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Palisadian-Post Serving the Community Since 1928 24 Pages $1.50 Thursday, October 19, 2017 Pacific Palisades, California The Secrets of Michael Moore (See Page 13) Pick a Creepy Crypt One of the 2016 winning home Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer Voting for this year’s annual Creep Your Crypt contest is now open! Visit palipost.com to pick your favorite home in three categories: Creepiest Crypt, DIY-Originality and Best Theme. It’s not too late to sign up: Nominations and entries will be accepted through Tuesday, Oct. 31. By JOHN HARLOW Editor-in-Chief P alisadians are growing older, while millennials are vanish- ing, according to the latest data released by the city and county of Los Angeles. There are now more people aged 65 and over than between 20 and 35 living in Pacific Palisades, which represents a cultural and economic challenge to the town. The town is among the 10 percent of grayest communities in America. The Palisadian median age is 47, compared to 36 across the Golden State. We have grown older so fast: In 2002, the median age was 39. The latest picture of the town, available on city-data.com and re- lated sites, contrasts with a sim- ilar survey carried out in 2004 when the Palisades was not only relatively youthful, but also lo- cally employed and, if the price of housing is used as a baseline, a little poorer. Such statistics must be taken only as a snapshot: They are, to be generous, a fluid metric. Yet there are surprises in store. The Palisades may have a lot fewer people than previously thought: perhaps as few as 23,000, depending on where town borders are drawn, with as few as 400 res- idents of the Palisades employed full time in town. The vast majority of work- ers—another 3,500 people—are employed in retail, gardening and medical fields. They come from zip codes as far away as Ontario and Orange County, with some reporting they drive two hours each way. Local businesses, such as su- permarkets, are facing problems recruiting reliable staff. There are some part-time workers coming out of the Pali- sades: Uber officials say they are employing around 20 “partners” from here, mostly part-time peo- ple in their 30s and 40s. “They can set up base away from home, so neighbors don’t know what they are up to,” said an Uber official in Santa Monica last week. “Maybe it’s for pin [play] money.” For workers commuting out of the Palisades, the average drive to their office is between 20 and 28 minutes, which takes them to Beverly Hills or the Fox and Sony studios in West LA. The last income analysis was in 2012, when the average report- ed income for the zip code was $486,000—up from $258,000 in 2004. It’s expected to top $600,000 per year in 2017. There are few surprises about who lives here: overwhelmingly white, with more Asian-Amer- icans than Latinos. And, at last count, 20 Native Americans. Where did everyone come from? Around 15 percent of Palisa- dians were born abroad: By the numbers, they arrived from In- dia, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Belgium, Bangladesh and Taiwan. Around half were born in the zip code—80 percent from California—but nearly every- one else “immigrated” from the rainy Northwest or the chilly Midwest—and, once here, those immigrants stay longer than na- tive-born Palisadians. Two-thirds of Palisadians aged under 25 seek work outside LA, perhaps hoping one day to return and raise their family here. Demographer Joe Halper contributed to this report. The Graying of the Palisades Raises New Challenges The ageing curve Photo courtesy of City of Los Angeles By JOHN HARLOW Editor-in-Chief T he Ruthless Ryderz, the mo- torcycle club that infuriates so many Palisadians with its high- speed rides along Sunset Boulevard, faces fresh scrutiny at its rallying ground in the town. For years, on every Wednesday night between 9 and 10 p.m., the Valley-based club—many call them a “gang,” but authorities have not legally proscribed them as such— appear en masse from Brentwood and ride west along Sunset Boule- vard. Their numbers vary between a dozen and, occasionally, as many as 50. Speeds have allegedly been logged at more than 80 mph. After a typical eight-minute parade of black leather and Yamaha bikes, accompanied by what resi- dents describe as a thunderous and selfish racket, many pull into the 76 gas station at the intersection of Sunset and Pacific Coast Highway. There they will refuel, visit the bathroom and “hang” for around 20 minutes before some turn around and race back up Sunset toward the 405 and home. But maybe for not much longer. Carlos Rodriguez, the manag- er at the 76, the El Segundo-based chain of gas stations known for its slogan “The Spirit of ’76,” has grown weary of club members loitering, disturbing residents and blocking the driveway to the station. Rodriguez, who has worked with the Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness and other community-minded organizations, has put up signs discouraging loi- tering. But on Wednesday, Oct. 11, after the Ryderz had departed, he noticed a sign had vanished. CCTV footage suggested it was a member of the club. The gas station tries to treat the Ryderz like other custom- ers, but this insult crossed a line. So, ignoring their some- times-scary reputation, Rodriguez phoned up a club leader in Van Nuys who told him that people steal signs all the time. “Maybe in your neighborhood,” Rodriguez deadpanned. The 76 is contracted to stay open 24/7 so, despite some resi- dents’ desires, it cannot “shut up shop” and displace the bikers else- where on a Wednesday night. Rodriguez has spoken to LAPD’s Senior Lead Officer Mi- chael Moore and Palisades Patrol, the private security firm, to coordi- nate a crackdown on the bikers at the 76 on Wednesday nights. In recent months, such efforts, including a DUI checkpoint, have reduced numbers. The club’s once-unnerving Sunday afternoon rallies, possibly arranged through the app Meetup, have become less problematic since club member David “Baby Face” Babylan died in a collision with a Mercedes at the intersection of Sunset and Chautauqua on Sunday, May 2. LAPD Sgt. Eun told the Pacific Palisades Community Council on Thursday, Oct. 12, that the inves- tigation into that collision is still on-going as they try to estimate Ruthless Ryderz speeds just before four bikers hit a Mercedes driven by an unsupervised teenager. He said, realistically, the Ruth- less Ryderz cannot be kept out of the Palisades, but their most extreme anti-social behaviors will continue to be tracked and challenged by LAPD officers. And, in the future, perhaps most fearful of all, they are facing a lot of “education” and “friendly talks” about their outlaw ways. Ruthless Ryderz Face Crackdown at ‘The Spirit of ’76’ The rallying point Photos by Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer A welcoming sign Golden Days in the Pumpkin Patch Grab ’em while you can—or if you can. This little girl almost toppled over picking up her free pumpkin at Rodeo Realty’s annual Pumpkin Patch and In-N-Out lunch in The Village on Saturday, Oct 14. Meanwhile, the YMCA Pumpkin Patch is located at Simon Meadow in Temescal Gateway Park. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer
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Palisadian-PostServing the Community Since 1928

24 Pages $1.50Thursday, October 19, 2017 ◆ Pacific Palisades, California

The Secrets of Michael Moore (See Page 13)

Pick a Creepy Crypt

One of the 2016 winning home Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

Voting for this year’s annual Creep Your Crypt contest is now open! Visit palipost.com to pick your favorite home in three categories: Creepiest Crypt, DIY-Originality and Best Theme. It’s not too late to sign up: Nominations and entries will be accepted through Tuesday, Oct. 31.

By JOHN HARLOWEditor-in-Chief

Palisadians are growing older, while millennials are vanish-

ing, according to the latest data released by the city and county of Los Angeles.

There are now more people aged 65 and over than between 20 and 35 living in Pacific Palisades, which represents a cultural and economic challenge to the town.

The town is among the 10 percent of grayest communities in America.

The Palisadian median age is 47, compared to 36 across the Golden State.

We have grown older so fast: In 2002, the median age was 39.

The latest picture of the town, available on city-data.com and re-lated sites, contrasts with a sim-ilar survey carried out in 2004 when the Palisades was not only relatively youthful, but also lo-cally employed and, if the price of housing is used as a baseline, a little poorer.

Such statistics must be taken only as a snapshot: They are, to be generous, a fluid metric. Yet there are surprises in store.

The Palisades may have a

lot fewer people than previously thought: perhaps as few as 23,000, depending on where town borders are drawn, with as few as 400 res-idents of the Palisades employed full time in town.

The vast majority of work-ers—another 3,500 people—are employed in retail, gardening and medical fields.

They come from zip codes as far away as Ontario and Orange County, with some reporting they drive two hours each way.

Local businesses, such as su-permarkets, are facing problems recruiting reliable staff.

There are some part-time workers coming out of the Pali-sades: Uber officials say they are employing around 20 “partners” from here, mostly part-time peo-ple in their 30s and 40s.

“They can set up base away from home, so neighbors don’t know what they are up to,” said an Uber official in Santa Monica last week. “Maybe it’s for pin [play] money.”

For workers commuting out of the Palisades, the average drive to their office is between 20 and 28 minutes, which takes them to Beverly Hills or the Fox and Sony

studios in West LA.The last income analysis was

in 2012, when the average report-ed income for the zip code was $486,000—up from $258,000 in 2004. It’s expected to top $600,000 per year in 2017.

There are few surprises about who lives here: overwhelmingly white, with more Asian-Amer-icans than Latinos. And, at last count, 20 Native Americans.

Where did everyone come from?

Around 15 percent of Palisa-dians were born abroad: By the numbers, they arrived from In-dia, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Belgium, Bangladesh and Taiwan.

Around half were born in the zip code—80 percent from California—but nearly every-one else “immigrated” from the rainy Northwest or the chilly Midwest—and, once here, those immigrants stay longer than na-tive-born Palisadians.

Two-thirds of Palisadians aged under 25 seek work outside LA, perhaps hoping one day to return and raise their family here.

Demographer Joe Halper contributed to this report.

The Graying of the Palisades Raises New Challenges

The ageing curve Photo courtesy of City of Los Angeles

By JOHN HARLOWEditor-in-Chief

The Ruthless Ryderz, the mo-torcycle club that infuriates

so many Palisadians with its high-speed rides along Sunset Boulevard, faces fresh scrutiny at its rallying ground in the town.

For years, on every Wednesday night between 9 and 10 p.m., the Valley-based club—many call them a “gang,” but authorities have not legally proscribed them as such—appear en masse from Brentwood and ride west along Sunset Boule-vard.

Their numbers vary between a dozen and, occasionally, as many as 50.

Speeds have allegedly been logged at more than 80 mph.

After a typical eight-minute parade of black leather and Yamaha bikes, accompanied by what resi-dents describe as a thunderous and selfish racket, many pull into the 76 gas station at the intersection of Sunset and Pacific Coast Highway.

There they will refuel, visit the bathroom and “hang” for around 20 minutes before some turn around and race back up Sunset toward the 405 and home. But maybe for not much longer.

Carlos Rodriguez, the manag-er at the 76, the El Segundo-based chain of gas stations known for its slogan “The Spirit of ’76,” has grown weary of club members loitering, disturbing residents and blocking the driveway to the station.

Rodriguez, who has worked with the Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness and other community-minded organizations, has put up signs discouraging loi-tering.

But on Wednesday, Oct. 11, after the Ryderz had departed, he noticed a sign had vanished. CCTV footage suggested it was a member of the club. The gas station tries to treat the Ryderz like other custom-ers, but this insult crossed a line.

So, ignoring their some-times-scary reputation, Rodriguez phoned up a club leader in Van Nuys who told him that people steal signs all the time.

“Maybe in your neighborhood,” Rodriguez deadpanned.

The 76 is contracted to stay open 24/7 so, despite some resi-dents’ desires, it cannot “shut up shop” and displace the bikers else-where on a Wednesday night.

