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“A Taste of Brooklyn”
One Topping Pizza
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Slow Cooker Asian Tomato Beef
Provided by Campbell Soup Company
Spend just 10 minutes putting this recipe together earlier in the day, and come
home to a tender beef and broccoli dish that’s as good as a restaurant entrée.
Ingredients
• 2 cans (10 3/4 ounces each) Campbell’s
® Condensed Tomato Soup
• 1/3 cup soy sauce
• 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 3 pound boneless beef round steak,
cut into strips
• 6 cups broccoli florets
• 6 cups hot cooked white rice
Directions
• Step 1: Stir the soup, soy sauce, vinegar, garlic powder, black pepper and beef
in a 3 1/2-quart slow cooker.
• Step 2: Cover and cook on LOW for 7 to 8 hours or until the beef is fork-tender.
• Step 3: Stir in the broccoli. Increase the heat to HIGH. Cover and cook for 15
minutes or until the broccoli is tender-crisp. Serve the beef mixture with the rice.
Recipe Tips
• Time-Saving: This recipe may also be cooked on HIGH for 4 to 5 hours. •
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Sports Pump Up the Volume, the
Fans and the Local Economy
By Rob McCarthy
Life in the Southland is an all-you-can-eat
buffet for sports fans. Baseball lovers have
their choice of the Dodgers or the Angels.
Pro football fans who like hard-hitting action
pull for the Rams or the Chargers (or both).
If pro basketball is your jam, the Lakers
and the Clippers share the court in the L.A.
sports scene.
The Lakers keep their development league
team -- formerly called the D-Fenders -- at
their team headquarters in El Segundo. The
squad is now called the South Bay Lakers.
On ice, there are the past Stanley Cup
champion Kings and the Anaheim Ducks
who play down the I-5 in Orange County.
On the pitch, the Galaxy and Los Angeles
Football Club -- the LAFC, for short -- provide
Community Briefs
West Basin Increases Grass Replacement
Rebate to $3 Per Square Foot
The West Basin Municipal Water District
(West Basin) will add $1 to the popular Turf
Replacement Program rebate offered by the Metropolitan
Water District of Southern California
(MWD). The extra dollar, approved by the West
Basin Board of Directors, will increase the total
rebate incentive for eligible applicants to $3 or
more per square foot of grass removed. The
District is also offering a free series of grass
replacement classes to encourage residents and
businesses of the West Basin service area to
apply for the increased rebate.
The free classes, which kicked off yesterday
and will last through October, will help
attendees understand program requirements,
learn how to properly remove grass and
successfully convert their yards to a drought
tolerant, California Friendly landscape. Upcoming
classes will take place in Inglewood,
Hermosa Beach, Culver City and Gardena.
Service area residents may RSVP for
any class by visiting www.westbasin.org/
grass-replacement or calling (310) 371-7222.
Registration is required for event attendance.
Space is limited and refreshments will be
provided. Class attendance is not required
for rebate eligibility. More information about
MWD’s Turf Replacement Program and other
water-saving rebate programs is available at
www.bewaterwise.com.
– Source: Abridged from
West Basin Press Release
Mattel Global Day of Play
On Thursday, June 20, Mattel hosted several
activities for its 2019 Global Day of Play
at its El Segundo headquarters: Employees
engaged in an epic “Play Date” for more
than 200 children from LA’s Best, Boys &
Girls Club of Carson© and patient families
from UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, who
visited the Mattel campus to create unforgettable
memories through play.
Representatives from UCLA Health were
onsite, joined by community partners from
the Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles
Dodgers and former Dodgers player Eric
Karros. The teams held a basketball “pop a
shot” competition. The LAFC also brought
team mascot, Bond the Falcon, for a meet and
greet with the kids and volunteers. Finally,
volleyball world champion Sinjin Smith
taught volleyball skills to kids on Mattel’s
sand volleyball courts.
Sky Brown, the youngest pro skateboarder
and summer games hopeful, showcased her
skills and did a meet and greet with the kids.
Athletes from Special Olympics Southern
California© participated in a UNIFIED bocce
competition with Mattel volunteers.
Mattel employees also partnered with
Save the Children® to write letters to send
to sponsorship programs in Indonesia and
paint banners that will be hung in schools,
shelters or childcare centers across the
United States to inspire hope and encourage
continued learning. They will also assemble
more than 1,500 “play kits” – backpacks
full of toys, games and activities – for kids
impacted by devastating emergencies and
rebuilding efforts following California’s
wildfires, to be distributed by the Red
Cross Los Angeles, Salvation Army™, Save
the Children and Baby2Baby™. Globally,
Mattel is partnering with hospitals and nonprofit
organizations around the world to bring
play to children.
– Source: Abridged from Mattel Press Release •
thrills for local legions of soccer fans.
The L.A. Sparks of the Women’s National
Basketball Association are right in there
too. Led by their All-Star forward Candace
Parker, the Sparks don’t share the city with
another WNBA team.
Ditto for the college sports scene with the
longstanding rivalry between UCLA and
USC in every sport. Loyola Marymount in
Westchester has a rich past in basketball and
baseball, and the men’s basketball program
at Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson
can’t be overlooked. Interest in sports runs
so high here that one team for each sport
isn’t enough.
It’s likely there is a professional or college
sporting event to attend every night of
the week. The NFL stadium being raised in
Inglewood is a source of pride for its city
leaders and residents, and an exclamation
point on the Southland’s claim to being the
epicenter of the sports and entertainment
business. Where LeBron James goes, championships
follow.
“The King” didn’t get a three-peat in his L.A.
debut season and win an NBA championship
like he did is his first seasons in Miami and
back in Cleveland for a second stint. He did
command the spotlight and energized Lakers
fans waiting for another championship.
Look out, Boston with its current World
Series and Super Bowl championships: the
Dodgers and the Rams could make L.A. a
dual champion soon.
Competition on a field, a court or a track is
in L.A. County’s DNA. How else to explain
why this area is the only ever to witness a
“Super Sports Phenomena?” This oh-so-rare
event occurs when each major team (think
Dodgers, Angels, Lakers, Clippers, Rams,
Chargers, Kings and Ducks) all played a
game on the same day. Even more incredibly,
both two Major League Soccer teams were
in action on the pitch that day too.
Local fans come, they cheer, they support
pro sports to the tune of $4.5 billion,
according to newly released data from a
team of economists who studied the fiscal
impact of pro and college teams in Greater
Los Angeles. Unlike other cities that asked
taxpayers to foot the bill for new stadiums,
the NFL stadium in Inglewood is privately
funded and when it opens will contribute tax
dollars to the state and local governments.
The Los Angeles Sports Council, a nonprofit
organization that encourages community
involvement in local sporting events, wanted
to know how much pro and college sporting
events contribute to the region’s economy.
The council recruited the applied economic
data team with the Los Angeles Economic
Development Corporation to crunch the
spending numbers from 2018. The team
looked at full- and part-time employment,
direct spending by the teams, their vendors
See Local Economy, page 10