The Weekly Newspaper of Manhattan Beach Herald Publications - El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, Lawndale, & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 Vol. 10, No. 5 May 5, 2016 Inside This Issue Certified and Licensed Professionals...................6 Classifieds............................3 Finance..................................4 Looking Up...........................6 Pets........................................7 Real Estate.....................8-10 Weekend Forecast Local Printer Helps A Charity in China Left to Right: Three High School Students sponsored by the Peach Foundation, with Edward Su in the Yunnan province. For more photos, see page two. Photos provided by Ed Su. Local Business Owner Sees Fruits of Charity First-Hand in Visit to China See The Peach Foundation, page 2 Friday, May 6 Showers 63˚/55˚ Saturday, May 7 Partly Cloudy 64˚/54˚ Sunday, May 8 Partly Cloudy 66˚/55˚ By Brian Simon While most people have a “good feeling inside” when they donate to a cause, there can be a sense of disconnect especially if the contribution goes into a general pool and one doesn’t know anything about the beneficiary. But then there is the case of Ed Su, a long-time local business owner (he runs Studio Printing in the South Bay and also did layout work for Herald Publications in the late ‘90s) who along with his wife became involved with a nonprofit charity a few years ago. The Peach Foundation, an organization based out of Foster City near San Francisco but with its main operating offices in China, supports children in that Far East country—mainly in the Yunnan province. It is one of the poorest regions of China where many families can’t afford to send their kids back to school after completion of an elementary education. As Su explained, “The Chinese government pays for the education from grades one to nine, but after that the families have to pay for the schooling. For some of the rural farmers with their very, very low incomes, it’s almost impossible.” Su learned about the Foundation from his wife’s sister-in-law, whose friend started the organization about 10 years ago. “While my wife’s sister-in-law was recovering from her breast cancer treatments, she became heavily involved with Peach Foundation and still travels to China at least three times a year to visit with the children and their families,” Su said. “The desire to help these children is what kept her going and motivated to beat her cancer and she always said that Peach Foundation and the kids saved her life.” Seeing the positive impact that the Foundation made on a family member prompted Su to put the organization on his radar and make an annual donation. He also alerted his fellow Rotarians and the club now sponsors a couple of children every year. But Su never truly realized how much a contribution meant to a particular child until he had the chance to see it first-hand. “Every October Peach Foundation arranges a trip for their sponsors, donors and volunteer to a different region of the Yunnan province to get a better understanding of what the Foundation does and how they find the kids to support,” Su said. And so he recently went on the trip, which lasted 10 days. He learned how, where and what kind of families receive the support. It’s only $300 per year for the education—an amount that may seem like a drop in the bucket to many of us, yet hopelessly unaffordable to those impoverished over there. During the visit, Su spent countless hours trudging through backroads on buses and stopped at various rural farms seemingly in the middle of nowhere. “We saw the parents of the children and the environment in which they lived,” Su Where Rock Fans Head For A Strange Brew By Rob McCarthy Rock & Brews has leapt from a corner nobody wanted in El Segundo onto a national stage using the KISS principle. From Southern California to San Antonio, fans of rock music, burgers, buffalo wings and beer have embraced the bar-and-grill concept that co-founder Michael Zislis and his rock-star partners started four years ago in the South Bay. Rock & Brews from the beginning had a simple proposition: Give the people grub, grog and a good time. Zislis recalls partners - Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS - having a lukewarm reaction to the original location, which had been a pizza restaurant until the economy tanked in 2008. Dave Furano, a rock promoter and business partner, pushed for the flagship Rock & Brews to start on Main Street in El Segundo. Dave’s brother, Dell, also got involved before the concept took off. “It was Dave Furano and I who liked it. The others thought we were certifiably crazy,” Zislis said. “So we did it as a trial thing. We bought the pizza place, and we rented the four lots next door … the place was packed. We did a million bucks in three months. We couldn’t believe it!” “So, we bought the four lots, tore it all down, ordered a metal building online, and six weeks later we erected it.” Rock & Brews is one of America’s fastest-growing small restaurant chains, according to Restaurant Business journal. The 15 locations include Albuquerque, N.M.; Buena Park; Cabo, Mexico; The Colony, Texas; Corona, Calif.; Oklahoma City; Overland Park, Kan.; Oviedo, Fla.; Paia, Maui; and at StubHub Center in Carson and the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. A Dallas Rock & Brews just opened and will celebrate with a grand opening May 10. It’s much bigger than either the El Segundo or Pacific Coast Highway restaurants, and the menu has some regional favorites like fried catfish, sweet heat chicken and Miner’s Gold BBQ with a sweet mustard base. What Dallas, PCH and El Segundo have in common is parking. Some reviewers on See Rock & Brews, page 5
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