The Weekly Newspaper of El Segundo
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 110, No. 38 - September 23, 2021
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This Issue
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Professionals.....................14
Classifieds............................6
Crossword/Sudoku.............6
Entertainment......................5
Legals....................... 11,12,14
Letters...................................3
Obituaries.............................2
Police Reports.....................2
Real Estate.....................7-10
Sports.................................3,4
Weekend
Forecast
Ed!toberfest Kicks Off Fall Season
Fall started a little early last Saturday with the El Segundo Education Foundation’s first Ed!toberfest, the first in-person event held by ESEF in the past 16 months. What a way to come back – beer, beer,
and pizza. Pictured: (from left to right) Jason and Stacy Knupfer hoist a beer in celebration with Ed!toberfest main sponsor and popular ES realtor Bill Ruane. Photo provided by Re/Max Estate Properties.
More photos to come next week.
Jack Ashworth: From a Lakeshore in
Wisconsin to Mayberry by the Sea
By Duane Plank
When I approached El Segundo resident
Jack Ashworth about participating in a profile
for the paper, he noted that he had read
my Herald renderings. “When you cover
people in town,” he said, “they seem to have
status. I don’t know if I qualify?”
Well, stay with us, and read how Ashworth
qualifies.
Jack Ashworth was born on the 4th of July
and lived his very early life on the outskirts
of a lake outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Ashworth’s father hailed originally from
England and did not fancy the frosty winter
weather that the Badger State featured, so
Jack’s father relocated the family to our
Golden State, setting up camp in what Ashworth
termed “inexpensive G.I. housing” in
Hawthorne in 1951 when Ashworth was two.
The family moved to Gardena five years later.
Raised in a traditional religious family that
attended catechism on Saturday and church
on Sunday, Ashworth said his formative
years were spent during the “confusion of
those times” in the decade of the ’60s. He
noted the mushrooming drug culture, as well
as the escalating war in Vietnam and the
explosion of myriad social issues that could
vex and perplex a teenager. So he decided
to say goodbye to the traditional values of
his upbringing.
He attended college for a couple of years
before dropping out of school. He “hit the
road with my girlfriend,” inspired by the Bob
Dylan song “Like a Rolling Stone.” Ashworth
and his girlfriend passed through most of
the lower forty-eight states, with exploration
forays into Mexico, which did not seem to
work out too well, and led to him and his
girlfriend taking a cheap flight to New Orleans
to celebrate Ashworth’s birthday.
After landing in the town known as the
“Big Easy,” Ashworth planned to hitchhike
northward, seeking cooler climates. Some of
the southern state residents did not take too
kindly to the young, hippy-looking Californians
passing through their territory. Ashworth said
that being it was the 4th of July, he and his
girlfriend were assaulted by tossed firecrackers,
among other incendiary items. “It was a
pretty tense situation,” Ashworth said.
He also traveled through parts of Europe
searching for that elusive “Land of Milk and
Honey.” He said that he had a dream while
sleeping in Germany, which directed him to
El Segundo’s Jack Ashworth. Photos courtesy of Jack Ashworth.
Friday See Jack Ashworth, page 16
Mostly
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Saturday
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Sunday
Mostly
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City Council Discusses Hyperion, Foul Odors,
Cannabis; Mark Resident’s 100th Birthday
By Liz Spear
Offensive odors, cannabis, a $1 dog sale,
and a Hyperion plant update were among
the topics discussed by the El Segundo
City Council at its regularly scheduled
meeting Tuesday night. In addition, the
city delivered a touching video interview
honoring 66-year El Segundo resident
Bernice Coveleski who is turning 100
years young and applauded the El Segundo
Little League State Championship team.
The city council also officially recognized
September as Hispanic Heritage Month
and heard a COVID-19 update.
With Executive Hyperion Plant Manager
Tim Dafeta available to address questions
about the ongoing work at the plant stemming
from its July emergency operations,
when sewage had to be released into the
ocean as blocked water in the plant backed
up and caused flooding, the council asked
why residents were still smelling offensive
odors when Hyperion reports the plant is
under “normal operations” after the July
11 and 12 emergency. Council referred to
the plant being “100 percent operable,”
and yet residents in the “northwest part of
town” had been dealing with bad odors,
calling the stench “not your typical smell.
They’re strong, and they’re really bad.
We know what sewage smells like, and
it wasn’t sewage.”
Dafeta answered by saying that Hyperion
is making lots of investments in
new machinery and new processes to
See City Council, page 13