Los Feliz Ledger Vol 4. No. 8 Serving the Greater Los Feliz, Silver Lake & Hollywood Hills Area | Distribution 34,500 February 2009 Los Feliz Ledger Billy, the sole elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo, reaches out for a banana-tree snack from handler Scott Haist. Photo Credit Michelle Kunz SILVER LAKE—Stephen and Rosemary Fitzpatrick, ages 91 and 92 respectively, died three days apart on Dec. 13th and Dec. 16th in the Silver Lake home they shared for 50 years. e couple are the parents of Los Angeles City Council District 4 Chief Field Deptu- ty, Rory Fitzpatrick. ey had been married for 63 years. Rosemary was born in Duluth, MN and attended the College of St. Scholastica. In the 1940s she moved to Los Angeles and received her masters in library science from USC. She was the librarian at John Marshall High school for over 20 years. Stephen was born in Bel- fast, Ireland, moved to New York City as a teenager and ended up in Los Angeles in the early 1940s. He graduated from UCLA and received his masters at USC. He worked at Jacob Riis High School; Belve- dere Junior High School and East LA Junior College and worked well into his 70s. ey are also survived by daughter, Anne Fitzpatrick Call (Portola Valley, CA), plus grandchildren, Amy and Jenni- fer Fitzpatrick and Andrew and Stephen Call, and great grand- children, Grace and Jack Por- ras. Rosemary, is also survived by her sister, Phyllis Richter of Bethesda, Maryland. Couple, Married 63 Years, Dies Three Days Apart Stephen Rodgers Fitzpatrick, November 23, 1917-December 13, 2008 Rosemary Eckman Fitzpatrick, April 1, 1916-December 16, 2008 Los Feliz’s Own Trumpeter Is Silenced By Allison B. Cohen Los Feliz’s own world- class trumpeter, Irving Bush, died Jan. 8th due to complica- tions from multiple myeloma, a type of cancer of the plasma cell. He was 78. Bush was Nat King Cole’s personal first trumpet player for three years before joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic trumpet section for the 1962-63 season. He was the orchestra’s personnel manager in 1982 un- til his retirement in 1995. Over the years, Bush played with musical legends, such as Dave Rose, Nelson Riddle and Harry James and performed for many motion picture studios including 20 th Century Fox, MGM, Columbia, Disney and Universal. He also did studio work for Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Barbra Streisand. “Irv[ing] Bush was a first class individual possessing an endless wellspring of integrity and empathy,” friend and col- league Alan Goodman wrote in e Overture, a professional musicians’ union newspaper. “His musical and humanitar- ian talents allowed him to per- form consistently well on the most demanding stages of the world…” Bush served on the faculty of USC and the California State University, Los Angeles and also authored “Artistic Trum- pet Technique and Study,” de- scribed as a slim volume with a “hefty amount of wisdom.” He also composed much music including “Four Fanfares for 4 Trumpets,” which was played in his honor by eight trumpeters at his memorial service. Bush is survived by his wife, Los Feliz community leader Marilyn; daughter, Ni- cole; granddaughter, Anna- leah, sister Karol Freudenberg and her husband Edward and many nieces and nephews. Many locals made the trek to Washington D.C., for the Jan. 20th inauguration of President Barak Obama. A group from Immaculate Heart High School went, as well as a contingency from Pilgrim School. Here is one traveler’s take on the day: On the morning of the in- auguration, our wake up call at the hotel was 3:30 a.m. We had a quick breakfast knowing that, since we couldn’t bring a backpack to the event due to security reasons, the only food we’d have for the rest of the day was what we could jam into our pockets. At 4:00 a.m., we climbed on the bus and headed into a baseball stadium where we unloaded and had our Locals Enjoy Inauguration Day by Gabe Garza, 8th grader, Pilgrim School see Inauguration page 22 see Zoo page 3 Pilgrim School 8th grader, Gabe Garza, soaks in history on inauguration day 2009. GRIFFITH PARK—An upcom- ing Los Angeles City Coun- cil vote—expected to be Jan. 30th— on whether the Los Angeles Zoo should continue construction of a new $42 mil- lion elephant exhibit is expect- ed to be “real close,” according to Los Angeles City Coun- cilmember Tom LaBonge. e city halted work on the zoo’s new “Pachyderm Forest” on Dec. 3rd after several coun- cilmembers and animal rights advocates argued the 3.6-acre enclosure would be too small for the zoo’s only surviving el- ephant, Billy. Critics have said Billy, an Asian elephant, should be sent to an animal sanctuary where he would have dozens of acres to roam. But other councilmem- bers have backed zookeepers claiming Billy would thrive among the watering holes and mud wallows planned for the new enclosure. “I support this exhibit,” said LaBonge. “I hope this gets built—it would be a great new home for Billy.” LaBonge pushed for the original 13-2 council vote to approve the zoo’s updated el- ephant exhibit in 2006. So far, the zoo has spent about $12 million on the new exhibit, which is about 1/3rd complete. e Greater Los Angeles Zoo Assn., the fundraising arm of the zoo, offered to contribute $14 million more to pay the city’s debt on the project in December. Keeping Billy at the zoo would allow for educational and breeding opportunities that would not be available if the elephant were sent to the PAWS Sanctuary in central California, where the zoo’s African elephant Ruby was transferred in 2007, said Los Angeles Zoo spokesperson Ja- son Jacobs. Admission to the sanctuary is $200 per person per day, which would discour- age school trips to learn about elephants, Jacobs said. Celebrities have joined both sides of the debate— Bob Barker and Alicia Silver- stone backed councilmember Tony Cardenas at a news con- The city halted work on the zoo’s new “Pachyderm Forest” on Dec. 3rd after several councilmembers and animal rights advocates argued the 3.6-acre enclosure would be too small for the zoo’s only surviving elephant, Billy. City Council Vote On Elephant Exhibit Expected Jan. 30th By Rachel Heller, Ledger Contributing Writer
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Billy, the sole elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo, reaches out for a banana-tree snack from handler Scott Haist. Photo Credit Michelle Kunz
SILVER LAKE—Stephen and Rosemary Fitzpatrick, ages 91 and 92 respectively, died three days apart on Dec. 13th and Dec. 16th in the Silver Lake home they shared for 50 years.
The couple are the parents of Los Angeles City Council District 4 Chief Field Deptu-ty, Rory Fitzpatrick. They had been married for 63 years.
Rosemary was born in Duluth, MN and attended the College of St. Scholastica. In the 1940s she moved to Los Angeles and received her masters in library science from USC. She was the librarian at John Marshall High school for over 20 years.
Stephen was born in Bel-fast, Ireland, moved to New York City as a teenager and ended up in Los Angeles in the early 1940s. He graduated from UCLA and received his masters at USC. He worked at Jacob Riis High School; Belve-dere Junior High School and East LA Junior College and worked well into his 70s.
They are also survived by daughter, Anne Fitzpatrick Call (Portola Valley, CA), plus grandchildren, Amy and Jenni-fer Fitzpatrick and Andrew and Stephen Call, and great grand-children, Grace and Jack Por-ras. Rosemary, is also survived by her sister, Phyllis Richter of Bethesda, Maryland.
Couple, Married 63 Years, Dies Three Days Apart
Stephen Rodgers Fitzpatrick, November 23, 1917-December 13, 2008Rosemary Eckman Fitzpatrick, April 1, 1916-December 16, 2008
Los Feliz’s Own Trumpeter Is SilencedBy Allison B. Cohen
Los Feliz’s own world-class trumpeter, Irving Bush, died Jan. 8th due to complica-tions from multiple myeloma, a type of cancer of the plasma cell. He was 78.
Bush was Nat King Cole’s personal first trumpet player for three years before joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic trumpet section for the 1962-63 season. He was the orchestra’s personnel manager in 1982 un-til his retirement in 1995.
Over the years, Bush played with musical legends, such as
Dave Rose, Nelson Riddle and Harry James and performed for many motion picture studios including 20th Century Fox, MGM, Columbia, Disney and Universal. He also did studio work for Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Barbra Streisand.
“Irv[ing] Bush was a first class individual possessing an endless wellspring of integrity and empathy,” friend and col-league Alan Goodman wrote in The Overture, a professional musicians’ union newspaper. “His musical and humanitar-ian talents allowed him to per-form consistently well on the most demanding stages of the world…”
Bush served on the faculty of USC and the California State University, Los Angeles and also authored “Artistic Trum-pet Technique and Study,” de-scribed as a slim volume with a “hefty amount of wisdom.” He also composed much music including “Four Fanfares for 4 Trumpets,” which was played in his honor by eight trumpeters at his memorial service.
Bush is survived by his wife, Los Feliz community leader Marilyn; daughter, Ni-cole; granddaughter, Anna-leah, sister Karol Freudenberg and her husband Edward and many nieces and nephews.
Many locals made the trek to Washington D.C., for the Jan. 20th inauguration of President Barak Obama. A group from Immaculate Heart High School went, as well as a contingency from Pilgrim School. Here is one traveler’s take on the day:
On the morning of the in-auguration, our wake up call at the hotel was 3:30 a.m. We had a quick breakfast knowing
that, since we couldn’t bring a backpack to the event due to security reasons, the only food
we’d have for the rest of the day was what we could jam into our pockets.
