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Appreciates the ES Sports
Organizations
As many here in El Segundo are aware,
the AYSO youth soccer program has had
field challenges this season. The delayed
replacement of the turf at the Campus El
Segundo facility removed the two primary
fields we use from service for at least the
first third of the season. We would like to
take this opportunity to thank all the other
youth sports organizations who have generously
adapted their schedules and offered
their field space to allow us to run the season
for our 930 players.
We are especially grateful to El Segundo
Softball, El Segundo Babe Ruth Baseball, El
Segundo Pop Warner Football, and El Segundo
Flag Football for their cooperation and
understanding in modifying their programs.
These organizations are great examples of
groups focused on what is best for the kids.
To these groups, and any others we may
have overlooked, thank you! We strongly
encourage the City and residents of El Segundo
to support these great organizations.
– Roger Steele,
AYSO Region 92 Commissioner
Remembering Kelly McDowell
Thank you to Brian Simon for an excellent
article on Kelly McDowell.
Every action Kelly took was rational and
logical. He worked tirelessly for a better
El Segundo. He was openly proud of his
Republican heritage and of being a Republican.
Yet he worked graciously and seamlessly
with Democrats like his close friend Mike
Gordon and Ted Lieu.
In his final years, Kelly was impaired
by severe pain and serious side-effects
from prescription drugs he used trying to
stop the pain. Yet his dignity and integrity
never wavered.
Kelly McDowell was an outstanding man
and an outstanding mayor.
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– Steve Haxton
Writing Common Sense
In two recent columns, I noticed a trend
of Duane Plank writing common sense,
specifically that the illegal aliens labelled
DACA children are in fact here illegally and
that the Left (i.e. Democrats) support the
Antifa terrorists. I also noted that George
Funk saw fit to spout the usual talking
points of the exploiters in the US Chamber
of Commerce. The net effect of those talking
points is that anchor babies aren’t good
enough for the exploiters. They want anchor
toddlers, anchor children, and anchor teens.
And they want the middle class to pay for
their health care and other benefits. The basic
question to ask about DACA is if we wish
to encourage or discourage the immoral act
of parents sending lone children over the
border to jump the legal immigration line.
If we amnesty the DACAs, then we will get
many more unaccompanied children sent
over the border. If we send them back so
that there is no benefit to such an action,
then they won’t send them and just perhaps,
they will get in line and follow our existing
immigration laws. Given Mr. Funks usual
disagreement with Mr. Plank, I look forward
to his defense of leftist terrorists using clubs
and bike locks to beat citizens wishing to
exercise their first amendment rights to free
speech and assembly for the sole crime of
saying something the Antifa do not like.
– Kip Haggerty
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Drivers Flunk at Safety
Around Area Schools
By Rob McCarthy
South Bay schools rank dangerously low
in traffic safety because of distracted driving
and parents’ refusal to use designated dropoff
zones, according to a data-analytics firm
recently featured on the CBS Evening News.
San Francisco-based Zendrive gave the
majority of South Bay campuses a “D” in
its “School Safety Snapshot,” which the
company released as students and teachers
headed back to school in August. Zendrive
compiled data taken from phone apps of
drivers using roads near public and private
schools in South Bay and Los Angeles
County, and gave each campus a letter grade
ranging from “A” to “F.” Cell phone use by
drivers, hard stops and quick acceleration in
the vicinity of a campus resulted in a lower
grade on the Zendrive scale.
“The roads around your kid’s school aren’t
as safe as you think,” the Zendrive project
team said after studying driver performance
data around 1,768 schools in Los Angeles
County.
Three schools in Inglewood received
a “C minus”--the highest grade given to
any South Bay campus. ICEF Inglewood
Middle and Elementary Charter academies
topped the list of local schools, along with
Inglewood Christian School. St. Bernard in
Westchester also got a “C minus” and each
school benefited from nearby drivers not
using cell phones while behind the wheel,
according to Zendrive.
Zendrive says it embarked on the project to
protect children while making drivers aware
of the consequences of not paying attention
to the road. “As kids are increasingly getting
to school on foot, bike, and bus, it’s on us
to take responsibility for their safety when
driving near schools,” it said.
Cell phone data showed South Bay drivers being dangerous around schools. Credit: Zendrive.
Prevention, Testing Key in
Addressing Heartworm Disease
By Dr. Greg Perrault
year-round--to ensure that the prevention
A Long Beach dog recently tested positive
program is working. Heartworm medications
for heartworm disease. The dog had been on
are highly effective, but dogs can still become
and off heartworm prevention medicine over
infected. If you miss just one dose of a monthly
the last couple of years. His last heartworm
medication—or give it late—it can leave your
test was about two years ago and was negative
dog unprotected. Even if you give the medication
at that time. This means the dog was infected
as recommended, your dog may spit
sometime between that negative test and six
out or vomit a heartworm pill—or rub off a
months ago. The earliest a test will detect
topical medication. Heartworm preventives are
the disease is approximately six months after
highly effective, but not 100 percent effective.
the initial infection. We suspect this dog was
If you don’t get your dog tested, you won’t
infected during our extremely rainy winter
know your dog needs treatment.
this year. Heartworm disease is a serious
Left untreated, a heartworm infected dog
parasite infection caused by small worms
can eventually show signs such as coughing,
that migrate through the body, molting and
weight loss, swollen belly and heart
growing, until they end up in the heart and
failure--and will often die from the disease.
lung of dogs, cats, ferrets and several other
Cats can have asthma-like signs, periodic
mammals. It can cause serious pulmonary and
vomiting and anorexia, and weight loss,
cardiac damage and is often fatal if not treated
but can appear healthy just before sudden
in time. Animals contract the parasite from
collapse and death.
an infected mosquito. Mosquitos reproduce
Prevention of the disease and treatment
and thrive in standing water.
for the disease require different medicines.
As is often the case with recent infections,
Monthly prevention medication will kill the
this dog did not exhibit any abnormal signs at
immature parasite in the larval stage as it
all. The testing was part of a routine annual
enters the dog or cat’s body from a mosquito
exam. According to the American Heartworm
bite. However, once the larva begins to molt
Society, annual testing is necessary--even
into the larger adult worm, which is thought
when dogs are on heartworm prevention
See Heartworm, page 14