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About Town: Redondo Beach
Boat Parade
The King Harbor Yacht Club will present its 10th annual Christmas boat parade on Sat., Dec. 15, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the King Harbor main channel. The theme this year is a "Salute to America's Heroes," and the Grand Marshall will be film and television star Mitzi Kapture. There will be a raffle, a live auction, and a fish chowder dinner at the King Harbor Yacht Club ($8). Bleachers will be set up on shore, or a spot aboard a spectator boat is available at a cost of $30 per person. There will also be a VIP reception with the Grand Marshall, for $75 per person, which will include wine, appetizers, dinner, special parade viewing, and reserved parking.. Call 376 2459 or check out boatparade.khyc.org for more information.
Redondo Shores Electric Car Wins First Place at Irwindale
Last Saturday the Redondo Shores High School Electric Car Club won first place at the ZEV (Zero Emission Vehicle) winter trials at Irwindale Speedway.
The vehicle, designed and built in 1995 by Shores students and staff, runs on two 12-volt batteries. The winter trials is an endurance race to determine which vehicle completes the most laps on the half-mile track. Twelve Los Angeles area high schools took part in two different classes - heated and unheated batteries. Shores competes in the unheated class due to safety concerns, explained Perry Thacker, math and science teacher. At Saturday's event, the Shores ZEV completed 73 laps with a top speed of close to 45-mph averaging 40 seconds per lap.
Students work on the ZEV during breaks, before and after school as an extracurricular activity, unlike most of the schools, which offer full programs in design, construction and maintenance. The car was built under the supervision of Van Petersen who is now retired, but is a substitute teacher. He accompanied Thacker and the students on Saturday. In last spring's competition Shores also won first place.
"The electric car is a wonderful project involving the application of both math and science skills to run successfully," Thacker said. ER
Police Beat
Girl's injury investigated
Police and child welfare officials were investigating an injury to a 6-year-old girl following her visit to Harbor General-UCLA Medical Center. Redondo officers were sent to the medical center when the girl underwent treatment for soreness and slight bleeding from the vaginal area, police said.
Medical center officials were told the girl suffered the injuries in a fall on "monkey bar" play equipment at Tulita School. "The symptoms are not necessarily consistent with that type injury so a full examination was made," a police report stated. "The investigation will continue in conjunction with Children Services." ER