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Eric Fonoimoana reaches for a victory in the finals of the AVP Santa Cruz Open on Sunday. The Manhattan Beach native and teammate Dain Blanton won the season-opening tournament, defeating Jose Loiola and Emmanuel Rego in the finals. Photo by Frank Goroszko.
John Olguin, Director Emeritus of the Cabrillo Marine Museum,
congratulates Dive 'N Surf founders Bobby and Billy Meistrell on their receipt
of the Marine Environment Award. The Cabrillo Marine Aquarium presents the award
each year to an individual or organization that has contributed to the marine
environment. The award was presented two weeks ago at the aquarium's annual
gala. Past recipients include oceanographer Jean-Michel Cousteau, photographer
Bob Talbot and architect Frank Gehry. Photo by Mary Jane Schoenheider
Mermaid restaurant waitress June Triplett gets an appreciative
salute from regular Robbie Hutas Sunday during her retirement party. Triplett
put up with the likes of Hutas and other Mermaid regulars, including owner Quentin
"Boots" Thelen (he's really not so bad," she said) for 31 years.
Congressional candidate Jane Harman recently met at Fat Face Fenner's Fish Shack in Hermosa Beach with South Bay business and city leaders to share concerns and solutions for the future. With Harman are Redondo Beach Councilman Bob Pinzler, Hermosa Beach Councilman John Bowler, and Manhattan Beach businessman Steve Morse. Photo by Beverly Morse
Small press remembers forgotten writers, artists
If
Publications publisher Brooks Roddan introduces author Tim Reynolds at a book
signing party at If's Palos Verdes office for Reynolds' "Whatever Happened..."
If Publications is a small press "devoted to work by artists who should have
wide circulation, but for whatever reason - more often than not due to curious
career moves or the capriciousness of the market - have been overlooked," according
to publisher Brooks Rodden. The publisher recently hosted a book signing party
for the release of If's first book, "Whatever Happened" by Tim Reynolds.
Reynolds was identified in a 1965 "Harper's" magazine article as "one of the
four poets under the age of 35 to be considered the best in America.
"'Whatever happened' is an abbreviated memoir of a very bright young poet who
decided, instead of becoming a career poet, to travel the world, meet interesting
people and have adventures with people."
Reynolds' memoirs include reminiscences of his meetings with such literary
luminaries as Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings and Robert Frost.
Books by Los Angeles painter Bob Zoell and poet Michael Hannon are scheduled
for release this year by If. For information about If Publications write If,
2605 Via Campesina, Palos Verdes Estates, Ca. 90274.
Manhattan Beach School District's Diane Levitt, Dr. Christy Novell, and Sherri
Kramer accept a $10,000 check from GTE Public Affairs Director Aiko Brum during
a recent breakfast at the Skirball Cultural Center. Novell, Pacific School's
principal, will use the grant to purchase 22 classroom computers for Pacific
Elementary School. GTE also gave $10,000 grants to Hermosa's school district
to fund new classes in technology and reading, and $10,000 to the Switzer Center
in Torrance for a computer network. The grants were part of the GTE Read program.
Hermosa Beach resident, Elizabeth A. Dickinson, has been promoted to the rank of Chief by Sheriff Lee Baca of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The 34-year veteran has assumed command of the Department's Detective Division, overseeing the operations of HHHomicide, Narcotics, Family Crimes and Major Crime Bureaus, as well as the Taskforce for Regional Auto Theft Prevention (TRAP).