Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 3, No. 18 - May 6, 2021
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Vax Live Is First Concert at SoFi
Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World is a virtual concert and broadcast to encourage Covid-19 vaccinations around the world. Thousands of fully vaccinated healthcare and other essential workers
attended the vaccine awareness and advocacy benefit on Sunday. Finally, live music has returned to Southern California, and add to that a chance to be there at the debut of SoFi Stadium as a major
new concert venue. The concert included performances by Lopez, Eddie Vedder, Foo Fighters, J Balvin and H.E.R. Photo courtesy SoFi Stadium. Photo credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Global Citizen.
Linda Luna Spends Life Helping
Children with Love and Patience
By Kiersten Vannest
“In 2007, my son and my beautiful daughterin
law called me and said I was going to
be a grandma.” Linda Luna, a Park Vista
senior community resident in El Segundo,
moved to sunny California to be closer to
her growing family.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Luna’s parents
South Bay Citizen Scientists:
Collaboration and Community
By Tommy Vinh Bui, MLIS Associate
Librarian, Inglewood Public Library
The sunshine and acres of blue skies above
are ever inviting these days. As if we needed
any inveigling to sally forth outdoors and
enjoy the vitamin D-inducing rays abundant
right in our yards. But rejoice because you
can get your dosage of sunshine whilst
also furthering science as well. And reach
new heights of knowledge with a panoply
of Citizen Scientist opportunities right at
your fingertips. You, too, can participate
without any specialized training to collect
and analyze critical data in your neighborhood
that’ll be a boon to scientists the
world over. And it’s as easy as moseying
onto your front stoop and keeping those
peepers peeled.
Most students in Los Angeles County
inexplicably found themselves with a surplus
of spare time on their hands during
the pandemic. And many managed to put
that time to good use by ever vigilantly
gathering crucial information to aid institutional
researchers on a number of projects.
Quarantine may’ve hobbled the quotidian
day-to-day for many but it also served to
propel Citizen Scientist initiatives to new
stratas of understanding and provided invaluable
scientific research by harnessing
the energy of throngs of at-home STEM
advocates. And participants indubitably
conjure a real sense of community and
moved out to California for a better life.
She then grew up in San Jose, working as a
clerk for Pacific Bell. But the thing that most
stands out about Luna’s life is her extensive
work helping children.
“I love kids,” she says, going on to explain
that she spent her parenting years also
fostering children. As a foster child herself
from age thirteen to eighteen, Linda used her
experience to relate to kids going through
the system. When her two sons were ages
four and seven, she started a foster home and
took kids from Juvenile Hall and the Girls’
Ranch, a place for girls in difficult situations.
“The girls are pretty amazing, and once
they knew that they were going to be safe
and not be judged for whatever they did,
but be encouraged about going forward and
becoming the best they could be, you could
see a change in their attitudes and their
thinking,” she explains.
The biggest challenge with a foster child,
she says, is getting them to know that they
can trust you. Luna explains the importance
of establishing that she would not lie to or
deceive a child in her care. She made sure
it was clear that she wasn’t going to kick
them out if they did something wrong, be
it not doing what she asked, or sneaking
out and sneaking back in. She showed love,
patience, structure, and kindness to every
child in her care.
So how did Luna come up with her approach
to these difficult situations? “I tried
to follow what my foster mother did,” she
says, explaining that her own foster home was
as normal as could be, and her foster parent
was very motherly and loving. Not being able
to have children of her own, Luna’s foster
mother took in about ten girls and helped
empower them to take ownership of their
own lives and responsibilities, giving them
activities to do and taking them on vacation.
“I would say I learned a lot from that and
tried to implement it in my own home.”
Often, kids who enter the foster system are
dealing with some tough life circumstances.
Luna recalls one girl who came into her
care with 98 cavities and had trouble sleeping
for fear of not being secure. For about
three weeks in a row, she and her husband
See Linda Luna, page 4 Linda Luna loves living in El Segundo.
See Citizen Scientists, page 5