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• Wilshire tree removal
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• Helicopter noise
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Volume 25 No. 21
Serving the West Hollywood, Hancock Park and Wilshire Communities
May 21, 2015
Commission gives green light Ryu declared victor in 4th District race
to Academy Museum plan
n Candidate outlasts
n Project next moves to city council committee
By jonathan van dyke
The proposed Academy Museum
has passed another hurdle — this
time more smoothly — on its way
to becoming fully realized.
The Los Angeles Planning
Commission voted 6-0 last
Thursday to support the project virtually unchanged from the plans
outlined in its final environmental
impact report, almost a month after
the Mid-City West Community
Council asked the museum to radically change its plans.
The proposed development
would rehabilitate and adaptively
reuse the exterior of the May
Company Wilshire building at the
See Museum page 22
photo courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
A rendering shows a view from inside the spherical theatre proposed at
the Academy Museum.
Ramsay in
runoff campaign
By jonathan van dyke
In the last hour before his 4th
District city council campaign
concluded Tuesday night, candidate David Ryu drove three people to a polling location. He
knocked on his last door at 7:55
p.m., just five minutes before polls
closed. He said his campaign staff
and volunteers were no different,
and because of their hard work, he
can now be called councilmanelect.
Ryu defeated Carolyn Ramsay
Tuesday night in the election to
succeed
Councilman
Tom
LaBonge. When the mail-in ballot
results were announced shortly
after 9 p.m., Ryu took a lead he
never relinquished — winning
with 53.83 percent of the vote.
The final unofficial tally was
11,269 votes for Ryu and 9,657
votes for Ramsay.
“It hasn’t sunk in yet,” Ryu said
Wednesday morning. “Even coming up to Election Day, I knew,
and my team knew, what an awe-
photo courtesy of the David Ryu Campaign
Councilman-elect David Ryu (second from right) was joined by supporters at a victory party on Tuesday, including former L.A. County
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky (right) and his wife, Barbara.
some responsibility this would
be.”
Ryu was fairly unknown coming into the race. He established
himself early on as a master
fundraiser and organizer, and his
campaign team concentrated on
signing up new voters and encour-
aging mail-in voting.
A son of Korean immigrants,
Ryu majored in economics at
UCLA and studied public policy
and administration at Rutgers
University. He is currently the
director of development and pubSee Ryu page 21
Concrete repairs coming to Hancock Park, finally Council approves plan to raise
minimum wage to $15 by 2020
n Residents worked
for years to have
streets fixed
n Business owners
By jonathan van dyke
After five years of requesting
concrete repairs on the streets of
Hancock Park, residents’ wishes
will finally be granted.
The Los Angeles Board of Public
Works unanimously approved
improvements to five intersections
in the neighborhood, with work
scheduled to begin on June 15.
“We’re certainly happy that it’s
been approved and it will be done,”
said Tim Allen, Hancock Park
Homeowners Association (HPHA)
street committee chair. “We’re certainly unhappy about the process.”
Crews will repair the intersections of Clinton Street and Wilcox
Avenue; Clinton Street and
Cahuenga Boulevard; 4th and June
streets; 1st and June streets; and
McCadden Place and 4th Street.
The project will cost approximately
$400,000.
Hancock Park community members noted that many of the streets
in the neighborhood are upwards of
90 years old, and recent repairs
have only been made when the Los
Angeles Department of Water and
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warn plan may cause
prices to go up
By dana Bell
photo by Jonathan Van Dyke
Large potholes, including this one at McCadden Place and 4th Street,
will be repaired with concrete under the new plan.
Power (DWP) worked on piping.
Hancock Park’s historical preservation overlay zone (HPOZ) rules
dictate that all streets must be
repaired with concrete to protect
the character of the neighborhood.
The city, on the other hand,
repairs streets with asphalt, which
is a much cheaper material.
“[Fourth District] staff was
repeatedly told by the bureau of
street services staff that using
asphalt-resurfacing dollars allocat-
ed in the city’s annual budget for
concrete work was not possible
[because there aren’t any] city concrete crews, and that the money
allocated in the annual budget was
for asphalt-resurfacing only,” said
Councilman Tom LaBonge, 4th
District. “It was only when current
staff put aggressive attention on the
[city administrative officer’s
(CAO)] office that this conversion
of funds became an option, and
See Streets page 21
The Los Angeles City Council
voted 14-1 on Tuesday to raise the
minimum wage in Los Angeles to
$15 an hour by 2020.
The minimum wage would be
raised incrementally each year
until 2020, where it would then be
tied to the consumer price index
for urban wage earners and clerical workers. Small businesses
with fewer than 25 employees
would have an additional year to
implement the minimum wage,
and would be expected to comply
by 2021.
“Today, help is on the way for
the one million Angelenos who
live in poverty,” Mayor Eric
Garcetti said in a statement. “I
started this campaign to raise the
minimum wage to create broader
economic prosperity in our city
and because the minimum wage
should not be a poverty wage in
Los Angeles.”
The minimum wage would
increase to $10.50 by July 2016,
$12 by July 2017, $13.25 by July
2018, $14.25 by July 2019, and
$15 by July 2020.
The proposal comes with
exceptions for some businesses.
Nonprofits with more than 25
workers could apply for waivers
if they meet certain requirements
for executive pay, serve transitional workers or are primarily
funded through government
See Council page 20
photo by Jill Weinlein
Restaurant workers and owners
could be highly impacted by the
new wage law.
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2 May 21, 2015
Calendar
23 Vintage Train Rides
T
ake a leisurely ride through the
Heritage Valley aboard a vintage
train during the Fillmore & Western
Railway’s
“Weekend
Scenic
Excursion” rides on Saturdays, May
23 and 30, boarding at 11:30 a.m.
Adult tickets are $25; $23 for
seniors; $15 for youth ages 4-12; and
$10 for children 2-3. Additionally, a
murder-mystery train titled “Cirque
De Foul Play” will be held on
Saturday, May 23, boarding at 6:15
p.m. Passengers help solve a mystery
while enjoying a three-course dinner.
Adult tickets are $89 Trains depart
from 364 Main St., Fillmore.
Reservations required. (805)5242546, www.fwry.com.
26 Classical Concert
C
lassical music fans are invited to a
performance by the LA Phil New
Music Group on Tuesday, May 26 at 7
p.m. at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Composer John Adams will conduct,
and soprano Hila Plitmann will join
the orchestra. Works by Mattingly,
Cerrone, Cooper and Friar will be performed. Tickets start at $39. 111 S.
Grand
Ave.
(323)850-2000,
www.laphil.com.
‘Satchmo at
the Waldorf’
Outdoor Movie
O
M
ovie fans won’t want to miss an
outdoor screening of “Almost
Famous” on Saturday, May 23 at the
Autry National Center. The movie is
a coming-of-age film about William
Miller, a 15-year-old teen hired by
Rolling Stone magazine to tour with
and write about Stillwater, an upand-coming rock band. Doors open at
5:30 p.m., followed by live music at
7 p.m. and the film at 8:30 p.m. Food
trucks will offer snacks and refreshments. General admission is $12.
4700 Western Heritage Way.
(323)667-2000, www.theautry.org.
Art Exhibit
G
allery 825 and the Los Angeles
Art Association are hosting an
exhibit titled “VS” running from
Saturday, May 23 through June 5.
The exhibit is a juried group exhibition that pairs artists. Works by artists
such as Carl Shubs, who was paired
with Nanci Schrieber-Smith, will be
displayed. A reception will be held
on May 23 from 6 to 9 p.m. 825 N.
La Cienega Blvd. www.laaa.org.
Chamber Music
C
hamber music aficionados are
encouraged to attend a Da
Camera Society performance by
Pallade Musica on Saturday, May 23
at 8 p.m. in the UCLA Powell
Library Rotunda. The performance
celebrates the 1737 debut of Georg
Philipp Telemann’s “Paris Quartets”.
Tickets start at $40. 405 Hilgard Ave.
(213)477-2929, www.dacamera.org.
photo courtesy of the Fountain Theatre
Forever Flamenco presents “Vivir Flamenco” on Sunday, May 24 at 7:30
p.m. at the Fountain Theatre. Dancer Briseyda Zárate will direct the
show with featured artist Antonio Rodriguez Jimenez (pictured), also
known as “El Chupete”. Guitarist Gabriel Osuna and singer Jose Cortés
will perform with the dancers. Tickets are $40. 5060 Fountain Ave.
(323)663-1525, www.FountainTheatre.com.
24 Tea Ceremony
J
oin Robert T. Singer, curator and
head of Japanese art at the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art
(LACMA), for a discussion titled
“Peace through a Bowl of Tea” on
Sunday, May 24
at 1 p.m.
Guests will
enjoy tea ceremonies, a lecture and
demonstration. The discussion is being
held in conjunction with the exhibition, “Raku: The Cosmos in a Tea
Bowl”. Bing Theater,
5905 Wilshire
Blvd. (323)857-6000, www.lacma.org.
Shavuot Observance
T
he Ten Commandments will be
revealed once again at Hollywood
Temple Beth El’s “Leyl Tikun — An
Evening of Cosmic Repair” on Sunday,
May 24 at 7 p.m., in observance of the
second night of Shavuot. The temple’s
Sapper Hall will sub for the Sinai Desert,
and the center of the hall will become
Mt. Sinai as a Torah scroll is opened and
rolled from beginning to end. The event
will be preceded by a service to usher in
the Second Night of the Shavuot
Festival, also know as the giving of the
Torah. Traditional sweet desserts will be
served. Additionally, a Shavuot service
will be held on Monday, May 25 at 9:45
a.m., followed by Yizkor services at 11
a.m. 1317 N. Crescent Heights Blvd.
RSVP requested to (323)656-3150, or
email [email protected].
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bie Award winner John Douglas
Thompson stars in a production
of “Satchmo at the Waldorf” running
from Tuesday, May 26 through
Sunday, June 7 in the Wallis
Annenberg Center for the Performing
Arts’ Lovelace Studio Theater. The
production is set in March 1971 at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where Louis
Armstrong has played one of his final
performances. Unwinding backstage,
he recounts events that transformed
him into the world-famous “Satchmo”.
Tickets start at $30. 9390 N. Santa
Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills.
(310)746-4000, www.thewallis.org.
27 ‘The Hunting
Ground’
J
oin the National Council of Jewish
Women, Los Angeles (NCJW/LA)
for a screening of the film “The
Hunting Ground” on Wednesday, May
27 at 6:30 p.m. at the NCJW/LA council house. The film is an exposé of sexual assaults on U.S. campuses, as well
as institutional cover-ups and the toll
the crimes take on victims and families. A post-show discussion will be
held with Alexa Schwartz, a 2014
USC graduate and co-founder of the
USC Student Coalition Against Rape.
543 N. Fairfax Ave. RSVP requested
to
(323)852-8503,
or
email
[email protected].
Japanese Film
A
screening of the Japanese film,
“The Letter” will be held on
Monday, May 27 at 7 p.m. at the Japan
Foundation Los Angeles. The film follows the story of two brothers who help
each other after they lose their parents.
5700 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 100. RSVP
requested to www.jflalc.org.
Comedy Benefit
C
omedian Bob Odenkirk will headline the Alliance for Children’s
Rights’ 6th annual “Right to Laugh”
benefit on Wednesday, May 27 at 7
p.m. at the Avalon Hollywood. Paul
Scheer, Kumail Nanjiani, Steve
Trevino, Rory Scovel and surprise
guests will perform. Tickets are a $250.
1735 Vine St. (213)368-6010,
www.kids-alliance.org.
28 Networking
Breakfast
W
riters, producers and directors
Carey Solomon and Chuck
Konzelman will be special guest speakers at the Hollywood Networking
Breakfast on Thursday, May 28 from 8
a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the Raleigh
Studios’ Chaplin Theater. Solomon and
Konzelman have established themselves as a premier creative talent team
in the faith-based film industry. Tickets
start at $45. 5300 Melrose Ave.
(323)465-9800,
www.HollywoodNetworkingBreakfast.com.
‘Le Moche’
T
heatre Raymond Kabbaz presents
the Los Angeles premiere of “Le
Moche (The Ugly One)”, a satirical
comedy that explores society’s fixation
on physical beauty, on Thursday, May
28 and Friday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m.
Written by Marius von Mayenburg and
performed by members of La Troupe
du Theatre Raymond Kabbaz, “Le
Moche” follows the story of talented
engineer, Lette, who struggles for
recognition but is thwarted by an ugly
face. Tickets are $15. 10361 W Pico
Blvd. (310)286-0553, www.theatreraymond-kabbaz.com.
Park Labrea News/Beverly Press
3 May 21, 2015
Tree removal plan to be reviewed at meeting
n Metro could start
cutting down trees
if city gives approval
By edwin folven
photo by Luis Rivas
The Little Spain restaurant at the Original Farmers Market remains closed
indefinitely after a fire that erupted on May 15.
Fire damages Little Spain at
the Original Farmers Market
n LAFD is investigating
the cause of the blaze
By edwin folven
An early-morning fire erupted
on May 15 inside an office located
above the Little Spain restaurant at
the Original Farmers Market.
Los Angeles Fire Department
spokesman Erik Scott said a witness called 911 at approximately
4:17 a.m. to report the blaze above
the restaurant near the corner of 3rd
Street and Fairfax Avenue.
Firefighters arrived to find smoke
emanating from the second floor of
the Market. Scott said the flames
were extinguished at 4:35 a.m. One
firefighter suffered a non-life
threatening injury and was treated
and released.
Ilysha Buss, director of the
Original Farmers Market, said a
busboy for Du-Par’s restaurant,
which is open 24-hours, reported
the blaze. The rest of the Market
was closed at the time.
“It was pretty much on the second floor and didn’t spread anywhere,” Buss said. “The fire
department put it out right away.
Little Spain is closed, and we don’t
know for how long.”
Scott said the fire remains under
investigation and the cause has yet
to be determined. No cost of damage or loss was available.
Alejandro Pages, owner of Little
Spain, said he is thankful that firefighters prevented the flames from
spreading and that no one else was
injured. Although the fire primarily
damaged the interior of the office,
the restaurant’s interior was damaged by smoke, heat and water.
“If it weren’t for [the firefighters
arriving quickly], the whole thing
would have burned down,” Pages
said. “It melted everything that was
plastic. The whole thing needs to
be cleaned out.”
Pages added that the future of the
restaurant is uncertain, as he is
waiting for insurance estimates and
has not yet formulated plans for reopening. Pages said he has spoken
with LAFD investigators who told
him that they are focusing on a fan
that may have caused a spark in the
office, although the exact cause
remains under investigation. Little
Spain restaurant opened in the
Original Farmers Market in
November 2010.
“There are a lot of things we
have to figure out,” Pages said.
Buss added that no other portions of the Market were damaged,
and all other merchants remain
open for business. Buss said she
couldn’t recall any fires occurring
over the last several decades at the
Market.
“We are very thankful,” Buss
added.
Notices have been posted on
trees along Wilshire Boulevard
sidewalks and medians indicating
they are scheduled for removal as
part of the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan
Transportation
Authority’s (Metro) Purple Line
subway project.
Metro construction relations
manager Kasey Shuda said the
posting gives the public a 30-day
notice about a hearing on the trees
that will be held by the Los
Angeles Board of Public Works.
The exact date of the hearing has
not been set, but it is anticipated to
occur in early June, she added.
Metro is planning to remove 82
trees from the sidewalks and medians on Wilshire Boulevard where
the future Purple Line subway stations are going to be built at
Wilshire-La Brea and WilshireFairfax. Near La Brea Avenue, the
photo by Edwin Folven
Eighty-two trees could be removed along Wilshire Boulevard under a plan
that is part of the Purple Line subway construction.
trees will be removed from a
stretch of Wilshire Boulevard
between Detroit Street and
Mansfield Avenue. Near the
Fairfax Avenue station, the trees
will be removed along Wilshire
Boulevard between Ogden Drive
and San Diego Way.
“We hope to have approval in
June, and we hope to schedule the
removal at the beginning of sumSee Tree page 20
Park Labrea News/Beverly Press
4 May 21, 2015
Helicopter noise issue reaches impasse
n Residents’ groups
claim little progress
is being made
By Pat Morgan
A citizens group formed to
address concerns over noise generated by low-flying helicopters in Los
Angeles County is refocusing its
efforts following a recent report
issued by the Federal Aviation
Administration.
Secretary of Transportation
Anthony Foxx, citing a report from
the Federal Aviation Administration,
announced on April 21 that “significant progress” has been made in
reducing the noise associated with
helicopter traffic in Los Angeles
County. However, many in the community disagree with the report’s
findings.
“I think it is pretty shocking that
the FAA would call it ‘significant
progress,’ when I would consider it
all but that,” said Gerry Hans, president of the Friends of Griffith Park
and a board member of the Los
Angeles Area Helicopter Noise
Coalition (LAAHNC).
Hans noted that while the LAAHNC has participated in more than 50
stakeholder meetings on the issue in
the past two years, little consensus
had been reached between concerned citizens and helicopter pilots
regarding specific changes that could
reduce helicopter noise in the county.