Rodriguez has spoken to LAPD’s Senior Lead Officer Mi-chael Moore and Palisades Patrol, the private security firm, to coordi-nate a crackdown on the bikers at the 76 on Wednesday nights.

In recent months, such efforts, including a DUI checkpoint, have reduced numbers.

The club’s once-unnerving Sunday afternoon rallies, possibly arranged through the app Meetup, have become less problematic since club member David “Baby Face” Babylan died in a collision with a Mercedes at the intersection of Sunset and Chautauqua on Sunday, May 2.

LAPD Sgt. Eun told the Pacific Palisades Community Council on Thursday, Oct. 12, that the inves-tigation into that collision is still on-going as they try to estimate Ruthless Ryderz speeds just before four bikers hit a Mercedes driven by an unsupervised teenager.

He said, realistically, the Ruth-less Ryderz cannot be kept out of the Palisades, but their most extreme anti-social behaviors will continue to be tracked and challenged by LAPD officers.

And, in the future, perhaps most fearful of all, they are facing a lot of “education” and “friendly talks” about their outlaw ways.

Ruthless Ryderz Face Crackdown at

‘The Spirit of ’76’

The rallying point Photos by Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

A welcoming sign

Golden Days in the Pumpkin Patch

Grab ’em while you can—or if you can. This little girl almost toppled over picking up her free pumpkin at Rodeo Realty’s annual Pumpkin Patch and In-N-Out lunch in The Village on Saturday, Oct 14. Meanwhile, the YMCA Pumpkin Patch is located at Simon Meadow in Temescal Gateway Park.

Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

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Out Of the PastJuly 23, 1970

Pretty Palisades miss admires impressive new signs recently installed at Bay Pharmacy, in hub of Pacific Palisades business district. Signs represent beginning of plans to remodel entire 10,000 square feet of building’s interior.

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Un-American Behavior

Home Rule Respected

Earlier this year, the Pacific Palisades Republican Club withdrew from the farmers market, as volunteers felt unsafe in the face of overt hostility from people who disagree with us.

Both the Democrats and the Republicans have had a table at the farmers market almost since it opened on Swarthmore Avenue.

I worked there most Sundays, but there has never been a time when I considered knocking over the Democrat table, trying to hit the people working there with a sign, knocking off the material on the table or shaming the volunteers working there.

This is America; the Democrats have the right to support the can-didate of their choice, to try to positively influence others to see their point of view and to work for change as they see it, no matter how some may disagree.

And Republicans have the same right.And yet, so often in the past 12 years, we have continually experi-

enced all of the above with greater and greater intensity.We are not playing the victim card, merely portraying the situation.The farmers market is not a political rally or part of a protest gath-

ering; It’s our home, our community.Anytime the elected officials in our country on either side call for

a “Kumbaya” moment or suggest we tone down the rhetoric, it is quite short lived.

Let’s be clear here. Republicans are no more responsible for the hate-filled violence in Charlottesville than the Democrats were for Hod-gkinson’s violent rage against Republicans in Washington that sent Re-publican Congressman Steve Scalise to the hospital.

Those people are responsible for their actions and that violence.The volunteers for both parties working at the farmers market in

Pacific Palisades are doing so because they believe in the principles and values that govern their political party and are a part of our community. We need to stop dehumanizing our political opponents.

Is this really who we are as Americans? I hope not.Now we are considering returning to the market, maybe early in

2018.Maybe we should set up together at the market. I am more than

willing to confront Republicans bullying or disrespecting our counter-parts at the Democrat table.

We can’t control what happens in other places but we can here. This is our home, folks, and it starts here.

Nancy CohenPresident, Pacific Palisades Republican Club

PPCC is happy to report that Governor Jerry Brown has vetoed SB 649—the dangerous bill sponsored by the telecom industry that would have removed the ability of cities and counties to regulate cell towers in the public right of way and on public property statewide.

We are pleased that Pacific Palisades Community Council played a role in this victory for the principle of local control or “Home Rule.”

PPCC will remain vigilant as the industry is expected to introduce revised legislation in the future in an effort to streamline local approval of thousands of 5-G next generation installations.

PPCC does not oppose technological innovation; we seek to ensure that local input in the location and design of cell towers is preserved, with appropriate protections for sensitive areas such as Residential and Specific Plan zones, scenic highways and parks.

Meanwhile, PPCC will be pressing for the LA City Council to move forward with much-needed revisions to the local Above Ground Facili-ties ordinance (regulation of cell towers and other facilities in the public right of way), which PPCC supports (revisions inexplicably stalled in committee for more than a year).

Maryam Zar, ChairChris Spitz, Chair Emeritus

Pacific Palisades Community Council

automotive observationsOn Saturday and Sunday, I spent three hours on Temes-cal and two hours sipping cof-fee at Swarthmore and Sunset (FYI, five total hours and, yes, they have bathrooms). Here is what I observed: There were 112 Priuses and Teslas without front license plates, and only two oth-er cars without. I also noted most drivers were looking at their phones. I am not draw-ing any conclusions nor am I judging, but the sense of en-titlement seems pretty high. People should obey the law. At least, they are doing their part to fight global warm-ing—heroes in my book.

ruthless crybabiesThe Ruthless Ryderz wan-nabe biker gang regularly and recklessly speed through our community, but as soon as they get hurt, then they act like crybaby victims and go running to their attorney so that they can blame the Pali-sadian that they crashed into. And yet since that accident, they have continued their moronic behavior of travel-ing at high speeds in large groups. Just a matter of time before they cause another extremely dangerous traffic accident and then blame an-other Palisadian for getting in their way.

Fourth FrustrationWhy does the Fourth of July parade have to be on Sunset? It could wind through the Al-phabet Streets, along one of the bluffs or through the Pali-sades Rec Center, and not af-fect Sunset or its many busi-nesses. It frustrates me every year as I have to backtrack on my drive from Bel Air to my beach house in Malibu—I have nearly run out of gas several times. Selfish.

celebratingI celebrated Columbus Day. While I totally support the creation of an Indigenous Peoples Day, I do not see the value in using it to replace Columbus Day. Mike Bonin says it is a “very small step in apologizing and making amends.” Seems to be at the expense of Italian Americans, seems that a retrospective judgment about history and the good and bad of people in a specific historic time is always fraught with potential for error. I wish Bonin would focus more time on current issues such as ever-increas-ing traffic congestion and homelessness in our commu-nities.

L E T T E R S T O T H E E D I T O R

I’m writing to fact-check Paul Glasgall’s letter to the editor regarding the 64,500-square-foot, 82-unit, 96-resident, six-story Alzheimer’s/assisted living facility proposed by Moshe and Rony Shram for 1525 Palisades Drive (“Project”).

Glasgall claims that development of the project is “assisted living” and “by-right” (i.e., no approvals re-quired). In fact:• The Project is 32 percent Alzheimer’s care/68 percent assisted living and requires city approvals—Site

Development Plan and a Coastal Development Permit.• The Shrams are also seeking a complete exemption of the project from environmental review—includ-

ing a mandatory city finding that it is not “substantially surrounded by urban uses,” although the site plus two adjacent parcels contain 92 percent land zoned open space.

Glasgall also claims The Palisades Highlands Presidents Council (PHPC) has worked with the Shram group to ensure the property gets developed responsibly with appropriate input from area leadership.How can PHPC ensure responsible development when it appears they have not obtained:• Information regarding Shram’s relevant experience or financial capability;• Evaluation by qualified independent architects, attorneys, soils engineers, traffic engineers, environmen-

tal consultants or medical professionals;• Input from SM Mountains Conservancy or State Parks; or• Confirmation that the Project is consistent with all applicable legal requirements (it is not).

And regarding, “appropriate input from the area leadership”:• If “leadership” is not well informed or qualified, then its input is not appropriate;• PHPC’s “area leadership” role in Highlands has been highly exaggerated;• Project community support appears to be very limited and to come mainly from the current PHPC presi-

dent (a small jobs contractor), and the former PHPC president (a residential real estate agent), neither of whom reside in The Highlands; and

• The real “appropriate input” comes from the community—which is saying “no” to this Project (e.g. over 500 opposition petition signatures).

Finally, Glasgall claims project opponents are screaming, uninformed residents driven by a self-interested, anti-development mantra. In reality, opponents include well-informed business and real estate professionals who have thoroughly reviewed the project and informed the community.

In my opinion, Mr. Glasgall insults the community by inappropriately invoking the PHPC as a platform to bully Project opponents into silence. Has he no shame?

Robert T. Flick

(Letters To The Editor continued)

Fact-Checking the Bully(ing) Pulpit

STOLEN VEHICLE500 block of Radcliffe, be-

tween October 12 at 6 p.m. and October 13 at 8 a.m. The suspect took victim’s trailer from an alley.

BURGLARY20 block of Bali Ln, between

October 4 at 3 p.m. and October 5 at 12 a.m. The suspect opened a window to enter victim’s home and took jewelry and safe boxes.

1000 block of Embury St, Oc-tober 13 between 6 and 9:30 p.m. The suspect smashed a glass panel on a door to enter victim’s home and took jewelry.

ASSAULT W/DEADLY WEAPON500 block of Mount Holy-

oke, October 10 at 1:54 a.m. A 58-year-old male was arrested for ADW after attempting to run over victim with a vehicle.

BURGLARY/THEFT FROM VEHICLE17000 block of Pacific Coast

Hwy, October 8 between 2 and 4 p.m. The suspect took a bicycle from the top of victim’s vehicle.

900 block of Fiske St, be-tween September 30 at 11 p.m. and October 1 at 7 a.m. The sus-pect took the tires from victim’s vehicle.

THEFT14800 block of Pacific Coast

Hwy, October 3 between 7:20 and 7:35 a.m.. The suspect took victim’s property from the beach while victim was jogging.

14800 block of Pacific Coast Hwy, October 6 at 9:45 a.m. The suspect (male Hispanic, black hair, 5’9” 120 lb, 20 years) entered victim’s business, took a bottle of wine and left without paying.

15200 Sunset, October 11 be-tween 2 and 4 p.m. The suspect entered victim’s business and took a wallet, money and credit cards from a purse.

DUIPacific Coast Hwy/Temescal

Canyon, October 12 at 10:15 p.m. A 37-year-old male was arrested for DUI after being found passed out in his car on the sidewalk ac-cess ramp.

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HOPEFUL MESSAGE WARNS OF STUDENT ‘ATTITUDES’

Spotted in the Palisadian-Post: December 17, 1970

The real concern of American educators today should be focused on “student attitudes, especially a negative view of nearly everything traditions.”

This is the candid opinion, based on close observation, of Jim Mercer, Palihi’s far-thinking new principal. It is an opinion he conveyed to members of both the Pacific Palisades Rotary and Lions Clubs in recent luncheon speeches—both of which brought standing ovations.

PALISADES Neighborhood News

Tom Petty Memorialized at Lake Shrine Lower Las Casas

A memorial service for rock star Tom Petty was held at the Self Realization Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades on Monday, Oct. 16.

A gathering of the late musician’s family and friends attended an intimate ceremony at the Lake Shrine’s temple and meditation gardens, paying tribute to the rock icon who passed away on Oct. 2 after suffering cardiac arrest in a Los Angeles Hospital.

