Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 4, No. 7 - February 17, 2022
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West Basin is a proud provider of recycled water to SoFi Stadium in the City of Inglewood Government. The stadium’s use of this sustainable supply in the lake alone conserves the equivalent of roughly
11 million gallons of water each year. Using recycled water saves drinking water for drinking. Learn more about the project at: www.westbasin.org/sofi-project. Photo courtesy of SoFi Stadium / Vantage
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War and Peace in Jutland
Article and photos
by Ben & Glinda Shipley
If you only count history when it’s written
down on paper, then you could say that the
saga of western Scandinavia started far away,
across the gray-blue waters of the North Sea,
at the Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island off
the coast of northeast Britain. Admittedly,
biased Anglo-Saxon monks wrote the book,
but on June 8, 793 AD, those innocent priors
glanced out their windows to find open
boatloads of fiery, helmeted savages headed
their way. The Vikings spent the next few
days slaughtering the godly, enslaving every
woman of child-bearing age they could catch,
and sailing off with every bright, shiny object
they could carry.
And that was just the beginning of the
Viking Age. Over the next 250-odd years,
the ancestral residents of coastal Norway,
Denmark, and Sweden would alternately terrorize,
trade with, and conquer the European
world all the way down the Atlantic coast
and into the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople.
With their long, shallow-bottomed
vessels, rivers were no problem either, as the
residents of Paris, Kiev, and central Germany
soon found out. By the time the Vikings lost
their mojo, their name would translate into
several languages as a shorthand for all the
evils of pagan piracy.
Fast forward to August 22, 1707, and Sweden
is a world-class military power locked in
a perpetual squabble with its Scandinavian kin.
After decades of Swedes bullying Russians,
Poles, Danes, and Norwegians, the entire
continent of Europe (other than the French)
has had enough. So what does King Charles
XII do? 105 years before Napoleon and 234
years before Adolf Hitler repeat the same
grievous blunder, he invades central Russia.
After two exhausting years of fighting, it
takes less than a day at the Battle of Poltava
to wipe the Swedish Empire off the map.
Fast forward again to 1888, and the Swedish
magnate Alfred Nobel is sitting down to
breakfast, when he reads his own obituary in
a French newspaper (clearly an editor’s error).
At this point, Alfred is world-famous as the
inventor of dynamite and sundry explosives,
the manufacturer of massive guns, mines,
and shells, and as a partner in Branobel, the
Nobel family’s avaricious oil monopoly on
the Caspian Sea.
For many Europeans and at least one
obituary writer, Alfred has done everything
to earn his nickname, “The Merchant of
Death”. But oddly enough, the insight profoundly
shocks Alfred—so much so, that he
immediately defunds his heirs and invests his
massive fortune in the grand public apology
we know today as the Nobel Prizes. The
most important of these, both in Alfred’s
mind and in its impact on history, is the
Peace Prize. Overnight, the warmonger is
transformed into a saint.
Fast forward yet again to May 31, 1916.
Sixty miles off the coast of Denmark, 250
ships of the British Grand and the German
High Seas Fleets collide in the Battle of Jutland
(Skagerrakschlacht to the Germans). 8,645
sailors and 62,300 tons of hyper-expensive
steel sink to the bottom of the North Sea and
Skagerrak Straits in the largest—and possibly
most futile—surface action in naval history.
For the Danes (who naturally go uninvited
to the slugfest), the northwestern skies light
up in a loud, manmade aurora borealis never
seen since.
In the European rematch, twenty-three years
Copenhagen—HC Andersen’s Little Mermaid, or Ellen Price, the beautiful ballerina who sat in for her.
See Travel, page 8