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MICK FLEETWOOD REMINISCES ABOUT THE EARLY DAYS IN MALIBU AND BRINGs THE BLUES to the

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Co-Founder STEVE WOODS

Executive Editor LORI JACOBUS JULIE TOBIAS

Associate Creative Director JANET FRIESEN Executive Publisher NICK BETTS Managing Editor ADDISON ALTENDORF

Senior Editor CHRISTY CALAFATI

Beauty Editor TARA OWENS

Lifestyle Editor TRACEY ROSS

Wellness Editor DIANA NICHOLSON

Sustainability Director ANDREW MCDONALD

Travel Editor LESLIE WESTBROOK

Copy Editor KIM LEDOUX

Contributing Editor AMELIA FLEETWOOD

Editor at Large SAM HALL KAPLAN

Rogue Writer BEN MARCUS

Sustainability Advisor BRAD DIAZ

Sustainable Lifestyle Editor EVELINA CHRISTOPHERSON

political contributors JAMES HALL ELISABETH JOHNSON

Contributors DAVID STANSFIELD MARSHALL THOMPSON SUSAN TELLEM MARI STANLEY MARIE MANVEL GUS JOHANSON ANNEMARIE STEIN

THE BATTLE FOR BLUFFS: Open Campaign founder James Hall along with myself and The Local co-founder Steve Woods at the City Council meeting to decide the fate of Bluffs Park.

Last November, Malibu voters felt a fundamental transformation at City Hall was necessary to save our rural coastal town from a prolonged identity crisis.

Hence, the landslide victory by the pro-preservation slate of Skylar Peak, Rick Mullen and Jefferson Wagner.

The slate’s dedication to protect the environment and preserve our precious open was never more evident when they collectively voted against the City funding an Environmental Impact Report to develop one of the last remaining coastal bluffs in Southern California. In the same meeting, mayor pro-tem Rick Mullen suggested the La Paz property, which is in process and waiting to be transferred to the City, for the long awaited skate park. The skate park could be the first of the recreational facilities to finally come to fruition.

In spite of the parents being their political power base, The Machine, a.k.a. the councils that have run the City for the past decade, have made no effort to secure the land needed for additional ball fields and recreational facilities. Not one. In fact, they passed over prime property in the most densely populated area of Malibu in favor of a developer.

It took Team Malibu four months to put a plan into action and execute according to the needs of the community. Now that’s progress. - Cece Woods, Editor in Chief

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BATTLE ROYALE

THE FIGHT TO SAVE BLUFFS PARK

BY Cece Woods

The deceptions by pro development politicians and what their political power base, (the PARENTS), doESn’t know., Malibu’s fight for the preservation of open space reached a fever pitch recently when the pro-environment slate of Skylar Peak, Rick Mullen and Jefferson Wagner voted down the City funding for the proposed Environmental Impact Report for Bluffs Park. This was a critical move to preserve one of the last remaining coastal bluffs in Southern California.

While this can arguably be chalked up as a win for environmentalists who voted the slate in by a landslide last November, ( largely based on their Save Open Space platform), it also triggered panic and a swift backlash from the Little League/AYSO parents who have been perpetually shell shocked by the empty promises made by local politicians over the last two decades.

However, mayor pro-tem Rick Mullen made good on yet another campaign promise recently by taking the lead at the May City Council meeting suggesting the La Paz property for the long anticipated skatepark. This is the first attempt made by any Council to take action in securing and formally designating a property - and one that can be fast tracked - specifically intended for the recreational needs of the City of Malibu.

While preservationists hoped this gesture made by Council would relieve some of the pressure off Bluffs Park, it seems the controversy to win the power over this precious open space is far from over.

Which leads us to ask some very important questions...

Why is The Machine trying to subvert the will of the majority of Malibu constituents who voted for the open space slate council members?

Why is The Machine distorting the results of the Bluffs Park survey to suit the minority and shrinking Little League lobby?

Why is The Machine conjuring up complete fabrications and why are they in total denial of the council vote to reject the EIR, as well as the substantial geological deficiencies for the Bluffs, despite all printed, oral, and visual evidence to the contrary?

And the most important unspoken question is...

Why won’t they just take NO for an answer?

Ready for the cold water?

It’s never been about the kids.

It’s always been about POLITICS,

POWER AND PAYBACKS.

And it’s a strategy The Machine has been cultivating for a decade.

Now it’s time for the community reads between the lines:

2012 – Malibu City Council members hold secret, back-door meeting to gain control of Bluffs Park by giving away Malibu’s 535 acre Charmlee Wilderness Park to SMMC. A leaked in-house SMMC email confirms a secret meeting was held by then Mayor Lou La Monte and Mayor Pro Tem Joan House. They offer SMMC Director Joe Edmiston a swap.

