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 - September 6, 2012 Inside Fish for Free on Saturday, Sept. 8 This Issue Calendar...............................4 Classifieds ...........................4 Food ......................................7 Hawthorne Happenings....3 Legals .......................... 8,9,10 Newspaper Fun.................11 Police Reports....................2 Smile Awhile.......................6 The California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) encourages anglers to go fishing with a friend or neighbor who doesn’t have a license this Saturday, the second of two days in 2012 when fishing Sports ...................................5 licenses are not required. All other fishing regulations, such as bag and size limits, gear restrictions, report card requirements, fishing hours and stream closures remain in effect. Free Fishing Days provide a low-cost way to give fishing a try. For more information on Free Fishing Days, please visit www.dfg.ca.gov/licensing/fishing/freefishdays.html. Alondra Park Lake in Lawndale. Photo by Cristian Vasquez. City Council Adopts New Procedures Student’s Perspective.......3 By Nancy Peters th anniversaryThe celebration of the 100Many were concerned about the agenda Official meetings in the English-speaking item on the consent calendar, worried that of the establishment of the Los Angeles world are mostly conducted within the their First Amendment right was being vio- County Library system will take place on parameters of the very old and complex lated, or that the Council was not telling the Saturday, September 8 at 10 a.m. at the Roberts Rules of Order. In recent years, public what the vote was about for item “3. Lawndale Library on the Civic Plaza at 147th a shorter version of the “Rules” has Revision of Council Meeting Procedures.” Street and Burin Avenue. A quilt will be emerged--Rosenberg’s Rules of Order. Less This council listens each meeting to the constructed from the squares designed and complicated and easier to understand, the sometimes prepared, but usually off-the-cuff made throughout the day by attendees, while new norm was adopted on Tuesday, Sep- remarks of the public, reacting to or respond- a 100th year group photo will be taken on the tember 4 by the Lawndale City Council for ing to most, taking to heart those remarks, lawn to commemorate the occasion. Bring the procedures of its bi-monthly meetings. and sometimes taking action on a topic they your favorite book as a prop for the photo The public need not worry about the five may not have been aware would cause such to be taken shortly after the 10 a.m. start. minutes each person is allotted to speak consternation. The green light will stay on The return of the citizen concerned about on any topic about which the Council has for four minutes, turn orange when the last the dog license procedures elicited comments jurisdiction. Those five minutes will remain minute has begun to tick, and become a red from the Council, including a request to to offer your opinion and to say your peace light when the five minutes have been reached. have a veterinarian from the SPCA-LA on an agenda topic. You can still offer your In other approved items, the Council address this body about the rabies shot Weekend ber Robert Pullen-Miles, the adjustments munity Center so that the stucco and paint should perhaps reexamine its vote taken inprocedures about which the citizen hasexpressed apprehension—and that the Council-voted on the amendment to a contract tocomplete the façade of the Lawndale Com-suggestion to those you elected to run yourcity. Mainly, as explained by Councilmem Forecast items about which the City Clerk, her staff for the structure. Work should be completed licensing; and that staff may have to dealMay 2012 to make June the month for dogare in compliance with the approved plansin meeting procedure are “housekeeping” and the Council need to be concerned. The by mid-October, but for now the scaffolding with the consequences of year-round dog agenda in the future will not include an and plastic draping will adorn the building. license issuance. Friday as if there are no presentations scheduled. concern that the Los Angeles County Board and resulting mosquito infestation was broughtThe standing water near the railroad tracksCouncilmember Jim Osborne expresseditem that is not due to be discussed, such Partly This lettered item will be absent from that of Supervisors is not as communicative as it to the Council’s attention by a citizen who Cloudy evening’s agenda. opening of the Alondra Park new skateboard Nile Virus from which he is recovering afterwas bitten and diagnosed with a case of Westshould be with the City of Lawndale. TheOne major adjustment is that speakers 75˚/66˚ are not required to identify themselves or park, gymnasium renovation and new pool treatment. The citizen praised Interim Public their address for the purpose of the minutes was an invitation event that barely included Works Director Glen W.C. Kau for working of the meeting. A card must be filed with Lawndale dignitaries and Alondra Park’s with the Vector Control Center to locate the the City Clerk in order for a speaker to be official address is in Lawndale. Osborne sug- mosquito-infested area and going into the Saturday invited to the podium, however, prior to of the Board of Supervisors to reintroduce trenches himself to alleviate the problem.Another concern about transients and thegested that a meeting be set up with the staffapproaching the stand. Sunny A short study of the time allowed for them to the City. homeless using alleyways for their own 78˚/69˚ individuals to speak their minds indicated Several announced events included the bodily functions was brought to the attention the five minutes is sufficient for 80 percent Clean-up Week, beginning on September 15 of the Council members by a citizen who of those who approach the podium. The and ending on September 22. A community- has witnessed this behavior particularly near other 20 percent barely use three minutes based major clean-up day, for which volunteers the mini-shopping center at Redondo Beach of the allotted time. The topic of perhaps are needed, will take place at Der Wiener- Boulevard and Hawthorne Boulevard, near Sunday shortening the time to three minutes was schnitzel on Hawthorne Boulevard at 9 a.m. the intersecting Artesia Boulevard crossover. Partly meeting as not the message the elected Week, the City Yard will be open on Sunday, Department and Code Enforcement patrolThe citizen suggested that the Sheriff’son Saturday, September 22. During Clean-upsummarily dismissed at the last Council Cloudy officials want to give their constituents. September 16 and Saturday, September 22 the area so that the alleyway can be cleaned 82˚/69˚ time for public comment shall not exceed or large items for disposal by the cCity The next meeting of the Lawndale Cityup and perhaps made inaccessible for entry.for residents to bring their electronic wasteAccording to the procedures, the total 60 minutes unless the Mayor and Council maintenance crew. A Neighborhood Watch Council will take place Monday, September agree by consensus to change the time for meeting will be held on Thursday, September 17 at 6:30 p.m., the regularly scheduled third a specific meeting. 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Community Center. Monday of the month. •
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