Normandie Avenues and Future Fest

ares: A Future Fest began at Florence and Normandie avenues -- the South Los Angeles intersection where rioting erupted -- and was followed by a community festival, according to CTV. Organizer Eric Ares, 34, is a lifelong resident of the area. On Saturday, hundreds of people marked the anniversary with marches advocating peace and hope. He remembers the electricity going out in his house at the start of the rioting, leaving his family essentially cut off from the outside world without lights or a TV. For the next couple of nights, there was this fear going on, he said. When he did venture outside, Ares saw plumes of smoke coming from places where buildings had been torched. We were huddled up in the living room. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.