2013 - A second secret meeting is held between SMMC’s and Malibu City’s legal teams “to hammer out the details” of the swap. Edmiston, so assured of Council backing, recommends his two Boards approve the swap and approve a coastal development permit application for new campsites at Charmlee.

This second meeting occurred on January 7th – a full week before the City Council’s first open public meeting on the proposal.

NO PUBLIC NOTICE WAS SENT OUT TO RESIDENTS WHO WERE AFFECTED BY THIS SWAP. At the January 14th City meeting, Council goes ahead to authorize the swap. Moving at warp speed, they direct Malibu City Attorney to “negotiate agreements and implement documents”.

Residents fill city hall to overflowing capacity to protest the swap. They demand that if the City planned to give away over 500 acres of City owned land, it must go to a ballot. City Council denies the request and forges ahead.

CALIFORNIA STATE LAW VIOLATED: State law and City policy require three Council members (a majority), to approve a City action at an agendized public meeting, yet these negotiations occurred before any public meeting was scheduled. Before December 2012: (a) at least two of the Council members conducted undisclosed negotiations on behalf of the City, and (b) at least three Council members had secretly obtained shared knowledge of the swap proposal promoted by council members House and La Monte.

The underlying legal drama? This is a willing violation of the Brown Act. California state law requires government business to be conducted in an open forum so the public may participate and offer timely input on local government decisions. Due to this impropriety, The Malibu Township Council (MTC) requested that the City Council set aside its actions. The Council rejected the request to set it aside, and subsequently a Brown Act Violation lawsuit was filed by Malibu Township Council in L.A. Superior Court. The suit named council members Laura Rosenthal, Lou La Monte, John Sibert and Joan House. Realizing that the first approval was illegal, the council set aside its action, and then five minutes later reinstated it. The judge declared the council’s reversal action was a complete misdirection. This lawsuit is still in the courts today. It has cost taxpayers $1.5 million to date, and continues to accrue additional costly legal fees.

A few months later in 2013 - An undeterred City Manager, Jim Thorsen, along with Council members Rosenthal, La Monte, Sibert, and House, made statements in person and in print, expressing new and creative ways the City plans to develop Bluffs Park, claiming that the Bluffs uses are “unlimited”. (Malibu Surfside News, 2-21-13).

Local environmental activists confronted the City on the fabrications perpetuated by the City Manager and council members.

Preserve Malibu Coalition sent out a citywide email informing the Council, and residents, of the these facts about the 83 acres of Bluffs Preserve: 1. Per City rules: City of Malibu’s Local Coastal Program unequivocally states that building uses are NOT PERMITTED on the open Bluffs acres.

2. Per the CCC: Developing Bluffs for sports fields is appealable to California Coastal Commission, allowing for lawsuits.

3. Per the City’s own statements: The majority of Bluffs is ESHA, with wildlife constraints and is not developable.

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What’s the bottom line? The City has been fully aware since 1985, that the development of Bluffs is an environmental impossibilty. If it were attempted, it would get a quick slapdown by the Coastal Commission with the likelihood of lawsuits filed by pro-preservation and homeowner groups.

In a recent agendized council meeting City staff admitted in print that only 5.3 acres in their opinion, can be developed even with their broad definition of ESHA. The Machine’s unprecedented lack of leadership executing the needs of Malibu’s youth has been in play for more than 20 years. They continue to pay lip service to the parents, suggesting the Slow Growth Advocates are stopping them from making good on their promises of more ball fields for the kids.

They have been most effective by riling up their power base. They have been leading them off their intended course of supporting the acquisition of approriate land for recreational uses. Instead, enticing them to believe that Bluffs Park is the best and most suitable option.

All the the lies, contradictions and deceptions can’t hide the fact that multiple opportunities have been presented to past Councils. Parents have been lobbying Councils for a decade to create the perfect venue for urban park amenities. Yet former Councils have either passed on, or completely ignored every single one of them - and have not led a single action to acquire other properties for youth recreational activites. For The Machine, it’s Bluffs Park or nothing.

A recent example; in 2008, City Council passed on the opportunity to purchase 10 open acres of land on PCH for $2 million from then owner Zan Marquis.

Instead, City Council left the door wide open for developer Don Stirling to purchase it.

The decision by Council to forgo purchasing the property was after the ad hoc committee called the Blue Ribbon Task Force. The commitee included council members Jefferson Wagner and Pamela Conley-Uhlich, who evaluated and reccomended the property. This was an ideal fit for park amenities and was sizeable enough to fit everything in one place; ball fields, a skatepark, senior center, teen center, additonal gardens etc... located in the most densly populated area of Malibu who have families with young children. For many, this was a heartbreaking decision.

