Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 3, No. 5 - February 4, 2021 Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................7 Classifieds............................2 Entertainment......................2 Hawthorne............................3 Hawthorne Hotspot............3 Huber’s Hiccups..................2 Lawndale..............................4 Inglewood.............................5 Legals.................................6,7 Pets........................................8 Weekend Forecast Friday Sunny 64˚/47˚ Saturday Sunny 66˚/49˚ Sunday Mostly Sunny 65˚/49˚ Lawndale Tribune AND lAwNDAle News Hawthorne Press Tribune Featuring the Weekly Newspapers of Hawthorne, Inglewood and Lawndale Actress Who Shattered Stereotypes, Passes Away at the Age of Ninety-Six Cicely Tyson Rest in Peace 1924-2021 Rest In Peace to the Queen, Ms. Cicely Tyson who set the standard for excellence in Hollywood for countless African American actors and actresses to follow. Tyson lived to be 96 years old despite being told she wouldn’t live past 3 months because of a rare heart murmur she developed. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, which is the highest civilian honor in the nation. Tyson was the personification of the Champion’s spirit, and will be deeply missed. Sending love to her family and friends during this difficult time. Photo courtesy City of Inglewood. Starleen Van Buren Leads the Small Business Development Center By Duane Plank Creating and sustaining a successful small business has never been a walk-in-the-park for would-be entrepreneurs. Throw in the raging devastation that the COVID-19 pandemic has fostered, and most forward-looking business owners have seen their challenges exponentially Master of His Craft: Joe Cariati Talks Glass Blowing By Kiersten Vannest You may have heard the name Joe Cariati, or perhaps you’ve seen some of his beautiful glassworks at places like Nieman Marcus or Barney’s New York. Couldn’t find his noir collection, or missed his decanter trio? Good news! Cariati’s studio is located right here in the South Bay. Originally from Malibu, Joe Cariati is an artist, a sculptor in a two thousand four hundred fifty degrees medium. He has a series of bottles, decanters, barware, jars, and lighting, all of his designs are handcrafted by him. A teacher, a businessman, and a creator all in one, Cariati has immersed himself in the world of glass blowing. Glass is created by mixing raw materials such as sand, soda ash, limestone, and barium into a crucible (like a pot) inside a furnace. After melting for over twelve hours, and resting for a full day, what’s left is molten glass. From here, the glass blowing process begins. Blow pipes, the instrument used to blow air into a vessel, were created around the time of Christ. This long tubular rod is then spun in the molten glass, making a Q-tip shape at the end. The next step, effectively, is to blow a bubble into the molten glass. After the bubble has been formed, the bubble is necked down and broken off the blow multiplied. While almost all Americans have been whipsawed in one way or another by the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, small business owners and their employees have been immensely affected in the past ten months, while big-box brick and mortar behemoth stores, deemed “essential,” are allowed to throw open their doors daily to their customers and keep their cash registers humming, while many small business owners are expected to expediently comply with ever-changing business guidelines, scrambling to stay afloat. Whether it be the local yoga studio, a Mom- N-Pop restaurant, or a yogurt scooping shop, times are incredibly tough for most businesses. A Yelp analysis that was taken seven months into the pandemic tallied about 100,000 small businesses that had already shuttered their doors. One can only postulate where that number stands today. Luckily for small business entities in the South Bay and surrounding environs, Starleen Van Buren and her team at the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) have been hard at work to provide their expertise to those in need. The SBDC, the Small Business Association’s largest service program, strives to provide unparalleled assistance to small businesses and their entrepreneurs. The SBDC offers no-cost advising and couples that with low-cost training for existing businesses and fledgling start-ups. Not only do these small businesses provide local tax revenue and jobs, but they are also critical to the vibrancy and livability of their communities. Seeing them shutter their doors not only hurts owners and employees but can send economic shock waves through entire communities. Van Buren, who received her Bachelor of Arts in Communications from California State University at Dominguez Hills, an MBA from the University of Redlands, and her Ed.D from the University of Southern California, has been directing the SBDC for more than a dozen years. Van Buren initially hailed from Norwalk, CA, spent time in Cypress, and ended up in San Pedro, where she lives with her husband of nearly 28 years. Van Buren’s main tasks include the development, planning, and organizing of the services See Van Buren, page 4 Small Business Development Center’s Starleen Van Buren. See Joe Cariati, page 7
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