At 4:00 a.m., we climbed on the bus and
headed into a baseball stadium where we unloaded and had our
Locals Enjoy Inauguration Dayby Gabe Garza, 8th grader, Pilgrim School
see Inauguration page 22
see Zoo page 3
Pilgrim School 8th grader, Gabe Garza, soaks in history on inauguration day 2009.
GRIFFITH PARK—An upcom-ing Los Angeles City Coun-cil vote—expected to be Jan. 30th— on whether the Los
Angeles Zoo should continue construction of a new $42 mil-lion elephant exhibit is expect-ed to be “real close,” according to Los Angeles City Coun-cilmember Tom LaBonge.
The city halted work on the zoo’s new “Pachyderm Forest” on Dec. 3rd after several coun-cilmembers and animal rights advocates argued the 3.6-acre enclosure would be too small for the zoo’s only surviving el-ephant, Billy. Critics have said Billy, an Asian elephant, should be sent to an animal sanctuary where he would have dozens of acres to roam.
But other councilmem-bers have backed zookeepers claiming Billy would thrive among the watering holes and mud wallows planned for the new enclosure.
“I support this exhibit,” said LaBonge. “I hope this gets built—it would be a great new home for Billy.”
LaBonge pushed for the original 13-2 council vote to
approve the zoo’s updated el-ephant exhibit in 2006. So far, the zoo has spent about $12 million on the new exhibit,
which is about 1/3rd complete. The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Assn., the fundraising arm of the zoo, offered to contribute $14 million more to pay the city’s debt on the project in December.
Keeping Billy at the zoo would allow for educational and breeding opportunities that would not be available if the elephant were sent to the
PAWS Sanctuary in central California, where the zoo’s African elephant Ruby was transferred in 2007, said Los
Angeles Zoo spokesperson Ja-son Jacobs. Admission to the sanctuary is $200 per person per day, which would discour-age school trips to learn about elephants, Jacobs said.
Celebrities have joined both sides of the debate—Bob Barker and Alicia Silver-stone backed councilmember Tony Cardenas at a news con-
The city halted work on the zoo’s new “Pachyderm Forest” on Dec. 3rd after several councilmembers and animal rights
advocates argued the 3.6-acre enclosure would be too small for the zoo’s only surviving elephant, Billy.
City Council Vote On Elephant Exhibit Expected Jan. 30thBy Rachel Heller, Ledger Contributing Writer
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Congratulations again to Los Feliz’s own Shepard Fair-ey, who’s iconic portrait of Ba-rak Obama now permanently graces the walls of the National Portrait Gallery in Washing-ton D.C. If you want to read more about Fairey, check out the Ledger’s September 2008 story by Kathy McDonald on the artist at www.losfelizledg-er.com/September08/A&E_Sept08.htm.
Suddenly, with Obama in the White House, it is very
cool to be tightening our belts and taking care of our planet. This month, we are happy to introduce a new column for readers called “Keen to be Green.” I gave up plastic bags AND paper towels almost two years ago. (Only Thanksgiving and cooking bacon is tough without a roll of Brawny or Bounty.) It can be done. Do it. It feels good. Read the de-composing times for various items on page 12 to get you motivated.
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Skylight Books Hosts “Kids Authors Day” On Valentine’s DayLOS FELIZ—As part of the nationally coordinated “Kids Heart Authors Day,” Sky-light Books will be hosting six renowned local children’s authors for a two-hour event, Sat., Feb. 14th, at 10 a.m. that will feature readings, prizes, snacks, and lots of time for kids and other at-tendees to mingle with their favorite local authors, ask questions, and find out more about writing and illustrat-ing children’s books.
The idea for the “Kids Heart Authors Day” origi-nated in New England. Chil-dren’s author Mitali Perkins floated the idea of a multi-author, multistore event in a Twitter post. The concept caught on; now, more than a dozen independent book-
stores and nearly 40 authors and illustrators are participat-ing in New England alone.
Word got out, via a Pub-lisher’s Weekly article and posts on several bookselling blogs and successful Los Feliz chil-dren’s author Ann Whitford Paul brought the idea to Sky-light Books.
Participating authors are Eve Bunting, Susan Patron, Ann Paul, Erica Silverman and Kerry Madden; the par-ticipating illustrator is Kath-ryn Hewitt.
Light refreshments will be served, and prizes will be awarded throughout the event.
Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave. For informa-tion: (323) 660-1175.
ference Oct. 22nd when he called for a ban on keeping elephants at the zoo. Mean-while, animal expert and tele-vision personality Jack Hanna and rock guitarist Slash have urged the city to let the zoo keep caring for Billy.
A majority of respondents in a Los Angeles Times online poll last month said they fa-vor keeping Billy at the zoo. Seventy percent of more than 45,000 responses supported the construction of the new Pachyderm Forest.
Zoo from page 1
City Council to Vote Jan. 27th on Park Historic StatusBy Rachel Heller Ledger Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES—The Los An-geles City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee voted unanimously Jan. 13th to des-ignate Griffith Park a Historic-Cultural Monument, forward-ing the motion to the City Council for a vote Jan. 27th.
The three-member commit-tee voted to adopt the October findings of the city’s Cultural Heritage Commission, which recommended historic status for the 4,218-acre park.
Committee members voted to exempt the expansion plans of the Autry National Center, the Dept. of Water and Power’s Headworks Res-ervoir Project and the Toyon Canyon landfill from the blan-ket designation, saying they do not contribute to the historical significance of Griffith Park.
Franklin Hills Homes Targeted with Mail TheftFRANKLIN HILLS—Homes in the Franklin Hills have been targeted with mail theft, ac-cording to an email generated by the Franklin Hills Resi-dent’s Association.
According to the email, several homes in the 2400 block of Lyric Avenue had been recently hit. The issue came to light when a hom-eowner was informed by the Los Feliz Post Office that the homeowner’s mail had been stolen and found opened and empty several houses away by another mail carrier.
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The new ad-ministration
of President Barack Obama brings hope for positive change in America and a welcome wave of enthusiasm for public service. How lucky we are to witness this historic inaugura-tion of the first African-Amer-ican President in our lifetime.
That this historic moment coincides with the worst eco-nomic crisis in a generation is unfortunate. The impact of this economic downturn is be-ing felt around the world.
Here, the city of Los Ange-les faces a $400 million budget shortfall from property taxes and other revenue sources in the next fiscal year. As your repre-sentative, I am determined to work harder and smarter to de-liver the same level of excellent
service that I have worked to achieve since elected in 2001.
Public safety must remain our number one priority in this difficult economic cli-mate. As more Angelenos have bought homes and businesses in the East Hollywood area, the demand for city services, particularly public safety, has increased. For example, fire fighters have outgrown Station 35, at 1961 Hillhurst Ave., built over 55 years ago. Space is so tight that they must store their apparatus outdoors.
The Northeast Communi-ty Police Station, at 3353 San Fernando Rd., also responds to a densely populated area. Its resources are also stretched thin. To address these issues, I have directed the Commu-nity Redevelopment Agency
[GREETINGS FROM TOM]
No Skimping on SafetyBy Los Angeles City Coucilmember Tom LaBonge
to begin a feasibility study to identify a site for a future pub-lic safety complex that will house both police and fire per-sonnel serving the greater East Hollywood/Los Feliz area. By building one complex for both agencies, the city would increase public safety in the most efficient possible manner for the growing community living and working nearby.
We will continue our Griffith Park Restoration ef-forts with monthly clean-ups and tree-plantings. Thank you to the thousands of volun-teers who have attended these events on the second Satur-day of each month. This May marks the second anniversary of the fire that consumed al-most one-quarter of the park. Those of us who live nearby can marvel at the natural re-covery that has taken place. I hope you will continue to vol-unteer to help bring the park back to its full glory.
I was excited to be one of the millions of people who gathered on the Capitol mall in January to witness the swearing-in of President Barack Obama. There is so much work to do to put our nation back on track, and the fate of our communities is bound to the fate of our country like never before. Even in the cold weather, the feeling of hope and optimism was palpable on January 20th as our nation’s 44th president—the first big city president in more than a century—took the oath of office.
Before his inaugura-tion, President Obama had
already begun to lay the groundwork for an econom-ic recovery package that in-cludes funding major proj-ects that are ready to begin now. That’s good news for us in Los Angeles where we have done our homework and have an inventory of shovel-ready projects that we can fund to put people to work and stimulate our economy.
One proposal I have been working on with my colleagues on the City Council is to urge the U.S. Treasury to directly allocate Troubled Assets Recovery Program (also known as “TARP”) or other federal funding directly to our city. This would allow the city to help public-private partner-ships facing hardship due to the tightening of the credit markets. For example, some public-private projects were partially financed with state tax credits. Now that those credits are in jeopardy, so are the projects and the jobs that come with them—and we want to use TARP fund-ing to fill that gap and en-sure they are completed.
In addition, President Obama is developing a plan to use public works projects to help put Americans back to work. Not only will these projects help strengthen our economy, they will also help us improve our communi-ties. The Mayor and City Council have identified pri-ority infrastructure projects that will accomplish both objectives, including the ret-rofitting of street lights in Los Feliz, improving Grif-fith Park trails and build-ing a horticultural learning center, and completing the next phase of the Los Ange-les River bicycle path.
