The Weekly Newspaper of El Segundo
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 108, No. 19 - May 9, 2019
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Professionals.....................14
Classifieds............................4
Crossword/Sudoku.............4
Entertainment......................6
Legals............................ 11,12
Mother’s Day Photos..... 7,16
Obituaries.............................2
Pets......................................15
Real Estate.....................8-10
Sports.............................. 5,13
Weekend
Forecast
Flag Retirement Ceremony for
Local Scout Troops 762 and 410
Last Thursday, Troop 762 (led by Julio Catzalco) and Troop 410 (a new girls troop led by Susan Peterson) came together to hold a very emotional and moving flag retirement ceremony at Recreation Park. It
was a very solemn and respectful process in which the boys and girls honored the flag that represents our country and the people who sacrificed to maintain our freedom. Photo Provided by Susan Peterson
Council Covers the Gamut from
Creative Economy to Park Place
By Brian Simon
Tuesday night’s El Segundo City Council
meeting featured an extensive and sprawling
agenda covering a wealth of areas. Consultant
Dr. Robert Kleinhenz kicked things off with
a report about El Segundo’s creative economy
that has seen significant growth in recent
years. The main business categories include
architecture and related services; creative
goods and products; entertainment and digital
media; fashion; and fine arts and performing
arts. Much of the growth, Kleinhenz said, is
in the entertainment and digital media sector.
Though the firms are smaller, they have more
flexibility to expand over time.
El Segundo’s creative economy provides
direct jobs for 6,000 workers – similar to a
decade ago, with a hefty decline in the fashion
Herald Gets Small Business Honor
Herald Publications, Inc. has been
selected as Assemblymember Autumn
Burke’s Small Business of the Year
honoree for CA Small Business Day™
2019. We are one of approximately 75
small business owners recognized out
of 3.3 million in all of California. I
will travel to Sacramento to accept this
honor in June. The event is sponsored by
25 small business organizations/chambers,
with over 75 legislators attending. At
the start of the event, we will meet with
Senate leadership, government agency
leaders, and small business advocates and
champions. Lunch and photo opportunities
will follow. I’ll be sure to take a copy of
the Herald along!
This is quite an honor for all of us
who work week after week to serve our
communities and put out quality newspapers.
My greatest honor is working
side-by-side with the kindest, smartest
and most professional people in the industry.
I know how lucky I am. We all
earned this equally. We all have a job
and we all do it well. A giant thank you
and kudos to Haleemon Anderson, Linda
Cohen, Derrick Deane, Mike Gonzales,
Rob McCarthy, Gregg McMullin, Clara
Nilles, Duane Plank, Brian Simon and
Debbie Waite. I could not be prouder of
each and every one of you.
Also a special thanks for Mayor Robert
Pullen-Miles, who threw our hat into the
ring; and to our advertisers, who make
what we do possible.
– Heidi Maerker,
CEO, Herald Publications •
area. More than half of those employed
here are in entertainment and digital media.
Creative wages in El Segundo are 50 percent
higher than elsewhere in LA County (though
women earn only 77 cents for every dollar
their male counterparts earn), Kleinhenz
pointed out, and the workforce is on the high
end of the education spectrum. The creative
firms in El Segundo generate $3.2 billion in
economic activity, but that doesn’t include
a ripple or multiplier effect with additional
chains of expenditure that occur both locally
and throughout the county. There are also
indirect impacts from vendors doing business
with these firms and the workers themselves
spending their own wages.
Kleinhenz noted El Segundo’s advantages
including quality of life,
historical assets, creative and collaborative
economy, and other components.
Challenges include lack of parking and
inadequate high-speed Internet.
Also on Tuesday, the Council moved forward
with the long-desired Park Place extension
and grade separation project near PCH and
Rosecrans – in the process certifying the
Friday See City Council, page 11
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