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Muhammed El-Hasan
on April 20, 2008 9:19 AM | | Comments (0) |

By Muhammed El-Hasan, Staff Writer

Joe Aro, one of the South Bay business community's most visible advocates, will leave his longtime post.

Aro, 67, said he will not renew his contract as executive director of the Torrance-based South Bay Economic Development Partnership. His last day is June 30.

The Rancho Palos Verdes resident said he is leaving to devote more time to the South Bay Science Foundation, which promotes science education. Aro has been executive director of the nonprofit foundation since 2003.

"You just see a great need to create more emphasis on science and technology," Aro said.

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Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter at the Daily Breeze since 2000, covers aerospace and everything else about business in the South Bay. Muhammed previously reported at the San Bernardino Sun and the community news division of The Orange County Register. He also worked as a researcher in the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1996-97. But his career highlight as a young man was driving a forklift at a Gardena company near Hawthorne, where he grew up.

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