TORRANCE TRIBUNE December 10, 2015 Page 3 Burkley & Brandlin LLP A T T O R N E Y S A T L AW Living Trusts/Wills, Probate, Employment Law, Personal Injury Trust and Estates Litigation, Business Litigation, Civil Litigation 310-540-6000 *AV Rated (Highest) Martindale - Hubbell / **Certified Specialist Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law, State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization Police Reports CONGRESSMAN TED LIEU CONGRESSMAN TED LIEU TELEPHONE TOWN HALL CONGRESSMAN TED LIEU TELEPHONE TOWN HALL TELEPHONE TOWN HALL On December 15, 2015, I will be hosting my very first telephone town hall On December 15, 2015, I will be hosting my very first telephone to discuss the issues that matter most to you. town hall to discuss the issues that matter most to you. If you would like to join the conversation, please call toll free 877-353-4701 between 6:30pm & 7:30pm If you would like to join the conversation, Pacific Time. please call toll free 877-353-4701 between 6:30pm & 7:30pm Pacific Time. I hope to hear from you! I hope to hear from you! See Police Reports, page 10 TORRANCE RESIDENT APPLICANTS SOUGHT FOR BOARDS AND COMMISSION OPENINGS The Mayor and City Council of the City of Torrance invite citizens interested in serving their community to apply for four (4) year terms beginning February 1, 2016. Boards and Commissions Airport Commission Library Commission Cable Television Advisory Board Parks & Recreation Commission Civil Service Commission Planning Commission Commission on Aging Social Services Commission Cultural Arts Commission Traffic Commission Environmental Quality & Energy Conservation Commission Water Commission Applications are available in the Office of the City Clerk, 3031 Torrance Blvd., on our website www.TorranceCA.Gov or call (310) 618-2870 for further information or to request an application. To be considered for the next term, applications must be received no later than Thursday, January 7, 2016; before 5:00 p.m. Applicants must be registered voters living in the City of Torrance and current on their Commission Certification. Applicants are responsible to schedule interviews with the Mayor and Council and provide copies of your application to them. All applications will remain active and on file in the Clerk’s office for one year. Commissioners are paid a stipend of $10 for each meeting attended. Stipends are paid quarterly. Rebecca Poirier City Clerk ExxonMobil Celebrates 19th Annual STEM Awards By Cristian Vasquez Gathered at the Ken Miller Recreation Center on Thursday night were Torrance Unified School District teachers, principals, administrators, and members of the Torrance Board of Education; also present were elected city officials, ExxonMobil Torrance Refinery management and members of the community judging selection committee, all excited to celebrate and honor the winners of the 19th Annual ExxonMobil STEM Awards. Since 1997 the ExxonMobil Foundation has been funding the Torrance Refinery’s teacher grant program, which provides teachers the opportunity to enhance the classroom experience for their students with a creative and exciting curriculum tailored to science, technology engineering and math [STEM] education. To date, ExxonMobil has awarded more than $1.5 million dollars in classroom grants via the grant program. “When you start providing support for STEM, when you see how that support is used and when you get feedback from the kids through the teachers that it is all added value that helps the kids learn, that is huge feedback,” ExxonMobil Public & Government Affairs Manager Brian Ablett said. “It inspires you as a company to continue doing it and to think of new and creative ways to work with the schools and with the teachers.” Through the grants, the ExxonMobil Foundation provides $100,000 to the Torrance Refinery to fund Torrance Unified School District STEM programs. Winners are selected via a grant-selection committee that is made up of employees and community volunteers. This year the committee received 35 grant proposals from 59 district teachers. Of the submissions, 31 proposals were selected to receive a grant, which involved 49 teachers. “STEM is the way of the future and really, the future is now. Our teachers have such a hard job with standards always changing, with the classroom constantly growing and yet every year we ask them to be better and better, so what an amazing resource the ExxonMobil grants are for our teachers,” Selection Committee Judge and President of the North High Parent Teacher Association Alicia Allen said. “As the old saying goes, ‘it takes a village to raise a child.’ The judging committee chose a couple of meetings and a few hours of application review but what they really committed to was our community.” One of the winners from Victor Elementary School, Cheri Childers for her proposal “S.T.E.M.ulating Young Minds with the Next Generation Science Standards,” shared her enthusiasm for the learning opportunity that the grants represent for her students. “I worked really hard to write a grant that would be excellent for my classroom and a good source with the NGSS [next generation science standards],” Childers said. “It is a wonderful opportunity for me to be able to try these things with my kids and I really think my grant will be a stepping stone for other lessons.” Implementing current education guidelines, through the development of the grant proposals is part of the challenge to being selected as a winner. However, every year the proposals get more and more creative, making the selection process that much more challenging. “You think you’ve seen something really exciting last year and then you see something more exciting this year and you think to yourself, ‘how did that happen?’ So I am continuously surprised and amazed by the creativity of the teachers,” Ablett said. “If you’re a teacher or are involved with kids and education and you see people really taking hold of learning and doing exciting things with it, it inspires you to just do more and more.” In the elementary school level, the winners were: Allen Chin, Robert Baca and Doreen Joe from Adams for their proposal “uCode, iCode, We All Code Together: Solving Problems with Computer Science.” From Arnold there were several winners, including Alissa Goins, Margaret Hughes, Shawna Rogers and Ann Strauch for their proposal “Using Technology Across the Common Core Curriculum,” Carol Hankey for “STEM in the Next Generation,” Karen Kasper for “Bee Bot Programming” and Shannon Mastan for “Getting More from Math with Lego.” Carr Elementary’s winner was Teri Shimizu for “Carr Cubs for RAZ-Kids!” While Edison’s winners included Gloria Matoba for “Project Lead The Way-Launching First Graders to the Sun, Moon and Stars” and Daphne Tanimitsu and Joni Marumoto for “Expanding Vocabulary Skills Through Technology.” Hickory Elementary winners included: See ExxonMobil, page 12 Vandalism 11/29/2015 1:19:00 PM 22500 BLOCK NADINE CIR Suspect(s) scratches victim’s vehicle’s paint Theft 11/28/2015 8:50:13 PM 17500 BLOCK HAWTHORNE BLVD Suspect(s) takes unattended property/ purse Theft 11/29/2015 9:00:00 PM 19900 BLOCK MANSEL AVE Suspect(s) takes property from front of location/ stove Theft 11/28/2015 8:00:00 PM 3500 BLOCK CARSON ST Suspect(s) takes property from cash register/ cash Burglary-Auto 11/28/2015 6:45:00 AM 20500 BLOCK ANZA AVE Suspect(s) enters vehicle by unknown means and takes property/ bag, ammunition, gas mask, gas canister Burglary-Auto 11/27/2015 8:54 PM 18200 BLOCK KINGSDALE AVE Suspect(s) enters vehicle by unknown means, ransacks and takes property/ tool bags, tools Burglary-Auto 11/27/2015 8:20:00 PM 21500 BLOCK WESTERN AVE Suspect(s) smashes window for entry and takes property/ wallet Burglary-Auto 11/27/2015 10:45:00 PM 3400 BLOCK CARSON ST Suspect(s) smashes window for entry, ransacks and takes property/ camera Burglary-Auto 11/27/2015 7:46 PM 1900 BLOCK DEL AMO BLVD Suspect(s) smashes window for entry and takes property/ backpack, books Burglary-Residential 11/27/2015 9:00:00 PM 100 BLOCK VIA LOS MIRADORES Suspect(s) enters unlocked door and takes property/ jewelry Vandalism 11/27/2015 8:22:15 PM 3500 BLOCK CARSON ST Suspect(s) scratches victim’s vehicle’s paint Correction Some one just shared your publication with me, specifically the 11/19/15 issue. I am pleased to see that the LG Bake Off at Pacific Sales was covered, however, the names and schools of the contestants are incorrect. From left to right, pictured are Beth Gregorian from Edison Elementary School, Janet Kiley from Victor Elementary and Amanda Leyland from Hickory Elementary. We apologize for the error.•
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