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 - May 30, 2013 Inside Good Food, Great Music This Issue Calendar...............................3 Classifieds ...........................2 Food ......................................5 Hawthorne Happenings......3 Legals................................2,6 The Economic Development Council of Hawthorne sponsored the first “Taste of Hawthorne” Food and Music Festival on Sunday, May 19 at the Hawthorne Municipal Airport. Hawthorne Mayor Danny Juarez and Congresswoman Maxine Waters lent a hand at the official ribbon cutting to open the event, which featured, food, live music, cooking demonstrations, and performances by local school groups. Photo by Martha Prieto. City Council Decides to Retain Newspaper Fun..................7 Police Report......................3 Speed Limits on Inglewood Avenue By Nancy Peters the case of multiple storefronts, one sign per the purview of the Traffic Committee will have At the previous regular Lawndale City Council business. The size of the digital sign may not input from the Planning Commission members Politically Speaking...........8 meeting, a request for increasing speed limits exceed 50 percent of the total sign allotment. No who will sit on the Traffic Committee. Planning on major arterial boulevards and avenues was digital signs shall display animation or flashing, Commission Chair Daniel Reid requested that proposed but continued until assessment by Los blinking, rolling, shading, dissolving or sound his group have another opportunity to discuss Angeles County Sheriff’s Department could be and these digital signs must be able to dim the matter and come back to the Council with Sports...................................4 made of the recommendations. Due to a State automatically depending on ambient light. No a revised proposal for working with the Traffic law that says reexamination is required after digital signs can be within less than 100 feet of Commission. five years of posted speed limits or constitutes a residential area. Additionally, monument signs The Council honored Oscar Bernal as a speed “trap” for drivers, the proposal was at the street line may only display one digital Lawndale’s Outstanding Senior Citizen of made to increase the speed limit on Inglewood sign, to be decided by the tenants in the case the Year for his hours of volunteering at the Avenue northbound from 40 miles per hour to of multiple storefronts as to how the digital Lawndale Community Center where he assists 45 miles per hour between Artesia Boulevard signs can rotate to showcase each business. daily with the commodities food program, Weekend Manhattan Beach Boulevard and Marine June 10, 2013, after the Council approved the Recreation Commission with its annual fireworksserving the senior meal program, and seniorfitness classes. He also assists the Parks andCitywide repair of sidewalks, driveways,access ramps, curbs and gutters will begin onand Manhattan Beach Boulevard and from 35miles per hour to 40 miles per hour between Forecast speeds was approved by the City of Redondo construction contractor. The project is expected Grand Hall to receive his award.fundraiser. Bernal will attend the County OfLos Angeles reception at the Music Centerbid submitted by Kalban, Inc. for the projectand a 10 percent contingency payment to theAvenue—and then between Marine Avenue andRosecrans Avenue. The request for increased Beach, which also owns portions of Inglewood to take approximately two months with a Two students from Leuzinger High School, Avenue between these designated streets. projected end date of August 31, 2013. Chika Okonkwo and Oscar Gil, were recognized Based on the recommendation of the Los A proposed Youth Commission was suggested by the Council for outstanding achievements as Friday Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the Pullen-Miles and as a result, the Community Chika will attend UC San Diego and Oscarrecipients of the Gates Millennium Scholarships.in October 2012 by Councilmember RobertCouncil decided at its Monday, May 20 Sunny meeting to reconsider the 40 miles per hour Services Department has been meeting with will attend UCLA in the fall. 73˚/66˚ The Sheriff’s Department will now enforce Commission to write an outline for duties and Service Center of the Los Angeles CountySergeant Sandy Nitz of the Lawndalethe Parks, Recreation and Social Servicesincreased speed limits on Inglewood Avenue. the posted speed limits by pacing a suspected put together a framework for a working Youth Sheriff’s Department was given a certificate Saturday vehicle, avoiding the use of radar guns. Radar Council reviewed the proposal, accepted the commemorating his 25 years of service.The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s DepartmentServices Board, Commission or Committee. Theviolator by driving beside or behind a speeding Partly gun speed violations are usually subject to concept and made further suggestions that the has alerted its patrol cars in Lawndale to enforce dismissals by the courts. The posted speed Lawndale Youth Commission be comprised of the California law of not using handheld devices Cloudy limits on Inglewood Avenue will remain at youth from the middle schools and high schools while driving and in the last two weeks has 81˚/67˚ 35 miles per hour. apply with the approval and recommendation be aware of the State law and refrain fromissued 10 citations to violators. Citizens shouldin Lawndale, with seven members who willAs part of the consent calendar, an ordinance was approved for signage for both commercial of the school principals and will range from using cell phones while driving at all times. Sunday signage may now be two-and-one-half times the sixth to 12th grades, reporting through the certain streets throughout the city for excessiveCode Enforcement will be alerted to traverseCommunity Services Department.and industrial zones. The commercial zone AM Clouds/ the linear frontage for storefronts. In industrial The Planning Commission requested that the trash left on sidewalks or in gutters and to be PM Sun frontage. Window signs, both temporary and former’s responsibilities, with the exception of up after their pets when they walk them onon the lookout for citizens who do not cleanTraffic Committee duties become part of thezones, signage can be four times the linear street 75˚/64˚ permanent, shall not exceed 50 percent of the the technical elements for which staff expertise is local streets. Violators will be subjected to fines. total window size on which the signs will be required. The Council suggested that one or two Memorial Day Service on Monday, May 27 displayed. Digital signs shall only be allowed members of the Planning Commission become will begin at 9 a.m. at the Memorial Wall at after approval of a special use permit and the part of the Traffic Committee for a period of City Hall, followed by breakfast for the public storefront may have one digital sign--or in time to ensure that certain requests now under in attendance. •
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