Those measures would include
increasing flight altitudes, altering
helicopter routes and limiting the
hovering time of non-emergency aircraft.
The group now plans to focus its
attention on the FAA’s new automated complaint system (ACS), which
was launched in March. ACS allows
citizens to monitor and report specific incidents of helicopter noise to a
centralized database. Users can also
track individual aircraft related to a
particular noise complaint. Citizens
can access the system at www.helinoise-la.com or by calling (424) 348HELI (4354).
“If we can get enough people to
participate in the automated complaint system, then maybe we can
move forward with some type of
change,” Hans said.
U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, DBurbank, who — along with U.S.
Sens. Barbara Boxer and Diane
Feinstein — has been at the forefront
of efforts to reduce helicopter noise
in Los Angeles County, expressed
frustrations with the Transportation
Secretary’s findings of significant
progress.
“The FAA has determined that
significant progress has been made
in reducing helicopter noise in Los
Angeles. I only wish that were the
case,” Schiff said in a statement.
“The FAA’s conclusion that residents
have already achieved meaningful
relief represents the triumph of hope
over experience.
“It is also indicative of an agency
that is deeply reluctant to regulate
and too solicitous of the wishes of
those in the air and too seldom mind-
ful of the needs of those on the
ground. We will need to keep the
pressure up on both the FAA and
helicopter operators to address the
problem or it will be necessary to
mandate the FAA to take action.”
The Consolidated Appropriations
Act, passed in January 2014, stipulated that unless significant progress
could be reached in a year on reducing the noise impact of helicopters in
Los Angeles County, the FAA would
be required to begin a regulatory
process to address the issue.
However, the Transportation
Secretary’s recent announcement
appears to indicate that any such
federal intervention would be
delayed for the foreseeable future.
“Addressing helicopter noise concerns in Los Angeles County is, and
will continue to be, an ongoing
process,” FAA spokesman Ian
Gregor said in statement released
Tuesday. “We have created a framework through which the varied and
complex issues are being identified,
analyzed and addressed, and helicopter operators have begun making
changes in the way they operate to
reduce their impacts on communities. The FAA is committed to continuing working with all stakeholders on this issue.”
The helicopter industry insists it
has agreed to a voluntary set of “best
practices,” including altitude and
flight path adjustments as well as
pooling helicopter coverage of news
events, according to the FAA report.
However, LAAAHC officials contend that pilots routinely disregard
LAUSD afterschool coach charged with molestation
n Defendant previously
worked at Cahuenga and
Vine Street schools
By edwin folven
A 42-year-old Los Angeles
Unified School District (LAUSD)
employee who worked for the district’s Youth Services afterschool
program was arrested on May 13
and charged with nine felony
counts of engaging in a lewd act
with a child.
The defendant, Ronnie Lee
Roman, of San Fernando, is
accused of molesting seven victims
when he worked as a coach in the
afterschool program at Cahuenga
Elementary School in Koreatown
and Vine Street Elementary School
in Hollywood. The incidents at
Cahuenga Elementary allegedly
occurred between January 2012
and September 2014, and the incidents at Vine Street Elementary
occurred between August 2001 and
July 2002.
Det. Daniel Aguirre, with the Los
Angeles Police
Department’s
Sexually Exploited Child
Unit,
said
investigators
have released
Roman’s photograph with
the hope that
Ronnie Lee
any additional
Roman
victims will
come forward.
Because it is an ongoing investigation, Aguirre added that he cannot
provide many details.
Roman was arrested at an undisclosed location on May 13 after an
eight-month LAPD investigation
into allegations made by victims.
One of the victims disclosed last
September that Roman had allegedly touched her inappropriately, and
police were notified. Through their
investigation, detectives identified
six additional victims, all of whom
were 7 to 11 years old when the
incidents occurred.
Representatives of the Los
Angeles Unified School District
confirmed that Roman is an
LAUSD employee of the Beyond
the Bell, Youth Services Program
and declined to comment further,
and added a statement that read,
“All other matters or details are personal and confidential.”
It is unclear how long he worked
for the district, or what sports he
coached. A letter sent to parents at
Cahuenga Elementary, which was
provided by LAUSD, stated that
Roman had been removed from his
position at the school when the
allegations
surfaced
last
September.
According to the Los Angeles
County District Attorney’s Office,
Roman’s arraignment was continued to May 29 in Department 30 of
the Foltz Criminal Justice Center.
He is being held on $1.9 million
bail, and faces 135 years in prison
if convicted on all counts.
Anyone with further information
about the incidents, or who may be
a victim, is urged to contact detectives with the LAPD’s Sexually
Exploited Child Unit at (213)4860580.
Council approves historic designation for Norms
By edwin folven
The Los Angeles City Council
voted unanimously on Wednesday to
designate Norms restaurant on La
Cienega Boulevard as a historic-cultural monument.
The approval came nearly five
months after the Los Angeles
Conservancy called for the designation because of plans it believed were
pending to demolish the restaurant.
“We are excited. This sets the
stage for the next step, which is to
negotiate a long-term agreement
with the landlord,” said Mike
Colonna, president of Norms
Restaurants LLC, the restaurant’s
operator. “I am cautiously optimistic
that this will now move forward in a
manner that will maintain our tenancy.”
The property owner, Norman
Cienega LLC, purchased the site last
year and obtained a demolition permit. An attorney for the property
owner said plans are being considered for developing the property
around the restaurant, and the intention was to have the permit in hand
when those plans moved forward.
Colonna said he could not discuss
specifics, but confirmed that the
property owner is working on plans
that are in the early stages for the surrounding property that would
include Norms at the site.
The conservancy contended the
restaurant is historic due to its
Googie architecture, it being an
example of the work of the architectural firm, Armet & Davis, and that it
is part of the fabric of Los Angeles.
Norms restaurant has been open at
470 N. La Cienega Blvd. since 1957.
Councilman Paul Koretz, 5th
District, supported preservation for
Norms.
“I am very excited [it’s] gauranteed that Norms won’t be demolished,” Koretz added.
those guidelines.
“Unless helicopter pilots are willing to significantly modify their
positions and agree to voluntary
measures that would truly reduce
noise, there is no point in prolonging
the talks. We need to consider any
and all other approaches,” said Bob
Anderson, president of LAAHNC.
Schiff has indicated that he
remains optimistic about efforts to
reduce helicopter noise despite the
FAA’s recent findings and the
Transportation Secretary’s report.
“I am pleased to see the FAA put
a noise complaint system into operation, and especially one that will
allow residents to research in nearreal time which helicopters are part
of the problem,” Schiff said in a
statement released followed the
launch of the ACS. “Implementation
of a noise complaint system is the
first concrete result of a now yearslong process of collaboration
between the FAA, homeowners and
helicopter operators. But while this
is a step in the right direction …
much more progress needs to be
made and it is my hope that this
noise complaint system - along with
the data it collects - will provide us
the necessary information to better
identify the bad actors and bring
about noise relief to all Los Angeles
photo by Edwin Folven
Some
legislators,
including
Congressman Adam Schiff, are
frustrated that helicopter noise is
not being adequately addressed.
residents.”
In the meantime, residents such as
Hans who say they are directly
affected by the noise associated with
low-flying helicopter flights remain
disheartened by the Transportation
Secretary’s findings.
“We seem to be at somewhat of
an impasse, and that troubles me,”
Hans said. “I’m a little pessimistic in
the near-term. We just don’t seem to
have made as much progress as we
had hoped (in the stakeholder meetings). We’re still in sort of a tough
situation.”
Park Labrea News/Beverly Press
5 May 21, 2015
No easy solution for rise in homelessness
n Report shows increase
even as more services
become available
By Dana Bell
The Los Angeles Homeless
Services Authority’s (LAHSA)
homeless count revealed that
despite efforts at the city and county levels to fight homelessness, the
number of people without shelter
has risen across the city.
The count, which takes place
once every two years, shows that
the number of homeless individuals
rose from 39,461 people in 2013 to
44,359 people in 2015. The pointin-time snapshot was completed by
5,500 volunteers and covered 89
percent of the Census tract, up from
72 percent in 2013. The more thorough methodology gives a more
complete picture of the city, according to Naomi Goldman, a
spokesperson for LAHSA. While
the numbers are a jarring reminder
of the scope of the crisis, many people who work with homelessness in
Los Angeles admit that it could
have been much worse.
The count shows that 26 percent
of homeless people in Los Angeles
County are within the Hollywood,
Downtown, and West Hollywood
“In my district, we
are doing some
heavy lifting to
create some
housing stock but
we need to be
doing this
citywide.”
-City Councilman Mitch
O’Farrell, 13th District
areas. The number of homeless
individuals in that area increased
from 10,472 in 2013 to 11,681 in
2015. Broken down by district,
Council District 4 has 625 individuals, Council District 5 has 879,
and Council District 13 has 2,270.
The number of veterans who are
homeless remained virtually the
same. In 2010 President Obama
issued a plan to end veteran homelessness by 2015, and many mayors
across the country signed on,
including Mayor Eric Garcetti. The
fact that the number did not
increase shows both the potential
effectiveness of targeted programs
as well as the intractable nature of
the problem, according to
Goldman. While 7,500 homeless
veterans were housed in 2014
(including numbers from Glendale,
Pasadena and Long Beach), there
are still 4,016 homeless veterans
living on the streets, as compared to
the 4,007 in 2013.
“We participated in the count in
January and so as people were
coming back from counting that
night there was a general realization, especially for those of us who
had done it going back a number of
years, it was not going to be a surprise if the numbers went up,” said
Kerry Morrison, executive director
of the Hollywood Property Owners
Alliance.
While there are thousands of
individuals getting housed, organizations can’t always keep up with
the flood of people who are losing
their homes, she said.
“There are just more people on
the front end becoming homeless
even while there are a lot of
resources on the back end that are
focused on moving people from
shelters into housing,” said
Goldman.
The numbers back up LAHSA’s
theory. Despite the fact that nearly
11,000 people were placed in housing in Los Angeles in 2014, the
number of homeless individuals
still increased by 4,898.
Part of it has to do with the housing climate in Los Angeles. Los
Angeles has one of the most unaffordable rental markets in the
nation according to a study by
UCLA’s Luskin School of Public
Affairs, and this especially impacts
low-income individuals. According
to a study by the California
Housing Partnership Coalition,
individuals in the bottom 25 percent of earners spend two-thirds of
their income on rent-double the recommended amount.
“There’s just a shortage of
affordable housing so I don’t think
it’s surprising that our numbers
have been increasing,” said Patty
McHugh, associate director of
homeless services at Lamp
Community, a non-profit that
works with the homeless.
To that end, there have been steps
to create more affordable housing.
The 13th District has 457 units of
affordable or permanent supportive
housing either under construction
or in the pipeline according to
Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, 13th
District.
“In my district, we are doing
some heavy lifting to create some
housing stock but we need to be
doing this citywide,” O’Farrell
said.
One of the biggest obstacles has
been providing individuals access
to the services that they need,
Goldman said. Despite the rising
numbers, there have been major
initiatives to improve the access to
homeless services, largely through
coordination between different
agencies and groups. One major
breakthrough has been the implementation of a Coordinated Entry
System (CES) in 2011 that allows
organizations to better coordinate
their resources to serve individuals
with the highest needs. It’s a
method that allows organizations
that previously operated by themselves to share information and use
each others’ resources as they find
the best solutions for the individual.
“Before CES, we weren’t really
working together. Everybody
served their own clients,” McHugh
said. “They were doing great work
but they weren’t really coordinating
services and they weren’t really
talking to each other.”
That’s changed with CES, she
said. Last week, one of the
providers in her CES needed shelter
beds for her clients. They reached
out to McHugh, who emailed
another provider in Westwood.
“They were immediately able to
help out,” McHugh said.
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Park Labrea News/Beverly Press
6 May 21, 2015
House parties remain irritating to Hills residents
By jonathan van dyke
A neighbor’s house near Sandy
Martin’s home on Mulholland
Drive turned into a veritable gambling casino for more than three
months. People arrived late, played
into the early morning and there
was full “military security,” she
said.
“They brought hookers, who
were very nice, and they would
leave in the morning by limo,”
Martin said. “But the noise at the
house at night is too loud. They
open up all the doors and everyone
can hear it. I don’t care if they have
a party, but if it’s after 11 p.m. or
midnight, they wake me up with the
noise.”
During the 4th District city council election, at every candidate
forum located in or near the
Hollywood Hills, residents brought
up the issue of nuisance house parties.
People tell stories of wealthy
Hollywood clientele renting houses
in the Hollywood Hills at night and
throwing parties that last until the
sun comes up — replete with professional DJs and hundreds of cars
blocking the street, honking and
causing headaches.
“This issue tends to heat up with
the weather,” said Michael Meyer,
Hollywood
Hills
West
Neighborhood Council board
member. “There are several homes
that are used for paid admittance
pool parties, as well as rentals for
weddings and raves, which prefer
the warmer evenings.”
Officials said shared economy
rental websites such as Airbnb have
made the issue more prevalent than
ever.
Senior Lead Officer Ralph
Sanchez, of the Los Angeles Police
Department’s Hollywood Division,
said nuisance house parties used to
crop up every once in a while, but
now the problem occurs every
weekend.
“What we’re having is a lot of
commercial rentals … meaning
people are throwing a party in the
Hills to make a profit,” he said, noting owners will sell tickets at a club
for an after-hours party in the
Hollywood Hills. “Once the houses
get used to doing this they continue
to do this because it is a profitable
business.”
Sanchez estimated that the
Hollywood Division writes five to
50 noise citations a month in the
Hollywood Hills regarding nuisance parties. The city’s noise ordinance is the primary tool the LAPD
uses to help weary neighbors, but
Sanchez said they also cite people
for parking violations (blocking the
road and driveways), smoking cigarettes (fire hazard) and overcrowding houses (with the help of the Los
Angeles Fire Department).
“Neighbors have a right to their
tranquility and they’re not getting it
early in the morning,” Sanchez
said.
Joe Custer, vice president of the
Mount Olympus Property Owners
Association (MOPOA), said party
houses are a top complaint among
association members.
Custer said he has even seen flyers for a Mount Olympus music
festival with $20 tickets.
“That is a commercial enterprise,” he said. “A lot of the properties are being sold to out-of-area
owners, and they just rent the house
out to whomever. It’s the absentee
owners who don’t really care and
who aren’t a part of the community.
But many of these homes are very
close together. You are in very close
proximity to your neighbor.”
Numerous people who have had
issues with party houses declined to
go on the record for this article due
to fear of retribution, but they had
similar stories to Martin’s — flash
mobs of hundreds of people arriving between 2:30 and 3 a.m. or
theme parties, including one that
brought trucks of sand up the hill
for a beach-themed party.
“My neighbor gets
$15,000 or
$20,000 a week.
Does he pay taxes
on that?”
-Sandy Martin
Mulholland Drive resident
“A lot of the time the clubs close
at 2 a.m. and a lot of people come
here after and continue reveling,”
Custer said. “That’s probably the
major issue, the noise level of the
music, and the people talking, and
the trash they leave behind. It’s
become so prevalent now, that we
have phone trees and specific people to call. We have about a halfdozen homes [in our area] marked
as multiple offenders.”
A house with a view can be rented for $3,000 a night, and many
owners are taking advantage,
Martin said.
“They’re running a business in
the neighborhood — this is a business,” she said. “My neighbor gets
$15,000 or $20,000 a week. Does
he pay taxes [on that]? What does
he do with the money? He’s making a business.”
There has been progress, city
officials said.
“My office and I have been
working with the appropriate agencies — the city attorney’s office,
LAPD and [the department of]
building and safety — regarding
these problematic, commercial
party houses,” said Councilman
Tom LaBonge, 4th District, in a
statement. “My staff has had faceto-face contact with residents and
they continue to work with them to
restore quiet enjoyment and reason-
photo by Jonathan Van Dyke
Many houses in the Hollywood Hills that overlook the city are rented out
for one-time house parties.
able peace to these neighborhoods.
This is an ongoing challenge, not
only in the 4th District, but citywide.”
Councilman-elect David Ryu has
said in forums he wants to balance
the positive gains made in the
shared economy (i.e. Airbnb) with
appropriate actions to curb nuisance offenders abusing the city
laws.
Approximately a month ago, the
LAPD created a specific house
party patrol car, with officers
specifically educated on how to
deal with nuisance offenders, for
Thursday through Sunday nights.
“It has actually been working
really well,” Sanchez said of the
new enforcement plan. “Our parties
are dropping. We’re down about 50
percent [since the party patrol car
debuted].”
Sanchez said the party house
issues span from Los Feliz to
Doheny Heights. He added that the
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Park Labrea News/Beverly Press
7 May 21, 2015
New actor’s union wage threatens Theatre Row
n Rule could alter types
of actors used and
plays produced
by dana bell
Since the 1980s, members of the
Actor’s Equity union have been
able to volunteer their time and perform in theatres with fewer than 99seats for small stipends of $7 to $15
per show, helping small theatres in
Los Angeles thrive. But in a decision on April 21 that overruled a
union member advisory vote,
Actor’s Equity announced that it
would now require contracts for 99seat theatres to pay actors minimum
wage for both rehearsals and stage
time. According to some of the
owners, artistic directors and managers on Hollywood’s Theatre
Row, their spaces now face an
uncertain economic future.
