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On the WaterFront
20/20 FORESIGHT: Early last year the ABC newsmagazine "20/20" drew national attention to the efforts of former ER writer David Hunt to reunite two U.S. Vietnam veterans, one of whom then received a past-due, six-figure windfall from the Veterans Administration after the program. Anyway, on Friday "20/20" runs a follow-up to its original story. Veteran newsman Hunt went off to work for the Beach Cities Health District last August...
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Hope Krause, 5, of Redondo climbs a fake rock at the big Fiesta Hermosa street fair on Sunday. Photo by Robb Fulcher |
SURF DA LIGHT: Hermosa Strand resident Tom Allen was watching a surf movie Saturday night with his three surfing sons when a light went on in his head. The film showed Brazilians surfing at night by the light of floodlights on the beach. Why not illuminate the night waves in Hermosa with floodlights on the pier. The following morning the pier lights idea spread to the 16th Street line-up, where longtime, politically connected resident Kevin Campbell promised to ramrod the idea through the city council. The pier is scheduled re-open in August.
DARE TO KEEP CURRENT: Visitors to the HB police station will find a big stack of the 14-page, magazine-style pamphlet "Users are Losers!" featuring anti-drug cartoons that are three decades old. The target audience: school kids. The magazine's spokesman: Ernest Borgnine, "co-star of the popular TV series 'Airwolf.'" One of the cartoons compares the human brain to a supercomputer-the old reel-to-reel type that still draws laughs in early 60s sci-fi movies...
WAIT, THERE'S MORE: A photo spread shows Borgnine with an aging, fez-wearing Mason identified as Sovereign Grand Inspector General H. Douglas Lemons, 33 Degrees (whatever that means). Also sponsoring the hip magazine are Demolay, Job's Daughters and Rainbow Girls...
DOGGONE CENSUS: Census taker Kenneth Kasone ran into two problems when he arrived at the front gate of an RB woman's home: first, her dog was barking ferociously and second, the woman declined to be interviewed. Undaunted, Kasone went to a drugstore and bought a bone-shaped chew toy, returned and tossed it to the dog. "Now he and the dog are best friends, and the woman was so thrilled, because it was the dog's birthday, that she consented to the interview," said Esther Matias, a local Census Bureau honcho. Confidentiality laws forbid Matias from revealing the RB woman's name, but the law does nothing to protect the dog-his name is Buford...
DOUBLE WINNER: Teri Tsosie, who heads up HB Valley School's technology education program, has been named Person of the Year by the California Industrial Technology Education Association, and her endeavors earned a Program of Excellence award from the International Technology Education Association. Valley School was one of only 36 such recipients this year, and became only the sixth California school ever to receive the honor...