Petty, who released hits such as “Free Fallin,” “I Won’t Back Down” and “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” leaves behind his wife, Dana York, daughters Adria and AnnaKim Violette, and millions of fans around the world.

—GABRIELLA BOCK

Sunset Traffic Appeal The ViLLage

Media Arts/Catalyst Analytics, a transportation engineering company currently employed by various city and county agencies, addressed the Pacific Palisades Community Council in its bid to fi-nance a $58,000 traffic study of the Sunset corridor between The Village and the 405. They want to employ drones to identify rush hour traffic snarls that could be alleviated by retiming traffic signals and repainting intersection lines to reduce inter-lane weaving.

—JOHN HARLOW

Trees DownsanTa MoniCa Canyon

At its October board meeting, members of the Santa Monica Canyon Civic Association raised concerns about falling trees in the area—many of which have rotted as a result of disease and invasive beetles. California sycamore trees have been particularly common victims.

Members warned that diligent firewood storage and tree mainte-nance are vital to preventing property damage and injury.

—MATTHEW MEYER

Housing Debate Comes to TownThe ViLLage

Citywide housing experts will debate the area’s housing short-age and what can be done to relieve the growing homelessness issue at a Palisades Branch Library meeting hosted by the Pacific Pali-sades Democratic Club at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 24. Experts will include Cally Hardy from the city, Jennifer Kim from the county and Steven Grey from LA Family Housing, which has built low-cost homes since 1983.

The 90-minute meeting will be chaired by Maryam Zar, a found-er of the Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness.

—JOHN HARLOW

Bloom-Authored Bill PassesPaCifiC PaLisades

State law now requires all California courtrooms to provide child witnesses and victims the option of using a therapy and facility dog while testifying during trial, due to a bill authored by Assem-blyman Richard Bloom, who represents the 50th district, including Pacific Palisades.

“Research has shown us that these therapy and facility dogs pro-vide a compassionate way to help comfort victims during their testi-mony,” Bloom explained. “Because of the positive effects that have been seen in courtrooms across the country, more participants in law enforcement and the judicial system are recognizing its importance and positive impact.” —JOANNA SHEPHERD

C R I M E R E P O R T

Provided by LAPD Senior Lead Officer

Michael Moore. In case of emergency, call 911.

To report a non-emergency, call 877-275-5273.

By MATTHEW MEYERReporter

Afzal “A.C.” Chaudhry has seen a marked reduction in

crime and other nuisances sur-rounding his State Beach Liquor Store in the past three years.

It’s due in part, he believes, to his active community engage-ment.

Chaudhry is a member of the Santa Monica Canyon Civic As-sociation and pops up regularly at events for the Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness and other community groups.

But a pair of thefts on Fri-day, Oct. 6—the second of which led to a physical struggle—have flared one of the storeowner’s lingering frustrations: his feeling that LAPD is often tepid in their response to calls for help.

In both of the Oct. 6 incidents, a man entered Chaudhry’s store, took bottles of wine and attempt-ed to leave without paying.

The first time, Chaudhry in-stantly recognized the thief as a

homeless man who had earlier refused to leave the property. Lat-er, the same man returned, again snatching up two bottles of wine and making for the exit. An em-ployee tried to grab back the sto-len merchandise, and had a brief, spinning tussle over the bottles before the man slipped away and out the door.

On both occasions, Chaudhry said that officers took about an hour to respond to his call and didn’t pursue the man even though he directed them to his whereabouts.

He had watched the thief—described as a 5’11”, 30-year-old Hispanic male—hide out in the Roosevelt Tunnel after the morn-ing incident. After the evening theft, he had taken shelter near the Will Rogers State Beach bath-rooms.

The officers took the owner’s report, Chaudhry told the Post, but never went to contact the thief.

“My question is, what the heck do they come for?” he vent-ed at a recent SMCCA meeting.

“They [could] have arrested him, they [could] have at least ID’d him.”

And Chaudhry said this wasn’t the first time that LAPD’s response to theft, which occurs weekly, left him feeling hung out to dry. “Writing a report doesn’t help me,” he said.

Palisades Senior Lead Officer Michael Moore told the Post that the responding officers reported having “canvassed the surround-ing area” before leaving in their official narrative of the evening incident.

The officers, who were re-sponding from the La Cienega/Pico Robertson patrol area, did not return requests for comment from the Post. Neither did the morning respondents.

Moore explained that the de-layed response to theft is often on account of the way 911 calls are processed: If the thief is not still at the scene of the crime, it’s pro-cessed as a “non-emergency call.”

Chaudhry spoke highly of LAPD’s local representatives,

Recurring Thefts, Police Response Frustrate Palisadian Shop Owner

French Bakery ClosesThe ViLLage

Little Frenchy Cafe, the bakery at 15200 Sunset Blvd., has closed. It was opened in January 2016 by French expatriates Sandrine and Fab-rice Brami, who moved to Los Angeles after being distressed by terrorist attacks in their home city of Paris.

The baked goods, from croissants to madeleines, were sourced from the Pacific Palisades Farmers Market.

The location had been previously occupied by Café Naturally: The future of the corner space is currently uncertain.

—JOHN HARLOW

Photo by John Harlow

Moore and Officer Rusty Red-ican, but said responses from other officers have more closely mirrored his Oct. 6 experience. It frustrates the shop owner to know the thief who tangled with his employee is still hanging around the area—he even saw the man a few days later in Santa Monica.

“It’s not like he fell from the face [of the earth],” he mused. “He’s around.”

And unless officers confront the thieves that steal from his store, he’s afraid it will just keep happening again.

The CLEANup Crew

On Saturday, Oct. 14, 30 volunteers geared up with gloves and shovels to help clear out

former homeless encampments left unoccupied in Temescal Canyon.

Sponsored by the Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness, Saturday’s community CLEANup participants cleared four out of 16 of the area’s abandoned campsites, filling a 40-foot rollaway metal container supplied by the Los

Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. As seen with similar encampment cleanups

in Pacific Palisades, the day’s haul included many commonly recovered items from camping stoves, clothing, sleeping bags and numerous empty bottles of prescription pills, to more pe-culiar findings like an old bee keeper’s box and a massive stargazer’s telescope.

—GABRIELLA BOCK

Volunteers Sharon Kilbride and Sara Marti get their hands dirty. Photos by Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

The crew

¢¢Footage of the struggle Photo courtesy of A.C. Chaudhry

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10-11 a.m. Tai Chi for all ages with Elliot Barden. Rustic Canyon Recreation Center, 601 Latimer Road. 10-11:30 a.m. Tai Chi for Seniors. Loose, comfortable clothing and shoes are recommended. Pacific Palisades

Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford Ave.6:30 p.m. Read and Feed Book Club meets with local author Robert J. Baker to discuss “The Unlikely Diplomat.” [email protected].

9 a.m. School Tour. Meet in the auditorium. Marquez Charter Elementary School, 16821 Marquez Ave. 9:45 a.m. Community Chair Yoga with Alison Burmeister. Seated yoga and breathwork. $15 suggested

donation. Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford Ave.3:30-5 p.m. Needle Arts Circle, hosted by Margaret Hatfield. Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real Drive.

10 a.m. Topanga Beach Cleanup. Hosted by United by Blue, REI Burbank and Surfrider Foundation West LA/Malibu. unitedbyblue.com/topanga. Topanga Beach, 18700 Pacific Coast Hwy.

2 p.m. “Dutch-Indonesian Cooking: The First European-Asian Fusion Cuisine.” Hosted by the Culinary Historians of Southern California, with Jeff Keasberry. Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real Drive.

9:45 a.m. Community Yoga with Alison Burmeister. 60 minutes of Vinyasa Flow. $15 suggested donation. Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford Ave.7:30 p.m. Pacific Palisades Civic League Meeting. To

discuss old and new business. Pacific Palisades Community United Methodist Church - Tauxe Hall, 901 Via De La Paz.

8:30-9:30 a.m. Community Yoga Class with Alison Burmeister. $15. Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford Ave.12:30-1:30 p.m. Tai Chi for seniors with Elliot Barden.

Rustic Canyon Recreation Center, 601 Latimer Road.7-8:30 p.m. Esther Pearlman, artist and author of “Esther Unleashed, vol. 2,” speaks about her book and shows 50 pieces of artwork. $5. Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford Ave.

8:30-10 a.m. Jump Start Networking Breakfast. Sponsored by Banc of California. $10. palisadeschamber.com. Taste at the Palisades, 538 Palisades Drive.11 a.m. Chinese Tea Ceremony with Elliot Barden.

Four-week program, through Nov. 2. Rustic Canyon Recreation Center, 601 Latimer Road. 12-2 p.m. A Matter of Balance: Fall Prevention. An eight-week workshop, through Dec. 6. 310-394-9871 ext. 264. Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real Drive. 5:30-6 p.m. Mindfulness Meditation with Natalie Bell. Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real Drive.

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Born in San Francisco on Nov. 8, 1918, Schiller moved to LA in 1928 and attended John Burroughs and LA High. In 1935 Schiller enrolled at UCLA, was a member of Tau Delta Phi and found his first real taste of writ-ing with his humor column in the Daily Bruin titled “Bob Tales.”

Drafted in 1940, Schiller went overseas, writing for the Stars and Stripes and producing com-edy variety shows for the troops. When reflecting on the war, he was always solemn about the loss of friends, but aware how lucky he was noting that, “The worst weapon I had to use was a ‘pie to the face.’”

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By GABRIELLA BOCKReporter

The city of Los Angeles’ 30-year-old beach curfew

may become a bit more relaxed, despite swelling concerns from residents of beachside communi-ties spanning from Pacific Pali-sades to San Pedro.

As part of a Sept. 28 court set-tlement, the city will go before the California Coastal Commission to defend its nightly closure of 11 miles of shoreline after a group of Venice activists filed a suit to lift the curfew in 2015.

The citywide ordinance stems back to 1988 when local law-makers adopted Municipal Code Sec. 63.44, which prohibits the public from accessing city parks and beaches between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. as a way to thwart late night crime and violence associated with the de-cade’s burgeoning concretion of gang activity.

At the time, the city did not seek commission approval before implementing the curfew.

In 2014, while some Ven-ice residents began to push for heavier curfew enforcement in response to the area’s massive in-flux of transient individuals, the California Coastal Commission requested that the city show cur-

rent and “credible evidence” of a safety threat to continue banning the public from accessing beaches and ocean parks during overnight hours.

Per terms of the settlement, the city has submitted its request for a local development permit to the Los Angeles Bureau of Engi-neering and has agreed to have police first issue warnings before citing beach curfew violators—a move that shelters those caught using the beach for late night sleeping.

On Sept. 28, the Pacific Pali-sades Community Council unan-imously passed a motion to sup-port the Coastal Development Permit in the interest of “public safety and quality of life” and “environmental considerations that impact residential neighbor-hoods along the shoreline in Pa-cific Palisades.”

On Thursday, Oct. 5, the bu-reau held a public forum at the Westchester Senior Center near Venice where roughly 70 percent of those who attended were in fa-vor of continuing to implement the overnight curfew.

The office of the city engineer is expected to make its decision by the end of October.

If approved, the city will then submit a curfew permit request to the Coastal Commission.

Coastal Commission Considers Lifting Beach Curfew

reer evolved into radio, writing for many shows, including “Ab-bott and Costello” and “Duffy’s Tavern.”

