The Weekly Newspaper of Manhattan Beach Herald Publications - El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, Lawndale, & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 Vol. 11, No. 8 August 3, 2017 Inside This Issue Certified and Licensed Professionals...................7 Classifieds............................2 Entertainment......................6 Food.......................................7 Looking Up...........................2 Pets............................. 11 - 12 Politically Speaking............4 Real Estate.................. 8 - 10 Seniors..................................2 Sports....................................3 Weekend Forecast Women’s Flag Football Game Raises $60,000 for Alzheimer’s of Greater Los Angeles The 6th annual tackleALZ flag football game took place Saturday, July 15 at Campus El Segundo. Two teams--the FirebALZ (pictured above) and the AlzStarz--competed fiercely both on and off the field in a friendly rivalry to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s disease and funds for Alzheimers’ of Greater Los Angeles (ALZGLA). Team FirebALZ won the game, 13-12, but team AlzStarz won the online fundraising challenge. tackleALZ raised more than $60,000 for ALZGLA. (Photo by Rich Cruse Photography) Vista del Mar to Go Back to Two Lanes in Each Direction Vista del Mar, page 2 See Smartphones, page 4 By Rob McCarthy Commerce, education and personal communication haven’t been the same since the smartphone became the musthave consumer electronic device. By one estimate, nearly every human being on the planet old enough will have a smartphone very soon. There could be six billion of these mobile communication devices worldwide by 2020, according to business analytics company IHS Markit. A decade ago, smartphones hardly existed. Yet, for all of the advances made because of smartphones, recent research points to an overdependence of the technology that shows up in how people nowadays talk, interact when together, and problem-solve. One recent study by a team of researchers in Austin, Texas concluded The following is a press release issued late last week by Los Angeles Councilmember Mike Bonin (11th District) on plans to revert Vista del Mar back to its former four-lane configuration, as well as other changes: “I’m writing with some important news regarding the road safety projects in Playa del Rey. About two months ago, the City [of Los Angeles] launched two different projects, both designed to improve safety in parts of Playa del Rey. I said at the time that we would evaluate them and make changes based on community feedback -- and I meant it. That’s why earlier this month we added a lane back on eastbound Culver Boulevard. I have continued to listen--and today, I am announcing some big changes in response to what I have heard. Announcement 1: Vista del Mar Two months ago, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (DOT) narrowed Vista del Mar from two lanes to one in each direction. DOT did so suddenly and without community input because they were told the City faced immediate and serious liability concerns from people who were being killed or seriously injured crossing Vista del Mar, to and from the beach and free parking on the road. DOT was warned it needed to act before summer, and they also knew they needed to preserve beach parking to make sure everyone, from everywhere and from all walks of life, had access to the coast. That move was incredibly controversial- -let’s be clear, most people hated it--and I said that I would eagerly embrace an alternative solution that met the requirements of improving safety and maintaining coastal access. Today, I am very glad to report we now have that solution thanks to my good friend, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn. Janice has agreed to create an equivalent number of public parking spaces below Vista del Mar, at the beach itself. That will allowing us to address the primary and the largest safety concern, by prohibiting parking entirely on Vista del Mar. And that will allow us to restore the road to two lanes in either direction. We will do it as soon as the County is able to restripe its lots and create the additional public parking. On top of that, LADOT is going to make a change to the signal and the turn at Vista del Mar and Culver Boulevard, and they expect it will have a significant impact on resolving the bottleneck there. Thank you, Supervisor Hahn and LADOT, for helping us find a workable solution. Announcement 2: Playa del Rey Road Safety Task Force Now, for the second announcement, regarding the other streets, the ones that are part of the Safe Streets for Playa del Rey project. That project made changes to Culver, Jefferson and Pershing in an effort to make the community safer and more walkable. For those areas, I am forming a ‘Playa del Rey Road Safety Task Force’ to evaluate and make recommendations regarding the project and its impact on those streets and on the surrounding neighborhood. The task Smartphones Are Beginning to Mess with Our Heads that a smartphone nearby makes it harder to think and concentrate. The findings by the University of Texas team came from studying the technology and study habits of college students, but there’s application here for high school administrators and teachers, parents and business leaders looking at ways to boost productivity and innovation in the workplace. “Our smartphones enable—and encourage— constant connection to information, entertainment and each other. They put the world at our fingertips, and rarely leave our sides,” the co-authors wrote, adding that so much connectivity has a consequence. “Although these devices have immense potential to improve welfare, their persistent presence may come at a Friday, August 4 Mostly Sunny 79˚/70˚ Saturday, August 5 Mostly Sunny 79˚/70˚ Sunday, August 6 Mostly Sunny 79˚/66˚
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