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 31, 2013 Inside Halloween Safety Tips with PublicHawthorne Police Department Shares This Issue Calendar...............................3 Classifieds ...........................3 Entertainment .....................5 Hawthorne Happenings ...3 Letter to the Editor ............3 Legals ............................ 4,6,7 Pets.......................................8 South Bay residents joined the Hawthorne Police Department on Oct. 26 for the Hawthorne Halloween Safety Event, a day full of goodies, costumes and safety tips for the whole family. Present at the event was Bailey and the L.A. Kings Ice Crew, Canine Officer Scottie and pet partner therapy dogs. Guests enjoyed games, prizes and bags of treats while learning the importance of Halloween safety. See Page 2 for more photos. Photo by Martha Prieto. Community Gathers to Celebrate, Police Report......................5 Sports ...................................4 Honor Deceased Loved Ones By Cristian Vasquez organizers, but it was also a sensitive issue and more people develop an understanding Marigolds, face-painting booths, music and addressed with much tact. “A couple of things of what the celebration entails. “We had a food trucks were just some of the different that we did were… number one, and in order professional company involved that has done decorations and activities taking place at to avoid confusion and to prevent offending this before and is familiar with this type of this year’s “Dia de los Muertos” celebration as many people as possible, we organized event for other cemeteries,” committee co- Weekend before the traditional Nov. 2 celebration, and Daniel Villa, part of the team organizing the the dead. “That was at the heart of what weFor organizers, it was all about honoringchairman Gordon Limtiaco said.the event to happen on a Sunday so that itdidn’t conflict with any services coming in,”at Inglewood Park Cemetery. The festivitiestook place on Sunday Oct. 27, almost a week Forecast whom were familiar with the event. to where the skull was not the primary focus. Gordon Limtiaco and Ashley Madison waswanted to do and the committee headed byevent, said. “Secondly, we designed our logodrew in a large number of people--many of “We decided that since the community is The focus was more on the marigold and a successful at community building,” Villa said. changing, we wanted to give back,” committee little bit of skull so that the people who are “We just have to bring more of the community co-chairman Ashley Madison said. “We did familiar with what the event means would out here. This was a bit of an experiment to this last year and we wanted to broaden it still be able to recognize the event.” see if we could handle it as an organization Friday this year, so we put up a lot of advertising In the United States, people who pay to have the people out here. I think we can Sunny community that we care about their beliefs times have modified certain elements of the double it for next year.” •tribute to their dead on Dia de los Muertos atthis year. We wanted to show the Hispanic 77˚/58˚ as well as what their traditions are.” celebration to accommodate their American Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, surroundings. Still, offerings such as bread, is the tradition through which countries in coffee and flowers remain at the core of the Saturday Latin America pay tribute to their deceased day’s celebration. loved ones every year. Typically families will “Hopefully next year there are more families Partly create altars with pictures of the deceased and more altars so that we can share this with Cloudy and surround the image with items that they people from other cultures who are not aware enjoyed in life, including food, music and of it and so they know that this is a celebration 72˚/56˚ drinks. One such altar was set up by Jackie of life,” Ortega said. “I work with people Ortega, who lost her father at the age of 12. from different cultures and my job is to try “I did this in honor of my dad,” said Ortega, to educate them on what Dia de los Muertos Sunday an Inglewood Park Mortuary employee. “This is because there are a lot of misconceptions did help me with the grieving process that about what the day is all about. It does not Partly I did not have when I was younger because have anything to do with black magic--a lot of Cloudy now I can assimilate a lot of things and honor people think that it has to do with voodoo. It him with things that he liked. He is always is not. This is about celebrating the person’s 64˚/54˚ in my heart, but just seeing things in black life and what they enjoyed doing while they and white brings closure to me and I wanted were here with us in life.” Colorful decorations based on flowers are common during the Dia de los Muertos celebration throughout Latin America. A “rebozo” to share this with everyone else.” Putting together the event took a few months shawl, is a traditional piece of wardrobe used by women in Latin Introducing Dia de los Muertos to the and with the education element included with American countries, but is also common for women to wear during community was an exciting project for the celebration, organizers hope that more mass or when mourning the dead. Photo by Cristian Vasquez.
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