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 - October 24, 2013 Inside South Bay Creates Thrills and Chills This Issue Business Briefs..................3 Calendar...............................2 Classifieds ...........................3 Community Briefs ..............2 Food ......................................5 Residents throughout the South Bay celebrate the season with creatively creepy home décor. At this South Bay home, the featured “Gunn & Rose Cemetery” is sure to come to life Halloween night as goblins and ghouls keep watch over graves. Photo by Ron Gunn. Hawthorne Happenings ...3 HERO Program Approved by Lawndale City Council for Energy and Water Efficiency Legals ......................... 2,4,6,7 By Nancy Peters The Lawndale City Council settled a dispute the full five years since the contract started being held at various locations throughout the Pets.......................................8 tax administrative fees when it approved a in 2012-2013. encouraged to take their children for trick orcommunity where parents and grandparents areNew building signage for the Lawndalewith Los Angeles County regarding property claim settlement with the agenda vote on Community Center is approved to include treat in controlled environments with haunted Monday, Oct. 21. In addition, there were a Municipal Services Department, Lawndale houses and mazes set up to be fun and not too Sports...................................4 the Joint Powers Agreement to be an associate Center on the front of the building. haunted houses that has been functioning atintimidating for the younger set. The traditionalHistorical Museum and Lawndale Communityfew other approvals, including participation in member of the Home Energy Renovation The Historical Society is looking for photos Lawndale for more than 40 years is located Opportunity (HERO) Program to Finance of people in their 70s, 80s and 90s, as well at 15650 Mansel Avenue. Others are at 4563 Energy and Water Efficiency Improvements. as the oldest citizen in Lawndale. Photos are West 172nd Street, 15615 Grevillea Avenue Under this arrangement, homeowners may also being sought of activities in Lawndale and 4551 West 156th Street. obtain low-interest loans through the fund and through the years to help complete the history The Council and City Manager will explore savings bonds set up by the HERO program wall in the museum. the feasibility of purchasing new strands of LED Weekend also approved the extension of a 10-day lease modular unit near the County Library building A citizen did some research and found that thelights for the poles that will be decorated forthe holidays with the large, lighted decorations.At the previous Council meeting, a citizenwho lives adjacent to the new location of theand payback through an addition to the bi-annual property tax payment. The Council Forecast Lawndale Chamber of Commerce may have to clarify the issues she has with the modular expenditure would be approximately $1,200.The Lawndale Planning Commission waswas told that someone would meet with herof property from Dec. 14 to 24 so that the its holiday carnival and sell Christmas trees location and her property lines. On Monday, given the task of exploring code changes for on City grounds. she returned to thank the Council for attention the size of parking pads for driveways, as the The request for a renewal of the to the matter and also offered to help the City current size may be adjusted to accommodate Friday Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) get out of the grant that governs the modular the smaller versions of vehicles on the road AM Clouds/ sparked a lengthy discussion of the MOU, the return of the modular. She also pointed size of 9 feet by 17 feet for a drivewaynow. The new code could support a minimumplacement and any penalties associated withwith the Environmental Magnet High School PM Sun as the school originally was held to 450 out that the modular has mold issues that parking pad. students on the campus. Currently, the school are in need of mitigation and should be one The Council, City attorney and City 69˚/59˚ has 538 students, which is a violation of the loophole to the building being moved or manager will look into new code enforcement MOU. Recently the neighborhood has lodged removed completely. regulations that remove the “criminal” level for complaints with the City for the amount of Thomas Strickfaden, the cable TV department most code enforcement violations and adjust Saturday traffic generated early in the morning, parking head, was celebrated with a plaque presentation those violations that qualify to be classified as AM Clouds/ streets when field trips are part of the day’s achievements are building the cable television a review of the process of code violations and“administrative” violations. There will also befor his 25 years of service to the City. Among hisissues in the area and large buses blocking the PM Sun activities. The Council chose to revise the studio, converting the station equipment to the particular violation not being advised to MOU and not grant a renewal at this time digital and receiving numerous awards for homeowners, but only advising that a specific 76˚/60˚ so that wording of the renewal document can the Lawndale Cable Network--particularly in action on their property must be corrected include provisions that will satisfy the current sports programming. without the actual violation being advised. After concerns. The topic was tabled until the next Also given a Certificate of Appreciation was a citizen complaint of suspected harassment Sunday Council meeting on Nov. 4. Cheryl Brandin, the owner of Wienerschnitzel by the Code Enforcement Department, the AM Clouds/ from Digital Map Products, Inc., was renewed the volunteers during the annual Cleanup regarding this citizen’s property.Council will research the recent actions takenon Hawthorne Boulevard, for her support ofThe Geographic Information System Services PM Sun for a three-year period with an appropriation Week activities and the use of the parking The Council agreed by consensus to cancel 74˚/57˚ and additional $500 increases to be added to Clean-up Saturday. this time only schedule one December meetingits meeting for Monday, Dec. 2, 2013 and atlot for staging volunteers on the Communityof $500 to be added to the current contract the budget years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016. The City-sponsored Hallowe’en event will be on Monday, Dec. 16. Over the length of the contract, a rate increase held at Civic Plaza on Thursday, Oct. 31, from The Lawndale City Council will meet again of 3.7% has worked out to only be 1.37% for 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Other Hallowe’en events are on Monday, Nov. 4 at 6:30 p.m. •
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