Under the new rule, budgets
could more than double due to
additional labor costs. The decision
has sent shock waves through the
theatre community of Los Angeles,
and brought a darkened mood to
Theatre Row. Many theatre owners,
producers and managers believe
that the new rule could alter the
types of actors they use, the plays
they produce and whether their
spaces can continue to exist.
“Theatre is
already
impossible, but
under the new set
of rules,
impossible really
becomes
impossible.”
-Daniel Henning
Blank Theatre artistic director
Until June 1, 2016, Equity members can use waivers to work at 99seat theatres, allowing them to be
considered as volunteers.
“About a year ago, members said
to the union ‘I want to work a 99seat theatre, and I can’t afford to do
it. I can’t afford all these hours’,”
said Maria Somma, national communications spokesperson for
Actor’s Equity.
The union began to hold hearings
and meetings and considered a
replacement for the 99-seat waiver
system. It developed a new plan
that eliminates the waiver and categorizes actors as workers with contracts stipulating that they be paid
minimum wage for rehearsals and
productions. Half of the members
voted in an advisory vote to the
union council. They voted against it
2,046 to 1,075 but were overruled
by the 81-member council.
The new plan is not without certain exceptions for actors and producers. Actors may join “membership companies” that meet certain
qualifications or can self-produce
with other union members.
Theatres with fewer than 50 seats
can avoid paying minimum wages
provided they are producing plays
for $20,000 or less or for fewer than
16 performances. Somma acknowledges that additional contracts will
require more planning from theatres, but that it is up to the union to
negotiate with the theatres to figure
out how to make viable productions.
“We can negotiate with them
during the particular times, when
they maybe don’t need a three hour
call,” Somma said.
The union stated that the new
rules are meant to produce “a
strong foundation for intimate theatre through more paid opportunities in Los Angeles,” although
members will have options for
working outside the system. It’s an
intention that has not been wellreceived in the production community.
For most owners and directors on
Theatre Row, the new proposal
places a new burden on their budgets. Depending on the number of
actors in a play and the lengths of
rehearsal time, the new rules could
add $10,000 to $20,000 to a budget.
For many plays in small theatres,
that is essentially doubling the budget.
“Theatre is already impossible,”
said Daniel Henning, artistic director of the Blank Theatre, “but under
the new set of rules, impossible
really becomes impossible.”
Ticket sales cover some costs of
a production, while fundraising or
grants are often required to cover
the rest. The business relies on volunteer work not only from the
actors, but from set designers, costume designers and anyone who
wants to chip in for a production.
“There’s nobody making money
in 99-seat theatre. You fundraise,
you try and get grants. But we don’t
make any money. The only people
getting paid, really, are the techies,”
said Dave Fofi, producing artistic
director of Elephant Stages.
It’s a sentiment that many actors
understand. Jason Lovett, an Equity
member for the last five years, regularly works for free.
“The reality is that as actors, we
spend a significant amount of our
lives not getting paid for doing what
we want to do,” he said. “You can’t
get blood from a stone. If there’s no
money there’s no money.”
And the little money available is
increasingly being taken up by the
rising rents on Santa Monica
Boulevard. A few theatres, like
Celebration and Open Fist, have
already
been
priced
out.
Celebration theatre owner Michael
Kricfalusi said his theatre already
had to leave its space on Santa
Monica, and the imposition of a
minimum wage is another added
burden as he looks for a new space.
“Equity has not taken into consideration how expensive the rents
are, and then add in the minimum
wage, it’s just going to be hard to
produce anything,” he said. He
wants to come back to the area
because of the strength of the theatre community, but the uncertainty
of the new contracts are holding
him back.
For Zeke Rettman, producing
managing director at the Hudson
Theatres, the new proposal could
make negotiating rentals much
more difficult.
“How will we be able to help
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Park Labrea News/Beverly Press
8 May 21, 2015
Griffith Park garden named cultural monument
By Luis Rivas
Every morning — with very few
exceptions — Councilman Tom
LaBonge, 4th District, wakes up
early and hikes in Griffith Park.
Upon reaching the top of Mt.
Hollywood, he takes a moment to
appreciate one of the park’s soonto-be historic-cultural monuments,
the secluded garden known as
Dante’s View.
Hikers have visited the two-acre,
terraced garden to relax and enjoy
the panoramic view of Los Angeles
since it was established in 1964 by
Dante Orgolini.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles
City Council approved a motion by
LaBonge to recognize Dante’s
View as an historic-cultural monument, which preserves and protects
the site from future alterations.
LaBonge, who will be leaving
office at the end of June, said it is
important the garden is recognized
and honored.
“I wanted to make sure it got the
recognition. In high school when I
would take my dates to the garden,
we would meet [Orgolini]. He’d
reach out and kiss them right on top
of the hand on the mountain,”
LaBonge said.
Many hikers including Brian
Knafou take advantage of living
near Griffith Park.
“I really like it. I’m supportive of
Dante’s View being recognized as a
historic-cultural monument. It’s
serene, relaxing and enjoyable.
During summer, I try to come out
here more often,” Knafou said.
For 14 years, Orgolini maintained the garden until his death in
1978.
Orgolini was a Brazilian journalist and artist. In 1926, he moved to
the U.S. to pursue a degree in art at
Boston University. Initially, he had
planned on returning to Brazil after
graduating from college. However,
he was commissioned to complete
a set of murals at the Santa Barbara
Courthouse in California with three
other muralists.
It was during his trip to
California in the 1930s that
Orgolini was inspired to stay in the
U.S. He worked for the Brazilianbased A Noite newspaper covering
Hollywood’s movie industry.
Orgolini settled in Los Feliz with
his family where he discovered
Griffith Park. Helped by fellow hikers and park rangers, Orgolini
carved out the garden.
“Just this past April, we honored
Police work to calm parties
From page 6
LAPD has a list of repeat offenders
that includes approximately 30
houses. The issue, most recently,
has been concentrated in smaller
homes.
“I believe it is a trickle down
effect,” Sanchez said. “They see
these big houses doing it for a
while, and they figure, if they can
do it we will give it a try.”
Frank Mateljan, city attorney
spokesperson, said the office works
closely with the LAPD to build
cases against property owners of
chronic nuisance locations.
Martin said she hopes for a day
when she doesn’t have to constantly call in complaints.
She and Sanchez said it helps to
have neighbors communicate (she
noted that Justin Timberlake sends
out letters to the neighbors in
advance, for example).
“The new [LAPD] captain has
been very proactive in getting
police to the house to keep the
noise down,” Martin said. “It’s
noise abatement. But no matter
what he does, these are party houses. Nobody lives in them and they
are just a business and just there to
make money.”
“It really is a quality of life
issue,” Custer added. “You can’t
sleep and that leads to other health
issues.”
his family and the garden. There are
a number of historic monuments in
the park and Dante’s View should
be one of them,” LaBonge said. “I
think it deserves recognition. It’s a
great story, and the most important
part was that he was an immigrant.
Dante Orgolini’s son, Arnold
Orgolini, was pleased to know that
his father’s garden will be recognized as an historic-cultural monument.
“A lot of immigrants at that time
loved going up to the mountains to
hike. My father made that accessible. He had a wonderful ability to
welcome people when they would
come up,” Orgolini said.
Orgolini and his family still visit
Dante’s View, where they spend a
couple of hours enjoying the view
over Los Angeles and the garden.
Although Griffith Park is already
designated as an historic-cultural
monument, several sites within the
park are also recognized, such as
the observatory, the Los Angeles
Zoo and the Gabrielino Indian Site.
Dante’s View will be Griffith Park’s
newest addition to the historic-cultural monument list.
photo by Luis Rivas
Dante’s View in Griffith Park provides hikers with a great city view.
Park Labrea News/Beverly Press
9 May 21, 2015
Metro tests multi-door
boarding on BRT line
By edwin foLven
The Los Angeles Metropolitan
Transportation Authority (Metro)
has launched a pilot project allowing passengers to board Metro Bus
Rapid Transit (BRT) buses using
any of three doors, as opposed to
only the front door.
The pilot project runs through
July 10 and applies only to Metro’s
Wilshire Rapid Line 720.
Passengers can board westbound
buses via multiple doors between
6 and 11 a.m. at the Wilshire
Boulevard and Westwood Avenue
stop, and eastbound buses from 2
to 7 p.m. at the Wilshire Boulevard
and Vermont Avenue stop.
Passengers with TAP cards can
validate them before boarding at
temporary card readers placed on
sidewalks near the bus stops.
Passengers paying cash will only
be allowed to board buses through
the front door.
Metro
spokesman
Paul
Gonzales said following the test
period, the program may be
expanded to other stops along the
BRT route. He said Wilshire
Boulevard is the busiest public
transit corridor in Los Angeles
County, and the goal is to reduce
commute times by allowing more
people to enter buses at the same
time.
Metro staff members will be stationed at the stops to assist passengers in using the TAP card readers.
For information, visit www.thesource.metro.net.
City delegation heads to El Salvador
Los Angeles City Councilman
Mitch O’Farrell, 13th District, will
lead a Sister City delegation of representatives from Los Angeles, the
Salvadoran American Leadership
& Educational Fund (SALEF) and
Clinica Romero, on a trip to San
Salvador, El Salvador to take part
in the beatification ceremony of
Monsignor Oscar A. Romero.
O’Farrell will depart for El
Salvador on Friday and return on
May 25. The delegation will take
part in Romero’s beatification,
which is the process in the Roman
Catholic Church necessary on the
road to full sainthood. The 62-yearold Romero was fatally shot March
24, 1980, while celebrating Mass at
a hospital chapel in the Salvadoran
capitol.
“It is an honor and a privilege to
represent the City of Angels during
such an important moment in history for the people of El Salvador,”
O’Farrell said. “I look forward to
seeing the culture and traditions of
El Salvador up close, a beautiful
country which many of my constituents have called home at one
point in their lives.”
The councilman will meet with
his international counterparts in
local government, as well as visit
organizations that assist children
with immigration. O’Farrell’s primary goal is to represent the city
abroad and promote tourism in Los
Angeles
and
specifically
Hollywood. He will also visit various cultural and historical sites,
including the Tombs of Jesuit
Priests.
Los Angeles is home to the
largest Salvadoran population in
the United States and much of that
population resides within the 13th
District. Approximately 170,000
Salvadorans reside within the
Greater Los Angeles area and
account for almost five percent of
the total city population. San
Salvador is a Sister City to Los
Angeles.
Fans mourn the loss
of blues legend
photo by Jonathan Van Dyke
Flowers were placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of B.B.
King last Friday to commemorate the music legend’s passing on
May 13. His star is located at 6771 Hollywood Boulevard.
The singer and guitarist, who is credited with bringing blues influence from the Mississippi Delta to Carnegie Hall, was a 15-time
Grammy Award winner. He died peacefully in his sleep, according to
his family.
The flowers are placed on the stars on behalf of the Hollywood community by the Hollywood Historic Trust, a nonprofit organization.
Drought takes its toll on Pan Pacific Park
By Luis Rivas
With city and state regulations
calling for stricter water conservation efforts, Los Angeles public
parks have also had to adapt to
drought conditions by restricting
outdoor watering.
Dry patches of browning and yellowing grass riddle several portions
of Pan Pacific Park — while park
workers continually repair broken
sprinklers and irrigation pipes.
Pan Pacific Park has seen better
days, according to Robin Epstein
who is a neighborhood resident of
28.
Epstein has been walking her dog
every day at Pan Pacific Park for
the last 10 years and has noticed the
park’s green grass gradually turning
brown and yellow.
“It’s been in a series of decline
for quite a while. You could see
things getting drier and drier and
drier,” Epstein said.
For Epstein, public parks should
be maintained even during a
drought.
“It really just doesn’t look like
anybody’s taking care of it that
much,” she said.
But others, including one of the
park’s gardeners Isaac Montoya,
said restricting watering to public
parks is a necessary step for the
county to help conserve water.
Pan Pacific Park, like all parks
that receive water through the Los
Angeles Department of Water and
Power (DWP), is required to regulate its watering in accordance with
residential outdoor watering restrictions, according to Montoya.
Depending on whether the
address has an odd or even number
determines what day of the week
outdoor watering is allowed. Oddday watering takes place Monday,
Wednesday and Friday. Even-day
watering takes place Tuesday,
Thursday
and
Sunday.
Furthermore, watering can only
take place after 4 p.m. and before 9
a.m., according to DWP.
House passes
trafficking bill
The
U.S.
House
of
Representatives on Tuesday unanimously passed the Justice for
Victims of Trafficking Act, an
omnibus trafficking bill that incorporates several bipartisan trafficking bills, including language from
U.S. Rep. Karen Bass’ (D-Calif.)
legislation, the Strengthening the
Child Welfare Response to
Trafficking Act.
The legislation would help protect foster youth from falling victim
to sex traffickers and would require
states to identify child sex trafficking victims and make sure they
receive appropriate services. It also
would provide policymakers with
crucial information by requiring
reports on numbers of sex trafficking victims to ensure legislative
approaches are effective. The
Strengthening the Child Welfare
Response to Trafficking Act of
2015 addresses the nationwide connection between child sex trafficking and the country’s foster care
system. In Los Angeles County, 59
percent of the 174 children arrested
in 2010 on “prostitution” charges
had contact with the child welfare
system, and 58 percent of 72 sexually trafficked girls in Los Angeles
County’s STAR Court in 2012 were
children in foster care, Bass said.
photo by Luis Rivas
Grass is dying and sprinklers are losing water at Pan Pacific Park.
Although Pan Pacific Park has an
irrigation system, there are some
areas that have to be manually
watered, Montoya said. He is in
charge of watering the picnic area
near the Los Angeles Museum of
the Holocaust three times a week
for a duration of no more than 10 to
15 minutes.
“For me, because we’re in a
drought, there is only so much that
we can do. And I think that’s fine,”
Montoya said. “We have to do our
part to cut back on our water. We’re
maintaining what we have.”
Montoya said broken sprinkler
heads and ruptured irrigation pipes
have been recurring problems at the
park, but workers immediately
fixed them as they popped up.
“When [sprinklers and pipes]
break, we fix it. We had a break
toward the senior center and we
found out that it was a mainline
next to the library. We went ahead
and revealed the problem and
we’ve addressed it,” Montoya said.
Montoya recommends that if
park visitors notice any sprinkler
leaks or other problems, they
should approach the park’s garden-
ers.
“A lot of the individuals, especially the older folks, approach us,
when there’s a problem. That’s how
I found out about the breaks. It’s
very helpful to know that they’re
helping keep us on our toes,” he
said.
Seth Modersohn works as a soccer coach, which involves going to
different parks in Los Angeles
County, from Santa Monica to Los
Feliz and Beverly Grove.
Modersohn has noticed some
patches of drying grass, but generally is not bothered by it.
“I think it works. I don’t mind
that the grass is a little dry or
brown. There’s a good vibe here.
There’s a lot more open space,”
Modersohn said.
Modersohn, who visits Pan
Pacific Park regularly, doesn’t mind
if the park receives less water than
previous years, if it’s all in an effort
to try to save more water.
“I’m from Iowa where we have
lots of open space. And here in Los
Angeles, you don’t really have that,
so I am appreciative of the parks,”
Modersohn said.
Park Labrea News/Beverly Press
10 May 21, 2015
Drama teacher becomes part of school legacy
planning of the re-dedication ceremony.
“She had a big influence on me in
several ways. She influenced me in
theatre. I became intellectually more
sophisticated and her approach to
her students largely influenced how
I approach my students,” he said.
Warhaftig was enrolled in
Moody’s modern dramatic literature
class in the early 1970s. The class,
much like Moody, challenged students about their understanding of
theatre and literature, he said. The
class studied classic playwrights,
such as Bertolt Brecht, Jean Genet,
Tennessee Williams and Eugene
Ionesco.
“She was one of these people who
had an exceptional knowledge of her
subject — theatre,” Warhaftig said.
After graduating from Fairfax
High School in 1972, Warhaftig
enrolled in Stanford University. He
took a dramatic literature course in
which the professor was impressed
with his knowledge of dramatic literature — especially since he was
only a recent high school graduate.
“Even [to] this day, she has never
left my mind. Whenever I go to a
play, I think about Moody.
Whenever I see a good play, I think,
‘Whoa, Moody would have loved
this’,” he said.
Warhaftig has been part of the
By Luis Rivas
Teachers leave lifelong impressions on their students, especially
the good ones.
Former students, colleagues and
friends recently honored the memory of one of those teachers at Fairfax
High School, Marilyn Moody.
On Friday, May 8, Fairfax High
School celebrated its 90th anniversary with a ceremony re-dedicating
the D.S. Swan Auditorium’s stage in
honor of the late Moody. The D.S.
Swan Auditorium was first dedicated in honor of Dewitt Swan, the
school’s first boys vice principal in
1926.
