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Volume XXII, Issue 5
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PENINSULA<br />
Volume XXII, Issue 5<br />
<strong>Dec</strong>ember <strong>2017</strong><br />
P A L O S V E R D E S P E N I N S U L A M O N T H L Y<br />
ON THE COVER<br />
Photo by Tony LaBruno<br />
Allen and Charlotte Ginsberg<br />
at the Heritage House.<br />
PROFILES<br />
20<br />
Biden time<br />
by Kevin Cody Former Vice President Joe Biden calls out<br />
President Trump, though not by name, during his Distinguished<br />
Speaker Series talk about “a battle for the soul of the<br />
nation.”<br />
28 Happy Hour wine<br />
by Richard Foss <strong>Peninsula</strong> winemakers Kristin and<br />
Stephen Jolley started with a name for their wine, then made<br />
a wine to fit the name.<br />
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Heritage House<br />
by Stephanie Cartozian Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg acquired<br />
the historic Portuguese Point Gatehouse to preserve it<br />
for future generations.<br />
Bayer works wonders<br />
by Robb Fulcher Dr. Arnold Bayer earns “Legend” honors<br />
at LA BioMed for his work in understanding deadly, ever morphing<br />
bacteria.<br />
Harvey Kushner: An appreciation<br />
by Brian Gillogly Pioneer think tank CEO Harvey Kushner<br />
is remembered as a pioneering woman’s advocate.<br />
HIGHLIGHTS<br />
10 Prep Sports Kick-Off Party<br />
14 Providence Little Company thanks Priscilla<br />
18 Biden meets Torrance Memorial supporters<br />
26 Land Conservancy Garden to Table dinner<br />
34 Lunada Harvest Festival<br />
38 Chamber Citizen of the Year dinner<br />
40 Big night for Little Sisters of the Poor<br />
48 Palos Verdes Senior Fashions<br />
51 LA BioMed Legends dinner<br />
DEPARTMENTS<br />
41 <strong>Peninsula</strong> Gift Guide<br />
49 <strong>Peninsula</strong> calendar<br />
81 Home services<br />
Correction: Last month’s <strong>Peninsula</strong> magazine incorrectly identified the<br />
founder of CASSY (Counseling and Support Services for Youth). Liz<br />
Schoeben’s correct title is MFT.<br />
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L<br />
PVPHS Athletic Booster Club<br />
Panthers Kick-Off Party<br />
The annual 27th All Sports Kick-Off Party, hosted by Mark and Rosa<br />
Easton of Rolling Hills Estates included parents, coaches, students<br />
and fans. Along with Mexican fare provided by the South Bay’s Taco<br />
Man, there was a no host bar and performances by the PVPHS band,<br />
0drill team and cheerleading squads. The club seeks to raise $250,000<br />
each year year for coaching assistants, and maintenance of the softball<br />
and track fields, tennis courts and pool. Premier Bank of Palos Verdes<br />
was the signature sponsor.<br />
1. Delores Scott, Mark and Rosa Easton<br />
and Ceci Watts.<br />
2. Brent Kuykendall, Julia Rosas,<br />
Randy Hata and Wendell Yoshida.<br />
PHOTOS BY STEPHANIE CARTOZIAN<br />
3. David Young, Chris Duffy and Paula<br />
Borstel.<br />
4. Mike Hoeger, Kurt Barcerilla and<br />
Barb DeWitt.<br />
5. <strong>Peninsula</strong> High Band members and<br />
cheerleaders.<br />
6. Mexican fare prepared by Taco<br />
Man.<br />
7. Dave Ward, Tama and Chad<br />
Somers.<br />
8. Alyssa Bowers.<br />
9. Jacqueline Chui.<br />
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L<br />
$20 Million Donation Gala<br />
Largest in history for Providence<br />
Priscilla Hunt and her late husband Donald G. Hunt gave a transformational<br />
donation to the Providence Little Company of Mary Medical<br />
Center earlier this year. The recent gala at Terranea was organized<br />
to thank the Hunt family and the hospital’s other supporters. The<br />
Hunts’ generosity has gone toward the $35 million Cardiovascular Center<br />
of Excellence Campaign. In appreciation, the hospital’s Heritage<br />
Tower will be renamed the Donald and Priscilla Hunt Tower.<br />
1. Priscilla Hunt, niece Mara Stone<br />
and Bob Stone.<br />
2. Marlene Young, Shintia Lynch and<br />
Marshall Varon.<br />
3. Priscilla Hunt with Dr. Leilani and<br />
Edwin Raquel.<br />
4. Dave and Natalie Muckley.<br />
5. Jim and Joanne Hunter.<br />
6. Rachel and Dr. Ghatan Bijan, Anne<br />
and Pat Lemaire.<br />
7. Stacy Caras-Tempereau, Lynn<br />
PHOTOS BY STEPHANIE CARTOZIAN<br />
Watson, Joan Caras and Jacqueline<br />
Glass.<br />
8. Shelley Joyce, Emily Martin and<br />
Maddie Sanfilippo.<br />
9. Judy and Dr. Ron Ruby and Flora<br />
Hsieh.<br />
10. Edwin Raquel, Priscilla Hunt and<br />
Dr. Leilani Raquel.<br />
11. Sonia Dhoot and Dr. Jashdeep<br />
Dhoot, Sarah Villalobos and Alex<br />
Lemus.<br />
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L<br />
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN<br />
visits Manhattan, Redondo<br />
T<br />
orrance Memorial supporters had the opportunity to<br />
meet personally with former Vice President Joseph<br />
Biden during a reception at Shade Hotel in Manhattan<br />
Beach on Tuesday, October 24. Following the reception, Biden<br />
addressed Distinguished Speaker Series subscribers at the Redondo<br />
Beach Performing Arts Center. (Related story page 20.)<br />
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PHOTOS BY DEIDRE DAVIDSON<br />
1. David and Barbara<br />
Bentley.<br />
2. MaryJo and Jerome<br />
Unatin, M.D.<br />
3. Lori Muncherian and<br />
Patricia Turpanjian.<br />
4. Carol and Karl McMillen<br />
with Joe Biden.<br />
5. Patricia Sacks, M.D., Joe<br />
Biden, Fern Tamkin.<br />
6. Monica and Sam Sim.<br />
7. Laura Schenasi,<br />
Kathleen Parks, Judy<br />
Gassner, Kim Vallee, Ann<br />
Zimmerman and Jonathan<br />
Beutler.<br />
8. Thyra Endicott, M.D.,<br />
Joe Hohm, Carole Hoffman,<br />
Christine Kim and Brandon<br />
Hohm.<br />
9. Craig and Judy Leach,<br />
Joe Biden and Sally<br />
Eberhard.<br />
10. Kathy Winterhalder,<br />
Sally Eberhard, Craig Leach<br />
and Judy Gassner.<br />
11. Randy and Luke<br />
Dauchot with Joe Biden.<br />
12. Erin Hoffman, Amanda<br />
Murphy, M.D., Keith Murphy<br />
and Ann O’Brien.<br />
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Former President Joseph Biden<br />
during a reception hosted by<br />
Torrance Memorial Medical Center<br />
at the Shade Hotel in Manhattan<br />
Beach, prior to his Distinguished<br />
Speaker Series speech at the<br />
Redondo Beach<br />
Performing Arts Center.<br />
Photo by Deidre Davidson
THE MAN WHO<br />
WOULD HAVE BEEN<br />
PRESIDENT<br />
Former Vice President Joseph Biden looks to Watergate for answers in the<br />
“battle for the soul of the nation”<br />
by Kevin Cody<br />
Shortly after being elected to represent Delaware in the U.S. Senate in<br />
1972, Joe Biden watched Senator Jesse Helms excoriate fellow Republican<br />
Senator Bob Dole and Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy on the<br />
Senate floor for their support of equal rights for the disabled. Helms contended<br />
it was “confiscatory” to require small businesses to accommodate<br />
handicapped people with ramps and special bathrooms.<br />
“How can Helms be so heartless?” the 30-year-old Biden asked fellow Democrat<br />
Mike Mansfield when the two met in the Senate Leader’s office<br />
later that day.<br />
Mansfield told Biden that in 1963 Helms and his wife Dot saw a photograph<br />
in the Raleigh News of a 14-year-old boy with leg braces. He needed<br />
a home, so the Helms adopted him.<br />
“Do you still think Helms is heartless?” Mansfield asked Biden.<br />
“It’s always appropriate to question another man’s judgment, but it’s<br />
never appropriate to question his motives,” Mansfield advised the young<br />
Senator.<br />
“I felt like a fool,” Biden said, after relating the story during his October<br />
24 Distinguished Speaker talk at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.<br />
“Because when you question a man’s motive,” Biden explained, “when<br />
you say they’re acting out of greed, that they’re in the pocket of an interest<br />
group, it’s awfully hard to reach consensus. It’s awfully hard reaching<br />
across the table to shake that person’s hands.”<br />
The former vice-president used the story to illustrate why he believes the<br />
national political system is broken and how to fix it.<br />
Without once blaming President Donald Trump by name during his hour,<br />
20 minute talk, Biden relentlessly pointed to the President as both cause<br />
and consequence for what he alternately referred to as “phony nationalism”<br />
or “phony populism.”<br />
“The nature of work has ‘all changed, changed utterly,’” he said, quoting<br />
from William Butler Yeats’ poem about the 1916 Irish Uprising against their<br />
British overlords.<br />
He traced the change to globalization and computerization.<br />
“It makes a fertile field for demagogues to fish in,” he said.<br />
“There used to be a basic bargain that if you contribute to an enterprise<br />
you share in the profits. Between 1948 and 1978, productivity increased 92<br />
percent and wages increased 92 percent. Since then productivity has increased<br />
another 69 percent, but wages have increased just eight percent.<br />
“Why?<br />
“The immigrants took our jobs. We spend too much money coddling the<br />
Blacks. It’s always ‘the other.’”<br />
“I never thought I’d see Neo-Nazis marching in our historical cities, carrying<br />
swastikas and chanting the same anti-Semitic bile we saw in Germany<br />
in the 1930s. Then to hear some elected leaders drawing moral equivalences<br />
between these people and other protesters…” he said, not finishing the sentence.<br />
He trusted his audience to remember Trump’s statements, following<br />
the Unite the Right Charlottesville protests in August, that "there is blame<br />
on both sides."<br />
Biden proposed a three pronged attack for winning what he called “a battle<br />
for the soul of the nation.”<br />
First, “We need to talk to each other again and drop the idea that the opposition<br />
is the enemy.” The suggestion elicited the strongest applause of the<br />
evening.<br />
“When I got to the Senate, the Vietnam War was tearing the country apart.<br />
The women’s movement was viewed as radical and environmentalism was<br />
an attack on corporate America. We had segregationist senators like Strom<br />
Thurmond and Sam Irwin.<br />
“But as divided as we were, we got things done because we knew one<br />
another.<br />
“Senator Helms and I had profound political differences. He was constantly<br />
saying, ‘We’ve never lost a war and we’ve never won a treaty.’ But<br />
as Chairman and Ranking Member of the Foreign Relations Committee, we<br />
passed some of the most significant legislation of the last 40 years.<br />
“How many senators and congressmen today have a friendship with a<br />
member of the opposite party?”<br />
“I’m still in contact with Republican leaders. But I never let anyone know<br />
who they are because it would hurt them if it was known they were consulting<br />
with me.<br />
“I went up to the Hill during my vice presidency and looked in on the<br />
senate dining room, where guests are allowed. It was full. I looked in on<br />
the dining room across the hall, where only senators are allowed. It used<br />
