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Vol. 1, No. 10 • <strong>March</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2015</strong> Uniting the Community with <strong>News</strong>, Features and Commentary Circulation: 14,500 • $1.00<br />
INSIDE THIS ISSUE<br />
SUMMER<br />
CAMPS<br />
AND<br />
SCHOOLS<br />
Pfannkuche to Leave<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> YMCA<br />
By SUE PASCOE<br />
Editor<br />
After nearly 10 years as executive director<br />
of the <strong>Palisades</strong>-Malibu<br />
YMCA, Carol Pfannkuche is leaving<br />
to accept a similar position at the Ketchum-<br />
Downtown YMCA on Hope Street.<br />
“She’s fantastic and we hate to lose her,”<br />
said YMCA Board Chair Layth Carlson,<br />
who was on the board when Pfannkuche<br />
was hired in 2005. “She is dedicated, tireless<br />
and selfless. She was like a quarterback of<br />
the Y, meeting with elected officials, community<br />
activists and members. She was<br />
even-keeled and always had a smile.”<br />
Said Pfannkuche, who has lived in Pacific<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> for 20 years, “When I came to the<br />
YMCA, I had been a community organizer<br />
and worked with nonprofits. My kids<br />
took swimming lessons at the Y Pool [in<br />
Parade Theme<br />
Sought for<br />
Fourth of July<br />
Ever since American Legion Post 283<br />
revived the Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> Fourth<br />
of July parade in 1961, a theme has<br />
helped define the parade. This year is<br />
no different, and PAPA (<strong>Palisades</strong><br />
Americanism Parade Association) is<br />
asking your help to pen a clever, witty,<br />
poignant or memorable theme.<br />
Last year’s winner was Kim Traenkle’s<br />
entry, “Star-Spangled <strong>Palisades</strong>.”<br />
Submit your best idea(s) to info@<br />
pali sadesparade.org, by Friday, April 3.<br />
The winner will be selected at the next<br />
PAPA meeting on April 6.<br />
If your theme is selected, in addition<br />
to bragging rights, you can also ride in<br />
the parade aboard a fire engine (with<br />
selected family members) and Pali -<br />
sades <strong>News</strong> will feature you in a story.<br />
Temescal Canyon] and had gone through<br />
the Y Guides program with my husband.”<br />
Last summer, Pfannkuche said, when<br />
she attended the YMCA World Council in<br />
Estes Park, Colorado, “I was moved by the<br />
amazing mission work the Y is doing in<br />
countries around the world. The move<br />
downtown was inspired by that. I want to<br />
use what I’ve learned here to move the<br />
mission forward in Los Angeles.”<br />
Given that executive director positions<br />
do not often come open within the YMCA,<br />
Pfannkuche felt it was important to capture<br />
this opportunity to move up to a larger facility<br />
with top-notch facilities. A new pool<br />
opened in November and there’s a massage<br />
service, a sauna, steam rooms, and a café<br />
that serves healthy foods, including shakes<br />
and wraps.<br />
More interesting to Pfannkuche, “It<br />
serves a diverse area and includes the second<br />
largest homeless population in the nation.<br />
Plus, nearly 56 percent of the people<br />
who work downtown, now live there.”<br />
Rob Lowe, a Y-board member during<br />
Pfannkuche’s employment, credits her with<br />
the creation of Simon Meadow; expanding<br />
the Y’s reach into the community (continuing<br />
the <strong>Palisades</strong> High School community<br />
service program); and guiding the Y through<br />
tough economic years in 2009 and 2010.<br />
“She truly believed in and cared about<br />
creating a Y with a mission to serve needs<br />
that were both unmet and would be valuable<br />
to the community,” Lowe said.<br />
Pfannkuche, a graduate of USC with a<br />
degree in public administration, established<br />
a Youth and Government program in the<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> that has grown from five students<br />
three years ago to more than 70 this year.<br />
The Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> resident who grew<br />
up in Manhattan Beach, was hired May 2,<br />
2005. At that time, Y board member Duke<br />
Osteroff told this reporter, “We have a good<br />
one. She lives in the community, she’s smart<br />
and she knows everyone.”<br />
Six weeks after she took the position, the<br />
(Continued on Page 4)<br />
Monument at Albright Is<br />
Closed through <strong>March</strong> 23<br />
Soil remediation on the north side of<br />
Swarthmore that began in mid-February<br />
required relocating a storm drain under<br />
the property and under the street, resulting<br />
in complete street closures on upper<br />
Swarthmore.<br />
The intersection of Monument and Albright<br />
was completely closed to traffic on<br />
<strong>March</strong> 9. It will reopen Monday, <strong>March</strong><br />
23. North- and south-bound traffic on<br />
Monument remains open.<br />
Play<br />
Ball!<br />
Actor/comedian and<br />
former Saturday Night<br />
Live star Bill Hader<br />
(right) threw out the<br />
ceremonial first pitch<br />
Saturday, before leaving<br />
to fly to Texas with Will<br />
Ferrell. Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong><br />
Baseball Association<br />
Commissioner Bob<br />
Benton (left) told Hader<br />
to tell his friend that<br />
even though Ferrell<br />
played all nine positions<br />
for ten Major League<br />
teams in five games in<br />
one day, it was Hader<br />
who had the greater<br />
honor, kicking off the<br />
PPBA season. See<br />
story on Page 15.<br />
Photo: Sue Pascoe<br />
When Caruso Affiliated first entered<br />
into a purchase agreement with <strong>Palisades</strong><br />
Properties in 2012, inspectors discovered<br />
that the former Emerson-LaMay Cleaners<br />
on Swarthmore had for decades poured<br />
toxic material into the soil, which now requires<br />
cleanup.<br />
Part of that remediation involved relocating<br />
the storm drain. The City is overseeing<br />
the storm drain work from 8 a.m.<br />
to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.<br />
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Local resident Lynn Borland submitted this photo of Swarthmore with the note, “As I was<br />
walking by, the skip loader backed into M. Giraud’s table (on the deck) and you might<br />
note the parking meter is listing to starboard. A double whammy!” Photo: Lynn Borland
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<strong>March</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2015</strong> <strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong> Page 3<br />
Jump Aboard the<br />
July 4 Celebrations<br />
By SUE PASCOE<br />
Editor<br />
Join the local residents and businesses<br />
who have already made a commitment<br />
to PAPA (<strong>Palisades</strong> Americanism Parade<br />
Association). Last year the <strong>Palisades</strong><br />
Fourth of July parade, concert and fireworks<br />
cost close to $150,000. The projected<br />
cost is the same this year.<br />
At PAPA’s first <strong>2015</strong> meeting on <strong>March</strong> 9<br />
at the American Legion Hall, second-term<br />
president Daphne Gronich said that she has<br />
already received commitments from the following:<br />
The Yogurt Shoppe (Kids on Bikes<br />
and Happy Hour donations), Realtor Joan<br />
Sather (Most Patriotic Home decorating<br />
contest, Spectrum Athletic Club (manager<br />
Diane Poff), On Stage Talent (Matt Barnett),<br />
Fran Flanagan Realty, White & Co. insurance<br />
(Dennis White), Gelson’s (will allow<br />
checkout donations), UDO Real Estate and<br />
Sunset La Cruz (Elliot Zorensky), Robert<br />
Munakash (Village 76), Coldwell Banker<br />
(Anne Russell), the Donald and Nancy de<br />
Brier family and the American Legion.<br />
Gronich is in communication with several<br />
other entities and individuals about<br />
their planned support, as well.<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong> has also committed to donate<br />
a percentage of all parade advertising<br />
to the parade committee, so that people taking<br />
out ads in the official parade program<br />
produced by the <strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong>, will also be<br />
helping the Fourth of July events.<br />
It is not too early to start thinking about<br />
parade entries. “We would love new entrants,”<br />
Gronich said. “It’s more interesting<br />
for residents to see different bands and<br />
floats in the parade, and we encourage people<br />
to put them together.”<br />
A search is on for a parade grand marshal,<br />
as well as a headline band for the<br />
evening concert at <strong>Palisades</strong> High, which<br />
was attended by 7,000 people last year.<br />
Lawyer, <strong>Palisades</strong> resident and concert organizer<br />
Keith Turner said that he has already<br />
heard from local bands that would like the<br />
opportunity to play on the second stage.<br />
The day, which also features the 5/10K<br />
Will Rogers Run, a parade, a concert and<br />
fireworks, is made possible by volunteers<br />
and community donations.<br />
Gronich says that the celebrations wouldn’t<br />
be possible without all the local volunteers<br />
who work hard to make July 4th the<br />
best day possible for the entire community.<br />
Many of these people have worked for years<br />
Kids on Bikes was a colorful entry in last year’s parade.<br />
with PAPA People leader Sylvia Boyd.<br />
In addition to parade banner carriers,<br />
volunteers are especially needed at the Pali -<br />
Hi stadium starting at 4 p.m., after the parade,<br />
where there are food trucks and<br />
activities for kids, prior to the concert and<br />
fireworks.<br />
If you would like to donate directly or pay<br />
Photo: Tom Hofer<br />
to sponsor a parade entry such as a band,<br />
please e-mail info@palisadesparade.org.<br />
Parade theme suggestions can be submitted<br />
to the same email address by April 5.<br />
The next volunteer meeting will be<br />
held at 7 p.m. on April 6 at the American<br />
Legion when a theme will be selected. The<br />
public is invited.<br />
Advisory Board Seeks Parking Change<br />
The Park Advisory Board (PAB) has<br />
proposed changing the parking<br />
hours at the <strong>Palisades</strong> Recreation<br />
Center on Alma Real Drive from four to<br />
two hours from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday<br />
through Friday.<br />
The four-hour limit would remain in effect<br />
after 3 p.m., in order to accommodate<br />
park patrons who are involved in afternoon<br />
and early-evening sports leagues and other<br />
park programs.<br />
“Through spot checks and interviews with<br />
City employees and others, it was determined<br />
that up to half of the individuals using the<br />
The Park Advisory Board for the <strong>Palisades</strong> Recreation Center is recommending changing<br />
parking from four hours to two hours.<br />
parking spaces at the Park were not using the<br />
park at all,” said PAB member Robert Harter.<br />
“The individuals who were parking illegally<br />
had apparently chosen to park at the<br />
Rec Center because it was a free and convenient<br />
alternative during the work week to<br />
the nearby metered and fee-based parking.”<br />
In a letter to the <strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong> (see page<br />
8), Harter notes that “The lack of parking<br />
at the Park is not a new issue. In fact, the<br />
upcoming change in parking hours will<br />
culminate an inclusive and deliberative<br />
process that began in 2013,” through community<br />
surveys and PAB meetings, which<br />
are open to the public.<br />
The <strong>News</strong> contacted Superintendent of<br />
Recreation and Parks Charles Singer about<br />
these proposed parking changes. He responded<br />
on <strong>March</strong> 3: “As far as the parking<br />
situation, ultimately, only the Department<br />
can request and/or approve a change in the<br />
parking structure. Depending on what is<br />
being requested, it may also involve other<br />
city agencies and/or the Departments<br />
board of commissioners.<br />
“Superintendent [of Rec and Parks Operations]<br />
Joe Salaices has been receiving<br />
proposals from the <strong>Palisades</strong> PAB regarding<br />
proposed parking changes. I believe at<br />
this juncture, the Department’s position<br />
is to only review and no action is being<br />
contemplated.”<br />
Library Book Sale<br />
Saturday, <strong>March</strong> 21<br />
The Friends of the <strong>Palisades</strong> Branch Library<br />
will hold a gently-used book sale in<br />
the parking lot of the library, from 8:30<br />
a.m. to 1:30 p.m., on Saturday, <strong>March</strong> 21,<br />
at 861 Alma Real Dr.<br />
Due to the generous donations from<br />
community members, there is an excellent<br />
collection of well-priced books, DVDs and<br />
CDs. Sales depend on the continuing support<br />
of volunteers, and the library benefits<br />
from the time and energy they provide. In<br />
case of inclement weather, the book sale will<br />
be postponed until the following Saturday.<br />
Atria Offers Cooking<br />
Demonstrations<br />
Atria Park of Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong>, located<br />
just west of the Shell Station at 15441<br />
Sunset, invites all <strong>Palisades</strong> residents to<br />
participate at its cooking demonstration<br />
on Thursday, <strong>March</strong> 26, at 6 p.m.<br />
The theme of the demonstration is<br />
“The Growing Popularity of a Plant-<br />
Based Diet.” Participants will learn how to<br />
make delicious meatless meals that can<br />
ward off chronic diseases and help with<br />
weight control.<br />
Please RSVP (310) 573-9545. Visit<br />
atria-pacificpalisades.com.
Page 4 <strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>March</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2015</strong><br />
Pfannkuche<br />
(Continued from Page 1)<br />
Coastal Commission okayed the Y’s right<br />
to exercise its option on a 4-acre parcel in<br />
Temescal Canyon, at the entrance off Sunset.<br />
Pfannkuche told the <strong>News</strong> that her subsequent<br />
accomplishments in Temescal were<br />
all part of a “relay” race. “It was because<br />
Corwin Davis, Everett Maguire, Duke and<br />
others had been fighting for the right for<br />
the Y to buy the property.”<br />
She also credits the Simon family. “Certainly<br />
Simon Meadow would not be what<br />
it is without Bill and Cindy feeling strongly<br />
about a place for families to get together,” and<br />
making a major donation towards that goal.<br />
Pfannkuche also remembers reaching<br />
out to several individuals, including Kelly<br />
Comras, Rob Lowe, Randy Young and<br />
Volunteers Sought<br />
At Village Green<br />
The monthly Village Green “spruce up”<br />
will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday,<br />
<strong>March</strong> 21, at the triangular park located<br />
between Sunset Boulevard, Swarthmore<br />
Avenue and Antioch Street.<br />
Residents who have never volunteered before<br />
are welcome to join the “regular” Village<br />
Green crew. Those participating are asked to<br />
bring clippers and gloves. High school students<br />
can receive community service hours.<br />
YMCA Executive Director Carol Pfannkuche with board member and contributor<br />
Everett Maquire in Simon Meadow.<br />
Photo: Shelby Pascoe<br />
David Card, in order to achieve effective<br />
landscaping at Simon Meadow.<br />
She was asked about the Temescal Pool,<br />
which closed during her watch. “The facility<br />
was 50 years old and the pipe structure<br />
needed to be replaced. We were willing to<br />
raise the money to do it, but our contract<br />
[with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy]<br />
only allowed for routine repairs<br />
and maintenance. We asked if we could do<br />
the repairs, but we were declined.”<br />
Pfannkuche said that several members<br />
of the pool committee wanted to sue for<br />
the right to make the repairs, but the legal<br />
costs and the possible ill will resulted in a<br />
decision not to go ahead.<br />
When Pfannkuche arrived at the Y, the<br />
exercise equipment was mismatched and<br />
not of professional grade. State-of-the-art<br />
equipment is now leased and renewed on<br />
a regular basis.<br />
“What the Y offers, in addition to top<br />
equipment, is a personal relationship,” she<br />
said. “It’s those relationships that help people<br />
become successful in fitness programs.<br />
My staff is friendly and knows everyone—<br />
it’s hard to find that anywhere else.”<br />
While serving as director, Pfannkuche<br />
has looked at other possibilities to build a<br />
new facility in town, but that quest remains<br />
elusive.<br />
“Every Y has to ask what the community<br />
needs,” she said. “This community is short<br />
of playing field space for kids and Simon<br />
Meadow has turned out to be great for that.”<br />
She believes that bringing in a new director<br />
will help “give the Y a new perspective”<br />
on what to do about acquiring or building<br />
a larger facility.<br />
Pfannkuche, who starts full-time downtown<br />
April 1, is currently working at both<br />
locations.<br />
She and her husband Tony, a management<br />
consultant in the health field, have<br />
two daughters. Molly is working on a graduate<br />
degree in clinical exercise physiology<br />
at the University of Wisconsin and Katie<br />
is majoring in psychology at Cal Poly San<br />
Luis Obispo.<br />
Although the Pfannkuches might like<br />
to move downtown in the future, Carol is<br />
grounded here with an <strong>18</strong>-month-old<br />
golden retriever named Princess Bella<br />
Samantha Cupcake (her girls couldn’t decide<br />
on the name), and presidency of the<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> Rotary Club, starting in July.