Moody was a theatre, film and literature teacher at Fairfax High
School from 1958 to 1981. She was
born in Blue Earth, Minn., and
moved to California to attend graduate school at the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
She passed away in 2012 at the age
of 84.
Alan Warhaftig is an English
teacher and co-coordinator of the
Fairfax Magnet Center for Visual
Arts at Fairfax High School. He was
also one of Moody’s pupils.
Warhaftig is one of many of the
former students who were inspired
by Moody to either go into the arts
or teaching. He was involved in the
Officials announce LAX upgrades
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
last week was joined by Councilman
Tom LaBonge, 4th District, Board
of Airport Commissioners President
Sean Burton, Los Angeles World
Airports (LAWA) executive director
Gina Marie Lindsey and United
Airlines representatives to announce
a $573 million upgrade of United
Terminals 7 and 8 — the latest element of the city’s $7.3 billion public
works project to overhaul the Los
Angeles International Airport.
The project will refresh nearly all
customer-facing space in those terminals, and will include infrastructure upgrades and a new baggage inline screening system. The renovation is slated for completion by
December of 2017.
“Today’s investment by United
Airlines is the latest in our more than
$7 billion overhaul of LAX,”
Garcetti said. “Whether by upgrading nine terminals, bringing in
ridesharing services in to pick you
up or finally connecting the nation’s
second busiest airport to rail, we’re
making LAX a world-class airport
befitting a city that is the global capitol of creativity, innovation and possibility.”
The upgrades are focused on
improving the customer experience
and enabling passengers to get in
and out of the airport quicker. Main
upgrades of the project include a
redeveloped check-in lobby for
Premier and Economy passengers; a
new 12-lane, 28,000 square foot
consolidated security screening
checkpoint; a redesign and refresh of
24 passenger hold rooms; a fully
renovated baggage claim area; and a
new 20,000 square foot United Club
with outdoor lounge area.
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Fairfax faculty since the early 1990s.
Leonard Choi, assistant principal
at Fairfax High School, never met
Moody but has seen and heard how
she influenced her colleagues and
former students.
“She made a difference in a lot of
people’s lives. You know how you
have that one teacher that made a
difference in your life? Well, Moody
was that teacher, but for all her students. She was phenomenal,” Choi
said.
City and state officials attended
Fairfax High School’s 90th anniversary celebration and auditorium rededication ceremony on May 8,
including Assemblyman Richard
Bloom (D-Santa Monica) and
Councilman Paul Koretz, 5th
District.
“I knew that she was a beloved
drama teacher and a lot of students
kept in touch with her,” Koretz said.
“She had a big impact. She had a
great personality and was a great
person. It’s terrific when you can
rededicate the auditorium’s stage to
someone like her.”
Friends of Moody also visited to
honor her memory, such as former
student and colleague Bev Meyer.
photo by Luis Rivas
Students and officials gathered earlier in the month to name the stage in
Fairfax High School’s D.S. Swan Auditorium after Marilyn Moody.
Meyer took a class taught by
Moody, which reinforced her desire
to become a teacher. Meyer then
went to Berkeley and received her
teaching credential at UCLA.
“She pretty much changed my life
as a student. After I got my credential, I became a teacher at Fairfax. I
was able to teach with Moody. She
was my mentor for the first five
years of my teaching. I stayed close
with her for all of her life,” Meyer
said.
Although Meyer no longer works
at Fairfax High School, she still
works in education at the Robert F.
Kennedy Center for Justice &
Human Rights, creating curricula on
human and civil rights for teachers.
“All my work in life has been
based on her. She inspired everyone
with a work ethic to open up your
eyes to the possibilities and make
you believe that you can go for it,
but you would have to bust your ass
to get there,” Meyer said.
Park Labrea News/Beverly Press
Letters to the Editor
Many thanks for
Hancock Elementary
coverage
[Re: “Hancock Park students
work on water crisis”, May 14
issue], this is awesome! Thank
you so much for shedding light on
all our hard work, and remember,
be water wise!
Robert Reyes and Deb Glass’ 3rd
Grade Classes
Hancock Park Elementary
School
Wishing scholar
continued success
[Re: “Student adds Presidential
Scholar to résumé: May 14 issue],
so glad we could read this article
about Adam [Bernstein]. We are
thrilled and wish the outstanding
Bernstein boys continued success.
Roger and Davida Salamon
Lincolnwood, Ill.
Mobility Plan still
a cause for concern
[Re: “Mobility plan doesn’t
make sense to residents”, April 9
issue], we don’t believe for one
minute that nothing will be
changed. The mobility team
keeps pretending this is just a
maybe kind of plan and nothing
will happen. Hello, they are rushing this through at breakneck
speed. With a website for comments that they pretended was
great outreach [but] that no one
but the bicycle lobby (very politically powerful) knew about, they
claim they reached out to the
whole city, just as department of
planning lied all through the illegal Hollywood Community Plan
saga.
For goodness sake, they handed out questionnaires at CicLAvia
events for input! You can’t make
this stuff up … why not hand
them out at car dealerships too?
That’s department of planning’s
idea of outreach to all of L.A.
Emma Riordan
Los Angeles
Theatres deal with change
From page 7
facilitate our own clients’ productions without having their budgets
balloon?” he asked.
Matt Quinn, the owner and operator of Theatre Asylum Lab and
Elephant Space, said the community is feeling the various economic
pressures.
“The shrinking Theatre Row, on
top of all the union issues, it’s
tough. It’s setting up a tough environment,” he said.
While theatres can adapt by
shortening rehearsal or call times or
choosing plays with smaller casts,
it is seen by some as threatening
some of the most beneficial aspects
of 99-seat theatres. Theatre offers
an opportunity to rehearse and test
out new things in front of an audience, actors and producers said.
“I feel like it allows for an experimental, lab environment to try out
all kinds of new projects, new
plays, that otherwise wouldn’t get
produced if these plays had the
financial responsibility to pay
everyone on the staff,” Lovett said.
If theatre does get significantly
more expensive, the people who
can afford to fund it could bring
about a drastically different scene.
“The people that will do it will
have to be so wealthy that, well,
there certainly won’t be anything
experimental, it would be something that they have to make their
money off of,” said Matt Chait,
owner of the Complex. There is
also the option, raised by several
producers and owners, that new
productions will simply not hire
Equity members, thus avoiding the
issue altogether.
Quinn points out that at least the
issue has brought some attention to
theatre. It especially has galvanized
the theatres of Santa Monica
Boulevard.
“Of course,” Quinn added, “I
wish it had brought us together to
say, ‘Let’s showcase our new
shows,’ and not, ‘Let’s go to
court’.”
All of this suggests a trying year
ahead, as actors and producers try
to fight the rule before it’s put into
effect.
“It’s going to be uglier before it
gets better,” Kricfalusi said. “I
believe in the end something will
break and there will be something
that we can all live with, but it is
going to get uglier first.”
‘Conversion therapy’ bill introduced
On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu
(D-Calif.)
introduced
the
Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act
(TFPA), the first federal bill to stop
so-called “conversion therapy”,
which aims to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender
identity.
The TFPA amends the Federal
Trade Commission Act to classify
commercial conversion therapy
and advertising that claims to
change sexual orientation and gender identity as fraud. The TFPA
would empower the Federal Trade
Commission to enforce this legislation, and it would also open practitioners up to civil litigation. It only
affects the for-profit conversion
therapy industry, and contains
important protections for religious
liberty and freedom of speech.
“Three years after I authored the
first statewide ban on conversion
therapy in California, I am proud to
introduce legislation on the federal
level to combat this abusive practice,” Lieu said. “The truth is that
being LGBT cannot be and does
not need to be cured. The irony of
the conversion therapy industry is
that the same people who are telling
LGBT kids that they’re diseased
are the same ones conveniently
offering a high-priced, high-risk,
ineffective cure. Conversion therapy sessions and materials are
incredibly expensive, costing families thousands of dollars and offering no results. It’s a dangerous
scam, and the government must act
to protect LGBT Americans from
fraudsters who take their money
and lie to them.”
11 May 21, 2015
California enters new climate change pact
Gov. Jerry Brown signed an
agreement with international leaders from 11 other states and
provinces, collectively representing
more than $4.5 trillion in GDP and
100 million people, to limit the
increase in global average temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius —
the warming threshold at which scientists say there will likely be catastrophic climate disruptions.
The dozen-state agreement,
called the “Under 2 MOU,” provides a template for the world’s
nations to follow as work continues
toward an international agreement
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
ahead of this year’s United Nations
Climate Change Conference in
Paris. The 12 founding signatories
to the agreement span seven countries in both advanced and developing economies on three continents
and would collectively constitute
the fourth largest economic entity
in the world by GDP. The signatories include: California; Acre,
Brazil;
Baden-Württemberg,
Germany; Baja California, Mexico;
Catalonia, Spain; Jalisco, Mexico;
Ontario, Canada; British Columbia,
Canada;
Oregon;
Vermont;
Washington; and Wales, United
Kingdom.
Under Tuesday’s agreement, the
signatories commit to either reduce
greenhouse gas emissions 80 to 95
percent below 1990 levels by 2050
or achieve a per capita annual emission target of less than 2 metric tons
by 2050. The targets allow each
individual government to tailor
emission reduction plans to fit
regional needs.
Brown said the pact seeks to
achieve these goals through a range
of activities, including developing
mid-term targets needed to support
long-term reduction goals and sharing technology, scientific research
and best practices.
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12 May 21, 2015
R ESTAU R ANT NEW S
By Jill Weinlein
Mr. C Beverly Hills
M
r. C Beverly Hills is launching
an extravagant five-course
dinner series on Thursday, May 21
from 7 to 9 p.m., featuring awardwinning Antinori wines paired with
dishes by executive chef Giuseppe
Manco. Antinori’s Alessia Botturi
will provide information on the
winery’s history and offer giveaways such as bottles of wine, truffle shavers and a gift certificate for
two for a tour and tasting at Antica,
Antinori’s winery in Napa Valley.
Botturi will also pour signature
wines such as Roero Arneis 2012
and Barolo Bussia 2007 to pair with
braised short ribs with soft polenta
and caramelized shallots. The dinner is $97 per person. 1224
Beverwil Dr. (310)226-6245.
Harvey Milk Day
at The Abbey
T
he Abbey is celebrating Harvey
Milk Day on Friday, May 22 at
4 p.m. with $5 Harvey Milk shots
and Religious Freedom cupcakes.
Guests can also kick off Memorial
Day weekend with $8 Absolute
mules and $150 bottles of Moet Ice.
DJs will provide music all weekend.
On Sunday and Monday, May 24
and 25, the fun starts at 1 p.m. 692
N. Robertson Blvd. (310)289-8410.
Katana’s Red Sun BBQ
K
atana’s annual Red Sun BBQ
will be held on Sundays from
May 24 through Sept. 6. The summer series features a three-course
menu for $45 that includes
yakiniku tableside grilling over
charcoal. Diners can add supplemental items, such as Hokkaido
scallops for $5 per piece and New
Zealand lamb chops for $7, as well
as Japanese wagyu beef. Guests can
also enjoy signature cocktails and
musical selections by rotating guest
DJs such as DJ Richie Rich, DJ
Crash, DJ Ameri, and DJ
Francesca. Katana’s regular menu
will be served in addition to the Red
Sun BBQ offerings. 8439 W.
Sunset Blvd. (323)650-8585.
Downtown
Johnny’s
D
owntown Johnny’s is observing Memorial Day on Monday,
May 25 with happy hours running
from 4 to 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. to
midnight, and discounts on specialty cocktails, wine, beer and snack
plates. Bar manager Daniel Ponsky
will serve cocktails and pints of
beer from a list of 20 drafts and
more than 40 bottled brews. Guests
can enjoy a Downtown Swing, a
refreshing recipe of gin, mixed
berries, basil, lime, rhubarb and a
splash of simple syrup. The beverages can be paired with executive
chef Marc Johnson’s fried chicken
and shareable mussels steeped in
lemongrass, ginger, cilantro and
coconut milk. The beers go well
with Downtown Johnny’s big pretzels, made in-house and served
with maple mustard. Guests can
See page 13
For Your Memorial Day BBQ
Gourmet
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reg. $5.98 per lb.
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also enjoy sports on six flat screen
televisions. Downtown Johnny’s
will be open for Memorial Day
from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. 14649
Ventura Blvd. (818)205-1616.
FIN
D
iners can rejuvenate with Fin’s
happy hour specials from 5 to
7 p.m., and late night happy hour
from 10 to 11 p.m. FIN serves hot
and cold sake, as well as icy
Sapporo bottled beers for $4, and
house wines and well drinks for $6
each. Managing partner and beverage director Kenneth Whang also
makes a spa-water inspired elixir of
Rock sake, vodka, lime juice, muddled cucumber and shiso leaf. A
menu of 11 small plates is also
available, including baked crab
hand rolls and three tiger prawn
tacos. Hours are 5 to 11 p.m., with
happy hours from 5 to 7 p.m. and
10 to 11 p.m. 12223 W. Washington
Blvd. (310)398-8611.
Magnolia House
M
agnolia House in Pasadena
encourages diners to drop the
grilling tools and ditch the backyard barbecue for “neighborhood
hour” from 4 to 6:30 p.m., with
delicious discounted dishes from
executive chef Kyu Yi. Guests can
enjoy margherita flatbreads, chilled
marinated shrimp and Gus’ fried
chicken sandwiches paired with $5
draft beers, $6 red and white wines
and Magnolia’s house sangria.
Magnolia House is open on
Memorial Day from 4 p.m. to midnight; “neighborhood hour” is from
to 6:30 p.m. 492 S. Lake Ave.
(626)584-1126.
Rascal
H
appy hour on Memorial Day is
an all-night affair at Rascal,
which is offering $6 food and drink
specials. Chef Andy Lee’s signature
burger is topped with beer-deglazed
caramelized onions, sharp cheddar,
wild rocket arugula, vine ripened
tomato, herb remoulade and field
greens. He also makes veggie burgers with a crispy corn polenta patty.
Plentiful pints of pilsner are the perfect pairing, and Rascal’s red sangria is a housemade favorite. Diners
can also enjoy Moscow mule cocktails crafted with Gruven vodka,
lime juice and Reed’s ginger beer,
and indulge with shaken margaritas.
Rascal will be open on Memorial
Day from 5 to 11 p.m. 801 S. La
13 May 21, 2015
Brea Ave. (323)933-3229.
Tipple & Brine
T
ipple & Brine is serving $1 oysters all night on Memorial Day,
and diners can sample a trio of oyster shooters for $7. Executive chef
Marc Johnson will also serve
seafood specials including mussels
and fries with white ale, fennel and
crème fraiche. His risotto fritters
are served with spicy pancetta
tomato sauce and parmesan, which
can be paired with cocktails from
bar manager A.J. Korchak. The
classic copper-mug Moscow mule
is a favorite at Tipple & Brine,
which is open on Memorial Day
from 4:30 to 11 p.m., with the bar
remaining open until 1 a.m. 14633
Ventura Blvd. (818)528-2550.
Venice Whaler
E
xecutive chef Nick Liberato of
Venice Whaler is serving a trio
of gourmet burgers. The succulent
Whaler burger is topped with cheddar and slaw on toasted sourdough
bread or a soft brioche bun. Diners
can also double down with the
Dogtown burger, a double cheeseSee page 15
photo by Dawn Laureen
The International Swingers Rock EB’s
E
B’s Beer & Wine Bar at the Original Farmers Market, corner of 3rd
and Fairfax, is hosting a summer series packed with live entertainment that will kick off on Friday, May 22 at 7 p.m. with an exclusive
L.A. appearance by The International Swingers. The punk rock “supergroup” is comprised of former members of Blondie, The Sex Pistols,
The Cult and Gen X. The International Swingers is taking time out from
recording a new album to rock EB’s at the beginning of the Memorial
Day weekend. EB’s is also announcing two additions: a remote bar
counter built by local artisan Tony Smith that offers more elbow room,
and new bartender Laura Case, who recently moved to L.A. from New
York City and is gaining a loyal following among customers. EB’s presents live music every Thursday through Saturday at 7 p.m., as well as
Trivia Tuesdays, with games starting at 7 p.m. Happy hour runs from 3
to 7 p.m., with all drinks priced at $4 each. 6333 W. 3rd St. www.farmersmarketbars.com and www.facebook.com/farmersmarketbars.
Park Labrea News/Beverly Press
14 May 21, 2015
Police Blotter
The following crimes occurred in West Hollywood and the areas patrolled
by the LAPD’s Wilshire and Hollywood divisions between May 10 and May
16, and were compiled from www.crimemapping.com. To report a crime,
the telephone numbers of local law enforcement agencies are: Los Angeles
Police Department, Wilshire Division (213)473-0489 and Los Angeles
County Sheriff’s Department West Hollywood Station (310)855-8850.
N. Fuller at 5 p.m.
At 8 p.m., an unknown suspect
burglarized a vehicle parked in the
1000 block of Harper.
An unknown suspect burglarized a
vehicle parked in the 1200 block of
N. Bronson at 10:45 p.m.
May 14
May 10
1000 block of N. Highland.