to have tables where opposing senators sat across from one another and<br />
worked out their differences over lunch, one on one. The room was empty.<br />
The tables have been replaced by lounges,” he said.<br />
“We need to deal with nationalism,” Biden said in introducing his second<br />
strategy. “We’ve seen it before in our country and in other countries we<br />
thought were sound democracies.”<br />
He recalled the 1968 presidential bid of American Independent Party candidate<br />
George Wallace. The Alabama governor’s rallying cry was, “Segregation<br />
now. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation forever.” Wallace won five<br />
southern states.<br />
Biden is board chair of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.<br />
Two weeks prior to his Distinguished Speakers talk, he presented Arizona<br />
Senator John McCain with the Center’s Liberty Medal.<br />
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Former Vice President Joseph Biden responds to questions presented by<br />
KNX Radio reporter Charles Feldman. Photo by Deidre Davidson<br />
Biden quoted from McCain’s acceptance speech, during which the Arizona<br />
Senator also pounded Trump without mentioning Trump’s name.<br />
"To abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse<br />
the obligations of international leadership for the sake of some half-baked,<br />
spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats<br />
than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other<br />
tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history,"<br />
Biden read from McCain’s speech.<br />
Biden followed McCain’s quote with an excerpt from a New York Times<br />
column by David Brook, printed two days prior to Biden’s Redondo talk.<br />
“Human beings can be rallied around three things: religion, tribe or<br />
ideals. Donald Trump and the campus multiculturalists want to organize<br />
people by ethnic tribe, which has always been the menacing temptation<br />
throughout our history.”<br />
In a rising voice, Biden said, “We haven’t led the world just by the examples<br />
of our power, but by the power of our example. That is why the<br />
world has repaired to us for the last seven decades. They believe that we<br />
believe what we say in our sacred documents.<br />
“Can you picture,” he asked, almost shouting, “any past American president<br />
taunting a foreign leader with nuclear weapons about his size? Calling<br />
the president of South Korea an appeaser? Threatening China with a trade<br />
war and not appointing an assistant secretary of state for East Asia?”<br />
Returning to a measured tone, he argued, “Every problem we face requires<br />
more than just us. It requires alliances, not just physical alliances,<br />
but alliances of ideals.” And yet, he contended, “U.S. foreign policy is<br />
closed off and clannish, as us versus them.”<br />
Biden again quoted from Brooks’ Sunday column.<br />
“The moral fabric of society is invisible but essential. Some use their<br />
public position to dissolve it so they can have an open space for their selfishness.”<br />
“We can’t let that happen,” Biden said. “We have an obligation to reweave<br />
our values -- honesty, dignity, giving hate no safe harbor, leaving no one<br />
behind -- back into the fabric of our political system.”<br />
Finally, Biden exhorted, “It’s time to stand up for the American story.<br />
We are energy independent. We have the world’s most powerful military.<br />
Our workers are three times more productive than Asia’s. Name a worldchanging<br />
product invented in the last 20 years that was not invented in<br />
the United States.”<br />
“Thanks to our underappreciated President Dwight D. Eisenhower, we<br />
have more research universities than the rest of the world combined..<br />
“After Sputnik, Eisenhower convened a panel to discuss how to reclaim<br />
leadership in science and technology. They said invest in the military-industrial<br />
complex. He said, ‘No, send the money to the universities.’”<br />
“I spent 25 hours in one-on-one conversations with Chinese President<br />
Xi Jinping, with just our translators present,” Biden said, returning to the<br />
theme of international alliances.<br />
“I told him we want China to succeed. He asked why. So you can buy<br />
our products, I told him.”<br />
During a visit to China shortly after the 2008 recession, Biden was pres-<br />
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ent for a talk by Xi in China’s Great Hall. Xi said, “We don’t think America<br />
is finished. We think you will come back. But we want to know if our investment<br />
in American Treasury notes is safe. We are worried about your<br />
rising entitlement costs.”<br />
“I said, ‘President Xi, I saw that the Thursday after America’s financial<br />
rating was downgraded, you bought $10 billion in U.S. Treasury notes. I<br />
know you did that to help us.’ Then, more seriously, I added, ‘Our entitlement<br />
policies can be fixed. But how will you fix your one child policy. By<br />
2020, China will have more retirees than workers. If we can help, let us<br />
know.’”<br />
Biden said Hillary Clinton and the Democrats share in the blame for the<br />
current political breakdown.<br />
“It’s the responsibility of the opposition to offer rational alternatives. We<br />
hear about the angry, uneducated, prejudiced white guys in Pennsylvania,<br />
Ohio, and Wisconsin who voted for Trump. But four years earlier a Black<br />
man won those states. These people aren’t stupid. There are 600,000 middle<br />
class truck drivers in America who don’t know if they will have a job 10<br />
years from now.<br />
“Over the last four years, white males, ages 40 to 49, have had the highest<br />
suicide, divorce and drug abuse rates in the nation, higher than in the ghettos.<br />
It’s the only age group in America with a declining life expectancy.”<br />
“Can anyone tell me from the last election, Hillary’s plan for tax reform,<br />
or college affordability?’<br />
“I know I sound like a conspiracy nut,” he acknowledged, “but I think<br />
there was a method to the [Trump’s] madness. I spoke at 83 events for<br />
Hillary. On my way to Wisconsin, three and a half weeks before the election,<br />
I realized every time a serious issue was raised, it was pushed aside<br />
by extraneous issues.<br />
“Two days prior to the second debate, the Entertainment Tonight tape of<br />
Trump’s groping was leaked. I knew the first question to Trump would be<br />
about his treatment of women. I prayed to God that when Hillary was asked<br />
to respond, she would say something like, ‘We all know who Donald Trump<br />
is. Let me tell you what I’ll do to keep the economy going.’”<br />
Instead, after Trump dismissed the tape as “locker room talk,” Clinton,<br />
in Biden’s opinion, took the bait. “I said starting back in June that he was<br />
not fit to be president and commander in chief.”<br />
Trump quickly counter punched. He accused Clinton of enabling her husband’s<br />
abuse of women.<br />
“If you look at Bill Clinton, mine are words and his was action... There’s<br />
never been anybody in the history of politics in this nation that has been so<br />
abusive to women,” Trump said, to devastating effect.<br />
“Harvard did a study of the debates,” Biden said. “Just four percent of the<br />
words related to significant issues.”<br />
“When we engage in gutter language, this demeaning conduct by our<br />
leaders, we pull it all down,” Biden said.<br />
At the end of his talk, Biden turned to history for hope.<br />
“I was there during Watergate. The people who saved the country were<br />
Republicans. Senators Howard Baker, Bill Cohen. Enough Republicans<br />
found their voices.”<br />
In 1974, Nixon resigned after Republican leaders, including Arizona Senator<br />
Barry Goldwater, told him he had lost his party’s support.<br />
“I think you’ll see Republicans begin to realize how close to the edge we<br />
are. Our silence in the face of these things amounts to complicity,” Biden<br />
said.<br />
“The American people, too, are awakening to the danger of phoney nationalism.<br />
There is a real hunger for bipartisanship,” he contended.<br />
Biden told of his mother cautioning him when he was young, “Joey, the<br />
children are listening.”<br />
“Right now” he told his Redondo Beach audience, “the world is listening.”<br />
During the question and answer period Biden was asked, “Do politicians<br />
ever really retire?”<br />
In 2020, when the next presidential election will be held, Biden will be<br />
78 and Trump 74.<br />
“Some do. Some don’t,” he answered. Then he digressed into a discussion<br />
about the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement at the<br />
University of Pennsylvania. PEN<br />
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L<br />
PV Land Conservancy<br />
serves up pastoral fare<br />
The Palos Verdes Land Conservancy, in partnership with Terranea<br />
Resort and Whole Foods Market, presented their annual Garden-to-<br />
Table Dining Experience on October 15. Since PVLC’s inception in<br />
1988, they have helped preserve over 1,600 acres of open space and establish<br />
nearly 42 miles of public trails on the preserves. This year’s Pastoral<br />
Dinner highlighted the <strong>Peninsula</strong>’s Mediterranean climate, native<br />
habitat and unique biodiversity. The evening showcased California<br />
handcrafted, organic and sustainable food and wine unique to Palos<br />
Verdes climate. Terri A. Haack, a member of the Conservancy’s President’s<br />
Advisory Council and President of Terranea Resort, told guests,<br />
“Executive Chef Ibarra and the Conservancy team have created a<br />
unique experience that will benefit and support an important cause,<br />
close to all of our hearts -- preserving our natural landscape.”<br />
PHOTOS BY STEPHANIE CARTOZIAN<br />
1. Terri A. Haack, Andrea Vona,<br />
Sharon Ryan and Diana Heffernan-<br />
Schrader.<br />
2. Becky Cool, Janet Grothe, Diana<br />
Bailey and Dr. Cassie Jones.<br />
3. Bruce Biesman-Simons, Charlotte<br />
and Dr. Allen Ginsburg and Dr. Cassie<br />
Jones.<br />
4. Steven Geraghty, Terri A. Haack,<br />
Jacqueline Glass and Jen Roth.<br />
5. Terranea Chef Bernard Ibarra.<br />
6. A Garden-to-Table dining<br />
experience.<br />
7. Kahlil Sabbagh and Ginger Smith.<br />
8. Joe Baker and Alex Perez.<br />
9. Melissa and Jeff Ginsburg.<br />
10. Dr. Cassie Jones and Lou<br />
Enstead.<br />
11. Bill Ailor and Charlotte Ginsburg.<br />
12. Kelly and Art Lucera.<br />
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Wine<br />
for the<br />
millennials<br />
<strong>Peninsula</strong>’s Kristin and Stephen Jolley produce a wine aimed at the happy hour generation<br />
by Richard Foss<br />
Some families have been in the wine business for so long they’re said<br />
to have wine in their veins. <strong>Peninsula</strong> winemaker Kristin Jolley is<br />
among them, though her family’s history is less glamorous than most.<br />
“My grandfather was a winemaker in the town of Orléans, near Paris. I<br />
remember my grandma saying, ‘I would never touch that wine, it was so<br />
