AND lAwNDAle News The Weekly Newspaper of Lawndale Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - April 18, 2013 Inside Employers with Youth Job SeekersWorkplace Success Fair Connects This Issue Calendar...............................2 Classifieds ...........................2 Food ......................................8 Hawthorne Happenings......3 The South Bay Workforce Investment Board (SBWIB), in partnership with the City of Inglewood, the State Department of Rehabilitation, the State of California Employment Development Department, the Airport Area Chamber of Commerce and the South Bay One Stop Business and Career Centers hosted this year’s 13th Annual Blueprint for Workplace Success Youth Job Fair at Rogers Park in Legals ...............................6-7 102 of these youth were offered jobs on the spot. Photo courtesy of SBWIB.Inglewood. Representing 41 schools throughout the South Bay, 110 BluePrint for Workplace Success certified participants, who completed job readiness training received face-to-face interviews and Kearney Selected by Peers as Mayor Pro Tem Pets.......................................3 By Nancy Peters The Council approved a $48,505 expenditure masks being worn by human sign holders, The last action taken at the Lawndale City funded by Measure R for the Inglewood the Council agreed by consensus and not a Council meeting on Monday evening was Avenue widening project between 156th formal vote to retain the ordinance wording Police Report......................2 which elicited several laughs from Council includes a right-hand-turn-only lane onto the code--i.e., no mention of wearing masks isas it is written and currently is filed in theStreet and the I-405 Freeway. The projectthe selection of the next Mayor Pro Tem, members who declared they unanimously freeway ramp, as well as general widening contained in the ordinance. were in favor of Pat Kearney. The rotation on the Lawndale portion of the avenue to Another discussion took place on the use of of the Council members to serve in this improve the flow of traffic. funds from the Urban Development (UDAC) Sports ...................................4 position was pointing to Kearney, who was The General Plan Annual Progress Report Action Grant reserves. Although the agency not aware and thought he was voting for for the fiscal year 2012 was approved and no longer exists on a state-wide level, the one of his colleagues to be the Mayor Pro accepted for submission to the Governor’s City has chosen to keep the funds separated Tem and then felt embarrassed to vote for Office of Planning and Research and the and those will continue to collect interest himself. His service in this new position will Housing and Community Development in a reserve account. The City continues to take effect on May 6. Department. The report includes 2,229 monitor UDAC as a reserve fund and keep the In other business, the City of Lawndale and recorded counter visits to the Community previous regulated use of monies for Public the Council paid tribute to Lillian Alldredge Development Department; 116 site plan Works projects, self-regulating the use of the Weekend President since 1983. She is responsible for of a new park at Larch Avenue; expansion designated UDAC funds may be comingledfunds for recordkeeping purposes. Since theUDAC no longer actually exists, previously-reviews; 663 building permits issued; a $4million State Parks Grant for the developmentfor her service of 30 years as a member of theFriends of the Library and as the organization’s Forecast Quilting Club. More than 20 members of the The Council approved a $48,505 feet of street repairs in approximately 50with general funds in the City treasury. Acapital improvement project for 60,000 squareexpenditure funded by Measureseveral programs as a founding member ofthe Friends of the Library Book Club and Friends of the Library attended the ceremony streets and alleyways has been determined honoring Alldredge. R for the Inglewood Avenue to be a viable capital improvement project A City proclamation was presented for widening project between 156th for which the UDAC funds may be allocated. Friday Melissa McCollum, the Lawndale Library Street and the I-405 Freeway. to complete necessary pothole repairs of theApproximately $546,000 would be neededNational Library Week, April 14 to 20, to Sunny Manager, who announced that visitor 750,000 of the Hogan Tot Lot; the LEED Silver use of UDAC grant reserve funds for thedesignated streets. The Council approved thehad walked through the library doors on April 77˚/59˚ 13, receiving a gift of a Kindle Fire e-Reader. certification from the U.S. Green Building project, with a start date of mid-summer 2013. Among the many continuing programs, the Council for sustainable building design of During oral communications, a citizen most successful one recently instituted at the Lawndale Community Center; and a complained of the proliferation of dog waste the library is the weekly visit by One-Stop $73,300 transportation grant for a number on sidewalks and lawns throughout the city. Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., which so far assisted of roadway improvement projects. of City ordinances and State law that saysShe requested Code Enforcement cite violatorsA brief discussion of the recently institutedCareer Center each Wednesday afternoon Sunny 20 people to find full-time employment. ordinance governing the use of human dog waste must be cleaned up immediately The current Los Angeles County Fire signs and sign holders began as a result by the animal’s owners. She also requested 70˚/58˚ Department Battalion (18) Chief Jeff Vroman of the Planning Commission referring the enforcement of fines against known violators. was presented with a plaque commemorating matter back to the Council after the former It was suggested that Neighborhood Watch his three and a half years serving Lawndale chose not to make a decision on whether it groups report violations to Code Enforcement as he moves on to a new position in the is a prudent decision to allow human sign or take a photo of the violator in the act of Sunday Carson Battalion 70 on May 1. to be silent on the wearing of masks in the and report the violation with the photo.leaving dog waste on a sidewalk or lawnholders to wear masks. The Council choseThe annual Youth Day Parade will take Sunny place on Saturday, April 27 at 10 a.m., original ordinance wording, although the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department following a route bounded by Prairie Avenue, municipal code amendment does regulate the is authorized to cite violators of this State 70˚/58˚ Marine Avenue, Hawthorne Boulevard and distance from intersections, the number of law or the photo could be used as a warning Manhattan Beach Boulevard. Traffic flow human signs allowed by a business, and the to the violator to clean up their act. Code will be affected due to some street closures, use of the human signs for a limited specific Enforcement will be alerted to be more beginning at 8 a.m. and ending at 1 p.m., number of contiguous days. With Mr. Kearney diligent in cleaning up the streets of glass for the parade and participants. requesting that the record indicate he is against and trash as well. •
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