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<strong>June</strong> 9, <strong>2016</strong><br />
Volume 46, Issue 45<br />
Hurricane Street veteran<br />
Ron Kovic<br />
Photo by David Fairchild<br />
Angelo’s Big Wave<br />
Pak’s paintings<br />
Baran bairns<br />
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<strong>June</strong> 9, <strong>2016</strong><br />
Volume 46, Issue 45<br />
ON THE COVER<br />
Born on the Fourth of July author<br />
Ron Kovic at his Hollywood<br />
Riviera home.<br />
Photo by Brad Jacobson<br />
Michael Burstein is a probate and estate planning<br />
attorney. A graduate of the University of California,<br />
Hastings College of the Law in 1987, he is admitted<br />
to the California, Kansas and Oklahoma Bars and<br />
is a member of the Order of Distinguished Attorneys<br />
of the Beverly Hills Bar Association.<br />
As an estate and probate lawyer, Michael has prepared<br />
approximately 3,000 living trusts and more<br />
than 4,000 wills.<br />
An Estate Planning,<br />
Estate Administration,<br />
and Probate Attorney<br />
l Living Trusts<br />
l Wills<br />
l Powers of Attorney<br />
l Asset Protection<br />
l Veterans Benefits<br />
l Advance Health<br />
Care Directives<br />
l Insurance Trusts<br />
l Probate<br />
l Conservatorships<br />
BEACH PEOPLE<br />
16 Eye of the hurricane by Paul Teetor<br />
Author Ron Kovic follows up on his best selling war memoir Born on the<br />
Fourth of July with an equaling searing post war memoir Hurricane Street,<br />
chronicling the government’s treatment of wounded warriors.<br />
20 Team Kat by Randy Angel<br />
Four-year, Sea Hawk varsity patcher Kat Ung has led her team to four consecutive<br />
Bay League Championships.<br />
24 Angelo’s big day by Ed Solt<br />
Angelo Luhrsen stopped off at the Redondo Breakwall on his way to look<br />
for bigger, cleaner waves up north. Instead, he paddled out and caught a<br />
30-foot bomb that earned him the South Bay Boardriders Club’s Big Wave<br />
Challenge Award.<br />
42 Ocean abstracts by Bondo Wyszpolski<br />
Physician turned artist Samuel Pak discusses the ocean-influenced<br />
abstract paintings he will exhibit at the Hermosa <strong>Beach</strong> Fine Arts Festival<br />
this weekend.<br />
46 Highway Barans by Richard Foss<br />
Baran family siblings Jason, Jenna and Jonathan and chef Tyler Gugliotta<br />
team up to bring fine dining to the Hermosa highway.<br />
12 <strong>Beach</strong> calendar<br />
14 Tour de Pier<br />
22 <strong>Beach</strong> Bar Guide <strong>2016</strong><br />
32 El Segunda Ed Foundation Gala<br />
36 South Bay Medal of Valor lunch<br />
BEACH LIFE<br />
38 SB Boardriders Big Wave Awards<br />
40 Young at Art<br />
44 Richstone Pier to Pier<br />
48 Yacht clubs Opening Day<br />
51 Service Directory<br />
l Pet Trusts<br />
l And Much More!<br />
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S O U T H B AY<br />
CAL ENDAR<br />
<strong>June</strong> 9, Thursday<br />
Mix it up<br />
South Bay Professional Association<br />
Business & Fun After 5<br />
networking group connects<br />
employers with professionals<br />
and executives for employment<br />
opps. 5 - 7:30 p.m. Lido<br />
di Manhattan, 1550 Rosecrans<br />
Ave, Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong>. No<br />
charge to attend and Happy<br />
Hour will be in full swing.<br />
sbpa-la.org.<br />
<strong>June</strong> 10, Friday<br />
Cancer Nutrition<br />
Cancer Support Community<br />
Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> (CSCRB) hosts<br />
Lilly Padilla, certified integrative<br />
nutrition coach, chef and<br />
cancer survivor. The relationship<br />
between healthy microbes<br />
and the immune<br />
system during and after cancer<br />
treatments will be examined. 1<br />
- 2:30 p.m. 109 West Torrance<br />
Blvd., RB. Lunch provided, advance<br />
registration required.<br />
(310) 376-3550 or cancersupportredondobeach.org.<br />
<strong>June</strong> 11, Saturday<br />
The highest bidder<br />
Manhattan Wine Auction,<br />
the largest charity wine auction<br />
in SoCal, raises funds for<br />
the Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong> Ed Foundation.<br />
Doors open at 4:30<br />
p.m. Manhattan Country Club,<br />
1330 Parkview Ave, Manhattan<br />
<strong>Beach</strong>. For tickets visit<br />
manhattanwineauction.com or<br />
call 310-303-3342.<br />
Unique flowers<br />
36th annual Fuchsia Festival.<br />
Beautiful Fuchsias for sale<br />
including hanging baskets,<br />
standard trees, and patio<br />
shrubs. Free potting when you<br />
buy a plant, container and soil.<br />
Ask the experts. Bring your<br />
questions on pruning, potting,<br />
and propagation. Door Prizes.<br />
Saturday & Sunday 10 a.m. - 4<br />
p.m. South Coast Botanic Garden,<br />
26300 Crenshaw Blvd.,<br />
Palos Verdes Peninsula. Southcoastbotanicgarden.org<br />
Get yer summer on<br />
Summer Open House at<br />
Dockweiler Youth Center,<br />
12505 Vista Del Mar, Playa del<br />
Rey. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Enjoy inflatables,<br />
carnival games, and<br />
entertainment. Learn all about<br />
the exciting recreational programming<br />
offered at the center<br />
coming this summer. For information<br />
and hours call (310)<br />
726-4131 or visit beaches.lacounty.gov.<br />
<strong>June</strong> 12, Sunday<br />
Redondo Tri’s harder<br />
Haven’t signed up? Come<br />
down and cheer on racers in<br />
the sprint or mini-sprint<br />
events. 7:30 a.m. Veterans<br />
Park, Redondo <strong>Beach</strong>. rbtriathlon.com<br />
for more info.<br />
Ferrari Car Show<br />
With their beginnings in racing,<br />
the legendary Ferrari has<br />
been in production since 1943,<br />
racking up over 5,000 successes<br />
on race tracks and roads<br />
all over the world. See these<br />
legendary cars on the Upper<br />
Meadow as displayed by the<br />
Ferrari Club of America –<br />
Southwest Region. No registration<br />
required. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.<br />
Included with paid Garden admission.<br />
South Coast Botanic<br />
Garden, 26300 Crenshaw<br />
Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula.<br />
southcoastbotanicgarden.org.<br />
Democrats meet<br />
Robert Greenwald, noted<br />
filmmaker, will talk about his<br />
latest documentary. “Making a<br />
Killing: Guns, Greed and the<br />
NRA,” will be shown. 2:30 -<br />
4:30 p.m. Palos Verdes Peninsula<br />
Center Library Community<br />
Room, 701 Silver Spur<br />
Rd., Rolling Hills Estates. Free<br />
and open to all. For information<br />
contact David Hall at<br />
(310) 377-7334.<br />
<strong>June</strong> 14, Tuesday<br />
Storytime<br />
Children ages 1 - 5 years old<br />
and their caregivers join in a<br />
fun storytime full of songs,<br />
rhymes, stories and movement.<br />
Limited to 50 individuals.<br />
Starts at 10:15 a.m., get<br />
your numbered pass at the<br />
Children’s desk starting at 10<br />
a.m. Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> Library,<br />
330 Pacific Coast Highway, Redondo<br />
<strong>Beach</strong>. redondo.org.<br />
The 12th annual Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> Triathlon is Sundya, <strong>June</strong> 12. The race starts at<br />
7:30 a.m. at Veterans Park in Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> and follows a scenic course<br />
through the PiKing Harbor and on to the Redondo Pier. For more information visit<br />
RBTriathlon.com<br />
<strong>June</strong> 18, Saturday<br />
Pool Party<br />
Begg Pool Kick-Off Party.<br />
Event is free for the entire<br />
family. Water games, balloon<br />
toss, swimming, and music.<br />
No food will be provided, but<br />
you are more than welcome to<br />
bring a picnic to eat on the<br />
grass area. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.<br />
1402 N. Peck Avenue, Manhattan<br />
<strong>Beach</strong>. citymb.info/pr.<br />
(310) 802-5428.<br />
Friends for sale<br />
Hermosa <strong>Beach</strong> Friends of<br />
the Library Book Sale. All proceeds<br />
go toward Hermosa Library<br />
acquisitions and<br />
programs. 9 a.m. - noon. 1309<br />
Bard Street, behind Stars Antiques,<br />
Hermosa <strong>Beach</strong>. (310)<br />
379-8475 or for future sales<br />
visit hbfol.org.<br />
Kick off summer<br />
Terranea Resort’s 3rd annual<br />
Music on the Meadows. Enjoy<br />
an afternoon filled with musical<br />
headliners including Colin<br />
Hay (of Men at Work), Kate<br />
Voegele, The Walcotts, Barley,<br />
and more.Noon - 7 p.m. General<br />
admission tickets $39. For<br />
tickets and reservations terraneasocial@destinationhotels.com.<br />
For more info call<br />
Guest Relations at (877) 701-<br />
2758. Terranea.com.<br />
Recycle<br />
Waste Collection Event. Get<br />
rid of your used motor oil, antifreeze,<br />
cleaners with acid or<br />
lye, pesticides or herbicides,<br />