At approximately 3 a.m., an
unknown suspect committed a
petty theft in the 7000 block of
Santa Monica.
At 12:01 a.m., an unknown suspect committed a petty theft in the
100 block of The Grove.
An unknown suspect committed a
theft in the 1600 block of Schrader
at 1 p.m.
An unknown suspect burglarized a
vehicle parked in the 1000 block of
S. Fairfax at noon.
An unknown suspect burglarized a
vehicle parked near the corner of
Cahuenga and DeLongpre at
12:10 a.m.
At 2:11 p.m., an unknown suspect
robbed a victim in the 8900 block
of Santa Monica.
At 2:40 p.m., an unknown suspect
assaulted a victim near the corner
of Fairfax and Romaine.
An unknown suspect committed a
petty theft in the 7000 block of
Hollywood at 2:45 p.m.
An unknown suspect burglarized a
At 12:15 a.m., an unknown suspect assaulted a victim in the 1300
block of W. 3rd.
An unknown suspect committed a
burglary in the 7800 block of
Beverly at 12:26 a.m.
At 9 a.m., an unknown burglarized
a vehicle parked in the 100 block
of N. Wetherly.
An unknown suspect committed a
burglary in the 300 block of N.
Plymouth at 10 a.m.
At 10 a.m., an unknown suspect
stole a vehicle parked near the
corner of 6th and Curson.
An unknown suspect burglarized a
vehicle parked near the corner of
Genesee and Romaine at 1 p.m.
At 1:30 p.m., an unknown suspect
committed a petty theft in the 1000
block of S. Holt.
An unknown suspect robbed a victim near the corner of Selma and
Ivar at 2:30 p.m.
At 4:45 p.m., an unknown suspect
burglarized a vehicle parked in the
300 block of N. Ridgewood.
An unknown suspect committed a
theft in the 6300 block of W. 3rd at
4:50 p.m.
At 5 p.m., an unknown suspect
burglarized a vehicle parked in the
200 block of S. Detroit.
At 7 p.m., an unknown suspect
burglarized a vehicle parked in the
1700 block of N. Sycamore.
An unknown suspect committed a
petty theft in the 8900 block of
Santa Monica at 9:15 p.m.
At 10:50 a.m., an unknown suspect stole a vehicle parked near
the corner of Sunset and Highland.
An unknown suspect committed a
petty theft near the corner of 7th
and Western at 11:15 p.m.
May 12
At 1 a.m., an unknown suspect
burglarized a vehicle parked in the
6000 block of Sunset.
An unknown suspect stole a vehicle parked in the 1200 block of N.
Hayworth at 12:02 p.m.
At 1 p.m., an unknown suspect
stole a vehicle parked in the 6500
block of Fountain.
An unknown suspect burglarized a
vehicle parked in the 7500 block of
Lexington at 1:30 p.m.
At 3:30 p.m., an unknown suspect
committed a petty theft in the 7600
block of Melrose.
An unknown suspect committed a
petty theft in the 7300 block of
Melrose at 5:10 p.m.
An unknown suspect committed a
burglary in the 100 block of N.
Gardner at 5:45 p.m.
At 5:20 p.m., a theft was reported
in the 6700 block of Sunset.
At 6 p.m., an unknown suspect
stole a vehicle parked in the 1100
block of S. Genessee.
An unknown suspect stole a vehicle parked in the 1100 block of N.
El Centro at 5:30 p.m.
An unknown suspect committed a
grand theft in the 400 block of S.
Fuller at 7 p.m.
At 6 p.m., an unknown suspect
committed a burglary in the 300
block of S. Citrus.
At 10 p.m., an unknown suspect
stole a vehicle parked in the 6300
block of Orange.
An unknown suspect robbed a victim in the 100 block of La Brea at
10:20 p.m.
An unknown suspect committed a
petty theft in the 100 block of S.
Wetherly at 10 p.m.
May 13
May 11
At 4:35 a.m., an unknown suspect
committed a burglary in the 900
block of S. La Brea.
At 6:05 a.m., an unknown suspect
committed a petty theft in the 6000
block of W. 3rd.
An unknown suspect assaulted a
victim in the 6200 block of
Hollywood at 7:55 a.m.
An unknown suspect assaulted a
victim in the 8400 block of Melrose
at 2:01 a.m.
At 9:30 a.m., an unknown suspect
committed a petty theft in the 100
block of N. La Cienega.
At 9 a.m., an unknown suspect
committed a petty theft in the 1200
block of N. Highland.
An unknown suspect committed a
petty theft in the 8600 block of W.
3rd at 10:20 a.m.
A robbery was reported in the
5400 block of Wilshire at 10:45
a.m.
At 4 p.m., an unknown suspect
committed a petty theft in the 8900
block of Santa Monica.
At 12:30 p.m., an unknown suspect committed a petty theft in the
An unknown suspect burglarized a
vehicle parked in the 1700 block of
vehicle parked in the 600 block of
Orlando at 4 p.m.
An unknown suspect assaulted a
victim in the 1000 block of Vine at
3 p.m.
At approximately 6 p.m., an
unknown suspect committed a
petty theft in the 8900 block of
Santa Monica.
At 9:20 p.m., a robbery was reported near the corner of Ingraham
and Wilton.
An unknown suspect burglarized a
vehicle parked in the 900 block of
N. Croft at 7:30 p.m.
An unknown suspect robbed a victim near the corner of 4th and
Irving at 10:30 p.m.
At 8:30 p.m., an attempted theft
was reported in the 400 block of N.
Orange Grove.
May 16
A suspect assaulted a victim during a domestic violence in the 900
block of Spaulding at 9:59 p.m.
May 15
At 6:20 a.m., an unknown suspect
burglarized a vehicle parked in the
4500 block of W. 5th.
At midnight, an unknown suspect
burglarized a vehicle parked in the
700 block of West Knoll.
A suspect assaulted a victim during a domestic violence incident in
the 600 block of Cloverdale at 1:30
a.m.
At 8 a.m., an unknown suspect
committed a burglary in the 1100
block of Orange Grove.
Man sentenced for airline reservation fraud
A Georgia man who fraudulently
booked airline reservations by pretending to be a flight crewmember
was sentenced Monday to six
months in federal prison, as well as
six months of home detention.
Gilbert Myers Jr., 38, of Atlanta,
was sentenced Monday afternoon in
Los Angeles by United States
District Judge Dean D. Pregerson.
In addition to the prison term,
Pregerson ordered Myers to pay
$91,660 in restitution to the victim
airlines.
Myers pleaded guilty in January to
conspiracy to commit wire fraud,
admitting that he orchestrated a
scheme to defraud air carriers by
having travelers illegally board aircrafts while pretending to be
employees of other airlines. In
exchange for arranging their travel as
“non-rev” employee travelers,
Myers typically charged approximately $2,000 for one year of unlimited free flights.
Myers fraudulently booked hundreds of flights on victim airlines that
include AirTran Airways, JetBlue,
Spirit Airlines, Sun Country Airlines
and United Airlines.
The fraudulent travelers utilized
Myers’ services to fly in and out of
Los Angeles County airports by pretending to be in-flight crewmembers
employed by other airlines. To obtain
boarding passes and stand-by tickets
(for which airline employees pay little or nothing, hence non-revenue),
Myers called the victim airline’s
reservation call center and gave the
victim airline’s representative the
name of a traveler, the airline he supposedly worked for, a bogus employee identification number, and a date
of hire. Myers typically lied to the
victim airline and said he worked on
a flight crew for another airline,
according to court documents.
Myers advised the fraudulent travelers to avoid detection by dressing
appropriately and responding to
questions about their employment at
another airline. With the fraudulently
obtained boarding pass and their real
photo identification, the fraudulent
traveler went through Transportation
Security Administration security
screening. The fraudulent travelers
boarded planes listed as employees
of other airlines. All of the travelers
were subject to full security screenings by the Transportation Security
Administration.
In the plea agreement, Myers
admitted to several specific, fraudulent booking calls. As part of the conspiracy, Myers acknowledges that he
“fraudulently booked these and hundreds of other flights with victim airlines.”
The fair market value of the fraudulently obtained plane tickets was
more than $277,000, and attorneys in
the case agreed that the applicable
amount of restitution is approximately $91,660.
All of the victim airlines fully
cooperated in the investigation.
Myers was arrested in July 2014
without incident at a Beverly Hills
hotel after agreeing to meet a potential traveler who was actually an
undercover FBI agent.
The case against Myers is the
result of an investigation by the
FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Child pornographer sentenced to life in prison
A Los Angeles man who was convicted of producing child pornography in the Philippines while being
required to register as a sex offender
due to his prior conviction for raping
a 14-year-old girl was sentenced
Monday to life without parole in federal prison.
Stanley Dan Reczko III, 50, who
resided in the Koreatown District of
Los Angeles, was sentenced Monday
by United States District Judge
George H. King, who in March found
the defendant guilty of producing
child pornography while being
required to register as a sex offender.
“This defendant has a life-long history of violent behavior,” said Acting
United States Attorney Stephanie
Yonekura. “He has received treatment and counseling, but in light of
this case, the help offered to him
appears to have had no effect. Even
though he has previously served
prison time for the rape of a minor,
this punishment did not deter his
behavior. In light of his recidivism,
the life prison sentence is richly
deserved.”
In the first part of a bifurcated trial,
a federal jury in February found
Reczko guilty of sexual exploitation
by producing child pornography in
the Philippines.
Reczko received the life sentence
for the sexual exploitation charge,
and he received a consecutive 10year term for producing child
pornography while being required to
register as a sex offender.
Reczko has been in custody since
2007, when he was arrested after
returning to the United States by U.S.
Immigration
and
Customs
Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland
Security Investigations (HSI).
Authorities began investigating
Reczko in May 2007 after the minor
victim handed over a CD containing
child
pornography
to
the
International Justice Mission (IJM), a
non-governmental
organization
working in the Philippines. IJM provided the CD, along with other evidence, to law enforcement officers
working out of the U.S. Embassy in
Manila. The evidence showed that
Reczko had used the minor to produce eight series of child pornography, which included images of him
and the victim engaging in sexual
intercourse.
Reczko sexually, physically, emotionally, and mentally abused the victim for three years, according to prosecutors.
Suspect selling false Disneyland tickets on Craigslist
Los Angeles Police Department
Central
Division
Burglary
Detectives are warning the public
of an ongoing Craigslist suspect
selling invalid Disneyland tickets.
The suspect uses Craigslist to sell
Disneyland tickets for almost half
the price. The victims contact him
and they meet in the downtown Los
Angeles area. The suspect offers to
have the victim take pictures of his
drivers’ license, which convinces
the victim that the tickets are valid
and therefore feel confident in purchasing the tickets.
The suspect primarly met the victims downtown near Staples
Center. Multiple incidents occurred
between March and May, and in
November 2013, there were three
victims who reported purchasing
Disneyland tickets from the same
suspect. If anyone has any additional information regarding this crime,
contact Central Burglary Detective
Angel-Rummer at (213)996-1859
or Detective Hernandez at
(213)996-1860. During non-business hours, calls should be directed
to (877)527-3247.
15 May 21, 2015
Park Labrea News/Beverly Press
Hotel Irvine reinvents itself with great success
by Jonathan Van Dyke
T
he staycation has gained
another ally with Hotel
Irvine.
If you feel compelled to leave the
cozy confines of Los Angeles for
our pristine neighbor to the south,
Orange County, you’ll definitely
find a drive-worthy experience at
photo by Jonathan Van Dyke
The Lavender Hibiscus Mojito is a
refreshing summer cocktail.
the newly re-branded Hotel Irvine.
Previously called the Hyatt
Regency Irvine, the owners made
an extensive reinvestment into the
property, said Norman Dillard,
director of operations for the hotel.
“From the way you arrive, when
you check in, when you go to the
restaurant — it’s mostly about the
brick and mortar [changes] and
how the customer feels when they
come into the hotel,” he said.
Because the ownership group is
independent from any hotel chain,
they had the freedom to re-shape
the hotel, located at 17900
Jamboree Road.
“I think we’re more in line with
some of the properties you’d associate with in L.A. than other properties in Orange County,” Dillard
said. “It’s everything our customer
base has told us they would want in
a hotel.”
It was after speaking with Red
Bar Lounge general manager
David Fayette that we hit the nail
on the head — this place compares
to a full-service Las Vegas hotel.
Hotel Irvine has a similar feel to
the most state-of-the-art convention
centers. The colors pop and are
bright and varied, and the main
floor is wide open and welcoming.
Every gathering space has complete connectivity with a ton of
plug-ins for devices.
Restaurant News
From page 13
burger with lettuce, tomato and special sauce; and enjoy a Venice burger
with caramelized onions, arugula and blue cheese. Avocado, bacon,
cheese and a fried egg can be added to any burger for $2 each. The burgers can also be paired with a side of fried pickles. Bar director Anthony
Settecase makes ice cold cocktails such as “snowgronis”, a grown-up
version of the icy treat crafted with Bulldog gin, Campari, Antica
Carpano and shaved ice. The Venice Whaler takeaway window provides
gourmet grub such as baskets of Belgium beer battered fish and chips
and grilled sourdough bowls of homemade clam and corn chowder soup
with bacon. Ice-cold old-fashioned bottled sodas are also available such
as Orange Fanta, Mexican Coca-Cola and Henry Weinhard root beer.
Venice Whaler is open on Memorial Day from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. 10 W.
Washington Blvd. (310)821-8737.
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There’s a backyard pavilion and
a pool area with cabanas — this
place is ready to entertain inside
and outside. There are meeting and
event spaces for small to large
events including a brand new lawn
area for events like formal dinners,
trade shows and large meetings.
“I think whenever you look at a
hotel experience, the devil is in the
details,” Dillard said. For example,
they pipe in a special hotel-only
scent called Asian Garden.
The Red Bar and Lounge is
impressive, the kind of place that
shines during happy hour, when the
bartenders and mixologists will
teach you how they make their signature craft cocktails. This is the
kind of place that has “carbonation
tubes” and makes its own ginger
beer and juices — serious stuff.
My first drink on a hot afternoon
was a much needed and best-I’veever-had Moscow Mule. I was
overheated from beach volleyball
that afternoon so we went with a
homemade piña colada as a second
drink — pure heaven. James
Brown, who was bartending at the
restaurant, swung by with a new
creation he was playing around
with to complete the color spectrum. He named it on the spot:
Lavender Hibiscus Mojito.
The bar brings in a DJ during the
evenings, and it has plush, varied
seating and tables all over the place
— this is where you go after a conference to meet people and have fun.
My evening concluded with a
meal at the EATS Kitchen & Bar. I
generally gravitate to weird and
outlandish places these days, such
as Animal or Ink, so I didn’t know
what to expect.
EATS is a gastropub first and
photo by Jonathan Van Dyke
The gastropub fare at EATS features a great burger as well as chicken
and biscuits with rich country gravy.
foremost, and I enjoyed some good,
comforting food done right — not
that they don’t mix it up a little.
Executive chef Jason Montelibano
calls it “casual, comforting — and
fun — with plenty of creative culinary twists.”
I started with an individual (but
fairly large) and delicious Calle
Taco — marinated steak,
chimichurri sauce and potato shell.
Restaurant manager Aaron Crossen
hooked me up with a smaller version of the over-the-top Fried
Chicken & Biscuits — chicken oysters, buttermilk biscuits, sriracha
butter and glorious country gravy.
Thank the heavens for my fast
metabolism because that was epic.
Burgers are the specialty there,
so I felt obligated to sink my teeth
into the delightful EATS Burger —
chef’s beef blend, bacon, aged
white cheddar, herb aioli, pear jam
and a brioche bun.
After nearing a food coma, they
brought me out the perfect dessert
that should definitely pique your
interest: Bananas and Brown Sugar
—
vegan
banana
bread,
caramelized bananas, streusel
crumble. It was a perfect capper.
Other menu highlights from my
vantage
point:
caramelized
Brussels sprouts, pork belly mac &
cheese, meats and cheeses (locally
curated), four different flatbreads,
lamb gnocchi (killed me not to
order this) and crusted tuna.
A good night’s rest after a movie
with friends in Irvine, and a complimentary, better-than-your-average breakfast buffet the next morning, and I was on my way.
Hotel Irvine is located 15 miles
from Disneyland, seven miles from
Balboa Island, eight miles from
Newport Beach and two miles from
John Wayne Airport. Think of it as
a little oasis off the 405 Freeway.
