February 23, 2017 Page 3 Hawthorne Happenings Community Briefs Senator Steve Bradford Returns to Inglewood Senator Steve C. Bradford announced his District Office will move back to its original home in Inglewood. The Inglewood office is 20 miles from the previous office. Returning to the original location on the sixth floor of the Inglewood City Hall Building will allow Senator Bradford and his staff to engage in more community-wide discussions. His team will help resolve constituent issues including those surrounding the new Los Angeles Rams and Chargers Stadium and LAX. The Inglewood office positions Senator Bradford to be a resource to the constituents and communities in his district, and offer a platform for constituent involvement with the urban renewal and economic development the stadium will provide. This office will serve the community and provide SBWIB Seminar Informs Subcontractors on Future Opportunities in LAX More than 200 representatives from small and large subcontracting firms attended a one-day seminar February 7 at the Hawthorne Memorial Center to learn how to be part of the future improvement and expansion construction projects at LAX. The seminar was hosted by the South Bay Workforce Investment Board (SBWIB) in cooperation with the City of Los Angeles and partnering workforce investment boards throughout Los Angeles County. The seminar featured presentations from the public private partnership LAX Consolidated Solutions--the lead contractor for the proposed LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility. The project would create a single centralized location for travelers to access all rental car agencies conveniently located adjacent to the 405 Freeway and LAX terminals. An Camino College’s Onizuka Space Science Day to Present Student Arts Contest Student-artists are encouraged to enter their original creations in El Camino College’s 2017 Onizuka Space Science Day Arts Contest. The winner will receive an invitation to bring three guests to attend the Onizuka Space Science Day Dinner with NASA astronaut Dr. Kjell N. Lindgren on March 10. Entries are due by 10 p.m. February 28. Students should create original artwork inspired by the theme “Heroes of the Space Program.” Accepted genres of artwork include drawing, painting, printmaking, computergenerated image, photograph or photographic collage. Onizuka Space Science Day 2017 runs from 8:30-1 March 11 and is open to science-minded students fifth through 12th grades. The event will feature a presentation from Lindgren, a physician who spent 141 days in orbit aboard the International Space Station and logged over 15 hours of spacewalk time. Students can also participate in hands-on science activities and experiments, egg drop and paper plane visible and evident leadership within Inglewood as well as the entire district. The home office will provide greater constituent access for all Senate District 35 citizens, and a closer proximity to prime locations such as highways and travel hubs. In addition to Inglewood, the district also serves Hawthorne, Lawndale, part of Torrance and other neighboring cities. According to Sen Bradford, “This homecoming is something I am extremely excited about. Our sixth floor office in the Inglewood City Hall Building has a great history, and my district staff will continue in that vein and cultivate constituent relationships that result in great policies and programs that benefit the 35th Senate District.lcamino.edu by clicking on MyECC. above-ground automated people mover will get passengers to and from the terminals and rental agencies. SBWIB Executive Director Jan Vogel welcomed the seminar participants and encouraged them to take advantage of the many business and employment services available through workforce investment boards to help facilitate the formation of partnerships between prime and subcontractors not just for the LAX expansion and improvements but also major public private projects throughout the region. He also praised the efforts of the partnership to support the communities in the LAX area. Representatives of LAX Consolidated Solutions then presented a $2,500 donation to support the Inglewood and Hawthorne Teen Centers operated by the SBWIB. competitions, as well as classroom presentations and demonstrations led by El Camino professors and guests from other institutions. Lunch is free for the first 900 students. This year marks the 31st anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger accident in which Astronaut Ellison Onizuka perished along with the six other crew members. The annual event honors Onizuka’s memory and his dream of inspiring youth to strive for their career goals. Reservation forms at http://www.elcamino. edu/academics/naturalsciences/onizukaspace science-day/. Call 310-660-3487 or email spaceday@elcamino.edu for more information. To enter the art contest, email a scan or photo of the artwork to spaceday@elcamino.edu or mail to Robin Dreizler c/o Space Science Day Arts Contest, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance, CA, 90506. Entries should include student’s name, age, home address, phone number, parent or guardian email, grade in school, teacher’s name and current school. • News for the City of Good Neighbors from City Clerk Huber PANCAKES THIS SATURDAY The 2017 Historical Society’s “God Bless America Pancake Breakfast” will be held this Saturday, February 25th at the VFW Post located at 4562 W. 131st Street from 7-11 a.m. Everything tastes better outside and this year’s breakfast will be held outside the historic water tank building of the VFW. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the gate. Come early to avoid the crowd. Another Launch for SpaceX Congratulations to our friends over at SpaceX upon the successful launching of another Falcon rocket which hooked up with the international space station this week. Their aggressive launch schedule calls for this to be a regular occurrence in 2017 and 2018. With a large backlog of contracts signed to deliver payloads to outer space, Hawthorne’s SpaceX will be busy making the news on a regular basis. The next big moments will come when they reuse a rocket for the first time, send astronauts up to the space station and then on to Mars to help start to colonize the red plant. Hawthorne will be in the news for many years to come. Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday It’s that time of year again. Next Tuesday, February 28th is Mardi Gras time in New Orleans with quite a few cold ones being drunk and a lot of uninhibited behavior being indulged in right before the season of Lent. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent which is a solemn religious observance and ends approximately six weeks later right before Easter Sunday. The purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer through prayer, doing penance, repentance of sins, almsgiving, atonement, and selfdenial. Repentance is a good thing. We all are sinners in need of forgiveness. God calls us to repent of our sinful ways. When we fast or give up things for the season of Lent this is meant to bring us closer to God. We reflect upon our lives and realize we would be lost without God’s forgiveness. No matter how bad we have been, no matter what sins we have committed, God is there to forgive us when we come with a repentant heart. So give up those big fat donuts, all that chocolate, or kick those addicting habits if that makes you reflect upon the life you have in Christ. Remember it’s not what we do for God that saves us. It’s what God has done for us in Christ that saves us. Be happy my friends, enjoy the life God has given us. Development Update The demolition of the old police state site will be concluding in the next couple of months. The time frame for building and completing the two hotels is only eight to nine months following the demolition. So in a little more than a year we will have two new hotels in downtown Hawthorne. Chamber of Commerce Events The Hawthorne Chamber of Commerce invites you to take a “behind the scenes” tour of the Tom Bradley Terminal at LAX. The event will begin with a free breakfast at the Flight Museum at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, March 1st, with the tour beginning at 8:45 a.m. Please contact the Chamber at 310-676-1163 if you would like to take the tour. The Chamber is also selling tables for the annual State of the City Luncheon to be held this year on Wednesday, March 29th beginning at 11:30 a.m. at the Memorial Center. Parks & Recreation Foundation Golf Tournament The Hawthorne Parks & Recreation Foundation Golf Tournament is on Monday, April 10th at 12 noon at Coyote Hills Golf Club. If you would like to play or sponsor a hole, please contact Richard Huhn at 310-643-9157. Wiseburn Library Event Celebrate Black History Month with Paradox. 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