batteries, pool chemicals and<br />
lots more. 9 a.m. American<br />
Honda, 1919 Torrance Blvd.,<br />
Torrance. For future collection<br />
events and for a list of acceptable<br />
waste visit lacsd.org.<br />
<strong>June</strong> 19, Sunday<br />
Beat it with Sabina<br />
Free To Be Me Community<br />
Drum Circle family drumming<br />
event, every third Sunday<br />
noon - 3 p.m. Meet at the<br />
water's edge north of the Hermosa<br />
<strong>Beach</strong> Pier. Bring<br />
friends, family, drums and percussion<br />
instruments (otherwise<br />
provided). Volunteers<br />
welcome. For information<br />
contact Sabina Sandoval (310)<br />
944-5475, or visit freetobemedrumcircle.com.B<br />
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310.377.7201<br />
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each charity<br />
TOUR DE PIER<br />
Riders cruise past $1 million mark<br />
O<br />
ver 1,000 stationary cyclists helped raise over $1<br />
million to fight pancreatic cancer during the<br />
fourth annual Tour de Pier at the Manhattan<br />
<strong>Beach</strong> pier on Sunday, May 15. Among the teams was the<br />
Pancreatic Cancer Victory Tour All Stars. Each of the five<br />
members had either fought pancreatic cancer personally,<br />
or had a loved one who did.<br />
“The Tour was epic and emotional from start to finish,”<br />
said Laurence Cohen, who organized the team and<br />
celebrated his 65th birthday at the event. The team’s<br />
MVP, Lupe Romero-De La Cruz, ran the Los Angeles<br />
Marathon in 2013, just two months after surgical treatment.<br />
“Not one day goes by that I don’t get emotional and<br />
thank God for my life,” said Romero-De La Cruz. Teammember<br />
Julie Weiss lost her father to the disease six<br />
years ago. In 2012, she ran one marathon a week to<br />
honor his memory and raise money for research.<br />
“When my father passed away of pancreatic cancer in<br />
November 2010, I realized how poorly funded this disease<br />
was,” Weiss said. The team’s other members included<br />
Shawn Veronese, who ran a marathon a month<br />
to honor her mother Virginia, and Eric McIntyre, who<br />
rode over 6,000 miles through 18 states after his wife Liz<br />
passed away from the disease.<br />
In just four years, Tour de Pier has raised over $2 million<br />
for the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer<br />
Research, the Cancer Support Community of Redondo<br />
<strong>Beach</strong> and the Uncle Kory Foundation. Tour de Pier was<br />
founded by Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong> residents Heath Gregory<br />
and Jonathan Hirshberg, who lost his father to pancreatic<br />
cancer in 1997. For more information, visit<br />
TourDePier.com. — by Caroline Anderson<br />
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PHOTOS BY BRAD JACOBSON<br />
(CIVICCOUCH.COM)<br />
1. Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong> Parks and Rec Director Mark<br />
Lehman outgunned.<br />
2. The Los Angeles Rams sent their advance team to<br />
Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong>.<br />
3. Pedal to the mettle.<br />
4. Stand and be counted.<br />
5. A good year for the Bruins.<br />
6. An Inglewood police officer takes in the view.<br />
7. Leading by example.<br />
8. Bruin recruiter, in disguise.<br />
9. The Pancreatic Cancer Victory Tour All Star team<br />
(left to right) Shawn Veronese, Eric McIntyre, Laurence<br />
Cohen, Lupe Romero-De La Cruz and Julie Weiss.<br />
Photo by Carol Finley.<br />
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Eye of the HURRICANE<br />
Ron Kovic left one war to fight another, this time for something he believed in.<br />
The "Born on the Fourth of July" author’s new book, Hurricane Street,<br />
tells the tale of the Vietnam veterans’ anti-war movement<br />
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by Paul Teetor<br />
When he can’t sleep late at night or needs<br />
a caregiver’s help to get out of bed in<br />
the morning, Ron Kovic has a mantra<br />
that keeps him going forward: dignity over despair.<br />
It’s a reminder of how the Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> resident<br />
wants to live his life.<br />
It also helped inspire him to write his first<br />
book, the timeless anti-war classic "Born on the<br />
Fourth of July." That powerful 1976 memoir told<br />
the story of his All-American childhood in Long<br />
Island, New York, where he and his friends<br />
played war games imitating the heroic battles<br />
their fathers had fought in World War II. It told<br />
how they thrilled to the John Wayne war films<br />
they saw every Saturday at the local movie theatre.<br />
And it told how the war games, where they<br />
“killed” hundreds of Japanese and Germans, and<br />
the war films starring a guy who never served in<br />
the military all contributed to the patriotic fever<br />
that led him to enlist in the Marines after graduating<br />
from high school in 1964.<br />
But the raw, beating heart of the book was his<br />
description of the harrowing physical, psychological<br />
and institutional trauma he suffered in Vietnam<br />
– and later back in the U.S. — after a North<br />
Vietnamese bullet severed his spinal cord on January<br />
20, 1968. It left him, at age 21, a paraplegic<br />
destined to live the rest of his life in a wheelchair.<br />
His graphic narrative of the bullet entering his<br />
body, of being carried off the battlefield by men<br />
who were strangers to him, and of the appalling<br />
conditions and under-trained, neglectful staff in<br />
the string of hospitals he was sent to were equal<br />
parts shocking, revolting and revelatory to an<br />
American public that was increasingly turning<br />
against the war.<br />
Late in the book he finds a measure of redemption<br />
as an activist member of the Vietnam Veterans<br />
Against the War. It gave him a cause and a<br />
reason to go on living that helped him overcome<br />
the why-me? feelings that destroyed many other<br />
severely wounded vets.<br />
“I saw pictures in the Santa Monica newspaper<br />
of veterans throwing their medals away,” he recalled.<br />
“I was very moved by that. We had a small<br />
group of veterans in the LA area that merged<br />
with the larger group called Vietnam Veterans<br />
PHOTOS BY DAVID FAIRCHILD<br />
against the War.”<br />
Secretary of State John Kerry, who famously<br />
asked Congress “How do you ask a man to be the<br />
last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a<br />
man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” was<br />
part of that group of veterans throwing their<br />
medals away.<br />
“John Kerry has shown a great deal of moral<br />
courage,” Kovic said. “He learned from that war.<br />
He’s not repeating the same mistake over and<br />
over again.”<br />
In addition to purging some of his own inner<br />
demons and calling the public’s attention to a war<br />
he considered a tragic mistake with tragic consequences,<br />
Kovic had a more personal motivation<br />
for writing his first book.<br />
“I wanted my parents to know that I was more<br />
than a victim in the war,” he said in a recent interview.<br />
“I wanted to take what happened to me<br />
and turn it into something positive. It’s very rewarding<br />
to know that you can take something<br />
like that and turn it into art, into a book and ultimately<br />
into a film.”<br />
Twelve years after "Born on the Fourth of July"<br />
hit the best-seller lists, director Oliver<br />
Stone and actor Tom Cruise turned it<br />
into an award-winning film that<br />
opened America’s eyes — in a way<br />
that a mere book never could in<br />
these times — to the brutal consequences<br />
of war and the often inadequate<br />
care that its wounded veterans<br />
received. It was a case study of the<br />
power of film to draw an audience in<br />
by entertaining them and then use<br />
the images flickering on the screen to<br />
educate them about important social<br />
issues – a subtle, subliminal process<br />
that is becoming rarer and rarer as<br />
Hollywood concentrates on popcorn<br />
films built around comic book super<br />
heroes.<br />
Kovic, unlike many people whose<br />
life story has been adapted to film,<br />
has nothing but good things to say<br />
about the film and nothing but great<br />
memories of making it. He was a cowriter,<br />
along with his fellow Vietnam<br />
vet Stone, of the screenplay that won<br />
a Golden Globe award. It was<br />
awarded on January 20, 1990, exactly<br />
22 years after he was shot and<br />
wounded.<br />
“Every January 20 I raise it over<br />
my head to remind myself that something<br />
good happened on that day as<br />
well as something very bad,” he said.<br />
The film was also nominated for<br />
eight Academy awards and won two,<br />
including Best Director for Stone.<br />