The City of Los Angeles has billions in ready-to-go projects and we are eager to partner with the federal gov-ernment to put our economy back on track. The Obama Administration can help us fulfill our potential as cata-lysts for a speedier recovery by providing much-needed money to bridge the fi-nancing gaps created by the banking industry’s fall and by funding public works projects.
We will not be able to fix all of our problems overnight, but here in Los Angeles we have the know-how and we have a plan in place to be part of the solution.
[CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ERIC GARCETTI]
Obama Stimulus Package Can Help UsBy Eric Garcetti, President, Los Angeles City Council
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Happy Valentine’s Day
Greater Griffith Park Adult Community Center
One Year Anniversary “Community”
Celebration & FundraiserSaturday, March 7th
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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activities at the center.
Griffith Park Adult Community Club Calendar
Calendar sponsored by Sunset Hall
Smarter Senior Forum: Learn to Protect Yourself and Your Assets
Sponsors: LA County Department of Consumer Affairs and LA County Supervisor, Zev Yaroslavsky
“Managing the Food We Eat,” Five monthly sessions starting Wednesday, Feb. 25th, 2009, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 pm.
Sign up at GPACC.
For trips, Call Doris Slater at (323) 667- 1879 for information on new trips.
January Classes Contact Griffith Park Adult Community Center (GPACC) at
(323) 644-5579 or stop by at 3203 Riverside Dr., in the parking lot of Friendship Auditorium south of Los Feliz Blvd to get a schedule of classes
and events. Silver Lake Recreation Center at 1850 W. Silver Lake Dr. (323) 644-3946 will also have classes.
The Lunch Program: Lunch is served 5 days a week at the Center. $1.75 is a donation for those over 60 years. Daily lunch is served at 12 pm and you can come in for coffee and check in at 11:30. For Information on the Griffith Park Adult Community Club and getting a newsletter, call Stephanie Vendig at (323) 667-3043, or e-mail at [email protected] or call Jeanne Phipps at (323) 664-2681.
Programs for Free-Thinking Seniors! To learn more about our current calendar of classes, concerts and cultural events, visit www.sunsethall.org. For information: Wendy Caputo (323) 962-5277
Entering the New Year, it is sometimes hard to look be-yond the gloom and doom of current world events and eco-nomic meltdowns. However, in a corner of Griffith Park, there is a bit of sunshine.
Just a year ago this month, the Griffith Park Adult Com-munity Center (GPACC), operated by the Los Angeles Dept. of Recreation and Parks, opened its doors, and it has been thriving ever since. To celebrate its birthday, all are invited to attend our “Com-munity Celebration” Sat.,
March 7th, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. to raise funds to sup-port activities that take place at GPACC.
GPACC’s activities focus on the 50+ population. The Griffith Park Adult Com-munity Club (GPAC club), with a membership of 784 by the end of 2008, works in partnership with our new Facility Director, Monty Sutherlin. Some 30 activi-ties and services, a lunch program and opportunities for volunteering and shar-ing ideas have enriched an
amazing first year. This public community
center is a support system for what we call “aging in place.” This means that there are re-sources within your own com-munity supporting you in maintaining a healthy lifestyle as you age.
When you come to GPACC, you have an op-portunity to take advantage of many offerings, whatever your interest or need. You are in fine company for sharing, whether it is over lunch, over Scrabble, in a class or activity,
or when you take a day trip for sightseeing.
As America’s population ages, public policies relating to health care and retirement will be one of the major is-sues for the new administra-tion. But beyond making sure that people have easy access to health care provid-ers and a secure retirement, it is also about having re-sources strengthening the ability to maintain one’s own personal health and qual-ity of life. The saying “An ounce of prevention is worth
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Happy Birthday GPACCBy Stephanie Vendig, Ledger Columnist In his historic inaugural ad-
dress, President Barack Obama stated, “…our patchwork heri-tage is a strength, not a weak-ness. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of the earth…”
His comments caused me to ponder some challenging ques-tions. Do we really know our neighbors? Do we make an ef-fort to understand their cultural traditions? Do we know when a neighbor needs help? Because of our busy lives, much of the time
we probably don’t.President Obama also ex-
tended a call to action. We were reminded that “…we have the power to make change.” We must accept the call. Commit a few minutes out of our week to share with just one neigh-bor. Our cultural horizons would expand, we would bet-ter understand our neighbors’ needs, and our neighborhoods will become a stronger com-munity network to sustain one another.
Strength in NumbersBy Wendy Caputo, Ledger Contributing Writer
a pound of cure” is relevant here. GPACC, as with all the senior centers across the country, is in the business of prevention—prevention of the consequences of social isolation and unhealthy life styles.
In February, we have two events of interest that speak to prevention. On Feb. 18th from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Friendship Auditorium, Lo s Angeles County Dept. of Consumer Affairs and Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky are hosting
the “Smarter Seniors Forum.” There will be speakers and handouts providing informa-tion on protecting yourself and your assets.
Starting on Feb. 25th, there will be five sessions with a nutritionist on managing your diet as you age. You will be able to track your own diet on a special software program in our computer lab to get an idea of how your diet is work-ing for you.
All this and more as we go into the New Year with GPACC.
When you come to GPACC, you have an opportunity to take advantage of many offerings, whatever your interest
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In my two years as principal at Micheltore-na Street S c h o o l , many excit-ing things
have taken place, but receiving the Wonder of Reading Library grant will by far have the most impact on our school and our community.
The Wonder of Reading is a nonprofit organization that gives matching grants towards completely renovat-ing school libraries. Once completed, our library will be twice the size and include story steps for group reading, individual workstations for tutoring, and a cove for quiet reading. In addition, there
will be all new furnishings, $10,000 worth of new books and a one-on-one tutoring program.
None of this could have been accomplished had it not been for our fantastic library committee made up of stu-dents, teachers, staff, parents and community members. Our team worked diligently for over a year to write the pro-posal and raise funds to make our plan a reality.
Our school’s new li-brary is scheduled to open in Spring 2010. Once open, it will make such a difference in the lives of our students for many generations to come. I am so thankful to be part of a school community with such love and dedication for our children.
[MICHELTORENA STREET SCHOOL]
Wonder of Reading LibraryBy Susanna Furfari, Principal
COURAGEOUS ROSE PARADE RIDER–Nathalie Gonzales, of Los Feliz, was one of 14 Kaiser Permanente patients who were selected to ride on the healthcare pro-vider’s Rose Parade float entitled “Propel Your Dreams” on New Year’s Day. Nathalie is shown here on parade day cycling on one of the float’s bikes. She was diagnosed three years ago with lupus–a chronic, autoimmune disorder. With medication, Nathalie’s condition has stabilized since early 2008. Despite her multiple hospi-talizations and missed months of school, she has maintained a B average in her coursework. The float was judged worthy of the tournament’s Special Trophy, which honors exceptional merit in multiple cat-egories for floats over 55 feet.
On Tuesday, Nov. 18th, the Ivanhoe Elementary School 5th graders went on a stellar field trip to the Griffith Park Observatory.
The timing was perfect because we were reading the Open Court Reading unit of “Back Through the Stars” in language arts. It was great be-cause we were able to see and experience some of the things we were learning about.
Fifth grader Cosme La-gaspi said that his favorite part of the trip was visiting the Planetarium.
“We saw some very inter-esting and unusual things,” he
said.Fellow 5th grader Nathan
Isaacson, said that he “learned more about celestial objects.”
The two 5th grade teach-ers, Mr. Wegner and Ms. Jones, enjoyed themselves, too. Mr. Wegner’s favorite thing that we saw was the Zeiss Tele-scope.
Summarizing the day, Ms. Jones said, “Taking all of you there was magical be-cause I loved watching you all see something as amazing as the observatory and hear-ing you say, ‘Look, Ms. Jones, that’s what we’ve been doing in class.’”
[IVANHOE ELEMENTARY]
Observatory Trip is Out of this World
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February is Black His-tory Month and the theme at Pilgrim School is “Yes We Can!” The distinguished Rev. Cecil “Chip” Murray, re-tired from First AME Church, will lead our all-school chapel on February 23rd. Also, a Technology Fair in February will highlight inventions by African-Americans.
Pilgrim’s emphasis on community service brings a February art supply drive to our school. The drive will pro-vide supplies for foster youth through the non-profit Free Arts for Abused Children.
The student body can’t wait for Café Barnum on Feb. 20th. It will feature Pilgrim’s talented faculty singing, danc-ing, reading poetry, perform-ing on trumpet, piano, gui-tar and more. This will be a fundraiser for our new Fine Arts Center. All are welcome and a suggested $10 donation is requested.
[ IMMACULATE HEART HIGH SCHOOL ]
Heart Activities By Suzie Shehayeb ’10 and Anne Suh ’10
Valentine’s Day is on its way and Immaculate Heart is celebrating with candy grams and other fun gifts. Candy grams are lollipops that girls from Immaculate Heart can send to and receive from boys at the school’s brother schools.
We will also be participat-ing in a book drive this season. CSF, the California Scholar-ship Federation and a club at Immaculate Heart, hosts the annual drive. The books that students bring in go to under-privileged elementary-school children.
The winter sports sea-son is coming to a close. Athletes will be recognized during a Winter Sports Ban-quet in March. Also under-
way is the annual Freedom From Chemical Dependency Week sponsored by FCD, a non-profit organization. Im-maculate Heart students will attend an assembly, and some theology classes will have the special privilege to partici-pate in a special program de-signed to raise awareness and educate students on chemical substance abuse.
