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Vol. 2, No. 11 • April 6, 2016 Uniting the Community with News, Features and Commentary Circulation: 15,000 • $1.00
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in 1961, a theme has helped define the
parade each year. This year is no different,
and PAPA (Palisades Americanism Parade
Association) is asking your help to pen a
clever, witty, poignant or memorable theme.
Last year’s winner was businesswoman
Joyce Brunelle’s entry: “Palisades Parade:
Pride! Passion! Patriotism!”
Submit your best idea(s) to info@palisadesparade.org,
by Friday, April 15 at
noon. The winner will be selected at the
next PAPA meeting on April 18.
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Fiery DWP Meeting at Marquez
By SUE PASCOE
Editor
Councilman Mike Bonin had the
right idea: Host a community meet -
ing at Marquez Elementary on
March 14 so that LADWP officials and residents
could address the contentious issue
of where to locate two “temporary” poletower
distribution (PTD) stations in western
Pacific Palisades.
Unfortunately, the meeting was punctuated
with angry hoots, residents trying to
talk over other speakers or out of turn, and
applause, even after a DWP representative
asked people not to clap so that all would
have time to speak.
DWP presented its electrical conundrum
to the Community Council in January, emphasizing
that the neighborhoods west of
El Medio need a new substation (similar to
the one located at Sunset and Via de la Paz),
but that the DWP is still seeking a workable
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Residents are invited enjoy the talents of Palisades High School
students who participate in visual, musical and film arts—
tonight, April 6. The free event begins at 6 p.m. with choral
groups performing outside Mercer Hall. The showcase, which is
open from 6:30 to 9 p.m., includes AP Studio Art, ceramics,
photography, sculptures and film screenings. There will also be
a performance by the award-winning drumline and color guard
in the main gym. Additionally, look for performances by the
jazz band and PaliHi dance group.
Photo at left by Will Schwertfeger, photo above by Avery Tucker
new location—i.e., one that will somehow
withstand the inevitable lawsuits.
As an interim solution, the DWP revealed
two desired locations for 65-ft. PTD
stations, but Bonin’s office was flooded with
calls from people who didn’t want those
poles in their immediate neighborhood (on
El Medio at Sunset and on Marquez Avenue
near Marquez Elementary).
This led to the March 14 meeting, at which
Bonin told the audience: “One thing is certain.
We have a problem with power failure
in Pacific Palisades. There is no consensus on
a permanent solution. Unless we have a stopgap
measure, we’ll have serious problems this
summer with brownouts and blackouts.”
DWP’s Bill Herriot explained that since
2009, three circuits (29-03, 29-06 and 29-05)
have been overloaded. “The existing circuits
cannot meet current demands,” he
said. “The limited circuits available causes
longer outages.”
Until a substation can be built, the PTD
stations will act much like an extension
cord does in a home.
One audience member asked, “Why
don’t you look someplace else than the
Marquez area?”
The man was told that if he had a problem
with a light fixture in his home, he wouldn’t
hire an electrician to go to his neighbor’s
home and fix it. In other words, the electrical
demands need are within the Marquez area.
Herriot also explained that the DWP had
received calls from Palisades residents worried
about the danger of EMF (electromagnetic
frequency) from power lines. “The
greatest exposure is from the use of everyday
appliances,” he said, pointing out that the
current overhead line at Marquez emits from
4 to 11 mG, that a coffee maker emits 12 mG,
a hair dryer 33mG and a microwave 100 mG.
The DWP’s preferable choices are Marquez
Avenue in front of its empty lot below
the large schoolyard and on El Medio south
of Sunset, just above the high school parking
lot. The reasons are the location to the
existing underground vaults and less disruption
of traffic (installation would take
about three weeks). The Marquez site would
only involve one pole, alternate sites would
involve two poles.
DWP officials reiterated that the PTD
poles would come down once a new substation
is completed.
They were asked why the poles couldn’t
go in commercial areas rather than near
schools or residences. “There aren’t a lot of
commercial areas in the Palisades; it’s mostly
residences,” was the response.
Another resident asked why this project
couldn’t go underground. Well, first of all
the station would have to be the width of the
street, with ventilation vents on the sidewalks
and water pumps working nonstop
to keep the water out of the electrical area.
Additionally, gas, water and sewer lines are
already underground and they would have
to be dealt with—and the DWP doesn’t
have a company that could build one.
DWP reps addressed earthquakes (never
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April 6, 2016 Palisades News Page 3
There were egg hunts for all ages at the Palisades Recreation Center on March 26. Rec Center Director Erich Haas, who is out on medical leave, praised employee Juchell Wardlow.
“She has done an excellent job of organizing this and spring sports,” Haas said about Wardlow, who started work in late February. The hunt was broken down into different areas
based on age. Among the participants in the two-year-old and younger category was Lola Sue (or is this her twin Leah Sophia?).
Photo: Shelby Pascoe
Sidewalk Proposed on Entrada Drive
By LAUREL BUSBY
Staff Writer
Sidewalk construction on Entrada
Drive is planned between Adelaide
Dr. and Amalfi Dr., which pleases
some residents and upsets others.
The City of Los Angeles applied for and
received a safety grant from Caltrans to construct
a sidewalk on the south side of Entrada,
according to Debbie Dyner Harris,
the district director for Councilmember
Mike Bonin.
“The project is beneficial to the community,
as there currently is either not a sidewalk
on Entrada at all, or a very narrow strip of asphalt
in that location, forcing pedestrians to
walk very close to traffic,” Harris wrote in an
email. “The other side of Entrada has a standard
sidewalk for a portion, but ends at San
Lorenzo. Pedestrians will now have a much
safer way to access San Vicente and beyond.”
The new sidewalk, funded by a Highway
Safety Improvement Program grant, is currently
slated to range from five feet wide in
some portions to seven feet wide at Amalfi,
according to Ferdy Chan, a project engineer
from the Bureau of Street Services. In addition,
a safety improvement for Canyon
Elementary students crossing E. Channel
Road will include “two new access ramps
and a ‘bump-out’ on the channel side, which
would shorten the crossing distance across
E. Channel Road.”
To accommodate the new sidewalk, Entrada
Drive would be narrowed from 40
feet to 37 feet wide. Traffic lanes would each
be 11-feet wide, and edge lines (shoulder
areas) would be seven feet each, according
to Mohammad Blorfroshan, senior trans-
Kasich Names Caruso
As California Co-Chair
Republican presidential candidate John
Kasich announced Thursday that he
had hired Rick Caruso as his national
finance and California campaign co-chair.
According to the L.A. Daily News, the
move to bring Caruso aboard his campaign
before the key California primary on June 7
had been in the works for weeks with Kasich
meeting privately with the billionaire real
estate developer over several occasions while
Caruso acted as a fundraising bundler.
Kasich, third in the delegate count behind
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, hopes to become
the Republican presidential candidate
if there is a contested or brokered convention.
Caruso told the Daily News that “It’s
going to the floor. Nobody will win the first
ballot and on the second ballot, they will vote
for someone who is qualified and someone
who would win the general election.”
It is felt that Ohio governor Kasich is the
only GOP hopeful polling well enough
against Democratic front-runner Hillary
Clinton to potentially beat her in November.
Caruso said the large populations in the
Bay Area and Los Angeles favor Kasich in the
primary because of the candidate’s moderate
stances on issues like immigration.
portation engineer for the L.A. Department
of Transportation. The centerline between
San Lorenzo and Adelaide would be
changed from two sets of double yellow
lines to one double yellow line.
“Widening the sidewalk definitely provides
better protection for pedestrians,” Chan
said in an email. “Narrowing roadway width
often affects vehicles at excessive speed to
slow down thus improving overall safety for
all users, including pedestrians and drivers.”
The city’s draft striping plan will be presented
to the Santa Monica Canyon Civic
Association Wednesday morning on April
6 for their review. Harris said she welcomed
residents to email her or call with their
comments or questions (Debbie.dynerharris@lacity.org).
Resident Guy Seay has written the council
office objecting to the plan, because he
worries that the narrowing of Entrada
could increase accidents, especially near
the corner of Kingman.
“We are deeply concerned with the impact
on the safety for drivers (and cyclist[s])
that will result from the narrowing of the
street,” Seay and his wife, Deborah, wrote in
an email to the Palisades News. “This project
at the very least needs more attention,
so that all considerations are vetted.”
Another resident, Mark Landay, said after
the Santa Monica Canyon Civic Association
meeting on March 8 that he thought the
narrowing of the street would aid pedestrian
safety and reduce accidents. “I support narrowing
the road for a sidewalk,” said Landay,
who added that he’d been working to get the
city to install the sidewalk for six years. “I’d like
to see it put in, resulting in traffic calming.”
A final striping plan has not yet been created,
but the city hopes to begin construction
in a few months, according to Harris. At
the March SMCCA meeting, some members
expressed a desire for a comprehensive plan
for the area to ensure that the sidewalk and
the narrowing of the roadway wouldn’t negatively
impact future efforts to address traffic
and pedestrian safety issues on the street.
Other members said the plan would enhance
safety and noted that future improvements,
such as a sidewalk on the north side
of Entrada could still be added if funding
was acquired.
Association board member George Wolfberg
stated in an email that the association
had not requested the particular sidewalk
configuration that the city had drafted, but
the group had repeatedly advocated for
safer routes to Canyon Elementary.
“These requests, made in conjunction
with the school principal, included Ocean
Avenue Extension and the 200 block of
Amalfi as well as the entire length of Upper
Mesa Road,” Wolberg said. They “were
deemed to have the highest priority in all
of the 11th City Council District in the last
two rounds of funding applications,” but
the requests were “denied.”
Student Art Show
Katie O’Neill’s Fine Art Studio will
hold its spring student art show from
April 10 through April 16. The public is
invited to attend the opening reception
on Sunday, April 10. Owner Katie O’Neill
urges everyone to stop by and enjoy a
beautiful selection of art from both the
adult’s and children’s classes. The studio
is located at 835 Via de la Paz.
Visit: oneillsfineart.com or call:
(310) 459-1030.

Page 4 Palisades News April 6, 2016
Caruso Hearing Recapped: Going Forward
By SUE PASCOE
Editor
Apublic hearing for Caruso Affiliated’s
Palisades Village project was
held before a Department of City
Panning Hearing Officer on March 24 in
City Hall.
ABC/Channel 7 summed up the threehour
meeting: “A developer is planning a
major rehabilitation project for an area of
Pacific Palisades that’s seen better days, but
not everyone is on board with the idea . . .
“Residents, who were bused in by the Pacific
Palisades Chamber of Commerce, spoke
out. The majority were in support of the
plan, but not everyone has been convinced.
“Some residents had several concerns,
such as Swarthmore being turned into a
one-way street, the sale of alcohol and the
hours of operation.
“Kenneth Turan, a longtime resident,
said while he is excited about the concept
of a spruced-up downtown, there are a lot
of unknown factors. ‘I’m happy that things
are going to come to life again—this stretch
of this city has been dead for too long—
but I’m worried about traffic as many of
the residents are,’ he said.
“Signage is already up for the proposed
project and developers said they hope to
start construction by July. The goal is to
open in late 2017 or early 2018.”
During the hearing, Jose Romero-Navar -
ro with the Deputy Advisory Agency said he
planned to make a trip to the Palisades on
Good Friday to see the streets and traffic.
One resident pointed out it wasn’t a
good time for an accurate traffic count because
schools were out.
“I will go and make my own determination,”
Navarro said. Near the end of the
hearing, Trisha Keane from Mike Bonin’s
office said the Councilman supported the
project because they had heard favorably
from so many residents.
The News later asked Bonin’s office if
residents had contacted them to express
concerns about the one-way street, traffic
impacts, parking and other issues, which
were not mentioned in Keane’s statement.
David Grahamaso, Bonin’s communication
director, said the Councilman’s office
had received them. He was asked why that
wasn’t part of Bonin’s presentation to City
Planning, but he had not responded by
press time.
At the hearing, a majority of the 75 attendees
spoke in favor of the project. About
20 had general comments or concerns. The
deadline for additional comments to the
City Planning Commission was April 1.
On March 31, a letter of determination
for the division of the land unit regarding
the Caruso Palisades Village was released.
This document is solely for the first step
for the merger and subdivision of lots on
Swarthmore, Monument and Sunset. March
24 was the deadline for public comment
for this document.