gross. Your great grandfather would make it in his underwear with his dirty<br />
feet, and all of his friends would get in there to stamp the grapes.’ Nobody<br />
took over the family business, and his wine press is a floral centerpiece in<br />
the town square. So I grew up with the stories, but it was much later on<br />
that I got into wine.”<br />
Kristin and her husband Stephen own Happy Hour Wine Company. The<br />
brand is focused on selling easy drinking wines, which after only two years<br />
are available in 23 states.<br />
Kristin, a Redondo Beach native, studied supply chain management in<br />
college and was working for the Fresh & Easy grocery chain when she had<br />
an epiphany.<br />
“I thought, there’s a happy hour at every bar and restaurant, but there’s<br />
not a brand called happy hour. If there was, you could have happy hour<br />
any time, anywhere. I came home one day and told my Stephen I wanted<br />
to start a wine brand called Happy Hour.”<br />
The trademark had already been registered, but Kristin couldn’t find any<br />
evidence that the owner was doing anything with it.<br />
“The phone number was right there on the trademark website, so I called<br />
him and said, ‘I’m Kristin, and I want to buy your trademark.’ He said he<br />
wasn’t interested in selling it and hung up on me. I called him every month<br />
for a year and a half, and every time our conversations got a little bit longer.<br />
He had a little beer company in Florida that did business there and in New<br />
York. Finally he asked, how old are you? I told him I was in my early 20s,<br />
and he said, ‘I’m 92.’ So I said, you have to sell me this trademark and you<br />
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The Jolleys designed their wine label to evoke the 1950s.<br />
Photos by Brad Jacobson<br />
have to do it now. He said, ‘You have been so persistent and tenacious, I’ll<br />
sell it to you.’ He didn’t have an email address, so we did everything by<br />
snail mail. I would write a document, and he’d want to change one word<br />
and he’d mail it back to me, so what could have taken a couple of days<br />
took six months.”<br />
The precious trademark having been acquired, Kristin and Stephen now<br />
had to figure out what to do with it. Kristin had taken wine classes and<br />
had a good idea of what she wanted. A friend knew a fourth generation<br />
winemaker in the Spanish province of La Mancha. A trip was taken, an<br />
agreement was reached, and they started collaborating to create a red and<br />
a white wine.<br />
“We knew what we wanted the white to taste like, and we worked with<br />
them to make this Chardonnay that was light, crisp, and refreshing. We<br />
didn’t want it heavily oaked because we wanted that citrus-forward aspect,<br />
so it spends a little time in French oak so you get this kiss of vanilla. Our<br />
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Kristin and Stephen Jolley at work in their <strong>Peninsula</strong> home.<br />
red blend we wanted to be smooth<br />
and easy drinking, so we came up<br />
with a Cab, Syrah, and Petite Verdot<br />
blend. Though both are made<br />
in Spain, we’re using varietals that<br />
are popular in the American market,<br />
so we don’t market them as<br />
Spanish wines.”<br />
The wine business was a sideline<br />
for Karen until the sudden closure<br />
of Fresh and Easy presented her<br />
with a stark choice: find another<br />
grocery marketing job or make the<br />
wine business a full time job. She<br />
chose the wine business. Stephen<br />
kept his decade-long career as a<br />
firefighter and worked with his<br />
wife on his days off. Together they<br />
designed the label, which has a<br />
retro look, reminiscent of 1950s’<br />
advertising, which appeals to their<br />
target demographic.<br />
“Our market is millennials, the<br />
ones who are going to happy<br />
hours. We want to have this brand<br />
retail for under $10, to keep it accessible.<br />
You don’t have to have a<br />
sophisticated palate to enjoy<br />
Happy Hour, it’s not a wine snob<br />
wine and we don’t want it to be. It<br />
should be fun, accessible, and easy<br />
to drink. We’re turning America’s<br />
favorite pastime into a brand. We<br />
do events, wine festivals, and inhouse<br />
samplings at Total Wine, and<br />
we’re the house wine at Good Stuff<br />
restaurants.”<br />
Kristin and Stephen have been<br />
piling up the frequent flyer miles<br />
going back and forth to Spain.<br />
“We work with our winemakers<br />
and blend the wines with them to<br />
make sure they are what want them<br />
to be. We started on the business<br />
side but have become involved with<br />
the artisan side, or perhaps it’s better<br />
to say the aesthetic side. We<br />
have been out in the fields, picked<br />
the grapes, and learned everything<br />
we can. We love being involved in<br />
the process from beginning to end.”<br />
Kristin was emphatic in saying<br />
they don’t want or need to have a<br />
product in every category.<br />
“We’re working on a rosé to be<br />
available in spring of next year, and<br />
that will complete our line, for<br />
now. We’re trying to keep this simple.<br />
We’re a small business that is<br />
taking off, and we’re working toward<br />
becoming a household name.<br />
Look at what we have accomplished<br />
already. It has been two<br />
years, and we’re now in 23 states,<br />
working with major retailers like<br />
Von’s and Whole Foods. Both<br />
wines are getting respect from<br />
sommeliers. One at a major restaurant<br />
in Las Vegas tried our white<br />
and told me, ‘If I didn’t know what<br />
this was I’d guess it was a white<br />
Burgundy in the $25 per bottle<br />
range.’ We’re happy with that, getting<br />
respect from professionals for<br />
a wine that was designed to be approachable<br />
and not intimidating.”<br />
Perhaps there is some genetic<br />
disposition to not only loving wine,<br />
but to also love making it. Certainly<br />
Karen has taken the business<br />
far beyond her grandfather’s<br />
dreams. She mentioned she might<br />
someday be interested in starting a<br />
winery in California, but finished<br />
that statement with a dismissive,<br />
“That’s a dream down the road.” PEN<br />
30 <strong>Peninsula</strong> • <strong>Dec</strong>ember <strong>2017</strong>
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L<br />
Lunada Bay Harvest Festival<br />
Starts off the season<br />
The Lunada Bay Homeowners Association’s annual fall festival in<br />
the Plaza brought out droves of local families. The kids designed<br />
elaborate pumpkins and set them on wheels to race in the competition.<br />
The kiddie carnival included pony rides, a vertical trampoline, kids<br />
crafts and a sizable rock climbing wall. Members Only and Sara Dee<br />
had neighbors dancing in the park.<br />
1. Joy and Bella Noel.<br />
PHOTOS BY STEPHANIE CARTOZIAN<br />
2. Let the Pumpkin Race begin.<br />
3. Rudy and Chloe Delana and their<br />
fairy pumpkin.<br />
4. Araceli Orozco, Alexis White and<br />
Danica King.<br />
5. Sara Dee.<br />
6. Charlie Hunton, Zara Ananth and<br />
Marissa Hayne with their trophy.<br />
7. Ian and Kai Byrne.<br />
8. Pumpkin racers.<br />
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L<br />
PHOTOS BY STEPHANIE CARTOZIAN<br />
Citizen of the Year Honored<br />
Tradition of Philanthropy<br />
The Palos Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong> Chamber of Commerce hosted its Citizen<br />
of the Year Awards and Dinner on November 1 at Terranea, attended<br />
by a packed audience of business owners and community leaders.<br />
Jackie Crowley, longtime Palos Verdes resident, philanthropist,<br />
Realtor and friend of the hill was the evening’s honoree. Retired Fourth<br />
District County Supervisor Don Knabe was among the guests congratulating<br />
the <strong>2017</strong> Citizen of the Year. Crowley said that service comes<br />
second nature to her and her work is animated by both faith and gratitude.<br />
Other evening honorees were Walk with Sally and Vistas for Children.<br />
To learn more visit www.PalosVerdesChamber.com.<br />
1. Marion Ruth, David and Carole<br />
Diestel.<br />
2. Ann Sidler, Terri Nelson Carpenter<br />
and Cindy Percz.<br />
3. Michele McRae.<br />
4. John and Julie Sanders, Sandra<br />
Sanders, John Jaacks and James<br />
Sanders.<br />
5. Ann Zimmerman and Sacha Ohara.<br />
6. De De Hicks and Sharon Ryan.<br />
7. Chuck and Marylyn Klaus.<br />
8. Jeff Ferris and Susan McRae.<br />
9. Olivia Pucci live entertainment.<br />
10. Shelley Kelly, Eileen Hupp and<br />
Ann Sidler.<br />
11. Eileen Hupp, Jackie Crowley and<br />
Don Knabe.<br />
12. Marion Ruth and Bill Ruth.<br />
13. John and Julie Sanders, Jackie<br />
Crowley, Sandra Sanders and James<br />
Sanders.<br />
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L<br />
Elders’ Angels<br />
Little Sisters of the Poor<br />
The Auxiliary of the Little Sisters of the Poor hosted its 20th annual<br />
gala at Doubletree by Hilton in Torrance. Proceeds benefit the Little<br />
Sisters’ work with the elderly in need. The Little Sisters operate a home<br />
for 100 aged in San Pedro, of every ethnic and religious background, and<br />
care for them until their death. Government funding and other benefits<br />
cover only about 40 percent of the home’s costs. The Auxiliary was<br />
founded in 1997 to aid the Little Sisters in their ministry. To learn more<br />
visit littlesistersofthepoorsanpedro.org.<br />
PHOTOS BY MEGAN ZIMMER<br />
1. Pastor Jim Bevacqua, Joe Gordon, Sally Gallagher, Caragh and Dan O’Brien.<br />
2. Don and Rita Swartz with Sr. Cecilia.<br />
3. Mickey and Ruthann Rodich with Kathy and Joe Gordon.<br />
4. Ed Chang and the Trujillo family.<br />
5. Agnes and Robert Moran with Colleen O’Brien and guest.<br />
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Bring the Family on<br />
Saturday, <strong>Dec</strong>ember 9<br />
Beautiful, Custom-Printed Fine Art Photography<br />
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Santa, live entertainment, strolling carolers, and<br />
family-friendly crafts & activities on Saturday,<br />
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A visit to <strong>Peninsula</strong> Shopping center can also be<br />
rewarding, offering something for everyone on<br />
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Comprehensive Medical Spa<br />
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Diamond bracelet in 18kt white<br />
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Modern Jewelry Mart<br />
2543 Pacific Coast Hwy.<br />
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MOVA Cube solar-powered globe<br />
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Place the floating cube in ambient light<br />
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867 Silver Spur Road<br />
Rolling Hills Estates<br />
(310) 377-7201<br />
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<strong>2017</strong>
A home for the<br />
future<br />
Charlotte’s interest in theatre comes to life here in her living room with<br />
hats she makes by hand from feathers including those from peacocks.