Celebrating Service is this year’s theme for St. Teresa of Avila’s Catholic School’s Week. Giving to our community and helping others is a priority at St. Teresa of Avila school and parish.
We have celebrated service by cleaning up our communi-ty through litter removal and recycling. Our school has do-nated to many food drives and toy drives. Last year we adopt-ed a family at Christmas. We gave food, clothes, and toys to this family in need.
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Giving back to our com-munity is an important part of our education and growth be-cause it teaches us not only to care about ourselves but others in need.
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ing all the way through Valen-tines Day in Echo Park, with the first annual Winter Ball.
Hosted by Nina Lucas of Lucas hair salon, this soi-ree promises to be overflow-ing with Eastside artistry and good deeds, as proceeds from the event will be donated to 826 LA—a non-profit organi-zation that helps foster creative and academic writing skills in youths. The community has welcomed 826 in distinctive Echo Park fashion through collaborations with the Echo Park Film Center, the Echo-plex, and now, a gallant party downtown.
Held at the Alexandria
Hotel on Feb. 14th, the Win-ter Ball is an opportunity to indulge in something other than flowers and chocolate on Valentines Day. In the Palm Court ballroom of what is now a stylish housing development, a modest setting will give way to a grandiose party in the tra-ditional sense of a ball.
Under a formal dress code, the invitation directs attendees to take style cues from “Marie Antoinette, King and I, Cinderella, or whatever your heart desires.” Feathers, jewels, floor length gowns, and dramatic hairstyles are all highly encouraged and with a 500 person capacity, the ball promises to be a sea of fashion ingenuity.
[ECHO PARK CORRESPONDENT]
Have a Ball This Valentine’s DayBy Hayley Fox, Echo Park Correspondent
SILVER LAKE—Silver Lake resident Jon Del Barrio had been practicing trademark and copyright law for nearly 17 years when he decided to make a change.
“I felt like I’d been pro-tecting other people’s brands for so long,” he said. “It was time to protect my own.”
Del Barrio wasn’t sure where to begin, but an entre-preneurial friend suggested coming up with a brand name and going from there.
“I literally came up with the name in the middle of the night,” Del Barrio said. “Transphusion. It sounded like the perfect name for an energy drink… But I spelled it different,” he said, “so I knew it had to be different.”
With a brand name and product idea in hand, Del Barrio went looking for in-vestors.
“I was looking for a group of investors that could bring more to the table than just money,” he said. One of his initial investors, local pro-skateboarder and artist Andy Howell, did just that.
With Howell on board it
would be easier to get Trans-phusion into the hands of L.A.’s trendsetters.
Del Barrio researched energy drinks and came up with a wish list of in-gredients including green tea extract and massive amounts of vitamin B in an easily absorbed formu-la that would be high on flavor (he went with black cherry) without the funky aftertaste of other energy drinks.
He took his wish list to four different nutraceutical companies and awaited the re-sults. The first three were less than inspiring, but the fourth was exactly what Del Barrio had been hoping for.
Del Barrio then tapped local artist Shepard Fairey (creator of the ubiquitous red, white and blue image of Ba-rack Obama) to design the can and a Santa Monica-based marketing company to help spread the word.
When Del Barrio watched the cans roll off the assembly line for the first time he said it was “like giving birth.”
With a local creator, de-signer and investors, Trans-phusion is a truly L.A.-centric drink.
There’s more to keeping it local than neighborhood pride, though. “If it’s cool in L.A.” Del Barrio said, “it’s going to be cool in the rest of the U.S.”
Just seven months after its creation, it is on the shelves of over 200 stores throughout Los Angeles County. Del Bar-rio’s best customer? The 7-11 at Silver Lake Boulevard and Ef-fie. Now that’s local flavor.
[PEOPLE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD]
Transphusion–A Truly Local TasteBy Colleen Paeff, Ledger Contributing Writer
A $30 ticket grants you admission to the event, an open bar, and a myriad of DJs and live performances. No-tables include Elvin Estela, a DJ with a repertoire of every-thing from psychadelic to hip-hop and Adele Jacques, French songstress whose dreamy vocal quality seems to fit the festivi-ties perfectly. In the tradition of 826 and its commitment to creativity and personal ex-pression, the Winter Ball is your chance to dress without inhibition, party like there’s no recession and dote on the community that you love.
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Later this year, all real es-tate licensees will be required to add their California real es-tate license numbers to a wide variety of advertising, disclo-sures and contracts—even to their business cards.
This latest requirement is part of the state’s ongoing ef-fort to protect the public from fraudulent practices and prac-titioners in real estate. With a license number in hand, checking a sales agent’s or bro-ker’s record online at the Cali-fornia Department of Real Estate (DRE) web site will be even quicker and easier.
However, the DRE flunks consumer protection in some far greater ways. The local real estate market has been joined
by players not seen so often in the recent past: the new hous-ing developer and the lender-owner. Fueled by public policy that promotes higher-density redevelopment of urban prop-erty and demand for afford-able, entry-level properties, many developers subdivide larger parcels into smaller par-cels on vacant infill sites or on lots where once fewer housing units stood. To do so, develop-ers of more than five units (and they almost always are five or more units—who builds a duplex anymore?) must run a gauntlet of local and state regulations.
One such regulation is that consumers be apprised of the status of the development
via a series of “public reports.” These reports—effectively permits—tell consumers such information as whether the developer may collect deposit moneys, what rights of can-cellation a prospective buyer has and whether the developer may actually transfer title to a new owner.
Amazingly, the DRE insists that these reports be named according to the color of the paper they are man-dated to be printed on. Thus, we have “pink,” “yellow” and “white” reports. This vestige of the mimeograph and carbon paper era needs to be changed so that the information may be disseminated via email, fax or efax in a clear—and legal manner.
But things get stickier. The DRE also, as part of the above process, reviews and approves the sole purchase contract that a subdividing developer may use. Sounds good, but the re-ality is that no two purchase contracts are the same.The DRE needs to adopt a stan-dardized purchase agreement, such as the California Associa-tion of Realtors’ new housing contract, that addresses basic needs of consumers. No one’s interest is protected when de-velopers, realtors and consum-ers are tossed into a chaotic, ir-regular business deal by a state agency.
Another way the DRE fails to protect the consumer is in the sale of Real Estate Owned (REO), or lender-owned/foreclosed, properties. Here again, the DRE should mandate the use of standard-
[REAL ESTATE]
Department of Real Estate Flunks Consumer ProtectionBy Richard StanleyLedger Columnist
ized forms, as each lender tends to use its own, usually poorly-drafted and autocratic contract that fails to protect the consumer.
Presently, most lenders’ properties are administered by unlicensed persons in out-of-California offices. These “as-set managers” tend to display little interest in customer ser-vice or ethics. Just getting a purchase agreement or grant deed signed can be an ordeal taking weeks of begging.
The DRE permits such practice, equating a corporate-entity sale to a sale by any or-dinary person selling the fam-ily house. In truth, many of these corporate “persons” sell
hundreds of California prop-erties a year. As such, they are patently “in the business” of real estate, and their personnel should be licensed and subject to review and sanctions by the DRE. License information on business cards is fine, but it’s time for the DRE to wake up to some real real estate con-sumer protection.
My thanks to my col-league and new-housing spe-cialist, Claudia Hipolito, for her contribution to this month’s column.
Richard Stanley is a local real estate veteran of more than 20 years. He may be contacted via www.richardstanleyrealtor.com.
Sales are from the previous month. Source: Great American Real Estate Solutions
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Fifteen Ameri-can presidents
journeyed cross-country to Los Angeles during their tenures, but only one is known to have stopped at Griffith Park. At noon on Tues., Oct. 1st, 1935, a motorcade of one hundred dignitaries headed east on Los Feliz Boulevard, lined with well-wishers like Lucille Hobart who was on holiday from school.
“He was waving to everyone from a long open-top car,” she recalls. “It was one of the only times as a child that I was allowed to leave our Aberdeen Ave. home without my parents.”
The President, obviously, was Franklin Roosevelt, who with his wife Eleanor trav-eled across America to inspect his administration’s public works projects, from Boulder Dam, which he dedicated the day before, to the roads and culverts of Griffith Park.
Microfilm of the Los An-geles Examiner at downtown’s Central Library depict maps of the presidential party’s route that momentous day, begin-ning at the Southern Pacific Station, on to City Hall, USC, Memorial Coliseum, Sawtelle Soldiers’ home, UCLA, and fi-nally, Griffith Park, where the party visited two camps, one for men and the other for boys. Yes, hundreds of people were living in Griffith Park as they cleared fire breaks and graded roads in the Depression-era in-stitution—which seems more honorable and significant than
ever in 2009—the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
“As the older, more ex-perienced workers were freed to work on projects requiring specific crafts or job skills,” author Mike Eberts writes in Griffith Park: A Centennial His-tory, “the basic hand labor was left to young men who hadn’t
yet had the oppor-tunity to develop many skills. The Civilian Conserva-tion Corps, known as ‘Roosevelt’s Tree Army,’ lived, worked and made a lasting mark on Griffith Park.”
Eberts writes that the CCC de-veloped miles of riding and hik-ing trails, laid ac-
cess roads, developed picnic and campgrounds, undertook beautification projects and performed daily maintenance.