The following day a revised letter of determination
was sent out and had removed
all conditions that had required an employee
shuttle and a Transportation Demand
Program (effective in reducing
ve hicle demand and peak-hour trips associated
with the project). The City was
asked why it was taken out, but the News
had not received a response by press time.
The next step in this process is for City
Planners to collect all the written and oral
comments they have received and make
them part of a written staff report that
will be presented to the City Planning
Commission.
Planners will address those comments
and summarize them. A member of the City
Planning department who did not wish to
be identified said that the majority of the
comments are favorable, but most likely there
will be conditions placed on the project.
The staff report will be released on or
about April 18, ten days before the Planning
Commission hears the case. The City Council
must eventually approve the project before
construction can begin.
Guess Potrero’s Opening Date
In February 2011, there was a groundbreaking
ceremony for Potrero Canyon
Park. At that time, it was announced the
Park would be open to the public by 2016.
At that ceremony, Ted Mackie (of Ted’s
Bicycle Shop and a former member of the
Pacific Palisades Community Council)
doubted the completion date and remarked
he didn’t think anyone at the ceremony
would be alive to see the opening.
So far Mackie is right. The park below
the Recreation Center is far from complete.
People whose homes back up on to the
canyon are seen wandering around in it,
often with their off-leash dogs.
This leads us to the Palisades News question
of the week: What month and year do
you think the park will actually open to the
public? We will provide your guesses to
Councilman Mike Bonin’s office and will
lobby for the winner to be the one to actually
cut the ribbon—provided that person
is still ambulatory and alive by the time the
park opens.
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Kids Yoga Day April 8
Join students at several Palisades schools,
such as Palisades Presbyterian Preschool,
St. Matthew’s Parish School and
Corpus Christi, in celebrating the first annual
Kids Yoga Day at 11 a.m. on Friday,
April 8.
The concept is the brainchild of Pacific
Palisades resident Teresa Anne Power, a
bestselling author whose latest book, The
ABCs of Yoga for Kids: A Guide for Parents
and Teachers, is being released that day.
Power said that more than 11,500 kids in
37 states and 12 countries will mold themselves
into trees, flamingos, windmills, kites
and other kid-friendly yoga positions. Led
Pacific Palisades Dog Park Progresses
In January, the Palisades Park Advisory
Board passed a resolution that Recreation
& Parks (RAP) look into the creation
of an off-leash dog park in Pacific
Palisades. Board member Madeline Hyman
was designated to follow-up with RAP on
this motion.
Although there have been prior attempts
to create an off-leash park, there was a new
urgency when it was announced in December
that the Barrington dog park, located
on the West L.A. Veteran Administration
property, might permanently close. There
had also been increasing complaints about
by more than 100 official ambassadors,
kids will spend five minutes at schools and
other places doing fun yoga poses and celebrating
fitness.
Power is an internationally recognized
expert on children’s yoga and the author
of The ABCs of Yoga for Kids. She has been
featured in USA Today and on Fox 11 in
Los Angeles. She volunteers at Let’s Move
West, LA., Children’s Bureau and Corrections
for Children.
She is available to discuss with parents
or teachers specific yoga poses that channel
the excess energy of children with ADD and
ADHD; six ways yoga can pave the way for
the off-leash dogs at the Pacific Palisades
Recreation Center.
Palisades residents are circulating a petition,
“A dog park with not only give our
pets room to romp and play, but will keep
dogs from running off-leash illegally on
Rec Center property. Help us build an offleash
dog park in the Palisades!”
Petitions are located at the Palisades Veterinary
Center (835 Via de la Paz), Collar
& Leash (516 Palisades Dr.), Palisades Car
Wash (890 Alma Real), Paws & Claws
(16634), Instamail Office (865 Via de la
Paz), Dr. Condello (16636 Marquez Ave.),
lifetime health and fitness; and why moderation
is the key to a healthy, whole child.
Call (310) 266-7705 or email info@
kidsyogaday.com.
Black Ink (869 Swarthmore Ave.),
Sotheby’s (15308 Sunset Blvd) and
Goorus Yoga Studio (15327 Sunset Blvd.).
Petition organizer Leslie Campbell is also
at the Farmers Market pet rescue most Sundays
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. with petitions.
“Between the stores and the Farmers Market
I now have just over 1000 signatures
from six weeks of Sundays. If we include the
1000 signatures I got from Save Barrington
Dog Park or Get Us An Alternative then we
are 2000 signatures and counting. If we can
get more awareness and help we could far
advance those numbers in no time.”
Kohn Secures
$10,000 Donation
For Homeless
Barbara Kohn, chair of the Design
Review Board and Pacific Palisades
Community Council president emeritus,
was able to secure $10,000 for the
Pacific Palisades Task on Homelessness
from the Joseph Drown Foundation.
She was told that a check will be sent to
OPCC on or before April 15 by Foundation
Chairman Norman Obrow.
A letter was sent from Obrow to
Ocean Park Community Center Executive
Director John Maceri in March
stating, “We are pleased to support this
comprehensive effort to address the
issue of homelessness in the Palisades.
We see the value in serving the local
community while concurrently providing
access to supportive services
vital to the homeless population. We
are confident our contribution will be
used effectively and look forward to
hearing more about your progress as
the year continues.”
When asked about her efforts in securing
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Page 6 Palisades News April 6, 2016
Heard
About Town
Thanks for Raising
Caruso Concerns
In my view the people who have voiced
their concerns about the proposed
Caruso project have forced some valuable
changes and concessions from the developer.
Although it may be time to move
forward and iron out the remaining differences
in the spirit of cooperation and
progress while ensuring that the promises
now on the table are kept, I think it is well
worth saying to those who have stood
firm on some worthy positions, “Thank
you for asking and getting the answers.”
Do Not Block Driveways
A construction truck was blocking a
neighbor’s driveway, and when the paramedics
arrived at my neighbor’s home for
an emergency, the rescue team couldn’t
access the home. The truck driver had to
be found and the truck moved before the
paramedics could get to the home. With
so much construction in our town, please
make sure emergency vehicles can get
through.
Parking Enforcement
at Ralphs Applauded
Kudos to Ralphs. It’s about time they
enforced their two hour “customer parking.”
Today I saw they now have a security
guard walking the parking lot and chalking
tires, issuing tickets and towing violators.
I thanked the security guard for
finally helping customers like me to have
a place to park.
Senior Transportation
I appreciated the article in the News
about transportation for seniors. Combining
the Blue Bus, Metro Bus and Exposition
Light Rail Line on the TAP card
is really progressive for Los Angeles! I
hope the transition from one system to
another will eventually work for single
rides, too. Please, keep us informed.
Palisades Symphony a Find
I’ve lived in the Palisades for more than
30 years and saw that the Palisades Symphony
was performing for their 50th Anniversary.
I went to my first concert (free)
and was pleasantly surprised. The music
is excellent and it was an enjoyable
evening. These people should be commended
for keeping this volunteer organization
together for all of these years.
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If you’d like to share something you’ve
“heard about town,” please email it to
spascoe@palisadesnews.com
ANN CLEAVES
VIEWPOINT
Don’t Muddy Free Speech
By KEVIN PRONGAY
Special to the Palisades News
So-called “hate speech” is in and of itself
constitutionally protected under the right
of “freedom of speech,” enumerated in the
First Amendment.
In Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447
U.S. 74 (1980) the Supreme Court affirmed a
California Supreme Court holding that the
California Constitution protects speech and
petitioning, reasonably exercised, in shopping
centers even when the center is privately
owned, and that such result does not infringe
appellants’ property rights protected by the
Federal Constitution.
If the vandals who defaced Palisades High
School with vulgar and racist terms including
so-called “hate speech” messages had instead
distributed handbills on or near the high school
campus, their conduct would be constitutionally
protected by our cherished First Amendment.
Vandalism is vandalism and a crime, but hate
speech is nonetheless “free speech” unless proven
to be uttered by someone to incite immediate
criminal behavior.
The conjoining of protected hate speech with
criminal vandalism in a subtle, insidious manner
constitutes a significant threat to our First
Amendment freedom of speech because it
suggests that the mere utterance of so-called
“hate speech” should not be tolerated by society.
When I hear hate speech I may disagree with the
message, but free speech has been secured by
our First Amendment since December 15, 1791.
Hate speech, albeit vulgar, offensive and even
racist, is in and of itself a constitutionally
protected activity and should not be attacked by
persons or entities, such as public schools and
elected government representatives, for the mere
speech. Vandalism is criminal activity that is
rightfully condemned.
In the words of the famous quote incorrectly
attributed to Voltaire: “I may disapprove of
everything you say, but I shall defend to the
death your right to say it.”
I have voluntarily litigated First Amendment
cases for the ACLU for more than 40 years. I am
appalled by the purported “hate speech” exception
to the First Amendment that is being foisted
on the general public because it often incites the
weak, the meek and the deliberately ignorant
into violence against the mere act of speech itself.
Indeed, the ACLU website poignantly stresses
(https://www.aclu.org/hate-speech-campus):
“How much we value the right of free speech
is put to its severest test when the speaker is
someone we disagree with most. Speech that
deeply offends our morality or is hostile to our
way of life warrants the same constitutional
protection as other speech because the right of
free speech is indivisible: When one of us is
denied this right, all of us are denied. Since its
founding in 1920, the ACLU has fought for the
free expression of all ideas, popular or unpopular.
Hate speech, no matter how vulgar, is protected
by our First Amend Right of Freedom of Speech.”
The Palisades News should eschew the alltoo-common
perception by a large segment of
the public that so-called “hate speech” is not
constitutionally protected free speech. The First
Amendment needs breathing room. It does not
need contemporary “exceptions” based upon
popular culture-created misconceptions
about silencing the most fundamental tenet of
our basic right of liberty.
Thought to Ponder
“Try to be a rainbow in
someone’s cloud.”
― Maya Angelou
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Palisades News
April 6, 2016 A forum for open discussion of community issues
Page 7
EDITORIAL
A Second Side to the DRB Recusal Story
Followers of Rick Caruso’s Palisades Village project
were eagerly awaiting the second and final Design
Review Board meeting about the development on
March 2. Appointed by Councilman Mike Bonin, the
seven-member board was scheduled to discuss Caruso’s
revised plans and then make recommendations to the City
Planning Department. This would have provided vital
input from a key watchdog board here in Pacific Palisades.
Unfortunately, the DRB was undermined by a mixture
of over-confident assumptions, miscommunication
and a flawed rush to judgment, fueled by an absence of
support for the DRB from Pacific Palisades Community
Council members.
On February 25, the PPCC met to discuss and vote on
three motions that endorsed various aspects of Caruso’s
plans. Four members of the DRB (Barbara Kohn, Kelly
Comras, Stuart Muller and Donna Vaccarino) attended
the meeting as council members—and Kohn (as chairman
emeritus), Comras (Area 1 representative) and Muller
(Area 6) sat at the board table.
After the first motion was read aloud, Historical Society
member Dick Wulliger cited the by-laws and called for
postponement of a vote on the motion. The other two
motions were also postponed, though the Council still
discussed them. Kohn and Comras made just two inconsequential
comments; Muller made a joke about time.
Nevertheless, on February 29, L.A. City Attorney Renee
Stadel disqualified the four DRB members from hearing
the Caruso case, citing LAMC section 16.50.G: “No design
review board member shall discuss with anyone the merits
of any matter either pending or likely to be pending before
the board other than during a duly called meeting of the
board or subcommittee of the board.” The key word here
is “discuss,” since Kohn and Comras later noted that they
had not taken part in the discussion, except to listen.
Vaccarino’s dismissal was based on a brief conversation
she had with Bonin at the Swarthmore farmers market
on January 10. “[Our] conversation,” she said, “was about
the DRB process in general (not the merits of the Village
Project) and about the importance and right of DRB
members to hear public comment in open, public
meetings. An issue with which he agreed.”
Stadel’s action left the DRB without a quorum and
not only forced cancellation of its March 2 meeting,
but denied residents a chance to incorporate DRB
recommendations into their campaign to l.) lessen the
impact of Caruso’s development on adjacent residential
neighborhoods and 2.) defend the Palisades Specific Plan.
On March 9, a lawyer for Kohn, Comras and Vaccarino
wrote to Stadel and other City officials, asserting that his
clients had been incorrectly and unfairly recused, that
Stadel had rendered her opinion without speaking to the
three members, and that she should reinstate the DRB’s
jurisdiction. (Palisades News, March 16, page 1.)
