If only they had a choice, the people who work at the El Sereno Youth Center would like to forget there ever was a Los Angeles city councilman named Richard Alatorre. Failing that, they’d rather the world knew there’s no current association between the center and the man.”I used to respect him greatly,” executive director Margie Huitron says of the politician, who remains closely linked with her organization in the public mind. That, however, was before she checked the books after arriving in her new post 15 months ago, from her tenure at the Los Angeles Boys and Girls Club.”I don’t want to sound bitter,” she laughs — and then ruefully recounts the assets she found on hand when she came to El Sereno: “We had $50,000 in two certificates of deposit, a pool table with half the balls gone and all the cues broken. And we had a deflated basketball.”
Source: Breaking Away | L.A. Weekly