In 1947, Schiller married Joyce Harris, mother of his two sons. The two remained married for 16 years. Harris passed away in 1963.

In 1953, Schiller paired up with his writing partner of 45 years, Bob Weiskopf. Best known for being the first (and only) addi-tions to the original writing team for “I Love Lucy,” many of the episodes they wrote were some of the most beloved.

They also wrote for popular shows like “Make Room for Dad-dy,” “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour,” “The Lucy Show,” “The Red Skelton Show,” “The Carol Burnett Show,” “The Flip Wil-son Show,” “Maude,” “All in the Family” and “Archie Bunker’s Place.”

The partners made people laugh but also covered controver-sial topics such as race, gender, sexual assault and equal rights. They were nominated and won multiple awards, including Em-mys, Golden Globes, Peabody Awards, the Humanitas Prize and the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award.

In 1964, Schiller met the love of his life, Sabrina Scharf. Mar-ried in 1968, they settled into their home in Pacific Palisades where they remained for the rest of his life. Their two daughters were

born when Bob was well into his 50s, but he never hesitated in be-ing an involved and loving father.

Sabrina and Bob remained madly in love throughout their marriage, with the two celebrat-ing their 49th wedding anniversa-ry a few months before his death. He was a member of Kehillat Is-rael and had a standing golf game twice per week at Riviera Country Club for as long as he could play.

When Schiller retired, he was as proud about driving his daughters to school or serving as sideline ref for soccer games as he was any of his career achieve-ments. Schiller always kept his family front of mind—displaying his kids’ sports trophies or other achievements on the same shelf with his writing awards.

Recently, Schiller’s health de-clined, but he never lost his wit. Every question was met with a clever retort. He would often say that “words were his inventory” and his response to the constant question of “How are you?” as he got older was, “Perfect, but im-proving.”

Predeceased by his parents and sister Marilyn, Schiller is survived by Sabrina, and his four children and their families: Tom and Jacque Schiller; Jim and Jackie Schiller; Abbie, Marc, Ona and Charlie Gordonson; Sadie, Johnnie, Lucy, Archie and Ame-lie Novello; sister-in-law Shirley Trentman; and his caregiver Mar-va Chie.

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Optimists Cheer New Leader

Anne Vogel is the new president of the Pacific Pal-isades Optimists Club as the 61-year-old association joined other Op-timists downtown on Wed. Oct 18 honoring long-time Palisadian youth mentor Stu Kaiser. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

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Where can I go locally for an interesting wine-tasting excursion?

How about the place that led the United States in wine

production before the Napa Val-ley rose to prominence? It’s here in Southern California about a one-hour drive away. Take a day trip there on a weekend and you will find history, interesting wines and even one of Califor-nia’s best hidden treasures.

I’m talking about the Cu-camonga Valley, that region just north and east of the Ontario airport. It’s now almost covered with industrial parks and subur-ban tracts, but before Prohibition and for several decades thereaf-ter, it was the center of Califor-nia wine production, with 45,000 acres in grapevines and some 60 wineries. Today, just three histor-ic wineries still make wine there from local grapes. Each has a sto-ry to tell.

Joseph Filippi Winery was founded by its namesake in 1922

primarily as a grapegrowing op-eration, though the family made sacramental wines during Prohi-bition and still does today. The current tasting room at 12467 Base Line Road in Rancho Cu-camonga was formerly the Re-gina Winery, a local historical landmark.

The interior resembles a mu-seum as much as a tasting room, with many antique bottles of his-toric California vintages on view in display cases. The friendly staff will pour you varietals such as Zinfandel and Grenache, along with old-school offerings such as Chocolate Port and California Burgundy.

Galleano Winery still makes wine in its original location, a facility built in 1927 at 4231 Wineville Road in Mira Loma and today listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The family harvests 200,000 gallons of wine each year from most-ly old vines in certified organic, dry-farmed vineyards.

Most vintages are still fer-

mented in decades-old concrete vats and redwood tanks. Their oldest vineyard is the Lopez Ranch, which was planted with Zinfandel 100 years ago and still produces in sandy soils near the intersection of Interstates 15 and 210 in Fontana. Carol Shelton in Sonoma County also makes an excellent Zin from these grapes.

Rancho de Philo specializes in just one wine—sweet cream sherry—but does it so well that it has to rank among the world’s best. Using Mission grapes, the same breed of vines that the Franciscan friars brought to Cali-fornia during the colonial period, Alan and Janine Tibbets bottle only about 280 cases per year. They age their sherry in a tradi-tional Spanish-style solera, tiers of barrels in which new wine is added at the top and gradually withdrawn at the bottom. Each bottle thus contains sherry that’s between 12 and 50 years old.

The winery at 10050 Wilson Ave. in Alta Loma is open only about nine days per year, start-

ing this fall on Nov. 11 until the year’s release is sold out, making this a rare and special product.

Cucamonga Valley today has more living history than most other wine regions in the United States and is very much worth a visit.

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This Month’s Recommended Wines:

Grown in Cucamonga

Joseph Filippi Winery 2012 Tres Viñas

Carol Shelton 2014 Monga Zin Old Vines

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$21, at the winery

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$30, at the winery

A medium-bodied Zin from the Lopez vineyard, it opens with cedar aromas that lead to plummy flavors tinged with spices.

$18, at the winery

Cucamonga Valley in the 1940s Photo courtesy of Rancho Cucamonga Public Library

Lopez Vineyard, planted 1918 Photos courtesy of Patrick Frank

Redwood fermentation tanks at Galleano Winery

Solera barrels at Rancho de Philo

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By MATTHEW MEYERReporter

Eight co-ed soccer teams will take the field at Stadium by the

Sea on Oct. 22 to compete in Pa-cific Palisades’ fourth annual Copa de Dillon—a day of celebration, memories and friendship held in honor of former Palisades Charter High School student Dillon Henry.

A group of Dillon’s friends created Copa to help spread his legacy of “love and happiness,” and to support the Dillon Henry Foundation Scholarship Fund, which awards college scholarships to outgoing Pali High seniors each year.

Dillon tragically lost his life in a car accident at the age of 17, and since his passing in 2007, friends, family and Palisadians at large have been galvanized by his mem-ory to perform charitable works both at home and abroad.

Dillon’s parents, Harriet Za-retsky and Stephen Henry, will have just returned from the Congo in time for Sunday’s event. They visited Africa to help share Dil-lon’s story and host a soccer tour-nament featuring local teams—a now yearly tradition to correspond with the Palisadian Copa.

They were also on hand to wit-

ness groundbreaking for the Con-go Peace School, a new learning center that will be tailored to the specific needs of the region and provide “a safe place to gain an education and become ambassa-dors of peace.”

The Dillon Henry Foundation significantly underwrote the proj-ect, and Dillon’s parents were there to write their names in the struc-ture’s cement as the governor and king looked on.

Back at home, this Sunday’s event will feature food (an In-N-Out truck alongside pizzas from Tivoli Café and water donated by Cali Water), vendor tables (includ-ing a stand for Major League Soc-cer’s newest team, the Los Ange-les Football Club) and, of course,

plenty of soccer on the turf.Zaretsky credited her son’s

friends for founding the event, and the Copa de Dillon committee and its league of volunteers for the time and effort to bring it all together.

The Copa’s eight teams—al-ready filled—will compete in five-against-five tournament play starting at 4 p.m., with a trophy awarded to the winning team and medals to runners-up.

Pre-registration was a $350 donation to DHF, but admission to the event is free.

Dillon himself was a voracious soccer player—“a hardworking de-fender who was respected by his teammates for playing with heart,” Zaretsky told the Palisadian-Post.

He was also a poet, surfer, ac-tivist, honor student and friend to just about everyone he met.

It’s little wonder to those who knew him well that the Copa event is only growing in its size and reach.

“He was this amazing, char-ismatic creature,” family friend and volunteer Anne Roberts told the Post. “To see Dillon’s friends, who are the ones who created this, come together … on the field play-ing and remembering Dillon—it’s really special.”

Copa de Dillon Returns— At Pali High and a World Away

Teams in the Congo celebrate the Copa. Photos courtesy of Harriet Zaretsky

Taylor Henry in the Congo

Farm Fresh at Pali HighPalisades Charter High School featured its first on-campus farmers market for students

this week, with an offering of fresh, seasonal fruits and vegetables organized by the school’s new catering company, Chartwells K12. In its first year at the head of Pali High’s lunch pro-gram, the vendor has promised to provide more than just a new set of on-campus meals, sup-plementing their service with programs like the market that can stimulate students’ interest in where their food comes from.

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By STEVE GALLUZZOSports Editor

For the final 42 minutes of last Friday night’s game at Fair-

fax, the Palisades High football team played as hard and inspired as it has all season.

It was the first six minutes that cost the Dolphins in a 14-7 defeat full of ‘what ifs’ and ‘might have beens.’ A Western League show-down between two of the top 10 ranked teams in the City Section was like a heavyweight prizefight.

The teams took each other’s best punches, but neither could deliver the knockout blow until the final bell—make it buzzer—sounded.

“Eleven guys line up on each side and the team that hits the hardest wins,” Pali High Coach Tim Hyde said afterwards. “This was a really hardfought game on the road and in the end we didn’t make enough plays to win. Our defense played amazing and kept us in it. We didn’t play smart early and two or three drops hurt us. I’m disappointed we didn’t connect on

more passes. We weren’t mentally prepared at the start and we didn’t protect the ball well enough. We’d better regroup fast because we’re playing another tough team next.”

Palisades’ troubles began on its opening series. With offen-sive coordinator Rocky Montz screaming for a timeout, the ball was snapped unexpectedly, hitting punter Campbell Geddes in the helmet and bouncing to the turf where it was recovered by Fairfax linebacker Kolin McDowell at the Dolphins’ 7-yard line.

The Lions immediately turned the miscue into points as Keivon Johnwell took a hand-off up the middle and into the end zone for a touchdown less than 90 seconds into the game.

Palisades went three-and-out on its second series and Fairfax took over at its own 41. Six plays later, Darryl Carrington scored from two yards out to make it 14-7 midway through the first quarter.

It took the Dolphins 13 plays to drive from their own 34 to the Fairfax 28, when Cameron Bailey

was unable to hold onto a pass in the end zone. Two incompletions followed and Palisades turned the ball over on downs. However, the defense held the home team to one first down before punting and the Dolphins drove from their 19 to the Fairfax 42 before Johnwell leaped high to intercept a long pass and returned it 35 yards.

With two minutes left in the first half Palisades got the ball at midfield and drove to the one-yard line with two seconds left.

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Max Palees catches a pass over the mid-dle at Fairfax. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

Fight to the FinishDefense Rises Up but Pali High Football Falls Short in Western League Showdown at Fairfax

Center TJ Michel in pass protection for the Dolphins. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

Pali High Football Hopes for Happy Homecoming

The Palisades High football team returns to the friendly

confines of Stadium by the Sea on Friday night for its homecoming game against Westchester.

“Westchester is very explo-sive with two of the premiere players in the City—their quar-terback and running back,” Pali High Coach Tim Hyde said. “This week is all about us regrouping, focusing on the small details and getting back on the winning track after a hardfought loss.”

