TorranceTribune The Weekly Newspaper of Torrance Herald Publications - Torrance, El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, Lawndale, & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 2, No. 30 - July 26, 2012 Inside Gourmet Food & Wine FestivalSaxophonist Kenny G to Perform at This Issue A Student’s Perspective...4 Business Briefs.............. 2 Business & Professional.....................12 Calendar.......................... 3 Classifieds .................... 14 Crime Reports ................ 4 Crossword/Sudoku....... 14 Food................................. 7 Looking Up.................... 12 People ............................. 6 Pets................................ 11 Politically Speaking ....... 5 Saxophonist Kenny G will conduct a special benefit performance at the 26th annual “Evening Under the Stars,” Gourmet Food & Wine Festival Saturday, July 28. Hosted by American Honda at its Torrance campus, “Evening Under the Stars” celebrates the best in South Bay cuisine while raising funds for nonprofit Torrance Memorial Medical Center’s new Patient Tower and Pediatric Real Estate ..............15-16 chamber at 310-540-5858, the Torrance Memorial Health Care Foundation at 310-517-4703, or by visiting www.TorranceMemorial.orgServices. The annual Festival, presented in partnership with the Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce, will take place from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased by contacting the Smile Awhile .................. 2 Council Honors Tuskegee Airman Walter Sports .............................. 6 TerriAnn in Torrance ... 10 Crenshaw for Service During WWII Up and Adam ................. 6 By Dylan Little tactical meetings, forcing the group to come a daunting task.”their own approaches to do what was trulyAmerican air group and was left out of manyThe Torrance City Council on Tuesday Wheel Deal..................8-9 one of the Tuskegee Airmen, with a replica proved just as, if not more, successful than Airmen proved to be an accomplished unit.Despite these setbacks, the Tuskegeeup with their own strategies, which oftentimesawarded Torrance resident Walter Crenshaw, of the Congressional Gold Medal, in honor their white counterparts. Pawlikowski told a story of one mission of the 102-year-old’s service to the country “They had little opportunity, if any, to share where the group accounted for more than a during World War II. Crenshaw joined the in lessons learned and tactics and techniques third (12 of 32) kills despite being only one United States Army Air Corps in October of that were being applied across the Army of seven squadrons involved in the mission. Weekend he served in the air group’s administration “They developed their own techniques and They earned the respect of the white pilotsSee City Council, page 5Air Corps at the time,” said Pawlikowski.1942 where he earned the rank of Sergeant.He was stationed in Tuskegee, Alabama where Forecast all-African American air group. Representa- Police Fill Gaps Createdoffices. He was one of over 400 men in the well as a packed audience full of Torrance by Realignment Bill tives from the Air Force and the Army, as Friday Crenshaw for his service to the country.residents and veterans, all gathered to applaud Partly Lieutenant General Ellen Pawlikowski, By Dylan Little rections in my lifetime and I would argue Cloudy at Los Angeles Air Force Base, shared a little working to educate residents on what the The other driving force for realignmentCommander of Space and Missile Systemsin everyone’s lifetime.”Torrance Police Chief John Neu has been 76˚/60˚ bit of the history of the Tuskegee Airmen in the wake of AB 109, the Public Safety Neu, Sacramento hopes to save $450 mil-is the State budget crisis. According todepartment is doing to keep the city safeincluding not only their exemplary record but also some of the discrimination they faced Realignment bill. At a talk at the Torrance lion during this year and about $2 billion from their superior officers. The Tuskegee Area Chamber of Commerce, Neu discussed by 2015 by moving such a large chunk of Saturday Airmen stood alone as the only all-African on filling the gaps left by the legislation. Also, unless the Governor’s tax initiativecorrections to county-level government.how the department is already working Mostly The genesis for AB 109 starts with is approved by voters, only two years of Cloudy that California prisons were overcrowded with the costs of additional parolees. Thisfunding is promised to counties for dealinga Supreme Court case that determined 78˚/61˚ to the point of violating the prisoners’ uncertainty has made it hard to acquire constitutional rights. In order to meet the the best resource to handle the influx of guidelines set by the Supreme Court for prisoners--additional probation officers. prison population, the State drafted AB “State funding for realignment has only Sunday 109 to shift the burden onto county jails. been guaranteed for the next two years,” Mostly and let these people out? No, we are not have been very hesitant to hire new staff,said Neu. “They Los Angeles County“Are we just going to open the doors Cloudy going to just let these people out,” Neu new probation officers. That’s probably the 81˚/62˚ Walter Crenshaw (center) recieved a replica of the Congressional was construct Assembly Bill 109. AB 109, largest gap that’s been identified.”Central to the new law is that now onlyemphasized. “What the legislature did Gold Medal from Mayor Frank Scotto, Lieutenant General Ellen the prisoner realignment bill, is the most about 70 crimes will end with a stay in state Pawlikowski and Brigadier General Terry Ferrell for his service as one of the Tuskegee Airmen. Photo by Dylan Little. See Realignment, page 13-significant change to sentencing and cor
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