“Oliver did a fantastic job of keeping<br />
the integrity of the story intact,”<br />
he said. “And Tom Cruise brought<br />
real depth to the role, something I<br />
wasn’t sure he could do before we<br />
started filming.”<br />
Little known fact: "Born on the<br />
Fourth of July," with Martin Bregman<br />
producing and Al Pacino in the Ron Kovic<br />
role, was only a few days away from starting<br />
principal photography in 1978 when the financing<br />
fell through. But Stone, who was the original<br />
screenwriter, promised Kovic that if he ever became<br />
a real player in Hollywood, he would revive<br />
the project. And after he directed the blockbusters<br />
“Platoon” and “Wall Street” in the mid-<br />
1980s, Stone had enough Hollywood juice to find<br />
the financing to make "Born on the Fourth of<br />
July."<br />
“He kept his promise, without my ever reminding<br />
him of the promise,” Kovic said. “And he<br />
made a film that has stood the test of time as an<br />
important document of the Vietnam War.”<br />
Now, 40 years after his first book was published,<br />
Kovic’s mantra of dignity over despair<br />
helped him write his newest book, "Hurricane<br />
Street," which will be released on his 70th birthday,<br />
July 4. Kovic will read from "Hurricane<br />
Street" Wednesday, July 6, at 7 p.m. at the Manhattan<br />
<strong>Beach</strong> Library at 1320 Highland Avenue.<br />
He will also discuss "Born on the Fourth of July"<br />
and how the two books are connected, how they<br />
are two parts of one man’s ongoing, never-ending<br />
story of war, remembrance and redemption.<br />
Ron Kovic helps Tom Cruise on the set of “Born on the Fourth of July.” Kovic was<br />
impressed with the actor’s dedication to learning his role by spending hours in a<br />
wheelchair. Photo courtesy Ron Kovic<br />
After being so outspoken about the Vietnam<br />
War for more than 40 years, Kovic knows that he<br />
is a controversial guy, even among some of his<br />
fellow Vietnam vets. He is a leader on one side<br />
of a divisive debate that still rages more than four<br />
decades after the last Americans were airlifted<br />
out of Saigon.<br />
Former Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong> Mayor Bob Holmes<br />
is one of those Vietnam vets who does not agree<br />
with Kovic’s strong stand against the war. He says<br />
he made a conscious choice not to read "Born on<br />
the Fourth of July" nor watch the film when it<br />
came out.<br />
“People like Ron who strongly opposed the war<br />
draw a mixed reaction from those who served in<br />
the war, and I don’t think it’s a surprise to Ron<br />
that opinion of him in the veterans community is<br />
very mixed,” Holmes said. “Some may feel there’s<br />
an element of disloyalty in what he says. But I<br />
know there are plenty of others who agree with<br />
him that we wasted our time there.”<br />
Regardless of where veterans stand on the debate<br />
over the righteousness of the war, Holmes<br />
says, there are two things they can all agree on.<br />
“I think all of us agree that the U.S. government<br />
has not properly taken care of those who served<br />
their country,” he said. “And second,<br />
that regardless of how I feel about<br />
Ron and his activism, I respect his<br />
service to our country, I respect that<br />
he has suffered greatly, and God<br />
bless him.”<br />
For his part, Kovic said he feels the<br />
same about veterans who feel differently<br />
than he does about the war.<br />
“We are all brothers, and all one<br />
family,” he said. “I have great respect<br />
for all those who traveled 13,000<br />
miles to serve our country. How<br />
much more can a citizen give than<br />
that? I honor my fellow vets.”<br />
"Hurricane Street" is taken from<br />
the name of the Marina del Rey<br />
street Kovic lived on in the mid-<br />
1970s and tells the riveting, long-forgotten<br />
tale of how he and several<br />
other disabled veterans in wheelchairs<br />
traveled from the Long <strong>Beach</strong><br />
Veterans Administration Hospital to<br />
Los Angeles, where they occupied<br />
Senator Alan Cranston’s office in<br />
1974. They protested the poor treatment<br />
in the VA Hospitals. They also<br />
demanded better treatment and a<br />
face-to-face meeting with the head of<br />
the VA, Donald Johnson. To show<br />
they were serious they staged a sit-in<br />
that turned into a 17-day hunger<br />
strike and attracted first local and<br />
then national media attention.<br />
Johnson came to LA to the building<br />
that housed Cranston’s office on<br />
the 13th floor, but he refused to meet<br />
with the veterans unless they came<br />
to the VA office on the seventh floor<br />
of the same building. Kovic, aware<br />
that many of the men had physical<br />
problems that limited their movement,<br />
problems that were getting<br />
worse the longer they were away<br />
from the VA Hospital, was just as adamant that<br />
Johnson should take the 30-second elevator ride<br />
to Cranston’s office to meet with them. Neither<br />
side budged, so Johnson went back to Washington.<br />
But the media uproar was so loud that President<br />
Richard Nixon, already dealing with the<br />
final, fatal months of the Watergate scandal, ordered<br />
Johnson back to LA, where he finally met<br />
with the vets on their captured turf.<br />
Johnson resigned several months later and the<br />
first of many VA reforms were begun. Even today,<br />
however, there are still plenty of complaints<br />
about VA care and Kovic insists the VA still has a<br />
long way to go. He notes with a mixture of sadness<br />
and anger that 22 military veterans commit<br />
suicide every day.<br />
“A whole new generation of veterans is coming<br />
back from Iraq and Afghanistan with the same<br />
problems we had,” he said. “It’s unconscionable,<br />
a national outrage, that the VA is not prepared to<br />
care for them properly. These are men and<br />
women in severe emotional crisis.”<br />
The poignant subtext of the "Hurricane Street"<br />
Ron Kovic cont. on page 18<br />
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Ron Kovic cont. from page 17<br />
story is how this small band of brave, desperate<br />
men, who had fought so hard for their country<br />
only to feel betrayed once their bodies were broken<br />
and they were no longer useful to the war<br />
machine, were now so broken spiritually that<br />
they were unable to remain united after their<br />
protest was successful.<br />
The vets’ physical and<br />
mental problems were so<br />
severe that the group fractured<br />
into factions under<br />
the growing internal and<br />
external pressures bearing<br />
down on them and ultimately<br />
disbanded just a<br />
few months after the<br />
hunger strike.<br />
And after it was all over<br />
and Johnson was gone and<br />
the VA had pledged to<br />
make reforms, most of<br />
them died within a few<br />
years from causes directly<br />
linked to their traumatic<br />
injuries or indirectly<br />
through drug and alcohol<br />
abuse and suicide.<br />
Kovic, unlike so many of<br />
his wounded comrades<br />
who couldn’t find a reason<br />
to go on living or a lifestyle<br />
that worked for them,<br />
went on to a long career of<br />
social activism embracing<br />
multiple causes, from the<br />
environment to human<br />
rights to the anti-nuclear<br />
movement.<br />
But in "Hurricane Street" he returns to his original<br />
anti-war cause.<br />
“I wrote it so that people would never forget<br />
what happened during those two and a half<br />
weeks. I want people to see the consequences of<br />
what war does to human beings,” he said during<br />
a long, wide-ranging interview at the Yellow Vase<br />
Café in the Hollywood Riviera section of Redondo<br />
<strong>Beach</strong>. “How absurd it was that severely<br />
wounded veterans who had given three quarters<br />
of their bodies were forced to go on a hunger<br />
strike in a senator’s office because they weren’t<br />
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being properly cared for by the wealthiest country<br />
in the world.”<br />
As he approaches his 70th birthday, Kovic has<br />
mellowed considerably from the angry, embittered<br />
young man he wrote about in "Born on the<br />
Fourth of July."<br />
“I now realize that we all need to listen to each<br />
other, whether we agree or not,” he said. “We<br />
can’t just scream at each other and expect to<br />
Tom Cruise, Ron Kovic, and director Oliver Stone celebrate a sweep of the top awards at the 1990<br />
Golden Globes. Photo courtesy Ron Kovic<br />
solve our problems.”<br />
He knows he has been lucky to outlive most of<br />
his wounded brothers who joined him in the sitin<br />
and hunger strike. Now he has the perspective<br />
to see the big picture of his life story as he enters<br />
