The Weekly Newspaper of El Segundo
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 110, No. 41 - October 14, 2021
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Professionals.....................13
Classifieds............................6
Coloring Contest.........11-12
Crossword/Sudoku.............6
Entertainment......................5
Homecoming.................. 2,15
Legals..................................13
Obituaries.............................2
Real Estate.....................7-10
Sports.................................3,4
Weekend
Forecast
Friday
Sunny
75˚/62˚
Saturday
Sunny
73˚/61˚
Sunday
Partly
Cloudy
72˚/61˚
Eagles Homecoming Brings the
City of El Segundo Together
El Segundo High School celebrates Homecoming with a parade down Main Street. Photos by Gregg McMullin. For more Homecoming photos please see pages 2 and 15.
Meet Ed Jaeger: El Segundo’s
Serial Entrepreneur
By Duane Plank
Photos Provided by Ed Jaeger
When Ed Jaeger stepped away from running
the phenomenally successful Ironclad Performance
Local Student Breeds
Leopard Geckos
By Kiersten Vannest
Leopard geckos are a special kind of patterned
reptile that usually live in the Middle
East and northern India. But eleven (almost
twelve, she says) year-old Alyson Gibson is
using her knowledge of animals and great
care techniques to bring them to El Segundo.
Gibson feeds, breeds, and sells leopard
geckos, raising them from egg to adulthood.
“Before my mom had me, she had leopard
geckos. Once I found out about that, I was
like, I want a leopard gecko,” she says,
explaining that her mom, Shawna, had bred
leopard geckos in the past and that she
wanted to pick up the practice. Soon after,
her mom surprised her with a leopard gecko
from Petco. Her collection grew from there.
To breed them, Gibson selects the two
geckos she wants to breed based on their
patterns and colors. Not all leopard geckos
look the same, she says. They can be different
colors, stripes, and spots. Further,
they can produce offspring that looks wildly
different from either parent.
Once she has selected, she pairs the two
geckos in the same enclosure. Gibson used
to have tanks all over her room, she shares.
Each gecko had its own tank that needed to
be cleaned often, which she describes as a
long, arduous, and often messy endeavor.
Now, thanks to her stepdad, her closet has
Wear Company in 2014, he decided to
immerse himself for a while in his passion for
motorcycle racing. In 2015, he finished first in
his class in both the Baja 500 and 1000 races.
It was at this time that the El Segundo resident
said he “created a wish list for a proper
hydration system” for motorsport athletes. The
riders and drivers who compete in motorsports
at the highest levels need to stay sufficiently
hydrated throughout their competition and
receive their needed sustenance in a simple
but effective manner.
It is not like the drivers who compete in
the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500, or the
Baja 1000 have time to slow down and sip
their water from a little plastic bottle situated
on the driver’s side cup holder, right?
Jaeger saw the challenge of seamlessly
hydrating drivers, allowing them to receive
enough fluids at precise intervals. He and his
team at Rainmaker Solutions, Inc., which is
currently situated on Sierra St., developed an
ingenious product that they branded FluidLogic
that allows a driver to concentrate on the task
at hand and not worry about their hydration
needs while receiving spurts of water through
their helmet.
So how does the FluidLogic system work?
Understanding the exact engineering intricacies
of the product is a tad bit above my pay
grade. Still, according to racer Colton Herta,
who became a FluidLogic convert this racing
season and recently won the Acura Grand Prix
of Long Beach, it works like this: “We preprogram
the system to let me know when it is
time for me to drink,” Huerta said. “The light
flashes, I press a button on the steering wheel,
and water squirts into my mouth through the
nozzle mounted on the in-helmet microphone.”
Huerta said that there is no need for “extra
hoses, and no distraction. I stay hydrated and
stay focused on racing.”
Jaeger, who calls himself a serial entrepreneur,
has welcomed Huerta into the select group of
drivers benefiting from the FluidLogic technology,
a group of athletes that Rainmaker has
christened “Hydration Nation.”
Once Jaeger and the team saw how successful
their hydration system was in motorsports
See Ed Jaeger, page 14 El Segundo’s Ed Jaeger
See Geckos, page 6