Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 2, No. 52 - December 24, 2020 Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................7 Classifieds............................2 Entertainment......................2 Food.......................................7 Hawthorne............................3 Hawthorne Hotspot............3 Lawndale..............................4 Inglewood.............................5 Legals............................. 2,4,6 Pets........................................8 Weekend Forecast Friday Mostly Sunny 68˚/50˚ Saturday Partly Cloudy 63˚/50˚ Sunday Partly Cloudy 61˚/50˚ Lawndale Tribune AND lAwNDAle News Hawthorne Press Tribune Featuring the Weekly Newspapers of Hawthorne, Inglewood and Lawndale Tis’ the Season for South Bay to Share Love, Hope and Gratitude Santa Clause made a special visit just for the Hawthorne Police Department. They are grateful for the community partners Kinecta, Team LA Store, LA Kings, Bonita Family Pharmacy, The Molina Foundation, Mothers in Action, Canine Companions for Independence California Dreamin’ and El Tarasco, Hawthorne who helped them reach the goal to provide Christmas gifts for all of the Power Project Families. Books, clothes, backpacks, food and more. In these trying times, what a privilege it was to be able to provide a COVID safe drive by and have interaction with families. Tis’ the season to pay it forward. Photo courtesy Hawthorne Police Department. South Bay’s Jamie Serbin One of the First to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine By Duane Plank at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood and currently El Segundo resident Jamie Serbin, a handles two 12-hour shifts a week as labor and delivery nurse, currently working at UCLA Santa Monica Hospital, was recently one of the first essential personnel to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as the pandemic continues to rage, filling hospital intensive care unit beds to maximum capacity, and continuing to crush spirits and communities worldwide. Serbin, a 2006 graduate from El Segundo High School, as well as a graduate from Mount St. Mary’s College, has also worked she juggles mom duties with her two young boys, Noah, 5, and Charlie, 3. She received her vaccine jab-shot, without trepidation, on Dec. 16, the first day that the UCLA facility offered the shot to their employees. “I am proud to be part of the first step in ending this pandemic,” Serbin said. As a front-line hospital worker toiling in the shadow of the deadly scourge of COVID-19, Serbin noted that since the pandemic hit the fan in mid-March, her workday has changed dramatically. Hospital personnel need to mask-up, shield-up, and undergo COVID screenings and temperature checks before the medical workers enter the facility, before donning their hospital scrubs. As the pandemic continued to rage, Serbin said it was “a little bit difficult,” because she works in labor and delivery, to have to enforce the restriction on visitors’ protocols as the expectant mothers continued their journeys into motherhood. She called it “a roller-coaster up and down with the patients. Quite a different style of nursing,” with the necessity to wear the PPE all the time, blunting some of the “relationships that you get with your patients. It was a hard transition for us at work.” With hospitals, especially in L.A. County, overrun with COVID-cases, many have put off visiting the hospitals to have so-called elective surgeries or needed health screenings performed. But an expectant Mom cannot put off delivering a baby, so Serbin and her co-workers continue to provide the best care possible. Coupled with her twice-weekly 12-hour shifts at the hospital, Serbin has had to, like many parents, grasp the intricacies of attempting to master distance learning for her son Noah, a transitional kindergartner at Center Street Elementary School. Which was not easy, initially? “At first, it was overwhelming,” Serbin said. Still, she has settled into a somewhat comfortable routine implementing the distance-learning protocols while juggling other Mom duties around the Serbin’s El Segundo home. A lifelong resident of El Segundo, Serbin has been front-and-center in witnessing the town’s changes over the years, especially the upsurge in establishments and car and foot traffic on Main Street. “I think it is great. It is a cute little town,” she said, noting that “it is so wonderful, so heartwarming to see” the efforts that the City of El Segundo administrators have made to accommodate Nurse Jamie Serbin receives the COVID-19 vaccine. See Serbin, page 5
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