Palisades-News-March-18-2015
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<strong>March</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2015</strong> <strong>Palisades</strong> <strong>News</strong> Page 23<br />
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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