According to attorney Timothy Reuben in his letter,
“. . . Both Ms. Kohn and Ms. Comras (as well as Mr.
Muller) informed the President of the Council [Chris
Spitz] prior to the meeting that they were recusing
themselves and would not be discussing or voting on
the Caruso-related motions.” He also reminded Stadel,
“Notably, in prior correspondence, you specifically
advised our clients that they could attend PPCC
meetings so long as they recused themselves with respect
to the Caruso project, which they did.”
When the Palisadian-Post asked Spitz to respond to
attorney Reuben’s assertion that Kohn and Comras had
recused themselves in person before the meeting, Spitz
told the paper, “Neither Ms. Kohn, Ms. Comras nor Mr.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Muller at any time before or during the Feb. 25 meeting
stated that they would recuse themselves from the meeting.”
The Palisades News spoke with Kohn and Kelly, who
reiterated that they had indeed told Spitz that they were
recusing themselves. The News also received written
statements from two witnesses at the meeting who
overheard the conversations.
When the News asked Spitz if she had been misquoted
by the Post, she wrote in an e-mail, “No, I was not
misquoted by the Post.”
The News asked Kohn, Comras and Vaccarino why
they felt they could safely attend the February 25 meeting
without placing the DRB in jeopardy.
“There was never any question about the DRB being
‘in jeopardy,’” they wrote in an e-mail.
“Did the City give permission for you to attend?” we asked.
They answered, “Based upon prior client-attorney
communications with the City Attorney, no DRB
member had any reason to ask for permission from the
City Attorney.” They later added, “The e-mails from
the City Attorney were consistently written in the form
of recommendations, not directives, and contained no
hint of disqualification or other consequences.”
So that’s where it all stands—basically unresolved. Kohn,
Comras and Muller are veteran activists who obviously
value the DRB’s role, so we wish they had announced out
loud at the beginning of the meeting that they were recusing
themselves. Then the entire issue could have been discussed
in front of Councilman Bonin’s representative.
Yet we also fault Spitz and her fellow board members
for not taking the initiative by asking Kohn, Comras and
Muller if it was okay for them to be sitting at the voting
table. An appropriate discussion could have ensued.
Instead, the DRB got thrown under the bus.
Marvin Braude Bike Path
(The following interchange was between Councilman
Mike Bonin’s office and longtime resident Martin Kappeyne
in March.)
Dear Councilman Bonin,
The bike path championed by your predecessor
Marvin Braude is covered in sand between Tower 15 and
Chautauqua Ave. Could a sweeper move the sand away
from the bike path that is used by bikes and joggers?
Santa Monica has been very good at clearing the
path. I think we should be at least as diligent.
Martin Kappeyne
Good Afternoon Martin,
Thank you so much for reaching out to our office in
regards to the bike path in Pacific Palisades. The bike path
is swept twice a week by the contractor, Shelter Clean
(Thursday and Monday evenings). Our office has reached
out to Shelter Clean and has requested updates as well.
Please, reach out to myself with any special sweeping
needs in between these regularly scheduled sweeps of the
path. Safety is indeed paramount for our office, and we
certainly appreciate your bringing this to our attention.
Sharon Shapiro (Councilman Mike Bonin’s office)
Councilman,
I regret to inform you that the City is not getting its
money’s worth from Shelter Clean. I rode the stretch of
beach this Sunday and it looked exactly as it did last
Sunday. My wife, who runs that section every two days,
can testify that it has not been cleaned.
Can we do an audit of Shelter Clean to ensure that
my tax dollars are being spent on services that our
community needs?
I thank you for your attention in this matter and am
sure that you will have the City auditors enforce the
contracts that have been made.
Martin Kappeyne
(The Councilman had not responded back to Kappeyne
at presstime.)
Rattlesnake Sightings
Normally, I have no use for “coyote sightings” in the
paper, but the first rattlesnake sightings each year are
different because the snakes are all over the place
throughout the entirety of Temescal Canyon.
Today, March 22, a young man who had just run the
loop trail above Temescal Gateway Park told me, as he
was coming down toward Stewart Hall, that he had
seen a baby rattler up above the waterfall.
It looks like the early spring has brought the snakes
out of hibernation.
Warren Cereghino
Swarthmore Tree Facts
Please inform the Palisades residents of Rick Caruso’s
intentions to cut down 102 village trees regardless of
their health. I have done a survey of Appendix D in the
MND Document regarding the trees and found that 67
trees are in great to good condition and 35 are in average
to fair condition (because they need proper pruning).
The residents have a right to know; they have a right
to have a voice. Without knowledge that voice is taken
away.
Email Michelle Levy (city planning) at michelle.levy
@lacity.org and Tricia Keane (Councilman Mike Bonin)
at tricia.keane@lacity.org.
Rosanne Mangio
Palisades News welcomes all letters, which may be emailed to
letters@palisadesnews.com. Please include a name, address
and telephone number so we may reach you. Letters do not
necessarily reflect the viewpoint of the Palisades News.

Page 8 Palisades News April 6, 2016
DWP
(Continued from Page 1)
had an incident—two poles were near the
epicenter of the Northridge earthquake),
nuclear attacks and mylar balloons (an
issue because they can damage the lines in
front of one’s home).
Bonin told the audience, “We have an obligation
to make this friendly for the community,
even if it’s more expensive.”
In addition to the Marquez Avenue location,
DWP also investigated the empty lot
along Sunset (at the former Bernheimer
Gardens location) and the alley behind Bol -
linger and Sunset. They also considered
putting a pole at Sunset and Las Lomas and
one at Sunset and Los Liones (near two
schools), or one at Sunset and Las Lomas
and one at Sunset and Las Casas. (At those
sites, it would mean putting in two poles
rather than the one.)
The alley will not work because of lack
of space. Audience members argued that
there were more car accidents nearer Marquez
Elementary than on Sunset, which is
why a pole should go on the Bernheimer
location (despite its landslide history).
Many Marquez residents did not want
the poles near their school, accusing the
DWP that “You are not considering the chil -
dren.” However, those who opposed the
poles on El Medio urged that they be locat -
ed at Temescal Canyon Road and Sunset—
above the Palisades High School baseball
and AYSO soccer field.
Other residents argued they didn’t want
the poles near their single-family residenc -
es, but by moving them to alternate locations,
the poles would be in front of apartment
houses.
Ultimately, residents were given until
April 1 to voice their location preferences
to the DWP and Bonin’s office.
Councilman Bonin may have even more
to consider because he received a petition
from Mike Lofchie, with 478 signatures,
urging that Distribution Station 104 be
constructed at its originally intended location
on DWP’s Marquez Avenue property.
The petition states in part, “There is disappointment
that our councilmember had
aligned himself with a minority opposition
to the distributing station at the cost of imposing
great difficulty and inconvenience
on all other Palisadians.”
Letters
(Continued from Page 7)
No Power Pole at
Northfield/Sunset
(The following letter was sent to DWP.)
I strongly object to the Sunset/Las Lomas
alternatives proposed in your March 14,
2016 “Power Reliability for Pacific Pali -
sades” presentation. The West alternatives
2 and 3 both show photos and descriptions
which propose placement of the poles in
the mini-park at the corner of Northfield
Street and Sunset, which the presentation
Excellence in Real Estate
mistakenly labels as Las Lomas & Sunset.
That park was built by community volunteers
in 2005 as the idea of Palisades
Beautiful, the local volunteer organization
that has been planting street trees for
decades in Pacific Palisades.
I was on the Board of Palisades Beautiful
at the time (I still consult) and volunteered
my services as a landscape designer. The site
is referred to by us as the “Northfield Triangle,”
which is a street “median” that extended
the parkway into Northfield Street when it
was made one-way north at Sunset, requiring
cars to make a right turn onto Sunset.
By 2004, the median had become bare dirt,
since all the ivy had died years earlier when
the City of L.A. stopped maintaining the
irrigation system which had rusted out.
Palisades Beautiful obtained a city Adopt-
A-Median permit to build the park. With
the cooperation of the Bureau of Street
Services, which installed a new irrigation system,
local volunteers were able to install new
boulders, a decomposed granite path and
a variety of new plants and ground covers.
See the attached 2005 design drawing, and
the before and after photos. The total cost
exceeded $7,000, which was funded by Palisades
Beautiful and a generous grant from
the Lions Club of Pacific Palisades. The soil
preparation and boulder placement work
was done as an Eagle Scout project by Troop
2, Santa Monica. The plant installation was
done at a weekend work party with many
local neighbors, their children and Palisades
Beautiful members. We received a thankful
write-up and photo in the local newspaper.
A couple of years ago, the park was dug
up by a DWP crew who said they had to
repair a water-line break. DWP left the site
without restoring the irrigation system,
and allowing the irrigation controller to be
stolen. Palisades Beautiful again organized
a rehabilitation of the Northfield Triangle.
The Bureau of Street Services again replaced
the irrigation controller. Another
Eagle Scout project from scouts of Pacific
Palisades Troop 223 succeeded in restoring
the park’s plantings and irrigation system.
Over the years, we have led work parties
to maintain the plants, pathways and irrigation
of the Northfield Triangle, with the
assistance of visits from city grounds crews.
In addition, the site hosts a beautiful mature
Coast live oak tree (protected by the
city’s landscape ordinance, and which grows
into the existing power/phone lines above)
and a eucalyptus tree.
The Sunset/Las Lomas site is at a dangerous
blind curve of Sunset Boulevard, with
very high traffic and speeds. This site would
be very dangerous for DWP contractors and
maintenance personnel. Further, I can imagine
cars damaging power poles and causing
power outages and potential residential fires.
DWP is proposing options that would
again tear up the park, for a power solution
that is temporary at best. We can expect that
DWP would leave the site in the same mess
that it left the park before. The Sunset/Las
Lomas alternatives would uproot a legacy
of community volunteer action and community
beautification and pride.
David Card
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Cressman to Speak at
Democrat Meeting
At Palisades Library
The Pacific Palisades Democratic Club
will continue its speaker series on Wednesday,
April 20 when Derek Cressman leads
a discussion, “Instructions for Overturning
Citizens United: How can we really get big
money out of politics?”
Cressman, a leading national activist on
behalf of campaign finance reform, will
speak at 6:30 p.m. in the Palisades Library
community room, 861 Alma Real. The event
is free and light refreshments will be served.
Cressman, who ran for California secretary
of state in 2014, wrote When Money
Talks: The High Price of “Free” Speech and
the Selling of Democracy, and has testified
before committees of the U.S. Senate and
the California Assembly and Senate. His
earlier book was The Recall’s Broken
Promise: How Big Money Still Runs California
Politics.
Visit: palidems.org or facebook.com/
PaliDems or call (310) 230-2084 or email:
info@palisadesdemclub.org.
JUMBLE SOLUTION
Register for 2016 Walk With Love
The Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation will host its ninth annual 5K Walk/Run
through the Huntington Palisades on Sunday, May 1. The event starts at 8:30
a.m. at the Palisades Recreation Center, 851 Alma Real Dr.
This year’s course is now dog friendly and USATF-certified (a USATF-certified
course is a road race course whose distance has been certified for accuracy).
There will even be a pet corner and doggy gift bags.
The Foundation’s goal is to find the cause of breast cancer and prevent it before
it starts. Each dollar raised through Walk with Love means one more dollar
towards powering innovative programs like the Army of Women® and the Health
of Women Study. Proceeds also benefit the foundation’s innovative research
as well as programs such as the Mapping of the Breast Ducts, the Biome of the
Breast Study and ImPatient Science.
Registration is under way at: drsusanloveresearch.org/walk-love.
Homeless Task Force at
Woman’s Club Meeting
The Pacific Palisades Task Force on
Homelessness (PPTFH) and the Woman’s
Club will hold a joint meeting from 6 to
8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12 at the Wom -
an’s Club clubhouse, 901 Haverford Ave.
The event is free and light refreshments
will be served.
A panel discussion on homelessness will
begin with an update from the Ocean Park
Community Center’s Palisades outreach
team. The focus will be on female homelessness,
the unique needs of women and
the circumstances of female homelessness.