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16 May 21, 2015
Crossword Puzzle by Myles Mellor
22. Mark of perfection
25. Exercise target
26. Long sentence
27. Dismounted
28. Einstein’s preoccupation
29. Bonehead
31. Feed
32. Flight board abbr.
33. Hold back
34. Big copper exporter
35. Sciences’ partner
37. Part of a geisha’s attire
38. Hoisting machine
39. Cordial
43. Engenders
44. Publicize
45. Channel
46. Conscious
47. Chalice
48. Compensate
49. The out crowd
50. Insider’s vocabulary
52. Gulf war ally
53. Actress Miles
54. Banish to Hades
55. Nay sayer
See Page 22
56. Track event
National Medal awarded to city library
Across
1. Formal accessory
5. Shillong was its capital
10. Mosque chief
14. Famous Amos
15. Hot spot
16. Bamako is its capital
17. Taro variety
18. Sots
19. Barbershop emblem
20. Discourage
23. Old name for nitrogen
24. Blue-pencils
25. Roman priest
28. Excellent
30. Flowering shrub
31. Greek cheese
33. Soothing the body and soul
center
36. One in an unfamiliar setting
40. Jump into a pool?
41. Laser light
42. Sluggish
43. Empty a vessel
45. Bad blood
46. Category of arachnids
49. Some cops
51. Past event
57. Natural balm
58. Combine
59. Color quality
60. Giving
61. Fire
62. Carry
63. Alimony receivers
64. Foul
65. Give out
Down
1. Dance instructor’s call
2. Foofaraw
3. Pakistani tongue
4. Landscape replicas
5. In a faint
6. Artificial leg?
7. Rocket
8. Affirm
9. Flat-topped land formation
10. Hold back
11. Native New Zealander
12. Dispense
13. Appearances
21. Central European
Heavy rain once turned
Pan Pacific Park into ‘lake’
A photograph in the Feb. 17, 1983 issue of the Park Labrea News
and Beverly Press showed what was described in a caption as “Lake
Gilmore” in front of Park Labrea. The water was the result of heavy
rain that settled in an area north of 3rd Street that was being excavated at the time to create Pan Pacific Park. Nowadays, it appears as
though the park could use more water as the lawns are turning brown
in some areas because of the drought. For information, see page 9.
On Monday, First Lady Michelle
Obama joined the Institute of
Museum and Library Services acting director Maura Marx at the
White House to present the 2015
National Medal for Museum and
Library Service to Los Angeles
Public Library. The National Medal
is the nation’s highest honor given
to museums and libraries for service
to the community.
The Los Angeles Public Library
was selected for its success in meeting the needs of Angelenos and providing a high level of social, educational and cultural services.
The award recognizes the
library’s programs that help people
on their path to citizenship, earn
their high school diploma, manage
their personal finances and access
health and well-being services and
resources.
City librarian John F. Szabo and
community
member
Sergio
Sanchez accepted the National
Medal.
Sanchez and his wife, Francisca,
came to the U.S. from Veracruz,
Mexico 24 years ago.
They first brought their son to the
Los Angeles Public Library for
story time as a toddler, and then
continued to bring him for many
years. Sanchez studied English and
history and read the news at the
library during his free time.
Last year, a staff member helped
him enroll in a citizenship class at
the library, and with help of library
staff and resources, Sergio passed
the test and became a U.S. citizen.
He encouraged his wife to enroll
and she passed the citizenship test
five months later.
“When a new family moves into
the neighborhood, I tell them the
most important place is the library.
A place where everyone belongs
and is welcome, and where your
dream can come true,” Sanchez
said.
“Our nation’s museums and
libraries provide robust programs,
services and resources that fuel
innovation, economic activity and
cultural and civic engagement,”
Marx said. “The 2015 National
Medal for Museum and Library
Service recipients have demonstrated great determination and dexterity
in addressing critical needs of their
communities.”
Exhibit pays homage to ‘Howl’
The Skirball Cultural Center is
exhibiting “The Singing Posters:
Poetry Sound Collage Sculpture
Book”, artist Allen Ruppersberg’s
homage to poet Allen Ginsberg’s
famous
poem,
“Howl”
(1955–1956), through Aug. 23.
Ruppersberg first conceived of
the work when he discovered that
his students at UCLA had never
heard of the poem.
For the artist, it was a way to
introduce “Howl” — which marks
its 60th anniversary this year — to
a new generation.
For
the
installation,
Ruppersberg transcribed “Howl”
into phonetic spellings and printed
the text on approximately 200
vibrantly colored posters reminiscent of commercial advertising.
These are installed floor to ceiling on gallery walls.
The phonetically spelled text
compels viewers to read the poem
out loud and experience it not only
as a historically significant written
work, but also as a vivid spokenword experience that resonates to
this day.
The layout and typography of
the posters are visually chaotic,
like the barrage of images conjured up by the poem.
The installation also includes
Ruppersberg’s personal scrapbooks, which contain an accumulation of images, newspaper and
magazine clippings, photographs
and other miscellany that the artist
has collected throughout his life,
particularly in the 1960s and
1970s.
“The Singing Posters: Poetry
Sound Collage Sculpture Book” is
presented by the Skirball in conjunction
with
its
major
spring/summer exhibition, “Bill
Graham and the Rock & Roll
Revolution”.
The Skirball Cultural Center is
located at 2701 N. Sepulveda
Blvd. For information, visit
www.skirball.org.
Exhibit shows gender inequality
On May 21, the Jobs to Move
America coalition will launch the
“Women Can Build” project with
a new study and an accompanying
photography exhibit revealing the
overlooked contributions, and
decline in hiring since WWII, of
women in manufacturing.
The
new
study,
“#WomenCanBuild: Including
Women in the Resurgence of
Good U.S. Manufacturing Jobs”,
issued by the University of
Southern California’s Program for
Environmental and Regional
Equity (PERE), found that 87 percent of the workforce in the
American transit manufacturing
industry is male.
Making an impactful visual
statement, the Women Can Build
photography exhibit — running
from May 22 to June 21 at Los
Angeles Union Station — will
premiere 15 photos and stories of
“modern Rosies”.
These photographs, by Pulitzer
Prize
recipient
Deanne
Fitzmaurice, will be displayed
alongside never-before-exhibited
historic photographs of WWII-era
“Rosie the Riveter” manufactur-
ing workers, from the Library of
Congress, connecting past and
present.
In addition to the manufacturing
“Rosies”, included in the exhibit
are former Massachusetts Bay
Transportation Authority General
Manager Dr. Beverly Scott, Los
Angeles County Supervisor Hilda
Solis, California Speaker Toni G.
Atkins and former Los Angeles
County Federation of Labor
Executive Secretary-Treasurer
Maria Elena Durazo.
“‘Women Can Build’ says it all:
the powerful, beautiful women
working in these factories can do
anything they set their minds to,”
said Madeline Janis, Director of
the Jobs to Move America coalition.
With this project, Jobs to Move
America’s goal is to deliver the
message that “women can build”
to the top 16 global companies
building mass transportation, and
to encourage them to increase
opportunities for women on the
factory floor in U.S. manufacturing jobs.
Los Angeles Union Station is
located at 800 N. Alameda St.
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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ is a lovely day
Speechless. Breathless. Pulse
pounding. “Mad Max” began in
1979 as a B-movie that eventually
developed a cult following, but
“Fury Road” is something new.
George Miller, I’m forever grateful
you returned to the post-apocalyptic world you know so well. As Nux
(Nicholas Hoult) says, “What a day.
What a lovely day.” And may we
enjoy many more thanks to multiple viewings of the year’s best
actioner in both narrative depth and
insane visual splendor.
Max (Tom Hardy) might be the
titular character, but Charlize
Theron’s Imperator Furiosa is the
driving force. We waste no time —
no need for exposition. Desert blankets the Earth, and Immortan Joe
(Hugh Keays-Byrne) leads his War
Boys, loyal to the end and ready to
enter Valhalla if their time comes.
But rather than fall in line, Furiosa,
tasked with gathering supplies,
decides to go off mission and flee
with the big bad’s five wives:
Angharad (Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley), Toast (Zoë Kravitz),
Capable (Riley Keough), The Dag
(Abbey Lee) and Cheedo
(Courtney Eaton).
Furious and ready to get fast, Joe
takes his entire army in hot pursuit,
including the recently imprisoned
Max, who’s strapped to the hood of
Nux’s car, supplying blood for the
weakened War Boy.
Following a glorious chase
sequence, Max escapes and
begrudgingly joins Furiosa’s cause,
all the while haunted by the demons
of his past (see the original “Mad
Max” for more context on that
one).
“Mad Max” created a visual aesthetic all its own. Just imagine
1980s punk rockers taking over the
world. In “Fury Road”, they
cranked that one up to 11. You
don’t understand love, pain or
insanity until you’ve seen a custom-made car with drums on the
back and a flame-throwing guitarist on bungee chords announcing
every war cry with metal licks (but
he never does touch the bass portion of his double-necked ax).
It’s all so wonderfully outlandish, but nothing I say can truly
convince you to see it. Everything
just sounds so preposterous. And it
is. It’s so satisfyingly preposterous
that you really need to watch and
re-watch it several times to catch
every incredible stunt and piece of
production design. At $150 million,
Mr. Miller finally got the budget he
deserves (the previous highest budgeted film in the series was “Max
Mad Beyond Thunderdome” at $12
million), and he uses it all on automotive hardbodies and their fiery
demises.
After experiencing something
that gave me more anxiety than
saying, “I love you,” action packed
seems like such a juvenile description. Out of the two-hour runtime,
you won’t find more than a couple
verses of “Happy Birthday” to take
a breath before the chase starts up
again.
Miller doesn’t even bother to
explain his world. You’re in or
you’re out.
If you want a deep philosophical
discussion about how the world fell
apart and how evil people took
over, I’m sure Albert Camus can
give you a few suggestions.
Perhaps the most surprising thing
is what lies beneath every exploding vehicle. “Fury Road” might just
be as heavy on character development as it is on epic “epicness.”
Miller just knows how to do it all
on the go. This isn’t overbearing
machismo. I mean, it is, kind of.
But with a leading cast that’s
mostly women (they meet up with
many others too), it’s refreshing to
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view something that breaks the
Bechdel test. (Simple test: Does a
film have more than one female
character and, if so, do they talk
about something other than the
leading men?) And let’s not forget
that Miller brought in Eve Ensler,
playwright of “The Vagina
Monologues”, as a special consultant. This movie rules.
As for Max, he’s always been a
character of few words, especially
in a film that highlights his traumatic past. We all know the poor guy
has seen some things, so it’s entirely OK that he just sticks to himself,
speaking when needed, following
Furiosa’s lead. Don’t worry though.
He’s “bad-A” when he needs to be.
And he needs to be a lot. Hardy
replaces Mel Gibson nicely.
But Hardy’s Max is nothing
without Theron’s Furiosa. With a
prosthetic left arm and an endless
photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Tom Hardy stars as Max in the new thriller, “Mad Max Fury Road”.
supply of black oil to cover her eyes
and forehead, she’s a corrective for
women’s absence in summer blockbusters. And I really want her crossbow gun. No clue how it works —
it just rules, like this film.
It took Miller 10 years to bring
his beloved creation back to the big
screen. That green light couldn’t
come sooner. With a sequel in the
works currently dubbed “The
Wasteland”, I might just start my
own apocalypse if I have to wait
another decade.
Park Labrea News/Beverly Press
18 May 21, 2015
‘Kitten season’ impacts animal shelters
The months of February through
November, is known as kitten season where shelters become overwhelmed with kittens during these
months, according to Best Friends
Animal Society.
The majority of kittens land in
shelters without their mothers and
need to be bottle-fed every two
hours.
They are usually weeks away
from weaning, spaying or neutering
and being able to be adopted into
permanent homes.
The workload for a typical animal shelter almost immediately
outweighs what staff can handle
and results in many kittens being
killed upon intake simply because
of a lack of resources.
“Recent surveys indicate something like 91 percent of pet cats are
sterilized, which suggests that the
vast majority of unweaned kittens
are born to free-roaming, unowned
community cats,” said Best Friends
Animal Society’s director of
national programs, community programs and services Holly
Sizemore. “That is why Best
Fairfax High students
receive scholarships
photo by Patricia Katzman
photo courtesy of Best Friends Animal Society
Best Friends Animal Society encourages people to spay and neuter cats.
Friends Animal Society and likeminded organizations are working
together so hard to spay and neuter
these cats, we want to break this
tragic cycle.”
Sizemore
explained
the
spay/neuter efforts are known as
Star of ‘Pretty Little Liars’
visits Loyola High School
photo courtesy of Loyola High School
“Pretty Little Liars” star Ashley Benson recently attended the 2nd
annual Loyola High School Film Festival on Saturday, May 16. She
was pictured with Loyola High School student and film festival organizer Adam Faze. The evening showcased films by high school students from around the country. The festival was open to all high
school students, and more than 100 entrees were received from 22
schools. The top nine films were screened at Loyola High School.
trap/neuter/return
or
TNR.
Unowned cats are humanely
trapped, neutered and vaccinated
and then released into the community to live out their natural lives.
“We want people to understand
that if they see a litter of kittens,
especially tiny ones, please resist
that urge to scoop them up because
the mother cat is probably nearby
and will return to care for them.
Taking them away from her severely lessens the kittens’ chances of
survival.”
Best Friends Animal Society suggests to only intervene if the kittens
have been abandoned. Take note of
the exact location and contact the
local animal shelter or TNR group.
If the mother returns, keep your eye
on her and the kittens until they are
old enough to be trapped, spayed or
neutered and returned to the area
they came from.
For information about how to get
involved during kitten season and
year-round to help community cats,
visit bestfriends.org/communitycats.
Four Fairfax High School students received $2,000 scholarships on
May 20 from the Los Angeles Chapter of the Society for the
Advancement of Material & Process Engineering (SAMPE) as part
of the Irene Epstein Memorial Scholarship program. The scholarships have been provided annually since 1996 to students at Fairfax
High School who plan to go into the medical, advanced engineering
and science fields.
Pictured at an award ceremony are Joan Pelico (left), chief of staff
for Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz, 5th District; scholarship awardees So Yeong Lee, Samarjit Kalra, Mildred Perez and
Bianca Gonzalez; and Dr. Howard Katzman, scholarship chairman
for the Los Angeles Chapter of SAMPE.
The scholarship program was initiated by Fairfax District resident
George Epstein in honor of his late wife. The program was created
to help academically-deserving students attend college. Epstein
worked in the aerospace industry.
Lee will attend the University of Southern California and is planning
to pursue a career in human biology.
Kalra will attend UCLA to study applied mathematics with a minor in
statistics. Perez will attend the University of California-Irvine and
major in engineering, focusing on computer science.
Gonzalez will attend the University of California-San Diego, with the
goal of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Two additional Fairfax High School students — Siavash Ghadiri
Zahrani and Randy Flores — were given SAMPE’s Book Awards,
which provide $1,000 for the purchase of college textbooks. Zahrani
will attend the University of California, Santa Barbara and major in
pre-biology. Flores will attend California State University,
Northridge, and major in computer engineering.
Park Labrea News/Beverly Press
19 May 21, 2015
Wilshire Warriors weekend round-up
Warriors 13U
The Warriors 13U team defeated the
Saints by a score of 3-0 in a hard-fought battle that showed the Warriors at their best
against the other dominant 13U Mid-Valley
team. The Warriors’ Esdras Solorzano
pitched four excellent innings and Austin
Aguilar came in to close out the Saints.
Brian Harley had the at-bat of the day, fouling off five pitches with a full count before
pounding a double into left field. With only
one Mid-Valley game left to play, the 13U
Warriors, under Coach Ryne Tacker, are 8-1
and have an eight-game win streak.
two. Marin singled in the first inning and
doubled in the fourth inning. Pitcher Tanner
Mahon brought the heat, holding the
Rockstars hitless over three innings, while
allowing no earned runs, walking one and
striking out eight batters. The Warriors didn’t relinquish its lead after scoring three runs
in the first inning, including an RBI double
by Seamus O’Malley and two singles by
Mahon and Marin. The Warriors increased
the lead with three runs in the fourth inning.
Marin doubled, plating Mahon to start the
inning and was followed by Jonah Henry’s
single, scoring Marin.
Warriors 10U Orange
Warriors 12U
The Warriors 12U team played a double
header at Mid-Valley, winning game one
against the Arsenal by a score of 8-3, and
tying the E3 team by a score of 4-4 in the
second game. In the first game, Kai Moran
knocked in four runs rallying the Warriors to
an 8-3 victory in five innings over Arsenal
last Sunday. He singled in the third inning
and doubled in the fifth inning.
In the second game, the Warriors 12U
team took an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of
the first inning. The opponents, E3, had tworun rallies in the third and fourth innings.
Down 4-1 in the fourth inning, the Warriors
scored a run when Joo reached on a fielder’s
choice, stole second base, moved to third on
a ground out and stole home. In the top of
the fifth inning, the Warriors mounted a
rally. Alexander Saul walked, Teagan
Disharoon singled and Ava Yood Howard
reached on a bunt. Light Rake shut down E3
in the top of the sixth inning to preserve the
tie for the Warriors.
Warriors 11U Blue
The Warriors 11U Blue team finished its
regular season at Mid-Valley with two wins
in a double header. The team closed the regular season with a 6-2-1 record, and were
undefeated playing in their age bracket.
In their first game, the Warriors 11U Blue
team out-hit and out-scored Los Angelesbased BCAttack by 11-3 and 7-2, respectively. Warriors pitchers Kai Moran, Daniel
Tovar and Connor Rice threw hitless
innings, with Moran earning the win and
closer Boon Fay getting the save. Utility
man Daniel DiMaggio was a big highlight,
going 2-for-2 with an RBI, one run and three
stolen bases.
