The Weekly Newspaper of Inglewood
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 70, No. 10 - March 11, 2021
The Inglewood Community Comes Together to
Provide Support During the COVID-19 Crisis
The PPE Distribution event in Inglewood culminated with approximately 600 businesses being gifted free PPE for their staff members. PPE Unite, The City of Inglewood, the Inglewood Chamber and Faithful Central Bible Church supported over 8,500 workers and distributed
over 800,000 masks in one day (813,150 to be exact). Seeing the community come together was truly amazing. Photo courtesy City of Inglewood.
Jackson Kalb from front page
the property manager believed in him and
asked them to give him a chance. So, with
less than $100k, at twenty-seven years old,
Jackson Kalb opened his Italian restaurant
here in El Segundo, called Jame Enoteca.
Jame comes from a combination of Jackson
and Melissa, and Enoteca is a kind of wine
bar and casual eatery in Italy. Kalb is not
the biggest fan of the name Jame, but after
a difficult lawsuit claiming the original
name (Workshop Enoteca) was too close to
an existing restaurant in Palm Springs, they
All of the pasta at Jame Enoteca is handmade, including a 36-hour tomato sauce.
Jackson Kalb and Melissa Saka at their restaurant, Jame Enoteca. Photo by: Max Milla.
needed something that could not be in danger
of being duplicated on accident.
Jackson and Melissa put a lot of love and
work into their restaurant, still working seven
days a week. Since the opening of Jame, they
opened a second restaurant in Venice during
the pandemic, and as new homeowners here
in El Segundo, Kalb says they have exciting
plans for new projects in the community.
Most of all, Kalb hopes to bring a sense of
nourishment with his food, measured not
just in calories, but in comfort. •