<strong>March</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2015</strong> <strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong> Page 5<br />
Stress Can Provide Insight<br />
By LAUREL BUSBY<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Earlier this year, stress expert Amanda<br />
Enayati asked an assembly of about<br />
500 Marquez Elementary School<br />
students to say “bad” if stress could be really<br />
bad.<br />
“The entire assembly erupted,’” she said.<br />
“I then asked the kids to say ‘good’ if stress<br />
can be really good. Nobody said anything.”<br />
And yet, Enayati, who has written on the<br />
subject for CNN, NPR and the Washington<br />
Post, has found that stress can actually be<br />
beneficial on many levels, and it’s our cultural<br />
view that stress is always bad that is<br />
the problem.<br />
In her new book, Seeking Serenity: The<br />
10 New Rules for Health and Happiness in<br />
the Age of Anxiety” (Penguin Publishing<br />
Group), Enayati discusses ways to help<br />
people take advantage of stress and turn<br />
life’s challenges into growth experiences.<br />
“There is good stress. Stress helps you be<br />
more creative. It helps you recover from<br />
wounds better,” said Enayati, who moved to<br />
Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> two years ago. It is important<br />
that “we try to see stress in the right way<br />
as a path to evolution, a path to growth.”<br />
Enayati became an expert on stress in<br />
part through her own life experience. She<br />
was flooded with adversity. At nine years<br />
old, while growing up in Iran, she lost her<br />
home during the Iranian Revolution and<br />
for five years became a refugee living in various<br />
parts of Europe without her parents.<br />
In September 2011, she was in New York<br />
City and saw the World Trade Center collapse,<br />
which caused severe post-traumatic<br />
stress disorder owing to her childhood experiences.<br />
Most recently, when her children<br />
were toddlers, she developed cancer, which<br />
she has fought successfully.<br />
Strangely enough, the latter event put<br />
Enayati on the path that led her to her current<br />
jobs—writing about stress for CNN<br />
Health and PBS Media-Shift. In the process,<br />
she became an expert on the role stress<br />
plays in our lives, which resulted in book.<br />
“Seeking Serenity” is full of fascinating<br />
insights about stress. For example, in one<br />
section, Enayati talks about post-traumatic<br />
growth—”the ability not only to bounce<br />
back from adversity, but also to flourish.”<br />
As an example, she describes the experience<br />
of Major Rhonda Cornum, a young<br />
flight surgeon who survived a Black Hawk<br />
helicopter crash with two broken arms and<br />
a bullet in her back only to be sexually assaulted<br />
and imprisoned, but who then triumphed<br />
through the adversity and is now<br />
a brigadier general who has helped de-<br />
Amanda Enayati<br />
velop a program to teach resilience skills<br />
to other soldiers.<br />
Statistically, the human response to extreme<br />
stress tends to lie on a bell curve,<br />
according to Dr. Martin Seligman, whose<br />
work Enayati describes. On one end are<br />
people who have an intense, long-lasting reaction<br />
and may suffer from depression, anxiety<br />
and PTSD with a higher risk for suicide.<br />
In the middle are those who are mostly<br />
resilient and may have a hard time for<br />
several months, while on the far end are<br />
those who emerge from the trauma even<br />
stronger than before it—experiencing<br />
post-traumatic growth.<br />
This skill for resilience is not necessarily<br />
in-born; it can also be learned, and Enayati<br />
provides readers the tools to develop it<br />
themselves.<br />
Drawing from scientific studies, philosophy<br />
and individual stories, she also details<br />
other ways to enhance positive<br />
reactions to stress.<br />
Her book has chapters on the power of<br />
belonging, the benefits of giving to others,<br />
and the importance of creativity. She describes<br />
skills using meditation and mindfulness<br />
that can help with handling every day<br />
stresses, such as traffic and the demands of<br />
our modern world.<br />
In addition, she delineates the physiology<br />
of stress and the stories that we tell ourselves<br />
about the inevitable stresses of life.<br />
“What can make stress dangerous is the<br />
way you see stress,” said Enayati, who has<br />
two children, Mina, 10 and Rohan, 8, with<br />
her husband Jaime Uzeta. “It’s those stories<br />
that pave the way for whether we evolve<br />
and learn and grow instead of saying<br />
‘Why me?’ and ‘Why is this adversity happening<br />
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(Amanda Enayati’s tips for helping kids<br />
handle stress can be read on Page 3 of the<br />
camp section in today’s paper.)<br />
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Heard<br />
About Town<br />
ANN CLEAVES<br />
Monitor Your<br />
Sprinkler System<br />
If we get another rainstorm this spring,<br />
remember to turn off your lawn sprinklers<br />
or ask your gardener to do so. Cali -<br />
fornia’s water supply thanks you.<br />
(Editor’s note: If you’ve lost the directions<br />
to how to turn off the sprinkler system,<br />
many of those instructions can be found<br />
online.)<br />
Smoking in the Park<br />
I observed students going behind the<br />
maintenance building at the park and<br />
smoking. The ground is littered with pine<br />
needles and abuts property along Alma<br />
Real. With the towering eucalyptus<br />
nearby, it seems that fire danger could<br />
be a real problem.<br />
(Editor’s note: We’ve alerted Recreation<br />
Center director Erich Haas about the situation.)<br />
Movies in the Library<br />
Once a month the <strong>Palisades</strong> Branch Library<br />
offers a free movie. Last Saturday,<br />
I saw the movie about Stephen Hawking<br />
that was up for an Oscar [The Theory of<br />
Everything]. It seems that more people<br />
would like to know about this opportunity.<br />
High School Show<br />
The <strong>Palisades</strong> High show Nickel and<br />
Dimed was great. The director was Nancy<br />
Fracchiolla, who now teaches at Pali. She<br />
used to do shows all over town for kids.<br />
Why don’t you do a story about her?<br />
No Hand-held Devices<br />
On Sunday at the farmers market, I<br />
watched a woman try to turn a pickup<br />
and the horse trailer hooked to it into the<br />
bank parking lot. Although she didn’t<br />
have her phone to her ear, she was holding<br />
it in one hand, talking into it as she<br />
was trying to steer the truck—probably<br />
had it on speaker. I don’t want to be judgmental,<br />
but maybe she should have taken<br />
the call after she was safely parked.<br />
Incline Fears<br />
After last Saturday and all the traffic<br />
backed up on Pacific Coast Highway, I’m<br />
really worried about the summer and the<br />
California Incline closure. I may never<br />
make a Dodger game unless I get a hotel<br />
room downtown.<br />
(Editor’s note: The closure really shouldn’t<br />
impact PCH traffic, because the light<br />
at the Incline will be mostly green.)<br />
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“heard about town,” please email it to<br />
spascoe@palisadesnews.com<br />
Read the Labels Carefully<br />
By JULIA M. BREITMAN<br />
Despite the rise in consumer awareness<br />
about food processing and labeling,<br />
many people have no idea that our<br />
personal-care products (such as shampoo,<br />
conditioner, soap, lotion, sunscreen, deodorant,<br />
toothpaste, makeup) and household cleaning<br />
products can be toxic, too.<br />
Just as with our food, we need to read labels<br />
on our personal-care and household products,<br />
as many contain harmful ingredients that were<br />
banned in other countries years ago but are<br />
still allowed in the United States.<br />
I discovered this more than 10 years ago<br />
when I was trying to figure out why three of<br />
my children had developmental delays and<br />
special needs and what was causing my own<br />
thyroid and infertility issues.<br />
My research revealed that there are many<br />
products on the market that contain harmful<br />
ingredients and toxins our bodies don’t know<br />
what to do with. My family’s health issues were<br />
directly linked to these toxins. We changed our<br />
food, household cleaning products and lastly,<br />
our personal-care products when I discovered<br />
that what we put on our skin goes directly into<br />
our bloodstream and reaches every major<br />
organ within 26 seconds!<br />
Our skin is our largest organ and the primary<br />
method by means of which our bodies detox.<br />
Unlike food that travels through the gastrointestinal<br />
tract where toxins are filtered through<br />
the liver and kidneys, personal-care products<br />
aren’t filtered when applied to our skin.<br />
The average child uses five products a day<br />
and an adult uses 15—but many of us are<br />
above-average. A little toxin every day during<br />
VIEWPOINT<br />
the course of a lifetime adds up and has been<br />
linked to cancer, hormone and reproductive<br />
issues, autoimmune diseases and other health<br />
issues. This is why we have to be so careful to<br />
place pure, safe products on our bodies.<br />
Some harmful chemicals in common<br />
personal-care products include petroleum/<br />
mineral oil/baby oil (a byproduct of gasoline<br />
that prevents skin from detoxing), formaldehyde,<br />
parabens (linked to cancer and early puberty),<br />
sodium lauryl sulfates, propylene glycol, PEGs,<br />
dioxin (found in triclosan), phthalates, and<br />
artificial color and fragrance (leading case of<br />
skin irritation).<br />
There are more than 1,000 ingredients still<br />
allowed in personal-care products in the United<br />
States that were banned years ago in other<br />
countries.<br />
There’s so much we can do to heal our bodies<br />
simply by using safer food and products around<br />
the home. As a result of my family changing our<br />
lifestyle, my children recovered from their special<br />
needs, I had a fourth child without any health<br />
issues, and my own health issues disappeared.<br />
This journey encouraged me to start my own<br />
business to teach others about healthier choices<br />
and to offer safer alternatives for personal-care<br />
products used regularly in the home.<br />
The reality is that most people don’t care<br />
about healthier products until they or someone<br />
they love has health issues or their doctor tells<br />
them they have to change their lifestyle. My goal<br />
is to reverse this mindset with education—<br />
one family at a time.<br />
(Brietman is an executive area manager for<br />
Arbonne International and a mother at Marquez<br />
Elementary.)<br />
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<strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />
<strong>March</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2015</strong> A forum for open discussion of community issues<br />
Page 7<br />
Daylight-Saving Time Rationale Questioned<br />
If someone told you a national policy would increase<br />
the risk of having a heart attack and getting into a<br />
traffic accident, would you blithely go along with<br />
it? Never question it?<br />
Welcome to Daylight-Saving Time. Repeated studies<br />
have shown that traffic accidents increase on the Monday<br />
following the start of DST, and the risk of having a heart<br />
attack increases in the first three days after switching to<br />
DST. Maybe California should join Arizona and Hawaii<br />
and leave the clocks alone.<br />
DST was called “fast time” when President Woodrow<br />
Wilson signed it into law in 19<strong>18</strong> to support the war effort.<br />
Writing for the History Channel (“8 Things You May<br />
Not Know about Daylight-Saving Time”), Christopher<br />
Klein points out, “In fact, the agriculture industry was<br />
deeply opposed to the time switch when it was first<br />
implemented. The sun, not the clock, dictated farmers’<br />
schedules, so daylight saving was very disruptive. Farmers<br />
had to wait an extra hour for dew to evaporate to harvest<br />
hay, hired hands worked less since they still left at the same<br />
time for dinner and cows weren’t ready to be milked an<br />
hour earlier. Agrarian interests led the fight for the 1919<br />
repeal of national daylight-saving time, which passed<br />
after Congress voted to override President Woodrow<br />
Wilson’s veto. Rather than rural interests, it has been<br />
urban entities such as retail outlets and recreational<br />
Hard Facts about<br />
Measles Vaccination<br />
Ryan Morelli’s letter [“Objections to Editorial and<br />
Cartoon about Measles”] in your <strong>March</strong> 4 edition<br />
suggests that the measles vaccine has caused more<br />
deaths than measles itself between 2004-<strong>2015</strong>.<br />
While I do not know Mr. Morelli’s background, I have<br />
been a pediatric RN since 1989 with an advanced degree<br />
in health service administration. I am currently a pediatric<br />
triage nurse at Cedars-Sinai. I feel I am qualified to<br />
comment on his letter.<br />
The writer quotes his facts from the VAERS database,<br />
which is co-sponsored by the CDC and the FDA. What<br />
he fails to cite is that VAERS clearly states that “no cause<br />
and effect relationship is established between vaccines<br />
and resulting deaths. The event (of severe adverse<br />
reaction/death) may be related to underlying disease or<br />
a condition, by concurrent meds or by chance.”<br />
According to data from the World Health Organization,<br />
15.6 million deaths from measles were prevented by the<br />
vaccination between 2000-2013. The National Vaccine<br />
Information Center, which uses data obtained from<br />
VAERS, states that since 1990 there have been 329<br />
deaths linked to the measles vaccine. Those statistics<br />
are overwhelmingly in favor of vaccination.<br />
There is no money to be made on vaccines for the<br />
physician. The only vested interest health professionals<br />
have in pushing vaccines is that they save lives and<br />
prevent debilitating complications.<br />
The reason there were no cases of measles in the U.S.<br />
between 2004 through the start of this year is because<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
businesses that have championed daylight saving over<br />
the decades.” Despite the repeal, some cities—including<br />
Pittsburgh, Boston, and New York—continued to use<br />
DST. During World War II, DST was called “War Time”<br />
and was implemented after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.<br />
After the war, states and localities were free to choose<br />
when and if they would observe DST. Time confusion<br />
led Congress to establish the Uniform Time Act of 1966,<br />
stating that DST would begin on the last Sunday of April<br />
and end on the last Sunday of October. States could pass<br />
a local ordinance to be exempt.<br />
The current DST schedule was introduced in 2007<br />
and follows the Energy Policy Act of 2005, starting on<br />
the second Sunday in <strong>March</strong> and ending on the first<br />
Sunday in November.<br />
How much energy does the country save by moving<br />
clocks an hour ahead in the spring and one hour back in<br />
the fall? In the 1970s, a U.S. Department of Transportation<br />
study concluded that total electricity savings associated<br />
with daylight saving time amounted to about one percent<br />
in the spring and fall months.<br />
By contrast, in the summer months, economists at<br />
UC Santa Barbara have calculated that Indiana’s move to<br />
statewide daylightsaving time in 2006 led to a one-percent<br />
rise in residential electricity use through additional<br />
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR<br />
measles was eradicated due to the vaccine.<br />
Guess what? It’s back and it is time to start protecting<br />
our babies, our children who cannot get the vaccine,<br />
and our immune-compromised friends and neighbors.<br />
There is no downside unless you have a medical reason<br />
to not get the vaccine. Please vaccinate. The alternative<br />
can be tragic.<br />
Sue Marguleas, RN, MPA<br />
Dog Also Attacked<br />
Thanks for the article, “Doggy Politics in the ‘Hood’”<br />
by Marci Slade Crestani, February <strong>18</strong>.<br />
My 12-pound dog has been attacked by large off-leash<br />
dogs three times. I asked a man to leash his dog this<br />
morning; he ignored me. I asked a man last week to<br />
leash two dogs; he ignored me. I now carry pepper<br />
spray whenever I walk my dog.<br />
Patty Detroit<br />
Cost for Technical Support For<br />
Incline Project Is Outlandish<br />
I thought I had become inured to the outlandish price<br />
tags on public projects, what with the surcharges for<br />
nepotism, graft, fraud, mismanagement and downright<br />
incompetence.<br />
Even I was shocked, however, to learn, from the<br />
cover story in the February 4 issue [“California Incline<br />
Update”] that Wallace, Roberts & Todd will be paid<br />
“almost $3 million” [according to Santa Monica City<br />
records] to provide 365 days of “technical support” to<br />
demand for air conditioning on summer evenings.<br />
Additionally, there are no current studies to document<br />
the increased demand for energy during evening hours<br />
for electronic devices such as cell phones and computers.<br />
There are no studies to document the effect on the<br />
increasing number of people who work split and<br />
evening shifts and the amount of energy savings, if any.<br />
The California Energy Commission did a report on the<br />
effects of Daylight-Saving Time on California electricity<br />
use in 2001. The study concluded that both winter<br />
daylight-saving time and the summer season double<br />
daylight-saving time would probably save marginal<br />
amounts of electricity.<br />
That same year, the California state legislature sent a<br />
Senate Joint Resolution to the White House and Congress<br />
asking to be allowed to extend DST year-round, but it<br />
was never acted on.<br />
A 2007 California report stated that DST effects had<br />
no statistically significant effect on total daily electricity<br />
use in the month of <strong>March</strong> 2007. And according to a 2013<br />
Rasmussen Report, only 37 percent of Americans see the<br />
purpose of DST, compared to 45 percent the year before.<br />
Maybe it’s time to re-examine a policy instituted<br />
during World War I that today has questionable energy<br />
conservation effects.<br />
the Incline project as “engineer of record.”<br />
Apparently, the time and expertise of this firm is worth<br />
$8,219 per day or $1,027 per hour for an eight-hour<br />
workday. Given that the median income, even among the<br />
affluent, highly-educated citizens of the <strong>Palisades</strong>, is less<br />
than $100 per hour, I am left to wonder how those elected<br />
to represent our interests sleep at night after approving<br />
such high expenditures of our hard-earned tax dollars.<br />
Lisa Wolf<br />
In Response to<br />
‘No Monday Breakfast’<br />
I read in the <strong>March</strong> 4 “Heard about Town” column<br />
that locals are bummed about the lack of places to eat<br />
breakfast. Please let Palisadians know that The Yogurt<br />
Shoppe on Swarthmore is open for breakfast.<br />
We offer 20+ different cereals (and yes, some healthy)<br />
along with regular and flavored yogurt, granola options,<br />
oatmeal, a wide variety of fresh fruits and choice of milk<br />
(oh, and we also offer shakes). Open daily for breakfast<br />
7 to 10 a.m. and 8 to 10 a.m. on Sunday.<br />
Kevin Sabin<br />
(Editor’s Note: Additionally, Tivoli owner Sohail<br />
Fatoorechi has started opening at 8 a.m. daily for people<br />
who need a meeting place for breakfast.)<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong> welcomes all letters, which may<br />
be mailed to spascoe@palisadesnews.com. Please<br />
include a name, address and telephone number so<br />
we may reach you. Letters do not necessarily<br />
reflect the viewpoint of the <strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong>.