In the team’s second game, the Warriors
beat Santa Monica Arsenal by a score of 107. Establishing a 10-1 lead by the fourth
inning allowed the Warriors to give new
pitchers game experience in the bottom of
the fourth and fifth innings, when Arsenal
rallied for six runs. The rest of the game was
also a team effort with every player contributing at least one run or an RBI.
Warriors 11U Orange
The Warriors 11U Orange team fell 6-5 to
the SoCal Monarchs last Sunday during a
game in Encino. The team fought back from
4-1 and 5-3 deficits in the last inning and tied
the score 5-5. In the bottom of the last
inning, however, the Monarchs won on a
sacrifice fly to deep right field despite a
well-executed relay and a close play at the
plate. The Warriors had strong pitching performances by the starter, Zach Harris, and
two relief pitchers, Wesley Siciliano and
William Allen, as they held the Monarchs to
only three earned runs. The defense also
snuffed out rallies to keep the game close.
With one out in the top of the final inning,
William Crain hit the game tying RBI on a
fielder’s choice.
Warriors 10U Blue
The Warriors 10U Blue team beat the
Rockstars by a score of 6-1 in six innings on
Sunday in Mid-Valley play behind the strong
hitting of Diego Marin, who went two-for-
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The Warriors 10U Orange team unofficially lost to the Stars by a score of 9-4 in
Mid-Valley play. However, the Warriors
recorded a win by forfeit due to the Stars
showing up 45 minutes late to the 8 a.m.
game. Warriors highlights included Finn
Disharoon smacking a double into centerfield, scoring Roman Bello, and a quickthinking Max Kim turning a Stars single into
an out by throwing to first base from right
field. The one-two punch of the Johnson
brothers continues to be fruitful. It was the
third game in which the brothers batted
back-to-back, and they again delivered.
Mike Johnson walked and stole a base. Luke
Johnson followed up with a single to right
field driving in Disharoon, as well as his
brother.
Warriors 9U Blue
The Warriors 9U Blue team (5-4) beat the
undefeated Toluca Thunder, marking the
first win against the Thunder for the squad.
The team effort included heads-up plays in
the field and big hits from Oz Rubinson,
Oscar Noxon and Owen Dufelmeier. Joseph
Norris was the starting pitcher for the
Warriors, throwing three strong innings and
giving up only one run and striking out five
batters. Emmett Showers kept things tight
from the mound in the fourth inning, but the
Thunder’s bats came alive in the fifth inning,
tying the game at 6-6 going into the final
inning. With two runners on base, two outs
and two strikes, Luther Tostrud hit a triple
into right field for the Warriors, and eventually scored making it 9-6 going into the bottom of the sixth inning. Muze Beale closed
the game with three quick outs, handing
Toluca its first loss of the season.
Edward Maxam picked it up on one hop and
threw it to Jackson Eisenhauer at first base to
end the game. Nate Severy had the hit of the
game, launching a double to deep right field
and plating the Warriors’ first run. Kline led
the team with two hits, an RBI and a pitch
that hit the batter, which he turned into a run
as well. Hoagie hit a bomb to center field
that the Eagles’ prevented from being a
home run with a fielder slamming into the
fence.
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Warriors 7U
The Warriors 7U team split its doubleheader, falling to the Black Widows by a
score of 12-3 and beating the Dynamite 8-3.
In the first game, the Warriors’ Ryder
Engelhardt sparked the offense in the first
inning with a screaming line drive down the
right field line for a two-RBI double. Ben
Williams also recorded an RBI in the game
with a line drive single to right center.
Starting pitcher, Will Suslow, had a multi-hit
game going two-for-two. Suslow was phenomenal on the mound, striking out three
batters and limiting the potent Black Widow
offense to only three runs in two innings.
In the second game, the Warriors’ pitchers
put the opponents on their back as they dominated the Dynamite all game striking out 10
hitters.
Torres set the tone, striking out the side in
the first inning and adding another strike out
in the second. Great discipline at the plate
and a timely single by Rogan Monoghan
surged the Warriors to a 6-0 lead through the
first two innings, and the Warriors didn’t
look back as they cruised to an 8-3 victory.
photo courtesy of Bob Terry
Cathedral Chapel School seventh graders Nicholas Terry, Brandon
Chandler and Karthik Jayaraman joined high school juniors on
Saturday, May 2 to take the SAT for college admission. Terry and
Chandler took the exam to qualify for the Caroline D. Bradley High
School Scholarship, which will pay for four years of education at any
private high school in the country. Jayaraman took the exam to qualify
for admission to the summer program at Johns Hopkins Center for
Talented Youth. Terry attended the program last year and will attend
again this summer. Chandler will attend the summer program at Loyola.
The boys are honors students at Cathedral Chapel School, located in the
Miracle Mile. Terry received first place earlier this year in Cathedral
Chapel’s Science Fair and Math Bowl. The boys will receive their SAT
results by the end of the month. Cathedral Chapel School is located at
755 S. Cochran Ave. For information, call (323)938-9976, or visit
www.cathedralchapelschool.org.
Warriors 9U Orange
The Warriors 9U Orange team fell early
Sunday morning to ASAP for the third time
this season by a score of 11-0. The team
showed tremendous improvement from its
previous meeting against ASAP. The orange
team had a stellar pitching performance
from Chris Appel, who went two strong
innings and only surrendered two earned
runs. The Warriors’ bats stayed quiet the
entire game. The lone offensive standout for
the Warriors was Benny Buckley, who singled and stole two bases. The Warriors
showed determination and improvement,
however, and if not for a poor third inning,
would have produced a different outcome on
the scoreboard.
Warriors 8U
With two quick outs on pop-ups fielded
by Warriors second basemen Cameron
Griffin and third baseman Chase Landau,
and while protecting a hard-earned 6-3 lead,
Warriors 8U pitcher Matthew Hoegee
zeroed in on Wyatt Kline behind the plate,
hoping to get the last out of the game and
earn the 8-U Warriors’ first-ever victory at
Mid-Valley against the dominant East Valley
Eagles. As Hoegee reared back to throw, a
five-plane squadron of vintage World War II
combat planes buzzed Field 6A, but the
Warriors were so focused that they barely
noticed. The Eagle’s three-hole hitter
smoked a line drive to right field, where
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Tree removal plan to be reviewed
From page 3
mer,” Shuda said. “As soon as we
get approval, the trees near La
Brea will come out.”
Shuda said the tree removal is
necessary because crews will be
excavating underneath the street.
Metro originally planned to
remove 101 trees along Wilshire
Boulevard, but the number was
reduced after Metro identified 19
trees that could be saved. Metro
plans to replace every tree that is
removed with two new trees.
The plan for tree removal continues to cause concern among
some in the Hancock Park and
Miracle Mile areas. The Miracle
Mile Civic Coalition has been
fighting to save the trees for the
past couple of years, and has not
given up, said Lyn Cohen, president of the coalition.
“Right now, we are still trying to
look at the whole scope of the project to see what options might be
available,” Cohen said. “We want
“We continue to
hope that all
street trees and
median trees can
be saved and used
somewhere else.”
-Randy Murphy,
Miracle Mile Civic Coalition
the relationship with Metro to
remain cooperative.”
The coalition has mapped every
tree along Wilshire Boulevard in
the Miracle Mile and created a
video presentation it has been
using in the fight against the tree
removal. Members plan to appeal
to Metro and the board of public
works to stop the process until
more study can be completed on
ways to save the trees.
“We continue to hope that all
street trees and median trees can be
saved and used somewhere else,”
Miracle Mile Civic Coalition
board member Randy Murphy
added. “Hopefully, there is some
thinking outside the box that can
benefit Metro and benefit the community.”
Shuda said while plans call for
the trees near La Brea Avenue to be
removed as soon as permission is
granted, the trees near the Fairfax
Avenue station are not scheduled
for removal until 2016. One additional tree will be removed near the
Wilshire Boulevard and Western
Avenue station. The first phase of
construction from Western Avenue
to La Cienega Boulevard is expected to be completed in 2023.
For a list of exact locations
where trees will be removed and a
notification about the upcoming
meeting,
visit
www.bsspermits.lacity.org/TreePostings.
Council approves minimum wage increase
From page 1
grants. Teenage workers up to age
17 can make 85 percent of the
minimum wage. The council also
voted to establish an Office of
Labor Standards that would
enforce the minimum wage law
and tackle issues of wage theft in
the city.
The push for minimum wage in
the council began on Labor Day
of last year when Mayor Eric
Garcetti introduced a proposal to
raise the minimum wage to
$13.25 an hour. Since then, the
city council has been holding
meetings, receiving public comments and commissioning studies
to examine the potential impacts.
“I am pleased that the public
was able to weigh in on the pro-
posed minimum wage policy during four meetings across the city,
and that the city council had
analysis and data from three separate and independent research
firms that added to a robust conversation on raising the minimum
wage in the city of Los Angeles,”
Councilman Mitch O’Farrell,13th
District, said in a statement.
The proposal will have a widespread impact on the earnings of
low-income workers across the
city according to a study completed by the University of
California, Berkeley’s Institute
for Research on Labor and
Employment. The institute determined that nearly 609,000 workers will receive a wage increase
by 2019. The median age of
worker impacted by the proposal
is 33. Almost 60 percent of those
affected are over the age of 30.
The teen population makes up
about 3 percent of those impacted
by the minimum wage increase.
Nearly 80 percent of those affected are people of color.
“This victory was the result of a
growing movement of working
people standing up and raising
their voices in the streets and at
city council meetings for
months,” said Mary Kay Henry,
International President of the
Service Employees International
Union. “To their credit, the city’s
elected officials listened, and as a
result, L.A. is on the path to hav-
Gov. Brown releases revised state budget
California Gov. Jerry Brown last
week released a revised state budget that he said prudently pays
down debt and saves billions of
dollars, while carefully directing
funding where it’s needed most —
to improve schools, help lowincome Californians, prevent
tuition increases and respond to
drought and climate change.
“Another recession is on the way
— we just don’t know when. That’s
why this budget locks billions into
the Rainy Day Fund and pays down
debt,” Brown said. “At the same
time, this budget spends more than
ever on schools and creates a new
tax credit to help California’s working poor.”
The May revision also continues
to focus on the key elements of the
January budget, Brown added, carrying out the Local Control
Funding Formula (LCFF), federal
health care reform, public safety
realignment, the Water Action Plan
and the cap-and-trade expenditure
plan.
The May revision sets aside $3.8
billion in 2015-16 consistent with
the voter-approved Proposition 2
Rainy Day Fund. Of this amount,
$1.9 billion is directed to pay down
existing debt and long-term liabilities. The other $1.9 billion will be
saved in the state’s Rainy Day
Fund, bringing its balance to $3.5
billion. In addition, it repays $765
million owed to local governments.
For K-12 schools, funding will
increase by more than $3,000 per
student in 2015-16 and increases
spending for K-12 schools and
community colleges by $6 billion.
It also maintains flat tuition at the
state’s universities for undergradu-
ates.
The May revision establishes a
state Earned Income Tax Credit
(EITC), designed to complement
the federal EITC, to provide fiscal
relief for Californians with incomes
less than $6,580 and no dependents
or $13,870 with three or more
dependents. The credit is expected
to benefit 2 million individuals,
with an average household benefit
of $460 and a maximum benefit of
$2,653.
The May revision adds $1.2 billion from cap-and-trade auction
proceeds, for a total of $2.2 billion,
to expand California’s programs to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
It also includes a total of $2.2 billion for programs to conserve
water, respond to emergency conditions and expand local water supplies. Bill would give options to people with terminal illness
Assembly Bill (AB) 159, the
Right to Try Act authored by
Assemblyman Ian Calderon, which
would allow eligible patients with a
serious or immediately life threatening disease to seek investigational drugs under the supervision of a
physician, was approved by the
California State Assembly with
bipartisan support.
“AB 159 is simple — if your parent, or your child, or even you are
faced with a terminal illness, you
have the right to try and save your
life,” Calderon said. “The measure
provides strong protections for
patients and physicians, while
allowing patients the right to try
investigational drugs that have
passed basic safety testing.”
AB 159 requires written,
informed consent be given by
patients, institutional review board
oversight of physician recommen-
dations and biannual reports to the
California Department of Public
Health in order to ensure safety for
both patients and physicians. The
bill also requires a second opinion
from a physician upon the patient’s
diagnosis of a terminal illness.
Currently, FDA regulations do
allow for expanded access to investigational treatments for those
patients with serious or immediately life threatening diseases.
photo by Edwin Folven
Palm trees on the median near Wilshire Boulevard and La Brea Avenue
are scheduled for removal.
ing an economy that works for
everyone, not just the wealthy
few.”
Business groups from around
the city voiced opposition to certain aspects of the law at the city
council meeting on Tuesday. The
Hollywood
Chamber
of
Commerce asked for a more
lenient definition of a small business and to increase the number
of employees to qualify from 25
to 250 people, a change that was
not incorporated into the final
proposal.
The California Restaurant
Association and several restaurant workers spoke in favor of
more exceptions for restaurants.
Unlike some other states,
California does not allow businesses to pay below minimum
wage, even for tipped employees.
“We’ve been advocating for a
total compensation model that
would ensure that tipped employees are making a minimum of
$15. We know the data shows
they’re making well in excess of
that,” said Matt Sutton, of The
California Restaurant Association, at the meeting. A total compensation model would allow
restaurant to factor in tips when
calculating wages and to allocate
tips to other employees within the
restaurant.
Andrew Binder, of Philippe’s
the Original, spoke on the difficulties that restaurants will face to
keep prices down with an
increase in labor costs.
“It is going to be very difficult
and you’re going to see prices
going up and I just wanted to
voice that for the restaurant
industry, it’s going to be very difficult for everyone,” Binder said.
However, the Restaurant
Opportunity Center United (ROC
United) sees the decision as a victory that sets Los Angeles apart
from restaurants in the rest of the
country.
“What’s especially significant
is that yesterday’s 14 to 1 vote by
the L.A. City Council would
maintain one fair wage for all
workers, without exemptions for
the tipped workforce,” ROC
United said in a statement.
Certain aspects of the policy
will be considered at a later date,
including a section about paid
time off for workers that prompted strong opposition from business groups within the last week.
The city attorney will now draft
legislation for the council to vote
on later this year.
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Streets to be repaired with concrete
From page 1
even now, the bureau of street services is piggybacking on the existing
Wilshire BRT contract.”
The bureau of street services
includes a special projects division,
which performs concrete work paid
for by the city’s annual budget, but
only small projects such as curbs and
gutters, LaBonge added.
“They do not fix entire streets,”
LaBonge added. “The Hancock Park
project is a multi-year and multi-million dollar project — it is of a different scale and not what the special
projects division is created or budgeted to do. We are able to take
advantage of the Wilshire BRT contractor that is operating in the area
now, but that option won’t exist in
future years.”
Allen and HPHA president Cindy
Chvatal contend that the concrete
approval proves the council office
could do something about the work
— even if just a small amount at a
time.
“All we want is to be considered in
the yearly budgeting,” Allen said.
“Concrete does cost a little more
upfront but it lasts five times as long,
so the lifecycle is longer. If we can do
just [one intersection a year] so be it.”
Chvatal said it was frustrating that
the association had to continue to
pressure the council office to finally
achieve the desired result.
Kevin James, president of the
board of public works, said the
process to convert money and gain
approval from the CAO’s office
would be required for any future concrete repairs. But he also noted it is
possible for the council to consider
an RFP for an outside contractor
when nearby workers — like those
on the Wilshire BRT project —
aren’t present.
“It is a budget decision made by
the city council and the policy makers,” James said.
Regardless of all the issues, Allen
said construction crews coming to
replace concrete in Hancock Park
would be a welcome sight.
“They definitely need the work,”
he added. “People are blowing out
tires.”
Ryu wins runoff election in CD4
From page 1
lic affairs at the Kedren Acute
Psychiatric
Hospital
and
Community Health Center. His past
political experience included working as a senior deputy for former
Los Angeles County Supervisor
Yvonne Burke.
In the race against Ramsay, who
previously worked as LaBonge’s
chief of staff and garnered endorsements from the majority of local
government officials, Ryu often
cited himself as an outsider versus
an insider, or as David versus
Goliath.
He said the three main issues that
dominated the election, and where
he resonated with voters, were
access to the council office, infrastructure repairs and development
(including mansionization and
large scale development concerns).
“Residents feel they are never
consulted, or consulted after the
fact — just show and tell,” Ryu
said.
Instead, he ran on a platform of
neighborhood inclusion — crediting his one-on-one conversations
with voters as a reason he was able
to win. Ryu only made it to the
runoff election against Ramsay by
several hundred votes, and he said
he was determined to create more
individual connections with voters.
“Literally, this election was
going to come down to 50 or 100
people, and the people in those
rooms (at forums and meetings)
will dictate the office,” Ryu said. “I
took my personal friends as a template. When I asked them why they
didn’t vote, the reoccurring theme
was that, ‘My vote doesn’t count,
my vote doesn’t matter and even if
I did vote nothing ever changes.’”
