The Weekly Newspaper of Torrance Herald Publications - Torrance, El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, Lawndale, & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 7, No. 48 - November 30, 2017 El Camino Men’s Cross Country Inside Finishes Seventh in State Finals This Issue Calendar of Events ............3 Certified & Licensed Professionals ......................9 Classifieds ...........................4 Crossword/Sudoku ............4 Entertainment .....................2 Legals ...................................8 Pets .....................................12 The El Camino men’s cross country team finished seventh in the State Championships in Fresno two weekends ago. Pictured L-R: Coach David Cardona, Cole Goldman ( LB Millikan), Matt Arruda, (Mira Costa), Mijo Sestich (San Pedro), Carson Bix (West Torrance), Caleb Ko (Torrance), Brian Huang (South Torrance), Michael Yaskowitz (Torrance), Coach Dean Lofgren. See inside for the women’s Real Estate. .................10-11 team photo. Photo by Tom Harmon. Sports ...................................5 LA Lakers Provide Dream Job for Torrance’s Michelle McIntyre By TerriAnn Ferren this job for so long, she also mentors the new about 4,000 people on the waiting list? That TerriAnn in Torrance reps. Michele told me, “I make sure that we is remarkable. In speaking with Michelle, I Torrance resident Michelle McIntyre has are giving the best service that we can to our was impressed with her commitment to the what many would call a dream job. Born at Laker season ticket members. I am also in Laker organization. Centinela Hospital, she was raised in Tor- charge of coming up with ideas of how we Then I asked Michelle if her family was Weekend rance, attended Fern Elementary, Madrona can give back to our season ticket members a basketball family when she was growing Middle School, and then attended Torrance and make sure that they want to stay with up she said yes. They had always followed Forecast High School. “My first job, I worked at J.C. us and renew year after year. This is a new the Los Angeles Lakers and her grandfather Penny in the Del Amo Mall when I was 16,” position within our organization.” I find this had played basketball in the Navy in WWII. said Michelle. “I got a work permit from particular job incredible. I mean, they have At this point I asked Michelle if she knew Torrance High and I worked in retail at J.C. someone working this hard on retaining if her grandfather ever played against the Friday Penney. I did a few other things…I was a season ticket subscribers when there are See Michelle McIntyre, page 6 receptionist for a chiropractor when I was Sunny in college, and then I worked at Hollywood 68˚/54˚ Video. Remember that on Hawthorne and Insurance Changes Bringing Much Torrance Boulevard?” She then applied for and got a filing job with the Los Angeles Lakers organization when she was 19 years Needed Relief to Medical Practices Saturday old. She worked three days a week, helping By Rob McCarthy on small business owners, according to out around the office filing, doing anything A new law will make it possible for Bradford who represents the 35th District. Mostly asked of her and learning a lot about the small companies to afford workplace ac- The California Department of Insurance organization. Once she graduated from cident insurance next year by loosening says that workers’ comp premium fraud Cloudy college, Michelle applied for the customer the rules on privately-owned businesses, occurs when a company underreports the 71˚/54˚ service job and was hired. She had learned says the South Bay lawmaker who spon- true number of employees on its payroll. a lot about the organization. “I became the sored the bill. The new law doesn’t take effect until Senior Rep a few years after that and then Senator Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, July 1, giving small businesses time to last December, I became the Manager of said that more owners and board members decide who’ll claim the exemption. The Sunday Service and Retention for the Los Angeles of California corporations can opt out their California Medical Association predicted Lakers,” added Michelle. company workers’ comp policies under that owners of medical practices will sign Partly Michelle continued, “There are only 30 his bill. Part-owners and directors will up immediately for the waivers. Cloudy NBA [National Basketball Association] teams be allowed to waive coverage as long as “All owners of medical corporations will and only so many jobs within those teams. they have other health insurance to cover be able to exempt themselves from work- 68˚/52˚ It is a very small group of people who get them in case of accident or illness. ers’ compensation coverage, regardless to do what I do.” She manages the service The Legislature’s