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Mira Costa and Palos Verdes high school<br />
cross country runners gather last month in<br />
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founded by Mira Costa coach and former<br />
Olympian Jeff Atkinson. Photo by Damian<br />
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16 Cross mountain runners by Randy Angel<br />
Each summer, Mira Costa coach and former Palos Verdes High coach<br />
Jeff Atkinson takes his runners to Mammoth for a week of high altitude<br />
training and team building.<br />
22 El Camino’s jobs president by Kevin Cody<br />
South Bay native Dena Maloney brings a background in college-business<br />
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26 Waterwomen by Rachel Reeves<br />
Women made up nearly 10 percent of the paddlers in this year’s Catalina<br />
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32 Young and fast by David Mendez<br />
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36 Straddling Suburbia by Richard Foss<br />
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Thursday, <strong>Sept</strong>ember 8<br />
Yoga at the RB pier<br />
Bring a yoga mat, a towel and water<br />
and enjoy free yoga on the Redondo<br />
pier, presented by Cancer Support<br />
Community-Redondo <strong>Beach</strong>, City of<br />
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Association and Bay Club. 6 - 7 p.m.<br />
Thursdays through <strong>Sept</strong>ember 29. 100<br />
Fishermans Wharf, Redondo <strong>Beach</strong>.<br />
For more information call (310) 376-<br />
3550 or visit cancersupportredondobeach.org.<br />
Friday, <strong>Sept</strong>ember 9<br />
Row for a reason<br />
Body One Fitness presents the second<br />
annual 24 hour “Row for a Reason”<br />
fundraiser. Proceeds will benefit<br />
free programs for cancer patients and<br />
their families offered by Cancer Support<br />
Community Redondo <strong>Beach</strong>.<br />
Starting Friday noon through Saturday<br />
noon. Participants may sign up to row<br />
for half hour time slots for $50 and<br />
are encouraged to row at their own<br />
pace. For more information email<br />
info@rowforareason.org or call (310)<br />
379-5425.<br />
Portuguese Bend Horse show<br />
The 59th Annual Portuguese Bend<br />
National Horse Show continues<br />
through Sunday. Food booths, boutiques,<br />
and children’s carnival. Puppet<br />
shows, pony rides, face painting and<br />
moon bounce are just some of the activities<br />
at the Children’s Circle. Free<br />
parking and shuttle. Proceeds benefit<br />
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. For<br />
Information call (310) 318-8258 or<br />
visit pcch.net.<br />
Saturday, <strong>Sept</strong>ember 10<br />
Art at the Harbor<br />
Painter Bernard Fallon and wood<br />
sculptor Richard Guild have invited<br />
their favorite fellow painters, photographers,<br />
jewelers and ceramicists to<br />
exhibit their work at the first of a<br />
planned series of Art at the Harbor<br />
shows in front of Ruby’s Diner in<br />
King Harbor today and Sunday. For<br />
more information visit ArtAtTheHarbor<br />
on Facebook.<br />
Chalk it up<br />
The Redondo pier becomes a giant,<br />
concrete canvas during the 14th Annual<br />
Chalk Art Festival. This annual,<br />
all-ages family event is free and open<br />
to the public. Prizes awarded in various<br />
categories. 12 to 4 p.m. Redondo<br />
<strong>Beach</strong> Pier, 100 Fisherman’s Wharf,<br />
Redondo <strong>Beach</strong>. Redondopier.com.<br />
A Taste of Switzer<br />
Join in celebrating Switzer Center’s<br />
50 years of nurturing challenged kids<br />
Painter Bernard Fallon (above) and wood sculptor Richard Gould have invited<br />
their favorite fellow painters, photographers, jewelers and ceramicists<br />
to exhibit their work at their Art at the Harbor in front of Ruby’s Diner in King<br />
Harbor the weeknd of <strong>Sept</strong>ember 10. For more information visit ArtAtThe-<br />
Harbor on Facebook.<br />
to believe, achieve and thrive. Food<br />
tastings from favorite local restaurants,<br />
three open bars, fine wines, and<br />
craft beers, live and silent auctions,<br />
music and dancing. 6 - 11 p.m.<br />
Switzer Learning Center, 2201 Amapola<br />
Ct, Torrance. For more information<br />
or to purchase tickets contact<br />
Sylvia at (310) 328-3611 x336 or email<br />
admin@switzercenter.org.<br />
Sunday, <strong>Sept</strong>ember 11<br />
White Point Green<br />
The Palos Verdes Conservancy <strong>2016</strong><br />
White Point Home Tour presents the<br />
first ever opportunity for the public to<br />
visit the mid-century, oceanfront estate<br />
designed by Aaron Green, a student<br />
of Frank Lloyd Wright. The<br />
five-home tour begins at 12:30 and<br />
will be followed by a reception at 4:30<br />
p.m at the Brouwerij West tasting<br />
room at 110 E. 22nd Street, San Pedro.<br />
$65. For tickets visit PVPLCorg. Photo<br />
by Ann Koons<br />
Rock and roll up your sleeve<br />
Kiwanis Club Blood Drive. To make<br />
your life saving appointment, visit<br />
redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor<br />
code HermosaKiwanis or contact<br />
Mickey at mickmacr@aol.com (310)<br />
291-3412. Must have an ID to donate.<br />
8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. 2515 Valley<br />
Drive, Hermosa <strong>Beach</strong>.<br />
Monday, <strong>Sept</strong>ember 12<br />
Digital Image Critique<br />
Paul's Photo’s Mark Comon will critique<br />
digital images submitted by<br />
SBCC members. Free and open to<br />
anyone interested in photography.7<br />
p.m. Torrance Airport Administration<br />
Building meeting room, 3301 Airport<br />
Drive, Torrance. For more information,<br />
contact Harry Korn, (805) 340-<br />
3197, or visit sbccphoto.org.<br />
A rare fruit<br />
Learn about the rare fruit trees<br />
growing in Ken Ueda’s local garden,<br />
from guavas to cherimoyas. 9:30 a.m.<br />
South Coast Botanic Garden, classroom<br />
B, 25300 Crenshaw Blvd, Palos<br />
Verdes Peninsula. Information call<br />
(310) 542-3016.<br />
Tuesday, <strong>Sept</strong>ember 13<br />
Wine at Five<br />
The <strong>Beach</strong> Cities Health District’s<br />
Blue Zones Project hosts Wine at Five<br />
(yes, 5 p.m.) at Bettolino Kitchen.<br />
Studies show that people who enjoy a<br />
glass of wine rich in artery scrubbing<br />
flavonoids can benefit the health of<br />
the mind and body. The first glass of<br />
wine is $5, plus discounted appetizers.<br />
211 Palos Verdes Blvd., Redondo<br />
<strong>Beach</strong>. For more information visit<br />
bchd.org/bzp.<br />
Friday, <strong>Sept</strong>ember 16<br />
Sister Bernie’s Bingo Bash<br />
In this family friendly comedy, a<br />
priest and two nuns travel across the<br />
country playing bingo with hopes of<br />
making enough money to reopen their<br />
beloved St. Dymphna’s Church. 7<br />
p.m. St. James School in the O’Gorman<br />
Center, 4625 Garnet Street, Torrance.<br />
For information call Jon Marco<br />
at (323) 333-8325. Tickets at at the<br />
door or at brownpapertickets.com.<br />
Saturday, <strong>Sept</strong>ember 17<br />
Trusting dancers<br />
Art Attack presents the Diavolo<br />
Dance Theatre Education Company's<br />
"T.R.U.S.T." Dancers fly, fall, jump,<br />
catch and challenge their personal<br />
boundaries using doors, ladders and<br />
benches. 10:30 a.m. James Armstrong<br />
Theatre, Torrance Cultural Arts Center,<br />
3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance.<br />
Call the Box Office at (310)<br />
781-7171 or for more information visit<br />
artattackfoundation.org.<br />
Life of a combat pilot<br />
The Western Museum of Flight<br />