Westchester is coming off a 58-7 blowout of University—a game in which quarterback Jon-athan Murphy completed 18 of 19 passes for 264 yards and four touchdowns. Now in their third season under Coach Wyatt Hen-derson, the Comets shared the league crown with Palisades and Venice last fall and dealt the Dol-phins a 42-32 loss along the way.

Tailback Estabon Bozeman is averaging 130 yards per game and 8.5 yards per carry and four Comets have over 200 receiving yards, led by Darcel Benjamin (28 catches for 367 yards and two TDs). Linebacker Zach Brumfield leads the defense with 84 tackles, including two sacks and two fum-ble recoveries. Murphy also plays free safety and has a team-high three interceptions.

The JV game will kick off at 4 p.m. tomorrow, followed by the varsity at 7.

Golfin’ Dolphins Lose First Match For the first time all season, when the cards were totaled after last

Thursday’s Western League match at Penmar, the Palisades High girls golf team did not have the lowest score. The Golfin’ Dolphins were at 245 through nine holes—four strokes behind first-place Fairfax.

Sophomore Mariana Paleno (48) was Palisades’ low scorer for the second straight week. Melanie Matayoshi, Lillia Weissmuller and Sara Medernach each shot a 49, Maliyah Flemmings shot a 50 and Spencer Kellen shot a 57. Fairfax’s Angela Kim shot a 3-over par 37 to earn medalist honors. Fairfax and Palisades are both 9-1.

“We’ll find out the best team once and for all [Oct. 27] when we go to league finals at Balboa,” Pali High Coach James Paleno said.

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Palisades High freshman Ciara Kenney hits a forehand during her pro set at No. 1 singles against Fairfax last Thursday at the Palisades Tennis Center. Kenney won 8-0 to lead the Dolphins to their ninth Western League win of the season. Palisades hosts LACES today and travels to Venice next Wednesday for its league finale. The Dolphins are pursuing their fifth consecutive City Section championship and will compete in the inaugural Open Division in November. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

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Palisades defenders (l-r) Sy Riley, Noah Karp, Valentino Sterza and Max Palees swarm Lions tailback Keivon Johnwell in last Friday’s Western League game. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

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Sam Ephraim (facing) of the Orange Strikers passes to Liam Kahn (#6) while Red Volcanoes defender Henry Leveque (right) approaches in an AYSO Region 69 Boys U6 soccer game Saturday on the Field of Dreams at the Palisades Recreation Center. Ephraim scored in the Orange Strikers’ victory. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

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Chloe Uhls (pictured) served 11 consecutive points, including four aces, to start Palisades’ match against Fairfax last Thursday. The Dolphins swept to stay unbeaten in league. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

Pali High Volleyball Heads to Redondo Power Classic This afternoon’s Western League finale against LACES marks the

last regular season home match for nine seniors on the Palisades High girls varsity volleyball squad.

Taking their final bows at the Dolphins’ gym will be liberos Geor-gia Pappas and Elizabeth Crawford, outside hitters Megan Tazelaar and Maddie Fowler, opposites Angelina Burton and Chloe Pettigrew, setter Chloe Uhls and middle blockers Carly Duffy and Abbey Kearney.

Of course, the season is far from over for the Dolphins, who will try to win their 87th consecutive Western League match dating back to Oct. 20, 2010. They have already clinched their seventh straight league title.

In preparation for the upcoming City Section playoffs, Palisades will test itself against some of the best teams in Southern California this Friday and Saturday at the Redondo Power Classic.

Having won the Venice Invitational in September and being unde-feated against City opponents this season, Palisades is currently ranked No. 1 in the section’s Division I poll and will likely be awarded the top seed in the Open Division, reserved for the eight best teams. The quar-terfinals are Nov. 2, the semifinals are Nov. 7 and the finals are Nov. 9 at 6 p.m. at Roybal Learning Center in Los Angeles.

Dolphins Duo Shines at IBVL Pairs TournamentIt was no surprise that Akhil

Tangutur and partner Miles Partain had medals around their necks following the Interscho-lastic Beach Volleyball League’s Southern Pacific Pairs Tourna-ment at Dockweiler Beach in Playa del Rey.

The Palisades High duo had gone undefeated in league play and led the Dolphins to the team semifinals against Loyola one week before. Last Saturday they tied for third place with a Santa Monica tandem in the one-day competition. Mira Costa won the team and individual titles.

Tangutur was a sophomore outside hitter while Partain was a freshman opposite hitter and setter on Palisades’ indoor team that won the City Section Divi-sion I championship last spring.

Akhil Tangutur (pictured) and Miles Partain took third place. Photo: Dane Selznick

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Sports Editor

Ever since his team lost to Fair-fax by one point last year,

Palisades High junior varsity foot-ball coach Ray Marsden vowed to get even. The Dolphins had their chance last Friday afternoon and they did more than get even, they put together four quarters of near flawless football in blanking the Lions 45-0 on their home turf.

“That’s the hardest I’ve ever seen a JV team hit from whistle to whistle,” Marsden said. “I was confident we would make the pain of last season go away and did we ever. We played well in all phases, six different guys scored a touch-down and best of all we kept them off the scoreboard.”

Palisades set the tone on its opening drive, marching 56 yards in nine plays and taking a 7-0 lead scoring on Kenneth Cline’s

five-yard run and Tommy Meek’s point-after kick.

After Fairfax went three-and-out, Palisades got the ball back and proceeded to drive 43 yards in five plays, capped by Tayari Gloster’s nine-yard scoring run.

Near the end of the first half, Forrest Brock rolled right and hit tight end David Leitz for a touch-down and on a fake kick Eli Man-heim threw to Leitz for the two-point conversion to make it 21-0.

The second half was more of the same. Meek booted a 28-yard field goal and, after a Chandler Hooks interception, the Dolphins drove 62 yards in 13 plays, scor-ing on a 10-yard pass from Nick Ghysels to tight end Weston Rau-

schuber that made it 31-0.Christian Duran reached be-

hind him to pick off a pass and re-turned it 35 yards for a touchdown early in the fourth quarter. Alec Baron intercepted a pass on the Lions’ next possession and then, with Palisades players chanting “40!” from the sideline, Isaias Alegria got them there with a 10-yard run to close out the scoring.

“For the first time we didn’t lose a single player to ineligibili-ty,” Marsden said. “These kids are smart, they’re coachable and it’s the most complete team I’ve had.”

Palisades has five shutouts in seven games and has outscored its last three opponents 125-0. These Dolphins sure love doughnuts.

Pali High Football(Continued from page 9) A strong surge by the offen-sive line gave quarterback Dan-iel Hayes just enough space to sneak across the goal line as time

expired, Geddes kicked the extra point and the Dolphins headed to the locker room trailing by only seven points. “We knew Palisades was good but this week is the hardest we’ve practiced all season,” said Fairfax quarterback Scott Harris, a trans-fer from Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, who completed 10 of 22 passes for 108 yards. “We tried to trick them with the short plays we were doing and then hit some deep routes. It worked for awhile, but they adjusted. We believed in each other and got it done.” Harris’ primary target was Conroy Graham, who had six re-ceptions for 70 yards. Johnwell, rushed 19 times for 114 yards, but fumbled on the Lions’ first drive of the second half and Noah Karp recovered. However, Palisades gave the ball right back on a fum-bled exchange. The teams traded punts to close the third quarter and again to begin the fourth as both defenses were dialed in. Dakotah Hamilton rushed for 55 yards in 19 carries, but fum-

bled at the Fairfax 42 with five minutes to play and Kendrell Ross recovered for Fairfax. Max Palees added 50 yards in 12 carries and

caught three passes for 54 yards. Trailing 14-7 with just under two minutes left, Palisades had one last chance from its own 17-

yard line. Hayes completed a pass to Bailey for a first down, but he was sacked on the next two plays and on third-and-22 his despera-tion pass was intercepted by Mil-lard Hill at the Fairfax 49 with 48 seconds left—the Dolphins’ fifth turnover. Two Harris kneel downs ran the remaining time off the clock and Fairfax Coach Shane Cox breathed a sigh of relief. “We thought they were vul-nerable in the passing game so we played man on their receivers,” he said. “Fortunately, they missed a few. We also wanted to be more physical, which we were.” Cole Aragon started his second game at tight end after playing the first five on the offensive line and made several key blocks to spring teammates for big gains. He also made multiple tackles at defen-sive end for the Dolphins.

“I’m about 30 pounds less and I feel much quicker and stronger at this size,” Aragon said. “The new positions are a good fit for me. It’s been a smooth adjustment. The coaches tell me where to go, what

gap to block and I do it.”As for the outcome, Aragon

made no excuses: “They straight up outplayed us. We weren’t fo-cused from the time we stepped on the bus to go to fairfax.”

Palisades’ Noah Karp (bottom) and Will Janney tackle Fairfax wide receiver Conroy Graham in the third quarter of last Friday night’s Western League game at Fairfax. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

Palisades running back Dakotah Hamilton busts through an arm tackle during last Friday’s game at Fairfax. He gained 60 yards in 20 carries in the Dolphins’ 14-7 loss. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

Cameron Bailey makes a catch for a first down in the fourth quarter. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

Western League Football Standings Team League OveraLL PF Pa Fairfax 2-0 5-2 185 139 Venice 2-0 4-3 213 195 Palisades 1-1 5-2 249 146 Westchester 1-1 3-4 183 198 Hamilton 0-2 3-4 117 160 University 0-2 2-5 81 232

LasT week’s resuLTsFairfax 14, Palisades 7Venice 35, Hamilton 8

Westchester 58, University 7

FrIDaY’s sCHeDuLeWestchester at Palisades, 7 p.m.

University at Venice, 7 p.m. Hamilton at Fairfax, 7 p.m.

Daniel Hayes scored Palisades’ only touchdown on a one-yard sneak. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

Running back Kenneth Cline scored the first touchdown in the Dolphins’ 45-0 Western League victory at Fairfax. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

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The Palisades High cross country team was back in

action last Saturday at the 31st annual Bell Gardens Invitation-al and it showcased the team’s depth and talent.

Setting the pace in the first race was ninth-grader Miranda Schriver, who took first place out of 159 runners in the fresh-man girls race, covering the three-mile course at Cerritos Regional Park in 18:47.12. Mol-ly Tenenbaum turned in another strong effort, clocking 21:34.26 to place 25th, Sophia Klotz ran a personal-record 22:16.20 to fin-ish 40th and Jennifer Karlan was one spot behind in 22:17.57.

Palisades was runner-up in the freshman boys race, led by Schriver’s twin brother Lu-cas, who took second overall in a personal-best 16:01.68, one second behind Antonio Diaz of Claremont. Also run-ning personal-bests were Mason Cadden (seventh in 16:17.96), Pablo Sandoval Rivas (24th in 17:40.17), Ivan Palma Gomez (35th in 18:00.46) and Jonathon Smiley (65th in 18:52.25).

The Dolphins were third in the sophomore boys race as their top finishers all achieved person-al records in a field of 126. Alec Stewart was fifth in 15:57.43, Mark Barbosa was 28th in 16:57.92, Hunter Steinman was 33rd in 17:03.34, Joseph Pollack was 34th in 17:03.72 and Trace Kasick was 42nd in 17:14.23.