Page 8 <strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>March</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2015</strong><br />
Park Advisory Board<br />
Proposes Parking Changes<br />
(Editor’s note: The Park Advisory Board is proposing<br />
changes for parking at the <strong>Palisades</strong> Recreation Center.<br />
See related news story, page 3.)<br />
In order to increase available parking at the Recreation<br />
Center on weekday afternoons after 3 p.m. and lessen<br />
the impact on neighborhood streets, the Park Advisory<br />
Board is proposing the following changes:<br />
First, the hours for the main lot accessed from Alma<br />
Real will be changed from a maximum of four hours to<br />
a maximum of two hours between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.<br />
on Monday through Friday.<br />
Second, parking hours for the tennis lot accessed<br />
from Frontera Drive will be changed from a maximum<br />
of two hours to a maximum of four hours.<br />
All parking spaces at the Park will continue to be exclusively<br />
available to patrons of the Park. Equally important,<br />
the Department of Transportation will<br />
enforce these parking restrictions by issuing citations<br />
to those who violate the posted limit.<br />
The lack of parking at the Park is not a new issue. In<br />
fact, the upcoming change in parking hours will culminate<br />
an inclusive and deliberative process that began in 2013.<br />
That year, the Park Advisory Board held two wellpublicized<br />
meetings to receive comments from the<br />
community on the improvements that should be<br />
implemented at the Park. Residents made it clear that a<br />
major ongoing concern was the lack of available parking.<br />
Through spot checks and interviews with Park<br />
employees and others, the PAB determined that up to half<br />
of the individuals using the parking spaces at the Park<br />
were not Park patrons. These individuals had apparently<br />
chosen to park there because it was a free and convenient<br />
alternative during the workweek to metered and feebased<br />
parking. As a consequence, many Park patrons<br />
attempting to use the Park were unable to find a parking<br />
place.<br />
At its quarterly meeting in January 2014, the PAB,<br />
including the Park Director and parents and officials<br />
actively involved in baseball, soccer and other Park<br />
programs, thoroughly discussed the parking enforcement<br />
issue. The Board concluded that a plan should be<br />
implemented that would make more spaces available for<br />
Park patrons by discouraging people from using parking<br />
spaces for non-Park purposes. The agreed upon solution<br />
is what I described earlier.<br />
Following this meeting, the community was notified<br />
that the Department of Recreation and Parks would<br />
consider the recommendation that parking hours be<br />
changed, and that the subject would be on the PAB<br />
agenda last July. All residents were invited to comment<br />
on the proposed change.<br />
The <strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong> editor has questioned whether<br />
the change in parking hours will help solve the parking<br />
problem. We believe it will have a positive influence by<br />
limiting the number of illegally parked cars at the Park<br />
after 3 p.m., when various after-school programs and<br />
youth sports begin to impact the parking lot.<br />
I believe we can all agree that there are people working<br />
in the offices and stores near the Park who, given the<br />
choice of paying for metered parking or parking in the<br />
Park lot all day for free, will choose to park for free. Our<br />
spot checks showed an average of 33 cars parked illegally<br />
on the three days we counted cars.<br />
If there are only 20 cars in the lot at some point before<br />
3 p.m. and those cars remain there for the remainder<br />
of the day, this presents a real problem because there<br />
are only 92 generally available spaces. It means that 20<br />
Park patrons are deprived of the spaces to which they<br />
are entitled. The new two-hour limit will discourage<br />
car owners from parking at the Park all day because it<br />
will become inconvenient for them to keep moving<br />
their car.<br />
Bob Harter<br />
Vice Chair, Park Advisory Board<br />
Vandalism on the Green<br />
Is Disheartening and Evil<br />
On <strong>March</strong> 4, a group of dedicated volunteers put<br />
colorful, handmade quilts on the trees, branches,<br />
benches, and light poles on the Village Green, a project<br />
headed by Michelle Villemaire.<br />
This effort was in honor of Women’s History Month,<br />
as explained in the poster and signs on the Green.<br />
Passersby seemed to enjoy this colorful decoration,<br />
smiling as they walked by our little private park. It<br />
brought surprise and joy into folks’ daily lives.<br />
Unfortunately, on <strong>March</strong> 11, between noon and 4:30<br />
p.m., some damage was done to this display: the yarncovered<br />
bike was thrown down, the quilt on the grass was<br />
covered with food scraps; some blue foam-like substance<br />
was sprayed around; and some of the explanation papers<br />
were ripped up and tossed around.<br />
It is very sad to think of the unhappy folks who did<br />
this. Some would say that kids who gather on the<br />
Green after school might have had something to do<br />
with this, as they are often seen abusing this park. I<br />
would ask them to consider the time and effort of this<br />
project, done by local volunteers for the enjoyment by<br />
all, than a place to vandalize. Perhaps they didn’t know<br />
that these quilts will be washed and sewn together and<br />
donated to the women’s shelter downtown, to help<br />
others in need.<br />
Betsy Collins<br />
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<strong>March</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2015</strong> <strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong> Page 9<br />
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The Spolin Players have been entertaining audiences with their improvisational skills<br />
for more than 30 years.<br />
Spolin Players at Pierson<br />
If you need a good laugh, or many laughs<br />
and maybe even a few belly laughs,<br />
come watch the Spolin Players perform<br />
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This improvisational troupe plays the<br />
theater games of Viola Spolin, “the High<br />
Priestess Of Improv,” who created the techniques<br />
used by the cast of Chicago’s Second<br />
City in the early 1960s, as well as every other<br />
improvisational comedy troupe since.<br />
The Players, who include Palisadian Gail<br />
Matthius plus Casey Campbell, Donna<br />
Dubain, Jim Staahl, Danny Mann, John<br />
Mariano, Anna Mathias, David McCharen,<br />
Edie McClurg and Pat Musick, were among<br />
the last group to study with Spolin, who<br />
died in 1994 at the age of 88.<br />
The hour-long, completely improvised<br />
show is based solely on audience suggestions.<br />
Every show is completely different<br />
and original. No sets, no props, no costumes,<br />
and yet you “see and hear” all three.<br />
Audiences are asked to bring their imagination<br />
and suggestions.<br />
“We’ve had very successful shows in<br />
years past,” said Matthius, explaining that<br />
the group has been together off and on for<br />
almost 30 years and every member is a<br />
working actor. “We haven’t been in the Pali -<br />
sades for almost four years, so we wanna<br />
pack the house with our fellow Palisadians<br />
and leave ‘em laughing!”<br />
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at<br />
the box office or through www.brownpapertickts.com<br />
or call (800) 838-3006.<br />
Dark Street Corners? Pacific<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> Takes Second Place<br />
Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> and Southeast Los Angeles<br />
have something in common. They are<br />
among the neighborhoods where street light<br />
bulb replacement takes the longest.<br />
According to an investigative piece written<br />
by Mike Reicher for the Los Angeles<br />
Daily <strong>News</strong> in February, it takes an average<br />
of 7.1 days to repair a lightbulb in Southeast<br />
L.A., and 7.5 days in the <strong>Palisades</strong>.<br />
The slowest place for replacement was Silver<br />
Lake/Echo Park/Elysian Valley at 8 days.<br />
The place for fastest street bulb replacement<br />
was the Port of L.A. (0.2 days), followed<br />
by Sherman Oaks (2.3 days). On<br />
this side of the hill, Westwood averaged 3.8<br />
days, LAX 3.9 days and Venice 3.9 days.<br />
Reicher analyzed city data, obtained<br />
through the state open records act, from<br />
January 2009 through early October 2014.<br />
He wrote: “Over those years, the bureau averaged<br />
a five-day repair time. Broken poles<br />
and incidents of multiple outages were excluded<br />
from the analysis, which focused on<br />
single lights turned dark.<br />
“Bureau of Street Lighting officials blame<br />
the delays on equipment, geography, copper<br />
theft and budget cuts. Some neighborhoods<br />
have 90-year-old systems and the<br />
bureau doesn’t stock replacement parts;<br />
crews have to wait for orders.”<br />
The City has only two maintenance<br />
yards: one is in North Hollywood, the second<br />
is in Sun Valley. Reicher found “officials<br />
installed new LED lights there before other<br />
districts. From the complaint to the repair,<br />
it took an average of three days to fix a light<br />
in the Valley.”<br />
His report said that the City collects<br />
about $42 million of annual property assessments<br />
for its streetlight maintenance<br />
fund and a typical homeowner pays $70 to<br />
$95 a year through an annual assessment.<br />
Since expenses are projected to exceed<br />
revenue in coming years, the bureau is<br />
planning a citywide ballot proposition to<br />
increase assessment rates.
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Martin Town Center Promotes Transit<br />
By SUE PASCOE<br />
Editor<br />
Rendering of the proposed Martin Expo Town Center project proposed for the intersection<br />
of Olympic and Bundy Avenues in West Los Angeles.<br />
Bumper-to-bumper traffic on the<br />
westbound 10 Freeway in the a.m.<br />
and the eastbound 10 in the p.m. is<br />
causing many Westside residents to avoid<br />
the area near the 405/10 intersection during<br />
peak hours.<br />
Therein lies a major challenge for the<br />
proposed Martin Expo Town Center project<br />
at the corner of Bundy and Olympic.<br />
If ultimately approved by the City of<br />
L.A., the Center would include 516 residential<br />
units, 67,000 square feet for retail<br />
and restaurants, and a 12-story office<br />
building anchored by the Martin Cadillac<br />
showroom.<br />
The five-acre development, which currently<br />
includes a Martin Cadillac showroom<br />
and a body and repair shop on the<br />
site, has generated controversy because<br />
many people feel that it will add to traffic<br />
congestion.<br />
“Studies have shown that if transit is<br />
available, more people will use it,” said<br />
Philip Simmons of the Simmons Group, a<br />
land and development management firm.<br />
“There is a huge jobs/housing imbalance in<br />
this area. There are close to 10,000 workers<br />
and little housing for them.”<br />
Located only a half block from the upcoming<br />
Expo/Bundy light-rail station, the<br />
Town Center project is called a Transient<br />
Oriented Development (TOD). People living<br />
near this station will be able to go from<br />
Santa Monica to downtown L.A. and beyond<br />
on public transportation.<br />
“In the first two months the apartments<br />
are available, we will open them up to people<br />
who work within a quarter of a mile of<br />
the complex,” Simmons said. There will be<br />
studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments,<br />
at market-value, with an affordable housing<br />
component.<br />
Riot Games [video game producer of<br />
League of Legends] and its 1,200 employees<br />
are moving from Santa Monica into the<br />
area just north of Martin Cadillac.<br />
“They’ve talked to us several times and<br />
are interested in the project because they<br />
would be close to public transit and there<br />
would be housing for their employees,” said<br />
Martin Cadillac CEO Dan Martin and a<br />
Brentwood resident.<br />
He added, “This [TOD] project has been<br />
an educational process.” As part of his research,<br />
he visited Germany, London, Paris,<br />
Russia and Sweden, and lived in locations<br />
near mass transit. “I wanted to see how it<br />
worked. I walked everywhere, I never had<br />
to use a car.”<br />
In California, if people rent an apartment,<br />
they expect at least one free parking<br />
space, but that would not be the case at the<br />
Town Center apartments.<br />
“Parking will be available, but just like in<br />
Manhattan (New York City) it will be decoupled<br />
from the rent and people will pay<br />
more to have a parking space,” Martin said.<br />
“The reality is people will not have to buy a<br />
car and there will be a car-share program<br />
on site.”<br />
Martin was asked about the counterintuitiveness<br />
of a Cadillac dealer promoting<br />
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a development that promotes public transit<br />
rather than car ownership.<br />
“We need to modernize for employees<br />
and customers,” he said. “With a more attractive<br />
store, we will sell more cars. But we<br />
also need to support the alternative.<br />
Martin also noted, “There are almost no<br />
lunch places around here. People have to<br />
get in their car and drive to Brentwood or<br />
Westwood just for lunch.”<br />
The Town Center would have amenities<br />
needed for living within walking distance.<br />
Additionally, there are plans to rent office<br />
space to creative companies, whose employees<br />
generally work off-hours.<br />
If the development is approved, construction<br />
could start in 2016 and be completed<br />
in 20<strong>18</strong>.<br />
In the environmental impact review for<br />
Martin Expo Town Center, which just<br />
closed for public comment, traffic impact<br />
was analyzed. Not surprisingly, many of the<br />
intersections that may be affected already<br />
have failing grades during at least one of the<br />
peak times. (http://cityplanning.lacity.org/<br />
eir/MartinExpoTownCenter/DEIR)<br />
JUMBLE SOLUTION<br />
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The Martin family has owned and operated<br />
Martin Cadillac for three generations.<br />
The dealership was founded in Santa Monica<br />
in 1947 by Clarence Daniel (“Dan”)<br />
Martin, Jr. after he returned from World<br />
War II as a naval officer.<br />
While running Martin Cadillac, Dan<br />
served as Undersecretary of Commerce for<br />
Transportation, working as the principal<br />
adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and<br />
President Lyndon Johnson on national<br />
transportation policy.<br />
In 1974, Dan relocated his dealership to<br />
West Los Angeles. Nephew Dana took over<br />
as CEO in 1976 and he and his wife Mary<br />
raised their four boys (Dan, Chris, Brian<br />
and Matthew) in Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> (and still<br />
live here). They have been active members<br />
of St. Matthew’s Parish for more than 40<br />
years. Dana’s son, Dan, said the impetus<br />
for the Town Center started when General<br />
Motors strongly encouraged all dealers to<br />
participate in an “image enhancement”<br />
program by modernizing facilities and<br />
showrooms.<br />
“Complying with this program required<br />
a significant capital investment,” Martin<br />
said. “That became hard to justify given that<br />
we’re on an oversized property of five acres,<br />
where we only need about three. With the<br />
arrival of the Expo line just 500 feet from<br />
the corner of Martin Cadillac, these two<br />
factors caused us to step back and rethink<br />
the vision for the property and for transportation<br />
in general. We asked, ‘What is the<br />
right thing to do?’”<br />
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“Wavegirl,” a painting by Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> Art Association president Annette Dugdale-Alexakis.<br />
Dugdale-Alexakis Art on<br />
Exhibit at <strong>Palisades</strong> Library<br />
The paintings currently on the walls<br />
of the community room at the Pali -<br />
sades Branch Library were done by<br />
Annette Dugdale-Alexakis, and are availa -<br />
ble for viewing through <strong>March</strong> 21.<br />
The 43-year <strong>Palisades</strong> resident, a selftaught<br />
artist, attended a Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong><br />
Art Association (PPAA) meeting, which<br />
has been in this community since 1947, to<br />
learn more about art. “I wanted to better<br />
my technique,” said Dugdale-Alexakis, who<br />
runs a full-time pet-care business.<br />
Five years ago, she became the organizing<br />
force for the Art Association, taking<br />
over from Ellen Travis, Susan Coddington<br />
and Carol Gee, and is currently the president.<br />
In addition to seeking new members<br />
and organizing shows, Dugdale-Alexakis<br />
finds speakers and art demonstrations for<br />
the club’s monthly meetings.<br />
She also co-chairs the annual Village Green<br />
Art Show and Sale with Terri Brom berg<br />
and arranges scholarships for art students<br />
at <strong>Palisades</strong> High School’s Showcase night.<br />
Annette credits her brother Eric Dugdale,<br />
husband Glenn, and sons James and<br />
Christopher for helping her make the<br />
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June, July and August) at the Woman’s<br />
Club. Members gather for lectures and<br />
demonstrations on oil painting, sculpting,<br />
watercolor, photography and animation.<br />
Membership is $50, and those interested<br />
do not have to live in Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> to<br />
join. Contact: palisadesart@gmail.com.<br />
Blood Drive <strong>March</strong> 22<br />
Dr. Mike Martini is organizing a community<br />
blood drive, sponsored by Providence<br />