Celebrity Lecture series presents “The<br />
Right Man in the Right Fight” by Mustang<br />
Ace Colonel Richard Candelaria.<br />
11 a.m. Western Museum of Flight,<br />
3315 Airport Drive, Torrance. For information<br />
call Cynthia Macha (714)<br />
300-5524. Wmof.com.<br />
Calendar cont. on page 31<br />
A weekend of lobster drizzled in butter and lemon and a line up of great<br />
music returns to Redondo’s Seaside Lagoon the weekend of <strong>Sept</strong>ember 23.<br />
Tickets at Lobsterfestival.com. 200 Portofino Way, Redondo <strong>Beach</strong>. Photo by<br />
Chelsea Schreiber<br />
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each charity<br />
AMBASSADORS HEAR CANCER SURVIVOR’S<br />
Story of Resilience and Gratitude<br />
M<br />
embers of the Ambassador Program, an annual support group of Torrance<br />
Memorial, came together at Shade Hotel Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong> to learn how<br />
their donations were supporting the medical center’s lifesaving work. Oncology<br />
is one of four services supported through the Ambassadors. Dr. Hugo Hool<br />
introduced his patient, cancer survivor Mike Hebson and his wife, Nancy. They<br />
shared their journey from receiving their life-changing diagnosis through recovery<br />
and spoke of the nurse navigators, physicians, nurses and staff who offered exceptional<br />
guidance and support at each phase of care. For information on how to become<br />
an Ambassador, contact Judith Gassner at 310-517-4704 or visit www.TorranceMemorial.org/Ambassadors.<br />
1. Mark Lurie, MD, Barbara Demming<br />
Lurie.<br />
2. Hugo Hool, MD, Kalpana Hool,<br />
Elizabeth Paul, MD, Jay Paul, MD.<br />
3. Sandy Jackson, Karl Jackson, Laura<br />
Schenasi.<br />
4. Ann Zimmerman, Harriet Bailiss-<br />
Sustarsic.<br />
PHOTOS BY DEIDRE DAVIDSON<br />
5. Mike Hebson (cancer survivor), Judith<br />
Gassner, Nancy Hebson, Craig<br />
Leach.<br />
6. Rich Lucy, Pat Lucy.<br />
7. Paula Thomas, Christy Abraham,<br />
Winston Mar, Vicky Mar.<br />
8. Tiffany Mesko, Jeff Neu, Judith<br />
Gassner, Song Klein.<br />
9. Russ Varon, Song Klein, Hugo<br />
Hool, MD, Kalpana Hool.<br />
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2 3<br />
4 5<br />
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7 8 9<br />
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Reaching<br />
new<br />
heights<br />
by Randy Angel<br />
Mira Costa cross country coaches (front to back) Roberto Calderon, Annie Seawright-Newton, Renee Williams-Smith and Jeff Atkinson open the season with<br />
both boys and girls teams ranked in the top 10 in CIF-Southern Section Division 2. Photo by Brad Jacobson<br />
Mira Costa coaches keep their students grounded with an annual training camp at Mammoth Mountain<br />
Four-time U.S. Olympic marathon runner<br />
Meb Keflezighi was preparing for his final<br />
training run before leaving for Rio de<br />
Janeiro when he was met at the Horseshoe Lake<br />
trailhead in Mammoth Lakes Basin by 100 unexpected<br />
well-wishers.<br />
The well-wishers were cross country runners<br />
from Mira Costa and Palos Verdes high schools<br />
enjoying one of the memorable moments they<br />
would experience while attending the annual<br />
training camp started in 1998 by former Mira<br />
Costa and Olympic distance runner Jeff Atkinson.<br />
Some of the boys painted their chests with<br />
“Good Luck Meb” before the team took off on a<br />
run with him. Keflezighi was so moved by the<br />
show of support that he changed his Facebook<br />
landing page photo to one showing himself with<br />
the high school runners.<br />
For Atkinson, who finished 10th in the 1,500-<br />
meter race at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South<br />
Korea, the run added to the lore and lure of his<br />
Mammoth camp trips.<br />
The former Mira Costa runner (class of ‘81) returns<br />
to Mira Costa this year as an assistant coach<br />
under head coach Roberto Calderon. Atkinson<br />
spent the past 14 years building Palos Verdes<br />
High School’s cross country program into one of<br />
the strongest in the state.<br />
Despite being Bay League adversaries, runners<br />
from Mira Costa and Palos Verdes have had a<br />
close relationship for many years thanks to the<br />
Mammoth training camp. This year’s trip began<br />
with a caravan of nine 15-passenger vans, which<br />
took the student athletes to condos, where they<br />
cooked their own meals and cleaned up after<br />
themselves.<br />
Training events included a run to Duck Lake,<br />
climbing from 9,000 to 10,600 feet in only four<br />
miles and a 16-mile trek through the wilderness<br />
to Iceberg Lake.<br />
“We try to make the work as majestic and beautiful<br />
as it is difficult,” Atkinson said. “It makes for<br />
a winning formula. We run runs most teams, or<br />
even pros, don’t do. This year we added<br />
Tuolumne Meadows to our agenda. We ended at<br />
the river, had a picnic, ran back and had a dance<br />
party.<br />
“It’s the best week of a high school kid’s life.<br />
Nine days in the mountains in a remarkable part<br />
of the country. Training twice a day like a beast.<br />
We get to see the full spectrum of teenage behaviour.<br />
It’s a wonderful mix of enthusiasm.”<br />
Renee Williams-Smith, head coach of the girls<br />
cross country team, was on her 12th training trip<br />
to Mammoth this summer. Like Atkinson,<br />
Williams-Smith returned to her alma mater to<br />
coach. She was the first girl to run cross country<br />
at Mira Costa and earned a full scholarship to<br />
Kansas State.<br />
“Training in the high altitude helps our conditioning.<br />
But having the runners challenge themselves<br />
and accomplish things they never thought<br />
they could do before is the real reward,”<br />
Williams-Smith said. “The trip is a great bonding<br />
time and there are no distractions like at home.<br />
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Members of Mira Costa’s cross country team joined Meb Keflezighi for a run before the four-time Olympic marathoner left for Rio de Janeiro.<br />
Photo by Damian Court<br />
You really get to know your teammates after running<br />
with them for one-and-a-half to two hours.”<br />
Savannah Pio, who won the CIF State Division<br />
2 Cross Country Championship in 2010 before<br />
continuing her running career at Cal Poly San<br />
Luis Obispo, said running cross country played a<br />
significant role in her life and was her favorite<br />
high school experience.<br />
“I was fortunate to have Renee as a coach,” Pio<br />
said. “She taught me a work ethic that translated<br />
to all areas of my life.”<br />
Pio, who ran a sub 6-minute mile as a 6th<br />
grader at Hermosa Valley School, remembers<br />
being disappointed when told of Williams-<br />
Smith’s policy of not allowing freshmen to attend<br />
the Mammoth Camp.<br />
“I had the time of my life in Mammoth. There<br />
was not one bad day during my three trips there<br />
during high school,” Pio said. “I’ve never been a<br />
morning person but meeting a large group of people<br />
at 5 a.m. for a run made it doable. Duck Lake<br />
was my favorite run. I focused more on that run,<br />
which was one of the earlier runs of the trip, and<br />
had fun competing with Palos Verdes’ Rebecca<br />
Mehra (2009 CIF State Division 3 champion).<br />
Pio’s experience had such an impact that during<br />
her sophomore year at Cal Poly, she served as<br />
a chaperone during the Mammoth Camp. And<br />
she’s entertained the idea of coaching at Mira<br />
Costa in the future.<br />
Another former Mustang enters her third season<br />
as the girls assistant coach and is a running<br />
icon in the South Bay. Annie Seawright-Newton<br />
