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Legals ................................5,6 Pets .......................................8 Rams Player Closes a Digital Gap By Rob McCarthy fund-raisers for 2020-21 on its web site. gaps for California’s students.” A Los Angeles Ram player’s gift cast new In El Segundo, donations from corporations Joseph-Day, who is a defensive lineman attention on a problem that South Bay families and individuals have made a difference in with the Rams, saw the gap and decided to without Internet access must confront again as classrooms by lowering class sizes in the lower fill in for four students through the I Have local school districts start the new year with grades and offering more counseling services a Dream-LA. Together, they identified four distance learning. Defensive lineman Sebastian for young teens. The needs in Inglewood students who needed the technological re- Joseph-Day bought computers and wifi hot and Hawthorne tilt more toward academic sources to keep up in the upcoming school spots over the summer for 11th graders in the services, including wifi for the families of all year. His contribution didn’t stop there. He Dreamer Scholars program organized by the schoolchildren in those districts. The lack of also sent each of the students in the Dreamer “I Have a Dream Foundation-Los Angeles.” technology and a connection to the Internet Scholars program a note of encouragement The team announced Joseph-Day’s donation for some, has created a digital divide, and and to wish them bright futures. Weekend to four promising high school students and Assemblywoman Autumn Burke-D-South Students will return to their studies starting their families who would be without access to Bay is on a task force to study the issue in August, facing much uncertainty about Forecast online learning for the 2020-21 school year. ahead of what looks to be another school what the future will look like for them, their “At the end of the day, everyone deserves a year with some - or all - distance learning. classmates, teachers and coaches. Even the fair chance in life, and that includes a good State Superintendent of Schools Tony Dreamer Scholars who’ve been supported education regardless of your race, socioeco- Thurmond formed the task force just as the from first grade to high school need the reas- nomic status or creed,” said Joseph-Day, who coronavirus pandemic’s societal effects were surance that tough times don’t last, but tough Friday played at Rutgers University in New Jersey exploding. Schools closed and universities people do. The access to wifi at home is a Sunny before the Rams drafted him in 2018. He sent students home to finish the semester game-changer for those kids, says the chief grew up in Pennsylvania in a school district with video instruction from their teachers executive of the local “I Have a Dream” team. 77˚/64˚ where more than one-third of the students and professors. For many years, rural com- See Digital Gap, page 4 came from low-income households. munities had been the lone voices asking The Rams’ player’s gift also highlights the for state government and the Public Utilities importance that educational foundations play Commission to pressure Internet providers to in public education. The “I Have a Dream cover the entire state, not just metro areas. Saturday Foundation-Los Angeles” has demonstrated With the closing of schools and the quick that intervention starting in first grade and switch to online learning, Thurmond, Burke Sunny continuing up into high school can boost and other elected officials are in hot pursuit 75˚/64˚ graduation and college attendance rates. of telecommunications companies, which It happened two consecutive years in the critics say have dragged their feet for years Inglewood Unified School District. South about making wifi access more affordable Bay foundations plug school funding gaps. or free to low-income households. El Segundo public schools benefit from “This task force signals a new era, that Sunday annual support from the El Segundo Educa- California is now working with focus and tional Foundation. The nonprofit group raised urgency to close the digital divide in the most Sunny $1.8 million last school year for programs concrete way we have ever seen,” Thurmond 76˚/65˚ at Richmond Street, Center Street, and the said in April. “COVID-19 is a public health middle school and high schools. The founda- crisis in California and all around the world, tion is prepared to match the $1.8 million but it’s also revealed other crises like the Los Angeles Ram Sebastian Joseph-Day made distance learning grant amount in the upcoming school year, technology gap that has persisted for too possible for four students by donating computers and wifi service. too. The group has listed several upcoming long, leading to opportunity and achievement Photo credit: Los Angeles Rams. Page 2 September 10, 2020 Business Briefs Rams T-Shirt Giveaway Entertainment to Inglewood Students, Staff The Los Angeles Rams organization has school on Thursday, September 10 during Film Review graciously reached out to offer support to the grab-and-go meal distribution hours of IUSD students, staff, and families this school 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. District office staff Robin’s Wish Reveals What Led to the Actor’s year as they prepare to move into their new will pick up their shirts at the District Office; Suffering and Demise: Lewy Body Dementia home in Inglewood. We are excited to share Oak Street School students and staff will that quarterback Jared Goff is providing all pick up their shirts at Inglewood Continu- By Ryan Rojas for www.cinemacy.com are many), but an intimate and sympathetic IUSD students and staff with a new custom ation High School, and Morningside High On August 11, 2014, news reports broke look at the late actor at the most painful T-shirt that was co-designed by an Inglewood students and staff will pick up their T-shirts the tragic news that the beloved comedian moments of his life. With unseen footage Unified graduate from City Honors. The at Woodworth Monroe. and actor, Robin Williams, had died. Major of Robin from Marin County, including his T-shirt distribution will take place at each – Credit: Inglewood Unified School District. media outlets had globbed on to the news home, as well as interviews with neighbors that he had taken his own life, leading to and friends. An additional moment includes an incredible amount of press that stunned Shawn Levy, who recounts for the first time Free Countywide Household Hazardous the world. the struggles that Robin endured on the fi- It was unthinkable to feel why Robin nal Night at the Museum movie, with great And E-Waste Roundup in Lawndale Williams would have taken his life, and reverence and respect. County of Los Angeles residents will have School, Lloyde Parking Lot, 14901 South people soon started to ask questions. People Robin’s Wish is a very rewarding watch, the opportunity to safely dispose of household Inglewood Avenue, Lawndale on Saturday, wondered if a years long battle with drug if only to learn about the disease that would hazardous waste such as antifreeze, unused September 12, 2020, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. abuse contributed, if deep-seeded depression overtake his body and see the pain that he pharmaceuticals, car batteries, used motor oil, Los Angeles County Public Works and Los paint, pesticides, home-generated sharps waste Angeles County Sanitation Districts conduct such as hypodermic needles, pen needles, more than 50 free Household Hazardous syringes, lancets, and intravenous needles, Waste and E-Waste Roundups annually universal waste including household batter- throughout the County to provide residents ies, fluorescent light bulbs, and electronic with a convenient way to rid their homes waste (e-waste) such as TVs and monitors, of unwanted hazardous materials. Because computers, VCRs, stereos, and cell phones hazardous waste can pollute the environ- at the next free Countywide Household ment, it is illegal to discard these items Hazardous Waste Roundup. in trashcans, sinks and storm drains. The The free Countywide Household Hazardous Roundups are part of a campaign to promote and E-Waste Roundup Program is brought public awareness of proper disposal practices to residents by the County of Los Angeles of household hazardous and e-waste and to and presented by Los Angeles County Public provide a convenient, free disposal option. Works and Los Angeles County Sanitation For more information, go to: https://www. Districts in cooperation with the City of lacsd.org/services/solidwaste/hhw_e_waste/ Lawndale and the neighboring cities of Carson, cityoflawndale.asp Or, contact Los Angeles El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa County Public Works at 1-(888) CLEAN Beach, Inglewood, Lawndale, Manhattan LA or www.CleanLA.com or Los Angeles Beach, Redondo Beach, and Torrance. County Sanitation Districts at 1-(800) 238- The Roundup is held at Lawndale High 0173 or www.lacsd.org/hhw. • Robin’s Wish, courtesy Vertical Entertainment. played a part (and the media spun up end- had hidden away from the public.