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Native Son Hits Home Run College Bound alumnus John Muto discusses lows and triumphs By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor
[See Home Run p. 6]
Massive New Quake Threat Revealed in Harbor Area
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“I still read that article,” John Muto told me over waffles, eggs and bacon at the Pacific Diner. John still looks as if he has just graduated from high school with his cherub-like face. It doesn’t even look as if he shaves yet since his skin is so smooth. Sitting across from him in a well-worn booth, I realized, was the first time I’d seen John — in person, at least — in about five years; he is a young man now. Partly through reconnecting again but also his desire to talk about the cool projects he’s been working on, his demeanor conveyed a sense of brimming excitedness. These days John divides his time between his work coordinating youth programs for the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation and developing the budding nonprofit he co-founded, Heal Los Angeles. Nonetheless, he still lives in San Pedro. The article to which John was referring was a 2014 profile our former assistant editor, Zamna Avila, wrote for Random Lengths News about graduating high school students who had participated in the College Bound program at the San Pedro Boys and Girls Club. John was a senior at San Pedro High School who had collected $12,000 in scholarship money. During my interview with him, John told me about a couple of his dreams — one was to work in the community
Magnitude 7.2-7.4 possible By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
A newly-recognized fault could produce earthquakes as strong as magnitude 7 or higher according to research uncovered by Wilmington activist Jesse Marquez and introduced to the State Lands Commission at its Aug. 23 meeting. He was continuing the decade-plus process of seeking protective action to remove the public safety threat of the Rancho LPG facility, which stores more than 25 million gallons of butane and propane gas, with a blast radius of three miles. “I discovered something new, something very scary,” he told the commissioners. Marquez was recounting the discovery in the aftermath of the recent Ridgecrest quakes. “It will be devastating.” The research is fully described in a new paper, The Wilmington Blind-
September 12 - 25, 2019
Coordinator of the L.A. Dodgers Foundation youth program, John Muto, at Leland Park. Photo by Terelle Jerricks
[See Quake p. 4]
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