has either won or been among the top female finishers<br />
in every South Bay running event,<br />
“Annie has a positive outlook every day,”<br />
Williams-Smith said. “Along with her running expertise,<br />
she is so encouraging for the girls. I’m so<br />
lucky to have her coach with me. Annie and I<br />
were both coached at El Camino College by Dave<br />
Shannon and both of us, along with Jeff Atkinson<br />
were coached by Dave Holland at Mira Costa.”<br />
A few years younger than Williams-Smith, Seawright-Newton<br />
has looked up to her longtime<br />
friend since high school.<br />
“It’s amazing to see how Renee has improved<br />
the program and I learn from her everyday,” Seawright-Newton<br />
said. “She really makes an effort<br />
to make every girl feel special and part of the<br />
team, which is a feat with more than 80 girls. I<br />
love how Renee, Jeff, and I have been able to<br />
come full circle and return to the program where<br />
it all started for us. We all have had so many positive<br />
experiences through running that it feels<br />
great to be able to give back to the sport.<br />
“Jeff’s racing and training knowledge and experience<br />
are incredible, but what stands out most<br />
about him is that his enthusiasm is contagious.<br />
He is super creative and is always thinking of<br />
new ways to promote team bonding and to make<br />
running fun for the team.”<br />
The Mira Costa coaching staff hopes the trip to<br />
Mammoth will pay dividends for a program that<br />
continues to improve. In the CIF-Southern Section<br />
preseason poll Mira Costa’s boys team is<br />
ranked No. 2 and the girls No. 6 in Division 2.<br />
The teams will be challenged in the next two<br />
weeks when they compete in the Laguna Hills Invitational<br />
on Saturday, <strong>Sept</strong>. 10 and the following<br />
Saturday in the 36th Skechers Woodbridge Cross<br />
Country Classic at Silverlakes Sports Park in<br />
Norco.<br />
Cross Country cont. on page 18<br />
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Cross Country cont. from page 17<br />
Seniors Mike Yaskowitz and<br />
Caleb Lloren will lead Mira Costa’s<br />
boys team, which reached the CIF<br />
State Championships last year for<br />
the first time since 2011. In last<br />
year’s State meet at Woodward<br />
Park in Fresno, Mira Costa finished<br />
12th out of 115 teams and was the<br />
fastest Mustang team ever to compete<br />
in the event.<br />
Family bonds<br />
More than a talented team lured<br />
Atkinson back to his alma mater,<br />
where he was an assistant coach<br />
from 1998-2000.<br />
“Both of my children are running<br />
for Mira Costa now so I felt the<br />
time was right to come back,”<br />
Atkinson said. “I had a great 14<br />
years at Palos Verdes. I volunteered<br />
last year and Roberto (Calderon)<br />
and I work well together.”<br />
Atkinson’s daughter Lucy is a<br />
sophomore while son Billy is a<br />
freshman who is a surfer/skater<br />
and is going to “give running a try.”<br />
Atkinson believes maintaining a<br />
strong running program is based<br />
on the community. Students join<br />
the program, become members of<br />
a family, leading their friends to<br />
Because of a knee injury, former Olympic distance runner Jeff Atkinson bikes while pacing Mira Costa runners. Photo<br />
by Damian Court<br />
18 Easy Reader / <strong>Beach</strong> magazine • <strong>Sept</strong>ember 8, <strong>2016</strong>
want to join as well.<br />
Fifteen years ago, Atkinson<br />
founded the Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong> 5K,<br />
an event that has grown to become<br />
a twice-a-year tradition during the<br />
summer and winter solstices. Runners<br />
run on the hard packed sand at<br />
low tide, starting and finishing at<br />
the Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong> Pier.<br />
“Ideally, we’d like to have 10 percent<br />
of the students at the school<br />
participating in cross country and<br />
track and field,” Atkinson said. “It<br />
is the No. 1 participation sport<br />
among high schools in the United<br />
States, so winning a championship<br />
in cross country indicates you are<br />
among the elite teams.”<br />
“Watching the light bulb go on is<br />
what I enjoy most,” Atkinson said.<br />
“Like any kind of teaching, to be<br />
able to share information with a<br />
person who then makes it their own<br />
is special. To watch them climb a<br />
mountain – both literally and<br />
metaphorically – is the greatest gift<br />
one could have.”<br />
Williams-Smith is also expecting<br />
another successful season. She has<br />
five of seven varsity starters, including<br />
some runners who were on the<br />
cusp last year, returning from a<br />
team that finished 25th out of 115<br />
teams at last year’s CIF State Championships.<br />
Senior Melia Chittenden finished<br />
11th overall in State last season and<br />
will lead a team that includes returners<br />
Sierra Andrade, Gabby<br />
Guerrero, Brooke Inouye and Emily<br />
Jones.<br />
Williams-Smith’s legacy at Mira<br />
Costa runs deep.<br />
Williams-Smith was instrumental<br />
in starting the first girls cross country<br />
team at Mira Costa. In 1977, she<br />
was told by her soccer coach that<br />
her playing time would be limited.<br />
Then her English teacher suggested<br />
she try out for cross country. Because<br />
there was only a boys team,<br />
she asked some friends to join.<br />
“I started running for Costa my<br />
junior year with a handful of<br />
friends,” Williams-Smith recalled.<br />
“There were maybe 10 to 12 girls on<br />
the team when I graduated. There<br />
were 30 when I returned to coach.”<br />
Williams-Smith had 29 new runners<br />
in the summer program and 85<br />
girls on Mira Costa’s cross country<br />
team this year, making it one of the<br />
largest athletic programs at the<br />
school.<br />
The goal of each runner is to gain<br />
a yellow T-shirt with the words<br />
Mira Costa Cross Country bordered<br />
by two, green horizontal stripes.<br />
The status symbol is given to runners<br />
who complete a 10-mile run on<br />
a selected Saturday on a course in<br />
Palos Verdes.<br />
“Most kids haven’t run much before<br />
so I love watching them overcome<br />
personal challenges and<br />
accomplish things they never<br />
thought they could do,” Williams-<br />
Smith said. “It’s exciting to see kids<br />
earn their stripes. It’s a team-oriented<br />
sport, where bonding and<br />
making new friends is as important<br />
as the athletic benefits.”<br />
Williams-Smith runs about 40<br />
miles every week and tries to run at<br />
least one marathon each year. She<br />
has competed in two Boston<br />
Marathons, the first coming as a 49-<br />
year-old, the year of the terrorist<br />
bombing. She returned the following<br />
year “just to show them we cannot<br />
be intimidated.”<br />
Annie Seawright-Newton’s legacy<br />
will also live on when she has the<br />
opportunity to coach her freshman<br />
daughter, Piper, who is giving cross<br />
country a try after she stopped playing<br />
indoor volleyball to focus on the<br />
beach version of the sport.<br />
“I hope she ends up with the<br />
same love for running as I have,”<br />
Seawright-Newton said. “Running<br />
has been such a big part of my life<br />
and enriched it in so many ways.<br />
My favorite part of coaching is helping<br />
kids develop a love of running<br />
and to see them start reaping the<br />
benefits – the friendships with<br />
teammates, the confidence that<br />
comes from being able to push<br />
yourself and achieve your goals, the<br />
rush you get when you set a personal<br />
record and the satisfying feeling<br />