St. John’s Health Center. The event<br />
will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday,<br />
<strong>March</strong> 22, at Corpus Christi Hall, 890<br />
Toyopa Dr. For an appointment, call (310)<br />
829-8886 or e-mail sherry.arroyo@providence.org.<br />
Donors are reminded to eat a nutritious<br />
meal beforehand, drink plenty of fluids<br />
and bring a photo identification. Donors<br />
will receive a coupon for a pint of Baskin-<br />
Robbins ice cream.<br />
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<strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />
<strong>March</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2015</strong> Page 13<br />
Ogden Cleaners Changes Hands<br />
By SUE PASCOE<br />
Editor<br />
Daniel and Yanna Sapozhnikov<br />
closed a chapter of their lives on<br />
Saturday, February 28, after selling<br />
Ogden Cleaners on Sunset Boulevard to<br />
Tommy Goullais.<br />
The following Monday, the couple was<br />
in the store, helping with the transition and<br />
saying goodbye to customers and friends.<br />
“I’m sorry, I’ll miss you,” said long-time<br />
customer Helena Lara. “Who’s going to do<br />
my pants? Don’t go, I don’t like change.”<br />
Long-time customer, Norman Beegun,<br />
said: “I’ve become friends with Daniel and<br />
Yanna. We’ve gone out to dinner with<br />
them; gone to services with them. They’ve<br />
become part of the community.”<br />
Beegun was one of many who praised<br />
Daniel’s tailoring ability on that Monday.<br />
“My son would come in with a pair of<br />
pants and say he needed them tomorrow<br />
and Daniel would do it,” Beegun said. “He<br />
would never say no. He just altered a<br />
tuxedo I hadn’t worn in 20 years and<br />
couldn’t get into, but now it fits.”<br />
Fran Dunner, who has three daughters,<br />
said her youngest, Susie, would typically<br />
buy something in the morning and need<br />
it that evening, but that Daniel always<br />
came through with the alteration.<br />
Daniel remembered Patty Pappas as his<br />
first alteration customer when the couple<br />
took over the cleaners in 1997.<br />
“We had a special arrangement,” said<br />
Pappas, the mother of three girls. “Daniel<br />
would always agree to the shorter hem<br />
length they sought,” she said, “but when he<br />
altered it, he always let it down lower.”<br />
After the Sapozhnikovs took over the<br />
cleaners, Daniel estimates business grew by<br />
100 percent. He said that several thousand<br />
Temescal Garden<br />
Cleanup <strong>March</strong> 28<br />
The Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> Garden Club and<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> Beautiful co-sponsor the beautification<br />
efforts at the N/E/X/T/Garden in<br />
the northeast corner of Temescal Canyon<br />
Park. This new acronym for the long-established<br />
garden area spells: Native/Environmental/Xeriscape/Temescal.<br />
Hands-on help is needed with various<br />
gardening tasks on Saturday, <strong>March</strong> 28 from<br />
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. People can come any time<br />
and volunteer as long or short as they want.<br />
Street parking next to the site (just south<br />
of Bowdoin) is available on Saturdays.<br />
Contact: ppgardenclub@verizon.net or<br />
call Barbara Marinacci (310) 459-0190.<br />
Daniel and Yanna Sapozhnikov welcome Tommy Goullais, the new owner of Ogden<br />
Cleaners on Sunset.<br />
Photo: Bart Bartholomew<br />
people went in and out of the shop’s door<br />
every week—and he knew most of them<br />
by their first name.<br />
The owners were asked if the Caruso<br />
Affiliated purchase of nearby Swarthmore<br />
influenced the sale. “It didn’t have anything<br />
to do with it,” Daniel said. “It was just time<br />
to let it go.”<br />
He cited his difficulty with finding good<br />
help because of the town’s geographical<br />
location. “I’m sure many businesses have<br />
the same problem.”<br />
The Sapozhnikovs live in Tarzana, and<br />
six days a week would fight the traffic on<br />
the 405 going and coming from the <strong>Palisades</strong>.<br />
He said even when he was away<br />
from work, “my head was thinking of work,<br />
of situations, of people.”<br />
Daniel said Yanna wants him to rest,<br />
read a book, go to the beach, travel, and<br />
“do all of the things I haven’t done in the<br />
past 17 years.”<br />
Before coming to the <strong>Palisades</strong>, he sold<br />
a previous dry-cleaning business, but stayed<br />
home for a only month before he couldn’t<br />
take the inactivity.<br />
“This time I’m going to try to stay home<br />
for six months,” Daniel jokingly said, but<br />
then reflected: “I may have a hard time<br />
doing it.” The couple has a three-year clause<br />
that does not allow them to open a similar<br />
business in Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong>.<br />
Daniel and Yanna shed tears as customer<br />
after customer gave hugs and asked for<br />
their phone numbers so they could stay in<br />
touch.<br />
“It’s too emotional about leaving,” said<br />
Yanna whose mother is suffering from dementia,<br />
which is demanding more of<br />
Yanna’s time and is another reason for<br />
selling the shop.<br />
The couple have two grandchildren, ages<br />
1 and 3, and would also like to spend more<br />
time with them.<br />
“If I had known it would be this difficult,<br />
I’d reconsider,” Daniel, 63, said.<br />
Goullais, the former owner of Fame<br />
Cleaners on La Cienega, was helping at the<br />
counter. “I enjoy a service business,” he said,<br />
noting that he doesn’t plan to make any<br />
changes at Ogden’s. The Woodland Hills<br />
resident will continue pickup and delivery,<br />
as well as the environmentally friendly<br />
cleaning processes the cleaner uses.<br />
The new owner will retain all of the<br />
current employees, including the women<br />
at the front counter, Jesse Hernandez and<br />
Gina Vargas and tailor Fernando Pena,<br />
who worked with Daniel. A second tailor,<br />
Enio Aguilar, who worked at Fame Cleaners,<br />
has been added.<br />
“We just wanted all our customers to<br />
know we appreciated their business. We<br />
weren’t able to tell everyone in person, but<br />
please tell them ‘thank you,’” Yanna Sapozhnikov<br />
said.<br />
Winning Strategies for Buyers in a Bidding War<br />
By MICHAEL EDLEN<br />
Multiple offers” occur either when<br />
a seller receives more than one<br />
purchase offer at the same time<br />
or receives another offer before a counteroffer<br />
is presented to the first buyer. This<br />
has occurred fairly often since 2012 and has<br />
created a frustrating environment for wellqualified<br />
buyers who repeatedly are outbid<br />
in their attempts to buy a home.<br />
The following suggestions are based on<br />
my having participated in hundreds of<br />
multiple-offer negotiations and observing<br />
the various dynamics that can occur.<br />
• Ideally, being an “all-cash” buyer with the<br />
cash available or, at a minimum, being<br />
fully approved for financing before<br />
writing an offer, will usually give you<br />
the advantage.<br />
• Know the market inventory well by attending<br />
open houses and becoming familiar<br />
with what has recently actually sold.<br />
• Have a family or personal photo to be<br />
presented with your offer, as well as an<br />
introductory letter which your agent<br />
can help you prepare.<br />
• Be as rational and disciplined as you<br />
can, willing to either step up or pull<br />
back depending on the circumstances.<br />
• Take the long view. Remember that you<br />
may be living in this neighborhood for<br />
many years. The house can often be<br />
changed in various ways, but the location<br />
cannot.<br />
• Ask your agent to counsel you on contract<br />
details that may improve your position<br />
at little cost or risk to you. A<br />
seasoned agent will know ways to make<br />
your offer stand out over others.<br />
• Be prepared to make decisions in a<br />
short amount of time, as timing your<br />
offer and any responses to the seller is<br />
essential to success.<br />
• Select an agent who has successfully<br />
guided many other buyers in multipleoffer<br />
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Although the highest and best offer usually<br />
succeeds, it is not uncommon in this<br />
market that a seller will receive more than<br />
one strong offer. The seller will at times ultimately<br />
select the buyer based upon personal<br />
or other nonfinancial reasons rather<br />
than one who offers a higher price.<br />
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Parking Kiosk Design Ongoing<br />
By SUE PASCOE<br />
Editor<br />
We were all astonished when we<br />
saw it,” said a member of the<br />
Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> Design Review<br />
Board at its <strong>March</strong> 11 meeting, referring to<br />
the new parking attendant kiosk in the lot<br />
next to Bank of America on Sunset.<br />
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“This will be our first Hudson trunk show,” said boutique owner Dawn Baker.<br />
“But we’ve been carrying the product in the store for more than seven years.”<br />
Hudson Jeans is one of the top leading denim brands in the world and carries<br />
a variety of cuts for all body types including: super skinny, skinny, straight leg,<br />
baby boot, bootcut and flare.<br />
The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday, <strong>March</strong> 26, at the store,<br />
542 <strong>Palisades</strong> Drive in the Highlands Plaza. Hors d’oeuvres and champagne will<br />
be served.<br />
“We are looking forward to a fun day and there will be a gift with purchase<br />
on the day of the event provided by Hudson Jeans,” Baker said.<br />
Call (310) 459-5511 or visit dawn@ happy-la.com.<br />
representative from TOPA, which manages<br />
the parking lot, came to the board with a<br />
proposed kiosk design, to replace the one<br />
knocked over by a vehicle in June.<br />
The DRB is an advisory board, appoint -<br />
ed by Councilman Mike Bonin, Council<br />
District 11, operating under the Brown Act<br />
and tasked with reviewing exterior design,<br />
site layout, landscapes, signs and other design<br />
elements governed by the Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong><br />
specific plan.<br />
The kiosk does not fall under DRB pur -<br />
view, but members were delighted that<br />
TOPA had come to them for suggestions.<br />
“They didn’t need to, because they didn’t<br />
need a permit,” DRB President Barbara<br />
Kohn explained. But members discussed<br />
it at length and made suggestions that included<br />
color, size, windows and even the<br />
possibility of landscaping to make it more<br />
attractive.<br />
When the kiosk was installed, DRB<br />
members found that many suggestions had<br />
not been implemented.<br />
“We thought they were going to put a<br />
window where the wall was,” said member<br />
Sarah Griffin, “and a sliding door on both<br />
sides so that Roman [the attendant] could<br />
access ingoing and outgoing cars easier.”<br />
Also, the giant air conditioner on one side<br />
of the building, in addition to being unattractive,<br />
had other issues. “It’s oversized,”<br />
said member Donna Vaccarino. “The line<br />
going to it doesn’t have the correct power,<br />
so in order for it to operate, they would<br />
have to put in a new electrical line.”<br />
“There were good suggestions given by<br />
everyone around the table,” said Kohn, who<br />
contacted TOPA management and discovered<br />
that they agreed with the need to revisit<br />
the kiosk design and implementation.<br />
This kiosk has come under fire for its design.<br />
She and DRB member Kelly Comras<br />
met with TOPA on <strong>March</strong> 13 to discuss<br />
what happens next, and they are confident<br />
that several improvements will be made,<br />
but caution that implementation will take<br />
a couple of months.<br />
“Communications and the relationship<br />
with TOPA continues to be highly cordial<br />
with ongoing meetings in an effort to resolve<br />
the issue,” Kohn said on <strong>March</strong> 14.<br />
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90404 Changing<br />
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The historically culturally diverse Pico<br />
neighborhood of Santa Monica is the subject<br />
of the film, 90404 Changing, to be presented<br />
by the Santa Monica Conservancy<br />
on Thursday, <strong>March</strong> 26, at 6:30 p.m. in the<br />
Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium at the<br />
Main Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd.<br />
Admission is free but seating is limited.<br />
Producer/director Michael Barnard will<br />
introduce the film, and after the screening<br />
he and leading cast member and co-producer<br />
Paulina Sahagun will conduct a Q&A.<br />
The film captures the once historically<br />
rich and culturally diverse neighborhood in<br />
the 90404 zip code. It follows a local Latina<br />
teacher and an African-American poet in<br />
their quest to piece together the history of<br />
this area.<br />
Blending narrative and documentary storytelling,<br />
90404 Changing includes a wide<br />
range of personal stories of former and current<br />
residents, clergy and business owners.<br />
Founded in 2002, the Santa Monica<br />
Conservancy is a nonprofit organization<br />
dedicated to promoting understanding<br />
and appreciation of the cultural, social,<br />
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Coco Kennedy sang the National Anthem.<br />
PPBA Kicks Off Season at Park<br />
Record heat did not stop players,<br />
coaches, former coaches and even<br />
former fans from attending the Pacific<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> Baseball Association’s 63rd<br />
annual pancake breakfast on Saturday<br />
morning at the <strong>Palisades</strong> Recreation Center.<br />
Alice Wroblicky may be the event’s big -<br />
gest fan: this was her 54th pancake breakfast.<br />
Her husband Emil, now deceased,<br />
coached teams in the 1960s, when their<br />
three boys played. She had attended every<br />
breakfast since then until last year, when<br />
Emil was sick.<br />
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with wife Natasha and daughter Carly. Son Jake is<br />
a second-year Tiger Pinto.<br />
bleachers.”<br />
A group of 11 <strong>Palisades</strong> men, all former<br />
Troop 223 dads who walk together every<br />
Saturday and coached AYSO, basketball and<br />
baseball when their boys were younger,<br />
stopped by for the breakfast. They included<br />
Andy Breech, who coached the Phillies<br />
from 1991-2001; former Unocal station<br />
owner Frank Jakel, who sponsored a team<br />
for 35 years and coached the Indians from<br />
1985 to 1990; and Bud Kling, the longtime<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> High tennis coach, who helmed<br />
the Dodgers in 1995.<br />
Rich Wilken, who once coached the Phil -<br />
lies, said: “I had a perfect record, we went<br />
0-17—totally unblemished by a single victory.”<br />
He remembered how actor David<br />
Matt Moore’s brother Asher is a Pinto<br />
Yankee.<br />
Photos: Sue Pascoe<br />
Niven, who had a son on the team, would<br />
show up with his silver case and then mix<br />
martinis. James Arness would join Niven<br />
in the bleachers.<br />
Susan Samama, her son Shane and<br />
grandson Mason (5) were in attendance.<br />
Shane recalled playing with Peter Wallin<br />
and Bill Bruns as his coaches. “We won<br />
every year,” he said, noting that his brother<br />
Mark also played in the PPBA. “We’ll have<br />
Mason in the line-up soon.”<br />
Coco Kennedy, a fifth grader at Corpus<br />
Christi School, sang the National Anthem.<br />
Baseball commissioner Bob Benton afterwards<br />
told Coco, “You hit a homerun.”<br />
Eon Sullivan was recognized for selling<br />
the most pancake tickets and will be a batboy<br />
for one UCLA game. The PPBA board<br />
was recognized, as well as Oscar Gonzales,<br />
who works nonstop on field maintenance.<br />
Then it was time for Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong><br />
actor/comedian Bill Hader to throw the<br />
first pitch to the waiting glove of Pinto<br />
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<strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />
Page 16 <strong>March</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2015</strong><br />
Hoops Coach Johnson Savors City Title<br />
By SUE PASCOE<br />
Editor<br />
After winning the City Section Open Division<br />
championship on <strong>March</strong> 7, <strong>Palisades</strong> High girls<br />
basketball coach Torino Johnson said, “I’d like<br />
to make a new dictionary. I’d put in the word team,<br />
and below it I’d put a picture of my girls. They define<br />
that word.”<br />
By the same token, many would put down the word<br />
“coach” and then put Johnson’s photo next to it. This<br />
soft-spoken coach, who works as a special education aide<br />
at PaliHi, has helmed the girls program for eight years.<br />
The Dolphins beat Narbonne 60-56 in the final,<br />
winning the first open-division basketball playoffs in<br />
City history. Johnson said the new division was created<br />
to allow the best teams to play more competitive games.<br />
Johnson was reflective before practice, preparing for<br />
his team’s State playoff opener by watching a taped game<br />
from early November. The large City trophy sat on his<br />
desk in a closet-sized office.<br />
“We don’t need hardware to be champions,” he said.<br />
“We control our own destiny by winning or losing.”<br />
To make it to the finals against Narbonne, <strong>Palisades</strong><br />
overcame a 17-point, third-quarter deficit to defeat<br />
Fairfax. Johnson was asked what he told his team during<br />
a key timeout. “I told them to have fun,” he said. “Playing<br />
should be fun, it shouldn’t be a job.”<br />
Johnson’s philosophy was tested two days after their<br />
championship game. As a Section winner, the Dolphins<br />
were scheduled to open the State playoffs at home<br />
against second-seeded Mater Dei, the number-one<br />
ranked girls team in the nation. Mater Dei had been<br />