Chloe Boldra was 36th in the sophomore girls race in a personal-best 21:24.69 and two Dolphins set personal records in the junior girls race: Skylar

Smith (14th in 19:32.26) and Jessica Bierschenk, who was 15th in 19:33.80.

Brent Smith was second out of 251 entrants in the junior boys race, finishing in 15:17.44. Ryan Breitman was 13th in 16:01.16, Emmett Kallmeyer was 61st in a personal-best 17:08.54 and Lu-cas Tagliati completed the course in a personal-best17:49.79.

Ben Hamer (14:50.05) was second in the senior boys race

in a season-best time, Finn Caw-ley was 54th in a season-best 16:47.02 and Joey Reed gave a season-best 17:38.07 effort in a field of 226 runners.

In the senior girls division, Kimia Samandi was seventh out of 155 runners in a person-al-best 18:24.71, Caroline Hall was 55th in a personal-record 21:01.88 and Ilaria Stewart was 59th overall in a season-best time of 21:12.69.

Sean Finley (left) of the Spurs steals the ball from Roman Hawk of the Mavericks at midcourt in a Co-Ed Minor Division basketball game Saturday afternoon in the big gym at the Palisades Recreation Center. The Mavericks prevailed, 42-36. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

Reaching In Pali High Runners Impress at Bell Gardens Invitational

Palisades High runners Elisa Kim (left) and Brittany Darrow break in the new all-weather track at Stadium by the Sea. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

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Thursday, October 19, 2017

Moore and his ghouliesPictured, from left: Sgt Bill Brown, OC Investigator Larry Scott, Anaheim PD Dispatcher Diane Scott, Amy Mathias and SLO Michael Moore circa 2008 Photo courtesy of Michael Moore

Photos by Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

By GABRIELLA BOCKReporter

West Los Angeles Police De-partment Senior Lead Officer

Michael Moore begins his work day surrounded by clowns and monsters—and that’s before the first bookings are brought it.

Nestled in a corner at the West LAPD Police Station, Moore’s desk sits bordered by creatures, colorful action figures and postcards featuring parody musician Weird Al Yankovic. On the side of his filing cabinet hangs a print out of “Napoleon Dynamite” with the face of a fellow officer pho-toshopped over the face of actor Jon Heder.

“I’m known to be a little bit of a prankster around here,” Moore re-vealed with a grin.

He’s also a man of many masks: Moore, who has served and protected Angelenos as a police officer since the early ’90s, spends every Halloween season creating terrifying characters to spook and scare children and adults.

The officer in blue began craft-ing his own Halloween masks while working as a professional scarer at Knott’s Scary Farm, where he walked the park’s streets as a scorned spirit who possessed the ability to change faces, giving the amateur maskmak-

er the opportunity to play a variety of characters while simultaneously sharpening his craft.

Mask making, the officer ex-plained to the Palisadian-Post, is a multiple-step process that requires countless hours of painstakingly wait-ing around for crafting material and paint to dry.

It begins by taking a mold of the head, which is later sculpted over with clay. Once the mask’s shape is formed, the clay is then covered in a dense plaster called “hydrocal.”

Working in halves, the dry plaster cast is covered in latex rubber and giv-en time to set before being peeled off and fused together. After that, Moore colors the mask with acrylic paint and hand sews high-end yarn into a wig cap before attaching the locks to the latex scalp.

“The whole process is time con-suming and takes patience,” Moore explained, “but we monsters are very temperamental about how we look.”

An avid fan of classic horror films like “Dawn of the Dead” and “Frankenstein,” some of Moore’s most striking masks include a green-fleshed monster with straggly hair and skin-crawling zombies that appear in-fectious to the touch.

“I like the old school zombies be-cause they’re more realistic and don’t run too fast,” he divulged. “I don’t run too fast either—maybe that’s why I like them.”

And he’s not alone: Apparent-ly many people enjoy being scared, some even shelling out big bucks to put themselves in the way of staged danger.

“Humans have been scaring themselves and each other since the birth of the species, through all kinds of methods like storytelling, jumping off cliffs and popping out to startle each other from the recesses of some dark cave,” Margee Kerr, a sociologist who studies fear and uses her knowledge help build haunted houses, told The Atlantic in 2013.

“And we’ve done this for lots of different reasons—to build group unity, to prepare kids for life in the scary world and, of course, to con-trol behavior. But it’s only really in the last few centuries that scaring ourselves for fun has become a high-ly sought-after experience.”

In Southern California, Moore isn’t the only person on the force who likes breaking out of their bud-dy cop character: Retired LASD Sgt Bill Brown, OC District Attorney’s Office Investigator Larry Scott and Diane Scott, a former dispatcher for Anaheim PD, all joined Moore at Knott’s Scary Farm before his last year in 2008.

But don’t worry—Moore hasn’t abandoned his post as LAPD’s most fear-provoking policeman: When he’s not patrolling our streets or pop-ping up at the latest Pacific Palisades Community Council meeting, the officer is devising plans and craft-ing sinister sprites for a haunt of his very own.

Established in 2013, Moore, along with the help of Senior Lead Officer Kirk, heads the annual LAPD Haunted House, which occupies a permanent space in the West LA

(Continued on page 15)

LAPD’s Officer Moore Reveals the Man Behind the Badge—and the Mask

By MICHAEL AUSHENKERContributing Writer

Photos by RICH SCHMITTStaff Photographer

The joint is called Same Same, but the first signage you see

upon entering is a hot pink neon one on the wall reading “But Dif-ferent.”

As it turns out, “same same but different” applies here for sure, but not to a revisionist’s extent that one might expect from a Silverlake spot.

Located in the corner pocket of an unassuming strip mall bordered by Sunset Boulevard and a neigh-boring overpass, Same Same has carved out a busy little niche for itself. On the nondescript Wednes-day night we dined here, the restau-rant quickly became packed while a steady stream of customers pick-ing up take-out dotted the entire evening, even as we were packing up and heading out by night’s end.

Owned by cousins Katy Nooshlaor and Annie Daniel, who came to California from Bangkok decades ago, Same Same delivers a menu based on family recipes and, in fact, it was their relatives who opened one of Los Angeles’ first authentic Thai restaurants, Chao Krung.

The cousins themselves have experience in the arena of Ange-leno Thai destinations. Previously, Nooshlaor opened such restaurants as Tuk Tuk Thai, Chadaka Thai, Rambutan and District 13, while Daniel managed the much-favored Chan Dara on Pico Boulevard in West Los Angeles.

Our meal started out with a bang and steadily built to a rous-ing crescendo. The opening appe-tizer, Yum Apple, turned out to be deceptively simple. While the idea of a bowl of what is essentially a bunch of sliced apples with some cashews, cabbage and cilantro thrown in doesn’t sound like much on paper, this starter is surprising-ly complex and delicious—owing much of its bright, light, summer-y taste to the chili, lime and fish sauce dressing.

If you’re looking for some-thing meatier, Same Same’s got you covered with Yum Nuea, a beef salad, and Nam Sod Kao Tod, a crispy rice pork salad.

Textured and alive with con-trasting notes, the Laab here, a foundation of minced chicken with mint, cilantro, chili, scallion and shallots, is definitely spicy so beware.

Moving forward, we sampled the Khao Soi (Coconut Curry Noo-dle), which serves up a blend of curry and coconut flavors with a perfectly executed chicken wing embedded in your bowl. Textur-ally, the crunchy egg noodles top-ping this mélange play nicely off of the soft chew of your noodles and poultry.

Khao Pad Sai Krok (Thai Sau-sage Fried Rice) is one of a few ways to go here fried rice-wise and the results were marvelously smoky and savory, with egg shal-lots, scallions and hefty chunks of sausage enlivening this staple Asian dish. Other Khao Pad op-tions here include Nua Kem (Beef Jerky Fried Rice) and Khao Pad Prik Goong (with spicy prawns).

Now here’s where the plot thickens: Hoy Tod (Fried Mussels Pancake) is a knockout twist on the green onion pancake usually found at a Chinese or Taiwanese establishment. As delicious as it sounds, this version comes loaded with bean sprout, scallion and eggs and is accompanied by a house-made sriracha sauce. (However, this weekly dish is only served on Wednesdays, so you may have to make your trek out to Silverlake midweek just to try this one.)

And yet, just when we thought the fried pancake was our meal’s highlight, out came perfectly cooked slices of grilled pork. Mu Yang may not appear overly com-plicated on your plate, but the meat is made to perfection—flavorful, tender and moist without a hint of saltiness, accompanied by spicy Thai jaew and sweet chili sauce—and it only begged for us to return to Same Same to try the Nua Yang and Gai Yang Esan, the grilled rib-eye steak and BBQ chicken equiv-alents, respectively.

Dessert is not much of a thing here but if you’re looking for something sweet, do not forego Thai Iced Tea. Same Same crafts them perfectly and, yeah, they are so sweet, you won’t miss the absence of an ice cream or cake-based dessert at meal’s end.

The atmosphere at Same Same is Silverlake cool and casual. A few parasols strung across the ceiling

and a couple of posters allude to the Asian cuisine served here, but the overall vibe is Eastside tavern.

While this establishment does not include a cocktail program, Last Word Hospitality supplies a wine list specifically designed to complement the various levels of heat served here. Or select from a range of beer, including a nice bottle of imported Singha.

Heading into a Thai restaurant

in Silverlake, your stereotype may be to find some kind of hipster-ish, fusion take on Thai cuisine. While the menu does tweak a few things to propel Same Same beyond your dive-y Thai spot and leave a dis-tinctive mark on LA’s restaurant scene, the biggest surprise, really, is how close to traditional Thai fare this restaurant maintains at its core.

In other words: “same same but different.”

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“There’s a good chance this place was already haunted,” he joked. “I think it may actually be less scary now that nobody is working here.”

The former office turned maze of mayhem sits down the hall from District 11 Coun-cilmember Mike Bonin’s office, where Moore pops in from time to time to try and get a scare out of area representative Lisa Cahill.

“Lisa’s really terrified of clowns,” Moore revealed. “Some-times you just got to have a little fun at work.”

With the help of his family, Moore transformed the old, dusty office into a hall of creepy en-counters, complete with resident ghosts, maniacal clowns, and a room filled with mutant babies and their expired mother.

“It really is a family affair,” he told the Post. “My son, Mat-thew, is an electrical engineer who helped me install all of the lighting and my daughter, Mi-chelle, designed our Facebook page and assists with the market-ing.”

Moore’s wife, Margaret, whom he met as members in their high school band (he played the tuba, she was a flag spin-ner), monitors the entrance to the haunted house and ensures that

everyone gets a fair scare.Inside, Moore directs a team

of cadets and fellow officers who fill the house with blinding fog and horror.

And although they won’t hold back on scaring an unsuspecting adult, Moore ensures that his haunt is age-appropriate for even the littlest monsters.

“We let the actors know when the young kids are coming through,” he said. “That way fam-ilies of all sizes can come out and have a good time with us.”

When asked why he was so drawn to Halloween and its themes of fear and terror, Moore’s explanation was, surprisingly, more sweet than scary.

“There’s really only so much

scaring you can do when you walk up with your ticket book,” Moore explained. “Plus, rare-ly does anyone ever leave those situations with a smile on their face—I think there’s a certain joy that comes along with giving a scare to those who want it.”

