Hawthorne Press Tribune The Weekly Newspaper of Hawthorne Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - January 14, 2016 Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................4 Classifieds............................3 Food.......................................4 Hawthorne Happenings....2 Legals................................ 6-7 Looking Up...........................7 Police Reports.....................3 Seniors..................................6 Sports....................................5 Weekend Forecast Friday Partly Cloudy 62˚/50˚ Saturday Partly Cloudy 67˚/51˚ Sunday Partly Cloudy 67˚/52˚ Lawndale Elementary Gets Tech Providence Health & Services is teaming with a startup called Sqord to encourage kids to get out and exercise. As children returned to three Lawndale Elementary School District campuses this week after winter break, Providence equipped some 300 fifth-graders at three campuses with Sqord’s kid-proof wrist gear that provides an activity tracker, online games and a kid-safe social media app designed to encourage kids to spend more time in active, physical play. Photo provided by Providence Health. Alex Monteiro Re-Joins City Council Vacancy Candidate List, Residents Plead For Local Hospital By Derrick Deane “We’re located right near the airport. If we It has been a while since the Hawthorne have an earthquake or something big, I don’t City Council has had a chance to go through know where we would go,” the 97-year-old the various city resolutions and needs. With a Stiglich said. “I don’t care about my life, I’m potential special election to fill a vacant seat old enough to go any day, but I care about on the council still looming, the City Council these kids.” put that matter aside for a week to a few local Stiglich says she spent the recent football issues in an abbreviated 90 minute meeting, season asking parents what hospital their kids Tuesday. would be taken if they happened to get injured. Before the council could dive into those She says that no one really knew. matters, Alex Monteiro, who had withdrew She said that she would campaign to bring the himself from the pool of candidates for the Mayo Clinic to the city, saying that, “I’m from seat addressed the council to say, “upon my a small town in Minnesota. We had problems withdraw last week, I received hundreds of with getting a hospital and [the Mayo Clinic] phone calls and messages from Hawthorne came in and they fixed it all up.” citizens to inquire as to why I had made that Meanwhile, resident Kaya Lorlaman spoke decision.” about two medical issues regarding ambulances “I was overwhelmed by the positive feedback in the city. First, she talked about how she had and encouragement regarding the years of to call an ambulance for her husband during service I have dedicated to the Hawthorne the holidays. She said that while her husband community,” Monteiro continued. “I listened gets his care at the Veterans Affair hospital in and after careful consideration have decided West Los Angeles, the ambulances weren’t to ask [the City Council] to reconsider my able to transport them there. application to fill the City Council vacancy.” “Unfortunately, when the paramedics arrived, Monteiro, the president of the Hawthorne they told us were not allowed to deliver any School District school board admitted that patients to the VA hospital and they have to go he was going back on his original statement to the closest hospital,” Lorlaman said. “They from last week, but said he did so in the best gave us a choice between Centinela and Little interest of the community. Company of Mary.” “I’m not a man that goes back on my word,” Lorlaman said in that circumstance, they Monteiro continued. “I guided by my dedication decided to go to Little Company of Mary. to the education of the Hawthorne youth. It is at She says that given the holiday traffic, it took the same time that I desire for my community “considerably longer” to get there than go to to continue succeed and improve that leads me the VA hospital in West L.A. to every single time there is a meeting here.” “In the case of veterans who get all of their Another concern that came up during the care and have all of their doctors and medical public speaking portion of the meeting was records at the VA hospital, taking them to that the need for better ambulance and hospital hospital which would be faster to get to and services in the city. have all of those resources available makes City Council candidate Francis Stiglich has more sense to me than going to a civilian spent the past month urging the council to hospital where they have no idea who he is bring a hospital to the city. or what treatment or any of the medical stuff that he needs,” Lorlaman said. Lorlaman asked the Council to find out why ambulances are not allowed to take people to the VA Hospital. Mayor Alex Vargas later asked Interim City Manager Arnie Shadbehr to look into the matter by contacting the Los Angeles Fire Department. In other city related issues, the Council approved the second payment of $170,975 or Measure R grant funds to continue the widening and traffic signal modification of three intersections – Inglewood Avenue at El Segundo Boulevard, Crenshaw Boulevard at Rocket Road, and Crenshaw Boulevard at Jack Northrop Avenue. The project will continue on throughout the first part of 2016. Vargas also requested to re-enact Chapter 17.21 of the Housing Municipal Code that focuses on the design and development of residential and commercial buildings in the city. “Basically I would like the City Manager and City Attorney to consider putting together a design review board that is made up of professionals within the city of Hawthorne for future development here within the city,” Vargas said. When asked by Councilwoman Angie Reyes English about why there was a need for this when the Planning Commission already exists, Vargas answered that, “based on some limitations in regards to state code and protocol , the Planning Commission can’t do certain things.” “This might be an alternate solution to giving ourselves some oversight,” Vargas added. There will be a public hearing regarding the matter at the next regular council meeting scheduled for January 26. A third matter regarding a moratorium on high density apartments and mixed use projects in the city was tabled since Councilman Nilo Michelin, who was set to present the discussion item was not in attendance. • Jimmy Bonilla, 11, shows off his new Sqord. Pupil enters data to program her Sqord.
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