In Eberts’ account, 10,000 people lined park roads and another 5,000 thronged the
camp to see the President and First Lady. A bugle sound-ed upon their arrival in that area of the park which is to-day Crystal Springs picnic grounds. Secret Service men
[CITY SLEUTH]
A Presidential VisitBy Diane Kanner, Ledger Columnist
The CCC’s Role In Building Griffith Park
Today the handiwork of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is recognized as being responsible for a huge portion of Griffith Park’s infrastructure.
The CCC was a New Deal agency created by the Roosevelt administration and run almost exclusively by the War Department.
Recru it s —unma rr ied males whose families were on relief—were housed in mili-tary-style barracks built with their own hands. They wore blue denim uniforms and fol-lowed strict camp rules, work-ing 40-hour weeks and receiv-ing $30 a month.
More than 3 million men served during the CCC’s nine years of existence, living in 4,000 camps in every state of the union.
stood on the running boards of the limousine furnished by Cecil B. DeMille. Roosevelt grasped a red, white and blue ribbon attached to a cloth, yanked it, and revealed a he-roic statue in the image of a muscular, determined CCC worker. Its style was similar to that of the female sculpture gracing the entrance to the Hollywood Bowl erected at about the same time.
Dubbed “Iron Mike,” the concrete statue which Roosevelt dedicated has been missing “almost since its un-veiling,” Eberts writes. Was it washed away when the Los Angeles River spilled over and flooded in early 1938? Was it
“Spirit of the CCC,” the first statue ever produced in honor of the CCC, was also known as “Iron Mike.”
taken down when the camp was dismantled a year later?
Designed by artist John Palo-Kangas, it served as the inspiration for a statue dedicated 58 years to the day
after the Roosevelts came to Griffith Park. Funded by the National Association of CCC Alumni, the modern day bronze version stands in Travel Town.
The President was Franklin Roosevelt, who with his wife Eleanor, traveled across America to inspect
his administration’s public works projects, from Boulder Dam, which he dedicated the day before,
to the roads and culverts of Griffith Park.
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This year, I’ve resolved to ban single-use plastic bags entirely from my life. For years now, like many others, I’ve been carrying cloth tote bags to the market, but have broken down in the produce
section and used plastic bags for mushrooms. I’ve also been caught off guard at the hard-ware store, toy store and at restaurants when I have left-overs. Before, I’d just sigh, take a plastic bag, and re-use it for trash or cat poop. But no more!
Even if we re-use these bags, when we finally throw them away, they don’t actu-ally go away. They take about 500 years to decompose. Just think—500 years ago was 1509, not long after Columbus got here!
So, how can we do with-out these bags? First, we can carry totes with us wherever we go –not just in our cars. Some bags, like Chico Bags (www.Chicobags.com), fold up really small to fit in purs-es and hook onto guys’ belts, so we can counter the plastic bag threat at any moment. At the market, we can re-use our own net baggies for small fruit
and vegetables. For the home, biodegradable trash bags are available at www.biobagusa.com, www.worldcentric.org or Whole Foods; now even my local CVS stocks Go Green trash bags.
As for pet poop, biode-gradable poop bags from www.poopbags.com can reduce our carbon paw print. These are all for sale locally too at All Shades of Green in Silver Lake.
With so many options out there, plastic bags might, like Columbus, actually become history!
[KEEN TO BE GREEN]
Life Without Plastic BagsBy Meher McArthur Ledger Columnist
Even if we re-use these bags, when we finally throw them away, they don’t
actually go away. They take about 500 years to decompose.
Plastic bags (usually made from polyethylene) have only been around for about 50 years, so we don’t know exactly how long they will take to decompose. Unlike much other trash, plastic bags don’t biodegrade; they photodegrade, which means that when they are exposed to ultraviolet radiation from sunlight, polyethylene’s polymer chains become brittle and start to crack, eventually breaking down into microscopic particles, which then often enter our food supply. Scientists have estimated that this process can take several centuries.
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2. Turn Off Your ComputerDoing so will save you an average of $90 of electricity a year.
3. Turn Down the ThermostatFor every degree you lower the
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In this current economy “cheap and cheerful” is a good thing! Gardens of any sort don’t have to be a luxury and these homemade solutions are just the thing for pesky pests.
Bug Bouncer Bounce those bugs right out of your garden with a long-handled spatula or spoon. Go
outside early in the morning with your beetle bouncer and a bucket of warm, soapy wa-ter. Look for infestations on roses, peonies and other favor-ites. Hold the bucket below the bloom and gently whack the flower. The bugs will drop straight down and into your suds. Reuse the soapy water as a spray.
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Bugs Be Gone, Cheaply By Melissa BerryLedger Columnist
Simple Earwig TrapsPour equal parts canola oil and soy sauce into a shallow container and place in infest-ed areas. Each morning arm yourself with a bucket of soapy water, check the lures, and dis-pose of the victims.
Bug Off! This is a really good one for indoors! Suck pests off your plants and out of the air with a small, hand-held vacuum or a canister vacuum with a tube attachment. Hold the vacuum about one inch away from the leaves and pass it back and
forth quickly above the pests. Empty the contents of the vacuum into a bucket of hot, soapy water.
Funnel Away Beetles and BugsArm yourself with a large funnel—or make one by cutting off the bottom of a plastic bottle—and attack
cucumber and Japanese bee-tles and squash bugs early in the morning. Tie a bag to the narrow end of the funnel. Slip the wide mouth of the funnel beneath the infested foliage and shake the plant or blossom. The insects will slide down and into the bag. When finished, tie bag closed and drop it into a trashcan.
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On Tuesday, we inaugu-rated our new President, Ba-rak Obama and all of us felt great hope that things will be getting better soon, includ-ing our economy. However, at the present time, our financial markets remain in crisis with grave uncertainty of what is yet to come. This leaves a lot of investors asking, “where do I invest my money so I don’t lose it?”
Even with such economic uncertainty, real estate re-mains one of the safest invest-ments in our market today.
In the last year, people saw the value of their investments in stocks, bonds and other fi-nancial instruments decline
nearly to zero and the people and institutions that they thought they could trust with their money proved, in many cases, to be less than trustworthy. These is-sues do not exist with real estate investments. Prop-erty may decline in value 10%, 20% or even 30% in times of recession, but it never declines to zero. Historically, in fact, it has been proven instead, that in the long run property will be worth three or four times the purchase price.
Also, when you buy real estate, you are managing your investment instead of someone else whose self inter-
est may be adverse to yours. By now, we all have heard of how so many investment brokers and money managers detrimentally gambled with their clients’ assets while paying themselves exorbitant salaries and bonuses. When you invest in real estate, that
is never the case because you manage your property or have oversight of it, through a property manager.
[FOCUS ON THE ADVERTISER]
Real Estate: Always a Good InvestmentBy Vahan Saroians, Ledger Guest Columnist
It is for these reasons that investors should consider real estate as an investment vehicle in these uncertain economic times, specifical-ly, single family homes and multi-family properties. To-day, single-family homes, in most areas, are at the lowest
prices we have seen in the last six years. Also, there are many foreclosed properties on the market at low prices.
These low prices and a strong rental market provide a great opportunity to purchase these homes, rent them and enjoy great long term gains.
In our industry it is also a well known fact that multi-family properties are “reces-sion proof.” As people can’t
afford to purchase homes or lose their homes to foreclosures in a reces-sion, they move to units in multi-family proper-ties. Today we are enjoy-ing a very strong rental market in the Los Ange-les area and many inves-tors are turning to multi-family properties as long term investments.
Vahan Saroians is a top-pro-ducing broker with Coldwell Banker Los Feliz.
Property may decline in value 10%, 20% or even 30% in times of recession, but it never declines to zero. Historically, in fact, it has been proven instead, that in the long run
property will be worth three or four times the purchase price.
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It’s hard to believe that Little Dom’s has only roosted on the corner of Hillhurst and Ambrose for a year. Art-direct-ed to the max, the “sceney” yet homey Italian spot looks like it was plucked out of Guido ter-ritory and set down intact in Los Feliz.
From the pressed-tin to the framed black and white photos, Little Dom’s will re-mind you of the East Coast red sauce joint your parents used
to frequent. But wait, isn’t that Oliver Stone waiting in the en-tryway? And Drew Barrymore at a sidewalk table? Perhaps it’s appropriate that a restaurant that looks like a stage set for a Mafia movie should attract a Hollywood crowd.
With an Italian deli an-nex, $15 Monday dinner spe-cials and a shiny new liquor license, Little Dom’s is try-ing to fill many needs for the neighborhood, and mostly succeeding. Open for break-fast, lunch and dinner, Little Dom’s also has a new deli an-nex providing baked goods, sandwiches as well as ingre-dients for to-go meals like fresh pasta and sauces. Don’t
miss the fresh breakfast focac-cias that come out of the deli in the morn-ings, with rosemary perfum-ing the fruit-laden crust.
The food is about as good as it needs to be, if not always perfect, and the cocktails and people-watching invariably make up for any shortcomings in the kitchen.
Many of the dishes are reminiscent of the 1950s Ital-
ian joint the décor is referenc-ing; meatball sandwiches, spa-ghetti and meatballs, pizzas and Italian wedding soup.