People of all ages are invit-ed to attend LAPD’s Haunted House, which runs Oct. 21, Oct. 22, Oct. 28 and Oct. 29 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Civic Center in San-ta Monica. Admission into the at-traction is free but it is requested that entrants refrain from wearing any masks or costumes.

For more information, call 310-444-0737 or email [email protected].

‘Haunt and Howl’

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By GABRIELLA BOCKReporter

Heating up this year’s fall film season is archi-

tect-turned-director Joseph Ko-sinski’s disaster drama “Only the Brave,” a robust, true story turned feature that explores the camaraderie and conviviality that often materializes between men in the wake of danger.

United by a spark of light-ning, “Brave” tells the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a Prescott, Arizona, firefighting crew, and their journey to the front lines of the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, one of the nation’s deadliest wildfires ever recorded.

The film stars Josh Brolin as the Hotshots’ Chief Eric Marsh and Palisades Char-ter High School alumnus Jeff Bridges as Marsh’s friend and supervisor Duane Steinbrink.

Fighting alongside Marsh and Steinbrink was 21-year-old recovering junkie and soon-to-be father Brendan “Donut” McDonough—played by Miles Teller—and 17 other firefight-ers who risked, and ultimately gave up their lives, to battle the blaze that threatened the small town of Yarnell, Arizona, locat-ed about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix.

And although moviegoers already know how this tragic story ends, the bulk of the film

follows the backstories and bonds formed between the 19 men who perished in the fire, highlighting their lives and demonstrating the heroism that transpired on that early summer day in 2013.

Timely in its release, the disaster film comes as deadly wildfires continue to scorch through areas of Northern Cal-ifornia’s wine country. As of Monday, Oct. 16, wildfires had claimed the lives of 40 Cali-fornians, destroying thousands of homes and displacing many others.

Also starring Jennifer Con-nelly, James Badge Dale and Taylor Kitsch, “Only the Brave” arrives in theaters on Oct. 20.

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By SARAH SHMERLINGManaging Editor

Last year, Highlands residents Leslie and Bruce Gifford

launched Naked Cashmere. This year, they’re using it to give back.

In support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Giffords are partnering with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

“One of my best friends in New York is a breast cancer survivor,” Leslie told the Palisadian-Post. “When I came up with the idea for the cashmere ‘LOVE Scarf’ for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I went to her to pick the charity she would like the donation going to.”

Naked Cashmere is donating $50 from each sale of the Karlie Scarf with an exclusive “LOVE” embroidery to the foundation. The scarf is available in Antique Pink, Nude and Chalk and retails for $165.

Leslie explained that her friend for years has been involved with BCRF, which has raised almost $1 billion for breast cancer research.

“They had me at hello … their passion for finding a cure is infec-tious,” Leslie shared. “I am so proud and honored with the amount of sup-port we have gotten raising aware-ness through our product.”

The Giffords founded Naked Cashmere, a direct-to-consumer collection of cashmere apparel and accessories, in September 2016 with more than 20 years of experience selling cashmere. They moved to Pa-cific Palisades from New York City when they were expecting their son.

“We had kind of a west coast, causal lifestyle. We treated colors a little differently, we treated life a little differently and everyone react-ed well,” Bruce told the Palisadi-an-Post in an interview in 2016.

“I’ve been given so much, it feels so good to give back,” Leslie said. “And I wanted to share that as a company motto.”

Since opening last year, Naked Cashmere has received over 10,000 online orders and have over 80,000 engaged customers.

“We could not be more pleased with how quickly this business has evolved,” Leslie shared.

To purchase the scarf, visit nakedcashmere.com.

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A little physiology lesson here first: No matter your eth-nicity, melanin is the pigment responsible for skin, eye and hair color in everyone. The difference in skin color between lightly and darkly pigmented people is not due to the quantity of their skin’s melanocytes—i.e. melanin-pro-ducing cells—but to the melano-cytes’ innate and genetically de-

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By MICHAEL AUSHENKERContributing Writer

It might seem baffling to find Harrison Ford endorsing Dr.

Gregory Stone’s latest book, “Soul of the Sea: In the Age of the Algorithm”—the actor has been famously more associated with air and space a la “Star Wars.”

However, Pacific Palisades resident Stone, one of the world’s leading oceanographers, has been called an “oceanic Indiana Jones.”

Stone has led expeditions for National Geographic to Ant-arctica, Thailand and the Pacific Islands, and has gone on 7,000 dives in every ocean.

So, it’s only fitting that Ford, who also played the famed arche-ologist-adventurer in four films directed by Palisadian Steven Spielberg, is quoted in Stone’s new book.

In reality, there’s another rea-son: For nearly two decades, Ford has been a trustee of Conserva-tion International, at which Stone currently serves as executive vice president and chief scientist for oceans.

“He’s a friend of mine and he loves the ocean,” Stone said, adding how Ford has been very active in trying to shape the orga-nization’s agenda.

Released this month, “Soul of the Sea” puts into context the nexus of science, economics and business strategy in order to out-line mankind’s relationship with the ocean as a key to its survival.

Given how ocean health has been in a serious state of decline for the past century, Stone’s book makes the imperative case that understanding the ocean and its various ecologies, resources and mysteries will unlock the secret to the innovation and governance necessary for humankind’s fu-ture.

“The book is a manifesto,” Stone said of “Soul,” which he co-authored with Nishan Deg-narain, and addresses the 21st century’s obsession with “Big Data” and artificial intelligence. “It’s an opportune time to think about this age of tech.”

Stone purposely teamed up

with Degnarain, special advisor to World Economic Forum on Oceans and the organization’s Global Agenda Council’s recent past chair.

“My co-author is an econo-mist. We brought very different perspectives. He comes from a country that is 98 percent ocean,” Stone said, referring to Degnar-ian’s Republic of Mauritius, a French island nation in the Indian Ocean.

While Stone said his book “youth; Mark Zuckerberg and youth culture, becoming success-ful in your 20s,” he also warned, “We really have no idea what [it] is going to mean. Things are changing every day.”

Take plastic for instance. First developed in 1909, plastic initially proved beneficial, cre-ating consumer convenience and saving industries millions.

“But look what happened,” Stone said. “It got away from us. It escaped our control. By the year 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.”

Given the forces taking hold on our planet, Stone said the ocean holds all the cards in solv-ing our issues regarding climate change and food supply. And yet, Stone said his field of expertise continues to be roundly ignored.

“It’s basically the lungs of our planet,” Stone said. “The ocean has not been featured in the international climate discussions. We’re 100 to 200 years behind its management.”

Meanwhile, in Australia near

where Stone worked for many years, “the Great Barrier Reef is going to be a sand bar in a couple of years,” he said.

It’s nature’s ability for regen-eration, in addition to sustain-ability, that is a central, crucial theme of Stone’s book and offers a strand of hope for our future.

Growing up, the Boston-bred ocean scientist was not so much inspired to enter his line of work by the Atlantic he grew up by as much as by watching the exploits of deep-sea diving television do-cu-hero Jacques Cousteau.

After years teaching and con-ducting research in New Zealand, Stone moved to Pacific Palisades last year. One might posit the aquatic scientist relocated here to be closer to the Pacific or, per-haps, locally headquartered ocean conservation groups such as San-ta Monica’s Heal the Bay.

Actually, Stone moved to town largely out of convenience, noting its LAX proximity, as he travels frequently and globally to lecture on sea and climate change.

Living in the Palisades “has been personally rejuvenative for my spirit, for my soul,” continued Stone, who is spending October in Europe, addressing high-level organizations about oceanic de-velopments, the ecology of sea mountains (there are way more mountains underwater than on land, he said) and advocating ad-aptation to climate change, which includes rising sea levels threat-ening to wipe out entire countries.

In the South Pacific islands, where Stone spends much time researching, there are nations ex-isting “for tens and thousands of years that will be unlivable in 50 years,” he said, citing the island country of Kiribati. “It’s a big problem, seemingly going unno-ticed by the world community.”

If there’s a takeaway from “Soul of the Sea,”’ Stone said it’s that “humanity’s destiny has always been linked to the ocean throughout history.”

Ultimately, his book—and his view of the Earth’s future, despite its challenges—is not all doom and gloom: “Like most books, it’s a reflection of the author, and I’m an optimistic person.”

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By JOANNA SHEPHERDIntern

One Pacific Palisades fami-ly—the Hardings—teamed

up with Los Angeles’ top chefs to raise awareness and funds for the March of Dimes, a leading nonprofit for pregnancy and baby health.

All four of Ryan and Staci Harding’s children were born pre-maturely. Each one had to spend many weeks and, in their eldest Chase’s case, months in a hospital neonatal intensive care unit.

“In addition to having world-class doctors and nurses, Chase, Camden, Blake and Brooklyn are

all healthy today,” the Hardings shared. The family attributes this to “the extraordinary research, technology advancement and re-lentless work of the March of Dimes.”

Today, Chase (6) and Cam-den (5) attend Palisades Charter Elementary School, and twin girls Blake and Brooklyn recently cel-ebrated their first birthday.

The Hardings are the March of Dimes Ambassador Family for this year’s Los Angeles Signature Chefs Auction, which took place on Sunday, Oct. 15.

“We are most looking for-ward to having a crowd of 500 to 600 people to share our babies’

A Family Affairstory with, and, for the first time in six years, to be able to look all the people in the eye who helped save our babies’ lives and say thank you,” Ryan shared with the Palisadian-Post before the event.

The family explained that they are passionate about giving back and sharing their story of love and gratitude to help raise funds and increase awareness of the premature birth crisis in the U.S.

In addition to research, educa-tion, vaccines and breakthroughs, the March of Dimes has a wealth of the latest perinatal health in-formation. Premature birth is the leading cause of death among ba-bies in the United States, which has one of the highest premature birth rates in any high-resource country.

Often heart-wrenching and

costly, babies who survive being born preterm can have lifelong health problems such as cerebral palsy, vision and hearing loss, and intellectual delays.

Each year in Los Angeles County, more than 125,000 ba-bies are born. Recent statistics show that over 11,000 of those babies were born preterm—one of the highest premature birth rates among large California cities.

Funds raised by the Signature Chefs Auction support the March of Dimes mission to improve the health of moms and babies by pre-venting birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.

Sunday’s epicurean extrav-aganza featured 10 of LA’s most impressive culinary talents, who prepared tastings of signature dishes created exclusively for the evening. The Harding family Photos scourtesy of Ryan Harding

Harding kids: Chase, Camden, and twins Blake and BrooklynThe Hardings served as the March of Dimes Ambassador Family at Los Angeles Signature Chefs Auction in October.

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I t was another bright day of Western-themed fun at Pal-

isades Charter Elementary School’s annual Yee Haw Day Fair, held Saturday, Oct. 14.

The fair is a long-standing tradition for the school: a com-munity event with activities for everyone from toddlers to grandparents.

Corn hole, sack races and lasso lessons featured prom-inently in this year’s fair, but the star of the show may have been the array of delicious food on-hand, from traditional bar-becue dishes to pies from Pal-isades Pizza and sweet treats like snow cones, cotton candy and baked goods.