of being in top physical shape.”<br />
Seawright-Newton is beginning<br />
her ninth year coaching the Hermosa<br />
<strong>Beach</strong> Run Club where about<br />
50 kids in third through eighth<br />
grade run once a week, starting<br />
with 1-1/2 mile runs and working<br />
their way up to five mile runs. The<br />
goal of the kids is to earn a “101<br />
Mile” hoodie by the end of the<br />
school year.<br />
“It is amazing how far and fast<br />
some of these kids go without even<br />
realizing it because they are busy<br />
talking with friends and enjoying<br />
the scenery,” Seawright-Newton<br />
said. “During cross country season<br />
we put together a team and compete<br />
against local schools, including<br />
Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong> Middle School<br />
and Palos Verdes Intermediate<br />
School. It gives them a little taste of<br />
cross country. The hope is they will<br />
consider competing in high school.<br />
Even if they don't, I hope they all<br />
come away with good memories<br />
and since running is a ‘life sport’<br />
some may go back to it later in life.” B<br />
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The<br />
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new president<br />
brings experience in<br />
college-business<br />
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Dena Maloney is El Camino College’s sixth president, and its first woman president. Photo by Kevin Cody<br />
by Kevin Cody<br />
Freshman students pictured in the inaugural,<br />
1947 El Camino College Warrior yearbook<br />
don’t look like freshly graduated high<br />
school students. Most were World War II veterans.<br />
The national war effort had evolved into a<br />
national education effort, funded by the GI Bill.<br />
One of the founding freshmen pictured in the<br />
1947 yearbook is a future North American Aviation<br />
tool and die maker named Bill Pearson.<br />
This past February, Pearson’s daughter Dena<br />
Maloney was named the 6th president in El<br />
Camino college’s six decade history and its first<br />
female president, replacing retiring president<br />
Tom Fallo. Maloney keeps a copy of the 1947<br />
yearbook in her office for reasons other than the<br />
obvious fondness for her father. The yearbook is<br />
a reminder of El Camino’s future.<br />
California’s 113 community colleges have embarked<br />
on an education effort, not unlike the post<br />
World War II effort, to fill the nation’s workplace<br />
“skills gap.” The <strong>2016</strong> California State budget includes<br />
$200 million for the Strong Workforce Program.<br />
The program matches student training<br />
with private sector needs. El Camino will receive<br />
$1.5 million of this money for its Career Technical<br />
Education (CTE) programs.<br />
Maloney’s previous experience at Santa Clarita<br />
and West Kern community college districts made<br />
her an attractive candidate to replace Fallo.<br />
“Coming from a smaller district gave her more<br />
hands on experience,” El Camino Trustee Bob<br />
Beverly said. Beverly represents District 3, which<br />
includes Hermosa <strong>Beach</strong>, Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong>, El<br />
Segundo and North Redondo <strong>Beach</strong>. “We had<br />
candidates who were strong in community relations,<br />
strong in academics, strong in vocational<br />
education. Maloney appeared strong in all of<br />
these areas.”<br />
Beverly noted that California community colleges<br />
are “two headed beasts.” Their academic<br />
program students are expected to transfer to a<br />
state college or university. Their vocational program<br />
students are expected to enter the workforce<br />
after two years. Maloney said the goal of<br />
most of El Camino’s 22,000 students is to transfer<br />
to a four year college. But her background suggest<br />
an equal appreciation for the college’s vocational<br />
program students.<br />
In the late 1990s, Maloney was named director<br />
of the Santa Clarita district’s Center for Applied<br />
Competitive Technology (CACT). In 2006, she<br />
was named founding dean of Santa Clarita College<br />
District’s new Canyon Country campus,<br />
which opened the following year. She also served<br />
as the college’s director of economic development.<br />
Foremost among Maloney’s achievements at<br />
College of the Canyons were the partnerships she<br />
forged with Santa Clarita’s many aerospace contractors.<br />
“They couldn’t find workers. They were raiding<br />
their fellow contractors for employees,” Maloney<br />
recalled.<br />
“They told me, ‘We’re not in the training business.<br />
What can you do for us?”<br />
Maloney told them she was limited in what she<br />
could do because her college couldn’t afford the<br />
equipment needed to train skilled workers. Boeing,<br />
IBM and other Santa Clarita employers responded<br />
by contributing $6 million to equip her<br />
campus’ new Applied Technology Education<br />
Center, which opened in 2011.<br />
“The companies also agreed not to raid one another’s<br />
employees, who were sent to the centers<br />
for training,” Maloney said.<br />
Maloney had used the same strategy several<br />
years earlier to fund the College of the Canyon<br />
Biotechnology Center. The 4,700 square foot facility<br />
was built off campus, in the nearby Mann<br />
Biomedical Park.<br />
College of the Canyon’s two training centers<br />
are similar to El Camino’s Business Training Center<br />
in Hawthorne. The center offers courses cus-<br />
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tomized to the needs of South Bay businesses,<br />
taught by local professionals.<br />
On Campus, El Camino has a new 70 classroom,<br />
$38 million Industry Technology Education<br />
Center, offering courses ranging from<br />
drafting and fashion to robotics and emergency<br />
medical technology. It also has a new, $30 million<br />
Center for Applied Technology, which offers<br />
courses in welding, automotive and green technology.<br />
The buildings were built with proceeds<br />
from a $394 million bond approved by voters in<br />
2002. At the time, the bond was the largest of its<br />
kind in state history.<br />
Courses offered at the new tech center range<br />
from architecture and automotive to paramedics<br />
and welding,<br />
Proceeds from the 2002 bond will have been<br />
exhausted this fall with the opening of the new<br />
Murdoch Stadium, an NFL-level, $37 million<br />
football, soccer and track stadium, with an adjacent<br />
sports medicine center. The original Murdoch<br />
Stadium was built in 1949 and named after<br />
the school’s founding president Forrest Murdoch.<br />
The fabled stadium produced over 60 NFL football<br />
players, the most of any community college<br />
in the nation, and was the location for Chris<br />
Rock’s and Adam Sandler’s “The Longest Yard,”<br />
and dozens of other movies.<br />
Maloney has arrived at El Camino, just in time<br />
to preside, not only over the new stadium’s opening<br />
kickoff, but also the spending kickoff of a second,<br />
$350 million bond passed in 2012.<br />
“We’re just finishing mapping out how to spend<br />
the 2012 bond money,” Maloney said in her soon<br />
to be demolished office. A new administration<br />
building is planned, along with new fine arts and<br />
behavioral arts clasrooms, two swimming pools,<br />
and a new student services building.<br />
Back to the South Bay<br />
Maloney said one of the reasons she sought the<br />
El Camino position was to be closer to her family.<br />
She was born in Inglewood. And though her immediate<br />
family moved to La Puente in the San<br />
