Page 2 July 19, 2012 Hawthorne Happenings A Student’s Perspective News for the City of Good Neighbors If Man Makes it, Don’t Eat It! By Glen Abalayan from these mutations, as poultry have also From City Clerk Norb Huber simply shows a mechanical arm In the late 1900s, a well-known health been bred to produce twice as much meat Hawthorne to Celebrate 90th going back and forth when the train expert and bodybuilder named Jack Lalanne in their breasts and thighs and mature much Birthday crosses over Eucalyptus Avenue in famously said, “If man makes it, don’t eat quicker than their wild ancestors. Unfortu- Here is the Schedule for Haw- Hawthorne. We are one of the few it.” In his brief proclamation, Jack enthusi- nately, humans are the end product of all thorne’s 90th Birthday Celebration: cities in the country with a wig astically urged people to get back to eating these alterations as they consume a large 7:30 – 11 a.m. - Kiwanis Club wag. A wig wag is an arm with food in their natural state. But over the years, part of the meat produced and the harmful Pancake Breakfast - $5.00 a light on it that moves back and people have disregarded fitness experts like hormones inside. 8 a.m. - Classic Car Show along forth to warn drivers that a train is Jack and instead listened to mouthwatering The method of de-naturalizing food has with Tesla and Ford electric car approaching the intersection. You 30-second food commercials. It has been made people trade health for taste and are demos can see this exciting 10-minute decades since he first stated his message, unfortunately paying the price. Instead of 9 a.m – 3 p.m. – Vendors fair video if you search for wig wag but Jack’s idea is needed now more than eating food in its natural state, people eat 9 a.m. –Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Hawthorne. ever in a world where people have chosen a sugary meal that hardly has any nutrients Ceremony for Hawthorne Museum Ramona Neighborhood Association Picnic fake food over real food. inside and causes them to grow weak. To- 9:30 a.m. – Live Music Concert on Stage – Sat. July 28 A look inside any burger would show day’s obesity epidemic is a major outcome featuring the “Beach Bums” The annual picnic hosted by the Ramona how much man has changed the nature of of the changes humans have made to their 11 a.m. - Hawthorne’s 90th Birthday Party Neighborhood Association will be held on food. The main culprit of this issue is the food. With the presence of cheap and tasty Program – Birthday Cake Saturday, July 28 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at main ingredient itself--the patty. The patty fast food joints, more people are eating 12 noon – Surfin’ Safari Band Live on Stage the Ramona Park. Residents of the Ramona is the product of the mechanization of the refined and processed goods instead of 1:30 p.m. – Car Show Awards tract are encouraged to attend and get to know meat industry from simple butchery into an having a home-cooked meal. But the added presentation“Three Balls of Fire” live their neighbors. Its always a real nice time. assembly line. It is difficult to find a piece consumption of processed goods has also music concert on stage Nominations for Citizen of the Year of the patty that is untouched by human changed the appearance of those who eat 3 p.m. – Event concludes Who will be Hawthorne’s Citizen of the hands or machinery because it is simply the it regularly and puts more meaning to the Commemorative Book and T-shirts on Sale Year for 2012? It is time to submit written unwanted scraps of meat blended together and saying, “You are what you eat.” In the past A full-color, 44 page commemorative 90 nominations to the Hawthorne Chamber molded into a circle. It doesn’t seem right decade, more people unfortunately resemble year anniversary Hawthorne book will be of Commerce. There are many deserving to call the patties “meat” anymore because the hormone-packed chickens they eat by on sale at Good Neighbors Day and at the persons across our community who never the patties look more like circular, pink clay having unnaturally large breasts and thighs. Hawthorne Museum. The book is a “slice get nominated because some one doesn’t than something that came from an