The panel will be moderated by PPTFH
Chair Maryam Zar, who was recognized
by Sheila Kuhl on April 4 for her volunteer
efforts. The panelists are Palisadian Laura
Diamond, author of Shelter Us; West Los
Angeles Police Department Captain Tina
Nieto; Brooke Lykins, chief development officer
for Downtown Women’s Center; and
Palisades OPCC outreach team member
Maureen Rivas. Sharon Shapiro from Councilman
Bonin’s office will also be on hand.
Shires to Speak at
Republican Series
Dr. Michael Shires from the Pepperdine
University School of Public Policy will be
the featured speaker at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday,
April 19, at the Palisades Lutheran
Church, 15905 Sunset Blvd. The public is
welcome to attend this free event. Parking
is available behind the church.
This will be the second event in the 2016
Speaker’s Series sponsored by the Pacific
Palisades Republican Club (PPRC).
Shires will lead a discussion about this
year’s political events and then facilitate a
focus group with selected audience members
concerning the campaign, the candidates,
the issues and the future of the GOP.
Shires serves as a political analyst on
KCAL Channel 9 (evenings) and KCBS
Channel 2. He has been quoted as an expert
in various publications including USA
Today, Newsweek, The Economist, the Sacramento
Bee, the San Francisco Chronicle and
the L.A. Times.
Please RSVP if you are willing to be part
of the focus group. A brief Q&A will follow
the discussion.
Call: (310) 454-4345 or visit: palisades -
Republicans.com or email Rocky Bowman
at rockbo@roadrunner.com.
Note: The fact that the Palisades Lutheran
Church gives space for community groups to
meet does not imply a relationship or an affiliation
of any kind with the group.

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Palisades News
April 6, 2016 Page 11
Chamber Installation a Success
The annual Chamber of Commerce
installation was held at Duke’s rest -
aurant in Malibu on March 24.
Former Honorary Mayor Sugar Ray
Leonard watched as outgoing Mayor Jake
Steinfeld turned over the gavel to the 29th
Honorary Mayor, Kevin Nealon.
Nealon, a Saturday Night Live star, comedian
and actor, had people in stiches as he
outlined his plans for the Palisades.
Nealon has a co-written the comedy, The
Pleaser, with his wife, actress Susan Yeagley.
It will be filmed this summer and will mark
Nealon’s directing debut.
Three awards were given at the dinner:
Mort Farberow Award, Best New Business
and Rotary Club’s Businessperson of the Year.
Mort Farberow Award: Ramis Sadrieh
This given in the late deli owner’s memory
and his devotion to the Chamber, community
and children.
Sadrieh, owner of Technology for You!,
was Chamber president in 2009. He was
president of PAPA, which organizes the
Fourth of July. He was a member of the Palisades
Symphony and started his Chamber
activities as a youth when he won the
title of Mr. Palisades in 1993.
“As a child, I would go to Mort’s Deli
after school and summer camp,” Sadrieh
said. “Mort Farberow was a great contribut -
or to the community.” He continued, “If it
wasn’t for the Chamber, I would not have my
loving wife, my two adorable children, a
mortgage payment and a cute dog,” he said.
Best New Business: Bill Shuttic
“My goal is to make you healthy,” said
Bill Shuttic, who opened Ultimate Health
and Wellness in 2014 at ZFIT Studio, 827
Via de la Paz. He is certified herbalist, nutritionist,
massage therapist and personal
trainer and in charge of the Chamber’s
biggest loser program.
“We had more than 50 people sign up
Carol Pfannkuche was presented the Rotary
award by R.Z. Meyer.
Three Pacific Palisades Honorary Mayors: Jake Steinfeld, Kevin Nealon and Sugar Ray
Leonard meet.
Photos courtesy Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce
and our Biggest Loser has lost about 15
pounds, with others losing between 5-10
pounds,” Shuttic said.
Receiving his award, Shuttic said “Shout
out to Mayor Jake. Jake doesn’t know this, but
your book was one of the first health and fitness
books I ever read, so you motivated me
to get into the health and wellness industry.”
Shuttic also thanked his wife Francie
for her support.
Rotary Businessperson: Carol Pfannkuche
Carol Pfannkucke was selected by the Rotary
for her leadership role when the YMCA
acquired and beautified Simon Meadow.
Timing Can Be Everything
By MICHAEL EDLEN
Special to the Palisades News
Often people are not aware of what to
expect in the process of selling their
home. They may not know about
preparations that could be made before
marketing begins that will enhance the value
of their home and the timing of the sale.
How well the home is prepared before
professional photography is done can impact
the length of time it might take to get
the home into escrow. It would be helpful
for sellers to know about the various timing
aspects of the process so plans can be
worked out ahead of time and accommodate
several scenarios in these plans.
For example, there are typically times
during the year that are often not in the best
interest of sellers to put their home on the
market for sale. Listing the home during the
winter holiday period and during the summer
season might result in a longer sale
She said in her 10 years at the YMCA,
she was appreciative of the generosity of
the community.
Pfannkuche explained she met a man
who worked at a YMCA in the Philippines.
“He grew up in a home that was made from
a cardboard box and had a dirt floor. Still,
his parents taught him that no one is so
poor that they do not have something to
give to someone in need: that he greatest
gift at a particular moment could be a hug
in a time of crisis or a high five to celebrate
an accomplishment.”
She thanked her husband Tony and two
daughters, Molly and Katie.
process and possibly a lower sale price.
If a home is properly prepared and marketed
effectively both online and in print
publications, a typical listing may take 20-45
days to open escrow. However, depending
on circumstances and the market climate,
it can take 60-90 days or longer to open escrows,
and then 45-90 days to close. Obviously,
it can be challenging to make plans
without taking into account the alternatives
and various solutions.
Once an offer is received, buyers usually
expect a response within one to three days.
Contracts typically include a period of 10 to
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investigations, and most contracts include
17 to 30 days contingencies for the buyer to
obtain an appraisal and loan approval.
A seller is well-advised to carefully consider
the quality of the pre-approval loan information
and time requested for removal of such
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plans to pack, move and even to make commitments
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There are some ways to pre-negotiate
flexibility of timing in the sale contract that
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can enable the seller to wait until all contingencies
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Gottesman, Zhang Win Oratorical Contest
By SUE PASCOE
Editor
It was an evening of optimism as four
middle school and five high school students
competed in the Pacific Palisades
Optimist Club’s annual oratorical contest
on March 29.
Students prepared a speech on “How the
best in me brings out the best in others,”
and delivered it to Optimist members, parents
and friends at the Lutheran Church.
The high school division winner was Palisades
High sophomore Daniel Gottesman,
who received a $175 prize and will represent
the Optimist Club at the Zone 7 contest
on April 30 at the Baldwin Hills library.
Second place and $125 went to PaliHi
freshman Keren Dror.
The middle school winner was Paul Revere
eighth grader Judy Zhang, who also received
$175. Second and $125 went to Corpus
Christi eighth grader Dashell Flynn.
Susie DeWeese, who organized the event
and recruited the three judges, also served
as the emcee. Each contestant was introduced
as an alphabet letter, so judges would
not know names.
The first speaker was Revere eighth grad -
er Lionel Bookey, who in fifth grade started
a group called Friendly Fifth Graders that
mentored and befriended younger kids. “It
was a two-way street,” he said, noting that
Winners in the Optimist Contest (left to right) Keren Dror, Dashell Flynn, Judy Zhang
and Daniel Gottesman pose with Club president Kane Phelps and emcee Susie DeWeese.
mentors and the kids they helped, benefited.
Flynn was next and said, “We’re like mirrors
that reflect. When we show anger, we receive
anger back. When we show patience we
receive patience back.” He reminded people
that an individual doesn’t have to do grand
acts to change the world, but rather small acts
can serve the same purpose.”
Zhang spoke about Marie Curie, who
discovered radiation, but pointed out that
someone inspired Curie and that someone
inspired Shakespeare. “If you are being your
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best, others will be inspired to be their best,”
Zhang said.
The last middle school speaker was Revere
seventh grader Siddhartha Shendrikar,
who said: “I realized my life was going to
change on February 7, 2015. My baby sister
was born. I knew the baby was going to
look up to me and that I always had to do
my best.” He defined best as the highest
level that one can give or achieve.
The first high school student was Gottesman,
who explained: “Volunteering is the
best way to be generous. If everyone resolved
to help someone, even if it were a basketball
jump shot, we could all be at our best.”
PaliHi junior Kaelan Nettleship noted that
some people feel life is like a competition
because everyone wants to be the best and
everyone wants to win, but there are losers.
“If life is about the destination, then personal
growth is what counts,” he said.
Dror took a different approach, saying,
“A girl makes a sound—the bow constantly
moving across the violin. Her music inspires.”
She continued, “A girl makes a
sound. Her supervisor is proud of this tutor.
Her pupils admire her and want better
grades now because she inspires them.”
Dror concluded: “A girl makes a sound, embraces
her weaknesses, gives her best and
encourages those around her. I am that girl.”
Notre Dame freshman Gwynna Dille
spoke about working through debilitating
migraines and how it shaped the way she
viewed the world. “My mind sees color out
of context,” said Dille, who became friends
with a girl whose world was troubled, but
that meant they both had a different perspective
of the world. That friendship
brought out the best in each girl.
PaliHi senior Amy Shao said that she was
an introvert—someone who kept quiet, kept
hidden. “It took me a long time to realize
that I bring out the best in myself and others
when I sit at the piano bench and play.”
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Yale’s all-female jazz a capella group, Proof, entertained residents at Atria on March 13. Former Palisadian Catherine Wang was
one of the soloists.
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Atria Offers Month of Public Events
Atria Senior Living, at 15441 Sunset
Blvd. (across from Gelson’s), offers
its programs free to Pacific Palisades
residents. Seniors do not have to live at the
facility to take advantage of the programs,
but please RSVP to (310) 573-9545.
On April 7, violist and Palisades Symphony
director Joel Lish will perform at
3:30 p.m.
Joey Aaron, a variety entertainer who
performs music from the 1930s to current
pop, will perform at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday,
April 9.
Bill Shuttic covers self-defense for seniors
at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12 and again on
April 26. He will also discuss techniques for
those in wheelchairs and walkers. On April
18, Shuttic will introduce exercises that will
benefit those with Parkinson’s disease.
Marion Calhoun, an R&B performer,
will sing songs from Frank Sinatra, The
Temptations and The Platters at 3:30 p.m.
on Thursday, April 14. Guitarist Stanley
Ayeroff will perform at 10:30 a.m. on Friday,
April 15.
Carlos Naranjo, a guitarist and variety
rock & roll singer who always gets the
crowd singing and dancing, will perform
at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 20.
Frank Sinatra impersonator Jimmy
Brewster, who will make you feel like you’re
seeing “Ol’ Blue Eyes” himself, starting at
10:30 a.m. on April 21.
Monday, April 25, at 3:30 p.m., Irby Gascon,
who specializes in Elvis Presley songs,
will perform.
Happy Hour and Jazz will start at 7 p.m.
on April 27 on the rooftop patio with appetizers
and ocean views. Atria Park will introduce
its new executive director, Victor
Sims. The community is welcome.
The next day opera singer Francesca Sola
will perform opera and other musical tunes.
Closing out the month on Saturday, April
30 at 3:30 p.m. is guitarist David Winstone.
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Palisades Youth
Tryouts for Theatre Palisades Youth
production will be held on Thursday,
April 7 from 3:30 to 6:30 and again on
Saturday, April 9 from 2 to 5 p.m. at
the Pierson Playhouse, 941 Temescal
Canyon Rd.
Youth, ages 8 to 14 (third through
eighth graders) can come on either
day, and any time during the announced
hours to audition. They are
asked to have one minute of (preferably)
a show tune prepared to sing.
They will also be given scripts to practice
and read from and asked to learn
a short dance routine. The entire audition
will take 30 to 45 minutes.
Those trying out should be prepared
to rehearse from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday through Friday, starting on
July 5 through July 21. Shows will be
the weekends of July 22, 23, 24 and July
29, 30, 31. Attendance for all shows is
a requirement for participation.
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from long-time youth director
Dottie Dillingham Blue. Currently,
rights for the summer musical are
being negotiated before the selection
is announced.
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Saglie to Play at Local Fundraiser
By LAUREL BUSBY
Staff Writer
Meriette Saglie wasn’t one of those kids who
hated practicing the piano. When she was
three years old, she would try to play songs
by ear. By about seven years old, she was practicing two
hours every day.