Fortunately, the menu makes a nod to more mod-ern tastes as well. Everyone likes the grilled artichoke, and it’s hard to go wrong with a creamy burrata and beet salad. Pastas and mains are more inconsistent—the wide noodles in pappardelle with housemade sausage and peas taste handmade, but served lukewarm, the sausage doesn’t meld with the rest of the dish. Whitefish piccata is strictly old-school but in a satisfy-ingly lemony way. But we’re fighting over the last morsels
of an earthy side of Brussels sprouts with wild boar bacon. At breakfast, everyone seems to get the lemon ricotta pan-cakes.
There’s a nice list of clas-sics cocktails including a Saz-erac and a Dark and Stormy, and the perfectly respectable Dago White and Dago Red house wines are made from the restaurant’s own Santa Barbara blends, at just $10 a bottle. With the Monday special and deals like these house wines, and $10 bottles of Prosecco, it’s clear that Little Dom’s wants to wel-come neighborhood regulars as well as celebs.
It seems like restaurants with a fun, buzzy atmosphere nearly always come with ser-vice issues, and Little Dom’s is no exception. Sometimes a reservation doesn’t seem to help, as there’s usually a wait either way. Our server was friendly and competent—she even warned us away from a salad she didn’t care for—but during the busiest moments, some servers are considerably less attentive.
Still, with inventive sand-wiches at the deli and a full breakfast and lunch menu, Little Dom’s is a fun and use-ful addition to the area. Go ex-pecting mostly old-fashioned Italian food, and perhaps you’ll be pleasantly surprised by some of the more updated dishes.
Pat Saperstein blogs about L.A. restaurants at EatingLA.com
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Little Dom’s Livens up HillhurstBy Pat Saperstein, Ledger Restaurant Critic
Don’t miss the fresh breakfast focaccias that come out of the deli in
the mornings, with rosemary perfuming the fruit-laden crust.
With the popu-larity of the
recent Nicole Kidman/Hugh Jackman movie “Australia” it might be a good time to review the burgeoning wine industry from down under. Safeway introduced South-ern California to the wines of kangaroo country back in the late 1960s with a com-plete line of good wines from the Barossa Valley. Safeway is no longer a pres-ence in the Los Angeles area but lives on through Safeway owned Vons, and Vons features a really good line of Aussie wines called Yellow Tail.
The reds are great and the chardonnay is fine and best of all, the prices are good. Yellow Tail is carried by Ralphs, Albert-sons and Costco and is available at a number of other outlets.
There is a whole world of wonderful wine awaiting you from the land of the marsupi-als running the gamut of price and quality.
One getting a good deal of attention is the delightful Clare Valley Riesling. Anoth-er high profile wine is Linde-man’s pinot noir. Pinot noir has enjoyed an explosion in popularity in California be-cause of another movie, “Side-ways” which extolled the vir-tues of pinot over merlot and is a bargain at $5.99 if you can find it. Ralph’s carries the Lindeman line.
Australia has some sixty wine regions and is the fourth largest exporter of wine in the world. The wines are sold in over a hundred countries and are gaining more and more re-spect throughout the world.
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Wines From Down UnderBy Paul Hickey, Ledger Columnist
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ATWATER VILLAGE—“I Love My Dog” is the theme of the first “Yappy Hour” hosted by Woof, a dog boutique on Glen-dale Boulevard.
The event will feature com-plimentary wine, a Valentine-themed Doggy fashion show, and an opportunity for locals to min-gle with each other, accompanied by their cherished canines.
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“I love the idea of our store bringing together people from our community, and sharing our love for our pets. This event is for our community, for all of us, and to honor our canine companions,” said Woof owner, Diane Serafino.
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Art
“A Dream Realized,” a historical photo exhibition of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and “Dream Come True,” featuring photos from the campaign trail of 44th President Barack Obama. Through March 1st. California African-American Museum 600 State Drive Exposition Park (213) 744-7432 www.caamuseum.org “Masters of the American West,” Fine Art Exhibition and Sale Opening Reception: Feb. 7th, 10:30 to 5:30 p.m. Exhibit runs through March. 8th. First Presentation: 10:30 to Noon “Wild Style: From Realism to Abstraction in Wildlife,” by Adam Harris. Awards Presentation: Noon to 1:30 p.m. Second Presentation: 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. “Painting With Purpose” Ernest L. Blumenschein,” by Sascha Scott. Cocktail Reception: 5:30 p.m. Online Registration Required. Autry National Center 4700 Western Heritage Way (323) 667-2000 www.autrynationalcenter.org “Bold Caballeros y Noble Bandidas,” exhibition explores Mexican pop culture. Through May 10th.Autry National Center 4700 Western Heritage Way (323) 667-2000 www.autrynationalcenter.org Free Art Class For Kids Barnsdall Jr. Art Center staff present hands-on art projects. Feb. 20th, 3:30 p.m. Atwater Village Library 3379 Glendale Blvd. (323) 664-1353 “Muses,” a joint exhibition by Tin, Kendra Binney and Jeremiah Ketner. Artist Reception: Feb. 7th, 7:00 p.m. to
10:00 p.m. Feb. 7th through Feb. 28th Black Maria Gallery 3137 Glendale Blvd. (323) 660-9393 www.blackmariagallery.com Kids’ LACMA Art Class at the Los Feliz Library Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s representative presents a special art class for children. Free Admission Feb. 2nd, 4:00 p.m. Los Feliz Library 1874 Hillhurst Ave. (323) 913-4710 Free Family Art Class Come join Barnsdall Jr. Art Center staff with your family and create special art projects. Ages: 7 and older. Feb. 13th, 4:00 p.m. Los Feliz Library 1874 Hillhurst Ave. (323) 913-4710
Books
Atwater Village Library Used Book Sale Feb. 21st, 10:00 a.m. 3379 Glendale Blvd. (323) 664-1353 Edendale Library Friends Society Weekly Used Book Sale Feb. 4th, 11th, 2:00 p.m. Edendale Library 2011 W. Sunset Blvd. (213) 207-3000 “MILK: The Shooting Script,” by Dustin Lance Black Author Discussion and Book Signing: Feb. 4th, 7:30 p.m. Skylight Books 1818 N. Vermont Ave. (323) 660-1175 www.skylightbooks.com
Clubs
Los Angeles Breakfast Club Wednesdays, 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m Friendship Auditorium, 3201 Riverside Dr., Public welcome. Atwater Village Library Book Club Feb. 10th, 1:00 p.m. 3379 Glendale Blvd. (323) 664-1353 Atwater Village Library Scrabble Club Feb. 28th, 1:00 p.m. 3379 Glendale Blvd. (323) 664-1353 Los Feliz Library Book Club Feb. 14th, 11:00 a.m. 1874 Hillhurst Ave. (323) 913-4710 Los Feliz Library Scrabble Club All ages welcome. Bring your own boards. Feb. 14th, 1:00 p.m. 1874 Hillhurst Ave. (323) 913-4710
Films
Alex Film Society Presents: The Philadelphia Story, (1940) a romantic comedy starring Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart. Feb. 14th, 2:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m. Alex Theatre 216 N. Brand Blvd. Tickets: (818) 243-2539 or www.alextheatre.org
Food
Lunar New Year Celebration: Year of the Ox, 2009 Sample delicious Asian foods, watch colorful dance performances, create a fun craft. There will also be a martial arts demonstration. Feb. 7th, 8th: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens 5333 Zoo Dr. (323) 644-4200 www.lazoo.org
Politics
Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council Feb. 17th, 7:00 p.m. Los Feliz Community Police Center 1965 Hillhurst Ave., 2nd floor www.ggpnc.org
Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Feb. 4th, 7:00 p.m. 1511 Micheltorena St. Micheltorena Street Elementary School www.SilverLakeNC.org
Music
Black History Month Celebration: Celebrate the rich diversity of African-American culture. Live entertainment includes, gospel, blues and jazz music. Enjoy a variety of tasty foods, learn how to create special arts & crafts. Feb. 21st, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens 5333 Zoo Dr. (323) 644-4200 www.lazoo.org Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Presents: Tango, Feb. 21st, 8:00 p.m. Alex Theatre 216 N. Brand Blvd. www.alextheatre.org KOST 103.5 FM Presents: A Special Valentine’s Day Concert with Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds. Feb. 14th, 8:00 p.m. Club Nokia 777 Chick Hearn Ct. www.ticketmaster.com
Lectures & Learning
“All Space Considered,” a space news and updated program information. Moderated by Griffith Observatory curator and staff. Free Admission Feb. 6th, 7:00 p.m. Leonary Nimoy Event Horizon Theatre Griffith Observatory, 2800 East Observatory Rd. (213) 473-0800 www.griffithobservatory.org Beaded Jewelry Workshop Learn how to make simple and beautiful beaded jewelry. Feb. 7th, 1:00 p.m. Edendale Library 2011 W. Sunset Blvd. (213) 207-3000 Los Feliz: An Illustrated Early History, Feb. 8th, 5:00 p.m. Skylight Books 1818 N. Vermont Ave. (323) 660-1175 www.skylightbooks.com Free Computer Classes for Seniors Learn how to navigate through the Internet. Feb. 10th, 3:00 p.m. Los Feliz Library 1874 Hillhurst Ave. (323) 913-4710 True Love Course: Practical advice on learning how to
improve on all our relationships. Angie Kane, Guest Teacher Registration includes lunch. Feb, 14th, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Kadampa Meditation Center California 1492 Blake Ave. (323) 223-0610 www.nkt-kmc-california.org In Celebration of Charles Darwin Day: “Rebel Giants: Darwin and Lincoln’s Revolutionary Lives,” by David R. Contosta Author discussion on how Charles Darwin and President Abraham Lincoln shape our world today. Feb. 15th, 11: 00 a.m. Center For Inquiry 4773 Hollywood Blvd. (323) 666-9797 www.cfiwest.org A Faery Hunt Interactive faery show for the entire family. Free admission Feb. 21st, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Fern Dell 5375 Red Oak Drive www.laparks.org/dos/parks/griffithPK/calender/calender.htm
Sports
L.A. Firecraker Group 10K Bike Ride Enjoy a ride through Griffith Park. Travel North on Crystal Springs Drive to Zoo Dr. and back South on Griffith Park Drive. Free admission Feb. 7th, 9:00 a.m. to Noonwww.laparks.org/dos/parks/griffithPK/calendar/calendar.htm
Theatre
Musical Theatre Guild Presents: Finian’s Rainbow, an Irish musical based on a book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy. Feb. 23rd, 7:30 p.m. Alex Theatre 216 N. Brand Blvd. (818) 243-2539 www.alextheatre.org Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov, a classic Russian tale starring Ricardo Antonio Chavira of Desperate Housewives. Opening Night: Feb. 1st, 7:30 p.m., through Feb. 22nd. Showtimes: Fridays at 8:00 p.m., Saturdays at 2:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m., and Sundays at 7:00 p.m. Hollywood Forever Cemetery Masonic Lodge 6000 Santa Monica Blvd. Info: www.chalkrep.comTickets:www.ticketweb.com or (866)-468-3399
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If you’re a fan of the gothic genre you will want to see The Manor, a drama of wealth, power, betrayal and disillusion set in the magnificent Grey-stone Mansion in the hills above Beverly Hills. This is a fictionalized two act produc-tion which was inspired by the real events that took place in this setting many years ago when the original owners, the prestigious Doheny family, lived here. Built in 1928 by the family patriarch and oil millionaire Edward Doheny as a gift for his only son, the mansion soon was the site of a tragedy that proves that the wealthy are not immune to life’s problems.
