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 - June 13, 2013 Inside Charter High SchoolMentors Step Up for Environmental This Issue Calendar...............................2 Classifieds ...........................2 Food ......................................4 Hawthorne Happenings......3 Students from Environmental Charter High School in Lawndale received a visit on Friday June 7 from author Porter Gale and other business mentors. The event was hosted by and in support of the In Legals ................................3,6 True Fashion entrepreneurial program for underprivileged youth run out of ECHS. Students learned the importance of networking as featured in Gale’s new book “Your Network is Your Net Worth.” ECHS is part of a free public charter school network that prepares students for four-year colleges through experiential learning and by exploring the environment as a learning tool. (Photo) Porter Gale with group shot of mentors and ECHS students at networking event.• Pets.......................................7 Lawndale Participates in Special Olympics Torch Relay Police Report......................3 By Nancy Peters Olympics. All adults who train the athletes are field athletes took to the stadium track; golf On Friday, June 7, as sirens sounded and volunteers. Funds raised in each community participants played nine-hole golf; aquatics took Politically Speaking...........8 patrol cars led the procession, Lawndale Mayor are donated for program support, development, place in the outdoor pool; bocce proceeded on Pro Tem Pat Kearney and several members training workshops and expenses for the athletes the softball field; and gymnastics, including of his family participated, along with the during the Special Olympics preliminary local rhythmic gymnastics, commenced in the East Los Angeles County Sheriff Department’s and regional competitions. Gym of the campus. All participants received a Sports...................................5 Lawndale Service Center Sheriffs, in the The Southern California 2013 Special ribbon for participating in the Special Olympics. 2013 Special Olympics Torch Relay. The Olympics Summer Games were held on Saturday The 2015 Special Olympics World Games surrounding cities of Hawthorne, Gardena and and Sunday, June 8 and 9 at California State will be held in Los Angeles across the city El Segundo, in particular, also participated in University at Long Beach. Athletes compete in and county at various venues. The events will the Law Enforcement Torch Run. six sports competitions, including basketball, draw half a million people to the Greater Los Kearney was accompanied by three Lawndale bocce, golf, gymnastics, track and field, and Angeles area, with 7,000 athletes participating Special Olympic participants who were aquatics. Athletes who participate in the Special from more than 160 countries. The dates of Weekend Harold E. Hofmann, Sheriff’s Captain Eli event were rewarded with gold, silver and actually include 24 events from aquatics tothe 2015 World Games are July 24 to August2, 2015. The Special Olympic World GamesOlympics train all year for their competitionswith coaches in each sport. Winners in everyrewarded with pins from the Los AngelesCounty Sheriff’s Department. Lawndale Mayor Forecast the route cheering on the runners as they ran bronze medals. and equestrian events.volleyball, a full marathon, cycling, sailingThe Special Olympics “Flame of Hope”Vera, and many community members lined on Hawthorne Boulevard from 147th Street to started its 2013 run on May 28 in San Diego. The Special Olympics gives the opportunity Redondo Beach Boulevard. Horns honked, The lighted torch entered the stadium at for those with intellectual disabilities to sirens were blaring, and many gave “thumbs Cal State Long Beach with the Long Beach participate in sports activities that showcase their Friday up” to the runners. Hawthorne handed the Mounted Police. The single torch that had abilities in swimming, track and field, softball, Partly next community to participate with its police two weeks was used to light the cauldron on judo and rollerskating. The Special Olympicstorch off to Lawndale, and Gardena was thepowerlifting, kayaking, tennis, bowling, football,traveled throughout Southern California for Cloudy and Special Olympic participant runners. Saturday, June 8 as the Opening Ceremony were founded in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy The Special Olympics Torch Run began started the 2013 Special Olympics. Shriver, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, to 72˚/62˚ in 1981 in Kansas with only six officers The 1,100 athletes and 350 coaches began create a world not dominated by those who participating and no money raised that first the competitions with basketball. Track and are excluded but by those who are included. • time, although raising funds was a goal. In Saturday the last 33 years, the Torch Run has raised AM Clouds/ enforcement participants in 48 nations. The$414 million with more than 142,000 law PM Sun Torch Run is the largest grassroots fundraiser for the Special Olympics. 70˚/61˚ More than 125 law enforcement agencies from Southern California participated in the Special Olympics Torch Run and covered more Sunday than 500 miles through 150 communities in the AM Clouds/ for the participating law enforcement agenciesSouthland. The annual event is the final event PM Sun who raise funds all year with raffles, 5K/10K 70˚/63˚ and other programs where family and friendsruns, bike rides, golf tournaments, car shows, can sponsor the officers for each tournament. Participating athletes pay nothing for their coaching or participation in the Special
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