This Mediterranean Revival villa is a gatehouse originally owned by Ruth Harden, sister of Frank Vanderlip, the Father of Palos Verdes.<br />
A <strong>Peninsula</strong> couple purchases an historic home to preserve it for future generations<br />
by Stephanie Cartozian<br />
Charlotte and Allen Ginsburg,<br />
M.D. purchased the<br />
Gatehouse on Portuguese<br />
Point from Michael and Marilyn<br />
Lightman on May 1, 2014. The<br />
Villa’s imposing and storied<br />
wooden gates speak of a time<br />
when prohibition prevailed and<br />
flappers were in fashion. To avoid<br />
detection, bootleggers anchored<br />
their boats in what became known<br />
as Smugglers Cove in front of the<br />
house. There is a rich <strong>Peninsula</strong><br />
history here Dr. Ginsburg recalled,<br />
“It’s a place of distinction, we want<br />
to take care of it, nurture it. It takes<br />
a lot of work and vigilance, it doesn’t<br />
just happen, to have beautiful<br />
open space preserved in perpetuity.”<br />
The couple’s acquisition of the<br />
property was motivated by their<br />
goal of maintaining its place in the<br />
<strong>Peninsula</strong>’s rich history. In <strong>Dec</strong>ember<br />
of 2014, they worked with the<br />
planning commission to approve<br />
the conversion of 2,690 square feet<br />
of the estate into a non profit that<br />
is to be called the Heritage Castle.<br />
The couple ardently supports the<br />
The writing beneath this 1920s era photo taken at the entrance to the<br />
Portuguese Point Gatehouse, reads, “The morning after Spinsters party.”<br />
Photo courtesy of the Ginsburgs.<br />
Photos by Tony LaBruno<br />
Palos Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong> Land Conservancy.<br />
Heritage Castle was originally<br />
known as the Harden Estate. It<br />
was designed by architect Gordon<br />
Kaufmann, who also designed oil<br />
tycoon Edward L. Doheny’s Greystone<br />
Manor and the Hoover Dam.<br />
It was built in 1926 for Ruth Vanderlip<br />
and her husband Edward<br />
Walker Harden. Ruth was the sister<br />
of <strong>Peninsula</strong> pioneer Frank Vanderlip.<br />
In 1902, while attending<br />
college and staying with her<br />
brother Frank in New York, Ruth<br />
introduced her brother to Mabel<br />
Narcissa Cox, known to friends as<br />
Clover. Frank and Narcissa became<br />
engaged seven days later.<br />
Frank’s best man was Edward<br />
Harden and Ruth was one of Narcissa’s<br />
five bridesmaids. Frank and<br />
Edward had previously agreed that<br />
whoever married first would have<br />
his honeymoon paid for by the<br />
other. Dutifully, the friends on<br />
both sides of the families drew up<br />
the anticipated costs of the resplendent<br />
honeymoon and published it<br />
in the Aurora Beacon-News. Four<br />
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The Castle dining room table set for the holiday with a special white peacock<br />
print in the background nostalgic of Palos Verdes and its longtime peafowl<br />
population.<br />
months later Ruth and Edward<br />
married. It was a close race to the<br />
altar and remains unknown if Edward<br />
ever actually paid for the Vanderlip<br />
honeymoon.<br />
This Mediterranean Revival villa<br />
originally housed furnishings by the<br />
same artisan who made furniture<br />
for William Randolph Hearst’s Castle<br />
in San Simeon. Its 2.06 acreage<br />
overlooks Abalone Cove. “We have<br />
daily whale, dolphin and sea lion<br />
sightings,” Charlotte said. The Olmsted<br />
Brothers (whose father Frederick<br />
designed New York’s Central<br />
Park) designed the landscaping to<br />
emphasize the environment’s natural<br />
beauty, which includes ocean<br />
pathways, viewing gardens and<br />
lush greenery that seems to stretch<br />
to infinity. The brothers’ genius lay<br />
in producing soothing scenes by<br />
subordinating individual details to<br />
the whole. Charlotte described their<br />
backyard “as a place she goes to<br />
renew her spirit.” The Ginsburgs’<br />
friend and decorator Alex Perez said<br />
that busy as the couple is, they meet<br />
most evenings outside to watch the<br />
sunset and the peacocks. Perez said<br />
that he’ll have ideas on how to create<br />
a look and Charlotte will take it<br />
up a notch to really make a statement.<br />
“Like the bow on the top of<br />
the Christmas tree. I had it extending<br />
out a few inches and she said,<br />
Have it extend out a few feet.”<br />
Heritage Castle was inspired by<br />
the Renaissance era Dovecote<br />
building in Ospitaletto, Italy. These<br />
types of structures have holes for<br />
doves and pigeons to nest in. Italians<br />
would dine on the eggs and<br />
meat from these birds and even fertilize<br />
their fields with the droppings.<br />
Ruth Harden was an ardent conservationist.<br />
Unfortunately, with the<br />
stock market crash in 1929, the<br />
Hardens were unable to complete<br />
their dream estate, which was to<br />
have been a Palos Verdes version of<br />
Hearst Castle. The extensive plans<br />
The backyard patio wading pool is just 18 inches deep. Bistro lights are<br />
hung across the trees and pergolas.<br />
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The Castle’s backyard is adjacent to Abalone Cove and follows the coastline, pictured here at sunset.<br />
hang framed inside the home, along<br />
with several black and white photos<br />
of Ruth and Edward Harden. In<br />
1990, the Rancho de Los Palos<br />
Verdes Historical Society designated<br />
the gatehouse an historical building.<br />
“We purchased this property because<br />
heritage lives here, dreams<br />
were here and people of consequence<br />
tried to do things,” Dr. Ginsburg<br />
said.<br />
Dr. Ginsburg is a retired eye surgeon<br />
and real estate entrepreneur.<br />
Charlotte is a fashion and costume<br />
designer with a background in theatre,<br />
set design and dance. At the<br />
Castle, she keeps a collection of<br />
Broadway show style feathered hats<br />
that she designs and makes by<br />
hand – many with peacock feathers<br />
and all with her signature flair. She<br />
bought the house without her husband<br />
seeing it first. Happily, he<br />
trusted her judgement.<br />
The couple married in 1990 in a<br />
simple ceremony at a city courthouse.<br />
The couple has five children<br />
from previous marriages – Gregory,<br />
Daniel, Jeffrey, Quinn and Charmaine.<br />
Charlotte said of her husband,<br />
“He is a visionary, he is always in<br />
the future.”<br />
A number of movies and television<br />
shows have been filmed at the<br />
Castle, including “It’s a Mad, Mad,<br />
Mad, Mad World.” Palm trees in a<br />
shape of a “W”, where the movie’s<br />
hidden treasure was buried, were<br />
planted for the movie and still stand<br />
today.<br />
“It’s a great challenge to be in a<br />
place where dreams started,” Dr.<br />
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L<br />
<strong>Peninsula</strong> Seniors<br />
Runway fashionistas<br />
The Doubletree by Hilton was the venue<br />
for this year’s 10th Annual Fall Fashion<br />
Show Fundraiser to benefit the <strong>Peninsula</strong> Seniors.<br />
In the morning, the boutique opened,<br />
followed by lunch and a seasonal fashion<br />
show with member models, including <strong>Peninsula</strong><br />
Chamber Citizen of the Year Jackie Crowley.<br />
The fashions were provided by Chicos<br />
and Saga and the jewelry was from Kendra<br />
Scott and Roxanne Lawrence. Contributor<br />
Pam Barrett-Hill, who claimed she never wins<br />
anything was among the lucky raffle winners.<br />
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3. Ruth Baumann and Dr. Marion Somers.<br />
4. Barbara Benson, Darlene Sowers, Lee Mason<br />
and Dorothy Piurkowsky.<br />
5. Jackie Crowley, Ruth Baumann and Pam Barrett-<br />
Hill with her winning ticket.<br />
6. Laurie Glover and Gloria Mangano.<br />
7. Linda Cavette.<br />
8. Ginny Skalbania and Pam Barrett-Hill.<br />
9. Darlene Sowers, Linda Cavette, Ruth Baumann<br />
and Melinda Gann.<br />
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Staph<br />
buster<br />
Dr. Arnold Bayer on a hike near a small Italian village at the foot of Monte Rosa. Photo courtesy of LA BioMed<br />
LA BioMed ‘Legend’ Dr. Arnold Bayer hunts down deadly, shapeshifting microbes<br />
by Robb Fulcher<br />
For the past several decades, Dr. Arnold Bayer has researched<br />
shapeshifting bacteria in an effort to penetrate their defenses and render<br />
them harmless.<br />
In the course of his work, the Rancho Palos Verdes resident has earned<br />
world renown for furthering our understanding of Staph infections and<br />
other bacterial diseases. He is the co-author of hundreds of scientific papers<br />
and book chapters, and lectures around the world.<br />
LA BioMed CEO Dr. David Meyer used the word “massive” to describe<br />
