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 - November 6, 2014 SBWIB Hosts Awards Breakfast Hawthorne Mayor Chris Brown (left) presents a Certificate of Appreciation to Jan Vogel, Executive Director of the South Bay Workforce Investment Board, during the annual Alumni Awards Breakfast October 23rd at the Ayres Hotel in Hawthorne. More than 300 civic leaders, community partners and elected official at the national, state and local level were in attendance. The annual event honors individuals who have overcome great hardship to rejoin the work force thanks to the services of the SBWIB One Stop Business and Career Centers. Employers and training agencies were also recognized. Photo courtesy of SBWIB. Inside This Issue Calendar...............................3 Classifieds............................2 Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................5 Food.......................................4 Hawthorne Happenings....3 Legals................................ 6-7 Looking Up...........................6 Police Reports.....................2 Politically Speaking............2 Seniors..................................5 Sports....................................8 Weekend Forecast Friday Sunny 81˚/59˚ Saturday Sunny 79˚/59˚ Sunday Sunny 76˚/59˚ Lawndale City Council Discusses A Memorial Wall for Outstanding Citizens By Nancy Peters The consent calendar, with all items The Lawndale City Council discussed a approved unanimously, included the approval proposed procedure for creating the Lawndale of a feasibility study and design services Memorial Wall of Honor that was originally by Nichols Consulting Engineers for the proposed by Mayor Robert Pullen-Miles as development of a new Teen Center at 14616 a way to honor, posthumously, any senior Grevillea Avenue. The funds for this center citizens who have given volunteer hours over have been granted by Los Angeles County the course of time and deserve recognition of Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. The further their community service. Staff proposed that the use of Proposition C grant funding for two Senior Citizen Advisory Committee (SCAC) separate projects to continue on Inglewood be the entity to nominate those two to four Avenue and Prairie Avenue were approved with persons to be honored each year. Nominations grants coming from the Los Angles County may be submitted by anyone and those on Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). the submission list will be culled by three The expansion of the City Manager’s members of the SCAC and two members of duties pertaining to appointing, promoting, the Lawndale Historical Society. The intent disciplining, demoting, or removing employees of this Wall of Honor is to give recognition of the central management team and any to anyone who has not been recognized by Department Heads was approved after a second the name being on any city building, school, reading of the ordinance, which will amend or park. A plaque for each named honoree the Lawndale Municipal Code as necessary. will be placed on a wall in the Harold E. Signage at the intersection of Manhattan Hofmann Lawndale Community Center on Beach Boulevard and Hawthorne Boulevard the third floor (north side) and will be placed was corrected and the directional views of during a modest ceremony either annually or the street signs identify each true street name. twice per year. Based on a recommendation of the Traffic Mayor Pro-Tem Jim Osborne suggested Committee when it was part of the Planning that the nominations not be restricted to Commission, staff reported on a request senior citizens but also include others who from residents of 153rd Place and Condon performed exemplary service to the community Avenue intersections for a four-way STOP of Lawndale, regardless of age, but who may sign and road painting to be installed. The have passed on, therefore, qualify for the Traffic Committee originally stated that the posthumous honor. Other comments suggested addition of red painted curbs on both the north that this honor be devoid of politicization and and south sides of Condon Avenue would be based on the merit of the individual and suffice, but residents urged the STOP sign be contributions made to Lawndale. presented as an option to the City Council. The installation of the four-way STOP sign at the intersection of Condon Avenue (north and south) and 153rd Place (east and west) will take place forthwith. Several speakers during oral comments spoke about voting issues. One suggestion was made to separate Lawndale into districts and elect a member to the City Council from each district. Another suggestion was put forth to not have a separate election for the city’s mayor. It was explained that the separation of the mayor’s election from those elected to the City Council was instituted following a ballot referendum that citizens voted to be the policy for Lawndale municipal elections. The LA County Sheriff’s Department reported on public safety to say that the shooting on October 29 in the 4200 block of 164th Street was immediately contained to the specific location where the shots were fired; residents were evacuated; backup deputies arrived on the scene in record time; and the armed suspect was wounded by a deputy prior to the arrest of that suspect. The suspect was transported to UCLA Harbor General Hospital and is reportedly in stable condition. The Homicide Bureau is now in charge of the investigation. Citizens are reminded that incidents of this severity are rare in Lawndale and they can rely on the LA County Sheriff’s Department and all deputies to be at the ready to mitigate any incidents of this magnitude as expeditiously as possible. The next meeting of the City Council will be held on Monday, November 17 at 6:30 p.m. •
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