Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 3, No. 32 - August 12, 2021
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Young Marine Honors Police
Department and Military Personnel
The Inglewood Police Department welcomed Jordan Ramirez, a 12-year old who started his more than 12-mile walk to four departments to personally deliver thank you plaques for their service. Jordan
has been walking since October 2020 and wore his San Gabriel Valley Young Marine uniform, and carried a U.S. Flag on his walk. Chief Fronterotta received the thank you plaque and awarded Jordan a
City of Inglewood Government Community Service Award. Our officers and K9 Frank presented Jordan with thank you gifts. Inglewood officers escorted Jordan to LAPD Pacific Division, where he will be
escorted to Los Angeles County Harbor Patrol and finishing at Santa Monica Police Department. Jordan, we are honored and touched by your visit. We appreciate the support you are showing to police
officers and military personnel. Special thank you to Jordan’s family for supporting his goal to deliver thank you plaques. Photo courtesy Inglewood Police Department.
Dale Snowberger is not Ready
to Ride-Off into the Sunset
By Duane Plank
El Segundo resident Dale Snowberger is
gearing up to celebrate his 70th birthday on
August 16. So, is Snowberger going to sit back
on a porch rocking chair, gaze out indolently at
the comings and goings in his neighborhood,
incessantly check his mailbox, and await the
arrival of his next Social Security check?
Nope.
Because August 16 falls on a Monday
this year and happens to coincide with one
of Stoneberger’s off-work days, who knows
how he will celebrate his first day as a septuagenarian?
But you can bet he will not be
lollygagging around.
During our phone interview, the owner of
the El Segundo Tonsorial Parlor, located on the
west side of Grand Avenue, under the Grand
Hotel, said that his two daughters, Christin,
and Meghan, had been planning a surprise
birthday party to mark the occasion. But with
the advent of stricter COVID-19 mandates and
the uncertainty of holding celebratory gatherings,
it looks like his upcoming birthday will
be noted with the sitting for a family portrait
and a catered dinner.
If his birthday had fallen on a Tuesday thru
Saturday, there is a good possibility he would
have spent the day cutting and styling hair.
Even as he approaches seventy, Snowberger
said that he has no intention of retiring.
Asked how long he might continue working,
he said, “until they tell me to step away from
the chair.” He mentioned that at the advent of
the COVID lockdown 17 months or so ago,
and subsequent shuttering of his business, he
looked at it as an opportunity to take a longdeserved
vacation.
But as the lockdown stretched into a second
and third month, Snowberger said that he realized
how much he missed the daily interaction
with his clients. He said that his first thought
was that he missed the social aspect of haircutting
and then concluded that “I also miss
(the clients) money!”
So, what is a ‘Tonsorial Parlor?’ One definition:
“A tonsorial parlor is an inner sanctum
where a man can receive the highest level of
barbering services in a setting that compliments
this ancient art. ... Barbers of former
times were also surgeons and dentist, called
barber/surgeons.” And, yes, women too can
have their styled inside the “sanctum” of the
See Dale Snowberger, page 5
Tonsorial Parlor Owner Dale Snowberger. Photo provided by
Dale Snowberger.
Rhonna del Rio Heals
Through Art in the South Bay
By Kiersten Vannest
Adorning the walls of beloved local
spots along Main Street and inside many
residents’ homes, you may notice a distinct
art style, one with the exactness of a right
angle mixed with emotional curves, usually
depicting a woman. These pieces are the
work of El Segundo resident Rhonna del
Rio, and this is her journey from a highly
successful architecture career into one of
imperfection and self-expression.
From a young age, del Rio found herself
drawn to architecture. Her dad was an
architect, and she aspired to do what he
did. As a petite woman with few female
architects as role models, del Rio found it
difficult to picture herself in her father’s
role. It took encouragement from her sister,
who bought her a book on architecture,
and belief in herself to kickstart her career.
“In the summer of eighth grade…I remember
every Sunday, I would pick up the
newspaper and go straight to the real estate
pages and copy all the elevations and all
the floor plans,” says del Rio, explaining
that she still has this personal project to this
day. From there, her creativity blossomed.
She began creating her own floor plans and
designing her own rooms and buildings.
After graduating in the top four of her
class in college, she jumped straight into
the field with a large and reputable firm,
working for Richard Meier (Meier’s career
See Rhonna del Rio, page 4