Bayer’s medical contributions at a dinner this month honoring Bayer and<br />
two of his colleagues as “Legends” in their fields.<br />
Much of Bayer’s work focuses on the Staph bacterium MRSA, which are<br />
infamous for getting inside hospital patients’ bloodstreams following surgery.<br />
Staph also attacks people in the general population, causing skin abscesses,<br />
and systemic infections such as pneumonia, and even death.<br />
The incidence of hospital staph infections has decreased in recent years,<br />
but Bayer said the bacteria continue to change their defenses, forcing fresh<br />
research offensives.<br />
“It’s like plugging one hole in the dyke, and another one springs up,” he<br />
said.<br />
Microbial Darwinism<br />
Even when bacteria have no antibiotics to make them tougher, they still<br />
morph into stronger and stronger versions of themselves, Bayer said.<br />
He pointed to research on bacteria harvested from a cave that was opened<br />
in New Mexico, after it had been sealed shut by a huge rock at least four<br />
million years ago.<br />
“The bacteria had not seen the light of day for millions of years, and they<br />
were already resistant to antibiotics we have today,” Bayer said. “How can<br />
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L<br />
Changing the course of medicine<br />
LA BioMed Legends honored<br />
Three doctors working on the cutting edge of medical research were<br />
honored at the annual LA BioMed Legends dinner at the Torrance<br />
Marriott on November 1. This year’s honorees were Arnold S. Bayer<br />
M.D., Rodney A. White M.D. and Paul C. Fu Sr., PhD. Dr. Bayer, a Palos<br />
Verdes resident, is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the David<br />
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a faculty member in the Division<br />
of Infectious Diseases at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Live music<br />
was provided by the Nic Schaadt Trio.<br />
1. Dr. Greg Thomas and Dr. Ali<br />
Khoynezhad.<br />
2. Amy Ward.<br />
3. Dr. Scott Filler, Dr. Jack Edwards,<br />
Ashley Han-Bayer and Alex Bayer.<br />
4. Dr. Yo Aelony, Yvonne Liu and Dr.<br />
Herb Webb.<br />
5. Honoree Dr. Arnold Bayer.<br />
6. The Nic Schaadt Trio.<br />
PHOTOS BY STEPHANIE CARTOZIAN<br />
7. Dr. Harriet Kaplan and Dr. David<br />
Heber.<br />
8. Honoree Dr. Paul Fu Sr. and Joan<br />
Fu.<br />
9. Mary Ellen Criley and Dr. J. Michael<br />
Criley, Dr. Jasminka Criley and Stuart<br />
Criley.<br />
10. Dr. David Meyer and honoree Dr.<br />
Rodney White.<br />
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CALENDAR OF COMMUNITY EVENTS<br />
Compiled by Teri Marin<br />
You can email your event to our address: penpeople@easyreadernews.com<br />
All submissions must be sent by the 10th of each month prior to event taking place.<br />
The Los Cancioneros Master Chorale Ensemble will perform holiday<br />
songs and carols at the Admiral Risty restaurant during dinner on <strong>Dec</strong>.<br />
14 and at brunch on Sunday, <strong>Dec</strong>. 17. See listings for details.<br />
Saturday, November 18<br />
Beverly Hills National Auditions Winners concert<br />
Three rising stars from the USC Thornton School, violinist Annelle Gregory,<br />
cellist Benjamin Lash and pianist So-Mang Jeagal. First Lutheran Church &<br />
School 2900 W. Carson Street, Torrance (just east of Maple - plenty of free<br />
on-site parking) at 3 p.m. Admission is free. palosverdes.com/ClassicalCrossroads/TheInterludes.htm,<br />
310-316-5575.<br />
Annual Tree Lighting<br />
Celebrate the Holiday Season by welcoming Santa and lighting the Christmas<br />
Tree, at 5 p.m. Music, entertainment, refreshments and giveaways. Promenade<br />
on the <strong>Peninsula</strong>, 550 Deep Valley Dr., Rolling Hills Estate.<br />
Art2Go2 premieres<br />
Art enthusiasts and the general community welcome the second annual<br />
Art2Go event, a dynamic concept for enjoying and buying art. Every wall of<br />
Destination:Art will be filled with over 300 original paintings of all styles and<br />
media created by the 22 studio and gallery artists, as well as the 60 associate<br />
artists. Framers with special prices frames will be on site. 3-7 p.m. Through<br />
Nov. 25. Destination:Art Studios & Gallery, 1815 W. 213th Street, Torrance.<br />
310-742-3192.<br />
El Rayo-X<br />
Master guitarist and string player David Lindley pioneered the infusion of<br />
Americana and roots-rock with world music. 8 p.m. $20 to $42, available at<br />
www.grandannex.org or 310-833-4813 Mon-Fri 9 to 5. Grand Annex, 434<br />
W. 6th St., San Pedro.<br />
Sunday, November 19<br />
Kids Club<br />
Families can dig their way into the past with South Coast Botanic Garden’s<br />
Kids Club. Learn about the Garden’s transformation from an underwater wonder,<br />
to an open pit mine, to a trash dump, and into a beautiful botanic garden.<br />
Hunt for marine fossils in a simulated dig pit, build your own landfill model,<br />
get dirty with soil testing, and start your own flower seedling. 1 - 4 p.m. Free<br />
with garden admission. RSVP highly encouraged. 26300 Crenshaw Blvd.,<br />
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Beauty of Nature Series<br />
Fnal film of the PVP Land Conservancy’s series with a documentary, The Central<br />
Park Effect, that transports the viewer to the dazzling, hidden world of<br />
America’s most famous city park. 4:30 p.m. Tickets $10 online at pvplc.org.<br />
Youth 18 and under free. Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro.<br />
Wednesday, November 22<br />
Birding with Wild Birds Unlimited<br />
Explore the birds in nesting season making a home in the George F Canyon.<br />
8:30 a.m. The program is free and all ages welcome. Presented by the Palos<br />
Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong> Land Conservancy 27305 Palos Verdes Drive East, Rolling<br />
Hills Estates. RSVP at: www.pvplc.org, Events & Activities.<br />
Saturday, November 25<br />
Guided Nature Walk<br />
Visit White Point Nature Preserve and attend a naturalist-guided hike. Enjoy<br />
coastal views and learn more about the plants, animals, restoration area and<br />
more! 9 a.m. Meet at the information kiosk between parking lot and Nature<br />
Center. White Point Nature Preserve, 1600 W. Paseo del Mar, San Pedro.<br />
For more information call 310-541-7613 or RSVP at: www.pvplc.org, Events<br />
& Activities.<br />
Native Plant Sale<br />
Plants sold on first-come, first-serve basis. Noon-2 p.m. White Point Nature<br />
Preserve, 1600 W. Paseo del Mar, San Pedro. For more information call 310-<br />
541-7613.<br />
Sunday, November 26<br />
Starbright Holiday Boutique & Music<br />
A festive benefit to support the Asia America Symphony Association & Guild,<br />
Youth Symphony education programs and concerts will be held at a magnificent<br />
oceanfront home from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Youth musicians and professional<br />
artists perform. Unique vendors include inspiring author Deborah Paul,<br />
Renko Original Fashions, Nozomi (jewelry created from Japan’s tsunami) and<br />
more. Reservations (a must) for lunch. Contact AASA 310-377-8977 or Marlene<br />
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Monday, Nov. 27<br />
ACT II auditions<br />
Act II, a support group for Palos<br />
Verdes Performing Arts, is looking<br />
for talented performers to sing in the<br />
upcoming annual variety show to be<br />
held March 9-10, 2018. Auditions<br />
for “Broadway to Hollywood” will<br />
be held at the Harlyne J. Norris Pavilion,<br />
and appointments for both solos<br />
and groups are being taken for times<br />
between 5:30 to 10 p.m. Participants<br />
should choose music from a<br />
popular Broadway or Hollywood<br />
songs to tie in with this year’s theme.<br />
Accompanist will be available. All<br />
proceeds benefit PVPA. For more information<br />
or to make an appointment,<br />
call co-producer Arline Grotz<br />
at 310-377-7746. Norris Pavilion,<br />
501 Indian Peak Road in Rolling<br />
Hills Estates.<br />
Tuesday, Nov. 28<br />
TMMC Holiday Festival<br />
Torrance Memorial Medical Center<br />
hosts its annual Holiday Festival<br />
fundraiser, through <strong>Dec</strong>. 3. More<br />
than 36 themed, decorated trees,<br />
live entertainment, the South Bay’s<br />
largest holiday boutique, opportunity<br />
drawing, children's activities and<br />
food court; $5 general admission.<br />
General Public Hours: today: 1:30-<br />
3:30 p.m.; Wednesday, Nov. 29,<br />
Thursday, Nov. 30 and Saturday,<br />
<strong>Dec</strong>. 2, 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.; Sunday,<br />
<strong>Dec</strong>. 3, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Senior<br />
Days: (free for seniors and those with<br />
limited mobility) Wednesday, Nov.<br />
29 and Thursday, Nov. 30, 10 a.m.<br />
to 2 p.m. Community Service Group<br />
Night: ($2 admission to nonprofit<br />
and community service group members)<br />
