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The Weekly Newspaper of Inglewood
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 67, No. 44 - November 1, 2018
Good Eating for a Great Cause
Councilman Alex Padilla and Inglewood Police Department officers showing their support at a BBQ Fundraiser for a jailer from Santa Monica PD who has been diagnosed with cancer. Let’s beat cancer
together! Photo: Inglewood PD.
Fall Traditions Timed for a Makeover
By Rob McCarthy
The future of Daylight Savings Time, which
ends Sunday, rests in the hands of the state’s
voters who have a say next month whether
California should retire the practice of turning
back time every fall. The Legislature placed
Proposition 7 on the Nov. 6 statewide ballot
asking Californians for the authority to remain
on Daylight Savings Time year-round. The
ballot measure seeks to change to the longtime
law that has been in effect since 1949. That’s
nearly 70 years of remembering in the spring
to set their clocks ahead and then turning back
time and adjusting to the time change in fall.
Getting permanently on Daylight Savings
has the potential to lower energy usage in
the state because nightfall would come later,
according to the state’s voter guide. And
speaking of energy, residents wouldn’t lose
sleep -- a condition that is associated with the
time change -- if California elected to say on
Daylight Savings Time.
The annual time change is linked to a higher
automobile accident rate and lowered productivity
in the workplace too. Supporters of a
never-ending Daylight Savings Time, in fact,
tout medical benefits to longer days besides
not commuting home at 5 p.m. in the dark.
Among those: fewer heart attacks and strokes
because of disrupted sleep patterns.
Dr. Sion Roy, a cardiologist, argues for the
change to a permanent Daylight Savings Time.
Citing medical studies from 2012, Roy and two
Assembly members say that the risk of heart
attacks jumps by 10 percent for the two-day
period after the clocks are turned back. The
danger of strokes is increased too by 20 percent
during that window of time, according to the
supporters of Prop. 7. “The changing of the
clocks twice a year is hazardous to our health
and our economy,” supporters say.
The lone vocal opponent of tinkering with
the longtime tradition is state Sen. Hannah-
Beth Jackson, who represents Ventura County.
She points out the advantages to adjusting the
clocks so that schoolchildren aren’t walking or
being dropped off at school in the dark. For
her, it’s not a matter of breaking a tradition as
much as public safety. “Changing our clocks
twice a year may be inconvenient. But requiring
days to start in the dark during winter is
more than inconvenient – it’s dangerous,” the
legislator argues.
It would require a two-thirds vote of the
Legislature to change the Daylight Savings
routine should Prop. 7 be approved by the
voters. People crossing the U.S.-Mexico border
during the winter months would encounter
a time change since Mexico would still be
observing it.
And speaking of time for a change, some
communities are heeding the call to designate
the last Saturday in October as trick-or-treat
night. Unlike Daylight Savings Time, Halloween
night is not subject to state or federal control.
Instead, trick-or-treating is a free-spirited
tradition that could be moved to a date other
than Oct. 31 with the approval of community
leaders and parents.
Thousands of people have signed a petition
asking President Trump to join the Saturday
Halloween movement. The petition at change.
org asks the federal government to officially
change the date that children and their parents
celebrate Halloween across the nation.
The petition was started by the Halloween &
Costume Association, a nonprofit that represents
the costume and Halloween industries. The
costumers say that changing the date would
make it a “safer, longer, stress-free celebration.”
The Saturday night switch is a movement 20
years in the making, but one that has caught on
in some states. The Farmers’ Almanac started
the campaign suggesting communities move
Halloween celebrations and trick-or-treating
to the last Saturday in October instead of
Oct. 31, which can fall on a weeknight as it
did this year.
The Halloween industry says that working
parents would have the opportunity and time
to share in Halloween preparations and celebrations.
There would be no need to leave
work early, rush home and quickly feed the
kids dinner (all the while giving out candy to
the children knocking on your door) before
going trick-or-treating. Also, there would be
no more concern about missing school-night
bedtimes or sending candy-filled kids to school
next day. Changing the date would also make
observing the holiday safer, the group says.
More parents could accompany their children:
there would be less work-related traffic.
Because it’s a Saturday, trick-or-treating could
start a little earlier -- perhaps 5 p.m. and end
at 8 p.m. Then, for the adults who have their
own parties or celebrations to go to, they can
do so after the trick-or-treating has ended.
It would also give Halloween back to the
kids, offering them a night of entertainment.
More communities or other organizations
would have the opportunity to sponsor and
participate in Halloween parades and parties.
As of this week, 31,900 people have
signed the petition to make trick-or-treating
a Saturday event. The petition is at change.
org. Organizers say they are hoping to gather
35,000 signatures. •