National Service Day: The Ballona Institute hosted a day of service for Ballona Wetlands Preservation in conjunction with President-elect Barack Obama’s call to community service on Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 13. Andrew Sielberger, left, of El Segundo, was one of an estimated 300 volunteers who spent their service day helping out cleaning up the La Ballona Creek Estuary Channel and Del Rey Lagoon Park in Playa del Rey. photo by Margaret Molloy
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