his eighth decade on this earth.<br />
“I’m grateful just to be alive,” he said. “I’m<br />
thankful for every day.”<br />
Part of what makes him so grateful to be alive<br />
is his girlfriend of nine years, TerriAnn Ferren, a<br />
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“I dedicated ‘Hurricane Street’ to her,” he said<br />
quietly. “She is very special and has become the<br />
anchor in my life.”<br />
Their meeting and courtship is a classic case of<br />
serendipity.<br />
After moving to Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> about 12 years<br />
ago, Kovic had become friendly with Bill Sharman,<br />
the basketball Hall of Famer – as both a<br />
Boston Celtics player and a Los Angeles Lakers<br />
coach – and his wife<br />
Joyce. They also lived in<br />
Redondo <strong>Beach</strong>. She had<br />
lost a brother in the Vietnam<br />
War, a loss that affected<br />
her deeply. After<br />
watching "Born on the<br />
Fourth of July" she<br />
reached out to Kovic.<br />
“She called me, and we<br />
got together and talked<br />
about a lot of things,” he<br />
said. “I soon became close<br />
friends with her and Bill.”<br />
A few years later they<br />
invited him to a dinner<br />
party at their home where<br />
he met Ferren.<br />
“I had heard about Ron<br />
from Joyce and Bill but I<br />
had never met him,” Ferren<br />
recalled. “When I saw<br />
him over by the pool I introduced<br />
myself. I had<br />
never read his book or<br />
seen the movie, but we<br />
just started talking and<br />
talked and talked and<br />
talked. Right from the<br />
start it was so easy to be<br />
with him.”<br />
Even at that first meeting she noticed what an<br />
evolved man he was, so unlike the bitter young<br />
man lashing out at the world as described in his<br />
first book.<br />
“He was sincere and very gracious and very interested<br />
in others,” Ferren said. “Other people<br />
would come up to him and he would go out of<br />
his way to make them comfortable. He is a kind,<br />
generous, big-hearted man. I feel blessed to know<br />
him.”<br />
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Redondo senior Kat Ung was the ace of the Sea Hawk pitching staff for four seasons,<br />
capturing Bay League titles each year. Photo by Ray Vidal<br />
A Humble<br />
Hurler<br />
All-CIF Redondo softball pitcher Kat Ung has seen her<br />
hard work pay off with a trip to the CIF-SS Division 3<br />
championship game.<br />
by Randy Angel<br />
She has been the ace of the Redondo softball pitching staff for four seasons.<br />
Yet despite her many accomplishments, Kat Ung is quick to deflect<br />
attention away from herself and toward her teammates.<br />
The left handed pitcher will most likely earn her third straight All-CIF selection<br />
this season after leading the Sea Hawks to their fourth straight Bay<br />
league championship and first trip to the CIF-Southern Section finals since<br />
1994.<br />
Going into last Saturday’s CIF-SS Division 3 championship game against<br />
top-seeded Grand Terrace, Ung was the winning pitcher in all four playoff<br />
games, tossing three shutouts along the way. She had a 14-6 record with a<br />
1.32 ERA, striking out 153 batters while walking only 20 in 111.2 innings.<br />
Ung was excited about the possibility of finishing her prep career with a<br />
championship ring.<br />
“Losing humbles me and makes me grateful for every win,” Ung said. “Losing<br />
two games in Bay League this year proved we should not take any team<br />
for granted. I’m so proud of our team particularly (sophomore) Laura Chafe,<br />
who stepped up when I sprained my elbow early in the season.”<br />
Although she will go down as one of the top pitchers in Redondo school<br />
history, posting a career record of 53-18 entering her final game, Ung said<br />
the highlight of her high school career has been the relationships she has<br />
made with her teammates.<br />
“We’ve fought some tough battles to win four Bay League titles,” Ung said.<br />
“We’d lose seniors but have had freshmen come in and produce at a high<br />
level. It’s been exciting to see the different makeup of the teams each season.<br />
It makes me look back and see how different my mentality is compared to<br />
my freshman year.”<br />
Along with being a southpaw, Ung is recognized by the face mask she<br />
wears while pitching in the circle.<br />
“I was in middle school and remember Redondo’s pitcher Brett Aspel being<br />
hit in the face by a comebacker,” Ung recalled. “My dad thought paying $40<br />
for a mask was a cheap investment to help prevent a serious injury. I’m not<br />
afraid of the ball by any means and, fortunately, I have not been hit in the<br />
face.”<br />
Ung feels her vast experience is the strength of her game. As a freshman,<br />
she relied on the rise ball but when hitters began to catch up to it, she<br />
switched to throwing the changeup during her sophomore year.<br />
After going back to the rise ball as a junior, she spent hours working with<br />
Redondo pitching coach Tom "Jud" Judson and her personal coach of three<br />
years Savana Lloyd to perfect her curveball, while focusing on inside pitches.<br />
“Kat’s strength as a pitcher definitely lies in her lefty talents,” Lloyd said.<br />
“She has amazing natural movement on her pitches, she spins the ball very<br />
well and has fantastic command of her pitches. She trusts herself as a pitcher<br />
and knows that if she gives 100 percent that is enough. I love this mentality<br />
about Kat because often pitchers and athletes in general want to be bigger<br />
and better. Kat recognizes her strengths, owns who she is, and has pure confidence<br />
in herself and her pitching abilities. Because of this she extremely<br />
solid on the mental side of the game.”<br />
Ung has developed a close relationship with Redondo head coach Jennifer<br />
Dessert. She has mentored Ung longer than any other coach.<br />
“Honestly, at this point in time it’s hard to accept that Kat is leaving,”<br />
Dessert said. “I have had some special kids go through my program over the<br />
years and to say she will be missed is an understatement. She is poised and<br />
tough and communicates with coaches and teammates well.”<br />
Dessert admits Ung has put extra pressure on herself this year after getting<br />
so close to the CIF finals in 2015.<br />
“Being forced to go to the sidelines and rest was really what she needed to<br />
get things back in order,” Dessert said. “I feel like she was able to finally rest<br />
and take the weight of the season off her shoulders. The girls who have gone<br />
through the last four years with Kat know that her presence here has raised<br />
our level of play and expectations for players coming in the future.”<br />
Off the field, Ung has the reputation of being a jokester and story teller,<br />
but on the field she is all business.<br />
“It’s just not me on the field. A pitcher just helps the team stay in the<br />
game,” Ung said. “You have to trust your defense and offense to win the<br />
game. My team lifts the pressure off me and I’m so grateful for all of the<br />
teammates I have had.”<br />
She also values her relationship with Dessert, who has relied on Ung to<br />
be a sparkplug for the Sea Hawk offense. She has batted .355 this season.<br />
“Our relationship has grown and is based on honesty,” Ung explained. “I<br />
respect her so much and she has done so much for softball in Redondo<br />
<strong>Beach</strong>. I’ll always remember her saying ‘You are worth every ounce of positive<br />
thinking you can give yourself every single day.’”<br />
With the end of her high school playing days ending soon, Ung had time<br />
to reflect on her four-year varsity career.<br />
“I’ve played with and against so many different players and I have<br />
learned a lot from them,” Ung said. “I remember facing Mira Costa’’s Taylor<br />
Glover when I was a freshman. I remember every pitch I threw. She<br />
was a big senior and I was so intimidated.<br />
“Beating Costa that year for the Bay League title was special. It was an<br />
amazing game. They beat us 12-0 the first time we played but I was sick<br />
and didn’t get to play. I figured I had nothing to lose and just played my<br />
hardest and we won 5-3. That win gave me the confidence that I can help<br />
my team and trust my teammates. Our defense made every play and Korynn<br />
Ben Amor made an outstanding catch in right field to help us win<br />
the game. It was the first big win in my softball career and the feeling of<br />
being a part of that team was so exciting.”<br />
Ung remembers senior infielder Kristen Currie taking her under her<br />
wing during her freshman season.<br />
“Kristen was an impact player but missed most of her senior season because<br />
of injury,” Ung said. “She was so encouraging and made me feel very<br />