Photos by Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

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No. 2017263414FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following persons are doing business as: TOWNE BY ELYSE WALKER; 15257 Palisades Village Lane, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272TOWNE BY ELYSE WALKER; 15306 Antioch Street, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272CAPRETTO LLC; 15306 Antioch Street, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company The registrant commemnced to transact business under the ficticious name or names listed above: N/A (Signed) DAVID WALKER, David Walker

MANAGING MEMBERThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on September 14, 2017. NOTICE—THIS FICTITIOUS NAME STATE-MENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under fed-eral, state or common law (see Section 14400 et seq, Business and Professions Code).

September 28, October 5, 12 and 19, 2017

No. 2017280156FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following persons are doing business as: LIVING WELLNESS GLOBAL; 548 ROCK TRAIL, TOPANGA, CA 90290PHILIP D'ARBANVILLE; 548 ROCK TRAIL, TO-PANGA, CA 90290MICHELE WAXMAN-D'ARBANVILLE; 548 ROCK TRAIL, TOPANGA, CA 90290This business is conducted by a Married Couple The registrant commemnced to transact business under the ficticious name or names listed above: N/A

(Signed) PHILIP D'ARBANVILLE, Phillip D'Arbanville HusbandThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on September 28, 2017. NOTICE—THIS FICTITIOUS NAME STATE-MENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED PRIOR TO THAT

DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under fed-eral, state or common law (see Section 14400 et seq, Business and Professions Code).

October 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2017.

No. 2017271516FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following persons are doing business as: TRACI BANK, PSY.D.; 2001 S. BARRINGTON AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CA 90025TRACI BANK, PSY.D.; 3976 BLEDSOE AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CA 90066TRACI BANK; 3976 BLEDSOE AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CA 90066This business is conducted by an Individual The registrant commemnced to transact business under the ficticious name or names listed above: 09/2017

(Signed) TRACI BANK, Traci Bank OwnerThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on September 21, 2017. NOTICE—THIS FICTITIOUS NAME STATE-MENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under fed-eral, state or common law (see Section 14400 et seq, Business and Professions Code).

October 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2017.

Palisadian-PostSUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELESCase No. SS027062

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Mariam Engel filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows:Present Name: Eva Milan SimpsonProposed Name: éva Milan Simpson EngelPresent Name: Ella Soleil SimpsonProposed Name: Ella Soleil Simpson Engel THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing in-

dicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any per-son objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: December 6, 2017, 8:30 a.m. The address of the court is 1725 Main St., Santa Monica, CA 90401 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be pub-lished at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALISADIAN-POST. Dated: September 21, 2017

SHERRI R. CARTERExecutive Officer/Clerk

October 12, 19, 26 and November 2, 2017.

No. 2017294959FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following persons are doing business as: ESTATE COFFEE; 847 VIA DE LA PAZ, PACIFIC PALISADES, CA 90272ESTATE COFFEE; 2701 OCEAN PARK BLVD SUITE 140, SANTA MONICA, CA 90405ESTATE COFFEE, LLC; 847 VIA DE LA PAZ, PACIFIC PALISADES, CA 90272This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company The registrant commemnced to transact business under the ficticious name or names listed above: N/A

(Signed) JACOB SPOONER, Jacob Spooner VICE PRESIDENTThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on October 12, 2017. NOTICE—THIS FICTITIOUS NAME STATE-MENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under fed-eral, state or common law (see Section 14400 et seq, Business and Professions Code).

October 19, 26, November 2 and 9, 2017.

Palisades Lutheran ChurchReverend Kenneth Davis, Pastor

Traditional Worship, 9:00 a.m. (Childcare) Adult Bible Study, Sunday School, 10:15 a.m.

Contemporary Worship, 11:00 a.m.Communion – 1st and 3rd Sundays

5th Sundays – 10:30am Combined WorshipPreschool: Enroll now! (310) 459-3425

15905 Sunset Blvd • 310-459-2358 • www.plc.cc

St. Matthew’s Episcopal ChurchThe Reverend Bruce A. Freeman, Rector

The Reverend Christine Purcell, Associate Rector Sunday Services: 8:00 am Holy Eucharist,

10:15 am Choral Eucharistand Children’s Education

Nursery/Toddler Care availableWeekday worship: Wednesdays, 10:00 am

1031 Bienveneda * Pacific Palisades * 310-454-1358www.stmatthews.com

SYNAGOGUESChabad Jewish Community Campus

A Warm & Welcoming Community For All!"Judaism Done Joyfully"

Rabbi and Rebbitzen Zushe and Zisi CuninRabbi and Rebbitzen Eli and Elka Baitelman

There are services and programs daily for community members of all ages.

Please visit www.chabadpalisades.com for our services & upcoming events.

17315 Sunset Blvd | 310-454-7783www.chabadpalisades.com

Kehillat Israel Reconstructionist Congregation of Pacific PalisadesAn inclusive, spiritual Jewish Community

Rabbi Amy Bernstein • Rabbi Nick Renner • Cantor Chayim Frenkel

Friday Night Shabbat Services: 7:00 PMSaturday Bar/Bat Mitzvah Shabbat Services:

10:00 AM/4:30 PMEarly Childhood Center: 424-214-7482

Jewish Experience Center: 310-459-1569For a complete calendar please visit: www.ourKI.org16019 W. Sunset Blvd., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

310-459-2328

WORSHIP DIRECTORYCHURCHES

Calvary Church of Pacific Palisades Sunday Worship Services: 9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.

Sunday Morning Children & Youth Programs: ages 0-18Wednesday Evening Children & Youth Programs: ages 3-18

Weekly Small Groups and Service Opportunities701 Palisades Drive • Pacific Palisades • 310-454-6537

www.calvarypalisades.orgTwitter & Vimeo: calvarychurchpp

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Community United Methodist Church Pastor Wayne B. Walters, Pastor

Worship: Sundays, 10 a.m., Sunday School, ChildcareWeekly Children and Youth Programs for all ages

www.palisadesmethodist.orgPreschool — Enroll now: 310-454-4600

801 Via de la Paz • Pacific Palisades • 310-454-5529

Corpus Christi Catholic ChurchRev. Msgr. Liam Kidney, Pastor

Fr. Dennis P. Mongrain, Associate PastorMASSES

Weekdays, 8:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.Saturday, 5:30 p.m. (Vigil Mass)

Sunday, 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.Holy Days, 8:00 a.m., 12 noon and 6:00 p.m.

Confessions every day at 5:00 pm.Sunday School, 9:30-10:30, ages 3-K

Elementary Religious Education, Mon. 3:30-5:00 p.m.Adult Religious Education, RCIA, Tues. 7:15-9:00 p.m.15100 Sunset Blvd. • Pacific Palisades • 310-454-1328

Visit us at: corpuschristichurch.com

Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Church Fr. John Tomasi, Rector

4145 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230Friday: Vespers 6 p.m.

Saturday: Matins 7:00 a.m., Divine Liturgy 8:30 a.m., Vigil 5 p.m.

Sunday: Divine Liturgy 10 a.m.For a complete listing of services see:

www.joyofallwhosorrow.org310-391-9911

Palisades Presbyterian ChurchReverend Grace Park, Associate Pastor

10:00 a.m. - Sunday Morning Worship Service(Sunday School and Child Care at Worship Service)

Preschool - Enroll now at 310-454-0737For complete information and upcoming events see:

www.palipres.org15821 Sunset Blvd. 310-454-0366

Here is the next installment in a series of winning pieces from the Friends of the Palisades Library’s Children’s Summer Creative Writing Contest. Oliver O’Donnell, a Palisades Charter Elementary School student, took home first prize for third and fourth grade.

Jolly Roger’s Cave

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By OLIVER O’DONNELLSpecial to the Palisadian-Post

LONG, LONG, LONG AGO…The pirate, Jolly Roger, was sick and weak from run-

ning away from Black Beard, who was trying to steal his treasure. Jolly Roger anchored his ship along the Pacific coast next to a rocky beach with a cluster of tall trees on the right and a steep hill on the left. As he hiked inland, Jolly Roger found what he thought was an abandoned cave. Jolly Roger dug a hole in the floor of the cave and made a trap door. Then, he put his treasure in it and covered it with dirt. But, he felt he wasn’t alone. Jolly Roger turned around and pulled out his sword to find a black bear with red eyes leaping at him! The two of them wrestled for a minute. Then, Jolly Roger sliced off the bear’s head with a sword. At the same moment, the bear scraped Jolly Rog-er on the neck. The battle ended both of their lives. A few days later, Black Beard found the cave, but Jolly Roger’s treasure was nowhere in sight!

June 19, 2017“Let’s play tag!” Peter, our camp counselor, said.

“1,2,3, go!”Max and I took off in the direction of Jolly Roger’s

cave. Everyone, even the counselors, were scared to go to the cave because of the legend of the bear’s spirit. But Max and I didn’t believe in that myth, so we kept running to the hills. About two minutes later, we reached Jolly Roger’s cave. Then, Max and I heard a loud howling sound. Since it was pretty windy, we thought it was just the wind. But those thoughts were WRONG!

As we got into Jolly Roger’s cave, there as a rumble. The ground shook really hard. It was an earthquake! We looked behind us. Huge boulders fell and blocked the way out! Then, the howling got louder, I turned around. For an instant, I saw the spirit of a bear howling at us! All of a sudden, I started falling down a deep hole. On my way down, I caught a glimpse of a big lit cavern and then, all I saw was black.

I woke up in the cavern and I realized that Max was not with me. The candle that was lighting up the cav-ern cast an eerie glow in the room. I saw some strange writing across the wall. It must be another language, I thought. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a skel-eton grinning at me! It had a black eye patch on its eye and it was wearing a moth-eaten pirate hat! At its side, it had a gleaming sword with rubies, gold, and diamonds embedded into the handle. The sword was in an old, crumpled leather sheath.

Then, I noticed the skeleton was sitting on a brown box with an old ink bottle in its hand. When I walked to-ward the box, I realized it was a treasure chest! I moved aside the skeleton and opened the chest. Inside, there were tons and tons of gold coins, rubies, and diamonds as big as your palm and tons of gems like emeralds.

Then, I found a note that said:

To the Person Who Finds This Note: I give you good luck on the beginning of your adventure, by the way take all of the treasure!

-Jolly Rogers

The note was signed in scrolling black letters: “Jol-ly Rogers.” But my mind wasn’t set on the letter. It was focused on making a plan of how to get out of the cave with the treasure! I looked around and found a rope ladder, and then, checked to make sure it was sturdy. It was, so I planted my foot on the first rung and my other foot on the second one. Then, I heaved the treasure chest with the sheath and sword around my belt up the ladder.

When I got to the top of the ladder, I saw that the bear’s spirit was still there! So, I took one of the rocks I found and threw it against the back cave wall. The bear’s spirit bounded after it. While he was chasing it, I ran to the entrance and moved aside the big rock from the earthquake, but the bear was coming after me! I used Jolly Roger’s sword to defend myself. When the bear’s spirit saw the sword that killed it, the bear whimpered and backed into a corner.

Then I, with the treasure chest, jumped out of the cave and raced down the hill. I heard someone calling my name. Then, I saw my whole group yelling for me. I hoped that Max was safe with my group. I looked for him, but he wasn’t there.

Three Hours LaterI was driving back home in my mom’s SUV telling

her about what happened. I was happy because we were now very rich! But, sadly, to this day, no one knows what happened to Max.

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