Playwright Katherine Bates has woven a compelling story that weaves the factual into fiction. The family name has been changed to MacAl-ister. The elder Doheny’s in-volvement in the Teapot Dome scandal of the early 1920s—a shady deal which involved bribes to those in high office to gain access to drilling rights in a lucrative oil field—has been
changed to a plot to obtain mining rights in Colorado. Given some of the shenanigans recently in the news involving an abuse of power, the story is
particularly timely.At the beginning of the
play the audience is assembled in the elegant living room, to view a society wedding with its promise of a wonderful life, but soon the plot became more ominous. We were told that we would be divided into three groups to go to other
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History Comes to Life at Greystone MansionBy Marilyn OliverTheater Critic
see Theater page 20
Italian architect and Pritz-ker Architecture prizewinner Renzo Piano has significantly impacted California’s cultural life with two major modern museum designs: the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) at LACMA—now celebrating its first anniversa-ry—and San Francisco’s Cali-fornia Academy of Sciences, which opened last September.
BCAM has invigorated LACMA, establishing a slick home for contemporary art. Riding the vertigo inducing es-calator up to the third floor of sky lit galleries is frankly, fun, and the sizable galleries are fine showcases for monumen-tal art pieces like Jeff Koons’ Cracked Egg (Red) and Cindy Sherman’s jammed gallery of original self-portraits.
A canopied plaza and walkway leads from BCAM to LACMA’s main campus and Piano’s cascading interior staircase within the Ahman-son galleries remarkably links the new to the old. Chris Burden’s Urban Light was an inspired choice for the exte-rior and has become a favorite photo spot. An online exhibi-tion will showcase Los Angeles citizens’ enthusiastic response to the sculpture consisting of 202 vintage streetlights.
In San Francisco, Piano has also captivated the locals with his innovative, sustain-able green structure for the California Academy of Sci-ences. (During the recent holidays the wait time to get in was up to four hours with a line of museum-goers snak-ing through the park). Known for his design of the Centre
Pompidou in Paris, Piano’s signature element for Acad-emy of Sciences is the “living roof”—a two-and-a half-acre spread of living native plants, which covers the roof as an organic carpet. Skylights and vents pop through the undu-lating surface that’s meant to echo San Francisco’s sur-rounding hills and peaks.
Perhaps the most amazing exhibit and a miracle of high-tech is the Rain Forests of the World exhibit housed in what feels like a biosphere. Visitors follow a spiraling ramp up-wards through an environment that displays flora and even birds and butterflies selected from the endangered rain for-ests of Borneo, Madagascar and Costa Rica. At times, mist fills the sphere, while the birds and butterflies fly freely. Look down to see the rare creatures of the Amazon below under inches-thick plexi-glass in a 100,000-gallon tank.
Piano has created an in-credible environment for expe-riencing the natural world—the lightness, airiness and transpar-ency of the building is a far cry from the former edifice though one exterior wall remains of the old school structure. Califor-nians now have two new ways to investigate the renowned ar-chitect’s work: BCAM’s palace of man made beauty and the Academy of Sciences’ innova-tive habitats.
For further information: BCAM at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, www.lacma.org. California Academy of Sciences, www.calacademy.org.
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rooms in the mansion to wit-ness the unfolding events. We eavesdropped on secret discus-sions and intimate moments. As greed became a motivating force, the action darkened.
The high ceilings and cold, dark hallways of Greystone Mansion make a fitting setting for this gothic tale, and one can almost feel the chilling presence of those who once lived, and in some cases, died here.
Excellent acting and smooth directing by Beverly Olevin manage to pull every-thing together to make a grip-ping and enjoyable experience. Silver Lake resident David Hunt Stafford is co-producer and also acts in the produc-tion. His interpretation of the family attorney, a slick and somewhat steely character, is excellent. Playwright Kather-ine Bates also acts in the play as the wealthy dowager wife who never seems to lose her cool. Darby Hinton ably por-trays the elder MacAlister as a character who, in spite of his greed, still manages to charm. I also enjoyed Gloria Strook’s interpretation of Cora Win-ston, the wife of the devious politician who initiates the MacAlister’s downfall.
The Manor, Saturdays and Sundays at 1 p.m. and runs about three hours. Not for young children. Upcoming dates are Feb. 1,8, 15, 28; March 1,8, 14, 15. Tickets, $45. Free parking. Reservations required. (310) 694-6118.
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LOS FELIZ—“There’s a Buddhist saying: ‘The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon,” Mark Santarelli reminded a group gathered for a retreat on the campus of Im-maculate Heart High School on Jan.17th. “Our words are like the finger; it’s easy to get caught up with the finger and fail to see the moon.”
Expansive ideas were shared among the group gath-ered that day in the school’s light-filled Cotsen Center overlooking the entire Los An-geles Basin.
Santarelli is a licensed marriage and family therapist with an abiding interest in the dialogue between Christianity and Depth Psychology. He joined Fr. Gary Rye, OSA, for-merly at Our Mother of Good Counsel on Vermont and now teaching in Chicago. Leslie Jenal, JD, an expert in bio-ethics at Loyala Marymount, and Fr. Tony Pizzo, OSA, also led the group through a day of reflection on the way symbols and metaphors work in our spiritual imaginations.
“We concretize the meta-phors, take them literally,” said Santarelli. “That’s a fun-damentalism that’s heresy; it’s idolatry.”
Santarelli expanded on this in his own presentation, quoting the philosopher Hein-rich Zimmer: “The best things can’t be spoken and the second best are misunderstood. The third best things are what we talk about… the mundane historical things that we speak of every day.”
In stark contrast to the mundane, the presenters showed how spiritual tradi-tions have a rich heritage of wisdom, “stories that provide us with deep guidance in find-ing our way through the vicis-situdes of life and in our indi-vidual search for meaning.”
The parable of the Prodi-gal Son served as a touchstone throughout the day. Pizzo spoke about the forgiving fa-ther as a metaphor, how com-pletely out of character it is for a Jewish father to behave as this father did toward a son who had broken the laws of his heritage. The son at the very least should have had to go through ritual purification. So in this story, with the father as a metaphor, Jesus was really redefining God the Father as this forgiving.
Fr. Gary Rye expanded on the story of the Prodigal Son, applying it to Carl Jung’s theory
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Transforming Metaphors: A Day of ReflectionBy Roberta Morris, Ledger Colmunist
of archetypes. “Archetypes give us energy, and behind every image is an archetype so that the image itself explodes,” he explained. He presented Jun-gian categories as key to vari-ous Christian spiritualties. The “sensing/perceiving” type may feel inclined toward Franciscan spirituality that is optimistic and sees the beauty and good-
ness of God everywhere, where-as the “intuitive thinking” type may be more inclined to the Thomistic traditions and “look for the transcendental values of goodness, truth, beauty, life and spirit.”
For more information contact Mark Santarelli, LMFT, (323) 377-9072.
Venus blazes in the western sky after sunset, set-ting at 9:00 p.m. The crescent moon appears to its left on the 27th. Binoculars mounted on a tripod or a telescope will show Venus to sport a crescent phase.