comfortable as the youngest member of the team along with Allison Betty.<br />
My advice to young players coming up is to stay humble and never expect<br />
the game to be easy. Give it all you can and don’t play to inflate your stats.<br />
Put the team first.”<br />
Growing up, Ung played tennis and soccer but stopped in eighth grade<br />
to focus of softball. She was introduced to softball by a soccer teammate<br />
who encouraged her to play fall ball when she was eight years old.<br />
Her career as a pitcher, however, got off to a slow start.<br />
“I mocked my teammate while I was at the batting cages so I basically<br />
taught myself how to pitch,” Ung explained. “But I had the wrong mechanics<br />
and dislocated my elbow.”<br />
Along with playing for Redondo, Ung has competed on various travel<br />
ball teams. She began to excel as a pitcher playing for the South Bay Dynasty.<br />
She currently is a member of the South Bay Diamond Girls and<br />
teaches pitching to younger kids with Lloyd and Hermosa <strong>Beach</strong> Little<br />
League.<br />
Ung’s favorite player is former University of Texas All-American and<br />
Olympic softball gold-medalist Cat Osterman.<br />
“Like me, she’s left handed and not the fastest pitcher, but the movement<br />
of her pitches makes her a winner,” Ung said.<br />
Ung has attracted the attention of college softball programs and will be<br />
attending Azusa Pacific University in the fall, a choice that was not difficult<br />
to make.<br />
“Academics was my top priority and I love the atmosphere there,” Ung<br />
said. “I met the Azusa coaches at a camp when I was a sophomore and the<br />
staff gave me some great pointers on pitching. I was invited to a second<br />
camp that happened to be on my sister Kristen’s birthday. I was so grateful<br />
for the offer to play there and being a religious school made my decision<br />
to go there extremely easy.”<br />
Ung has a 3.9 GPA and, although her major is undeclared, she has an interest<br />
in business, history and athletic training.<br />
She credits her parents Wayne and Bridgett for teaching hard work ethics<br />
and humility and is a big fan of younger sister Kristen, a 15-year-old sophomore<br />
who is captain of Redondo’s Junior Varsity softball team.<br />
“My parents taught me so many important things and stressed the importance<br />
of an education,” Ung said. “I thank them for dragging me to<br />
practices and driving to Lancaster on a Friday afternoon for tournaments.<br />
They taught me to be selfless and to always give credit to teammates.”<br />
A self-proclaimed nerd who enjoys reading, particularly history, Ung is<br />
also involved with her church youth group and is a Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> Youth<br />
Commissioner.<br />
Kat's biggest improvement has been in her ability to make adjustments<br />
from one pitch to the next, Lloyd said. “The small adjustments that are the<br />
hardest to make she does it and she does it well. She is extremely patient,<br />
yet competitive and that combination takes her a long ways.<br />
“ Her attitude is the best. She is always smiling, and is just a great girl,<br />
teammate and student. She brings up everyone around her. I also enjoy<br />
how consistent she is in everything she does. From being punctual, to always<br />
working her hardest, to having a great attitude. She's a leader. No<br />
matter what day it is, she shows up with the same level of greatness.”B<br />
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Greenbelt’s Evan Stinson, Mandi Thomas and Tyler Lewis.<br />
Patrick Molloy’s at Happy Hour.<br />
Orlando’s Pizzeria & Birreria offers Happy Hour specials on craft beer,<br />
wine and appetizers.<br />
HT Grill’s Luke Caler prepares a specialty<br />
cocktail for Mimi Dodson, Darlene Takahashi<br />
and Billy “The Mayor” Fletemeyer.<br />
Hennessey’s Kristina Reyes.<br />
Ragin Cajun Café<br />
$1 off drinks and appetizers 3-6<br />
p.m.<br />
Ramen Spott & Sushi Duke<br />
$1 sushi and rolls 5-6 p.m.<br />
The Slip Bar & Eatery<br />
$3 - $5 beers, $1 off all wine and<br />
well drinks, 3-6 p.m. $7 food<br />
specials, 3-7 p.m.<br />
Power Hour - Buy 1 beer, wine or<br />
well drink, get 1 for $1 (of same<br />
kind), 6-7 p.m.<br />
The Standing Room<br />
Food and drink specials 3-6 p.m.<br />
Ws China Bistro<br />
Food and drink specials 4-7 p.m.<br />
Wednesday<br />
Bottle Inn Riviera<br />
Beer and wine $4 - $7; pizza, crab<br />
cakes and a variety of appetizers $6<br />
and under. 4-6 p.m.<br />
The Bull Pen<br />
Well spirits $4.50, house wines<br />
$4.50, domestic beers $3, imported<br />
beers $4, $2 off appetizers (Lounge<br />
and Bar only). 4-7 p.m.<br />
China Grill Bistro<br />
Food and drink specials 4-7 p.m.<br />
Frida Mexican - Del Amo<br />
Food and drink specials (Bar Area<br />
only) 3-6 p.m. and 9 p.m.-<br />
close.<br />
Greenbelt<br />
Food and drink specials 4-6 p.m.<br />
Hennessey’s<br />
$5 selected cocktails, wines, drafts,<br />
well drinks and more. $5 seared<br />
ahi street tacos, and other food<br />
items. 4-7 p.m.<br />
HT Grill<br />
$4 select drafts, $5 select wines by<br />
the glass and select cocktails, $7<br />
treats - from the Bar Eats menu,<br />
(Lounge, Bar and Fire Pit only). 4-<br />
7 p.m.<br />
Orlando’s Pizzeria & Birreria<br />
$5 selected appetizers and selected<br />
craft beers, $6 selected house<br />
wines. 4-6 p.m.<br />
Patrick Molloy’s<br />
$3 domestic draft beers; $4 import,<br />
craft and IPA beers; half-off drinks<br />
and liquor; $5 - $6 food specials. 3-<br />
8 p.m.<br />
P.F. Chang’s<br />
$4 craft beer, $6 small plates, $6<br />
cocktails and wine (available<br />
throughout restaurant). 3-6 p.m.<br />
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The Bull Pen<br />
R10 Social House’s Portia Tsotesi and Marina Mora.<br />
Ramen Spott/Sushi Duke offers Tuna, Yellowtail, Salmon and Shrimp during<br />
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Ragin Cajun Cafe’s Corey Cohen fixes a Blue Voodoo for Shyrl Lorino and<br />
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Hour regulars.<br />
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$5 snacks and libations 3-6 p.m.<br />
Ragin Cajun Café<br />
$1 off drinks and appetizers 3-6<br />
p.m.<br />
Ramen Spott & Sushi Duke<br />
$1 sushi and rolls 5-6 p.m.<br />
The Slip Bar & Eatery<br />
$3 - $5 beers, $1 off all wine and<br />
well drinks, 3-6 p.m. $7 food<br />
specials, 3-7 p.m.<br />
Power Hour - Buy 1 beer, wine or<br />
well drink, get 1 for $1 (of same<br />
kind), 6-7 p.m.<br />
The Standing Room<br />
Food and drink specials 3-6 p.m.<br />
$15 Bulleit flights all day.<br />
Ws China Bistro<br />
Food and drink specials 4-7 p.m.<br />
Thursday<br />
Bottle Inn Riviera<br />
Beer and wine $4 - $7; pizza, crab<br />
cakes and a variety of appetizers $6<br />
and under. 4-6 p.m.<br />
The Bull Pen<br />
Well spirits $4.50, house wines<br />
$4.50, domestic beers $3, imported<br />
beers $4, $2 off appetizers (Lounge<br />
and Bar only). 4-7 p.m.<br />
China Grill Bistro<br />
Food and drink specials 4-7 p.m.<br />
Frida Mexican - Del Amo<br />
Food and drink specials (Bar Area<br />
Only) 3-6 p.m. and 9 p.m.-<br />
close<br />
Greenbelt<br />
Food and drink specials 4-6 p.m.<br />
Hennessey’s<br />
$5 selected cocktails, wines, drafts,<br />
well drinks and more. $5 seared<br />
ahi street tacos, and other food<br />
items. 4-7 p.m.<br />
HT Grill<br />
$4 select drafts, $5 select wines<br />
and select cocktails, $7 treats -<br />
from the Bar Eats menu, (Lounge,<br />
Bar and Fire Pit only). 4-7 p.m.<br />
Orlando’s Pizzeria & Birreria<br />
$5 selected appetizers and selected<br />
craft beers, $6 selected house<br />
wines, 4-6 p.m. $5 selected craft<br />
beers and $6 selected house wines,<br />
pizza 20% off. 9-11 p.m.<br />
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The Standing Room’s Lucine Dounamalian, Colleen Rambeau, Kyle Rambeau<br />
and Dennis Kawecki.<br />
Ws China Bistro Happy Hour regulars Warren Brouillette, Thomas Aydelotte<br />
and Rick Lloyd.<br />
Patrick Molloy’s<br />
$3 domestic draft beers; $4 import,<br />
craft and IPA beers; half-off drinks<br />
and liquor; $5 - $6 food specials. 3-<br />
8 p.m.<br />
P.F. Chang’s<br />
$4 craft beer, $6 small plates, $6<br />
cocktails and wine (available<br />
throughout the restaurant). 3-6<br />
p.m.<br />
R/10 Social House<br />
$5 snacks and libations 3-6 p.m.<br />
Ragin Cajun Café<br />
$1 off drinks and appetizers 3-6<br />
p.m.<br />
Ramen Spott & Sushi Duke<br />
$1 sushi and rolls 5-6 p.m.<br />
The Slip Bar & Eatery<br />
$3 - $5 beers, $1 off all wine and<br />
well drinks, 3-6 p.m. $7 food<br />
specials, 3-7 p.m.<br />
Power Hour - Buy 1 beer, wine or<br />
well drink, get 1 for $1 (of same<br />
kind), 6-7 p.m.<br />
The Standing Room<br />
Food and drink specials 3-6 p.m.<br />
Ws China Bistro<br />
Food and drink specials 4-7 p.m.<br />
Friday<br />