efforts to reduce of percentage ownership, as long as they staff and the account reps for all the Lakers cheating by employers have made it harder See Insurance Changes, page 9 season ticket accounts. She has been doing Page 2 November 30, 2017 TORRANCE TRIBUNE Entertainment Film Review Check It Out Rapturous Call Me By Your Name Into the Water by Paula Hawkins Reviewed By Roz Templin, another’s story. Bit by bit, the reader/listener Is a Sunshine-Soaked Love Story Library Assistant realizes that there is much more at play than By Morgan Rojas of the visceral and sensual moments the film Into the Water is the follow-up to the block- the investigation of a single mother’s death. for www.cinemacy.com has to offer: the bite into a plump apricot, the buster The Girl on the Train by author Paula The characters each recall traumas, adulterous “Is it better to speak, or to die?” These sound of trickling water, the warmth of the Hawkins. I was pleased to find that it deals with affairs, lies and misperceptions that all eventually are the words Mrs. Pearlman reads aloud Italian sun, and an alarmingly welcomed first totally different subject matter, but does retain tie together and amp up the tension. Each time to her son, Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and touch on a shoulder all convey the feelings one element from The Girl on the Train--the you think you’ve figured it out, another piece her husband from the love story about a of sensuality that first love can awaken us of vital information is dropped. A curveball prince who doesn’t know whether or not to to in life. can come from any angle and you must again express his love to the princess--the love of These are the things that director Luca sift through the clues anew. Should Detective his life--or not. Lounging about in the living Guadagnino evokes so vividly in creating Inspector Townsend be investigating this case? room of their 17th Century vacation villa in an endless summer with an amazing visual Is local teacher Mark Henderson involved? What Northern Italy, the Pearlman family takes in language (much as he did in his previous film, about Louise Whittaker? She recently lost her the endless summer afternoon of 1983. The 2015’s A Bigger Splash). In a technical sense, teenage daughter. Are the deaths connected? prince’s quandary is the same one felt by young Guadagnino understands how to transition Nickie Sage, local “psychic,” insists that she Elio when exchange student Oliver (Armie between these moments to allow the film to is receiving messages from the dead that may Hammer) comes to stay with the family in breathe effortlessly into the next as scenes are implicate someone. Luca Guadagnino’s latest film, Call Me By woven together with cross-dissolves and fades I listened to the book on CD version, which Your Name--a beautiful film of discovery and rather than harsh cuts. Adding to the film’s has several entertaining actors voicing several pure love, and one of the best films of the year. overall tone is the original music from singer- characters. In my opinion, when done well, as The summer will be a transformational songwriter Sufjan Stevens, whose whispered, in this instance, there is an added nuance to one for the intelligent, but still boyish confessional lyrics against the quiet staccato plot and motivation in the story. 17-year-old Elio, who spends his afternoons of melodic piano keys perfectly capture and This tale is much slower than The Girl on studying classical piano sheet music and heighten the optimism of discovery in the film. the Train. There is much more to discover and reading novels. His academic parents may Based on the 2007 novel from André those layers upon layers are important and tell- have been able to culture him on the finer Aciman of the same name, Call Me By Your ing. Stick with it and you will be rewarded. It things in life regarding art and history. Name was quickly regarded as a modern classic is not until the final “flashback” that everything However, Elio finds himself inexperienced on first love. Although mainly celebrated in might resolve! You will have sympathy for when it comes to understanding his feelings the LGBTQ community for its subject matter, those “troublesome” women. and own sexuality. It is only when his father’s it has since been embraced universally for Into the Water by Paula Hawkins. The El Segundo Public Library offers access 24-year-old American intern, Oliver, arrives at its portrayal of the joy and heartache that unreliable narrator. But even with this there to its collection of titles in a variety of formats, their family’s home to study for the summer comes from first love that transcends gender is a twist. Instead of a single untrustworthy including traditional hardback, e-books and that Elio is awakened to the feelings of pure or sexuality.