August 15, 2019 Page 3
Hawthorne Happenings
News for the City of Good
Neighbors from an Old Guy
Named Norb Huber
Hawthorne Historical
Society Meets
The Hawthorne Historical Society
will meet again on Thursday, August
15th and their guest speaker will be
Hawthorne Police chief, Michael Ishii. This
special event will be held at the Hawthorne
Museum located at Jim Thorpe Park and
will begin at 6 p.m.
Annual Ramona Neighborhood
Association Picnic
The Ramona Neighborhood Association
will be hosting their annual picnic on Saturday,
August 17th from 11 am until 2 pm
at Ramona Park. They will have pizza, ice
cream, face painting, and games. Enjoy an
afternoon in the park with your neighbors. All
Ramona neighborhood residents are welcome.
North Hawthorne Community
Association Picnic
All Hawthorne residents are invited to
attend the 9th Annual North Hawthorne
Community Association Picnic to be held
on Saturday, August 31st from 11 a.m. to
3 p.m. at Eucalyptus Park. There will be
food, fun, music, crafts and the Spider-Man
character for photos. Plan to wrap up your
summer with a great family event.
Hawthorne Arts Complex
The Hawthorne community is invited to view
some really good art right here in Hawthorne.
The Hawthorne Arts Complex is hosting their
annual “Open Studios” event on Sunday,
September 8 from 2 to 6 p.m. The studios is
located at 13040 Cerise Avenue in Hawthorne.
For more information please check out their
website at: hawthorneartscomplex.com.
Hawthorne Chamber of
Commerce Golf Tournament
The 5th Annual Hawthorne Chamber Golf
Tournament will be held on September 19th
at the Rio Hondo Golf Club 10627 Old River
Rd. Downey, Ca 90241. If you would like
to be a sponsor or play in the tournament,
you can either email at sherice.baker@thehawthornechamber.
com or call the Chamber
at (310) 676-1163.
Wow! All of America’s
History in One Week
As I mentioned to you last week, Linda,
aka my ol’ lady, and I spent the past seven
days taking our two grandkids on a tour of
the center of our nation’s history and
power, Washington DC. We ended
up walking over 12 miles some of
the days in 90 degree weather with
high humidity, but it was all worth
it. Our six year old grandson wanted
to see every museum. He wanted to
look at every exhibit. Along with the
13 Smithsonian Museums, there are all the
monuments and other side attractions like that
white house where some guy tweets a lot from.
We traveled to Gettysburg and Mount Vernon.
We visited Ford’s Theater and the Pederson
House across the street where Abe passed away.
We saw how the FBI investigates and one of
the kid’s favorites, we visited the Bureau of
Printing and Engraving where they saw a lot
of green backs being printed. The neat thing
is the fact that almost all of the museums
have free admissions. Staying with friends in
Virginia and riding the Metro into the capital
area made it affordable and pleasant. On our
last day, we visited both the American Indian
and African American Museums. Both were
excellent at depicting how life was for groups
of people who have quite the history in this
great nation. We saw both the good and the
bad that have made us who we are today. I
wonder how our country would be different if
there was not a Union victory at Gettysburg,
or a George Washington refusal to become
king of the States after his Revolutionary
War victory, or an Abraham Lincoln freeing
of the slaves. God has certainly blessed us
as a nation. Have we always done the right
thing? No. However, the freedoms we enjoy,
the human rights and life that we now enjoy
certainly has been paid for by courageous
men and women who put their country first.
We should be grateful to live in the greatest
country in the history of the world.
Who in the Heck is this Dude?
Norb Huber is a former Hawthorne resident
and past City Clerk of Hawthorne. He currently
lives with his old lady in Orangevale,
CA. which is 400 miles north of the City
of Good Neighbors. He enjoys playing
golf, running Outdoor Nativity Store and
rambling on and on about life around him
when he tries to write a weekly diatribe of
nonsense. Oh yes, he wants you to celebrate
the fact that God’s love and forgiveness is
so unconditional and so undeserving that we
are obligated to celebrate our joyous freedom
from sin and damnation by having a cold
one or two. His ramblings might have been
read by over 10 somewhat loyal readers for
the past eight years.
– Please send Norb an email at:
norbhuber@gmail.com •
As Digital Learning Increases, So
Do Local Back-to-School Costs
By Rob McCarthy
school items required in the lower grades.