animal. The changes in human appearance are but of Hawthorne” from it’s early days to the take the time to nominate them. Be a good Processed foods have also crept into the a few of the direct results of consuming present. It will be a collectors item that you neighbor and look around at who is making American household. An example of this is processed foods. But although there has been will want to keep for years to come. Also, a difference in our community. Nomina- white rice. The main staple food of most an increase in the consumption of refined there will be t-shirts and collared shirts on tion forms are available at the Hawthorne households, white rice is a common starch goods, people are still able to change their sale marking the 90th anniversary. Bring Chamber Office, 12629 Crenshaw Blvd, to complement a number of meals. But it ways by following Jack Lalanne’s policy some cash, you will want to grab one to wear or you may simply write a letter explain- is also one of the most processed foods in on food. and tell everyone you are from Hawthorne. ing why an individual should be citizen of someone’s kitchen, as it is the stripped down Jack’s “if man made it, don’t eat it” policy Helms Bakery Truck the year. Include both your own and their and refined version of its natural cousin, teaches people to stick to eating foods that Are you old enough to remember the complete contact information. The surprise brown rice. Although most consider it more are as close to their natural states as possible. Helms Bakery trucks delivering goodies announcement will be made during the pleasing to the taste buds than brown rice, A good rule of thumb in eating food that in Hawthorne? Well, you can relive those chamber’s annual Installation of Officers white rice is less nutritional and lacks the follows his philosophy is simply seeing if the memories this Saturday. We have one coming and Civic Awards Breakfast, Thursday health benefits of its natural counterpart. food is available in nature. Surely foods like to Good Neighbors Day. The fully restored August 30, 2012, beginning at 7:30 am at Other examples of overly refined food are ice cream and ground beef are impossible truck will be on display outside the museum. the Hawthorne Memorial Center, 3901 E. ice cream, cookies, pies and sodas. to see naturally and should only be taken Take some pictures, send them to your family Segundo Blvd. The scientific advancements made in occasionally. Likewise, food found in nature to reconnect with those good times. Contact info: email: norbhuber@gmail. agriculture are one of the reasons in the such as fresh fruit and meat cuts are very Answer to last week’s Hawthorne Trivia com or 310-292-6714. denaturalization of food. In the past two close to their natural state and should be a Question Upcoming Events in Hawthorne centuries, science has made some questionable major part of a person’s diet. By his strict Did you figure out the trivia question from Sat. July 21 – 90th Birthday of Hawthorne moves in agriculture by mutating an animal discipline in following his own philosophy, last week? The most watched YouTube video (all day) Civic Center or plant’s genes to produce more food and it is no surprise that Jack has lived up to related to Hawthorne is not about an exciting Sat. July 28 – Ramona Neighborhood As- further bombarding them with hormones the ripe age of 96 years. event. It has no people in it. It is one that sociation Picnic – Ramona Park • or pesticides. Some say that these methods Our planet has an abundance of naturally are justified because of humanity’s increas- grown food that far surpasses its manufac- Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in ing population, but the same methods have tured counterparts in health benefits and and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to transformed livestock from their natural advances in science have produced a wealthcan nourish us for a lifetime. The recentroots and mutated them into meat-making body and soul. machines. of benefits in our food, but have also made John Muir There is a strange case in Belgium where a few mistakes that put people’s health at the mutation of genes has reached almost risk. But people are not helpless in changing