Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 2, No. 11 - March 12, 2020
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Blake Bolden Becomes First
Black Female Pro Scout
Bolden’s role with the Los Angeles Kings advances diversity and gender equality, while also serving as inspiration for others. She’s also helping to grow girls’ youth hockey in Southern California.
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Mychal’s Learning Place
Changes Society’s Perception
By Chase Maser
Photos by Ariel Romeo Davis
Ed Lynch—Founder and Executive Director
of Mychal’s Learning Place—always leaves
his office door open for anyone to pop their
head in for a quick question or greeting. You
could say that such openness is the key to
what drive’s Mychal’s success.
“Here,” says Lynch, “our goal is to provide
opportunities that prepare our students to be
independent individuals so that they can have
a quality of life that you and I get to have—
teaching skills that are necessary to have that
kind of life, which would be cooking, cleaning,
money management, hygiene, everything
that you and I do. Those are pretty much the
reasons for why I started Michael’s.”
The organization’s namesake is a testament
to Lynch’s primary goal. “Mychal” is Lynch’s
daughter who passed away at the age of 7.
“If she were here today,” says Lynch, “she
would be 31. But when she was alive, there
were really no programs that I felt comfortable
leaving her at from a vulnerability perspective
and lack of quality programs and caring. So
after she passed, I was given an opportunity
to make a difference.”
Lynch was living in El Segundo at the time
and running his first operation under another
person’s property in Hawthorne. Naturally, it
made sense to continue his mission in that
community, and he eventually launched his
own organization in 2002 within Saint Joseph’s
Church—cultivating his programs for people
with developmental disabilities over the next
9 years. Then in 2011, Lynch and his team
raised enough funds to lease their own building
at 4901 W. Rosecrans to evolve Mychal’s
Learning Place into the non-profit it is today.
Starting primarily as an organization to
provide support and care for children with
developmental challenges, Lynch shares that
“adding an adult program was vital to do the
kind of work that [they] want to do.”
“The transition to an adult program made
the most sense for us,” Lynch explains.
“We’re in our sixth year with the adult program
now and we’ve got over 100 people on
the waiting list, which is not good. It’s not good
at all— so we’re tying into different communities,
businesses, and local businesses to create
employment opportunities for our students.”
To enhance their independence and build
important life skills, Mychal’s has 12 major
partners that provide training for students with
disabilities at a gradual pace. It starts off as
an unpaid internship and job training, and
then moves into a paid internship program
and, hopefully, the individual will be gainfully
employed after the process.
“We have partners like Kinecta Federal
Credit Union that provides job training and
employment. South Bay Ford provides job
training and employment. Plus, we’ve got a
lot of local partnerships in El Segundo, like
See Mychal’s, page 7
LAWA Takes Action to Reduce the Spread of
Germs and Protect Travelers And Employees
(Los Angeles, CA) Since first learning of
the COVID-19 virus (novel coronavirus), Los
Angeles World Airports (LAWA) has been
working with federal, state and local partners
to take action to protect the health of all those
who travel through and work at Los Angeles
International Airport (LAX). This includes
partnering with the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) and Customs
and Border Protection (CBP) and the Los
Angeles County Department of Public Health
(LA County Health) to facilitate the
implementation of the federally mandated
screening of travelers with possible exposure,
and keeping it away from public areas, as well
as coordinating with public health agencies
to ensure that best practices to keep its
employees and guests safe are being employed
at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
“LAWA is on the front lines of the fight
to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus
and we are doing everything in our power
to make sure the environment at LAX is as
safe and clean as possible for our employees
and guests,” said Justin Erbacci, Interim
Chief Executive Officer, LAWA. “We are
following the guidance provided to us by
federal and local public health officials,
ensuring that the CDC’s passenger screening
process happens in isolated areas, and
implementing new procedures including
hourly deep cleaning of high-touch areas
in our terminals and installing hundreds of
new hand sanitizer stations for passengers
and employees.”
See LAWA, page 5