Gabriel Valley when she was young, she spent<br />
much of her summers with her grandparents, in<br />
Hawthorne and has many South Bay cousins.<br />
After attending Loyola Marymount on a scholarship,<br />
where she majored in political science,<br />
she earned a masters in government at Georgetown<br />
University. She then spent two years on<br />
Capitol Hill working for Texas Congressman<br />
Charles Wilson.The Congressman’s involvement<br />
in the covert funding of the Afghan Mujahideen<br />
in their fight against the invading Soviet Union<br />
became the subject of the Hollywood film, “Charlie<br />
Wilson’s War.”<br />
“I worked for Congressman Wilson on postal<br />
service issues,” Maloney was quick to point out.<br />
In the early 1980s, she and her husband moved<br />
to Hermosa <strong>Beach</strong>, where they lived for three<br />
years.<br />
“I worked in Irvine and he worked in Van<br />
Nuys. Hermosa was mid way. When I got a new<br />
job closer to home, we celebrated at the Bottle<br />
Inn, on 22nd Street. We used to have breakfast at<br />
Le Petite Cafe, around the corner from our apartment<br />
on 190th Street,” she said.<br />
Maloney and her husband recently moved to<br />
Rancho Palos Verdes. She said she is looking forward<br />
to more celebratory dinners at the new Bottle<br />
Inn in Riviera Village.<br />
Maloney’s career in education began in the<br />
early 1990s with a part time job with the Santa<br />
Clarita Community College District. She worked<br />
with local businesses on job training. She subsequently<br />
was named director of the college’s Employee<br />
Training Institute, then, in rapid<br />
succession director of its Center for Applied<br />
Competitive Technology and then dean of the college’s<br />
yet to be built Canyon Campus.<br />
Community connections<br />
This fall El Camino will host its first (at least in<br />
recent memory) College Night for high school<br />
seniors and their parents. The evening is part of<br />
Maloney’s strategic outreach to area high schoolers.<br />
Another part of the strategy, she said, is the<br />
college’s “dual enrollment” program, which allows<br />
high school students to take college level<br />
courses from El Camino professors at the high<br />
schoolers’ campuses.<br />
Despite her enthusiasm for technology education,<br />
Maloney did not speak enthusiastically<br />
about online classes. She acknowledged that they<br />
will be “part of the mix,” but pointed out they<br />
don’t work well for lab courses. She did speak favorably<br />
of state legislation that will fund development<br />
of online college textbooks because<br />
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Abby Brown en route to winning the <strong>2016</strong> Catalina Classic Paddleboard women’s division championship. Photo by Mike Ruiz<br />
DJ O’Brien won the 2015 Catalina Classic and finished second this year. Photo by Chris Aguilar/ChrisAguilarMedia.com<br />
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<strong>2016</strong> Catalina Classic women competitors included (l-r) Heidi Gastler, Bernadette Foote, DJ O'Brien, Marisa Kuiken, Yvonne Chavez, Jennifer Wessels, Katie<br />
Hazelrigg and Abby Brown. Missing from the photo is Cat Malicki. Photo by Mike Ruiz<br />
Thanks to enthusiastic mentors, the number of female paddlers is growing<br />
It’s the evening before the Catalina Classic<br />
Paddleboard Championship and Abby Brown,<br />
an 18-year-old from Santa Barbara, is on<br />
Catalina Island, setting her 12-foot Bark next to<br />
the other competitors’ paddle boards, because<br />
why wouldn’t she be there? She’s a born waterwoman,<br />
driven by a compulsion to be in the<br />
water –she prefers training alone – and prodigious<br />
talent.<br />
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becoming one of the youngest winners in<br />
the race’s 20-year history.<br />
Four weeks later, she was on Catalina Island to<br />
compete in the 32-mile Classic.<br />
“That’s like doing two ironmans in a month,”<br />
said Jo Ambrosi, a Classic veteran and unlimited<br />
division women’s record holder. “It’s insane. If<br />
Abby wins both, it’s a big deal.”<br />
The following morning, Sunday, August 28,<br />
Brown crossed the finish line at the Manhattan<br />
<strong>Beach</strong> pier in 6:31:41, less than a minute ahead<br />
of last year’s winner DJ O’Brien. Brown became<br />
the first rookie and youngest person ever to win<br />
the Classic and only the second woman to have<br />
won the Classic and the Molokai races in the<br />
same year. Coronado lifeguard Carter Graves<br />
won both races in 2014.<br />
The tanned, well-muscled, and ebullient<br />
O’Brien is the founder of South Bay Mermaids.<br />
Katie Hazelrigg, a 25-year-old L.A. County lifeguard<br />
who came in fourth on Sunday with a time<br />
of 6:48:14, calls O’Brien her “Mer-mom.” So does<br />
Heidi Gastler, a local physical therapist who finished<br />
in 8:05:24.<br />
A hallmark of niche sports like paddleboarding<br />
is they creates tight-knit families that span generations<br />
and borders. Some of the family actually<br />
is family. This year, Yvonne Chavez and Marisa<br />
Kuiken, of San Diego, became the first mother<br />
and daughter to paddle in the Classic the same<br />
year. Kuiken, a lifeguard, placed third with a time<br />
of 6:42:16. The 29-year-old competed in her first<br />
Classic last year, when conditions were particularly<br />
rough.<br />
“I came here last year to be Marisa’s support,”<br />
said her mother Yvonne, a 57-year-old native of<br />
Mexico City, who started paddling before her<br />
daughter did. “This year I thought oh, you know<br />
what, I’ll try it.” Chavez finished in eight hours,<br />
nine minutes and 25 seconds.<br />
“One of the greatest things about this sport is<br />
that we’re all friends,” O’Brien said. “It’s our<br />
community.”<br />
Welcoming young girls into the family, and<br />
watching newbies, such as Bernadette Foote, fall<br />
in love with paddleboarding helps keeps the fire<br />
aflame for veteran paddlers. Foote, 19, became<br />
the first person from Catalina Island to compete<br />
Catalina cont. on page 28<br />
<strong>Sept</strong>ember 8, <strong>2016</strong> • Easy Reader / <strong>Beach</strong> magazine 27
Catalina cont. from page 27<br />
in the Classic. She grew up listening<br />
to the sound of the horn that<br />
kicks off both the Rock 2 Rock – a<br />
22-mile race from Catalina to<br />
Cabrillo <strong>Beach</strong>, San Pedro – and<br />
the Classic. Each year, her family<br />
hosts paddlers from the mainland.<br />
Foote finished in seven hours, 48<br />
minutes, and 44 seconds.<br />
“For me what’s gratifying isn’t<br />
just that every year there’s a bigger<br />
number of girls, but that there are<br />
younger girls coming through,”<br />
Ambrosi said. “That’s what’s going<br />
to keep longevity in the sport.<br />
They’re young and in their prime<br />
and hopefully they’ll bring other<br />
girls into the sport. That’s what it’s<br />
all about.”<br />
In 1996, the first year she competed,<br />
Ambrosi was the only female<br />
among 102 competitors.<br />
Nonetheless, she was in familiar<br />
territory. Ambrosi works as a firefighter<br />
in her native Australia. This<br />
summer, she is working as a ranger<br />
on Catalina. Teresa McDowell, a<br />
Catalina Island facilities manager,<br />
who is known as the “Paddlers’<br />
Godmother,” helped Ambrosi get<br />
the job.<br />
“We don’t get into things we love<br />
Bernadette Foote, 19, is the first Catalina Islander to have competed in the<br />
Catalina Classic. Photo by Beverly Baird<br />
to be the first girls,” said Ambrosi.<br />
“We get into it and then think how<br />
