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New program offers aid to victims of domestic violence
by Robb Fulcher
Under a program new to Hermosa, trained advocates will help domestic violence victims as their cases are handled by police, courts and community agencies.
The city council on Tuesday formally approved the expansion of the program to Hermosa from Redondo Beach, where it has been in place for the past two years.
The Redondo personnel - coordinator Dennyse Clark, two paid court advocates and about 25 volunteers - will now serve Hermosa as well. The Beach Cities Health District has provided $20,000 to fund the first six months of the Hermosa portion of the program.
Advocates will create reporting forms for the police department, provide case management for detectives, work to identify potential domestic violence situations, and train police including officers, records personnel, dispatchers and jailers.
In other matters, the council:
* Agreed to permanently close a tiny, narrow section of Ocean View Avenue at Third Street east of Pacific Coast Highway, and turn it into a 91-foot-long mini-park. The closure is designed to improve area traffic safety.
* Agreed to keep up the Pier Plaza's decorative nighttime lighting year-round.
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Hermosan Bill Oswald makes known his views at a Monday morning demonstration in front of the Federal Aviation Administration building in Hawthorne. About 60 people, including council members from Hermosa, Manhattan Beach and Rancho Palos Verdes, protested what they called broken promises by the FAA to reduce aircraft noise over the beach cities and the peninsula. Photo by Robb Fulcher |
* Agreed to create a committee of residents to study issues surrounding LAX. Members of citizens groups already studying LAX issues would be welcome to join, council members said. Also on the LAX front, Councilman Sam Edgerton and others are proposing a new multi-city task force to combat noise from LAX flights over the South Bay area. The task force would replace one that was recently disbanded by the Federal Aviation Administration.
* Hired the architectural firm of purkiss-rose of Fullerton, Calif. to design the renovation of the area at the base of the city pier. The project calls for a new restroom building, refurbished lifeguard station, and unspecified decorative elements at the pier head. The firm, which will be paid $174,500, will have a free hand in creating the look of the project. Previously, a council subcommittee had proposed a tots' play area anchored by a half-submerged concrete whale with a water-spouting blowhole. ER