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Featuring the Weekly Newspapers of Hawthorne, Inglewood and Lawndale Hawthorne Press Tribune Lawndale Tribune AND LAWNDALE NEWS Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 3, No. 12 - March 25, 2021 Tri-City CERT Volunteers at Inside the Super POD at the Forum This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals ......................8 Classifieds ...........................2 Entertainment .....................2 Hawthorne ...........................3 Huber’s Hiccups .................3 Lawndale .............................4 Inglewood ............................5 Tri City CERT is an all volunteer, non profit organization created to enhance disaster preparedness and emergency response for the citizens of Gardena, Lawndale, and Hawthorne. They accomplish this through the participation in community awareness events, various training programs, drills and providing volunteer support to the Fire and Police departments upon activation. Their vision is to Legals ......................... 4,5,6,7 train residents of the Tri City area (Gardena, Lawndale and Hawthorne) to be prepared in the event of a disaster and to be a deployable resource to assist the Tri Cities emergency services upon request. Photo courtesy Tri City CERT (Community Emergency Response Team). Pets .......................................8 South Bay’s Studio Antiques Celebrates 33 Years of Business By Kiersten Vannest lighthearted discussion, the shop owner asked In the middle of Richmond Street, in- him if he’d just buy the shop. So Laurence nocuously tucked behind the 99 Cents Only did. This purchase became Studio Antiques, store, sits an antique store with the apropos named for its predecessor. Weekend name “Studio Antiques” painted on the front. While he handles most of the buying and Passing this store, it looks like an average packaging, Sally, his wife, handles more of Forecast antique shop, with lots of old items and a the business side of things, a complement to few treasures if you know what to look for. each other. While working a 9 to 5 corporate But behind the doors of this little shop is an job, she began helping out with the business antique hunter’s dream. on the weekends, which eventually turned into Friday Laurence and Sally Martin own and operate her full-time gig. With her master’s degree Studio Antiques. If you’ve ever seen Baggage and organization skills, she most often runs Partly Wars on the Travel Channel or Storage Wars the shop daily, makes friends with customers, on A&E, you’ve seen the Martins hunting, and keeps the books in check. Cloudy appraising, and obtaining, and selling one-of- “I needed a secretary, and Sally fit the bill,” 61˚/47˚ a-kind items from all over the world. jokes Laurence, immediately rebuked by Sally. Neither of the Martins began their lives in “He only says that at the right moment be- the business of antiques. Laurence grew up cause he knows it makes me angry,” she laughs. in England, becoming a scientific engineering Both of them are avid historians. Their Saturday designer and eventually helping to design extensive experience, along with the help of the black box recorder still used today in friends, who are experts in the field, allows Sunny/ airplanes. After that, he spent the next ten them to provide appraisals as part of their Laurence and Sally Martin have been in the business of antiques Wind years traveling the world as a contractor services and helps them get valuable items for 33 years. Photo Credit: Chris Miller Photography. and working on all things air space. His for their shop, which also operates online. “I’ll tell you, this is my personal opinion,” 70˚/53˚ profession led him to work for Northrop A myriad of odd, eclectic, and valuable items says Sally to explain the recent resurgence Grumman and landed him right here in El have passed through their collection, from a of vinyl enthusiasts, “In the late 1800s, Segundo. One day, on his lunch break, he rare pressing of a Beatles album released on there was a movement called the Arts and found a little studio that had a painting shop their first trip to America for the Ed Sullivan Crafts movement, and it was a reaction to Sunday and framing business. He began to purchase show, to a memo sent out by John Adams the industrial revolution.” She goes on to Sunny items, putting them on layaway to reserve suggesting that Washington’s birthday should explain that this movement was an artisan them for himself. be made a national holiday (of which there rebuttal to factory lines and automated jobs. 73˚/54˚ “One day [the shop owner] said to me, are only five known copies in the world). People began hand-making and designing ‘You’ve got like twenty things on