Thursday, Nov. 30, 4 to 9 p.m.<br />
In the white tent at Skypark and<br />
Medical Center drives, Torrance.<br />
310-517- 4606 or www.Torrance-<br />
Memorial.org/holidayfestival for<br />
more information.<br />
Friday, <strong>Dec</strong>ember 1<br />
Yule Parlor<br />
Welcome the holiday season with<br />
the Neighborhood Church’s annual<br />
event featuring the formal delectable<br />
Yule Tea by the Sea, accompanied<br />
by the popular shops of vintage antiques<br />
and memorabilia, bake shop<br />
with homemade pastries and can-<br />
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dies wrapped for gift giving, and the Yule crafts and homemade arts created<br />
by loving hands. View the treasured hand painted ceilings and walls of the<br />
Mediterranean architecture, and treasured art work of the Church. 10 a.m. -<br />
3 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. $25 per guest per day; $30 if purchased the<br />
day of event. Send your check to: Yule Parlor Neighborhood Church, 415<br />
Paseo del Mar, Palos Verdes Estates. Ticket will be held for pick up at the door.<br />
Nutcracker<br />
Start your holiday season with the annual production of “The Nutcracker”,<br />
presented by <strong>Peninsula</strong> School of Performing Arts. A beautiful blend of professionals,<br />
pre-professionals, adults and young dancers come together to delight<br />
audiences of all ages with this rich rendition of the classical ballet. World<br />
renowned performer Alexander Kalinin as Herr Drosselmeier weaves an enchanted<br />
story through the dreams of a young girl, Clara, and her Nutcracker.<br />
Music by Tchaikovsky and choreography by Tita Boulger, Vera Ninkovic, Marina<br />
Kalinina and Alexander Kalinin. A treat for the entire family. Tickets are<br />
$35 for adults and $25 for Children 17 and under. For tickets contact the<br />
Norris Theater Box Office at 310-544-0403.<br />
12-Step Weekend Retreat<br />
The promises of Recovery are grounded in ever-deepening freedom and finding<br />
balance and serenity in relationships, jobs and family. Join other 12 Step<br />
members for a weekend to ‘pause’, enjoy fellowship, and be renewed by the<br />
wisdom of experience. All seekers and 12 Step pilgrims welcome! 7 p.m. Friday<br />
to 1:30 p.m. Sunday, <strong>Dec</strong>ember 3. Cost per person/shared $245. Mary<br />
& Joseph Retreat Center, 5300 Crest Road, Rancho Palos Verdes. Call Marlene<br />
Velazquez at 310-377-4867 x234 for reservations or information.<br />
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Saturday, <strong>Dec</strong>ember 2<br />
Full Moon Hike<br />
At George F Canyon, 27305 Palos Verdes Dr. E., Rolling Hills Estates, with<br />
the Palos Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong> Land Conservancy. Explore nocturnal sights with<br />
an expert naturalist under a full moon at the George F Canyon Nature Preserve.<br />
Must be age 9 and up. $12 per person. RSVP required at<br />
www.pvplc.org, Events & Activities.<br />
First Saturday Family Hike<br />
Bring your family and join our naturalist guide to discover habitat, wildlife and<br />
more on an easy hike up the canyon with amazing views of the city. 9 a.m.<br />
Free. All ages welcome. George F Canyon, 27305 Palos Verdes Dr. E., Rolling<br />
Hills Estates. For more information,<br />
contact 310-547-0862 or RSVP<br />
at:www.pvplc.org, Events & Activities.<br />
Outdoor Volunteer Day<br />
At Portuguese Bend Reserve,<br />
Ishibashi trail, Rancho Palos Verdes,<br />
9 a.m. – noon Help restore important<br />
wildlife habitat while looking out<br />
at a beautiful view! Sign up at<br />
pvplc.volunteerhub.com<br />
Advent Day of Prayer<br />
Be renewed in Spirit as we rediscover<br />
the wonders of the Advent<br />
Season. Take time to pause and embrace<br />
the light, the love and the presence<br />
of God with Edith Prendergast,<br />
RSC. Contemplate, journal, and<br />
enter into mindfulness experiences to<br />
nurture your spiritual journey. 9 a.m.<br />
to 3 p.m. Lunch included. $50 ($45<br />
if paid in full by November 24).<br />
Mary & Joseph Retreat Center, 5300<br />
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Crest Road, Rancho Palos Verdes. Call Marlene Velazquez at 310-377-4867<br />
x234 for reservations or information.<br />
Victorian Christmas<br />
The Banning Museum will kick off the holidays with its annual Victorian Christmas<br />
Weekend. The Museum grounds are transformed into a Christmas Festival<br />
featuring Victorian period entertainment, walk-thru tours of the decorated Mansion,<br />
blacksmith demonstrations, refreshments, family holiday crafts, a bake<br />
sale, local food vendors, handmade crafts by area artisans, and jolly ol’ St.<br />
Nick will pose for photos with the little ones on an historic carriage. A highlight<br />
of the festivities is a horse-drawn trolley ride to the Drum Barracks Civil War<br />
Museum in Wilmington. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. Banning<br />
Museum, 401 East “M” Street, Wilmington. For more details contact Friends<br />
of Banning Museum at 310-548-2005 or www.thebanningmuseum.org.<br />
Parade of Lights<br />
Parade floats, marching bands, equestrian units, classic cars, drill teams, community<br />
& civic groups . . . and a special appearance by Santa Claus! Silver<br />
Spur Rd. and Deep Valley Dr., then through the Promenade to the Norris Theater.<br />
6-7:30 p.m. Info: 310-372-1577.<br />
Cannery Row Revisited<br />
South Bay Contemporary, SoLA Gallery presents “Cannery Row Revisited”<br />
curated by artist and founder Richard Stephens. Cannery Row Studios had a<br />
20+ year run as an art gallery in Redondo Beach, from 1990 – 2010. The<br />
shows were unique showing local artists. On opening nights, the garage door<br />
would open up and a magnificent eucalyptus tree became a signature element<br />
of the outdoor area. On many a summer night under its canopy, the artists<br />
and supporters gathered for the night. Richard Stephens has selected 25 artists<br />
who have shown regularly at Cannery Row Studios in the past. The exhibition<br />
will include painting, sculpture, photography, video and a display of memo-<br />
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rabilia, plus artist presentations and<br />
a catalog associated with the exhibition.<br />
Through <strong>Dec</strong>. 30. Opening reception<br />
<strong>Dec</strong>. 2, 4 - 7 p.m. Artist<br />
Presentations: <strong>Dec</strong>ember 16,<br />
St. John Fisher Catholic Church<br />
Top of the Hill at Crenshaw and Crest<br />
Christmas Eve, <strong>Dec</strong>ember 24<br />
4:00 pm<br />
6:00 pm<br />
8:00 pm<br />
Midnight<br />
Carols begin at 11:30 pm<br />
Christmas Day, <strong>Dec</strong>ember 25<br />
7:30 am<br />
9:00 am<br />
10:45 am<br />
12:30 pm<br />
Artists participating in the Cannery<br />
Row show include Bob<br />
Mackie (above), Don Adkins,<br />
Allen Bollinger, John Cantu,<br />
Miles Essmiller, Robi Hutas,<br />
Carol Hungerford, Jerry Kotler,<br />
Kenny Koda, Larry Lubow,<br />
Edie Pfeffer, Michael Rich, Jean<br />
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4-7 p.m. Additionally, there will be a “Small Works” holiday sale of arts and<br />
crafts Gallery Hours: 1 – 5, Saturdays and by appointment. Contact Peggy<br />
Sivert Zask, Director: 310-429-0973, southbaycontemporary@gmail.com,<br />
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Sunday, <strong>Dec</strong>ember 3<br />
Advent exhibit<br />
Anticipate, expect, and prepare for the Christmas miracle by visiting the Mary<br />
& Joseph Retreat Center’s Nativity exhibit. In addition to displays of nativity<br />
sets from around the world, Advent calendars, Advent wreaths, and other<br />
ways of preparing for the birth of Christ will be on view. This season is really<br />
about the human experience of waiting. School groups, families, prayer<br />
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celebrate this year's exhibit. Admission<br />
is free. Through <strong>Dec</strong>ember 21.<br />
5300 Crest Road, Rancho Palos<br />
Verdes. Call Marlene Velazquez at<br />
310-377-4867 x234 for reservations<br />
or information.<br />
<strong>Peninsula</strong> Symphonic<br />
Winds Holiday Concert<br />
Guest conductor Mr. John Elg will<br />
lead the concert and be joined by<br />
singer Jessica Thomas in a selection<br />
of holiday favorites including White<br />
Christmas, Greensleeves and Bugler’s<br />
Holiday. The concert begins at<br />
3 p.m., at the LOTH RHCC Community<br />
Center, 735 Silver Spur Road,<br />
RHE. Admission $10 for adults; children<br />
12 and under free with adult.<br />
More info at www.pswinds.org.<br />
Holiday’s Long Run<br />
The Long Run blends the lush harmonies<br />
and arrangements from the<br />
vast Eagles songbook with their own<br />
genuine style. And, it’s the Holiday<br />
Show with seasonal tunes, hot cider<br />
and good cheer! 7 p.m. The Grand<br />
Annex, 434 W 6th St San Pedro.<br />