Bottle Inn Riviera<br />
Beer and wine $4 - $7; pizza, crab<br />
cakes and a variety of appetizers $6<br />
and under, 4-6 p.m.<br />
The Bull Pen<br />
Well spirits $4.50, house wines<br />
$4.50, domestic beers $3, imported<br />
beers $4, $2 off appetizers (Lounge<br />
and Bar only). 4-7 p.m.<br />
China Grill Bistro<br />
Food and drink specials 4-7 p.m.<br />
Frida Mexican - Del Amo<br />
Food and drink specials (Bar Area<br />
Only). 3-6 p.m. and 9 p.m.-<br />
close.<br />
Greenbelt<br />
Food and drink specials 4-6 p.m.<br />
Hennessey’s<br />
$5 selected cocktails, wines, drafts,<br />
well drinks and more. $5 seared<br />
ahi street tacos, and other food<br />
items. 4-7 p.m.<br />
HT Grill<br />
$4 select drafts, $5 select wines by<br />
the glass and select cocktails, $7<br />
treats - from the Bar Eats menu,<br />
(Lounge, Bar and Fire Pit only). 4-<br />
7 p.m.<br />
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Orlando’s Pizzeria & Birreria<br />
$5 selected craft beers, $6 selected<br />
house wines, 20% off pizza. 9-11<br />
p.m.<br />
Patrick Molloy’s<br />
$3 domestic draft beers; $4 import,<br />
craft and IPA beers; half-off drinks<br />
and liquor; $5 - $6 food specials. 3-<br />
8 p.m.<br />
P.F. Chang’s<br />
$4 craft beer, $6 small plates, $6<br />
cocktails and wine (available<br />
throughout the restaurant). 3-6<br />
p.m.<br />
R/10 Social House<br />
$5 snacks and libations 3-6 p.m.<br />
Ragin Cajun Café<br />
$1 off drinks and appetizers 3-6<br />
p.m.<br />
The Slip Bar & Eatery<br />
$3 - $5 beers, $1 off all wine and<br />
well drinks, 3-6 p.m. $7 food<br />
specials. 3-7 p.m.<br />
The Standing Room<br />
Food and drink specials, 3-6 p.m.<br />
Bulleit cocktails $6, Ward 8 $7,<br />
beer and a Bulleit $3, all day.<br />
Ws China Bistro<br />
Food and drink specials 4-7 p.m.<br />
Saturday<br />
Bottle Inn Riviera<br />
Beer and wine $4 - $7; pizza, crab<br />
cakes and a variety of appetizers $6<br />
and under, 4-6 p.m.<br />
Orlando’s Pizzeria & Birreria<br />
$5 selected beers, $6 selected house<br />
wines, 20% off pizza. 9-11 p.m.<br />
R/10 Social House<br />
$5 snacks and libations 3-6 p.m.<br />
The Standing Room<br />
Food and drink specials 3-6 p.m.<br />
Tito’s cocktails $6, Tito’s Mules $7,<br />
all day.<br />
Sunday<br />
Bottle Inn Riviera<br />
Beer and wine $4 - $7; pizza, crab<br />
cakes and a variety of appetizers $6<br />
and under, 4-6 p.m.<br />
Greenbelt<br />
Food and drink specials 3:30-6<br />
p.m.<br />
R/10 Social House<br />
$5 snacks and libations 3-6 p.m.<br />
The Standing Room<br />
Food and drink specials 3-6 p.m.<br />
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T<br />
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and more than 230 auction items provided by<br />
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1. More than 30 local<br />
restaurants<br />
contributed food to the<br />
Ed! gala, including<br />
Sausal’s Nancy<br />
Vrankovic and Chef<br />
Anne Conness.<br />
2. Ed! Foundation<br />
CEO Carol Pirsztuk,<br />
ESUSD Superintendent<br />
Melissa Moore, Ed!<br />
chairman Alex Abad,<br />
and ESUSD Board of<br />
Education president Jim<br />
Garza accept a check<br />
from Chevron Government<br />
and Public Affairs<br />
manager and refinery<br />
general manager<br />
Henry Kusch. The<br />
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used in support of<br />
STEM programing,<br />
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3. El Segundo’s Douglas<br />
and Lara Carrigan<br />
with Balletto<br />
Vineyard’s sales manager<br />
Jon Niemann.<br />
4. El Segundo Unified<br />
School District’s finest<br />
— its teachers —<br />
turned out in large<br />
numbers, including (left<br />
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Grace Kim, Alice Lee,<br />
Lindsey Sharp, Kim<br />
Stern, Celia Plotkin,<br />
Rachel Salsev, Kelly<br />
Wu, and Lisa Hong.<br />
5. Former councilman<br />
and mayor Carl Jacobson<br />
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with newly elected<br />
councilmen Don Brann<br />
and Drew Boyles.<br />
6. Carol Pirsztuk, Ed!<br />
CEO, with Alex Abad,<br />
Ed! Chairman of the<br />
Board, Jim Garza,<br />
president of the ESUSD<br />
Board of Education,<br />
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Segundo, Ahmed<br />
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Angelo Luhrsen on his Big Wave Challenge Award winning wave at the Redondo Breakwall on January 7. Photo by Charles Scholz<br />
Challenge answered<br />
Derek Brewer, Big Wave Challenge runner-up, January 12 at the Redondo Breakwall.<br />
Photo by Charles Scholz<br />
Angelo Luhrsen and Connor Beatty hadn’t planned on surfing the Breakwall. It looked too big and unruly. Then a ride-able<br />
wave came through.<br />
by Ed Solt<br />
Angelo Luhrsen and his number one surf bro and fellow big wave<br />
charger Connor Beatty could not decide whether to paddle out or<br />
not. The Redondo Breakwall was macking. The other Breakwall locals<br />
were sitting on the wall, watching. Spectators were gathered on the<br />
beach next to the Chart House, drawn by the Thursday, January 7 forecast<br />
for the biggest Southern California swell in over a decade.<br />
Their surf check was supposed to be a quick one. After riding mostly<br />
closed-out Torrance <strong>Beach</strong> earlier that morning, Luhrsen and Beatty had<br />
stopped at the Breakwall with their big guns, enroute north, to a better<br />
known bombora that handles large swells.<br />
“Breakwall was big and ugly but after seeing one rideable wave, we were<br />
on it,” Luhrsen said.<br />
The decision would earn Luhrsen the South Bay Boardriders 2015-16 Big<br />
Wave Challenge award, which was accompanied by a Pat Reardon big wave<br />
gun and $3,000.<br />
In large Breakwall surf, the whitewater is too powerful to paddle out<br />
through from the beach, so surfers walk out roughly 200 yards along a walkway<br />
near the top of the wall. Then, when they sense a lull between swells,<br />
they climb down the boulders and jump into the water.<br />
Later that morning, veteran Breakwall surfer Doug “Doc” Scheller would<br />
Chris Wells, Big Wave Challenge runner-up, January 6 at the Redondo Breakwall. Photo by Brad Jacobson<br />
be knocked down on the rocks by a wave and suffer a broken shoulder, a<br />
broken arm and internal bruising. He said he would have died had<br />
Luhrsen’s dad Michael and fellow surfer Jeremy Griffin not pulled him<br />
from the cave in the rocks that he had been knocked into.<br />
Luhrsen and Beatty had better luck getting off the rocks. But then their<br />
luck ran out. A giant set rolled through before they could paddle past the<br />
impact zone.<br />
“We got smoked.” Luhrsen said. “The set took us all the way back to the<br />
beach. I came up gasping for air and saw the whitewash was dragging us<br />
back to shore like we were being towed behind a car,” Luhrsen recalled.<br />
“We had our little walk of shame on the beach,” he added.<br />
After a pep talk and some suggestions on where to jump off the rocks<br />
from Luhrsen’s dad, the two walked back out along the breakwall and during<br />
a rare lull between sets, made it out to the lineup spot.<br />
“It was the furthest out that I have ever sat at the Breakwall,” Luhrsen<br />
said. “I was way past the end of the breakwall and could see all of Palos<br />
Verdes.”<br />
Luhrsen was just getting comfortable on his Pat Ryan shaped, 7-foot-2 ET<br />
gun, when another macking set came through. Cameras on the beach began<br />
clicking.<br />
When big, north swells hit the north facing extension of the Breakwall,<br />
Angelo Luhrsen feeling at home at the Redondo Breakwall.<br />
Photo by Mike Balzer<br />
they bounce back and up, forming a jacking peak, which is the signature<br />
of a solid Breakwall swell. Surfers generally take off at or<br />
north of where the wave jacks up.<br />
Luhrsen took off behind peak. The decision may be what accounted<br />
for his Big Wave Challenge award.<br />
“It was a big wall,” Luhrsen said, “It began to shift after I dropped<br />
and entered my bottom turn.”<br />
Photos from that day show him at the bottom of the wave barely<br />
outracing the lip. The peak is jacking up ahead of him, 30 feet in the<br />
air.<br />
“I kept thinking, ‘Wow, I can’t believe I caught a wave this big at<br />
my home break,’” he said. “When I got back to the beach and saw<br />
the pictures, it looked even bigger than I thought it was.”<br />
Beatty caught the wave behind Luhrsen’s. Beatty’s wave was almost<br />
as large as the one he caught last winter at Mavericks, near San<br />
Francisco, which earned him a nomination in the World Surf League<br />
Big Wave Award paddle division. But it wasn’t as big as Luhrsen’s.<br />
The 23-year-old Luhrsen recently received his college degree in engineering<br />