layaway, These days, while antiques are still the interiors and items amid the availability of when are you going to pay for them?’” says name of their game, they’ve had a mass mass-produced consumer products. Martin. After a couple of beers and some customer interest in vinyls. See Studio Antiques, page 5 Page 2 March 25, 2021 Your Neighborhood Therapist Dear Neighborhood Therapist, Next, what if you think about perfectionism I have been a perfectionist my whole life. as something - or better yet, someone - you Entertainment It has always been a struggle for me but I live with, rather than who you are? If you have have been able to handle it. Now I feel like lived with perfectionism your whole life, it does In Dancing With the Devil, Demi Lovato it is too much and I want to let go of it. Is not seem reasonable to expect that such an old Reinvents Herself as a Confident, Queer Woman there anything I can do? It feels like I would acquaintance will go easily into the night; nor do have to change my personality, and I’m not I think that the total extinction of perfectionism Morgan Rojas for cinemacy.com Directed by Michael D. Ratner, Dancing sure I can do that, or want to do that. should necessarily be your goal. Is it possible If the opening night showcase film at this with the Devil joins the ranks of other docs – Perfectly Miserable, El Segundo that Perfectionism - let’s go ahead and give year’s SXSW film festival set out to prove made by former young pop culture icons him a capital P for a proper name - has been anything, it’s that sharing our struggles with who want to tell (and own) their stories, Dear Perfectly Miserable, beneficial to you in some ways? strangers can be a cathartic and positively- including Justin Bieber: Seasons and This We celebrate perfect - in sports, like gym- More importantly, how would you describe affirming experience. When you’re former is Paris. While Dancing with the Devil is nastics and baseball - but also countless other the voices of Perfectionism? Who are these Disney star/recovering addict/and newly itself, an engaging work, it feels as though aspects of our lives. Pundits breathlessly hail voices and what supports them? We already “out” artist Demi Lovato, it can also be quite its purpose is a thinly veiled beg for forgive- a “perfect” speech and Instagram lights up at mentioned the voices of Perfectionism we vulnerable and scary. ness from her peers and fans. I don’t feel like a meal “perfectly” prepared. The list goes on. are all exposed to when we participate in Drawing comparisons to the recent New it’s my place to judge someone’s past and We are a perfection-loving society. society. Is Perfectionism’s voice also (I am York Times-produced documentary Framing their explanation as to why they did certain No wonder you’re feeling miserable: while using the metaphor of a voice but you may Britney, which revealed a troubling, unac- things, but the audience’s only requirement we celebrate “perfection,” we are also quick prefer a different one) that of an unreason- knowledged history of one of the world’s here is to sit and listen. Demi’s hope is that to jump on mistakes. In the same way that it ably demanding parent or teacher or authority most famous pop stars (Britney Spears), we allow her the chance for a fresh start, is so much easier to tear something down than figure? Perhaps it is the voice of a friend, or it is to build it up, it is much easier to notice partner, or a childhood bully. The old “know flaws than it is to appreciate the effort and your enemies” adage applies: the better you skill that goes into any creation, perfect or not. know the problem, the more effectively you I have a few questions and thought experi- will be able to confront it. ments that should get you started in considering This is not easy, but once you start the pro- your next steps. cess of scrutinizing Perfectionism - turning the First, what is perfectionism, to you? When tables, you might say - the paths forward may I think about what we commonly consider to very well begin to reveal themselves. be “perfectionism,” I imagine a wide range Please write to tom@tomandrecounseling. of possible definitions, for example: a strong com or text to 310.776.5299 with questions dedication to doing the best possible work in a about handling what is affecting your life, particular craft; feeling intense anxiety because your family, the community or the world. everything you do will harshly scrutinized and Tom Andre is a Licensed Marriage & Family judged by others; a sense of knowing what Therapist (LMFT119254). The information good work is, and that you could always do in this column is for educational purposes just a little bit better.

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