“I was always drawn to it,” Saglie, 28, said. “It felt
natural to dedicate that much time.”
Her parents experimented with other extracurricular
activities like dance and soccer, but it was obvious that her
main interest was the piano. “That just felt very second
nature to me and part of my life,” Saglie told the News.
“The other things just didn’t interest me that much.”
On Saturday, April 9, Saglie will bring her love of the
piano to a fundraiser performance for the Dino Ciani
Academy. The academy is part of the Dino Ciani Festival,
which occurs each summer in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy,
and features performances by classical artists like Mario
Brunello and András Schiff. The connected academy provides
an opportunity for young musicians to be men tored
by virtuoso artists while also participating in concerts
at the festival. The fundraiser will provide scholarship
money to help these musicians attend the program.
The program “is part of a very prestigious and uplifting
festival,” Saglie said. It provides “great networking and
exposure for young artists who get to work with prestigious
professors and musicians.”
Saglie, who grew up in Pacific Palisades and attended
Pali Elementary and Paul Revere Middle School, chose
to leave her home at 13 years old to study piano at the
Meriette Saglie
University of Music in Vienna, Austria. Her brother Luis,
a composer, already lived in Vienna, and she had twice
played for faculty at the university there.
“In both instances, they invited me to come study with
them,” Saglie said. “We realized that it was an opportunity
that I shouldn’t let go by.”
Saglie and her mother, Edith, moved to Vienna together.
Her father, Reinaldo, a periodontist with a Palisades
office on Monument, had died when she was nine
years old in 1997. Her older brothers, Gabe, now 42,
Luis, 40, and Christian, 38, all PaliHi graduates, were
already out on their own.
After studying for three years in Vienna, Saglie
switched to the Conservatory of Santiago, which is part
of the University of Chile, in her parents’ home country.
She studied there until her high school graduation in
2006 before returning to Los Angeles for college. She is
currently pursuing a doctorate in piano performance
at USC and is also a private piano teacher.
Saglie looks forward to the the Dino Ciani Festival
fundraiser, where she will play “Andante Spianato Et
Grande Polonaise Brillante Opus 22” by Frédéric Chopin
and “Basso Ostinato” by contemporary Russian composer
Rodion Shchedrin.
Palisadian Hedy Ciani, the sister-in-law of pianist and
festival namesake Dino Ciani, is hosting the event at her
home. Hedy and her daughter Caterina Ciani, who
started the festival nine years ago, are longtime friends of
Saglie’s, and Saglie treasures the relationships with them.
Hedy “has always been very close and very supportive
of my progress as a musician,” Saglie said. Playing for
the fundraiser is particularly appealing. “It’s a great
opportunity to be able to play and play for a good cause.”
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Palisades News
April 6, 2016 Page 15
Garden Tour Promises Spring
Text Edited by LIBBY MOTIKA
Palisades News Contributor
Photos by Tom Hofer
The Pacific Palisades Spring Garden Tour takes place
on Sunday, April 17, noon to 4 p.m., rain or shine.
Tickets, $30, are available at: Lavender Blue, 1032
Swarthmore Ave.; Gift Garden, 15266 Antioch St. and
at the Sunday farmers market, April 10; Yamaguchi
Nursery, 1905 Sawtelle Blvd.; Merrihew’s Nursery, 1526
Ocean Park Blvd., or by mail, PPGC Box 261, Pacific
Palisades, CA 90272; or online at
pacpalgardenclub.org, spring garden tour page.
Tickets will be available at Will-Call on Tour Day.
All guests who purchase tickets online will receive an
email containing the address of the Will-Call location.
332 BEIRUT ST., PACIFIC PALISADES
Proceeds benefit community education and
beautification and public school student gardens.
Adults may bring their children with them at no
additional cost. No strollers are permitted.
The Farm at Paul Revere and the N/E/X/T garden in
Temescal Park will be open to the public free of charge.
Fresh-baked cookies will be available by donation on
Tour day.
Homeowners are puzzling over what
to do with the lawn in this new
water-wise reality. It’s difficult to
abandon that luxurious greensward that
has defined the suburban aesthetic for
decades. But the reality of our semi-arid
climate has landed.
As with many landscapes, this front yard
was all lawn and a few shrubs before landscape
designer Suzanne Jett was called in six
years ago. Jett has been designing and installing
environmentally sensitive gardens
in the Southern California area for 28 years,
including design and coordination of four
public demonstration gardens in Santa
Monica.
The front yard of this house demonstrates
the endless variety of plants and trees that
thrive in our semi-desert zone, including
specimens from South Africa and Australia.
Having six years to grow in, this garden
displays that balance between trees and
shrubs, seasonal colors and textures that
Jett envisioned.
The anchor to the front garden is the
Australian willow (Agonis flexusa’s “After
Dark”), known for its attractive, burgundycolored
foliage and tiny white flowers that
stand out against it.
Assortments of unusual medium-sized
shrubs from South Africa in the protea
family also thrive in this atmosphere. The
Leucadendron “Safari Sunset” with its dark
green leaves tinged wine red on red stems
complements the willow.
Commanding most attention is the aloe
marlothii, a South African species distinguished
by its especially large robust head
of stiff, gray-green leaves. The flowers, ranging
from yellow through orange (most
common) to bright red, steal the show.
Smaller spots of color accent the larger
shrubs. Breath of Heaven, another shrub
endemic to South Africa, produces single
pink flowers between May and October.
The tiny, compact heat-loving shrub, Cistus
salviifolius, flowers from April through May
with white-petaled blooms accented by a
bright yellow center. This is also a favorite
for bees.
Jett has installed a weather-based irrigation
system that reads the weather in real
time and adjusts the water accordingly.
The back yard landscape replaced a rotted-out
deck and lawn. Jett addressed the
drainage problem by installing an underground
filtration pit, a passive collection
system that percolates the water slowly
while also providing an overflow pipe.
The centerpiece of this back area is the
Bauhinia, or Hong Kong Orchid Tree,
known for its large thick leaves and striking
purplish red flowers, which bloom from
early November to the end of March.
An Australian willow anchors another
part of the yard. This specimen is the parent
of the willow in the front yard.
A sculpture has been worked into the
patio, while the seating area and fire pit provide
an enjoyable, private outside room. A
kitchen garden is tucked in at one end of
the garden, decorated with a number of
whimsical painted animals, including a
winged pig, plus two large tin deep-sea
fish “swimming” on the back wall.
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Lisa, the owner of this mid-century
modern house, loves Palm Springs
and wanted her garden to reflect that.
Her house sits on a hill, with steep sides
that needed to be tamed. Seven years of
neglect had left a heavy growth of weeds,
while the over 60-year-old retaining walls
were crumbling. The reclamation process
included clearing the land, building reinforced
retaining walls and terrace and creating
new walkways.
The back yard has four levels: house level
with its lap pool and pathways; terrace level,
which is really the focal point of the back
yard; a sloping succulent garden, and finally
the top level where UC Verde buffalo grass
provides a grassy dog run, with pittosporum
Silver Sheen bordering the purple
fence. Each level has its own character with
different surface treatments, but succulents
and a purple/blue/green color palette provide
harmony. All irrigation is drip on tim -
ers, but several areas have no irrigation at
all and continue to thrive.
The front yard was sculpted to lessen the
possibility of serious erosion during a rainstorm.
A second level of reinforced retaining
wall was added to create a step back to
the higher level of the yard. A rock dry
stream bed meanders from the front entry
way down the slope, with the illusion of
breaking through the half-wall to a final
spill just before the brick surrounding wall,
Perched on a hill above Palisades High
School, 728 El Medio is an oasis on
a well-trafficked street.
Builders Neil and Cindi Smith turned to
the gardening duo of Bruce Izmirian and
Jerry Martin, owners of Sacred Grounds
Landscape Design, for help in bringing
their vision to life.
The new, custom California Coastal home
is three stories, and incorporates an indooroutdoor
flow throughout. It is GreenPoint
Rated (greenpointrated.com), and drip irrigation
and native plants help keep it energy
efficient. Neil, a PaliHi graduate, designed
the home and used quality materials
throughout, with the hope that he could per -
suade Cindi to live there. That didn’t happen,
and the house is currently for sale.
In front of the house, a stone fence and
walkway, along with native plants, rocks,
pebbles and California sycamore and liquid
ambar trees, decorate the path leading to the
blue front door. A bench in the courtyard
is a peaceful place to relax, while watching
neighbors walk by. There is also a small
rock fountain, giving a soothing sound to
the front. Birds enjoy drinking from it.
The parkway in front of the house has
also been given a native makeover, and its
drought-resistant plants match those found
elsewhere on the property.
The bluestone walkway is placed in a traditional
brick pattern, and goes from the
sidewalk to the front door without any
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creating the image of cascading rock and
water as in a flood.
Yucca rostrata, American agave, aloe ferox,
puya Bolivia and senecio madralescae fill in
steps—all intentional to keep the home open
and inviting to residents and passersby alike.
When Izmirian and Martin began working
for the couple three years ago, the house was
a small cottage. Now, “It’s a stylized California
coastal woodland with a New England house
backdrop,” Izmirian told the Palisades News.
It was important to the Smiths to have
a coastal feel throughout the home, inside
and out, and Martin explains further, “It’s a
California version of a New England house.”
“We want to share the landscaping with
the public,” Neil said. “There is no hedge or
wall.” People frequently stop, look and admire
the yard.
A blue-tiled waterfall-type fountain adds
color and a soothing sound to the backyard,
which also features artificial grass. “It’s a tricky
yard,” Izmirian said. “Half of it is in the shade,
and you don’t want to use a lot of water.” The
GreenPoint rating would not have been possible
if the landscaping used too much water.
The beachy home features light colors
throughout. The upper terrace boasts a
view of the PaliHi football field, and any of
the three terraces are good places to watch
the Fourth of July fireworks.
Izmirian and Martin have transformed
gardens throughout the Palisades for the
past seven years, and their work has been
featured on the Garden Tour four times.
“You only get one chance to give a first
impression,” Izmirian said. “We want you
to feel that the house hugs you.”
around the rocks with stands of phormium
“Dark Delight” creating a backdrop. Kangaroo
paw and Sticks on Fire light up the
hillside. Groupings of barrel cactus line the
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driveway. An orderly row of agave Blue
Glow set in black pebbles borders the sidewalk,
providing a counterpoint to the more
random plantings throughout the garden.

April 6, 2016 Palisades News Page 17
Julie Newmar passes through her garden
as if turning the pages of her scrapbook.
Her delight may prompt a song, or surprise
at a spurt of new growth, and always
exhilaration over a familiar fragrance.
“I live in paradise, and every day I get to
experience the ecstasy and choreography of
nature,” the actress says. “It’s nonstop art,
and I am happy to share it.”
Newmar has enjoyed a seven-decade career
as a dancer, a film star (most notable
as TV’s “Catwoman”) and a businesswoman
(she received two U.S. patents for
pantyhose and brassiere designs). Today,
she continues writing, making small films
and journaling on Facebook.
It’s her garden that perhaps defines her
most accurately, a 30-year project of floral
“rooms” that wrap around her 2,000-sq.-
ft. bungalow.
From the street, the visitor comes upon
a cacophony of loose color and glow, shad -
ed by a small arboretum, including jaca -
randa, weeping cherry and persimmon.
Newmar insists that you must enter into
the garden and follow the stone paths that
weave through the mini-gardens, defined
by color and texture.
The “hot” garden is dominated by reds
and oranges, including a variety of roses,
such as the smoky ruby-red “Oprah Winfrey”
and “Don Juan,” a climber with velvety
ruffled crimson flowers.
The “pastel” garden is dominated by the
blues, pinks and lavenders of delphinium,
iris, foxglove and snapdragons—all great
sources for flower arrangements.
Newmar’s 80 rose varieties range not only
in color and fragrance but also to Hollywood
stars. There is the voluptuous “Marilyn
Monroe” hybrid tea showing off large, perfectly
formed creamy apricot blooms; the
“Betty White”‘s many petaled soft blush
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Don’t expect to visit a beautifully laid
out and immaculate garden, like
the other six on this tour. But here’s
your chance to view an amazing, two-acre
agricultural area right at the border of Brentwood
and Pacific Palisades. Few people in
this high-priced part of urbanized L.A. know
it’s there, unless they attended this public
school and took classes introducing them
to plants and animals in hands-on ways, or
else had or have children enrolled at Revere.
