Time to Learn from our Past

As a new page in history is turned on New Year’s Day 2022, there is an opportunity for all of us to learn valuable lessons from the past – and to improve our personal and collective future.

Take a look back at Los Angeles in 1922. Just 36 months earlier, Los Angeles residents were reeling from the global influenza epidemic known as the Spanish Flu. The deadly virus had been brought to Southern California unknowingly by sailors on a naval training vessel docked at the San Pedro Harbor and the impact on life in our region was cataclysmic.