come there’s not that many girls? I<br />
want to get heaps of girls in because<br />
it’s so cool. It’s about not having<br />
any barriers – not about your size or<br />
gender, just about giving it a shot.”<br />
Of this year’s Classic’s 93 paddlers,<br />
nine were women. They were<br />
a tough group of females, strong<br />
enough in body, mind, and spirit to<br />
overcome powerful urges to quit<br />
and the physical pain of paddling 32<br />
miles.<br />
Jennifer Wessels, a San Pedro native,<br />
paddled with a torn pectoral<br />
muscle and still managed to cross<br />
the finish line in just over eight<br />
hours. Cat Malicki, who said she<br />
was “just trying to survive the race,”<br />
clocked 7:41:55 and in doing so fulfilled<br />
her promise to donors who<br />
pledged $1,070 for Ocean of Hope<br />
if she finished the race.<br />
“This endurance race will be a<br />
struggle,” Malicki, who works as a<br />
radiation therapist, wrote on her<br />
crowdfunding page, “but it pales in<br />
comparison to what our patients go<br />
through.”<br />
For the women, as for the men,<br />
the Catalina Classic is about setting<br />
and achieving goals, perpetuating<br />
the sport of prone paddling and<br />
honoring both the ocean and the<br />
human body.<br />
“But it’s not equal and equal,”<br />
Ambrosi says. “We’re not built the<br />
same and we don’t function the<br />
same. I’ve paddled this channel<br />
many times and guys have a different<br />
experience than me. Don’t tell<br />
me it’s the same because it’s not.<br />
What it is about is personal experience<br />
and the challenge of crossing<br />
the channel and what you learn<br />
crossing the channel and the support<br />
you give each other, because<br />
whether you’re a first-year or a 20-<br />
year crosser, you all support each<br />
other. You acknowledge each<br />
other’s success...because to get on<br />
the start line, prepared for this race<br />
is amazing. To finish is a big deal.<br />
Winning is a totally different ballpark.”<br />
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each brew<br />
MEETING OF THE GUILD<br />
at Naja’s Place<br />
T<br />
hough commonly known as the “Battle of the<br />
Guild,” the meeting of the LA Brewers Guild is the<br />
climax of LA Beer Week, a celebration of local craft<br />
beer. This year’s meeting was held at Naja’s on the Redondo<br />
<strong>Beach</strong> pier. LABG and Naja’s selected 20 breweries<br />
from the San Francisco to the San Diego for the coveted<br />
“Golden Keg.”<br />
Naja’s GM Jay Ousten delared this year’s winner was<br />
the Saison Farmhouse styled ale “Stone Kisses from Torrance’s<br />
very popular Monkish Brewing Co. Over the past<br />
eight years, the LABG has yet to lose on its home court.<br />
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1. The Blue Room<br />
Crew, self deemed VIPs,<br />
holds court.<br />
2. Two things that get<br />
former Redondo Councilman<br />
Jeff Ginsburg out<br />
of Riviera Village: good<br />
beer and karaoke.<br />
3. Hop Saint Brewing<br />
Co. brewer Brian<br />
Brewer gives Naja’s Jay<br />
Ousten a big high five.<br />
4. Jeremy Duncan of<br />
Mother Earth Brewing in<br />
San Diego chats with<br />
King Harbor Brewing’s<br />
Will Daines.<br />
5. Brian Brewer, Jimmy<br />
Smith from LABW’s<br />
Weigand Family Distribution<br />
and Rodger<br />
Davis of Faction Brewing<br />
Co of San Francisco<br />
Brewers Guild.<br />
6. The voting system.<br />
7. El Segundo Brewing’s<br />
Tom Kelley and<br />
friends.<br />
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Calendar cont. from page 8<br />
Master chalk artists provide inspiration for art enthusiasts of all ages on Saturday,<br />
<strong>Sept</strong>ember 10 during the 14th Annual Chalk Art Festival at the Redondo<br />
<strong>Beach</strong> pier noon to 4 p.m. And it’s free, plus prizes for the judges’<br />
favorites. For more information visit RedondoPier.com.<br />
Sunday, <strong>Sept</strong>ember 18<br />
Surfing 4A Cure<br />
The 5th annual Surfing 4A Cure features 12 person relay teams. 7 a.m. ‘till<br />
noon at Torrance <strong>Beach</strong>. After party in Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> 2 - 5 p.m. Surfing 4A Cure<br />
has raised over $65,000 toward pediatric cancer research. For online donations:<br />
visit http://support.chla.org/pages/abellaandhudsonshope.<br />
#StyleCrawl Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong><br />
Crawl your way to a fresh fall wardrobe at the first ever #StyleCrawl, a shopaholic’s<br />
dream in downtown Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong>. Noon to 6 p.m. Discounts from<br />
30-plus stores and restaurants along with entertainment, giveaways, snacks and<br />
beverages. Attendees are encouraged to bring clothes of good quality to be donated<br />
to local shelters, including 1736 Family Crisis Center. $15. Metlox Plaza,<br />
451 Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong> Blvd. For More Information Contact:<br />
info@styleonthespot.com. For a peak at what Downtown Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong> has<br />
to offer visit downtownmanhattanbeach.com<br />
Friday, Saturday, Sunday <strong>Sept</strong>ember 23, 24 and 25<br />
Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> Lobster and Music Festival<br />
Lobster and steak plus a great music lineup by Saint Rocke returns to the Seaside<br />
Lagoon in King Harbor. Friday 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday noon to 11 p.m. Sunday<br />
noon to 8 p.m.Tickets at Lobsterfestival.com. 200 Portofino Way, Redondo <strong>Beach</strong>,<br />
South Bay Yoga Conference<br />
Over 80 workshops and lectures will be presented today through Sunday on<br />
Yoga for Addiction, Yoga for Managing Cancer, Tantra, Meditation, Food as Medicine,<br />
Bee Colonies, Urban Gardening, Ayurveda, Business of Yoga, Slack-lining,<br />
Reiki and Acupuncture. 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. A yoga village for kids, performances<br />
and a marketplace will also be offered. Hermosa <strong>Beach</strong> Community Center 710<br />
Pier Ave. Hermosa <strong>Beach</strong>.For more information call (424) 247- 6457 or email<br />
info@southbayyogaconference.com.<br />
Thursday, <strong>Sept</strong>ember 29<br />
Champions of Business<br />
The City of El Segundo and the El Segundo Economic Development Advisory<br />
Council will honor Continental Development president Richard Lundquist for<br />
his dedication to the economic development of El Segundo and his incomparable<br />
charitable contributions. Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe will emcee<br />
and LA Rams COO Kevin Demoff will speak. 5:30 to 8 p.m., Performing Arts<br />
Center, Vistamar School, 737 Hawaii Street, El Segundo. For tickets email<br />
bkeohi@psmcommarts.com<br />
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Torrance Bakery’s Kirk Rossberg will be honored as Torrance’s <strong>2016</strong> Distinguished<br />
Citizen of the Year for his three decades of great baked goods and his<br />
gracious support of local charities. 11:30 a.m. Doubletree by Hilton Torrance,<br />
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Henry Morse holds the lead<br />
through a turn at the Canadian Tire<br />
Motor Park in Ontario, Canada during<br />
the Pirelli World Challenge Series.<br />
Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> high schooler<br />
fast 15<br />
Henry Morse, 15, races to<br />
the podium in the professional<br />
Pirelli World Challenge<br />
Morse demonstrated his driving skills<br />
early on in go kart racing at the<br />
Cal Speed Karting Center at the<br />
Auto Club Speedway in Fontana.