Some of these resi dents have joined in on
volunteer work days at the garden.
After passing through the gate, visit two
enclosures with lively chickens, ducks and
water turtles, then cages with guinea pigs
and rabbits. Pass by raised beds with vegetables,
a shade house and a large tool room.
Walking upward and eastward, you’ll spot
a greenhouse. Beyond it stretches a row of
beds ready for spring planting and a minipink
blooms with outstanding fragrance;
and the butter gold, yellow floribunda
“Julia Child,” named for the famous chef.
There is even a “Julie Newmar” rose at the
Huntington Garden, which she describes
as “pale gold wrapped in rubies.” It has a
strong fragrance.
The newest addition to her collection is
the first in a series of garden roses inspired
by the award-winning Downton Abbey series.
“Anna’s Promise” praises the true heart
and integrity of one of the most popular
characters, Anna Bates. Golden petals with
orchard. See other features here: pond, small
vineyard, native-plant garden, old fruit
trees, a mini-amphitheater serving as outdoor
classroom and gathering place, and the
greenhouse holding ornamental plants.
a pink blush and glowing bronze reverse
are surrounded by glossy, green foliage on
strong stems.
As you enter the back garden, you pass
a begonia extravaganza, a collection Newmar
is known for.
From her office, the actress looks out on
a full view of her back garden. Great New
Zealand and Australian ferns crowd the
upper story, while the paths and secret gardens
surprise the visitor with bird of para -
dise, ginger and Tasmanian Devil euphorbia.
Paths lead to other secret gardens. The
This rare opportunity brings you within
a secret farmland occupying part of what
was once a polo field, before the muchneeded
junior high school took it over in
1955. During the past 60 years the rural en-
patio off the living room is lined with cymbidium
in an array of colors. This is the
place Newmar enjoys mornings reading
the New York Times.
Her well-established garden doesn’t need
an excess of water; nevertheless, she has adjusted
for more efficiency. Her landscape
designer Bradley James Bontems has implemented
a special drip system that calculates
to the minute the watering requirements.
Bontems and Newmar will be on hand
for the tour. “I love sharing my garden
with garden people,” she says.
“THE FARM” AT PAUL REVERE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
clave enjoyed periods of intensive administrative
focus, when teachers often brought
students into these special learning grounds
and regular maintenance went on. But subsequent
regimes often let thick weeds and
even trash occupy the generous open space.
The latest effort to utilize this precious
piece of arable land began eight years ago
when principal Fern Somoza brought in
Richard Herrera to teach elective agriculture,
horticulture, and flower arranging
classes while rehabilitating the huge planting
area and sturdy greenhouse. Since 2011
these worthy efforts have been carried on by
teacher Carrie Robertson, who conducts
popular classes in agriculture, horticulture
and animal science while supervising
the continuing improvements.
The Farm, then, is a great deal more than
a token middle-school garden. Ticket holders
are encouraged to bring kids under 18,
free of charge. Drinking water will be available,
and cookies offered for sale.
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This is a 1936 modern home of Lillian
and Robert Harlan Wintroub.
Robert Harlan, a gastroenterologist
who teaches at USC’s Keck School of Medicine,
has a second career as a sculptor. The
Wintroubs initially contacted designer Susanne
Vaughn to discuss removing the turf
grass and replacing it with a drought-tolerant
garden. Together they worked to create
a setting for Harlan’s cast bronze sculptures
that would show them to best advantage
while also harmonizing the garden with
the architecture.
The front garden was developed with
concentric curves reflecting the curves of
the house. The first curve is of dymondia,
a walkable grass-like surface adjacent to the
street, providing a surface guests can step
onto from their cars. Next came a layer of
pebbles with a combination echeveria and
aeonium, low-growing succulents. A rusted
Park along 700 Temescal Canyon Road,
at the NE corner of the park,
just south of Bowdoin
833 NAPOLI DR., PACIFIC PALISADES
The first order of business for this
homeowner was to replace the landscape
that had been planted by the
developer of the former spec house.
“We wanted to get the new landscape in
place even before we started to tackle the
interior,” Bruce said, adding that he and his
wife found Whitney Landscape by driving
around the neighborhood and liking a garden
Ethan Whitney had designed.
The challenge on the street frontage was
to soften and add interest to the horizontal
east-west position of the house. In the back
of the house, which is dominated by a steep
slope, the landscaper had to consider planting
an attractive and stable hillside.
Along the street side, Whitney has used
a number of shrubs that are new arrivals in
nurseries. A podocarpus “Icee Blue” runs
along the length of the wall and provides
background for the coprosma “Pacific Sunset,”
notable for its vivid coral-red center
contrasted with chocolate-bronze edges.
Another addition is the dwarf pink kangaroo
paw, an Australian shrub that grows
low to the ground and is a favorite for hummingbirds.
Korean grass (Zoysia tenuifolia) meets
the street. This hardy slow-growing compact
grass grows in mounds, presenting an
iron band separates the pebbles from a bark
mulch bed planted with creeping ceano -
thus “Joyce Coulter” surrounding two
sculpted pine trees. An arc of sunset gold
Breath of Heaven draws the eye up to
“Adam & Eve” on a pedestal of granite.
Continuing on to the right, tulbaghia
Silver Lace with its pale leaves and wispy
purple flowers creates a “spotlight” for the
“Two Dancers” (after Degas) in this back
corner of the front garden. Heavier plantings
were removed from against the house
so the white wall would reflect a silhouette
of the darker sculptures. All plants are deliberately
low-growing so that the sculptures
remain the focal point. They are
uplit at night. A third sculpture, “Sunday
in the Park with George,” sits in the alcove
between the front entry and the art studio
surrounded by various potted plants.
In the back yard, one finds a lovely pool
uneven and rolling surface. It does go dormant
in winter but stays green.
Whitney has created two pocket plantings
on the front porch, one for sun-loving plants
including a diverse group of succulents—euphorbias
and echeverias. Note particularly
144 S. ANITA AVE., BRENTWOOD
The Native/Environmental/Xeri scape/
Temescal/Garden (N/E/X/T/Garden)
shows visitors how diverse native and
the “Kaleidoscope” abelia, which offers yearround
color—green and yellow in the spring,
turning to gold in the summer and fiery
reds and crimsons in the fall and winter.
The shade planter is centered by a threerock
fountain, and a number of colorchanging
perennials and annuals, including
fuchsias and delphinium.
In the back of the house, Whitney plant -
ed a variety of fruit trees, including a Santa
Rosa plum, avocado and citrus on the hillside,
which is stabilized with creeping myoporum,
whose low-water requirements
make it a recommended ground cover in
areas where water conservation is important.
A seating area at the far end of the back
yard is flanked by succulents and a passion
vine.
As you walk out of the house to the back
yard, the hardscape is segmented by pavers
separated by the dense, purplish-black
black mondo grass. Beds of shade-loving
geranium bianco provide healthy growth
and colorful blooms.
THE N/E/X/T/GARDEN IN TEMESCAL CANYON PARK
Photo: Shelby Pascoe
surrounded by Lillian’s azaleas, hibiscus and
decorative kale. The grass was replaced by
dymondia and a row of blue fescue was
added on the far side of the pool. Again, these
drought-tolerant plants can be established
and maintained organically, with minimal
inputs, working beautifully in balance with
nature.
Originally established by Palisades Beautiful
in 1988, under the auspices of the City
of Los Angeles Department of Recreation
and Parks, this half-acre area was subsequently
abandoned to exotic invasive weeds,
with only 85 original specimens of 34 varieties
surviving over a decade of neglect. Six
years ago, garden designer Michael Terry and
community organizer Barbara Marinacci
started leading volunteers on the last Saturday
of each month (under the sponsorship
of Palisades Beautiful and the Pacific Pali -
sades Garden Club) in a successful effort to
rescue, expand, and improve the N/E/X/T/
Garden. Thanks to community grants for
provide a simple, understated and walkable
surface giving pre-eminence to the sculptures.
All the new planting areas are droughttolerant
and watered by drip irrigation.
plants and many months of volunteer planting
efforts, there are now over 700 native
specimens representing 100 varieties of 75
species from 56 genera, plus several varieties
of South African and South American
succulents and woody plants occupying
most of this three-quarter-acre space—and
using just one-tenth of the water consumed
by the equivalent area of adjacent lawn.
During the Pacific Palisades Garden Club
Spring Garden Tour, the N/E/X/T/Garden
will be bloomin’ beautiful! Come find inspiration
in this sustainability demonstration
garden in the heart of Pacific Palisades.
Michael and Barbara will be there to guide
you, answer your “how to” questions, and
help you identify your favorite plant varieties
among the many on display. Our main
advice: “DO try this at home!”

April 6, 2016 Palisades News Page 19
Yarn Bombing Highlights
Woman’s History Month
By SUE PASCOE
Editor
Rose Gilbert, Elizabeth Blackwell
and Sarah Ride were among the 33
women honored with a “yarn
bombing”—a colorful artwork installation
that temporarily enlivens a public
area—on Monument Avenue in March.
An inspirational Palisades High School
teacher, the first woman doctor and the first
woman astronaut were among those chosen
by Palisadian Michelle Vellemaire to celebrate
National Women’s History Month.
The project encouraged passersby to stop
at each tree (between Bashford and Swarthmore)
and read the tag about the woman
being honored for having led by example.
“Last year I yarn bombed the Village
Green as a way to bring joy to the community
while giving back at the same
time,” Vellemaire said. “It was so well received
I decided to do it again.”
After the colorful exhibition, the pieces
will be taken down and transformed into
blankets for women transitioning out of
homelessness.
“This year, I expanded my group of
volunteers,” Vellemaire said. “People of all
skill levels participated—from nevertouched-yarn-person
to highly-skilledknitting-teacher-person.”
“One woman donated a beauty-counter
gift basket and we raffled it off at my first
sit and stitch,” Vellemaire said. “I am most
proud of having taught Marge Gold, who
helped me install the Village Green yarn
bomb, but couldn’t seem to pick up the
craft back then. This year, she became addicted
and crocheted 40 inches of fabric!”
The 22 volunteers also included Cindy
Simon, Karyn Newbill (and the PaliHi knitting
club), Debra Green, Aurora Brown,
Alyssa Lee, Christina Martinez, Barbara
Kohn, Sarah McCormick, Luann Abrahams,
Terry Lewis Lyman, Mary Louise
Piccard, Annie Lee, Lainie Sugarman, Loren
Kaplan, Zyre Austin, Anne Tuohy, Carol
Sanborn, Carol Dituri, Veronica Sanchez,
Hazel Delgado and Mrs. Williams’ Palisades
Elementary second-grade class.
Vellemaire, who has two daughters, Pearl,
8, and Vivi, 5, said the project was “a great
way to talk with my kids about inspirational
women and women who had an impact.”
Most of the women’s stories resonated
with her personally, but volunteers had an
option to name their pieces. These choices
included Mary Cassatt (an American paint -
er and printmaker) and Eugenie Clark (the
icthyologist popularly known as “The Shark
Lady” and a pioneer in scuba diving).
Left to right: Carol Sanborn, Mary Lou Piccard, Michelle Villemaire, Marge Gold, Lainie
Sugarman and Anne Tuohy working to decorate the Rose Gilbert tree on Monument,
which had 95 roses handmade by PaliHi students.
Photo: Bart Bartholomew
“The absolute best moment came
when a blind woman came to the yarn
bombing and had a huge smile on her
face as she was led through it by a friend.
“She loved touching everything and was
happy to hear that Helen Keller was represented.
I lived in Helen Keller’s house as
a child, so for me, her story is the ultimate
story of overcoming one’s obstacles. And
it’s kind of the whole theme of the project
and why I’m passionate about supporting
women who’ve been through their own.”
Vellemaire, a seven-year Palisades resident
who is married to TV writer
Jonathan Abrahams, thanked Lion Brand
for their yarn donation, InstaMail on Via
de la Paz for discounted printing, Pinocchio
for a lunch for the volunteers, and
Caruso Affiliated for allowing her to install
the yarn bombing.
Visit: homemademimi.com/monumentstreet-yarnbomb/

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Lily Kinnear Kicks to First Place
By SUE PASCOE
Editor
After she kicked a “punching bag” at
a Halloween party in 2014, Lily
Kinnear’s dad told her “You should
try it [karate].”
