” (and Ethel) Continue to Soar!
By Duane Plank
product, which was credited with entering
So, if you are like me, you probably
the marketplace more than 150 years ago.
do not know of too many folks named
Today, you and I know that white, adhesive
Elmer? Or Ethel, for that matter. Ethel is
substance as Elmer’s Glue. And regarding
the El Segundo High School female mascot
Ethel, the only Ethels who came to mind
counterpart to Elmer.
were the next-door neighbor in the old “I
When I was tasked to develop a story
Love Lucy” television show and the actor
on one of the El Segundo High School
and singer Ethel Merman. Mercifully, that
(ESHS) mascots, “Elmer the Eagle,” I
wraps up today’s history lesson.
immediately thought…did I know of any
Thanks to ESHS physical education
Elmer’s? Elmer, by the way, means “noble,
teacher Rainy Smith, and others, Elmer the
famous.” Only two Elmer’s came to mind.
Eagle, first coming to life, courtesy Charlie
One was the iconic cartoon character, Elmer
Landreth, in an artistic rendering on a wall
Fudd, the foil to Bugs Bunny in the vintage
nearly five decades ago, continues to adorn
cartoon series.
the inside wall of an ESHS campus gym.
The only other Elmer that I could think
Longtime ESHS athletic director Steve
of was not a person, but “Elmer the Bull,”
Shevlin values the school mascots and
who became the face of a sticky substance
crisis. As the pandemic starts to ease up
with the rising number of vaccinations, more
residents than before find themselves without
a place to live. This issue, coupled with a passion
for rethinking the way we farm, is what
drives Robert Strock, CEO, and founder of
the Global Bridge Foundation, headquartered
in El Segundo.
Strock is a teacher, psychotherapist, author,
and humanitarian. His therapy clients
are largely very successful people (i.e., those
who have achieved the “American Dream,”
which he later explains is a myth). They most
often come to him because despite achieving
all material goals, his clients report feeling
empty, unfulfilled. He treats clients who may
be addicted to their business or to saving the
world, and he helps to bring awareness and
balance to all that they do.
At the age of twenty-two, Strock oversaw
a group of fifty master’s program students
from ten universities in a project involving
schizophrenic patients in LA. For the duration
of this project, Strock was able to prove the
importance of community. The participants’
status changed from “patient” to “member.”
The students stayed longer than the average
counselor and formed bonds and friendships
with the members. While the average suicide
rate in this facility was five people per year,
that rate fell to zero during the four years his
program ran.
After this, Strock worked to aid third-world
countries, mainly operating in micro-finance
Co-Founders of the Global Bridge Foundation, Robert Strock
and David Knapp.
and supporting self-sufficiency. From there, he
turned his work to corporate intercommunication,
before shifting to an effort to stop global
warming. Most recently, his work revolves
around regenerative farming and homelessness.
Regenerative farming is the practice of saving
and reviving farmable soil. Our current organic
farming method effectively “kills” the soil, making
it unusable, and diminishing helpful nutrients that
we then consume ingrown food. Regenerative
farming leads to healthy soil, more nutrient-dense
food, and has the added benefit of saving space.
See Robert Strock, page 8
See Elmer the Eagle, page 8