The Weekly Newspaper of El Segundo
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 110, No. 47 - November 25, 2021
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This Issue
Certified & Licensed
Professionals.....................16
Classifieds............................6
Thanksgiving Artwork...18-19
Crossword/Sudoku.............6
Ladies Night Out.................3
Legals............................14-16
Police Reports.....................7
Real Estate.....................9-12
Sports.................................4,8
Travel.....................................5
Weekend
Forecast
Friday
Mostly
Sunny
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Saturday
Sunny
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Sunday
Sunny
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Thanksgiving Day Contest Winners
Wow, we got thirty-three gorgeous submissions. Thank you, El Segundo! We all had a tough time picking just one winner for each age group. Thank you to all the participants. Everyone sent in such great creative
works. Winners get $20 gift cards from Target. Winners: Upper Center, 19 years old and up, Serena Ross; Lower left, 5-8 years old, Madeleine Morris; Lower right, 9-12 years old, Ava Markarian.
CPA Larry Mitchell Has Found
His Home in El Segundo
By Duane Plank
When Kris Cindrich first met El Segundo
CPA Larry Mitchell during their college years,
Cindrich said that Mitchell did not look like
a guy who would excel in the accounting
field and later pilot his CPA firm.
It seems that Mitchell and Cindrich were
assigned to a workgroup in one of their college
Segundo Saxes Quartet
Shares Music in El Segundo
By Kiersten Vannest
Every now and then, enhancing the ambiance
of small-town El Segundo, residents
get the chance to hear the smooth tones
of a saxophone scoring their walk through
the farmer’s market or stroll down Candy
Cane Lane. For over a decade, Segundo
Saxes, an amateur sax quartet based in
El Segundo, has rehearsed and played
everything from classical music to Black
Sabbath at shows and events around town.
The Segundo Saxes was formed in 2006,
sponsored by the South Bay Music Association
(SBMA). After the original quartet split
off about twelve years ago, the group’s current
longest-standing member Dave Young
took over responsibility for the Saxes and
saw them through several member changes,
dozens of performances, and a slate of
music reaching across decades and genres.
“I’ve been an amateur musician since
junior high school,” says Gold, “I’m 62
now, and so I would’ve been playing the
sax for something like fifty years.” According
to him, unusual for a saxophonist,
Gold does not play any other instruments
outside some percussion. Though he
started with winds and strings in junior
high, he picked up the saxophone at his
brothers’ suggestion after they told him
it was a “cool instrument.”
If you’ve never heard of a saxophone
quartet before, it sounds exactly like what
classes. Mitchell, said Cindrich, “had
long, blonde hair, a bandana, and looked like
one of the 80’s bands metalhead guys. Look
at this guy,” he thought when they first met.
The workgroup consisted of five members,
and once Cindrich found out he would have
to collaborate with Mitchell, he remembers
thinking, “not this guy, anybody but this guy,
but as it turned out, he was great.”
Cindrich, who is also a CPA, and Mitchell
soon became fast friends. Their more than
35-year friendship has included multiple
recreational road trips involving houseboating,
excursions to Death Valley, and participating
in wine-tasting events.
Mitchell, whose business has been located
in El Segundo for 15 years, finally bought a
house in town a couple of years ago. Born in
Hanford, California, Mitchell related that his
father worked in the construction industry,
which meant that the Mitchell family had to
be mobile. Mitchell said that when he was
six, the family moved to the East Coast. The
Mitchell’s hop-scotched around the US of
A multiple times, living in thirteen states.
Mitchell said that his family’s four-year stay
in Aspen, Colorado, was “probably the best
place that we ever lived.”
He finally ended up residing in Michigan,
where he would attend Central Michigan
See Larry Mitchell, page 13
See Segundo Saxes, page 13