Kinnear not only tried the sport, she improved
enough to enter her first tournament
on February 27-28 in Ontario. At the
National Martial Arts Tournament, one of
the largest, most prestigious martial arts
events in the world, the slender 12-year-old
came away with three first-place awards,
two seconds and a fourth.
The Pacific Palisades resident started her
training at Gerry Blanck’s Martial Arts Center
on Alma Real in late 2014 and steadily
progressed from a white belt to white-yellow
to yellow to yellow-black to blue to
blue-black to a green karate belt.
In preparation for Ontario, Kinnear start -
ed working with Palisadian Tamar Spring -
er. In addition to be being a psychotherapist
and the mother of two boys, Springer holds
a Yoshukai second-degree black belt and
has won several competitions.
“We started training for the tournament
the week of January 10,” Springer said. “We
met three times a week, for at least an hour.
We went into great detail about form, technique,
the inner spirit of karate, what judg -
es look for and what makes a competitor
stand out.”
At a recent kickboxing class at Blanck’s
dojo, although Kinnear was the smallest student
(she is 4’11” and weighs 78 pounds),
her movements were fluid. Some in the
class struggled to make the moves, but she
seemed to float through them.
The sixth grader took gymnastics at JAG
Gym in Culver City until about two years
Matt McGeagh
Lily Kinnear demonstrates the form that helped her win three first place finishes at an Ontario tournament.
ago. “I think it helped,” said Kinnear, who
played soccer in elementary school and is
now on her school’s track team. Yet clearly,
karate is her true passion, and she talked
excitedly about the Ontario tournament.
Her first competition was a coed event:
kata with a weapon. A kata is a prearranged
series of basic techniques in which the student
visualizes the attack and uses the moves
to defend herself with blocks and strikes.
The weapon Kinnear uses is a sai, which
looks like two mini hand-held tridents. The
points are sharp. Her trainer Springer said,
McGeagh Starts at Penn
Matt McGeagh, who six years ago was
playing in the Pacific Palisades Baseball
Association as a Bronco, is now starting at
the University of Pennsylvania as a third
baseman.
As of March 30, the team had seven wins
and 11 losses. McGeagh in his 48 at-bats
is hitting .229 with 11 singles, three doubles
and one home run. He has played in
17 games, starting in 16 of them.
The Penn freshman played ball for Loyola
High School, where he lettered twice
and served as the team captain. He was a
Westside L.A. All-Star in 2015 and made
the first-team All Mission League that
same year. While in high school he was
named the team MVP. He is the son of
Tracy and Rick McGeagh.
“Not a lot of people use that weapon, because
it’s one of the harder ones to learn
how to use.”
“The kata I did with it, you need a special
grip and you have to hold it a special way,”
Kinnear explained. The weapon looks incredibly
sharp and she was asked if she had
ever injured herself when learning how to
use it. “I’ve poked myself,” she admitted.
Kinnear took first in that event, and then
competed in four more events in her age
group in girls-only events. In the girls’ kata
with her sai, she also placed first.
In the creative form, considered kata
non-traditional, Kinnear wowed the judges
with her athletic strengths.
“She blew them away,” said Springer,
who was at the competition. “She did three
tornado kicks in a row.” (In a tornado kick,
the person jumps, spins 360 degrees and
ends with a high kick above the head.)
Kinnear’s two second places came in the
traditional form and the musical kata. Her
fourth place finish was in sparring.
“I don’t particularly like sparring,” Kinnear
said. “It’s kind of boring.” But overall
the competition was a different story. “I
loved it because it was so fun.”
Springer noted that one thing that sets
Kinnear apart from most youth is her kiya,
which is basically a loud shout or yell used
when making an attacking move.
“It is a sound that focuses out the emotion,”
Springer said.
Kinnear demonstrated with a loud,
Photo: Bart Bartholomew
forceful and deep short yell, which didn’t
seem possible from someone so slight.
“At first I was a little self-conscious,” Kinnear
said. But, there was no hesitation in
demonstrating the sound to this reporter.
“Her strongest asset is her athleticism
and her form. She is really superb,” Springer
said. “Next to that and not necessarily less
important, her asset is her mind. She has
tremendous will and determination.”
Although Kinnear is an incessant reader
and math is her favorite subject, she also
had a punching bag in her bedroom to supplement
her practice five times a week. Her
parents are Greg and Helen and she has
two younger sisters, Audrey and Kate.
Woods Foundation
To Host Riviera PGA
The Tiger Woods Foundation will be the
host organization for the Riviera PGA
tournament held in February 2017.
“This is a fantastic opportunity for my
foundation,” Tiger Woods said. “This is the
first PGA Tour event I ever played, and it
will be exciting to return to Riviera.”
The 2016 Riviera Title Sponsor, Northern
Trust, is being replaced by Hyundai
Motor America starting next year.
The tournament is one of the longest-running
on the PGA Tour, having begun in 1926
at the Los Angeles Country Club. It has been
played at Riviera Country Club since 1973.

April 6, 2016 Palisades News Page 23
Virtual Academy Offers Alternatives
By LAUREL BUSBY
Staff Writer
The first student at Palisades High’s
Virtual Academy wouldn’t get out
of her mother’s car on visits to the
campus, but instead hid under a blanket
to stay out of view.
“The only way for me to actually connect
with the student was to walk to the car,” said
Randy Tenan-Snow, coordinator and English
teacher for the academy. Tenan-Snow
then designed a program that would allow
the student to continue her studies from
home, and the teen has since transferred
out of the academy to become a traditional
PaliHi student.
For Tenan-Snow, who opened the Virtual
Academy in late 2013, experiences like
these have been enlightening. The academy
“really opened my eyes to students I didn’t
know existed,” said Tenan-Snow, who previously
interacted with students mainly in
her role as an English teacher.
She still teaches two English courses a
semester to broader PaliHi, while also providing
9th-to-12th grade English instruction,
including AP coursework, to Virtual
Academy students. Her fellow coordinator,
Stephanie Chew, delivers math instruction,
including AP classes, to academy students.
When the Virtual Academy first began,
Tenan-Snow worked to catch students who
were in danger of leaving PaliHi for various
reasons, ranging from social and/or emotional
issues to the demands of their enter-
Freshman figure skater Mira Polishook attends
PaliHi Virtual Academy.
tainment careers or sports training and
competitions.
Because Palisades Charter High School
is an independent high school, students
didn’t have the option to use LAUSD’s City
of Angels virtual program and still continue
as a Pali student. To remain competitive,
PaliHi created the Virtual Academy, and
Tenan-Snow was asked to become involved,
because she already taught classes for the
private online Laurel Springs School.
The academy, which now serves 59 students,
is a combination of online instruction
and home study with attendance at
one or two classes on campus. Students are
also free to participate in any Pali clubs,
sports or other extracurricular activities.
Tenan-Snow and Chew brought some students
and parents to the February school
board meeting to speak about how the program
works for them.
Zuzka Polishook and her daughter, 9th
grade figure skater Mira Polishook, shared
how the academy enabled Mira to attend
skating practice during school days while
simultaneously allowing her to still be a
PaliHi student who connects with school
friends. “That social interaction is something
that no other online academy can
offer,” Zuzka said.
For the attendees with emotional and/or
social issues, the academy allows them to
attend PaliHi when all-day school attendance
would be untenable. One parent said
that the small “doses of a classroom” two
or three times a week combined with excelling
at home in a “comfortable environment”
enabled students to avoid becoming
overwhelmed by the anxiety that occurred
with all-day school attendance.
“Virtual Academy saved my son,” said
Anya Hayes, whose son was diagnosed with
a learning disability in second grade. Before
learning about the academy, she mentioned
to Vice Principal Monica Ianessa that her
son, Elijah, was no longer willing to come
to school. Ianessa told her that he sounded
like a good candidate for the Virtual Academy,
and he is now a junior in the program.
Students can come to school for seminars
and science labs, but they can also join
classes from home or on the road via Skype
or speakerphone, Tenan-Snow said in a
later interview. Because class sizes are small
and both she and her fellow coordinator
Chew know the students well, they can tailor
instruction to individual students.
The academy is working to expand its
AP offerings next year. AP Spanish will be
taught in addition to the current math and
English AP courses. NCAA approval, which
is unusual for an independent study program,
has also been garnered, Tenan-Snow
said. Last year, five seniors graduated from
the academy, and this year, 32 seniors are
on track to graduate.
Both parents and students at the board
meeting said the independent aspect of the
program helped prepare the teens for the
independence of college. Later, in a phone
interview, Tenan-Snow also mentioned that
the program requires a supportive home
environment, because parental involvement
is required given that the students are
doing so much of their work at home.
Throughout the academy experience,
Tenan-Snow said she and her fellow teachers
are seeking to make students’ school experience
a good one. “We just want them to
enjoy learning and look at school as a really
positive place to be,” she said. “I want that
light to be in their eyes.”
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Page 24 Palisades News April 6, 2016
Israel’s Home Is an Art House
By LAURIE ROSENTHAL
Staff Writer
When longtime Palisadian Jacquie
Israel was in elementary school,
she loved her art teacher, and
wanted to be one herself.
Fast forward several decades, and she
has become an art teacher of sorts through
art consultations and exhibiting art in her
Alphabet Streets home.
Art House, which turns her house into
a temporary gallery for several months a
year, began in 2007, and is Israel’s way of
bringing art to her community. Hundreds
of people came through during the recent
opening weekend.
“Looking at art can enhance your life
and open your mind,” Israel told the Pali -
sades News. She understands many locals
don’t want to make the drive downtown—
where new galleries are continually popping
up—so she has made a concerted
effort to bring art here.
Currently, 100 works from 35 artists
hang on the Israel family’s walls, and prices
range from $100 to $10,000. There are varied
styles, including abstract, representational,
mixed media and video art.
“This is a good place to learn about art
when so many other places can be intimidat -
ing,” she said, talking about the experience
Photo: Bart Bartholomew
Jacquie Israel in her home art gallery.
many encounter when going to galleries.
“I think of what I’m doing as being an
art teacher to some degree, because I really
like to educate people about art. For me, art
is like the Torah,” in the way that both have
various layers and depths, and can be studied
further to discover different meanings.
She also likes to expand peoples’ knowledge
about the history of art, so they may
better understand what they are looking at
and how it fits in with what has gone before.
“I think a lot of people want to connect
with art the second they look at it,” Israel
said. “I feel like if they’re not connecting
with it, they dismiss it, because they don’t
understand it.
“When people learn more about art
they can appreciate it more.”
Israel is presenting two art talks in conjunction
with her exhibit, which runs
through the end of April. UCLA professor
Roni Feinstein will discuss “Ten Artists
Whose Work You Should Know and Why,”
on Tuesday, April 12 and Tuesday, April
26 at 7 p.m. Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman
and Takashi Murakami are some of the
artists who will be discussed.
As to Israel’s own art proclivities, yarn
bombing is high up on her list. “I love that
you can make a little something and put
it out in the world,” she said. “It’s a way to
be an artist outside of the establishment,”
and something she would like to try.
“I’m not a born artist. I love and admire
art so much.”
She stays current with what is happening
throughout Los Angeles, and relies on an
app to track openings. “My life is about
seeing all the art that’s being shown.”
With the 10th anniversary of Art House
less than a year away, Israel is still unsure
how she will celebrate it, and jokes that she
“will know a month before.”
Art House is free; however, there is a $50
charge for each lecture. As of press time,
there were still spaces available. For more
information, contact Israel at jacquie.israel@mac.com.

April 6, 2016 Palisades News Page 25
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Principal oboist Phil Feather will play
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Feather is one of the most sought-after
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Tomaso Albinoni, a contemporary of J.S.
Bach, was the son of a wealthy merchant in
Venice. During his lifetime he became immensely
popular as a composer of opera,
but in modern times he is best known for
his instrumental works. At the concert, the
adagio will be the second movement of the
Concerto, replacing the concerto’s original
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“Baroque composers and singers routinely
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in the style of Albinoni. So even if he didn’t
write it, it will be a beautiful addition to the
virtuosic concerto Phil is performing.”
Feather will also perform “Gabriel’s Oboe”
from Ennio Morricone’s award-winning
score for the 1986 film The Mission.
Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat and the
“Toreador’s Prayer” by the Spanish composer
Joachin Turina will also be performed.
