Hawthorne Press Tribune
The Weekly Newspaper of Hawthorne
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 61, No. 41 - October 10, 2019
Coffee with a Cop a Great Success
Last week, community members came out to take “mug shots” with Hawthorne PD officers during another well-attended Coffee with a Cop event. Photo: City of Hawthorne
Hawthorne Hotspot
By Dulce Bautista
Hawthorne Trunk or Treat &
Women’s Self Care Workshop
Want to get a head start on some early
trick-or-treating this year? Women Pray not
Prey will present “Trunk-or-treating,” a festival
where children will be picking up candy
from car trunk to car trunk, all while mothers
will be able to attend a self-care workshop.
Tickets are free of charge and parents will
be able to “donate a trunk” if they wish to
do so. The festival will be held at Del Aire
Park on Oct. 12 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. For
more information regarding you the event,
please visit https://www.eventbrite.com/.
Expect a spooktacular time! #(310) 400-6428
U.S. Citizen Educational Session
This educational session will be hosted
by the Hawthorne Library where the U.S.
Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS)
will be presenting how to apply to become
a naturalized U.S. citizen. This presentation
includes what the process is like, your rights
as a U.S citizen, and what the citizenship
exam is like. This educational session welcomes
anyone interested, regardless of your
background or legal status. This is an amazing
opportunity to reach out for help to anyone
who wants to become or is in the process of
becoming a U.S. citizen. The session will be
held at the Hawthorne Library starting from
5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Oct. 10 (session is for
A=adults). For more information please visit,
https://lacountylibrary.org/
Dulce’s Thoughts!
Plastic Straws and Climate Change: How
can Hawthorne follow in LA’s footsteps?
One of the most trending topics circulating
all over social media has been about
the recent effects of climate change. The
ongoing conversations concern how climate
change has caused the Earth to exponentially
rise in heat temperatures, the biggest
factor coming from the mass amounts of
waste found in our oceans. Environmental
activists from all over the world have been
protesting, trying to make others understand
how serious this problem has become. The
plastic straw ban was discovered after people
started to see that sea life had been consuming
plastic straws, which ended in many of
these beautiful creatures dying. Milo Cress,
a young environmental activist who started
his own campaign, “Be Straw Free,” has
found that over 500 million straws are being
used daily (USA Today). Mass chained
restaurants have been switching from the
use of plastic straws to either paper straws
or no straws at all.
See Hawthorne Hotspot, page 5
Huber’s Hiccups
News for the City of Good
Neighbors from an Old Guy
Named Norb Huber
What exactly
is a Hiccup?
Here is the Wikipedia definition
the big H: “A hiccup (also spelled
hiccough) is an involuntary contraction
(myoclonic jerk) of the diaphragm that
may repeat several times per minute. The
hiccup is an involuntary action involving a
reflex arc. Once triggered, the reflex causes
a strong contraction of the diaphragm followed
about a quarter of a second later by
closure of the vocal cords, which results in
the classic “hic” sound. A bout of hiccups, in
general, resolves itself without intervention,
although many home remedies are often used
to attempt to shorten the duration.” When I
came up with my new column’s name I was
thinking more of this meaning: “We can refer
to a small problem or difficulty as a hiccup,
especially if it does not last very long or is
easily corrected.” Well, there you go, my
writing always has a small typo or problem
or misspelled word in it. My column doesn’t
last all that long and it can easily be deleted
on your computer or thrown into the trash.
Life is full of endless hiccups. When did
we first hear from our parents that life is not
fair, life is never going to be perfect?
Some times we feel like every day is
just full of a long lasting bout of big
hiccups that we cannot stop. Some of
you, loyal, longtime, lovable, lively,
luckless loser readers know all too
well what I’m about ready to say.
You have me figured out. You know
my line: It don’t matter how many hiccups
we have, just pull yourself up off the floor,
crawl over to the ice box and grab a cold
one. Drinking a cold one is only a temporary
fix. Having a trusting faith in God can do
much more than relieve oneself of a bothersome
nuisance. Hiccups come and go, life
goes on. Holding your nose and not breathing,
getting your ebbie jebbies scared out of
you, are short lived solutions. Ultimately,
we have a much bigger hiccup to answer
to, that is our sinful nature. Only Jesus can
save us from that predicament. We can live
this life knowing that Jesus took all of our
hiccups upon himself. Each day we can
relax, have a cold one and know that our
hiccups are forgiven.
Oktoberfest
Life is good starting in September and
lasting throughout October. That is Oktoberfest
time. It’s a time for all good Germans
See Huber’s Hiccups, page 5