PaliHi head girls basketball coach Torino Johnson looks<br />
for challenges for his team, and in the process pushes his<br />
girls to success.<br />
Photo: Bart Bartholomew<br />
The Dolphins celebrate the 60-56 win over Narbonne, which clinched the first City Section Open Division championship.<br />
Photo: Bart Bartholomew<br />
upset by Chaminade. But Monday afternoon, Johnson<br />
was told the game had been moved to the Monarchs’<br />
court in Santa Ana.<br />
“In one way it’s a lack of respect [to take away the<br />
home advantage], but I get it,” Johnson said. “If Mater<br />
Dei loses to Chaminade, is that an actual loss? I can’t<br />
get involved in the politics. We will go to their place and<br />
do what we can do. We look at this as an opportunity,<br />
rather than an adversity.”<br />
Reflecting the life lessons he tries to impart on his<br />
players, Johnson said: “We can’t control the place or<br />
time, but we can control how well we shoot and how<br />
well we play.”<br />
A graduate of Manual Arts and USC (2005), Johnson<br />
doesn’t back down. “I never schedule bad teams—there<br />
are no cream puff games here,” he said. His young team<br />
had only three seniors when it played Mater Dei in the<br />
second game of the season and was thrashed, 74-32.<br />
He called the second chance to play Mater Dei, “an<br />
exciting position for us,” despite his team’s underdog<br />
status. At Mater Dei, a private school, athletics is king<br />
and money is pumped into the program and facilities—<br />
everything is state-of-the-art. “They care about athletics,”<br />
Johnson said.<br />
At <strong>Palisades</strong> High, that same level of support for<br />
facilities and equipment doesn’t exist. This is the first<br />
year the girls have had a locker room, but as Johnson<br />
points out, “We won a championship without it.”<br />
Mater Dei defeated Pali, 99-73, after taking a 32-12<br />
first-quarter lead. Although PaliHi outscored the<br />
Monarchs in the second and third quarter, in the fourth<br />
quarter Mater Dei came back with a vengeance.<br />
“We worked very hard and although the score will tell<br />
a story of us losing, we played hard and put ourselves in<br />
a very good position throughout the game,” Johnson<br />
said afterwards.<br />
The Dolphin scoring was led by junior K. Merrill-Gillett<br />
(23 points), senior Bianca King (21) and sophomore<br />
Chelsey Gipson (16).<br />
Johnson also praised players that don’t always get press,<br />
such as, “Chaniya Pickett has to guard the opposing<br />
team’s best ball handler, and Sammy Spanier (Fr.) Rita<br />
Herbstman (Sr.), Julia Ide (So.), Hannah Akahoshi (Jr.)<br />
and Arianna Haghani (Sr.) because they always work<br />
hard in practice, helping us to get good.”<br />
Pali does have a major advantage that many other<br />
programs lack: Coach Johnson, but he gives all the credit<br />
back to the girls. “We have a really great group of girls<br />
who are creating their own destiny. They’re champs.”<br />
He works with his players year-round. “The kids are<br />
dedicated student-athletes who sacrifice weekends,”<br />
Johnson said, noting that the girls who are on varsity<br />
or trying to make the team practice Monday through<br />
Saturday.<br />
In addition to drills, the girls do weight training,<br />
conditioning and skill building. “We partnered with<br />
the football team and did the Navy Seals training with<br />
them,” said Johnson, who is also strict about girls keeping<br />
their grades high. His players are routinely recruited:<br />
Dominique Scott went to USC, Nicole Flyer to the<br />
University of Michigan and Molly Ross to Carleton.<br />
“Study hall is mandatory during lunch and at seventh<br />
period (2:27 to 3:08 p.m.) and sometimes they stay<br />
until 4 p.m.,” Johnson said. This means some players<br />
have to miss practice time to make sure their grades<br />
are kept high.<br />
His team doesn’t go unnoticed on campus. “This is<br />
one of the best climates of one of the best programs at<br />
the school,” said journalism teacher and former<br />
sportswriter Lisa Saxon. “The girls support each other,<br />
they know how to bring the best of each other on and<br />
off the court.”
<strong>March</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2015</strong> <strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong> Page 17<br />
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The top 40 wrestlers at each of the 14 individual<br />
weight classes participated at the<br />
CIF State meet in Bakersfield on <strong>March</strong> 6<br />
and 7.<br />
Among those participating were Pali -<br />
sades High School seniors David Rheingold<br />
(115 pounds), Brad Boorstein (170 pounds)<br />
and Kenny Jones (heavyweight), who qualified<br />
by taking first in their weight class at<br />
City Section finals. They made history by<br />
being the first PaliHi wrestlers to achieve<br />
this goal since the program was started<br />
three years ago by Randy Aguirre, who<br />
passed away in January.<br />
Although no one advanced to the semi’s<br />
or finals, Coach Aldo Juliano cited lack of<br />
experience at large venues as one of the reasons.<br />
Six matches went on at the same time<br />
and the bleachers were filled to capacity.<br />
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“There were no fish there.” He was asked<br />
about the term. “A fish is someone who is<br />
easy, who flounders around. If you want<br />
fish you came to the wrong pond.<br />
“Kenny should have won,” Juliano said.<br />
“He got a bad call and that changed everything.”<br />
Juliano said the person who beat<br />
the PaliHi senior heavyweight went onto<br />
take third.<br />
“David Rheingold lost his first match,<br />
then won his second, before dropping the<br />
third,” the coach said. “It’s a whole mind<br />
game, you could see the more seasoned<br />
wrestlers handle the crowds and noise.”<br />
Boorstein lost his first match, won his<br />
second, and lost in his third to a wrestler<br />
who went to the finals. “It’s a luck of the<br />
draw,” Juliano said.<br />
The tennis courts at Rustic Canyon<br />
Park were resurfaced last year<br />
through a fundraising effort by the<br />
community and are in impeccable condition,<br />
according to Santa Monica Canyon<br />
resident Debbie Alexander. “The vibe is relaxed,<br />
shady and mellow,” she reported.<br />
Weekly one-hour tennis classes for adults<br />
and children are $165 and provide a variety<br />
of options depending on age and skill level.<br />
Tiny Tot classes geared to three- and<br />
four-year-olds are now offered. They serve<br />
as an introduction to the sport, and classes<br />
are Tuesdays at 1, 1:30 and 2 p.m.<br />
Peewee classes (ages 6 to 9), are offered<br />
at 2 p.m. on Tuesday and 9:30 a.m. on Saturday<br />
and Sunday.<br />
A beginner/intermediate class for kids 9<br />
to 13 teaches the basics of play, how to keep<br />
score, serve and play for points. Classes are<br />
4 p.m. Tuesday, 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturdays<br />
and Sundays at 10:30 a.m.<br />
Adult classes for beginners, advanced<br />
beginners and intermediates are held on<br />
Tuesday and Wednesday under the direction<br />
of tennis pro Park Liu.<br />
An adult tennis workout class is held on<br />
Monday and Friday from 9 to 10:30 p.m.<br />
and the fee is $<strong>18</strong>0 for 10 weeks.<br />
A Rustic Canyon Tennis Club has been<br />
formed. The program is uninstructed and<br />
participants must be of USTA level 3 or<br />
higher to register. The club meets Monday,<br />
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m.<br />
to 1 p.m.<br />
The Rustic Canyon Live Ball Tennis Club<br />
meets from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and is<br />
uninstructed. The cost is $15 and participants<br />
are asked to bring a can of balls on<br />
the first day of class.<br />
An adult advanced drills class involves<br />
a half-hour lesson, then an hour match<br />
play with the instructor. Fee is $<strong>18</strong>0 for 10<br />
weeks, 10 to 11:30 a.m. every Tuesday.<br />
Adult drills intermediate class is a halfhour<br />
lesson to serve and volley, then an<br />
hour instructed play. Fee is $<strong>18</strong>0 for 10<br />
weeks, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays.<br />
On-line registration is closed. Walk-ins<br />
can go to Rustic Canyon Park, 601 Latimer<br />
Road, to register before the start of<br />
the new session on April 12, which runs<br />
through June 6.<br />
Contact park manager Tracy Field at<br />
(310) 459-7594.<br />
Visit: rusticcanyon.rc@lacity.org.<br />
Texas Hold ‘Em Poker<br />
Coming on May 9<br />
The second annual Rotary Texas Hold<br />
‘Em Poker Tournament will be held from<br />
5 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, May 9, in Janes<br />
Hall at the Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> Presbyterian<br />
Church. Proceeds will benefit the <strong>Palisades</strong>-Malibu<br />
YMCA and the Rotary<br />
Club of Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> Foundation.<br />
The prize pool will be more than<br />
$5,000. The initial buy-in is $200 (includes<br />
dinner) and the maximum number<br />
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A Home with Architectural History<br />
By SUE PASCOE<br />
Editor<br />
There’s something reassuring about a<br />
home built decades ago with architectural<br />
insight and graciousness<br />
that people don’t instantly feel the need to<br />
renovate it or tear it down. Those buildings,<br />
like grand dames, have a history and are the<br />
more interesting for it.<br />
One property that fits into that category<br />
is the Trippet House at 13535 Lucca Dr. in<br />
Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong>. The Los Angeles Times featured<br />
this historic French Tudor house in<br />
December 2006 and it is now on the market<br />
for $8.15 million.<br />
“Gerard Colcord was only 29 when he<br />
designed the Trippet House in 1930,” the<br />
story read. “Inspired by farm houses in the<br />
Normandy region of France, its exterior<br />
is rough field stone masonry. A dramatic<br />
high-pitched roof drives the design. Thick<br />
stone walls lend an air of stolidity and give<br />
the impression of a house built to last for<br />
generations.”<br />
Two years later, the house was featured in<br />
the entire first chapter of Bret Parsons’ book<br />
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Parsons wrote: “Rough fieldstone masonry<br />
veneer exemplifies the picturesque<br />
quality of Trippet House. A massive masonry<br />
wall with no window openings facing<br />
the street emphasizes the fireplace and<br />
the solidarity of farm buildings that were<br />
designed to be protective.<br />
“Colcord often modified traditional details.<br />
For example, the steel-easement windows<br />
in Trippet House were generally found<br />
only in the most expensive residences—<br />
not farmhouses. Even the proportions of<br />
the thin steel-framed windows are quite<br />
different from the heavier wood-framed<br />
casement windows found in a French<br />
farmhouse.”<br />
When Parsons published his book, he<br />
received a phone call from actor Harrison<br />
Ford, who owned two of the architect’s<br />
houses. Other celebrities who have owned<br />
Colcord homes included Tom Jones,<br />
Dean Martin, Tony Curtis, Debbie<br />
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“Every owner I talked with said they love<br />
having guests over,” Parsons wrote. “The<br />
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they feel so comfortable.”<br />
There is some notoriety about the Trippet<br />
House’s second owner, Dr. Ernst C.<br />
Fishbaugh, a physician to the oil-rich Doheny<br />
family.<br />
In February 1929, Edward “Ned” Doheny,<br />
36, and his friend and assistant<br />
Theodore Hugh Plunkett, were found dead<br />
in the Greystone mansion in Beverly Hills.<br />
Historical accounts vary but Fishbaugh<br />
may have helped up cover up a crime surrounding<br />
the possible murder/suicide of<br />
the two men.<br />
According to the doctor, “I received a call<br />
at the Hollywood Playhouse from my maid<br />
at 10:30 p.m. and was told to go to the Doheny<br />
home immediately. Upon my arrival<br />
there, one of the watchmen let me in the<br />
house . . . As I entered, Mrs. Doheny was<br />
standing in the middle hallway approximately<br />
eight feet back from the door and<br />
greeted me. She said her husband was in a<br />
guestroom on the first floor, to the left of<br />
the hall leading from the front entrance.<br />
“Both Mrs. Doheny and I started down<br />
the hall, side by side. A door, which partitions<br />
the hall, was slightly ajar, and I saw<br />
Plunkett walking toward it. ‘You stay out of<br />
here,’ he shouted at me and slammed the<br />
door shut. I then heard a shot. ‘You go back,’<br />
I told Mrs. Doheny, and she returned to the<br />
living room, which was about 75 feet away<br />
from the guest room. I pushed the door<br />
open and saw Plunkett lying on his face<br />
opposite the door to the bedroom where<br />
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The door to the bedroom was open, and<br />
when I looked in I saw Mr. Doheny lying<br />
on his back, a chair overturned between<br />
him and the bed.”<br />
An ensuing media storm soon called<br />
Ned Doheny a hero because of a rumor he<br />
was trying to help a troubled friend, and<br />
had been killed for his efforts.<br />
The forensic investigator, Leslie White,<br />
doubted Fishbaugh’s story. He found a smoldering<br />
cigarette in Hugh’s fingertips, who<br />
supposedly had just killed his best friend<br />
and then himself. The gun used in the murder<br />
lay under Plunkett’s body, very warm,<br />
as if someone had heated it in the oven.<br />
Indeed, the doctor was caught in several<br />
lies, including withholding the fact that<br />
Ned had been alive when the doctor burst<br />
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into the room. White also observed that<br />
Ned had been shot at very close range,<br />
Hugh had not.<br />
The case initially hit all of the local papers,<br />
but 36 hours later District Attorney<br />
Buron Fitts officially closed the investigation,<br />
killing any further investigation.<br />
Several theories had been floated, including<br />
that the two men were lovers, but there<br />
was also a financial aspect that cannot be<br />
discounted.<br />
The elder Doheny had become involved<br />
in the Teapot Dome scandal, in which Doheny,<br />
Albert Fall [U.S. Secretary of State]<br />
and oilman Harry Sinclair were charged<br />
with conspiracy. Earlier, Ned and Hugh had<br />
gone to New York and after withdrawing<br />
$100,000 from a banking account, gave<br />
the money to Fall.<br />
Doheny was acquitted in December<br />
1926, but was later charged again, this time<br />
with bribery.<br />
Ned and Hugh had been called to testify<br />
in the upcoming bribery trials of Albert Fall<br />
and E.L. Doheny. And although Ned had<br />
been assured immunity, Hugh had not.<br />
After the murders, Fishbaugh purchased<br />
the Trippet House.<br />
Today, the 4,976-sq.-ft. home has 6 bedrooms<br />
and 5.5 bathrooms on a 20,877-sq.-<br />
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Editor<br />
Documentarian Brian Ivie is the<br />
next speaker in the monthly “Food<br />
for Thought” series on Thursday,<br />
<strong>March</strong> 26, after the free luncheon at 11:30<br />
a.m. in the <strong>Palisades</strong> Presbyterian Church’s<br />
community room, Janes Hall. Ivie will<br />
speak about The Drop Box, which opened<br />
at 750 theaters on <strong>March</strong> 3.<br />
Clips will be shown from this featurelength<br />
documentary, which tells the story<br />
of one man’s efforts to protect and care for<br />
newborn babies who might have otherwise<br />
been abandoned on the streets of Seoul,<br />
South Korea.<br />
Pastor Lee Jong-Rak built a “baby<br />
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for these babies. So far, more than 600 babies,<br />
many of whom have disabilities, have<br />
been helped. A portion of the film’s proceeds<br />
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He has been quoted as saying, “They<br />
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them here for a purpose.”<br />
“The Drop Box is a profoundly moving<br />
documentary that sheds much-needed<br />
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of each human person, especially those<br />
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J.W.M.<br />
Turner:<br />
Master<br />
of Sea,<br />
Mist and<br />
Light<br />
By LIBBY MOTIKA<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong> Contributor<br />
If the renowned <strong>18</strong>th-century British<br />
artist J.W.M. Turner could have slipped<br />
into the eye of a hurricane, he most certainly<br />
would have rendered the power and<br />
intensity of the storm looking from the inside<br />
out, with an emotional intensity that<br />
seemed impossible with paint on canvas.<br />
But this was the man who claimed that<br />
he was tied to the mast of a ship on the<br />
night of a storm and witnessed it for four<br />
hours. When looking at the finished painting,<br />
“Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbour’s<br />
Mouth,” the viewer is caught up in<br />
that very vortex.<br />
Turner was captivated by natural phenomena—sunrises,<br />
fog and the mutable skies—<br />
J.M.W. Turner self-portrait<br />
“The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, <strong>18</strong>34.”<br />
and he was obsessed with natural catastrophes,<br />
raging storms and conflagrations.<br />
Turner was captivated by natural phenomena—sunrises,<br />
fog and the mutable<br />
skies—and he was obsessed with natural catastrophes,<br />
raging storms and conflagrations.<br />
“When the Tower of London was burning<br />
down in <strong>18</strong>21, Turner applied to the<br />
Duke of Wellington to go into the Tower<br />
and make studies, but he was denied. So he<br />
made the studies from across the water,<br />
which are so incredibly fresh to our eye,”<br />
says Julian Brooks, co-curator of the exhibition<br />
“J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free”<br />