and plans to move from his family’s home in Palos Verdes<br />
to San Francisco.<br />
“I’ve surfed Mavericks two times as well as quite a few other secret<br />
Central California spots,” he said. “I’m eager to go back. At one of<br />
these secret spots, I got blown to the rocks holding my uncle’s 10-<br />
foot gun. I was so worried I’d mess his board up.”<br />
“I have learned a lot from my dad and my uncles, James, Jude, and<br />
Chase and give them credit for inspiring me,” Luhrsen said.B<br />
Matt Meistrell, Big Wave Challenge runner-up, January 7 at the Redondo Breakwall.<br />
Photo by Photo by Charles Scholz<br />
Trevor LaShure, Big Wave Challenge runner-up, at Burnout. Photo by Tim Tindall<br />
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each honors<br />
SOUTH BAY MEDAL OF VALOR<br />
Responders from the <strong>Beach</strong> Cities and beyond<br />
receive their due<br />
R<br />
edondo <strong>Beach</strong> Harbor Patrol Officer David Poirier was one of two men<br />
receiving top honors at the 42nd Annual South Bay Medal of Valor<br />
Luncheon, alongside Hawthorne Police Officer Alex Khan. Last May,<br />
Poirier rescued a hostile swimmer, one who didn’t want to be saved, in a 40-<br />
minute battle by the Redondo Pier.<br />
The luncheon, held by the South Bay Police and Fire Memorial Foundation<br />
at the Torrance Marriott Redondo <strong>Beach</strong>, brought officials from cities around<br />
the South Bay together to honor the 14 officers from seven agencies whose actions<br />
went above and beyond to save lives.<br />
PHOTOS BY DAVID MENDEZ<br />
1. Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> Police<br />
Captain Tom Krafick, Lt.<br />
Todd Heywood, Redondo<br />
<strong>Beach</strong> City Manager Joe<br />
Hoefgen and Capt. Jeff<br />
Hink.<br />
2. Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong> Police<br />
Chief and Medal of<br />
Valor board president Eve<br />
Irvine.<br />
3. Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> Police<br />
Chief Keith Kauffman and<br />
Hawthorne Police Captain<br />
Michael Ishii.<br />
4. Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> Fire<br />
Chief Robert Metzger<br />
congratulates Redondo<br />
Harbor Patrol Officer<br />
David Poirier.<br />
5. Manhattan <strong>Beach</strong> Police<br />
Officers Carlos Olivares,<br />
Derek San Agustin,<br />
Chad Swanson and Don<br />
Brown with MBPD Chief<br />
Eve Irvine, center.<br />
6. David Poirier and<br />
family.<br />
7. Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> officials<br />
turned out to support<br />
their city’s honoree, including<br />
Mayor Steve Aspel,<br />
City Treasurer Steve Diels,<br />
City Manager Joe Hoefgen,<br />
Asst. City Manager<br />
Mike Witznansky, Fire<br />
Chief Bob Metzger, and<br />
Division Chiefs Isaac Yang<br />
and Mark Winter.<br />
8. Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> Police<br />
Department Command<br />
Staff.<br />
9. Master of Ceremonies<br />
Glen Walker, Hawthorne<br />
Police Officer Alex Khan<br />
and Hawthorne Police<br />
Chief Robert Fager.<br />
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SB BOARDRIDERS BIG WAVE<br />
Challenge Awards night<br />
he best South Bay winter surf since the turn of the<br />
century was celebrated during the South Bay Boardriders<br />
Big Wave Challenge Awards night on Friday,<br />
May 27 at the Hermosa <strong>Beach</strong> Community Center.<br />
Palos Verdes surfer Angelo Luhrsen received the top<br />
award for catching the biggest, documented wave of the<br />
2015-16 winter. Photographer Charlie Scholz snapped<br />
Luhrsen on January 7, making a bottom turn on a barreling,<br />
Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> Breakwall wave, with an estimated 30-<br />
foot face. The surprise presentation of the evening was the<br />
inaugural Howard Eddy Award, presented by brothers<br />
Derek and Keith Brewer, Greg Browning and Matt Walls.<br />
When the four were groms surfing 16th Street in Hermosa<br />
<strong>Beach</strong>, Eddy, who lived on 16th Street and was a retired<br />
Panasonic employee, videotaped them almost every morning.<br />
The Brewers, Browning and Walls said the tapes were<br />
of enormous help in their development as young surfers.<br />
Mike Balzer was selected as the first recipient of the award<br />
for his co-founding of the South Bay Boardriders Club,<br />
whose annual contest series is credited with spurring a<br />
local resurgence in surfing, especially among groms and<br />
gromettes.<br />
Among those groms are Nathaniel Harris and Billy<br />
Atkinson. When the SBBC contest series began five years<br />
ago, they competed in the assisted (push in) grom division.<br />
At the awards ceremony, the two were presented with the<br />
Big Wave Hard Charger Award for holding their own in<br />
triple overhead surf at the Redondo Breakwall.<br />
Also honored were Breakwall regulars Jeremy Griffin<br />
and Michael Lurhsen for rescuing surfer Doug “Doc”<br />
Scheller after a wave knocked him down on the breakwall<br />
the day Luhrsen’s son Angelo caught his award winning<br />
wave.<br />
Runner-up Big Wave Challenge honorees were: Matt<br />
Meistrell, photo by Charlie Scholz at the Redondo Breakwall;<br />
Derek Brewer, photo by Charlie Scholz at the Redondo<br />
Breakwall; Chris Wells, photo by Brad Jacobson at<br />
the Redondo Breakwall; and Trevor LaShure, photo by Tim<br />
Tindall at Burnout.<br />
For more information about the South Bay Boardriders<br />
Club visit SouthBayBoardriders.com. – Kevin Cody B<br />
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PHOTOS BY STEVE GAFFNEY<br />
(STEVEGAFFNEY.COM)<br />
1. Big Wave Challenge honorees Trevor LaShure, Matt<br />
Meistrell, Chris Wells, Derek Brewer, Angelo Luhrsen,<br />
Brad Jacobson, Charlie Schultz, Tim Tindall and Boardrider<br />
president Mike Balzer.<br />
2. Howard Eddie Award recipient Mike Balzer with<br />
presentees Derek and Keith Brewer.<br />
3. Big Wave Hard Charger Award recipients<br />
Nathaniel Harris and Billy Atkinson<br />
4. Doug “Doc” Scheller thanks Jeremy Griffin and<br />
Michael Luhrsen for saving his life after he was knocked<br />
down by a wave at the Redondo Breakwall.<br />
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Please Stay on the Grass<br />
“Deep Breath II (Bridging Union),”<br />
by Samuel Pak<br />
“Long Ago,”<br />
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“Orange Islands,” by Samuel Pak<br />
“Drench Kiss Soulmates Travel,”<br />
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by Bondo Wyszpolski<br />
What started in 2002 as the Hermosa <strong>Beach</strong> Art Walk has developed<br />
over the years into a large-scale event, now called the Hermosa<br />
Fine Arts Festival. This year’s show takes place Saturday<br />
and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the lawn of the Hermosa <strong>Beach</strong><br />
Community Center.<br />
The featured artist is Dr. Samuel Pak, who was a physician in Houston<br />
for seven years before moving to Southern California late 2014.<br />
“Samuel Pak was selected for the uniqueness of his artwork's design,”<br />
said Art Walk president Robyn Alatorre. “His paintings work with the<br />
beach and ocean themes, which have traditionally been a part of our event,<br />
and the expressive and powerful abstract qualities of Sam's paintings communicate<br />
the fresh direction the board is taking with the festival.”<br />
Much of Pak’s work is dreamily abstract, with soft cloud-like forms<br />
swirling this way and that. Then again, recognizable forms do emerge to<br />
pull us back into the canvas.<br />
Pak didn’t become a professional artist until he moved to the West Coast.<br />
As with many of us, making a decent living came first, and the scales were<br />
tipped in favor of a career in medicine.<br />
“When people ask me where I get my inspiration, I often say, ‘I don’t<br />
know,’ and perhaps that is not entirely true. It may be that my mind cannot<br />
possibly put into words all the beauty of the things that I see, hear, touch<br />
and feel. It may be the memory of a spectacular evening sky at the beach<br />
with hints of emerging stars above, or a dense morning fog that slowly unveils<br />
a magnificent mountain in the distance.<br />
“It could be a classical music piece,” he continues, “with its inspirational<br />
rhythms and melodies harkening back to the ancient truth discernable only<br />
through the eternity in our hearts. It may be a person or people, and their<br />
emotional state that my eyes have witnessed and my mind has captured<br />
long ago. It could be a flash of certain photos or a painting or even just a<br />
simple combination of colors that has embedded into my subconscious,<br />
constantly merging with the inexpressible emotions of personal triumph<br />
and painful loss.”<br />
Pak doesn’t seem to have any doubts about the road ahead of him.<br />
