Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 2, No. 32 - August 6, 2020
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Hawthorne’s SpaceX Astronauts
Safely Return To Earth
Congratulations SpaceX. Another proud moment for all Hawthorne residents, as the Crew Dragon capsule safely splashes down with astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley. This spacecraft was designed
and built here in Hawthonre, CA. This marks the first time a privately owned company had launched human cargo into space. Photo courtesy SpaceX.
How the U.S. Census Bureau is
Reaching Historically Undercounted
Groups For The 2020 Census
By the U.S. Census Bureau
This story about how the U.S. Census Bureau
is reaching historically undercounted populations
and why it’s important for them to respond can
be customized with local information, quotes,
and census statistics for your city or region.
Use the Response Rate Map on 2020census.
gov and the customized data profiles to insert
demographic response data.
Reaching people who are historically undercounted—
Tyler Hatzikian Shreds in the Blue
Ocean, Pummels on the Dirt Track
By Duane Plank
El Segundo resident Tyler Hatzikian, the
founder of Tyler Surfboards, has been a surfer
and surfboard crafting entrepreneur for
more than thirty years. But it is another one
of his passions, sprint-car racing, that has
captured his competitive spirit later in life.
Hatzikian is hoping to re-connect with both
of his passions as soon as the COVID-19
lockdown/shutdown hopefully abates.
Hatzikian said that he developed an initial
interest in sprint cars while attending the
races at the long-shuttered (1990) iconic
Ascot Park racetrack near Gardena. “Even
before I had surfing heroes, I had racing
heroes at Ascot,” he said.
He remembers the roar and cacophony
of the sprint car engines, that, depending
on how the wind would be blowing, could
be heard throughout the South Bay each
weekend evening.
But without a local track available,
Hatzikian put his sprint car racing dreams
on hold, until they were rekindled when
his wife Katherine, as a tenth wedding anniversary
present, gave him a slot in Cory
Kruseman’s sprint car racing school at the
Ventura Raceway. Hatzikian said attending
the school and competing in subsequent
sprint car races was “a dream come true,”
re-igniting his competitive instincts.
Still, without a local track, Hatzikian
had to table his sprint car racing aspirations
again. Fast-forward about a decade,
and, as luck would have it, Hatzikian was
See Tyler Hatzikian, page 8
such as children under five, Black/
African Americans, and American Indians and
Alaska Natives (AIAN)—is something the
Census Bureau has been going to extraordinary
lengths to combat in the 2020 Census.
And in the final weeks before census takers
begin knocking on doors nationwide to count
people who have not yet responded on their own,
the agency is continuing to conduct a massive
national and regional advertising, media, and
partnership campaign to encourage response.
Combating the undercount of multicultural
populations, children, and groups like renters
and the young and mobile (age 18-24) is a
significant focus in the U.S. Census Bureau’s
expanded public awareness campaign, through
advertisements in 45 languages, partnerships
with more than 300,000 national and local
partners, and language support in more than 50
languages for the 2020 Census questionnaire.
Since the beginning of the year, the Census
Bureau has been conducting a multi-million
advertising campaign for TV, radio, online,
and print, and large ads in public places like
billboards and bus stops. A significant portion
of that advertising spend is targeted to
multicultural and hard-to-count audiences.
And those advertisements have been designed
in 45 languages.
There is no single cause for an historic
undercount of some populations, so there is
no single solution. But in general, the more
complex a household is, the greater the risk that
a person in that household won’t be included
on the 2020 Census questionnaire. Confusion,
fear about confidentiality of responses, and
misunderstanding about who should be counted
at an address also contribute to an undercount.
Response rates tend to be lower among
these groups. When people aren’t counted,
communities can lose out on federal funding
for critical public services like schools and
education programs, hospitals and healthcare,
transportation funding for public transportation
and roads and bridges, and emergency response.
Responses to the 2020 Census also determine
how many seats a state may gain or lose in
the U.S. House of Representatives and how
political district lines are drawn.
Responses are confidential and never shared
with any government agency, including law
enforcement or immigration authorities.
It’s not too late to respond to the census online
at 2020census.gov, by phone in English at
844-330-2020, or by mail. When people respond
on their own, it’s less likely that a census taker
will need to visit to help ensure they are counted.
Learn more and respond today at
2020census.gov. •