Tickets $20 to $42, available at<br />
www.grandannex.org or 310-833-<br />
4813 Mon-Fri 9 to 5.<br />
Lunch with Santa<br />
The community is invited to have<br />
lunch with Santa. Includes face painting,<br />
crafts, clowns and photos with<br />
Santa (bring your camera). Price includes<br />
a ticket to Torrance Memorial’s<br />
34th annual Holiday Festival,<br />
which features 36 custom-decorated<br />
holiday trees. Tree themes include<br />
“A Season of Superheroes,” “Cirque<br />
de Noel,” “Snoopy and Friends,”<br />
and “Forever Paris.” Shop in the<br />
South Bay’s largest holiday boutique<br />
or in the Children’s Marketplace or<br />
Seniors Marketplace for one-of-akind<br />
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Sunday, <strong>Dec</strong>. 3, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Torrance Memorial Medical Center,<br />
Richard B. Hoffman, M.D., Health Conference Center, 3315 Medical Center<br />
Drive, Torrance. Cost: $15 per person (minors must be supervised by a paid<br />
adult). Call 310-517- 4728 or visit TorranceMemorial.org/holidayfestival to<br />
purchase tickets or for more information.<br />
Victorian Tea & Carols<br />
Victorian carolers will be singing Christmas favorites a cappella in beautiful<br />
period costumes to harken back to a bygone era of pomp & splendor. Get<br />
into the spirit at this special holiday event! Tea 2 p.m. Concert 3 p.m. Adult<br />
$25, Children 4-12 $18, Children under 4 free. Mary & Joseph Retreat Center,<br />
5300 Crest Road, Rancho Palos Verdes. Call Marlene Velazquez at<br />
310.377.4867 x234 for reservations or information.<br />
Palos Verdes Symphonic Band - Holiday Concert<br />
Come celebrate the season with the Palos Verdes Symphonic Band, who will<br />
present its popular annual Holiday Concert, from 5-7 p.m. indoors in the<br />
Frances Young Hall at the South Coast Botanic Garden. Included will be selections<br />
by Leroy Anderson, Alfred Reed, Percy Grainger, and the ever popular<br />
Night Before Christmas. Rheuben Allen, clarinet soloist, will be accompanied<br />
by the band on Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Tickets are $10 (adults)<br />
and free (12 and under) and are available at the door. For further information<br />
you may call the Garden at 310-544-1948, the band at 310-792-8286 or<br />
310-373-2442, or visit www.pvsband.org. 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos<br />
Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong>.<br />
Repeal Day dinner, drinks, talk<br />
More than 80 years after it was repealed, many misunderstandings about Prohibition,<br />
beginning with when and why it was enacted, persist. Pacific Food<br />
& Beverage Museum (PacFAB) presents a rare opportunity<br />
to experience a culinary evening in the<br />
Roaring Twenties, courtesy of fourth-generation<br />
restaurateur Dustin Trani, chef-owner of J. Trani's<br />
Ristorante. Trani will recreate a five course Italian-<br />
American dinner of the period, paired with cocktails,<br />
in a sequence that demonstrates how<br />
drinking changed before, during, and after the dry<br />
decade. After dinner, author and PacFAB Curator<br />
Richard Foss will present an illustrated talk on how<br />
society, tastes in food and drink, and other aspects<br />
of American culture changed. Costumes encouraged<br />
– prizes awarded! 7 p.m. Dinner is $75 for<br />
National Food & Beverage Foundation and Culinary<br />
Historians of Southern California members,<br />
$85 for non, and includes tax and gratuity. Space<br />
strictly limited, reservations required. 323-813-<br />
1730 or natfab.org. J Trani’s is located at 584<br />
W. Ninth St. San Pedro.<br />
Food writer Richard<br />
Foss, above, will<br />
present a talk on the<br />
misunderstandings of<br />
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Wednesday, <strong>Dec</strong>ember 6<br />
Celebrations Around the World Holiday Showcase<br />
Special needs students from the “Ready, Willing and Able” dance and performing<br />
arts program will performing at the fifth annual Holiday Showcase<br />
and outreach event from 4-5 p.m. at the Norris Theatre. At this year’s show,<br />
titled “Celebrations Around the World” students will dance and sing holiday<br />
songs that are popular in different cultures around the globe. No tickets or<br />
reservations are required, but donations to the program are appreciated.<br />
7570 Norris Center Drive in Rolling Hills Estates. For more information about<br />
the program, contact the Palos Verdes Performing Arts Conservatory at 310-<br />
544-0403, ext. 303.<br />
Friday, <strong>Dec</strong>ember 8<br />
Holiday Boutique<br />
The <strong>Peninsula</strong> High Athletic Booster Club hosts a day of fun shopping to support<br />
Pen High programs and clubs. Enjoy musical performances, food and<br />
drink tastings as you shop a variety of fantastic vendors. 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.<br />
Pen High Gym, 27118 Silver Spur Rd., RHE.<br />
Saturday, <strong>Dec</strong>ember 9<br />
Breakfast with Santa<br />
Treat your family to a personal visit with Santa! Enjoy a breakfast provided<br />
by Good Stuff Restaurant and visit with Santa. Bring your camera to take a<br />
family photo. 8:30 to 10 a.m.Tickets: Adults $15, Kids FREE (under 12). Tickets<br />
are available to purchase at Good Stuff Restaurant. Seating is limited.<br />
Promenade on the <strong>Peninsula</strong>, 550 Deep Valley Dr., Rolling Hills Estates (by<br />
the fountain).<br />
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Guided Nature Walk<br />
By Palos Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong> Land Conservancy at Portuguese Bend Reserve,<br />
Ishibashi trail, Rancho Palos Verdes, 9 a.m. Hike Burma Road to Rattlesnake<br />
Trail. Enjoy views of Altamira Canyon. This is a strenuous walk. Free and open<br />
to the public. For more information, contact 310-541-7613 ext. 201 or sign<br />
up at www.pvplc.org/_events/NatureWalkRSVP.asp.<br />
Outdoor Volunteer Day<br />
Help beautify the native demonstration garden and surrounding habitat at<br />
White Point Nature Preserve, 9 a.m. – noon. Sign up at www.pvplc.volunteerhub.com.<br />
1600 W. Paseo del Mar in San Pedro.<br />
Stories, Songs and More<br />
Share the joy of storytelling with your children and introduce them to the<br />
beauty of the natural surroundings. Your family will enjoy spending time with<br />
retired Children’s Librarian Carla Sedlacek for stories and activities featuring<br />
nature themes, exciting props and songs. Free.1600 W. Paseo del Mar in<br />
San Pedro. RSVP at: www.pvplc.org, Events & Activities.<br />
Year three with Puccini, Beethoven and Bernstein<br />
JMV Singers’ founding director<br />
Joanna Medawar<br />
Nachef, above, will lead holiday<br />
carol singalong following<br />
the choral group’s<br />
performance of Puccini’s<br />
Messa de Gloria Saturday,<br />
<strong>Dec</strong>. 9 at the Norris Theater.<br />
The Joanna Medawar Nachef<br />
Singers are celebrating their third<br />
season with music by the “Three Giants”<br />
of classical music at the Norris<br />
Theater. Tonight’s 7 p.m. performance<br />
features Puccini’s Messa de<br />
Gloria, followed by the choral<br />
group’s traditional holiday carol singalong.<br />
Beethoven and Bernstein will<br />
be featured at performances on April<br />
8 and June 17, 2018. Founding director<br />
Joanna Medawar is recognized<br />
as the first symphony conductor<br />
from the Middle East. She was born<br />
in Lebanon and is now Director of<br />
Choral Activities at El Camino College.<br />
She is also the choir director at<br />
<strong>Peninsula</strong> Community Church. Tickets,<br />
$25-$45, are available at the<br />
Norris Theater box office at 27570<br />
Norris Center Drive, Rolling Hills Estates.<br />
Or by calling the theater at<br />
310-544-0403. Or at<br />
JMNSingers.com.<br />
Sunday, <strong>Dec</strong>ember 10<br />
Tribute to Benny Goodman at the Holidays<br />
Relive the legendary concert that made Benny Goodman the most celebrated<br />
jazz bandleader of his day, at a festive 2 p.m. performance at the Norris Theatre.<br />
Goodman was at the height of his career in 1938 when he and his band,<br />
which included such musicians as Harry James, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson,<br />
Lionel Hampton and Count Basie, performed at Carnegie Hall and redefined<br />
popular music. A re-creation of that iconic concert, mixed with some classic<br />
Christmas tunes, features the All Star Benny Goodman Tribute Orchestra with<br />
special guest vocalists Peter Marshall and Polly Podewell, the last female singer<br />
to perform with Goodman and his orchestra. Hosted by singing impressionist<br />
Paul Boland. Tickets are $75-$80 and can be purchased by calling the box<br />
office at 310-544-0403 or online at palosverdesperformingarts.com. 27570<br />
Norris Center Drive in Rolling Hills Estates.
