The Weekly Newspaper of El Segundo
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 110, No. 35 - September 2, 2021
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Professionals.....................13
Classifieds............................6
Crossword/Sudoku.............6
Entertainment......................3
Food.......................................4
Legals....................... 10,12,13
Pets......................................15
Police Reports.....................5
Real Estate.......................7-9
Sports.............................. 3,10
Weekend
Forecast
Friday
Sunny
73˚/63˚
Saturday
Sunny
77˚/64˚
Sunday
Mostly
Sunny
78˚/66˚
LA Kings Help to Make Over
the City’s Roller Hockey Rink
The City of El Segundo and the Los Angeles Kings partnered up to renovate the city’s roller hockey rink. The renovation project was made possible through the LA Kings support and $75,000 donation. On
hand for the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony was El Segundo Mayor Pro Tem Chris Pimentel, LA Kings President and Hockey Hall of Famer Luc Robitaille, and President of the El Segundo Inline Hockey Association
Jeff Tiddens. Kings former forward and team radio analyst Daryl Evans emceed the ceremony. From left Council members Scot Nicol and Carol Pirsztuk, Grace Smith, King’s mascot Bailey, Mayor Pro Tem
Chris Pimentel, Bodhi Le, Luc Robitaille and Jeff Tiddens. Photo by Gregg McMullin.
Michael Lipsey Leads El Segundo
Scouts Toward a Hopeful Future
By Kiersten Vannest
In 2017, the Boy Scouts of America announced
Michael Lipsey led scouts in 2018.
El Segundo’s New Development Director
Has His Sights Set on the Future
By Duane Plank
Although Michael Allen has been on the
job for less than three weeks, the new El
Segundo Development Services Director is
already casting his gaze at what our city
may look like in 50 or 100 years. And
how he can positively influence the future.
Allen’s first day on the job was August 16.
He survived a highly competitive recruitment
process, and after recently working
as the Culver City Planning Manager, he
was looking for an opportunity to advance
his career, which landed him in an office
in the Main Street El Segundo City Hall.
El Segundo City Manager Scott Mitnick
said of his new hire: “The City Council
and Executive Team are excited to welcome
Mr. Allen to the city’s leadership
team. His expertise and knowledge about
land use and zoning will be a valuable
asset to the organization, especially as
the city continues to attract exciting new
developments.”
As Mitnick noted, Allen brings extensive
land use, zoning, and community development
experience to his new job, having
worked in several municipalities, and even
traveling overseas for a work stint in the
Mongolian capital city of Ulaanbaatar,
where he provided urban planning and
design support to government officials.
A resident of nearby Mar Vista, where
he lives with his wife Jane, Allen was
raised in Northern California, in the
small town of Sebastopol, an hour north
that they would be including girls
in their programs. The next year, they began
accepting girls into their Cub Scout packs.
Elementary-age kids from all walks of life
were welcomed into the program, which
aims to teach leadership.
Throughout this time, El Segundo resident
Michael Lipsey, a chartered organization representative
for the Kiwanis Club and active
volunteer for local Troops, began seeking a
way to involve young women in the Scout
Program.
Kiwanis charters three Scout units in El
Segundo: 267, a pack close to a hundred
years old, 730, a troop that began in the 50s,
and a new troop in part started by Lipsey. In
2019, the Boy Scouts Program was changed
to the Scouts BSA Program, and almost
immediately, Troop 219 was formed. Girls
eleven and up could now join the Scout
program and earn their way all the way up
to Eagle Scout.
Lipsey, the son of a military member, grew
up in Jacksonville, Florida, and Riverside
County, CA. An Eagle Scout himself, Lipsey
grew up with the Boy Scouts. “I started as
a Cub Scout myself in the 70s. I was in a
troop in Riverside,” says Lipsey, explaining
that he was involved in Scouts until he went
to college, took a break, and came back to
it about ten years later when he moved to
El Segundo.
Since his return to the Scouting world,
Lipsey has led many events and workshops
like leadership training courses for adults
and a youth leadership program called the
National Youth Leadership Training, or NYLT.
His adult leadership program, called Wood
Badge, is designed to teach adults how scouting
is supposed to work. All troops under his
purview operate on a patrol system, meaning
that Scouts are leading other Scouts rather
than having adults lead all programs. In
Wood Badge, adults are trained on how to
better enable young adults to lead the troop.
“We’re often stepping in as adults and not
letting kids lead their own thing, by doing it
for them or helping them through it. And it’s
not that we don’t help them; we just don’t do
it for them,” says Lipsey. According to him,
the best way to learn how to do anything is
See Michael Lipsey, page 4
See Michael Allen, page 11