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who justifies her profession, first as a prostitute
and then as a brothel owner.
The play, in some respects feels dated and
long. But under the direction of Sabrina
Lloyd, it is always entertaining. The last play
Lloyd directed at Theatre Palisades was The
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Debate Team Goes to State
By LAUREL BUSBY
Staff Writer
Theate Palisades presents
From left to right, Ms. Jeanne Saiza, Emma Engler, Keren Dror, Erika Siao, Noah Alcus,
and Allison Holdorrf-Polhill. The trophies are Erika and Noah’s from both the tournament
in January and the Qualifier in February.
Photo: Bart Bartholomew
A“random happenstance” created a
chain reaction that brought a successful
new debate team to Palisades
Charter High School this year.
Jesse Victoroff, a 2012 PaliHi graduate
who now attends Dartmouth College, had
a friend whose partner dropped out the day
before a college debate. Victoroff, then a
freshman, had never considered debating,
but when his friend invited him to compete
with her in the extemporaneous speech category,
they placed third in the tournament
at Cornell University.
In the process, “I fell in love with the analytical
thinking of debate,” said Victoroff,
now a senior. He joined Dartmouth’s team
and has since become a nationally ranked
debater. He noted that debate provides training
in “critical thinking, public speaking and
expression—the ability to share your ideas
in a way other people can understand.”
Victoroff has had continued success in
debate, even winning the Thai National
Championships as an exchange student last
school year. This past summer, while back
home in Pacific Palisades, he suggested to
his friend’s mother, Allison Holdorff-Polhill,
that PaliHi should consider starting a team.
Holdorff-Polhill, a PaliHi board member
and a former UCLA national debate champion,
contacted Principal Pam Magee about
the idea. She then found a teacher, Jeannie
Saiza, to be the teacher of record and volunteered
to coach the team.
Students responded to the idea. Seventy
kids expressed interest, and about 50 students
attended the first meeting. The students
elected officers, including senior
Emma Engler as club president, and they
started training with Victoroff and Hol -
dorff-Polhill, who have provided expertise
on research, evidentiary standards and critical
thinking.
Although Victoroff soon returned to
Dartmouth, he continued to help via email.
Holdorff-Polhill attends most meetings to
help guide the students, who have also done
much of the work of learning how to research
and debate themselves.
Throughout the season, the newbies have
done well against students who have been
debating all four years of high school, including
summers at debate camp, Holdorff-
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Santa Clara.
“I think for a beginning team, they’ve
done an amazing job,” said Holdorff-Polhill,
an attorney who has lived in the Palisades
for 20 years. “The kids are voracious and
bright. It’s really the kids who have just been
running this.”
They have received some awards during
their first season. In October, Rassa Ebra -
him and Romina Rastegar went undefeated
in their first debate and won first place in
the novice public forum category.
Five other duos, Juliete Seo and Tina
Sarkissian, Tnsae Mulu and Kira Martin,
Timothy Nordahl and Hallie Wagner,
Emma Engler and Keren Dror, and Noah
Alcus and Erika Siao earned certificates for
achieving two wins and one loss each over
the three rounds.
Erika Siao and Noah Alcus also went
undefeated at a January tournament, then
earned a second place finish in the district
qualifying tournament last month, which
qualified them for a spot in the state tournament.
As president of the team, “Emma [Eng ler]
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everyone for the tournaments. Victoroff
said that he was impressed by how skilled
the PaliHi debaters were with organization
and higher-order thinking overall, especially
compared with Dartmouth’s team.
“One of the things I forgot was how capable
these students are,” said Victoroff, a
material science engineering major. “At
Dartmouth, I have found a much lower
level of skills than you find at Pali.”
Engler had previously participated in the
Palisades-Malibu YMCA Youth and Government
Delegation, a model government
program for high school students. She also
has enjoyed drama, writing for the school
newspaper (The Tideline) and studying history.
Current events have increasingly fascinated
her, and she has found that the skills
she is garnering from debate are invaluable.
“It challenges you to think quickly, write
responses and rebuttals while the other team
is speaking, and speak clearly in an organized
manner,” Engler said. “It’s thrilling and
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April 6, 2016 Palisades News Page 27
Women of Valor
Celebrates 9 Years
By LAURIE ROSENTHAL
Staff Writer
On a beautiful late February day,
when it should have been raining
instead of hovering near 80 degrees,
the ninth annual “In Celebration of
the Jewish Woman” luncheon, sponsored
by the Chabad of Pacific Palisades, was held
at the LUXE Hotel in Brentwood.
Generations of women gathered to nosh,
mingle and honor eishet chayils (women of
valor), this year three generations of the Bern -
stein family: Anne, Denise and Samantha.
The luncheon is the brainchild of Rebbetzin
Zisi Cunin, who came up with the
idea in 2007 as a way of celebrating women,
instead of just her own 35th birthday.
“I think it is popular since we try hard to
make the luncheon ambiance very beautiful,
fun and relaxing,” Cunin told the Pali -
sades News. “It gives women a chance to
take some time for themselves, meet other
women, make new friends and be inspired.”
Cunin began the proceedings with a joke
about a cell phone, a wife, and a man willing
to give her everything she wants (punchline:
it wasn’t his phone), then asked every -
one to turn off their phones so they could
remain fully present.
“Every year, we honor women who have
acted selflessly for our community,” said
the Palisadian.
Cunin noted that the ages of those in attendance
ranged from six weeks (Cunin’s
baby girl, Shaina) to 100 (honoree Anne
Bernstein, who turned 101 on April 1).
Three of Cunin’s older daughters—Necha -
mah, Chaya and Chanie—were also on
hand, helping with the afternoon.
Cunin not only talked about Biblical
women, such as Sarah and Esther, but she
also discussed modern women, and the
dilemma of having “our lives fragmented
in so many ways.”
She also spoke about embracing everything
about one’s life, past and present.
“Life isn’t something that should be edited.
The only way of discovering our soul is going
through the process we did . . . The road to
perfection is paved with imperfection.”
Introducing the day’s special guests, Cun -
in said, “Our honorees represent the theme
of the luncheon: be true to yourself, your
family, your community and your people.”
Anne, better known as Bubbe, moved to
Los Angeles over 70 years ago with her late
husband, Willie, whom she met when they
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Together, they founded the first Jewish day
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“The secret to a fulfilling life is marrying
the right person,” Denise told the assembled
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Continuing in a humorous vein, she
added, “My mother-in-law, Anne, also sincerely
apologizes for always winning the
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SPECIAL SECTION
Participating in the Palisades Playwright Festival are (back row, left to right) Andy Frew,
Lance Johnson, Virginia Mekkelson, Dana White and Sherry Coon and (front row, left
to right) Pat Perkins, Shirley Churgin, Julia Whitcombe, Ria Erlich and Diane Grant.
Palisades Playwrights
Festival Starts April 12
The Seventh Annual Palisades Playwrights
Festival will return on three
Tuesdays in April—the 12th, 19th
and 26th—7:30 p.m. at Pierson Playhouse,
941 Temescal Canyon Road. Admission is $5
and includes free wine and nibbles at 7 p.m.
The first play featured will be Oh, Sweet
Mystery, by Dana White, directed by Diane
Grant.
The plot centers on Ernie, a loveable but
disgruntled successful mystery novelist.
As the main character he bumbles around
in this comedy, trying to find the meaning
to life. He has some help from his young
freshly married daughter and his best
friend, an attorney.
Playwright White spent four years in U.S.
Navy communications aboard several ships
before attending the American Academy of
Dramatic Arts in New York. He landed featured
roles on Broadway and New York television
before moving to Los Angeles.
He worked as an advertising executive
for the Los Angeles Times while performing
in over twenty plays locally, including several
productions at Theatre Palisades, before
turning to writing—novels, plays and
screenplays.
White’s original plays produced in workshops
in Los Angeles include Oh, Sweet Mystery
and One Golden Moment (hopefully on
its way to Broadway). He recently completed
a novel (plus a screenplay version), a second
novel and a self-help little book, Nail Your
Attitude and Win! which is available on
Amazon.com. He’s delighted to be associated
again with Theatre Palisades as a playwright.
On April 19 Community Service, by Lance
Johnson, will be featured. Directed by Sherry
Coon, the play centers around an irascible
judge in a rundown 1947 New York City
courtroom who sentences six people to perform
community service in Central Park.
This ensemble play has been described as
a touch of Miracle on 34th Street, a dash of It’s
a Wonderful Life, and a pinch of How to Succeed
in Business. Actual 1940s radio commercials,
music and news broadcasts add to the
colorful blending of Runyonesque humor.
Johnson has appeared in movies, stage
plays (Best Actor nominations), national
commercials and TV, including a lead American
role in a 28-part China TV production.
He performed at Theatre Palisades in Gore
Vidal’s The Best Man, of which the Palisadian-
Post said, “Lance Johnson is outstanding as
. . . ex-president Art Hockstader.” He says that
accolade belongs to director Sherry Coon,
who “squeezed out of me the last ounce of
a practical Midwestern president who believed
there were no ends, only means.”
Johnson was an officer in the U.S. Army
Reserves for thirty years, including active
duty and helping high schoolers gain admittance
to West Point. Community Service
touches on the importance of helping returning
war vets, be it 1947 or today.
The play received the Marine Corps Heritage
Foundation’s 2016 award “for a distinguished
play or screenplay . . . dealing
with U.S. Marine Corps heritage.” Johnson
will be honored at a black-tie dinner at the
National Museum of the Marine Corps in
Quantico, Virginia, and an engraved brick
will be placed in Semper Fi Park adjacent to
the Museum to honor play and playwright.
The final play, The Losers’ Club, by Virginia
Mekkelson and directed by Ria Erlich,
will be staged April 26. (Look for a description
of The Losers’ Club in the April 20 edition
of the News.)
Mekkelson is a longtime playwright and
musical theater librettist. Her nonfiction
handbook, Musical Theatre: Secrets of the
Great Shows, is available for download from
Amazon/Kindle.
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April 6, 2016 Palisades News Page 29
Spring Fashion Show at Woman’s Club
By DEBBIE ALEXANDER
Staff Writer
Fresh spring ensembles wowed the
crowd at the Pacific Palisades Woman’s
Club’s annual Runway Fashion Show
luncheon held at the clubhouse on March
15. Proceeds will benefit local charities.
As a newbie, I joined nearly 100 women
composed of members, friends and other
first-timers like myself for the delightful
three-hour event.
Upon entering, I purchased $20 in raffle
tickets and tossed them into the bowls for
a visit to Ellen, DeGeneres’ daytime talk
show, $100 worth of carwash coupons and
the traditional money hat composed of 25
$2 bills. Lots of other tempting goodies like
relaxing books, family game packs, wine
and picnic items were on the raffle, too.
I met interesting Palisades residents
who included travel photographer Wendy
Windebank, realtor Judy Gold and healer
Jasmina Agrillo Scherr. Gold generously
donates a portion of her local commissions
to the club.
Local musician and teacher Greg Alper
played jazz during the luncheon, which was
provided by Citron Catering. Pali Wine
Company poured a tasty pinot noir of
their signature Tower 15 brand, and the
Midnight Mission provided the professional
serving staff.
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wide skirts—a contemporary
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She presented bold daytime dresses along
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scarf, or a colorful blouse complemented
a model’s figure and dressed up the look.
“Vivian recruited me,” said club member
Kirstin Sibson, who was modeling for a
second year. “It’s hard to turn her down because
she does such a wonderful job styling
people in clothes that feel comfortable.”
Attendee Marie Kincannon, who was
there to support her pal, model Marie Tran,
echoed Sibson’s sentiment. “Vivian is such
a warm person and she really knows how
to put outfits together.”
The show concluded with Dr. George
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the two side orders. You also may order a glass of wine,
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wine while waiting to be called to pick up our order.
The décor is relaxing with red- and white-checkered
tablecloths and small candles on each
table. Each table also has a tin with
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When your name is called, go to the
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The Cajun-style tilapia with a green
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along with the fresh vegetables and coleslaw ($15.95).
Portions here are generous.
The tilapia was very tasty with its Cajun topping and
the French fries made a crisp, delightful accompaniment.
The salad of assorted greens had a terrific balsamic
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There are desserts, too. We shared the chocolate
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In addition to the relaxing atmosphere, diners seem
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The Reel Inn is open daily from 11 a.m. to 9 or 9:30
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