Calendar that bears its name, the animals have been food. In our world’s complicated search fortheir ways, as they can follow the time-testedidea of keeping it simple. This includes ourmonstrous levels. In the case of the BelgianBlue Cow, a breed of cattle from the country bred to have bodybuilder-like muscles for a cure to everything, people should start by All Cities inglewOOd only one thing--meat. Chickens are not spared simply looking at their plate. • tuesdAy, July 24 tHursdAy, July 19 to Tuskegee Airman Walter Crenshaw, 7:00 p.m., Kids, 2:00 p.m., Main Library, 101 W. Manchester Police Reports• Ronald Mcdonald’s “Booktime” Show for• Presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal Torrance City Council Chambers, 3350 Civic Blvd. For more information call (310) 412-5645. Center Drive. tHursdAy, July 26 sAturdAy, July 28 • Library Kids’ Program: What’s Buzzing in • “Cardboard Box City Event” benefiting Fam- Your Backyard? a fun program on insects, 2:00 Assault 3900 W 146TH ST Sun 07/08/12 1556 ily Promise of the South Bay, 4:00 p.m.-Sun. 7:00 p.m., Main Library, 101 W. Manchester Blvd. For 4000 W 134TH ST Fri 07/06/12 2245 RESIDENTIAL-HOUSE a.m., First Christian Church, 2930 El Dorado St. more information call (310) 412-5645. STREET, HIGHWAY, ALLEY 13427 S ROSELLE AV #1 Mon 07/09/12 For more information call (424) 571-2261. OngOing 11500 S TRURO AV #3 Wed 07/04/12 1200 0100 ARREST CARPORT (RESIDENTIAL OngOing • Free ‘Housing Rights Walk In Clinics’ for Burglary - Auto APTS OR DUPLEX)Inglewood residents and community members-• Recovery International Meetings are on Fri days, 10:00 a.m. at the South Bay Mental Health every 2nd Tuesday of the month, during the 2012 14032 S CORDARY AV #11 Thu 07/05/12 4534 W 130TH ST Mon 07/09/12 0745 Center, 2311 El Segundo Blvd. For more informa- calendar year, 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m., at the Inglewood 2200 Fri 07/06/12 0630 Mon 07/09/12 1800 RESIDENTIAL-HOUSE tion call Deanna at (310) 512-8112. Library, 101 W. Manchester Blvd. For more infor- 4000 W 139TH ST Thu 07/05/12 1700 Robbery HAwtHOrne mation call Geraldine Noguera at (800) 477-5977 Fri 07/06/12 0715 W 141ST ST/S JEFFERSON AV Fri sAturdAy, July 21 extension #27. W 133RD ST/S WASHINGTON AV Fri 07/06/12 1758 PARK-PLAYGROUNDS• Free Summer Food Program, M-F, from June• Good Neighbors Day, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Hawthorne Civic Center, 4455 W. 126th St. For 20-August 31. Free lunches offered to youth 18 and 07/06/12 0300 Fri 07/06/12 0850 STREET, 11400 BLK EUCALYPTUS AV EAST AL- more information call (310) 349-2906. under at eight different locations in Inglewood. For HIGHWAY, ALLEY LEY Sun 07/08/12 0020 ARREST STREET, OngOing more information, call (310) 412-8750. 3729 W 144TH PL Fri 07/06/12 1800 Sat HIGHWAY, ALLEY • Wiseburn Food Fest benefiting the Wiseburn lAwndAle 07/07/12 0500 3926 W ROSECRANS AV Sun 07/08/12 Education Foundation, 5:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m. on the sAturdAy, July 21 Burglary 1601 ARREST BARBER, BEAUTY SHOPS last Friday of every month (excluding October • Clean up Week (July 14-July 22) Public Works and December) at Dana Middle School. info@ Yard open, 8:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., 4722 Manhattan 4389 W 141ST ST #6 Sat 07/07/12 0804 3133 W 131ST ST Mon 07/09/12 1050 wiseburnedfoundation.org Beach Blvd. For more information call (310) 12830 S ROSELLE AV Mon 07/09/12 1707 AUTO/VEHICLE • Social Security Outreach available for drop-in 973-3260. Burglary-Res Vehicle Theft assistance, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on the 2nd and OngOing 4374 W 116TH ST Mon 07/02/12 1200 14100 S INGLEWOOD AV Fri 07/06/12 4th Thursday of each month, with the exception • Lawndale Certified Farmer’s Market, 2:00 Fri 07/06/12 1913 RESIDENTIAL-HOUSE 1251 of holidays, Hawthorne Library, 12700 Grevillea p.m.-7:00 p.m., every Wednesday on the lawn of 14110 S FONTHILL AV Sat 07/07/12 1900 4020 W 139TH ST #25 Sat 07/07/12 0814 Ave. For more information call Donald Rowe at the Lawndale Library, 14615 Burin Ave. • (310) 679-8193. Sun 07/08/12 0930 GARAGE DETACHED 11840 S DAPHNE AV Sat 07/07/12 2100•
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