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Tuesday, <strong>Dec</strong>ember 12<br />
Beauty and the Beast Auditions<br />
The Palos Verdes Performing Arts Conservatory will hold open auditions on<br />
<strong>Dec</strong>ember 12-13 at 5 p.m. for a student production of Disney’s “Beauty and<br />
the Beast.” Students ages 10-18 may audition either date, and should come<br />
prepared to sing and dance. Performance dates for the production are weekends,<br />
February 16-25, at the Norris Theatre. Auditions held at the PVPA Conservatory<br />
Studios, 27525 Norris Center Drive in Rolling Hills Estates. For more<br />
information call 310-544-0403 ext. 302, or go to palosverdesperformingarts.com/conservatory.<br />
Wednesday, <strong>Dec</strong>ember 13<br />
PV Woman's Club<br />
Meet at 12 at the Rolling Hills Country Club, 27000 Palos Verdes Drive East.<br />
The program will be Clarence Ulrich, formerly of the Drifters, presenting Holiday<br />
songs and music. Cost of the luncheon is $32. For reservations and information<br />
call Beverly Teresinski at 310-378-1349.<br />
Thursday, <strong>Dec</strong>ember 14<br />
Dining with notes<br />
By popular demand, the Los Cancioneros Master Chorale Ensemble will return<br />
to The Admiral Risty to perform favorite Christmas and Chanukah melodies<br />
tableside for the enjoyment of dining guests at 6:30 p.m. during the dinner<br />
service. The Admiral Risty 31250 Palos Verdes Drive West, Rancho Palos<br />
Verdes. Reservations recommended, 310-377-0050 or<br />
www.admiralristy.com.<br />
Palos Verdes Ballet's Samantha<br />
Liu as 'Sugar Plum Fairy.'<br />
Saturday, <strong>Dec</strong>ember 16<br />
Outdoor Volunteer Day<br />
At Alta Vicente Reserve, 30940<br />
Hawthorne Blvd., Rancho Palos<br />
Verdes, 9 a.m. – noon. Help restore<br />
this unique canyon habitat home to<br />
many threatened and endangered<br />
wildlife species. Sign up at<br />
pvplc.volunteerhub.com.<br />
Magical Nutcracker<br />
A family holiday tradition since<br />
1980, the Palos Verdes Ballet is<br />
thrilled to present its 37th anniversary<br />
Nutcracker season. Directed<br />
by Uta Graf-Apostol this enchanting<br />
ballet classic will be performed at<br />
the Norris Theatre, 27570 Norris<br />
Center Dr., Rolling Hills Estates, for<br />
one weekend only, at 1 p.m. and 5<br />
p.m., Saturday and Sunday. Tickets<br />
are $35 for Adults, $25 for children.<br />
Additional information is<br />
available at www.palosverdesballet.org.<br />
Musical Nutcracker<br />
America’s most spectacular production,<br />
presented by Long Beach Ballet, with full live orchestra. Through <strong>Dec</strong>.<br />
24. At Long Beach Terrace Theater, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach. Ticket<br />
Hotline, 1-877-852-3177, www.LongBeachNutcracker.com.<br />
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Sunday, <strong>Dec</strong>.17<br />
Musical fare<br />
By popular demand, the Los Cancioneros<br />
Master Chorale Ensemble<br />
will return to The Admiral Risty to<br />
perform favorite Christmas and<br />
Chanukah melodies tableside for the<br />
enjoyment of dining guests at 1 p.m.<br />
during Sunday Brunch. The Admiral<br />
Risty 31250 Palos Verdes Drive<br />
West, Rancho Palos Verdes. Reservations<br />
recommended, 310-377-<br />
0050 or www.admiralristy.com.<br />
Las Posadas<br />
In California, Christmas has been enriched<br />
with many elements from the<br />
Hispanic culture including music,<br />
food, piñatas and the Posada journey.<br />
Join us for a symbolic commemoration<br />
of Las Posadas as Mary and<br />
Joseph search for lodging on their<br />
journey to Bethlehem. We will have<br />
a piñata for the children and refreshments,<br />
4 to 6 p.m. Cost: Adults $5,<br />
children 4-12 $2, children under 4<br />
free. All events are located at the<br />
Mary & Joseph Retreat Center, 5300<br />
Crest Road, Rancho Palos Verdes.<br />
Call Marlene Velazquez at 310-<br />
377-4867 x234 for reservations or<br />
information.<br />
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22. Promenade on the <strong>Peninsula</strong>,<br />
550 Deep Valley Dr., Rolling Hills Estates.<br />
Wed., <strong>Dec</strong>ember 20<br />
Birding Unlimited<br />
Explore the birds making a home in<br />
the restored habitat at the beautiful<br />
White Point Nature Preserve with a<br />
docent from Wild Birds Unlimited.<br />
Binoculars supplied for beginners.<br />
The program is free. All ages welcome.<br />
8:30 a.m. 1600 W. Paseo<br />
del Mar in San Pedro. RSVP at:<br />
www.pvplc.org, Events & Activities.<br />
Saturday, <strong>Dec</strong>. 23<br />
Guided Nature Walk<br />
Visit White Point Nature Preserve<br />
and attend a Naturalist-guided hike.<br />
Enjoy coastal views and learn more<br />
about the plants, animals, restoration<br />
area and more! 9 a.m. 1600 W.<br />
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Paseo del Mar in San Pedro. Meet at the information kiosk between parking<br />
lot and Nature Center. For more information call 310-541-7613 or RSVP at:<br />
www.pvplc.org, Events & Activities.<br />
Native Plant Sale<br />
At White Point Nature Education Center, noon – 2 p.m. Plants sold on firstcome,<br />
first-serve basis. White Point Nature Preserve located at 1600 W. Paseo<br />
del Mar in San Pedro. For more information call 310-541-7613.<br />
Wed. <strong>Dec</strong>ember 27<br />
More Birding Unlimited<br />
At George F Canyon presented by the Palos<br />
Verdes <strong>Peninsula</strong> Land Conservancy, 8:30<br />
a.m. Explore the birds in nesting season making<br />
a home in the canyon. The program is free<br />
and all ages welcome. 27305 Palos Verdes<br />
Drive East, Rolling Hills Estates. RSVP at:<br />
www.pvplc.org, Events & Activities.<br />
Michele Zukovsky. Photo<br />
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Sunday, January 14<br />
COSB welcomes Zukovsky<br />
Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay continues<br />
its <strong>2017</strong>-18 season at the Norris Theatre<br />
at 7:30 p.m. The featured soloist is former Principal<br />
Clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Michele Zukovsky under the<br />
direction of Frances Steiner. There will be a Preview Talk by Chuck Klaus starting<br />
at 6:45 p.m. Single tickets are $63 available through the Norris Theatre<br />
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that be? The theory is that to survive,<br />
they had to compete with one<br />
another. Bug ‘A’ developed its own<br />
antibiotics to kill bug ‘B’.”<br />
The competition could in some<br />
way mirror bacteria’s struggle<br />
against human-made antibiotics.<br />
“These bacteria are way ahead of<br />
us,” Bayer said.<br />
Bayer and his colleagues at LA<br />
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UCLA Medical Center campus in<br />
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research. The researchers<br />
peer through advanced microscopes<br />
and into test tubes, pore over experimental<br />
models, and study infected<br />
human blood samples and biopsied<br />
tissues.<br />
“My laboratory studies MRSA<br />
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the bug is able to adapt to antibiotics<br />
by becoming resistant to them<br />
and, in turn, how our bodies fight<br />
them off,” he said.<br />
Bayer is digging into the workings<br />
of platelets, the cells that help blood<br />
clot, stemming excessive bleeding.<br />
Bayer said it has become clear<br />
platelets play a part in fighting off<br />
harmful bacteria.<br />
“Platelets are like little storage<br />
reservoirs of [natural] antibiotics,<br />
releasing them to kill bacteria,” he<br />
said.<br />
The study of platelet-derived antibiotics<br />
could result in the development<br />
of new artificial antibiotic<br />
treatments, he said. He is performing<br />
these studies in close collaboration<br />
with Professor Michael<br />
Yeaman, chief of molecular medicine<br />
at LA BioMed.<br />
Bayer has served as Associate<br />
Program Director of Infectious Disease,<br />
Vice-Chair of Academic Affairs<br />
and Acting Chief of the<br />
Division of Infectious Diseases at<br />
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.<br />
His research has been funded by<br />
the National Institutes of Health<br />
since 1996.<br />
Bayer has served on the NIAID<br />
National Association for Research<br />
in Staphylococcus aureus, is a charter<br />
committee member of the International<br />
Consortium for the Study<br />
of Infective Endocarditis, and Councilor<br />
in the International Society for<br />
Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases.<br />
When he’s not doing research, or<br />
teaching interns, medical students<br />
and Fellows, he enjoys country<br />
Bayer cont. on page 74<br />
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Bayer cont. from page 72<br />
music, Los Angeles Kings hockey,<br />
and hiking and downhill skiing. He<br />
and his wife Enid have two grown<br />
children, Alex and Alicia, and a 1-<br />
year-old grandchild.<br />
Additional Legends<br />
Also honored as <strong>2017</strong> Legends at<br />
the LA BioMed dinner on November<br />
1 at the Torrance Marriott were<br />
Dr. Rodney White and Dr. Paul C.<br />
Fu.<br />
Meyer said that vascular surgeon<br />
White’s “surgical skills and innovations<br />
have saved thousands of<br />
lives.”<br />
“White developed stents that<br />
have prevented numerous deaths<br />
from aortic aneurysms,” Meyer<br />
said. In addition, while he was a<br />
medical student, White developed<br />
the use of a porous ceramic, made<br />
from ocean coral, as an artificial<br />
bone graft.<br />
Fu developed the standard cholesterol<br />
test – measuring total<br />
serum cholesterol – that has been<br />
in wide use for decades. He also<br />
has contributed to research in<br />
areas ranging from liver disease to<br />
bipolar disorder. PEN<br />
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76 <strong>Peninsula</strong> • <strong>Dec</strong>ember <strong>2017</strong>
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in remembrance<br />
Harvey Kushner remembered<br />
by Brian Gillogly<br />
Pioneer think tank CEO and <strong>Peninsula</strong> resident Harvey Kushner passed<br />
away recently from injuries suffered during a fall.<br />
Kushner was born in Brooklyn in 1930 and raised in Baltimore, where<br />
he attended public schools and earned an undergraduate degree in mechanical<br />
engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He planned to enter the then<br />
new field of bioengineering, but that was before his wife Rose, a medical lab<br />
technician, gave birth to their first son. To support his family, Kushner went<br />
to work at Operation Research (ORI), one of the nation’s first for-profit think<br />
tanks.<br />
While rising rapidly through the management ranks, Kushner resumed<br />
studies in physics and business.<br />
ORI’s projects included Naval systems; NASA’s Nimbus, the first weather<br />
satellite; the Hubble telescope; and a computerized war game to help the<br />
Army Medical Corps, which proved invaluable during the Vietnam War. One<br />
of Kushner’s projects was to study how new sentencing requirements affected<br />
California Superior Courts.<br />
He became ORI’s CEO after leading a then-innovative takeover of the company<br />
through an employee stock ownership plan.<br />
About this time Rose developed breast cancer. She would write several<br />
books on the subject and become a forceful advocate for mammography and<br />
minimally invasive surgical procedures. She was a member of the National<br />
Cancer Advisory Board. After succumbing to cancer in 1990, her husband<br />
took it upon himself to edit updates of her pamphlet, “If you’ve thought about<br />
breast cancer.”<br />
After leaving ORI, Kushner established Kushner Management Planning<br />
Corp., a private government consulting company. He moved to Palos Verdes<br />
in the early 1990s and married Dr. Patricia Sacks, Director of the Vasek &<br />
Anna Maria Polak Breast Diagnostic Center at Torrance Memorial Medical<br />
Center. They shared passions for medicine, travel and the arts. Kushner was<br />
an accomplished artist, violin player and sailor.<br />
In a 2009 profile in <strong>Peninsula</strong> <strong>People</strong>, Kushner spoke about his deep admiration<br />
for the two women in his life: “What Rose did in 16 years and what<br />
Pat is doing every day is very hands on. You can come home at night and say<br />
I helped somebody, I did something valuable, something important. I’ve done<br />
everything I can to support them. I guess I get as much out of what they accomplish<br />
helping other people as they do.”<br />
In 2010, Kushner became one of the first heart patients to receive an LVAD<br />
(Left Ventricular Assist Device) heart pump as a long-term “destination” device.<br />
(Heart pumps are usually meant to be temporary, until a donor organ<br />
becomes available.) He often credited his extraordinarily long seven years<br />
with an LVAD to his wife Pat’s medical background.<br />
“The key to longevity with an LVAD is sleeping with your doctor,” he liked<br />
to joke.<br />
Kushner is survived by his wife Patricia, sons Gantt and Todd, daughter<br />
Lesley, three grandsons, a granddaughter, and his dog Reo. P<br />
Harvey Kushner.<br />
Photo courtesy<br />
the Kushner<br />
family<br />
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