y David Mendez<br />
It’s easy to lose sight of the fact that Henry Morse, a contender for<br />
a series championship in the Pirelli World Challenge and multipletime<br />
racing champion, is only 15 years old. Even he forgets, sometimes.<br />
He was dissecting his comfort in front of crowds, how it’s so easy<br />
for him to speak clearly and confidently despite being much younger<br />
than most of his audience. “I took public speaking in middle school,”<br />
he said, before pausing for a moment. “That was last year, I guess.”<br />
Morse has been racing for nearly 90 percent of his life. He was “a<br />
year and eight months,” said his father Ben Morse, when he participated<br />
in his first sanctioned race, a bike race at the Chevron Manhattan<br />
<strong>Beach</strong> Grand Prix. He’s been moving up the ranks ever since, from<br />
bikes to motorcycles to go karts, where he won nine championships.<br />
This year is the Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> resident’s first year racing in a professional<br />
series. After ten races, he’s in second place in PWC’s Touring<br />
Car B division, 13 points off of the leader, 38 year old PJ Groenke. It’s<br />
not outside the realm of possibility for Henry to win the series, becoming<br />
both the first to win a PWC series in their first year, and the<br />
youngest person to do so.<br />
“He absolutely has the talent to be a successful race car driver, but<br />
he doesn’t have $7 million to $8 million dollars a year,” said his father.<br />
Racing isn’t cheap. It’s said that if a driver wants to make $10 million<br />
a year, they need to spend $50 million. Everything about owning and<br />
operating a race car is expensive, from cars to parts to transporting vehicles<br />
from track to track.<br />
“There’s another 15-year-old on a few series, and conservatively, he’s<br />
spending $8 to $12 million a year,” Morse said. “The only people who<br />
can make it like Henry are the incredibly lucky.”<br />
Both his father and grandfather raced cars, passing down a need for<br />
speed and deep-seated confidence.<br />
“There’s a certain mindset that someone needs to live in, in order to<br />
maximize their opportunities…I have an incredible opportunity to<br />
achieve greatness with the position I’m in,” Henry said. “There really<br />
isn’t any choice other than to devote myself entirely — it wouldn’t<br />
make sense not to.”<br />
He learned early on, he said, from watching his parents “making<br />
something out of nothing, or very little,” that trying his hardest can<br />
lead to success.<br />
“I’m really putting that to the test,” Henry said. “I think there are<br />
more people who have visited the International Space Station than have<br />
been pro race car drivers.”<br />
Much of his time is spent either on the track or in a racing simulator.<br />
But fundraising and finding partnerships are also a huge part of the<br />
work.<br />
Henry Morse earned motorsport media attention after his youthful<br />
success in the Pirelli World Challenge Series.<br />
“Ninety-nine percent of the time, we’re looking for partners who<br />
want to participate in this exceptional journey we’re on — people<br />
who have money, passion, and an interest in racing,” Ben Morse<br />
said. “The trick is hearing ‘no’ 10,000 times and still getting up in<br />
the morning with the understanding that the next person you talk<br />
to may be the one who makes your career possible.”<br />
Henry has the interview patter down. He rattles off his list of<br />
sponsors and partners — Pirelli, Freem, MorseGPS, among others<br />
— and tells how each has contributed to his career. He also gives<br />
credit to the teachers and staff at Rolling Hills Prep.<br />
He recognizes that his status as a 15-year-old racing with pros is<br />
a marketer’s dream. “They understand that I’m getting a lot of attention,”<br />
he said. He was given seven minutes of uninterrupted<br />
airtime on CBS Sports following a race this season. “It’s a good<br />
marketing move to partner with me.”<br />
He’s not concerned about burning out.<br />
“We’ve been through a lot of ups and downs…so much time and<br />
focus and energy has been devoted to this that, if burning out was<br />
possible, it would have happened already,” he said. “But if I end<br />
up not making it as a pro racer, I’ll still be racing something.”<br />
“I think it’s absolutely absurd,” his dad said. “I give him every<br />
opportunity to gracefully back away from it,” he said. “But you’re<br />
doing this because you enjoy it, not necessarily because you have<br />
to — it’s not a required career path, we just love it.”<br />
The two are constantly working together at the track. Ben races<br />
in many of the same series as Henry, and coaches him, discussing<br />
tracks and working out potential problems.<br />
Ben believes Henry’s biggest limitation is financial, not age.<br />
At the 2014 Grand Nationals a field of 100 drivers was pared<br />
down to six over the course of three days. Henry was among the<br />
finalists. All of the drivers took one lap, driving identical race cars.<br />
“The car is the same, the track, the time of day, tires, gas…all<br />
the same. There weren’t any excuses, just the person who was unquestionably<br />
the fastest driver.”<br />
That day, Henry came out on top — the fastest by seven thousandths<br />
of a second.<br />
“What happened in that moment is it defined him. It wasn’t any<br />
more about his dad telling him how good he was,” Ben said. B<br />
Ben Morse with son Henry at five months.<br />
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8. Musicians Adam Lawson and Oren Avineri of<br />
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9. Sean Crosby, Carol Glover, David Salzman<br />
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Bartender Eddie Barrett with Suburbia’s salmon tataki.<br />
Photo by Kevin Cody<br />
Offerings straddle<br />
American and Asian<br />
influences, with a<br />
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Lebanese lamb<br />
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by Richard Foss<br />
36 Easy Reader / <strong>Beach</strong> magazine • <strong>Sept</strong>ember 8, <strong>2016</strong><br />
Straddling<br />
Suburbia<br />
Riviera Village has been called “South Bay’s Little<br />
Italy,” and the appellation fits. Of the last 10<br />
restaurants to open here, seven specialize in Italian<br />
food and all seem to be doing well. When the Blackhouse<br />
Group took over a former Italian restaurant, I<br />
wasn’t the only one to wonder what region of Italy they<br />
would showcase. The name Suburbia didn’t offer any<br />
clues, though the term is Latin for “area near a city” and<br />
would fit a place serving food from the outskirts of<br />
Rome.<br />
Whatever suburb chef Tin Vuong was thinking of, it<br />
wasn’t that one. Suburbia is hip and contemporary, the<br />
interior sleek, modern, and lacking art in the dining<br />
room besides the decorative light fixtures and whimsical<br />
paper airplanes painted in random places. There is<br />
one lovely mural, though you’ll only see it if you happen<br />
to head for the restrooms. The environment is loud<br />
when the room is full, though the music is kept relatively<br />
low.<br />
The menu offerings straddle American and Asian influences,<br />
with a smattering of global items like<br />
Lebanese lamb with hummus and Mexican-style street<br />
corn. Most items are small plates designed for sharing,<br />
though a few are designated as “plat principal” – a<br />
pompous Frenchism that clashes with the otherwise casual<br />
and modern style.<br />
Our server Ecko suggested the three of us should<br />
order five or six items, and we decided to start with<br />
fried green tomatoes, salmon poke, and a beet and apple<br />
salad. We then enjoyed some very good cocktails during<br />
a very long wait for the food to arrive. It was at least 40<br />
minutes from the time we ordered, and since two items<br />
were salads we had not expected the delay.<br />
The sophisticated Tom Collins variant and the 1301,<br />
made with whiskey, port, and bitters, were very good,<br />
but the best was a pineapple-infused mescal item called<br />
the Birdman. All were variations on standard drinks,<br />
but expertly made.
The salad, poke, and tomatoes arrived together, and we started with the<br />
tomatoes because they deteriorate quickly after frying. The slices of fruity<br />
tomato inside a cornmeal crust were fine by themselves, but even better<br />
with the tangy buttermilk dressing, pimento-cheese sauce, and chili sauce<br />
provided for dipping. An assortment of spicy pickles completed the plate,<br />
and we liked these sides and condiments enough to ask for bread so we<br />
wouldn’t waste any. The raisin bread and bagel chips were great with the<br />
cheese and pickles, and I’d advise you to follow my lead here.<br />
The apple and beet salad was a good concept with oddly poor execution.<br />
The flavors of beets, apple, cress, endive, and walnuts with both yogurt<br />
and a honey sherry dressing were fine, but the beet was in large, lightly<br />
cooked chunks that needed to be cut while the apples were finely shredded.<br />
There was excess yoghurt, so that we ended up fishing the greens out<br />
of a pool at the bottom of the bowl. It was interesting, and will be a standout<br />
with refinements to the execution.<br />
The poke bowl wasn’t innovative by itself, since it’s no surprise that marinated<br />
salmon goes well with edamame, cucumber, chives, masago, and<br />
scallions. But the accompaniments of mild ginger sauce, mustard, and mild<br />
kimchi took the flavor in different directions. The shiso leaves and sheets<br />
of seaweed were also a nice touch, as they allowed you to create your own<br />
roll and play with flavors.<br />
The main courses arrived without a holdup, and though all had been described<br />
as small plates they were substantial.<br />
We also ordered fried chicken, pan seared sea bass, salt cod fried rice,<br />
and curried cauliflower. We immediately noticed some items were not as<br />