at the Getty Museum through May 24.<br />
The 60 watercolors and oil paintings on<br />
view represent the last 15 years of Turner’s<br />
life. Remarkably, these are the most expressive,<br />
dynamic and innovative of his life’s<br />
work, says Timothy Potts, director of the<br />
J. Paul Getty Museum.<br />
“This is an exhibition with a thesis,” Potts<br />
continues. “It wants to look at Turner’s late<br />
work and understand it going back to the<br />
end of the <strong>18</strong>th century and early 19th century<br />
when he is consciously drawing on the<br />
work of other great landscape artists. Then<br />
you have this flourish that is so totally different.<br />
Instead of defining and representing<br />
reality in a traditional way, the artist’s late<br />
work is much more expressive. It flows between<br />
solid and liquid, air and wind and<br />
sea—all these elements of nature in a very<br />
expressive and atmospheric way. That’s<br />
what appeals to modern audiences.” It has<br />
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art: The John Howard McFadden Collection, 1928<br />
been seen as, in a sense, proto-modern.<br />
Turner was born in London in 1775 and<br />
lived as the Industrial Revolution was transforming<br />
England from hand production<br />
methods to machines. He showed an early<br />
talent for drawing and watercolor and was<br />
admitted to the Royal Academy of Art in<br />
1789 at age 14. During these early years, he<br />
developed the custom of traveling throughout<br />
Britain, producing a wide range of<br />
sketches for working up into studies and<br />
watercolors.<br />
Throughout his life, Turner continued to<br />
travel every summer on his own, often on<br />
foot, having no retinue carrying his bags. He<br />
had his boots resoled and re-heeled countless<br />
times, but he was just driven to carry<br />
on. This was where his subject matter was.<br />
He expanded his itinerary to the Continent,<br />
after the end of the Napoleonic wars in<br />
<strong>18</strong>15 when Continental travel was possible.<br />
Venice was one of his favorite places<br />
and it was easy to see why. It was all about<br />
(Continued on Page 21)<br />
“Venice at Sunrise from the Hotel Europa, with Campanile of San Marco,” about <strong>18</strong>40.<br />
Photo © Tate, London 2014
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“Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth,” exhibited <strong>18</strong>42. Photo © Tate, London 2014<br />
whole career focuses on the sea. These maritime<br />
scenes capture more than just pretty<br />
seascapes, but rather show his intensely<br />
emotional observations of the play of light<br />
on the water and the radiance of the skies.<br />
“In ‘Snow Storm,’ the steamboat is absolutely<br />
at the mercy of the elements,”<br />
Brooks says. “This new technology (steam<br />
power) is nothing compared to the power<br />
of nature. Here you can’t even see the horizon,<br />
it’s a vortex. These veils of spray that<br />
come up, you feel it also in the coloring,<br />
there is hardly any blue or green—the normal<br />
colors you’d find in a maritime picture.<br />
It’s really black and white; you feel a seeth -<br />
ing power of the ocean underneath.”<br />
Critics were outraged by this exhibition.<br />
One opined, “It’s just a load of soapsuds<br />
and whitewash.” Turner replied, “Well, I<br />
wish I’d been in it.”<br />
Notably eccentric, Turner had few<br />
friends, except for his father, who lived with<br />
him for 30 years until his death in <strong>18</strong>29.<br />
While he never married, later in life Turner<br />
lived with Sophia Caroline Booth, in whose<br />
house he had rented a room in the seaside<br />
town of Margate. The two lived together<br />
in Chelsea until his death in <strong>18</strong>51. (Mr.<br />
Turner, director Mike Leigh’s film currently<br />
in theaters, received high marks from the<br />
director of the Tate Galleries, who said:<br />
“Mike Leigh and star Timothy Spall’s great<br />
achievement is showing us how the artist<br />
approached the physical business of painting.<br />
But they also convey the spirit of a man<br />
whose reputation as a curmudgeon is un-<br />
(Continued from Page 20)<br />
atmosphere. As he said to John Ruskin,<br />
the leading English art critic at the time,<br />
“Atmosphere is my style.”<br />
Success followed Turner’s recognized talent,<br />
which allowed him financial independence.<br />
His early works stayed true to the<br />
traditions of English landscape, but as he<br />
aged he began to push the envelope by introducing<br />
new subject matter that his contemporaries<br />
weren’t painting.<br />
“He painted contemporary scenes and<br />
much more assiduously than his contemporaries,<br />
who were generally working on<br />
medieval subjects or pure landscapes, descriptive,<br />
photographical landscapes,”<br />
Brooks says.<br />
By <strong>18</strong>35, when Turner was 60 years old,<br />
he was at the top of his game, had made a<br />
great deal of money, and could have easily<br />
settled into a quiet life, but continued to<br />
paint. Everything in the Getty exhibition<br />
is what he did after that period.<br />
About half of his subject matter over his<br />
warranted, given his passionate interest in<br />
people and the world around him.”)<br />
Turner left the majority of his works,<br />
over 19,000 works on paper and 200<br />
paintings, finished and unfinished, to the<br />
English nation, which are housed at the<br />
Tate Britain. The Getty exhibition is the<br />
first major exhibition on the West Coast<br />
devoted to Turner’s paintings, organized<br />
by Tate Britain.<br />
On Tuesday, April 14, at 1:30 p.m., Assistant<br />
Curator of Paintings Peter Bjorn Kerber<br />
and Curator of Drawings Julian Brooks<br />
will lead gallery tours of the exhibition.<br />
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Local Teachers Featured in Photography Show<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> High School teachers Steve<br />
Engelmann and Paula Riff will be<br />
featured in a Los Angeles Center of<br />
Photography exhibition entitled “f16–New<br />
Photographic Visions.” The opening reception<br />
is 7 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, <strong>March</strong><br />
21, at the Center, 1515 Wilcox Ave. in Hollywood.<br />
The exhibition is free and runs<br />
through April 17.<br />
This fine art photography collection includes<br />
multiple processes and highlights the<br />
Steve Engelmann uses multiple negatives to<br />
combine the human form with the twisted<br />
heartwood of the ancient bristlecone pine.<br />
varying points of view of artists: Maureen<br />
Bond, John Bosma, Tom Carmichael, Ladini<br />
Conder, Cindy Crane, Sheri Determan,<br />
Beth Dubber, Engelmann, Carol Erb,<br />
Samantha Geballe, Crystal Dickerson-Hancock,<br />
Shari Yantra Marcacci, Maureen Price,<br />
Riff, Anne Slattery and Isabella Vosmikova.<br />
Engelmann, who teaches AP environmental<br />
science and coaches the Environthon<br />
team, received a bachelor’s degree in<br />
marine biology from UCLA.<br />
A lifelong Palisadian (his parents moved<br />
here in 1962), Engelmann started taking<br />
photos when he was a student at Paul Revere<br />
Junior High. He continued studying<br />
photography with Rob Doucotte at PaliHi,<br />
graduating in 1982.<br />
In addition to the L.A. Center of Photography,<br />
Englemann’s work has been exhibited<br />
many times at the Santa Monica<br />
College Photography Gallery and at the<br />
Happening Gallery in Marina del Rey.<br />
Englemann was the sole artist featured<br />
at SMC in a 2012 show “Natura Humana,”<br />
with the theme of how human beings relate<br />
to nature—in each photograph, he<br />
juxtaposed two images into one.<br />
In an earlier interview, he explained, “I<br />
isolate a form from nature and incorporate<br />
a human shape or detail within. Each image<br />
has a complement with either a positive or<br />
negative background. The duality of these<br />
pairings emphasizes the struggle to find a<br />
new equilibrium.”<br />
The photographer said that people have<br />
difficulty deciphering both images. “People<br />
see something totally different, like psychology’s<br />
figure-ground tests.”<br />
The environmentalist added that he is<br />
“exploring our senses as our connection to<br />
natural elements. Nature feeds us, quenches<br />
us, nurtures us, heals and soothes us, and<br />
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contradictions and the conflicts that ensue.”<br />
Englemann’s wife, Diana, is an English<br />
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Paula Riff has worked as a special education<br />
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Berkeley, where she majored in Japanese<br />
language and studies.<br />
After college, she lived in Tokyo for several<br />
years. When she returned to the U.S.,<br />
Riff became an interpreter for Japanese film<br />
production companies in Los Angeles.<br />
As a self-taught photographer, Riff<br />
switched careers, landing an internship in<br />
the photo department at the Los Angeles<br />
County Museum of Art. Although she<br />
had a fairly successful career shooting<br />
This is one of nine photographs that are part<br />
of a larger series called “Russian Postcards”<br />
by <strong>Palisades</strong> High teacher Paula Riff.<br />
portraits and hand-coloring photographs,<br />
she entered graduate school and received<br />
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April Group<br />
Show Seeks<br />
Art Entries<br />
The Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> Art Association<br />
will host its April Group Show, featuring<br />
painting on canvas, painting under<br />
glass and sculpture. This show is open<br />
to all paid members. Art may be submitted<br />
at the <strong>Palisades</strong> Branch library<br />
from 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesday,<br />
<strong>March</strong> 25.<br />
The entry fee is $10 per item and<br />
there is a maximum of three entries<br />
in each category. All work must have<br />
a sturdy hanging wire across the<br />
back, with a maximum size of 42<br />
inches on any side. Framing should<br />
be of professional quality or canvases<br />
may have wrapped sides. Sculpture is<br />
picked up after judging, about 1 p.m.<br />
<strong>March</strong> 25, and brought back for the<br />
reception only.<br />
A reception and awards ceremony<br />
will be held on Saturday, April 4,<br />
from noon to 2 p.m. Ribbons will be<br />
awarded in each category. (The show<br />
in November will include art in the<br />
mixed-media, photo, print and drawing<br />
categories.)<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> Postal Worker<br />
Sentenced for Hit-and-Run<br />
Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> postal worker Marguerite<br />
Dao Vuong, 67, was sentenced<br />
to three years in prison for a December<br />
2013 hit-and-run crash that killed 23-<br />
year-old David Pregerson. Her husband,<br />
Michael, 67, received one year in jail and<br />
three years’ probation for claiming he drove<br />
the vehicle at the time of the crash.<br />
At the sentencing on <strong>March</strong> 6, Deputy<br />
District Attorney Marna Miller told Los<br />
Angeles Superior Court Judge Kathryn<br />
Solorzano that Marguerite Vuong, who was<br />
driving to work at the Post Office facility on<br />
La Cruz, turned her vehicle around after<br />
it struck Pregerson. Miller said it was clear<br />
that Vuong drove back by his body before<br />
she went home and switched cars so she<br />
could drive to work without notifying authorities<br />
about what had happened.<br />
Judge Solorzano was also told that<br />
Vuong’s husband was responsible for having<br />
the car’s windshield replaced after the<br />
crash, resulting in destruction of evidence.<br />
Pregerson, a recent UCLA graduate, a son<br />
of U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson and<br />
a grandson of U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals<br />
Judge Harry Pregerson, was walking<br />
on the 600 block of Chautauqua Boulevard.<br />
According to the L.A. Times, “The victim,<br />
drunk after a party, was struck as he<br />
was walking home about 3 a.m. For<br />
months, the case went unsolved, but surveillance<br />
videos from homeowners in the<br />
residential area where the collision took<br />
place helped lead police to identify Marguerite<br />
as the driver. He was found later<br />
in the bushes by the side of the road by a<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> Patrol officer, transported to the<br />
hospital and died four days later.<br />
“In a secret recording made at the police<br />
station, Marguerite told her husband<br />
to ‘lie about everything.’”<br />
A City <strong>News</strong> Service report noted the<br />
victim’s father called what had happened<br />
a “horror” and said his son had been “annihilated<br />
by a three-ton vehicle.”<br />
“You never get over the loss of a child,” he<br />
said. “Every day is just pain management.”<br />
Dean Pregerson wondered, “What kind<br />
of person is capable of leaving a broken<br />
body on a highway?” The family and the<br />
Los Angeles City Council each offered<br />
$50,000 rewards for information leading to<br />
the driver’s arrest and conviction.<br />
Dao Vuong’s son Andrew, an emergencyroom<br />
physician, told the Pregersons how<br />
deeply they were affected by the tragedy<br />
and that his parents were not evil, but had<br />
made mistakes, and asked for forgiveness.<br />
Another of the couple’s sons, Johnny,<br />
said his parents came to the United States<br />
from war-torn Vietnam. “They are not<br />
monsters,” he said. “Ultimately they are<br />
imperfect people.”<br />
In addition to her state prison sentence,<br />
Marguerite Vuong’s California driver’s license<br />
will be revoked for a one-year period that will<br />
begin when she is paroled from state prison.<br />
Rain Report<br />
The February 28 drizzle plus the <strong>March</strong><br />
1 downpour resulted in 1.01 inches of rain,<br />
per an official Los Angeles County rain<br />
gauge, located at Carol Leacock’s home on<br />
Bienveneda Avenue.<br />
Deputy assistant rainmeister Ted Mackie<br />
said normal to date is 12.48 inches; currently<br />
Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> has received 7.59<br />
inches. Last year’s total at this time was 5.94<br />
inches. He reminded us that 2006-2007 was<br />
the driest year in recent history, when only<br />
4.11 inches of rain were reported.<br />
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Fundraiser Showcases Top Fashion Lines<br />
Servicing<br />
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Cindy Jones is in BOCA clothing.<br />
The Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> Woman’s Club<br />
hosted its annual fashion show and<br />
luncheon on <strong>March</strong> 3. More than<br />
120 guests watched as <strong>18</strong> models strutted<br />
down a runway in clothing provided by<br />
BOCA Man, BOCA and Vivian’s Boutique.<br />
The tradition began more than 30 years<br />
ago, as not only a way to showcase local<br />
stores and available fashions, but also as a<br />
fundraiser for the club.<br />
This year the organizing committee responsible<br />
for securing fashions, finding<br />
models and decorating the room included<br />
Nichelle Toomire, Stephanie Smith, Terri<br />
Webb, Dr. Jane George, Terri Lyman,<br />
Haldis Toppel, Roberta Donohue and<br />
Brook Dougherty.<br />
Smith crafted the ceiling floral overhangs,<br />
using flowers from her own garden,<br />
and joined with Toomire to create floral<br />
centerpieces for the tables.<br />
The normally drab yellow curtain on<br />
the stage was partially pulled to reveal a<br />
colorful backdrop hung by Smith. Once<br />
she had selected the material for the backdrop,<br />
she used that color theme to design<br />
invitations, banners and the menus<br />
tucked into the napkins.<br />
Toomire and Smith chose Taste restaurant<br />
in the Highlands to provide the food.<br />
Guests were able to select from a Mexican-style<br />
salad with chicken or a roasted<br />
vegetable salad. Wine was donated by club<br />
members. Dessert, also from Taste, included<br />
a selection mini-cupcakes, chocolate-chip<br />
cookies and brownies.<br />
Servers were from the Midnight Mission:<br />
men who are honing skills in food services.<br />
The nonprofit offers a self-sufficiency path<br />
and job opportunities to men and women<br />
who have lost everything. The Mission provides<br />
the accountability and structure that<br />
homeless individuals need to rejoin their<br />
communities. After securing a job, participants<br />
gradually move into the Midnight<br />
Mission’s Transitional Housing Center or<br />
back into the community.<br />
Palisadian Greg Alper performed on<br />
his saxophone, providing live background<br />
music.<br />
Dr. George was in charge of securing raffle<br />
items. Webb arranged and wrapped the<br />
items, aided by Phyllis Nelson, Judy Grosh,<br />
Sharon Kanan and Cathie Yonke. Guests<br />
dropped tickets into jars placed in front<br />
of the items they wanted to win; during<br />
the show, tickets were drawn and winners<br />
announced.<br />
Jean Aroeste and Donohue worked on<br />
reservations and table seating, while<br />
Woman’s Club president Lyman, Toppel<br />
and Dougherty worked behind the scenes<br />
to ensure that the event ran smoothly.<br />
In addition to the clothing, Flash Jewelry<br />
Gallery donated jewelry for models to wear.<br />
Club member Holly Surya sold jewelry in<br />
the lobby before the show.<br />
Vivian Foster, owner of Vivian’s Boutique<br />
on Via de la Paz, served as the emcee<br />
during the fashion show. Male models were<br />
Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> Chamber of Commerce<br />
CEO Arnie Wishnick, personal trainer Rigo<br />
Manzanares (Gelson’s former wine manager),<br />
Dr. Shannon Watson and Caruso<br />
Affiliated executive Rick Lemmo.<br />
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Dr. Shannon Watson wears BOCA Man.<br />
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Carol Pfannkuche, Reny Cantu, Sue Pascoe,<br />