It’s back-to-school month for South Bay
A three-ring binder, red and black writing
districts and time to crack the books. Inglewood
pens, a ruler and scissors are must-haves for
students return on Monday. Hawthorne
the tots and the teens. A spiral notebook
extends the summer vacation an extra day
and a writing journal are packed into the
until Tuesday. El Segundo welcomes back its
index. Surprisingly, even elementary grades
returning and new students on Aug. 28. But
are using calculators, USB storage drivers
before the first bell rings, there are school
and headphones for listening to various
supplies to buy and backpacks to stuff.
subjects via computer and doing it quietly.
Parents, be ready to open your checkbooks
The technology at school needs to translate
for back-to-school expenses. The pens and
to the home, which is the point of the 2019
pencils and notepads aren’t behind the inflation
Backback Index. Low-tech hasn’t been pushed
felt by households with children in local
out of schools altogether, though.
public and private schools. It’s the iPads and
Families should pack 3-by-5 cards, brightly
the home-based Internet connection in homes
colored sticky notes and pencil-cap erasers,
that kids need to complete their assignments
along with a hand sanitizer and one roll of
that will make the 2019-2002 school year a
paper towels. Middle schoolers should carry
bit pricier. And to not fall behind in class…
a combination lock, the larger 4-by-6 index
The 2019 Huntington Backpack Index,
cards, and a pocket thesaurus for vocabularybuilding
which for more than a decade has tracked the
and writing assignments. A pair of
household costs for K-12 children’s educations,
safety goggles will come in handy too, so they
issued a bullish prediction ahead of August.
can experiment with middle school science
You’ll need to add a basic laptop computer
projects up close and personal.
and an Internet connection for your child
There’s also the price of a gym uniform,
to make the grade in the digital classroom
plus music instrument rentals, field trips
of today. That includes elementary schools,
and other school fees. The contents and
the index says.
incidentals add up to $1,017 per elementary
The Ohio-based bank behind the backpack
school kid. What a difference a year makes:
changed the way it calculated expenses for
last year’s expenditures would have totaled
elementary, middle and high schoolers. A
$636.96, based on Huntington’s calculations.
laptop and access to the school’s website
That’s a $400 swing coming at millions of
needed to be included as an indirect way to
American families.
help students be ready to succeed on their
At the middle schools, the increase is half
first day back, explained an executive with
of what the lower grades can expect. The
the Columbus-based financial institution.
grades 6 through 8 set will need another $175
“With changing demands on students to
of gear and gadgets in their packs. Back-toschool
complete daily assignments on connected
will mean another $310 this year for
devices, we not only felt it important to
the family of a high schooler.
revisit our methodology, but also to do our
Communities in Schools asked affiliates
part in setting up our communities’ students
across 26 states and the District of Columbia
for success in the classroom.” said Andy
about learning requirements ahead of the
Harmening, who is head of consumer and
2019-20 school year. Surveyers learned that
business banking for Huntington Bank. It
elementary school students are “sometimes”
partnered with the nonprofit educational
asked to submit assignments from home using
group, Communities in Schools, to survey
a computer or electronic tablet. The rates
schools in 26 states.
soared for the middle schools (88 percent) and
Here’s what it found: A significant
high schools (94 percent), which now offer
increase awaits American families with
24-hour access to assignments and instructions
children attending elementary, middle and
from the teacher. Parents regularly use email
high schools. The cost per-child is rising
to discuss any concerns with teachers and
to $1,017 for elementary school supplies,
ask questions about student performance in
extracurricular fees and technology. It’s
the classroom.
$1,277 at the middle schools and $1,668 for
Textbooks’ days are probably numbered,
high schoolers, including fees to participate
if a recent prediction about the nation’s
in athletics and band.
educational system is correct. A survey of
What goes in the backpacks? The creators
educators done by the Deloitte accounting
of the annual index last year listed each
firm found in 2016 that teachers regularly
item considered among the basics in public
use a digital device in the classroom. Threequarters
and private schools. The Huntington people
of teachers in the survey believe
priced a full backpack for each grade group
that digital content will replace textbooks
-- K-5, 6-8 and 9-12. Everybody starts the
in the next decade. They pegged 2026 for
year with a new backpack, plus No. 2 pencils
the year that reading, writing and arithmetic
and pink erasers. A pencil bag or a box is a
go paperless.
no-brainer for all grade levels. Surprisingly,
Half of U.S. classrooms use a digital device
even second graders use highlighters and
every day of the school year, Deloitte reported.
dry-erase markers, which are two of the 37
See Digital Learning, page 7
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