expected from the descriptions. Instead of being plated with vegetables on<br />
the side, the sea bass arrived in a small cauldron atop a stew of rock<br />
shrimp, chickpeas, tomatoes, mussels, and fennel. There was a traditionally<br />
Southern French dash of Pernod liqueur in the tomato broth, adding to the<br />
multiculturalism of this kitchen. It was more interesting than the menu<br />
description and either the menu should give more details or servers should<br />
be sure to inform diners what they’re getting.<br />
The curried cauliflower was a more subtle dish than we expected, the<br />
vegetable lightly sautéed with dry seasonings and then put over a spicy<br />
tomato fondue alongside a dollop of labneh cheese. The strongest element<br />
was not the curry, but the sweet pickled peppadew peppers that were scattered<br />
through the bowl with pine nuts and scallions. It wasn’t a conventional<br />
curry by any stretch of the imagination, but I’d order it again in a<br />
heartbeat.<br />
The fried chicken showed that this kitchen can play it straight when they<br />
want to. This was the traditional American favorite with no curveballs.<br />
The crust was crisp and mildly seasoned, and the accompaniments of mac<br />
and cheese, pickles, and housemade hot sauce would all have been at home<br />
in a particularly good picnic basket. There was aioli too, but I’m not sure<br />
why except to remind us what century we’re in.<br />
I ordered the salt cod fried rice omelet with fresh scallops and shrimp<br />
because the description sounded interesting: would that funky, salty flavor<br />
work with a sweet and sour pork and crab chili sauce? The sauce was<br />
sweet, spicy, and took over the dish in the nicest way. Dried codfish can<br />
be assertive but here it was a vital yet not overpowering component of the<br />
flavor. There are South Asian dishes that use fish sauce for a similar effect,<br />
and these flavors wouldn’t be out of place in a Monterey Park seafood<br />
house.<br />
At dinner we ordered a bottle of Lost Angel Pinot Noir from their well<br />
curated but overpriced wine list. The Lost Angel was a nice bottle that I<br />
hadn’t experienced before, but they need to add moderately priced wines<br />
so diners will be encouraged to experiment.<br />
Though we had over-ordered we wanted to try dessert so split a piece of<br />
carrot tres leches cake that had a nicely balanced vegetable and sugar<br />
sweetness. It would be great with coffee and even better with amari cocktails,<br />
and both are available.<br />
Our food bill was about $100 to feed three or four people, and the drinks<br />
about doubled that. For a meal of this caliber in Riviera Village, Suburbia<br />
is a bargain. The restaurant is open for breakfast through dinner daily, and<br />
locals might as well get used to seeing a line outside.<br />
Suburbia is at 247 Avenida Del Norte in Redondo. Open daily 9 a.m. – 3<br />
p.m and 5 p.m. – 10 p.m., reservations strongly recommended, street parking,<br />
wheelchair access good but some high tables – advise when reserving. Full bar,<br />
corkage $15, some vegetarian items. Website at eatsuburbia.com, phone (424)<br />
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each charity<br />
TRI-BEACH SISTER CITIES<br />
T<br />
he Tri-<strong>Beach</strong> Sister Cities Organization held its<br />
13th annual Cinco de Mayo celebration at Ortega<br />
120 on May 22. With a full house, this<br />
fundraiser included live music, delicious Mexican<br />
buffet, huge silent auction and a live auction. Proceeds<br />
benefit the people and cultural exchange for<br />
Hermosa/Loreto, Manhattan/Santa Rosalia and Redondo/La<br />
Paz & Ensenada.<br />
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PHOTOS BY<br />
ADRIENNE SLAUGHTER<br />
1. Hermosa Cyclery’s Ken Liebowitz, Tracy<br />
Robinson, Hermosa <strong>Beach</strong> Sister City Association<br />
President Deborah DeMaderios and husband<br />
Don with Sister City members Merna Marshall<br />
and Cathy McCurdy.<br />
2. Karen Nowicki, Pat Dacy, Ryan Nowicki and<br />
Martha Diaz.<br />
3. Anita Greenamyer, Kathy Barnes, Denise<br />
Rogers, Gentil and Smitty Smith.<br />
4. MJ Kutkus, Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> Sister City Assoc.<br />
President George Barks, RB Councilman Jeff Ginsburg<br />
and Gentil Smith<br />
5. Hermosa <strong>Beach</strong> Mayor Carolyn Petty, Bill<br />
Febbo and Sheila Kutkus<br />
6. Alicia Febbo and Margie Dupuis.<br />
7. Cedric “Mickey” McRae, Victoria Tallman and<br />
Julian Katz.<br />
8. Over 100 Silent Auction items helped raise<br />
funds for the exchange programs.<br />
9. Gila Katz, RB Mayor Steve Aspel, Pam Aspel,<br />
Mike Gin, Melissa and Jeff Ginsburg and Sheila<br />
Kutkus.<br />
10. Mickey McRae, Mark Goldstein, Stefanie<br />
Dacy, Moira Nelson, MJ Kutkus, Loree Goergen<br />
and Darren Tiffany visiting from Phoenix, Arizona.<br />
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Carpet Pros<br />
q Carpet Pros has over 22 years of experience transforming homes and businesses<br />
all over the South Bay. The friendly and knowledgeable design specialists<br />
make finding the right flooring surface for your home easier than ever before.<br />
Whether you are looking to install carpet or one of the many hard surfaces, the<br />
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q Supreme Paints has been a leading paint supplier in the South Bay for almost<br />
50 years -- known for its excellent service and quality products. Started by Sam<br />
Carl and his son Rick Carl, Supreme Paints has grown up with the community. In<br />
2012 Supreme Paints was acquired by Catalina Paints, a chain of stores in the<br />
Los Angeles area and the largest distributor of Benjamin Moore Paints in California.<br />
The 2 companies were a perfect match due to their dedication to the professional<br />
painter and providing quality products that can't be beat. Recently added to the<br />
Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong> location is Farrow & Ball paints, a favorite among designers.<br />
Both Catalina/Supreme Paints have full decorating departments with the latest<br />
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Maul Construction<br />
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Making all the decisions up-front, allows Custom Design to present you with an<br />
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Handyman Schatan: avocation a vocation<br />
q Matt Schatan helped several of his friends on their home-based projects, and<br />
he often listened to their suggestions that he start his own company. Schatan did<br />
just that in July 1998, using his talents to make a better living. Handyman Schatan<br />
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“I am overwhelmed sometimes with the amount of work I have,” says Schatan,<br />
noting that he is often answering the telephone as late as 10 p.m. Work has been<br />
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(310) 540-4444<br />
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q Pete Fer Plumbing is a complete mechanical contracting company, providing<br />
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Peveler’s Custom promises best renovation value<br />
q Peveler's Custom Interiors has been serving the South Bay and for over 35<br />
years. A full service design-build construction company, their work includes additions,<br />
second floors, complete house renovations, new construction, kitchen and<br />
bath remodeling. They manufacture their own custom cabinetry. Peveler’s is not<br />
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4203 Spencer Street, Torrance. (310) 214-5049. pevelers.com<br />
Shilpark Paint more than green<br />
q Shilpark Paint has excellent custom color matching skills so that you’ll always<br />
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family owned and operated, their goal is your satisfaction! Shilpark is a proud<br />
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q For 24 years South Bay Design Center has been the South Bay Area’s source<br />
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design. We represent a wide variety of cabinet manufacturers, so you’ll have access<br />
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“The whole concept of Smackfest is for people to come together and have fun<br />
while celebrating the beach lifestyle,” said director Bill Sigler.<br />
Stars Antique Market<br />
q Stars Antique Market has become a destination for shoppers from around<br />
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Maloney cont. from page 23<br />
textbooks have become prohibitively expensive. She also noted approvingly<br />
that the El Camino’s faculty senate recently approved a new, online<br />
course management system.<br />
Arguably the most formidable challenge facing Maloney is the upcoming<br />
labor negotiations. During the last negotiations, three years ago, a faculty<br />
strike was narrowly avoided. Recent negotiations at college districts in Ventura,<br />
Glendale and San Diego have resulted in faculty raises of 3 to 5 percent.<br />
Maloney declined to discuss the upcoming negotiations, except to note<br />
that the <strong>2016</strong> state budget did not provide for community colleges cost of<br />
living increases (COLA). And it provided an increase of only $75 million<br />
for community colleges in base funding. But that is to be spread among<br />
the state’s 113 districts and its uses are largely restricted to capital improvements.,<br />
In her previous positions, Maloney was a proponent of “interest-based<br />
bargaining,” (IBB), a negotiating strategy designed to find win-win solutions.<br />
Beverly said he is hopeful that interest-based bargaining can be utilized,<br />
but noted, "To be successful, both sides must enter negotiations with the<br />
same spirit of cooperation and goodwill. They must abandon their confrontational<br />
rhetoric: in other words, everybody needs to leave their revolvers<br />
at the door.” B<br />
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