Frances Sharpe, Brooke King, Cindy Jones,<br />
Marie Tran, Sarah Ketelhut and Dana Glover.<br />
Everyone attending received a gift bag<br />
containing shampoo, lotion and other cosmetic<br />
samples. There were gifts from Flash,<br />
Vivian’s and Marie Tran in every bag.<br />
Proceeds from the event will be used<br />
towards the $1.5-million clubhouse renovation.<br />
Bryan’s Smile Focuses<br />
On Drug Awareness<br />
When Santa Monica dentist Melanie<br />
Gullet lost her 26-year-old son Bryan to<br />
drug addiction, she formed Bryan’s Smile,<br />
a nonprofit organization dedicated to<br />
bringing awareness about addiction and<br />
depression.<br />
“The ‘not my child’ and the ‘not me’ attitude,<br />
along with the lack of knowledge<br />
about addiction and depression, have created<br />
a disturbing increase in deaths of<br />
America’s young,” Gullet said. “Our mission<br />
is to bring awareness and communication<br />
about what is being called an<br />
epidemic by the Centers for Disease Control<br />
and Prevention.”<br />
On <strong>March</strong> <strong>18</strong>, April 16 and May 14, there<br />
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Each attendee will be given a drug-abuse<br />
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addictive drugs and gateway drugs. Participants<br />
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The organizations believes that the best<br />
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DINING WITH GRACE<br />
Idiscovered the Glendon Bar & Kitchen restaurant a<br />
year or two ago for a quick dinner before I went to<br />
the Geffen Playhouse. The Glendon is handily just<br />
down the street from the Trader Joe’s parking lot where<br />
the Geffen gives ticketholders free parking.<br />
Before performances I always enjoyed sharing a salad<br />
and a crispy rustic pizza, or bourbon buffalo wings or<br />
sliders. However, this time my friend and I enjoyed a<br />
leisurely dinner and a chat with Chef and Managing<br />
Partner Nicholas Jacobs.<br />
It is always fascinating to see young chefs like Nick,<br />
almost 30, who was a working chef in New York before<br />
opening the Glendon about five years ago.<br />
After eating the excellent food, it is clear why the<br />
restaurant has been a success.<br />
The setting is attractive, with a large bar, tables<br />
throughout and banquette seating with tables along<br />
one wall. Two elegant chandeliers hang from the high<br />
ceilings, and the back wall features handsomely framed<br />
mirrors. Upstairs, there is a separate dining room for<br />
private parties and special occasions.<br />
With glasses of wine came crispy cheese bread sticks<br />
and a small dipping sauce. My friend and I shared a<br />
Hilgard salad composed of baby arugula, strawberries,<br />
candied pecans, gorgonzola and a fine balsamic Dijon<br />
vinaigrette. This was a delicious salad, especially with<br />
the strawberries and the superb vinaigrette.<br />
My friend had ‘The Marc” pasta, consisting of penne<br />
pasta with grilled chicken, parmesan and fresh basil<br />
Hike with Mike<br />
Councilman Mike Bonin invites<br />
constituents to join him on a hike in<br />
Temescal Canyon from 9 a.m. to noon<br />
on Saturday, <strong>March</strong> 28. Chat with the<br />
councilman about issues, and hear<br />
about the work he is doing for local<br />
neighborhoods.<br />
Meet at the north side of Sunset<br />
Boulevard at Temescal Canyon. Parking<br />
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pepper and light cream. It was excellent, tasty and not<br />
overpowering but quite scrumptious.<br />
The fresh fish, a sesame crusted mahi-mahi with<br />
lemon, was superb. The accompanying sautéed spinach<br />
side I ordered was perfect with the fish.<br />
Prices are moderate: the mahi-mahi or fresh Alaskan<br />
salmon were $14.50, while the pastas ranged from $16.50<br />
for The Marc to $17 for a truffle tequila farfalle pasta<br />
with grilled flank steak.<br />
Newport Farms Angus beef New York steak is $16.50,<br />
and a free-range chicken breast is $13.50. All salads come<br />
with a suggestion of various added proteins, such as<br />
chicken, grilled steak, seared ahi and salmon. The salads<br />
were $13 to $15.50, with the protein additions only $2<br />
to $3.50 more.<br />
The Grand Marnier baked brownie with candied<br />
pecans and ice cream was served on a berry-painted plate.<br />
This succulent rich dessert was good to the last bite, even<br />
though my guest and I usually have only one bite each.<br />
Desserts, such as the banana-bourbon bread pudding,<br />
or the cobbler, or a warm cookie trio with bourboninfused<br />
whipped cream, are $8.<br />
The Petit Plates dinner menu (which I selected before<br />
theater at the Geffen) offers more than a dozen items<br />
in the $7 to $12.50 price range. There are sliders (a duo<br />
is $9.50 and a trio $12); chicken spring rolls ($7.50);<br />
fried asparagus ($11); baked mac’n cheese ($8.50); a<br />
Library Bookstore Open<br />
The Friends of Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> Library’s<br />
bookstore continues to offer “new” books<br />
that are shelved almost daily. Many of these<br />
books are in mint condition, and most can<br />
be purchased for less than $2, perfect to take<br />
traveling. Unlike a library book, if you forget<br />
it in a hotel, there are no fines or replacement<br />
costs; rather it is the hotel maid’s gain.<br />
Store hours are Monday through Friday<br />
from 1 to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m.<br />
to 5 p.m., in the library’s converted back<br />
patio. Proceeds from sales are used to purchase<br />
new books for the <strong>Palisades</strong> and other<br />
branch libraries. If you would like to volunteer,<br />
visit: friendsofpalilibrary.org.<br />
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<strong>March</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2015</strong> <strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong> Special Section — Summer Camps & Schools Page 3<br />
Local Expert Offers Stress Tips for Parents<br />
By LAUREL BUSBY<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Children today are often under pressure<br />
to “do things faster, better and<br />
earlier,” stress expert and author<br />
Amanda Enayati says. Whether it’s walking,<br />
talking, or learning to read, parents<br />
may feel pressure to help their kids move<br />
forward in building skills instead of simply<br />
enjoying the fun of childhood.<br />
But it doesn’t have to be this way. Parents<br />
can act as “protective barriers” between our<br />
competitive society and their kids—allowing<br />
children more time and space to play<br />
and relax, while also helping youngsters<br />
develop resiliency in handling life’s stresses.<br />
Here are Enayati’s top stress tips for parents<br />
and kids that she has discovered in<br />
her years investigating the subject for<br />
CNN Health, PBS Media Shift and other<br />
media outlets.<br />
1. Playtime, downtime and family time:<br />
“The young child’s job is to play,” Enayati<br />
says. “Even when kids have a moment, we<br />
try to get them to do something constructive<br />
and formal, but we need to build<br />
wide-open spaces in their day where they<br />
have nothing to do but play.” This play<br />
would also be gadget-free with things like<br />
blocks and Legos, instead of using the instant<br />
gratification of phones, iPads, computers<br />
and television.<br />
2. Build an unconditionally loving family:<br />
In her research, Enayati learned that the<br />
strongest predictor of high achievement<br />
and low behavioral problems is family<br />
On the Cover<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> Elementary fourth graders<br />
(left to right) Letizia Oetker, Gabriella<br />
Bose, Sofia and Sasha Shull, Olivia<br />
Rodeno and Claire Monaco jumped<br />
rope to show support for American<br />
Heart Month. The annual event<br />
promotes exercise and a healthy diet, as<br />
well as awareness of a national event<br />
to prevent heart attacks and strokes.<br />
Photo: Bart Bartholomew<br />
meals. “The importance of family time<br />
and being part of a family cannot be emphasized<br />
enough. Family doesn’t have to<br />
be defined a certain way just as long as the<br />
child feels like they are part of a community<br />
or family.”<br />
3. Resting, rejuvenating and relaxing:<br />
Sleep is vital. “Lack of sleep is coordinated<br />
with high levels of anxiety and depression,”<br />
Enayati notes. She suggests maintaining a<br />
child’s routine with parts of the day to anticipate<br />
happily, so that no matter what<br />
stresses might be affecting the parents, the<br />
child still has a stable schedule.<br />
4. Teach children the art of distraction:<br />
Stress is an inevitable part of life, and part<br />
of childhood is learning to handle life’s difficulties.<br />
One way to deal with stress is simply<br />
to turn one’s attention away from it. If<br />
children practice this with a parent, they<br />
can eventually learn to do it for themselves.<br />
5. Problem solving: In discussions with<br />
children about a problem, try asking openended<br />
questions, such as “Tell me what’s<br />
happening.” Then discuss any misunderstandings<br />
a kid may have and brainstorm<br />
strategies that may help solve the problem.<br />
If similar situations have occurred in the<br />
with Sinjin<br />
Smith<br />
Amanda Enayati<br />
past, aid a child in recalling what was beneficial<br />
then that might also help now.<br />
6. Validate children’s feelings: It is important<br />
to say “I know how that feels” instead<br />
of saying “You shouldn’t be feeling that<br />
way,” Enayati says. By doing this, the parent<br />
alleviates stress and helps a child learn<br />
empathy. Another good question during<br />
conflicts is simply “How do you think the<br />
other person feels?”<br />
7. Treat children like children: “Kids are<br />
not mini-adults,” she says, so it’s important<br />
to make certain that they are not<br />
being exposed to inappropriate media, inappropriate<br />
ways of dressing or inappropriate<br />
adult issues.<br />
8. Some stress is good: It’s vital that kids<br />
learn to handle some adversity, so that<br />
they can develop resiliency and coping<br />
skills as they encounter stress throughout<br />
their lives. “There has to be some degree<br />
of legitimate suffering—not abuse . . . but<br />
growing and failing and learning from<br />
that,” Enayati says.<br />
9. Ask the big important whys: A good<br />
question to ask ourselves is “What is our<br />
value system as a society and as a family?”<br />
she said. Each family has its own value system,<br />
and it is worth taking a look at what<br />
that is. Sometimes, the value system itself<br />
may be causing stress, so identifying the<br />
value system may help address the stress.<br />
If some values aren’t what you want<br />
them to be, then alter them to what is truly<br />
important to your family. “It’s never too<br />
late. Put your stake in the ground and live<br />
your values,” Enayati says. “Sometimes that<br />
causes suffering and difficulty, but that is<br />
the good kind of suffering. You’re asking<br />
the big whys.”<br />
(Amanda Enayati’s book, Seeking Serenity:<br />
The 10 New Rules for Health and Happiness<br />
in the Age of Anxiety, was published<br />
this month, and an article about her and the<br />
book is featured on page 5 of this paper.)<br />
Optimist Club Seeks Grant Applicants<br />
Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> Optimist Club, whose<br />
motto is “Friends of Youth” and whose<br />
goal is “Bring Out the Best in Kids,” will<br />
once again make annual grants to youth<br />
organizations based in Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> or<br />
those that provide services that benefit<br />
youth in this community.<br />
Grants may be used for funding of a specific<br />
event, for equipment, a facility or service,<br />
and must be spent this year. Grants are<br />
not given to organizations that request continuing<br />
financial support. The application<br />
must be received no later than <strong>March</strong> 31.<br />
Award decisions will be made within<br />
two months, and grant recipients will be<br />
notified and, if possible, receive their<br />
awards at the weekly Tuesday breakfast<br />
meeting of the <strong>Palisades</strong> Optimists.<br />
Interested organizations, schools and<br />
clubs may send queries to grant committee<br />
chairman Bill Skinner (ibeeel@aol.com)<br />
or call (310) 459-8286 to receive an application<br />
and grant guidelines.<br />
Applications are also available at the<br />
Chamber of Commerce at 15330 Antioch<br />
Street. They may be returned to the Chamber<br />
or mailed to Grants Committee Chairman,<br />
Optimist Club of Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong>,<br />
P.O. Box 211, Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> 90272.<br />
Santa Monica - 2030 Ocean Avenue – Beach Lot #4 south<br />
Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> - Will Rogers State te t<br />
Beach ( Tower <strong>18</strong>)<br />
June 8th thru August 28th<br />
Beach Volleyball Camps: 9:00am to 12:00pm (M-F)<br />
Sand & Sea Beach Camps: 9am-12pm and, or 12-3pm<br />
(M-F)<br />
REGISTER ONLINE<br />
AT<br />
Boys & Girls ages 7-<strong>18</strong>.<br />
All skill levels welcome!<br />
www.beachvolleyballcamps.com<br />
For more information call<br />
310-940-7166<br />
or email us at info@beachvolleyballcamps.com<br />
Summertime<br />
Pool Fun<br />
After group swimming<br />
lessons, this happy<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong>-Malibu<br />
camper was allowed to<br />
play in the <strong>Palisades</strong><br />
High School swimming<br />
pool.<br />
Photo: Courtesy of<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong>-Malibu YMCA
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Camps Should Be Fun<br />
By LAUREL BUSBY<br />
Staff Writer<br />
As the school year came to a close last<br />
year, my then-nine-year-old son<br />
announced that summer would be<br />
his rest time, so he wouldn’t be participating<br />
in any activities.<br />
When I list the number of activities he<br />
had been participating in, you might think<br />
that he had a point that it was all a bit much.<br />
He did gymnastics, chess, saxophone,<br />
drama, chorus, Chinese, strategy games, art,<br />
soccer and an occasional nature class.<br />
On the other hand, he didn’t have to go<br />
to school, because he’s a homeschooler. At<br />
home, we took a laid-back approach to<br />
homeschooling. We read books, did some<br />
casual math when he was in the mood,<br />
played board games and explored science<br />
kits. He also had lots of time to draw, make<br />
his own cards and otherwise engage in activities<br />
that called to him. In addition, we<br />
went on field trips to plays and museums.<br />
He was also tired of the field trips,<br />
though, and was insistent that he just want -<br />
ed to hang out at home. So we did . . . for<br />
a while, and it was nice. He listened to audiobooks<br />
and made cards. He created an<br />
origami animal game where he was the<br />
game master, and he made teams of animals<br />
and special power boosts for them.<br />
We also watched some movies and continued<br />
to play board games. We didn’t<br />
even plan a vacation.<br />
I have to admit that I was exhausted, too,<br />
and cherished the down time. We both<br />
needed a break from driving all over the<br />
L.A. basin to so many activities. But what<br />
about camp? I had loved camp as a kid and<br />
didn’t want him to miss out on the fun.<br />
He turned down my suggestion that he<br />
might like the camp that his chorus director<br />
had created. Even though he enjoyed<br />
chorus, he thought a singing and acting<br />
camp would be too much for him.<br />
He eventually agreed to try the same<br />
Chinese camp that he had attended the year<br />
before. He enjoyed it, and he was ready to<br />
try another camp. He did so, and we also<br />
decided to travel a bit, venturing to San<br />
Francisco and Yosemite for a laid-back vacation.<br />
Both the camps and the trips<br />
seemed to inspire him to want a bit more<br />
in the way of activities again.<br />
Not too many, though. For the fall, we<br />
scaled back. He dropped chorus and<br />
drama. I decided that the drives I had been<br />
making for chess, art and saxophone were<br />
just too long for me, so those were dropped<br />
too. Instead, Chinese, gymnastics, soccer<br />
and the occasional nature class or field trip<br />
became the remaining regular activities.<br />
Suddenly our lives were more manageable.<br />
In the process of overdoing it and perhaps<br />
at times underdoing it, I discovered<br />
Linus Busby Thompson works on his gymnastic skills.<br />
that for both our sakes, we needed to pick<br />
and choose activities with a bit more attention<br />
to burnout. As spring approached, my<br />
son realized that he was missing chorus,<br />
while soccer came to an end. So he rejoined<br />
the chorus. He also was ready to add back<br />
chess and was intrigued by the gymnastic<br />
sport, Parkour, so he began sporadically<br />
attending a class.<br />
The whole family did a bit of volunteering—working<br />
at a state park to help remove<br />
invasive plants and install native ones, and<br />
we all felt enlivened by it. Over the holiday<br />
break, my son tried a winter camp, which<br />
was a big hit with him. He has already asked<br />
to attend more summer camps this year.<br />
Strangely enough, during the previous<br />
school year, my husband had been experiencing<br />
the same thing at work—too<br />
much work and too little downtime—and<br />
the combination was affecting his health<br />
and well-being.<br />
So, now we all are on the lookout for<br />
burnout. We cherish our moments at<br />
home, and we take more time just to be together.<br />
We also take care to pick and choose<br />
our activities with more thought, so that<br />
we choose those that we really want to do.<br />
My son was right. He needed a rest time.<br />
We all did.<br />
(Editor’s note: Laurel Busby, a veteran<br />
newspaper writer, lives in Culver City.)