Saturn is in Leo and rises in the east during evening twilight. At mid-month, the planet is high-est in the sky–62 degrees above the southern horizon–at 1:39 a.m. The planet appears as a bright gold-hued star, and a telescope will show the rings, which, this year, appear very narrow because we will make a once-every 15-year passage through their plane in September. The waning gibbous moon is near Saturn during the night and early morning hours of the 10th-11th.
The comet Lulin, discov-ered in 2006, will be clos-est to the Earth (38 million miles away) on Feb. 24th, and should be easy to find only two degrees from Saturn the night before. The comet is swiftly moving backwards along the
zodiac, and will be only one degree from Leo’s bright star Regulus on the 27th. Because the comet was only recently discovered and will not return for thousands of years, it is un-sure how bright it will get, but even the most pessimistic esti-mates project that is should be easily visible in binoculars.
Mercury makes a good ap-pearance in the dawn sky all month. It is best seen 30 min-utes before sunrise, and is then low in the southeast. The wan-ing crescent moon passes close to Mercury on the morning of the 22nd, then Mercury passes close to bright Jupiter on the 24th, just as the giant planet re-turns from visibility after being hidden in the glare of the sun.
The full moon will show a slight shading from 5:30 a.m. on Feb. 9 until it sets a little over an hour later during a penumbral eclipse, one in which the moon brushes the outer, fuzzy part of the Earth’s shadow.
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this to me. Honestly, I’m not the angry-letter-writing type, but here you go again, turning a calm and col-lected mother
into a hair-pulling, ranting and spitting lunatic.
What’s got my knickers in such a knot? Your latest at-tempt to balance California’s budget. You propose saving $1.1 billion by trimming five days off the current 180 day instructional calendar. Your message? “The state is broke, children, and doesn’t have money to pay your teachers and run the A/C this week. Sorry kids, no school for you.”
In a sad way, I understand your reasoning. Take a look at the current state of California’s public schools: The classrooms are grossly overcrowded; the equip-ment is sparse and outdated; and programs have already been cut to the bare bones. Honestly, you’ve slashed the education budget so much that you probably think there is nothing left to trim except the number of days that kids ac-tually go to school.
This ridiculous proposal would set a dangerous prec-edent. When next year’s budget crisis looms, do you trim even more school days? Don’t you think that there has to be an immoveable standard, a guar-anteed minimum quality and quantity of education, before it stops being an education at all?
I have an alternative plan. Instead of taking away actual days in school, you should man-date budgetary proportions for spending on administration vs. the classroom. This proportion is a common way of rating how well charities utilize their bud-gets, so let me put this in a way that a wealthy philanthropist like yourself can understand: A 2002 UCLA study found that LAUSD spent only 45% of its budget in the classroom. Would you contribute to a charity that disbursed only 45% of what it collected, and spent the rest on administrative costs? If you an-swered yes, let me get back to you as soon as I form my new 501(c) 3. But if you answered no, then do the right thing and propose legislation that forces districts to cut costs from their bloated administrative bureaucracies, in-stead of from the classrooms.
The number of woman-hours I’ve wasted on internal rants, mental chastisements and imaginary-neck-wringing of our 43rd president and his supporters over the last eight years would be sufficient to gestate a giant marine mam-mal. It could take several so-called lifetimes to pay off the karma of my disdain, disgust and dismay at the monumen-tal absurdity of the oughts of this century. Thank Godot, it’s over. I can let go of blame and righteous anger. My karmic debt clock can stop ticking. Or can it?
The folks who voted “W” into office still lurk, just un-der the 50% mark, biding their time, waiting to tip the balance back. Here in Silver Lake, it’s easy to de-humanize the other half of the elector-ate—none of my best friends are Republicans.
I must admit, my evil side wants them to pay reparations. I daydream of their secession, of them locked behind a bor-der fence in the Badlands, or at least of saying to them smugly, “I accept your apology.” My enlightened and evolved half really wants to say, “I forgive
you unconditionally.” But I’m gonna need help with that. And I know just the man for it.
Our 44th president, among the small tasks of sav-ing our environment and economy, must also save our union.
The angel on my shoulder knows that all blame is ulti-mately self-blame. Accusations of guilt always boomerang back, seceding me from my true self. I’m divided against myself. So next time you hear me blame the other half of America for the mess we’re in, please remind me to take a deep breath, forgive and forget and step into my higher self, into wholeness. I invite you to join me.
Elma Mayer, MA, practices and teaches Chinese Energet-ics in Silver Lake and be-yond. www.nowhealing.com (323)309-7687.
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ARNOLD, ARNOLD, ARNOLD…By Kristen Taylor, Ledger Columnist
[BEING WHOLE]
Blame the Other Half First By Elma Mayer, Ledger Columnist
[A DOG’S LIFE]
When the Bark-ing Doesn’t StopBy Jennifer ClarkLedger Columnist
I’ve been having a dog problem lately and for once it doesn’t involve my own dog, Reba. Re-
cently, I’ve been barraged by our neighbor’s barking dogs. Since I work from home, this is a nuisance during the day, but at night, it becomes unbearable. Their two dogs are left outside all night long and their favorite place to bark is directly under our bedroom window, so I de-cided to do some research on Los Angeles County’s barking dog laws.
It turns out, this noise is not merely a nuisance, but it’s against the law, only if and when the owners of the dogs in question receive an official noise complaint from an Animal Care Center. Ac-cording to Animal Services, excessive noise consists of “noise which is unreasonably annoying, disturbing, offen-sive, or which unreasonably interferes with the comfort-able enjoyment of life.”
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If you have a barking dog complaint, the first step is to contact your local Ani-mal Care Center by mail, explaining the nature of the complaint. Once they receive this, they will then compose their own official warning letter to the dog’s owner. If after 15 days of receiving this warning the owners do not comply, they will be request-ed to meet with a department
representative to discuss the matter. If the owners do not appear for this meet-ing, the matter is considered unresolved and the owners are then required to attend an administrative hearing
(which resembles a non-jury trial in civil court).
While I was thankful to learn that the city of Los An-geles has procedures in place to curb incessant barking, I tried my own approach: a friendly chat with my neigh-bor, who was very apologetic and has promised to bring the dogs inside at night. I’m looking forward to a good night’s sleep!
Dog’s Life from page 21Inauguration from page 1
last visits to the bathroom (a million people sharing portable toilets was not an option for us!). We then began our three mile walk to The Mall. It was very cold out, maybe 30 degrees Fahrenheit, and we were glad we remembered to dress in layers.
It was 5:00 a.m. and still very dark outside. There were a few hundred people on the streets, mostly students.
As we got closer we real-ized that were now walking with thousands and soon, tens of thousands, all headed in the same direction.
Around 6:30 a.m. we reached a closed gate and had to walk four blocks to the next entrance. Pushing
through a crowd of thousands was a huge undertaking and it seemed to take forever. We fi-nally reached our spot on the grounds at about 9 a.m. Al-though we had hoped to be closer, we had a great view of a nearby “Jumbotron” and, because of the electricity in
the air, we still felt very much a part of the growing commu-nity of over 1 million people watching the event, right there on the Mall.
We waited, tired and cold, until 11:30 a.m. when the
first speakers started. When Obama took the stage, the tiredness and the nerves just washed away and we were each filled with incredible en-ergy and excitement. Spirits soared as our new President took his oath and began his speech. His voice—clean and
crisp yet filled with raw emo-tion—grabbed us and filled us with hope. The entire trip sud-denly seemed worth it.
When I first realized I was going to attend the inaugura-tion, I felt excited to witness
history. But I had no idea how much the event would affect me. I am happy for the future of my country. I am hopeful for a country led by Barak Obama.
In August I received a Dept. of Water and Power (DWP) bill only to discover that I was being charged for trash collection—$48 every two months. My building manager called the de-partment of sanitation, and was told they would remove the city trashcans, discontinue service and stop charging fees. The first week of we got a new dumpster and the cans went away.
Great, right? But, my No-vember bill from the DWP ar-rived with trash fees for Octo-ber and November.
I called Alex Helou, DWP Sanitation Director. Six messages later, his assistant, Chris Johnson called back. Mr. Johnson stated: “There is a moratorium on adding or removing trash service to or from apartment buildings. It doesn’t matter if you have
the cans or not, unless some-one signs off on removing the charge, you will continue to pay for trash service at this ad-dress. This was voted on by the City Council in 2008.”
Again, I called Alex Helou. Surprise, no response. I telephoned Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge’s office. Since November his as-sistant has left messages, but is never available.
Her last email dated Dec. 11th, stated that “she will speak to the General Manager and get back to me asap.”
Alex Helou has not re-turned any of my calls, nor has his supervisor, Enrique Zaldivar and I am left sitting with a bill for a service the city has not provided me in two months.Starett lives in Los Feliz.
[EDITORIAL]
Something Stinks at the Dept. of Sanitation
By Karla Starrett
Immaculate Heart High School Junior class members Olivia Stillman, Cleo Aguirre and Tess Whittlesey “meet” with a very stiff President and Vice President between inaugural events. Immaculate Heart sent 37 students and 3 chaperones to Washington D.C. For the event.
Grace Cho, of Pilgrim School, shows her joy during the Jan. 18th, “We Are One Concert,” the first of many inauguration events.
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