The Weekly Newspaper of Torrance Herald Publications - Torrance, El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, Lawndale, & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 7, No. 3 - January 19, 2017 Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................2 Classifieds............................6 Community Briefs...............2 Crossword/Sudoku.............6 Legals....................................7 Pets........................................5 Real Estate...........................8 Sports....................................3 TerriAnn in Torrance..........4 Weekend Forecast Torrance Barnes & Noble Book Drive a Tremendous Success During the holidays, Barnes & Noble at Torrance’s Del Amo Fashion Center collected 3,868 new books for the children and teen patients and Torrance Memorial Hospital—thanks to the store’s customers who purchased and donated the books. Photo Provided by Barnes & Noble Del Amo. • U.S. Skies Remain a Call- Free Zone - For Now By Rob McCarthy As if airline travel wasn’t stressful enough for cramped passengers, there’s talk about allowing phone service on domestic flights. The Department of Transportation (DOT) is floating a trial balloon--which is what government agencies do to gauge public reaction to policy changes--about lifting the nation’s restriction on phone service on U.S. commercial flights. The DOT envisions that Wi-Fi phone service could be safe enough to install on commercial U.S. jets, but also admits there could be passenger backlash if the perceived ban on air-talk is lifted. Cell phone service is only banned on commercial flights because of concerns that the signals will interfere with navigation and communications in the cockpit. The Transportation Department and the Federal Communications Commission are rethinking call-free skies, in effect since 1991. The ban does not cover Wi-Fi and other technology for making voice calls. When transportation officials raised the possibility in 2014 of lifting the no-call rule, they heard back from 1,700 passengers, consumer advocates, and the airline unions. In response to a question of whether domestic flights should offer in-flight phone service, 96 percent of the emails and letters the department received said it was a horrible idea. Individuals See U.S. Skies, page 4 Friday Rain/Wind 59˚/49˚ Saturday Mostly Sunny 60˚/52˚ Sunday Rain 56˚/52˚ School Board Approves Participation in South Bay Promise Program By Cristian Vasquez During the first meeting of the year, members of the Torrance School Board approved a request for Torrance Unified School District (TUSD) to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), El Camino Community College District (ECCCD) and South Bay Workforce Investment Board (SBWIB) in order to participate in the South Bay Promise Program. “We are really excited about this new partnership,” TUSD Chief Academic Officer Dr. Kati Krumpe said Tuesday night. “I want to thank our administrators, our high school administrators and our college coordinators for being here tonight in support of this. They are very excited about this MOU.” Through the MOU, TUSD will work as part of the South Bay Promise Program to increase the amount of students attending college and being successful. South Bay Promise is committed to uniting the efforts of TUSD, ECCCD and SBWIB with CSUDH so that the road toward academic, personal and professional success for students is streamlined. “College Promise is a nationwide movement right now and prominent in that movement is Long Beach City College with its promise agreement with Cal State Long Beach and the Long Beach School Unified District,” Vice President Academic Affairs at El Camino Dr. Jean M. Shankweiler said during the Board meeting. “In the summer [Los Angeles] Mayor [Eric] Garcetti also announced a promise program with the Los Angeles community colleges and the students there.” The promise programs are designed to assist students within a targeted demographic to attend community college and not have to pay a large sum, if any, of their enrollment fee. El Camino is currently partnered with CSUDH and the SBWIB in a three-year agreement with Centinela Valley and Inglewood School District for the South Bay Promise. “South Bay Promise is supported by the El Camino College Foundation, and the foundation will support the enrollment fees for students who participate in this promise,” said Shankweiler. “Students will be encouraged, if not required, to apply for financial aid and if possible obtain a board of governor fee waiver. If those venues don’t provide the financial assistance the student needs, then the promise will step in and fill in the need.” In addition, the Board’s staff report states that South Bay Promise “offers TUSD students that meet the admission requirements to attend See School Board, page 6
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