<strong>March</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2015</strong> <strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong> Special Section — Summer Camps & Schools Page 5<br />
Fitness by the Sea: Endless Possibilities<br />
Kids should have fun in the summer: a camp<br />
should not be another job for a child, it should<br />
be a break from a structure schedule.<br />
Fitness by the Sea is a place kids love to go because<br />
“We encourage children to ‘learn by doing’ and our<br />
experienced staff members are there to serve as mentors<br />
and participants during all activities,” said camp founder<br />
Eric Colton. “While we call it ‘Growth, Caring & Endless<br />
Fun’ . . . the kids just call it ‘the time of their lives!’”<br />
Who wouldn't want to boogie board, swim with the<br />
dolphins, jump over the gymnastics vault, get their faces<br />
painted as their favorite animal, and just have a fun day<br />
on the beach? Fitness by the Sea offers this and more,<br />
right here locally at Will Rogers State Beach.<br />
Designed for children from 4 to 14, campers are<br />
allowed to choose from more than 80 activities.<br />
Physical sports such as baseball, volleyball, kickball<br />
and capture the flag help kids develop interdependence,<br />
confidence and sportsmanship.<br />
Arts and crafts, dance, face painting, and music help<br />
foster creativity, imagination and self-expression, while<br />
surfing, swimming and boogie boarding promote an<br />
active lifestyle, self-esteem and perseverance.<br />
Gymnastics, boxing, cheerleading and martial arts<br />
all cultivate self-discipline, determination and courage.<br />
“We believe that active kids are happy kids,” Colton<br />
said, noting that many of the kids who have come to his<br />
program proclaiming not to have an interest in sports,<br />
once encouraged to try something new, find a niche that<br />
they love.<br />
Founded in 2000, Fitness by the Sea has become synon -<br />
ymous with excellence in the field of day camps. The FBS<br />
formula for success blends an experienced and spirited<br />
Eric and Billie Colton, owners of Fitness by the Sea, with twins<br />
Maia and Willow and sister Violet. Photo: Courtesy of Eric Colton<br />
staff (average age 28) with dynamic and creative activities,<br />
offered in an encouraging, nurturing environment.<br />
With the camp’s growing popularity with children,<br />
Fitness by the Sea has expanded to four locations:<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> at Will Rogers (June 8 to August 28), <strong>Palisades</strong><br />
North (June 15 to August 21), Santa Monica (June 8 to<br />
August 28 and at the Jonathan Club (June 15 to August<br />
21—members and sponsored guests only.)<br />
Safety is a number one priority. “The former Chief of<br />
LA County lifeguards called FBS the safest beach camp<br />
he’s ever seen,” continued Colton. “A staff to camper ratio<br />
of 6 to 1 is strictly maintained, and during surfing, we<br />
maintain a ratio of 3 to 1 to further improve our safety<br />
measures.” Sunscreen is applied liberally and often.<br />
The Coltons, who are Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> residents,<br />
have three children. Twins, Maia and Willow are 8 and<br />
younger sister Violet is 5. The sisters are often amongst<br />
the campers at the Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> camp location.<br />
Because they are also parents, the Coltons understand<br />
the importance of allowing campers to make their own<br />
choices. A recent study by the American Camp Association<br />
revealed that kids need more opportunities to practice<br />
leadership and decision-making and that is available at<br />
Fitness by the Sea.<br />
Campers are encouraged to become involved in<br />
activities and staff members watch kids on the sidelines<br />
and work to bring them in. It goes without saying that<br />
teasing and bullying is not allowed.<br />
This is a place a kid can reinvent him/herself. Many<br />
come to the came with labels, such as nerd or jock.<br />
Encouraged to try other activities, they discover that<br />
they may not only be good at basketball, but also good<br />
at painting, something they had never tried.<br />
Counselors constantly work with kids, encouraging<br />
them to go outside of their comfort zone, which ultimately<br />
results in increased self-confidence.<br />
Camp runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with extended care<br />
available in the mornings and afternoons from 8:30 a.m. to<br />
5:45 p.m. Parents can register their children for a minimum<br />
of five days and these do not have to be consecutive days.<br />
Call: (310) 459-2425 or visit: fitnessbythesea.com or<br />
e-mail: info@fitnessbythesea.
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Library Story Telling<br />
Let your children experience the joys of<br />
having another adult read them a book at<br />
the <strong>Palisades</strong> Branch Library, 861 Alma Real.<br />
STAR (Story Telling and Reading) times:<br />
Mondays: 10 a.m.-noon (Grandma Peggy)<br />
Mondays: 3-5 p.m. (Uncle Mark)<br />
Tuesdays: 2-4 p.m. (Tutu Bobbie)<br />
Wednesdays: 2-4 p.m. (Grandmom Judy)<br />
Thursdays: 2:30-4:30 p.m. (Grandma Lou)<br />
Fridays: 10 a.m.- noon (Aunt Ashley)<br />
Fridays: 2-4 p.m. (Granny Stephanie)<br />
Saturdays: 10 a.m.-noon (Momma Flo)<br />
45th Annual Young<br />
Artist Competition<br />
High School Art Sought for Competition<br />
Each spring, the Congressional Institute<br />
sponsors a nationwide high school<br />
visual-art competition to recognize and<br />
encourage artistic talent. Since the competition<br />
began in 1982, more than<br />
650,000 high school students have participated.<br />
Congressman Ted Lieu invites all students<br />
in his district to enter the competition.<br />
The submission deadline is 5 p.m.,<br />
Friday, April 10, at 5055 Wilshire Blvd.<br />
Suite 310, L.A. 90036.<br />
The winner will receive a trip to Washington,<br />
D.C. to attend the national awards<br />
ceremony, where work will be displayed<br />
for one year at the U.S. Capitol. There<br />
are also district prizes for second and<br />
third place.<br />
Artwork must be two-dimensional and<br />
each framed artwork can be no larger<br />
than 28 inches long, 28 inches wide, and<br />
4 inches deep. No framed piece should<br />
weigh more than 15 pounds.<br />
Accepted mediums include: paintings<br />
(oil, acrylics, watercolor, etc.); drawings<br />
(colored pencil, pencil, ink, marker, pastels,<br />
charcoal); collages (must be two-dimensional);<br />
prints (lithographs, silkscreen<br />
MUSIC SCHOLARSHIPS<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> Symphony is seeking students,<br />
in grades 1 through 12, who are able to perform<br />
a movement of a concerto with orchestra,<br />
to audition for monetary awards<br />
and the opportunity to play with the Pali -<br />
sades Symphony in concert on June 14.<br />
The concerto performed must be from<br />
the standard repertoire, memorized and<br />
with orchestration readily available.<br />
There are three categories, and former<br />
winners may not apply with the same instrument<br />
in the same grade level. In grades<br />
1 through 6, first place will win $100; grades<br />
7 through 9, $200; grades 10 through 12,<br />
$200. The Alfred Newman Memorial Schol -<br />
arship for $1,000 and the Chamber Music<br />
<strong>Palisades</strong> Award for $500 will also be awarded.<br />
Auditions will be held on the afternoon<br />
of <strong>March</strong> 31 in Mercer Hall at <strong>Palisades</strong><br />
High School.<br />
Applicants should write their name,<br />
address, phone number, age, school and<br />
grade, a brief biographical sketch that includes<br />
musical training and teacher and<br />
send that information to <strong>Palisades</strong> Symphony,<br />
P.O. Box 214, Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong>. A<br />
$10 application fee must be included. The<br />
deadline is <strong>March</strong> 23. Call (310) 454-8040.<br />
Philharmonic Scholarships<br />
For Young Musicians<br />
The Westside Committee of the Los Angeles<br />
Philharmonic annually awards scholarships<br />
varying from $100 to $500 to music<br />
students in grades 6 through 12.<br />
Students must have studied at least three<br />
years on the instrument they play, perform<br />
a piece of classical music of three to five<br />
minutes, have a written recommendation<br />
from their teacher, live in Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong>,<br />
and block prints); mixed media; computer-generated<br />
art; and photographs.<br />
Each entry must be original in concept,<br />
design and execution.<br />
Congressman Lieu will host a reception<br />
and awards ceremony for his district<br />
on April 20, at the Fantasea Yacht Club,<br />
4215 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey.<br />
Call Ashley Fumiko Dominguez at<br />
(323) 651-1040 or e-mail ashley.domin -<br />
guez@mail.house.gov or David Leger at<br />
(323) 651-1040 or e-mail david.leger<br />
@mail.house.gov. Visit: lieu.house.gov/<br />
services/art-competition.<br />
Santa Monica, Brentwood, Malibu or<br />
Topanga and be available to perform at a<br />
Committee meeting during the year.<br />
All auditions will be in the afternoon on<br />
either <strong>March</strong> 30 or 31, starting with the<br />
youngest students. The exact time and location<br />
will be announced. Students must<br />
bring their own accompanist.<br />
Students trying for the Philharmonic<br />
awards and also the <strong>Palisades</strong> Symphony<br />
must fill out different applications for the<br />
different awards, but need only audition<br />
once. The deadline for received applications<br />
is <strong>March</strong> 23.<br />
Call (310) 454-8040 for an application.<br />
Fitness by the Sea<br />
Celebrating our 16th Year!<br />
Sign up by the Day!<br />
“FBS is the safest beach camp I have ever seen.”<br />
- Chief of LA County Lifeguards<br />
2 Locations<br />
Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong> . Santa Monica<br />
Ages 4-14 ... Over 60 Activities!<br />
Surfing . Swimming . Capture the Flag<br />
Martial Arts . Gymnastics . Boogie Boarding<br />
Volleyball . Soccer . Arts & Crafts . Dance<br />
10% Discount<br />
ends May 1st<br />
6:1 Ratio . Older Staff (Avg. Age 28) . 310-459-2425<br />
Enroll at www.FitnessByTheSea.com<br />
Rated by LA Parent as the<br />
Best Value Beach Camp<br />
on the West Side<br />
“Still one of the best values in camps<br />
on the west side.”<br />
- Susan A.<br />
Los Angeles<br />
“I felt so very safe with my kids in the<br />
ocean with their amazing staff.”<br />
- Tara M.<br />
Santa Monica<br />
“The only camp my kids ask to go<br />
back to every summer. Unbelieveable<br />
courselors and staff!”<br />
- Gloria K.<br />
Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong><br />
“By far my daughter’s favorite camp.”<br />
- Jennifer B.<br />
Pacific <strong>Palisades</strong>
<strong>March</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2015</strong> <strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong> Special Section — Summer Camps & Schools Page 7<br />
Hike, Swim at YMCA Camp<br />
Registration for the <strong>Palisades</strong>-Malibu<br />
YMCA summer day camp is now<br />
open and parents are encouraged to<br />
enroll early because last year the camp was<br />
full. Sessions run from June 8 through<br />
August 6.<br />
Not only is it one of the most competitively-priced<br />
camps, it is also located at one<br />
of the premier locations in the country, at<br />
Simon Meadow, at the corner of Sunset<br />
Boulevard and Temescal Canyon Road.<br />
Situated on a landscaped four-acre park<br />
at the entrance to the Santa Monica Mountains,<br />
this camp takes advantage of its location.<br />
A mile from the beach, a quarter of a<br />
mile from the <strong>Palisades</strong> High School swimming<br />
pool and near hiking trails, campers<br />
are able to have the best of all worlds.<br />
The camp spotlights the three f ’s—<br />
friends, freedom and fun. Everyday activities<br />
include archery, arts and crafts, hiking,<br />
football, soccer, dodge ball, moon bounce,<br />
mini-golf and party games.<br />
Once a week, campers enjoy splash time at<br />
the PaliHi pool; children will be provided<br />
with group swim lessons by certified instructors<br />
at no additional charge. Private swim lessons<br />
are also available for an additional fee.<br />
Older campers go to the beach once a<br />
week, and have fun playing in the sand<br />
and water.<br />
Campers try a variety of sports at the YMCA Camp.<br />
Special groups come to Simon Meadow<br />
weekly to offer a variety of activities, such<br />
as visiting with exotic animals, playing outdoor<br />
laser tag or trying a rock-climbing<br />
wall. Enrichment classes at camp this year<br />
will include cooking, Spanish, Mad Science,<br />
nature and STEM (science, technology,<br />
engineering and mathematics).<br />
Children are divided into groups, with<br />
Photo: Courtesy of <strong>Palisades</strong>-Malibu YMCA<br />
the youngest campers (3 to 5 years old),<br />
encouraged to play in the moon bounce,<br />
learn camp songs, try arts and crafts, experience<br />
water play and make friends.<br />
Kindergarten and first grade students<br />
are part of the Mountain Cub group and<br />
join their elder peers in scavenger hunts,<br />
team building activities and trips to the<br />
pool and the beach.<br />
Second and third graders are grouped<br />
into the Coyotes and fourth and fifth<br />
graders are Hawks.<br />
Coaches are sixth and seven graders who<br />
are offered a unique position of being both<br />
a counselor and a camper. Middle school<br />
students work directly with the YMCA<br />
staff to guide their younger peers, but are<br />
also able to participate in activities with<br />
other Coaches.<br />
More than activities, the Y Summer<br />
Camp experience provides a caring environment<br />
for all children; encourages posi -<br />
tive peer interaction; offers creative activities<br />
and helps all kids developed self-esteem.<br />
The Y has received an American Camping<br />
Association accreditation, which means<br />
the camp went through a thorough (up to<br />
300 standards) review of its operation—<br />
from staff qualifications and training to<br />
emergency management.<br />
The American Camp Association collaborates<br />
with experts from the American<br />
Academy of Pediatrics, the American Red<br />
Cross, and other youth-serving agencies to<br />
assure that current practices at camp reflect<br />
the most up-to-date, research-based standards<br />
in camp operation.<br />
Contact Ashley Russell, YMCA Youth &<br />
Family Director, (310) 454-5591 or ashley -<br />
russell@ymcaLA.org.<br />
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