“One thing I do know,” he says, “is that all of my life experiences and<br />
everything that I have done, including my career as a physician, have led<br />
me to this decision. I am committed to being the best artist that I can possibly<br />
be. Creativity is not a thing to be extracted from your mind but a vision<br />
to be built continuously and relentlessly.”<br />
This year’s 13th annual Fine Arts Festival has over 100 booths, with half<br />
of the artists showing for the first time. They come from all over, their artwork<br />
varied and diverse, with paintings in many different styles, plus photography,<br />
sculpture, prints, and wearable art. For those hoping to buy,<br />
there’s something for every budget.<br />
There will of course be food and entertainment, including a craft beer<br />
and wine garden. Also of note is the interactive booth created by installation<br />
artist JonMarc Edwards. Called Debriti, it features thousands of tiny<br />
letters that are made of natural, bio-degradable tag board. Participants are<br />
encouraged to "choose their words carefully" as they combine texts to create<br />
words and phrases to create their own poetry.<br />
Proceeds from the festival will provide four scholarships to local students<br />
pursuing the arts in college. They also support local art projects.<br />
Other highlights include free face-painting and a free kids arts and crafts<br />
area. The student art section features local students’ artwork, from the elementary<br />
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“Super Nova (Laurentian),” by Samuel Pak<br />
The 13th annual Hermosa Fine Arts Festival takes place Saturday<br />
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described as being made with pancetta, tomato jus, and parmesan, and<br />
that tells you everything that’s going on here but for the dots of basil oil<br />
that decorate the plate and provide aroma. I recommend ordering this the<br />
way Italians do, as a simple refreshing shared plate between more strongly<br />
flavored starters and main courses.<br />
Those bolder items include a remarkable multi-step fried chicken, which<br />
is first smoked and then fried, then coated with a soy sauce and chile gastrique.<br />
This has layers of flavor and you can perceive them all: lightly<br />
smoky, rich chicken overlaid by a cornmeal crust with herbs, overlaid with<br />
the sweet and spicy and salty sauce. There was plenty of meat on the half<br />
bird we were served, but we were finding new flavors all the way to the<br />
last bite.<br />
Another item that was a special on one visit was pork jowl with gooseberries,<br />
a dish some people might find challenging. Jowl meat is fatty and<br />
so tender that it’s slightly gelatinous, but the tart berries made a fine contrast<br />
to the rich flavors. Gooseberry season is short and supplies are limited,<br />
but if you like variety meats and new experiences you should see if this is<br />
available.<br />
Baran’s 2239 doesn’t serve hard liquor but has a well-curated list of beer,<br />
wine, and cider, almost all available in four or six ounce pours, as well as<br />
by the bottle. We tried the Virginia Dare and Decelle Villa Pinot Noirs to<br />
experience an old and new world expression of the same grape, and both<br />
went quite nicely with the chicken. Our server suggested Curran Grenache<br />
Blanc with the endive and strawberry dish, and we admired his wine savvy<br />
because it was a splendid choice. Most of the people who work here seem<br />
to be extended family. They know every item and explain it clearly. They<br />
make up for the terse menu very well, though it must take a lot of extra<br />
time and training.<br />
I’ve tried two desserts, an orange-pistachio panna cotta and coffee-toffee<br />
pudding cake. The latter was my wife’s idea and I regarded it with trepidation,<br />
as toffee isn’t one of my favorite items. Surprise, this one wasn’t<br />
over-sweet and the espresso glaze made it a delight. The creamy panna<br />
cotta was topped with artistically arranged ground nuts and dollops of jellied<br />
citrus. Now that I know this can be done I want to explore these flavors<br />
more.<br />
The Baran siblings Jason, Jenna and Jonathan.<br />
Dinner at Baran’s 2239 is remarkably reasonable for cooking of this quality.<br />
We paid an average of about $50 per person with moderate portions of<br />
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Carpet weavers in Persia leave one, tiny flaw in their patterns, reasoning<br />
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connoisseurs as a way of detecting counterfeits. Flawlessly symmetrical<br />
carpets are the product of machine looms that care nothing for theology.<br />
This probably explains the menu at Baran’s 2239, a new restaurant that<br />
is otherwise close to perfect. The flaw in this case is minimalism taken to<br />
the extreme, so that no matter what an item is, it is described only by three<br />
ingredients no matter how many there actually are, with no hint of how it<br />
is prepared. This would be fine in a diner where “burger, fries, and salad”<br />
really tells you all you need to know, but some items here have very unusual<br />
preparations. As an example, the item called an Indian egg, described only<br />
as “lamb sausage/curry jus/cucumber,” is actually an exotic twist on the<br />
Scotch egg, which is usually a bland pub snack that needs to be washed<br />
down by several beers. This version is beautifully presented and fragrant<br />
with South Asian spices. When one was delivered at a neighboring table<br />
the scent was beguiling.<br />
This dish and almost everything else at Baran’s 2239 is a creation of chef<br />
Tyler Gugliotta, an underappreciated master who ran the kitchen at The<br />
Shore and several other local restaurants, including the highly touted, but<br />
ill-fated Brix@1601. He teamed up with Jason Baran and other members<br />
of the Baran family to open this restaurant in a strip mall on PCH in Hermosa<br />
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King Harbor’s Yacht Club ceremony followed with<br />
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1. Redondo Union High Jazz<br />
band’s Sam White, Joaquin Escalante<br />
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perform the “National Anthem” at<br />
the Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> Yacht Club<br />
opening day ceremonies.<br />
2. Redondo <strong>Beach</strong> Yacht Club’s<br />
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memory of club members who<br />
passed away over the past year.<br />
3. Outgoing Redondo <strong>Beach</strong><br />
Yacht Club Commodore Eric<br />
Hardt presents his wife Deb with<br />
the traditional bouquet of flowers.<br />
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Blue Gavel by District 11 President<br />
Susana Araico and Vice<br />
President Sheila Anderson.<br />
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Yacht Club opening day are<br />
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and Firefighter Grant Currie<br />
and Fire Chief and Harbor Master<br />
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6. Michael Forbes performs<br />
“Amazing Grace” at the King<br />
Harbor Yacht Club.<br />
7. Outgoing King Harbor Yacht<br />
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presents his wife Nancy with the<br />
traditional flower bouquet.<br />
8. Members of the King Harbor<br />
Youth Foundation sailing team.<br />
9. Commodore Bob Duncan receives<br />
a commendation for his<br />
service from State Assemblyman<br />
David Hadley.<br />
10. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter<br />
Halibut Commander James Hurtt<br />
with crewmembers Matthew<br />
Crawford and Bryan Welsh.<br />
11. The Port Royal cannon is<br />
ready to declare opening day.<br />
PHOTOS BY KEVIN CODY<br />
12. Port Royal Vice Commodore<br />
Barbara Smith welcomes guests.<br />
13. Port Royal director Russell<br />
Densmore sings the “National<br />
Anthem.”<br />
14. Boy Scout Drake Mathers<br />
and fellow members of Troop<br />
966 lead Port Royal members in<br />
the Pledge of Allegiance.<br />
15. Newly installed Port Royal<br />
Commodore Craig Funabashi<br />
keeps a close eye on Redondo<br />
Mayor Steve Aspel.<br />
16. Redondo Mayor Steve<br />
Aspel puts in a call to the powers<br />
that be, assuring members a boat<br />
launch will not dislodge the King<br />
Harbor Yacht Club from Mole A.<br />
Having three club members on<br />
the Harbor Commission might<br />
help, he noted.<br />
17. Port Royal master lessee<br />
Gerald Thomas.<br />
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9 10<br />
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1<br />
2<br />
11<br />
13<br />
3 4 5<br />
14 15 16 17<br />
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