Ryu sought to change that perspective, and positioned himself as
a real change to LaBonge’s actions
and policies.
“It’s not about the big things, I
was running to be your neighborhood council member,” Ryu said.
“Your little problem isn’t insignificant to me.”
To show that he was serious
about change, Ryu announced during the campaign that he would
decline any money from developers
currently building in the district and
throughout his time as a councilman. He also vowed to create a
community advisory group to help
State Senate passes vaccination bill
Senate Bill (SB) 277, authored
by Sen. Richard Pan (DSacramento), who is also a pediatrician, and Sen, Ben Allen
(D–Santa Monica), was passed by
the California State Senate last
Thursday on a 25-10 vote.
Currently, a parent may choose
to opt their child out of school
vaccine requirements that bi-partisan legislative majorities passed
to protect students. SB 277 will
remove that option, so that only a
medical
exemption
would
remain.
SB 277 will not remove a parent’s choice to vaccinate his or
her child. However, if a parent
makes the choice to not vacci-
nate, they would have the responsibility to home-school their
child, participate in a multi-family private home-school or use
public school independent study
that exists in current law and is
administered by local education
agencies.
Under the bill, vaccination
checks would take place during
the currently mandated reporting
periods: when a child enrolls in
kindergarten, in 7th grade or
when a child enrolls in a new
school district. Utilizing current
reporting periods in the law, we
are able to achieve our goal to
increase vaccination rates to levels that protect children and the
community, while implementing
SB 277 in a responsible, thoughtful way.
If SB 277 becomes law,
California will join 32 other states
that don’t allow parents to opt out
of vaccination requirements using
a personal belief exemption.
The California Democratic
Party endorsed a resolution written by the Miracle Mile
Democratic Club in support of SB
277 at its state convention last
weekend.
The resolution by the local
Democratic club was one of only
10 considered by the California
Democratic Party at the convention, out of hundreds submitted.
Legislation to clarify election materials advances
The California State Senate this
week approved Senate Bill (SB)
505 authored by Sen. Tony
Mendoza (D-Artesia) on a bipartisan vote. The bill would ensure that
California’s Voter Bill of Rights and
other election materials are provided to voters in plain, accessible and
easily understandable language,
Mendoza said. The bill now goes to
the State Assembly for consideration.
“Citizens deserve clear communications during elections because it
is vital that voters understand their
eligibility to vote and how they can
receive help with polling place
problems,”
Mendoza
said.
“Improving election materials by
using plain language techniques is
common sense.’
The Voter Bill of Rights is provided during every election cycle in
the ballot pamphlet and posted at
every polling place. It seeks to
ensure that voters understand their
eligibility to vote, how they can
receive help with voting or other
polling place problems, their ability
to be provided election materials in
another language, their rights to be
free from intimidation, whether
their mail ballot is counted and
more. It also provides a toll free
number for reporting denial of voting rights and other potential violations of election law. The Voter Bill
of Rights is provided in ten languages including an American Sign
Language video available on the
California Secretary of State’s website.
“Studies have shown that voters
are confounded by the legalese in
California’s voter pamphlet, on the
outside of the absentee ballot envelope and on election materials. SB
505 will strengthen our democracy
and protect voting rights by requiring elections materials be provided
in clear, easily understandable, plain
language,” Mendoza said. ‘If everyone, not just attorneys, can understand their voting rights, then we
have gone a long way in enhancing
and protecting our democracy.”
Specifically, SB 505 provides the
California Secretary of State with
the authority to revise election
material wording and implement
plain language techniques that are
easy to understand and free from
technical terms..
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The streets at some intersections in Hancock Park will be repaved with
concrete under the proposed plan.
him properly spend the district’s
discretionary funds.
Ramsay conceded the race late
Tuesday night, making a call to
Ryu, who said, “She was very gracious.”
“I want to thank the hundreds of
wonderful volunteers who supported our clean, positive campaign
about improving the city,” Ramsay
said in a statement on Wednesday.
“I had the best team and am grateful to everyone who helped us.
Congratulations to David, I wish
him the best.”
Other community leaders also
applauded Ryu’s election.
“The Hollywood Chamber of
Commerce congratulates David
Ryu on his election to represent the
Fourth Council District, becoming
the first Korean-American on the
city council,” Hollywood Chamber
of Commerce president and CEO
Leron Gubler said. “We look for-
ward to working with him in
addressing challenges and opportunities in the Hollywood area, and
on citywide business-related
issues.”
Los Angeles County Democratic
Party chair Eric C. Bauman also
commended Ryu’s victory.
“On behalf of the Los Angeles
Democratic Party, I congratulate
councilmember-elect David Ryu
for his hard-fought victory,” he
said. “We know he will stand up for
everyday Angelenos and work hard
to change the ‘business-as-usual’
insider mindset in District 4 and
make our local government more
responsive to our community.”
Ryu said he has little time to
waste before taking office on July
1.
“This will be a very difficult and
intensive job, and it is an honor I
take with humility and gratitude,”
he said.
Assembly approves bill on
Internet posting of photos
The State Assembly has unanimously approved legislation by
Assemblyman Mike Gatto (DGlendale) and Attorney General
Kamala Harris that would make it
easier to prosecute individuals
who post nude photographs of others on the Internet without their
consent.
“AB 1310 makes it difficult for
these criminals to evade prosecution by allowing district attorneys
and law enforcement to vigilantly
investigate and prosecute those
who exploit their victims across
multiple jurisdictions,” Gatto said.
Current law is outdated and hinders the investigation and prosecution of cyber-crimes, Gatto added.
The new legislation would
improve law enforcement’s ability
to obtain search warrants against
individuals suspected of cyberexploitation and would recognize
the ubiquitous nature of the
Internet and allow district attorneys to prosecute criminals currently hiding behind jurisdictional
boundaries.
“Cyber-exploitation and the
right to privacy are not partisan
issues,” Gatto said. “Violating a
person’s sense of safety, security
and privacy should have serious
consequences.”
The legislation is one part of a
multi-pronged attack on cyberexploitation being led by Harris.
“Cyber-exploitation is a
heinous crime that humiliates and
degrades victims, while creating
devastating effects on their per-
“Violating a
person’s sense of
safety, security
and privacy
should have
serious
consequences.”
-Assemblyman Mike Gatto
sonal and professional lives,”
Harris said. “This legislation will
provide law enforcement with
tools to prosecute these crimes,
and provide critical support to victims suffering from the debilitating impacts.”
Harris is also working with
Senator Anthony Canella (RCeres), who introduced companion legislation to Gatto’s bill that
will require a person convicted of
cyber-exploitation to surrender
the images to law enforcement for
destruction, and make it unlawful
for a person to attach the name,
address and phone number to a
nude image of someone other than
themselves, without the subject’s
consent.
“I look forward to continuing
the fight against cyber-exploitation with my colleagues of all
political stripes, and in both chambers of the legislature,” Gatto
added. AB 1310 will now be considered by the State Senate.
Park Labrea News/Beverly Press
22 May 21, 2015
Museum plan moves to council committee
From page 1
intersection of Wilshire Boulevard
and Fairfax Avenue, which is classified as a city historic-cultural
monument.
According to the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,
the museum would be dedicated to
films and filmmaking. It would
include permanent and changing
exhibition spaces and three theatres
with a combined seating capacity of
up to 1,350 people. Plans include a
banquet and conference space with
a maximum occupancy of 1,200
people. An approximately 4,000square-foot café with seating for
150 people and an approximately
5,000-square-foot store are also
planned.
Plans also call for the demolition
of a 1946 addition. In its place, the
Academy is proposing a state-ofthe-art theatre housed in a spherical
structure with seating for up to
1,000 people, which could be used
for special events and occasional
exhibits.
The sphere has taken the brunt of
complaints (along with traffic and
parking) from members of the
Miracle
Mile
Residential
Association (MMRA), Carthay
Circle Homeowners Association,
Beverly
Wilshire
Homes
Association and the Miracle Mile
Residents Committee — causing
the MCWCC to vote against
including it.
On Thursday, however, in-person
support outnumbered dissenters by
approximately 40-1, although commission members acknowledged a
large amount of dissent was submitted in writing. Nonetheless, the
commissioners voted in favor of the
project with the sphere.
“It’s really a world class architect
we’ve got designing this really
unique building adjacent to an historical structure,” planning commission vice president Renee Dake
Wilson said. “I think an Academy
Museum in Los Angeles is essential
to the mission of our city. I think
using a cultural site like the May
Company Building … is an entirely
appropriate use for a program such
as this.”
Support came from a wide array
of people, including Councilman
Tom LaBonge, 4th District.
“A miracle is happening, not on
34th Street, but at Fairfax and
Wilshire with this combination of
restoration of the historic May
Company Building and the … additional area and space there,” he
said. “We’re so fortunate to have
this. I want you to consider this and
consider it strongly. If you make
this decision and support this project, you’re doing something for the
future. Someone is going to go into
the renovated space and be
inspired.”
Joyce Kleifield, executive director of The Harrison Trust at Los
Angeles High School, said the
Academy Museum would be a welcome and educational addition to
the community.
“We really need to look to the
private sector now — we in public
education and advocates of public
education,” she said. “The public
schools cannot keep up with technology the way the private sector
can. The Academy has been very
generous in their outreach programs and with their interest in
partnering with us.”
Miracle Mile Chamber of
Commerce executive director Meg
McComb said all the businesses in
the organization were “applauding
and delighted” to have the project
move forward.
“We wish to throw complete support toward this museum,” she said.
MCWCC board member Charles
Lindenblatt was the lone dissenting
opinion, as he presented the
MCWCC vote, which he noted was
16-8 (with three abstentions).
“[The MCWCC board approval]
does not include the event center,
the sphere, view deck and pedestrian bridges,” he said. “This alternative project is more appropriate and
compatible
with
the
Wilshire/Fairfax location.”
After the meeting, Bill Kramer,
managing director of the Academy
Museum and external relations,
said he was happy with the vote.
“We were so thrilled by the outpouring of support given the fact
that it is hard for people to devote
so much time to a public hearing
like that,” he said.
Kramer noted that the MCWCC
joint subcommittee — made up of
the planning and land use and transportation, parking and streetscape
— had voted in favor of the sphere
before the entire MCWCC board
introduced an alternative motion.
“I think the Mid-City West vote
seemed to be an aberration,”
Kramer said. “Our plan with the
sphere is a plan that the city feels
supportive of as well.”
Kramer added that people have
responded positively to the
Academy agreeing to reduce the
signage on the project.
“We are happy to continue our
discussion with community members on all neighborhood issues,”
Kramer said. “We want this to be a
museum for their neighborhood and
a success for everyone.”
In the coming months, the museum will go before the city council’s
planning and land use committee,
and then the full city council.
Should it pass both bodies in the
form passed by the planning commission, MMRA president James
O’Sullivan said the city could
expect a battle in court.
“We are working on a lawsuit,
which is what we thought would
happen all along,” he said. “You
have money, property and prestige
on one hand and the community on
the other, who do you think wins?
The court system is the only thing
we have left in Los Angeles.”
O’Sullivan said the lawsuit
would concentrate on the city granting a special sign district for the
Academy Museum, although there
are also concerns about parking and
traffic impacts. He added that
because Wilshire Boulevard is classified as a scenic highway, it cannot
be impacted by electronic signs —
which the sign district allows.
“You can’t have it be flashing
and you can’t have it be blinking,”
he said. “I’d hoped it wouldn’t go
here.”
Academy officials have said they
are hopeful they can begin construction later this year for a projected 2017 opening.
Melissa McCarthy shines
on Walk of Fame
photo by Jonathan Van Dyke
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honored actress Melissa
McCarthy with the 2,552nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on
Tuesday in front of the historic TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX at 6927
Hollywood Blvd.
Ellen DeGeneres, director Paul Feig, and McCarthy’s husband and
business partner Ben Falcone helped emcee the event with
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Leron Gubler.
A native of Illinois, McCarthy first made her mark on the comedy
stage performing stand-up in New York at The Duplex, The Improv
and Stand-Up New York. McCarthy starred in a variety of stage productions throughout the city. In Los Angeles, McCarthy spent nine
years as a main stage member of the improv and sketch comedy
troupe The Groundlings.
McCarthy received an Academy Award nomination for her role as
Megan in the comedy “Bridesmaids”, a film directed by Paul Feig
and produced by Judd Apatow. She also received BAFTA, Critics’
Choice and SAG Award nominations for the role and won the MTV
Movie Award for Comedic Performance of the Year.
In 2014, McCarthy starred opposite Bill Murray in “St. Vincent”,
for which she received a Critics’ Choice Award nomination, and in
“Tammy”, which she co-wrote with Falcone, who also served as the
film’s director. Her other films include “The Heat”, “Identity Thief”,
“This is 40” and “The Hangover Part III”. She will star in the action
comedy “Spy” this summer, which opens on June 5.
On television, McCarthy stars in the CBS comedy “Mike &
Molly”, which she has won an Emmy Award for starring as Molly.
McCarthy will launch her first clothing line “Melissa McCarthy
Seven7” this August. Following this launch, she will release an upper
tier clothing line called “Melissa McCarthy” in August 2016.
The Grove transforms into Scottish Highlands Report shows rise in homelessness
From Friday, May 22 to 31, The
Grove will transport back in time
to the Scottish Highlands through
the “Visit A Tartan Affair”.
Featuring everything from customdesigned Scottish plaids to British
Redcoats, the special exhibit will
include costumes from the first
FIDM honors fallen veterans
In honor of Memorial Day,
Laura Herzog, founder and CEO
of Honoring Our Fallen, recently
spoke at an observance at the
Fashion Institute of Design &
Merchandising (FIDM), presented
by the FIDM Chapter of Student
Veterans of America (SVA).
FIDM SVA president, Sgt.
Trinidad Garcia led the ceremony,
complete with a U.S. Marine
Corps color guard and a balloon
release, honoring fallen soldiers.
Garcia is a machine gun section
leader in the Marines and a current
FIDM student, studying Apparel
Industry Management.
Dedicated to serving fallen military members and their families,
Southern
California-based
Honoring Our Fallen provides
comprehensive support within 24
hours of notification by local, state
or federal officials of a loved one’s
passing. Honoring Our Fallen supports families by being a calming
force in the face of chaos, allowing the family to mourn their grief.
The organization augments the
services provided by the military
in this time of need.
Various services provided by
the organization include assisting
military branches with memorial
service plans for the fallen, lifetime family support by providing
programs and services that support families during the cycles of
grief, planning retreats for mothers and widows to assist with
recovery and finding medical
assistance or other needed services for the fallen and their families.
For
information,
visit
www.honoringourfallen.org.
season of the acclaimed Starz original series “Outlander” designed by
designer Terry Dresbach.
Free and open to the public, the
exhibit will be displayed at various
locations within the outdoor mall.
On Sunday, May 31 at 2 p.m.,
guests can join “Outlander” author
Diana Gabaldon for a special instore appearance and Q&A at the
Barnes & Noble at The Grove. Her
eight-book series has sold more
than 26 million copies worldwide
and has graced the New York
Times best-seller list six times.
“Outlander” is produced by Tall
Ship Productions, Story Mining &
Supply Company and Left Bank
Pictures in association with Sony
Pictures Television.
Starting May 22, the costumes
worn by stars Caitriona Balfe
(Claire), Sam Heughan (Jamie),
Tobias
McKenzie
(Frank
Randall/Jonathan “Black Jack”
Randall), Graham McTavish
(Dougal MacKenzie) and Lotte
Verbeek (Geillis Duncan) will be
on display for a special 10-day
engagement.
The Grove is located at 189 The
Grove Drive.
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Morisson also works for
Hollywood 4wrd, a coalition of
groups that has been working collaboratively since 2008 to house nearly
400 people in the Hollywood area.
“Hollywood was one of the early
adopters of the CES roll-out because
we already had some experience
working with each other,” Morrison
said.
However, the problem of mental
illness is still something that even the
most coordinated groups have trouble tackling, Morrison said. While
she admits that they’ve done good
work to house people who are looking for help, it’s much harder to
engage with mentally ill individuals
without greater institutional support
from the Los Angeles County
Department of Mental Health.
According to the 2015 count, the
number of mentally ill individuals
without shelter has grown from
9,962 to 12,253. In the metro Los
Angeles area, there were 3,408 mentally ill individuals, almost one-third
of all the homeless population.
“The people who were considered
the highest hanging fruit, the most
difficult, the most ill, they don’t even
know they’re suffering from mental
illness, they remain on the street. So
it’s almost like we’ve done good
work to house hundreds of people
but those that are left are the most
difficult to house,” Morrison said.
“I know from experience that the
overwhelming majority of homeless
individuals have either mental illness or substance abuse issues,”
O’Farrell said. “We need our county
partners in this. What they’re doing
at the department of mental health is
insufficient.”
“We need to make sure that the
measures deal with homelessness
and housing are not half-hearted, but
full throttle,” O’Farrell said.
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