Page 2 August 9, 2012 Hawthorne Happenings A Student’s Perspective News for the City of Good Neighbors A Small Slice of Humble Pie From Cable TV Administrator you should visit the Centinela Adobe, 7634 By Glen Abalayan, simple drink of water and was greeted by my Tom Quintana Midfield Avenue in Inglewood. And a good Torrance High School Student friends. As I came inside, my friends asked Norb Huber’s regular column will return time to do that would be at the annual Fi- Everyone has had a small taste of the bit- me why I didn’t play basketball with them August 23rd esta being presented, Sunday, September 9, tersweet pastry cleverly called Humble Pie. that day. I told them that I couldn’t make it Last Call 2012, from noon to 4:00 p.m. Celebrate the It is made with a cup of embarrassment, a because I had a “family dinner” to attend. I The deadline for submitting written nomi- heritage of the California Rancho days and teaspoon of apologies, a pinch of coincidence lied. In fact, I actually hung out with another nations for the 2012 Hawthorne Citizen of enjoy folklorico dancers, mariachis and Pinata and baked in an oven of contemplation. friend and ate at a local buffet. My longtime the Year Award is this Friday, August 10th. Party. Sample handmade tortillas, quesadillas, Humble Pie can only be ready when its re- friends caught my fib as soon as they saw Use the form provided by the Hawthorne Pozole, Menudo and Pan Dulce. Stroll the cipient is ready and is frequently fed to those me enter KFC and told me that it was one in Chamber of Commerce or simply write a grounds to see lace making, butter churning with large amounts of pride. Unlike other the group’s last day before moving to Lake letter explaining why you are nominating a and wool spinning. Tour the Machado Adobe, pastries, Humble Pie does not actually have Elsinore. I felt a rush of embarrassment and particular person or persons and hand carry Freeman Land Office and Haskell Heritage any nutritional benefits, but has long-lasting regretted disregarding my friends for the it to the chamber office. Be sure to include Center. For further information, telephone effects in places where no other baked good whole summer. Suddenly facing the fact that their complete contact information as well as 310-649-6272. can affect--the soul. I may not meet one of my best friends for your own. The announcement is a complete Safe Speeds Help Keep Kids Safe As children, most people were humbled an extended period of time really made me surprise so if your nominee is selected your Children will be returning to public and for the first time when they decided to defy reconsider my priorities and humbled me in help will be needed to arrange the special private schools starting next week so it is their parents only to find out their parents front of the other. presentation during the chamber’s annual time for motorists to start paying atten- were right the entire time. It might have When time came for my best friend to Installation of Officers and Civic Awards tion to those new solar powered speed been trying to stay up late on a weekday or leave the restaurant, I humbly said my Breakfast, Thursday, August 30, 2012, at signs that have recently been installed sneaking away to a friend’s house on the farewells, apologized and thanked him for the Hawthorne Memorial Center. For further on streets bordering various school sites weekends, but most defiant acts in people’s accepting me back into the group. As I shook information visit the Hawthorne Chamber at city-wide. Sixteen Radar Feed Back Speed childhoods usually ended up to the rebel’s his hand for the last time he told me, “We 12629 Crenshaw Boulevard, or telephone Signs are now monitoring vehicular speed own detriment and serves the perpetrator always accepted you--you just didn’t always 310-676-1163. approaching crosswalks and intersections with an appropriate serving of Humble Pie. accept us.” Knowing that it might be the last Summer Tradition that soon will be teeming with youngsters When the presence of parental supervision words I may hear from my best friend for a A lot of awareness and interest in Haw- and parents during the morning and in diminishes as people grow older, the urges to very long time, I let the words sink in and thorne’s colorful and unique history has been the afternoons. It is also the time of the rebel against the rules their parents enforced further humble my once-haughty soul. But gaining momentum with the recent opening year when the morning sun can greatly increase and causes some individuals to give in a bizarre turn of events, and in my classic of the Hawthorne Historical Museum. If diminish a driver’s vision, so be mindful in and perform quite regrettable deeds. Un- best friend’s style, he shuffled back inside you are interested in seeing another his- of pedestrians and bicyclists and other fortunately, some individuals refuse to change the fast food joint to say that he forgot his torical perspective of the greater Centinela vehicles around you as you drive around their arrogant ways and are humbled only gym bag. At that moment, I received two Valley area that includes Hawthorne, then the City of Good Neighbors. • when a traumatic event has occurred, such servings of Humble Pie when my circle of as incarceration or a family death. friends chuckled at me, told me that my best Arrogant individuals are the main recipients friend wasn’t going to move and showed how of this humble soul dish. For centuries, the it feels like to be deceived. The feeling was media exposed haughty individuals such as bittersweet, but was quickly relieved when “Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated arrogant CEOs, celebrities and world lead- my circle of friends and I caught up on the as athletes and equals.” ers who fell from grace and were forced to three months that we haven’t seen each other. - Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz pick up the pieces. Their humbling moment A famous teacher once said that those might have been an economic downturn, a who exalt themselves will be humbled scandal, or a rebel uprising. But although while those who humble themselves will their Humble Pies might have been served be exalted. The constant media exposure of through different types of personal catastro- famously arrogant individuals falling from phes, most chose to change their dastardly grace proves this statement. Just like the taste ways to avoid another mishap. of the metaphorical Humble Pie, humbling A few days ago, I received my serving oneself is bittersweet. But admitting one’s of this dish when I coincidentally ran into shortfalls beforehand prevents even worse my best friends, whom I have not spoken consequences from ever occurring. A small to this whole summer. 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