Page 2 September 24, 2015 City Ready for 4th Annual Family and Pet Extravaganza Raffles, carnival games, animal rescue demonstration and a free concert will all be part of this year’s 4th Annual Hawthorne Family and Pet Extravaganza celebration. Hosted by Hawthorne School Board Clerk Luciano Aguilar and celebrity Vivian Fabiola, this year’s pet extravaganza will be take place on Saturday, Sept. 26. at Kornblum Elementary School, located at 3620 El Segundo Blvd., from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. City and district employees, students, families, residents and friends are encouraged and welcome to attend the fun and informative event. “The are multiple layers to this event but the main reason why I wanted to organize this event is that I actually grew up three blocks from where the event will take place,” Hawthorne School Board Clerk Luciano Aguilar said. “In that neighborhood the dogs you encounter are normally barking at you from behind the fence, tied up and barking at you or even chasing you. Times are changing but back then that is how things were and because of that I grew up afraid of dogs. It wasn’t until I joined the military that I found a passion for dogs when I became a K-9 handler.” The day’s activities will feature a free concert from performers Gerardo Coronel, Pigeon John, Lighting Cloud, DJ Hydroe, Carlos Arturo, Eryn Pacheco, among others. Also featured at this year’s event are the American Diving Dogs, along with therapy dogs. Attendees will also be entertained by dogs doing tricks and have the opportunity to pet and play with dogs who simply enjoy human companionship. “What we have, through American Diving Dogs, is a doc-diving competition where the dogs jump off the docs into a swimming pool and they go for distance, they go for height and they go for speed. That is a crowd pleaser because the bigger the splash is, the bigger the cheer is,” Aguilar said. “We are trying to educate kids, trying to show them a good time and this is an event for the community by the community. We are raising money to bring back programs that we had to cut, so there are a lot of different things going on.” Like past events, this year’s pet extravaganza was put together through the work and effort of various volunteers, including parents, animal lovers and local teens. All of the money will be donated in its entirety to the Hawthorne Education Foundation, which will distribute the funds among the district’s schools. “A couple of years back when we started this event we were hurting for money and we were cutting different programs, cutting down supplies so we needed to come up with inventive ways to raise money,” Aguilar said. “Times are getting better, especially for a district like ours, with the new way they are doing the budget. At the same time we can’t depend on it because we know it’s a roller coaster with the ups and downs so we are trying to create a different source of income.” Aguilar returned to the City of Hawthorne after being honorably discharged from the Air Force to start his dog-training company; soon he would become a school board member. Recognizing that one of his strengths was organizing events and public speaking, Aguilar decided to move forward with the Pet Extravaganza to address questions or fears that residents and kids might have regarding dogs. “The Pet Extravaganza, if I didn’t bring it to the kids of Hawthorne, chances are they may never get to experience something like this and would remain afraid of dogs,” Aguilar said. “What we do at the Pet Extravaganza is that we educate kids that not all dogs are bad; you have dogs that have jobs, you have dogs that compete and dogs that do everything and anything.” Personal pets will not be allowed at the Pet Extravaganza due to the lack of control that the organizers can have over people’s dogs’ attitudes. “The dogs that we have there are for people to come and enjoy,” Aguilar said. “They have insurance and all the necessary coverage to be in this situation. We don’t want somebody to come from home and it might be too much for their dog. There will be lots of kids running around and if you have ever seen a kid with a dog, they are very persistent if they want to play with the dog and we don’t want to put the public’s dog in a losing situation.” Persons interested can make donations to this fundraising event directly at the pet extravaganza and to the Hawthorne Education Foundation, which will be represented at the event. “Every one out there is donating their time,” Aguilar said. “It is definitely one of those events you want to support because what we are saying that we are doing, is happening. It is very transparent and everything goes straight into the classroom.” For more information, persons interested can visit http://www.hawthorne.k12.ca.us. • Classifieds The deadline for Classified Ad submission and payment is Noon on Tuesday to appear in Thursday’s paper. Advertisements must be submitted in writing by mail, fax or email. You may pay by cash, check, or credit card (Visa or M/C over the phone). 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While most people who discover an amputated body part would either alert authorities or get rid of it as quickly as possible, Shannon found this as an opportunity to cash in on 15 minutes of fame. Assuming that this severed foot would be an easy moneymaking spectacle, he charged $1 for children and $3 for adults to take a peek at just the grill the foot came in. He was making a name for himself as a ruthless media hog, and much to the dismay of his family, Shannon thought this was his big break. He always wanted to be “famous.” However, when John Wood caught word that Shannon had the foot, his foot, he publicly demanded it back. What happens next is a ridiculous media frenzy, a fantastic chain of events that ultimately leads to a custody battle over the foot on the Judge Mathis TV show. Just how did the foot get in the grill in the first place? This is the question asked by so many throughout the course of this bizarre, true-life tale. Unfortunately the story is born out of tragedy– John lost his foot in an airplane crash that also left his father dead. On top of struggling with drugs and alcohol for years, the death of his dad was especially hard on him, so he decided to mummify his foot in memoriam. It’s an unconventional idea, but the way John speaks to the camera and explains his hardships so honestly and, now seven years sober, so openly, we can’t help but support his decisions, no matter how crazy they may be. Directors Bryan Carberry and Clay Tweel have really found a needle in a haystack with Finders Keepers. While it is tonally a funny film, they don’t shy away from hitting poignant, emotional notes that ground the film and give it substance. While it could have been easy to laugh at and look down on the situation, the way Carberry and Tweel capture John’s essence and Shannon’s ignorance is sweet; we laugh not at them, but with them. I first saw Finders Keepers when it screened during this summer’s Sundance Next Fest, and while I initially didn’t have high expectations that this documentary would be anything out of the ordinary, I did predict that I would be in for a wild ride. Now having seen the film, the term “wild ride” seems like an understatement. Funnily enough, when I left the theater at the Ace Hotel in Downtown L.A., I ran into John and his wife about a block away. I stopped to talk to him for a good 20 minutes, and he told me even more outrageous facts that will possibly be made into a narrative film. You heard it here first. Finders Keepers opens in Los Angeles this Friday, September 25th; VOD October 2nd. • Film Review John Wood in Finders Keepers. Photo courtesy of The Orchard.
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