Council member Laura Rosenthal who has been advocating for public schools, a solid supporter of AMPS and the creation of Malibu’s independent school district, neglected to consider or inform residents of the additonal 40 acres at Malibu High School currently being leased by the City as a potential venue for additonal ball fields.

The potential public open space could soon by owned by the City, should Malibu hopefully become our own school district.

Council members Peak, Mullen and Wagner have demonstrated their commitment to pursuing available properties suitable for youth sports. Their criteria is to acquire property that can be developed for these purposes during their terms.

The moral of this story?

The 40 acres at Malibu High School borders private residents with little danger of sensitive environmental issues. Currently, the land is leased by the City from SMMUSD and this land could potentially be owned by the City of Malibu should we become our own school district. So why hasn’t council member Laura Rosenthal make the community aware of this land?

If you aren’t tryING to win - for the kids - and for the environment...

don’t play.

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CALIFORNIA STRATEGIES

BY SAM HALL KAPLAN

Malibu has paid nearly $2 million over the last decade to a glad handing Sacramento consultant firm with minimal accountability, contrary to commonly accepted governmental practices, The firm of California Strategies and the city of Malibu City stated when queried that there have been no written reports or evaluations in the nearly 13 year relationship, despite rising calls echoing locally and across the State for more public transparency.

However, both firm principal Ted Harris and Malibu City Manager Reva Feldman declared that “updates and political context” have been provided verbally, with the Feldman stating in an e-mail that she “speaks with California Strategies multiple times a week.” Though she noted “we do not keep written logs of those calls or of meetings in Sacramento.”

In reviewing the City Council’s past agendas, as well as extensive documents in Freedom of Information requests of the city, uncovered was an item dated June 18, 2013 submitted by then city manager Jim Thorsen requesting a contract with California Strategies providing “government relations consultation,” be renewed and amended to include lobbying.

An attachment to the recommendation cited “vital” efforts by the firm on several pending State issues, and included monitoring Coastal Commission actions. It concluded that the firm was “making friends in Sacramento” on the city’s behalf to obtain permits and grants. No follow could be located to the dated item.

Meanwhile, the firm’s Harris declared in an email in reply to a city request I prompted for “any responsive records” to a Freedom of Information inquiry (3.13.17) that was attached, “we do not have a written list of the City’s goals, objectives, and priorities in our files.”

In variance to the statement, Harris signature is on the firm’s recent contract with Malibu in which goals, objectives and priorities of the city are prominently listed. The executed contract further states “all files of the Consultant pertaining to the City shall be and remain the property of the City,” and “the consultant will control the physical location of such files.”

While there was scant details what services were actually performed and achieved under the contract, California Strategies like clockwork submitted invoices each month for $12,500, for the last 154 months since July 2004, and totaling $1,925,000. There was an instance of the firm double billing, but this was caught by a Malibu city clerk and corrected.

In addition, a scan of reports obtained in the FOI request indicated tens of thousands of dollars have been expended by councilpersons Lou La Monte and Laura Rosenthal on numerous trips to mostly Sacramento, and also to San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Not found was any reference to California Strategies.

While their expenses were documented, with every Starbuck’s coffee, gratuity and hotel bill listed, no notation could be further found indicating what particular venue visited, what was discussed, and how it might affect Malibu. There have been brief oral remarks at Council meetings, of events attended but no specifics recorded.

In addition to the FOI request, the Internet was searched for any item involving the firm’s relationship to Malibu. Disclosed was an agenda item of a Council meeting several years ago in which the firm’s latest contract was up for renewal, and an earlier item, in 2004, when the original contract was announced and the firm promoted by then Mayor Sharon Barovsky.

There was a news report revealing the firm’s representation of U2 guitarist David Evans, better known as the Edge, in his 2009 quest to build five homes on the bluffs overlooking the Malibu coastline.

California Strategies also was under contract at the time with Malibu, which pressed by residents had added its voice in opposition to the project.

A question of a conflict of interest was raised by Malibu, only to be rejected by the firm.

More questionable is the lack of accountability and transparency in the relationship between the firm and the city, especially since their contract calls for weekly and biweekly updates. It is hard to fathom that there were no written reports and records of alleged conversations, which since there also were no recordings would have to be rejected as hearsay.

My experience as a reporter for the New York Times, a federal regulatory agency official and later as a consultant to several firms and foundations, is that it was essential all correspondence and communications be at least dated and recorded, if only for billing.

Also queried in confidence were several venerable consultants and administrators. They replied that reports to clients were generally written, and the few oral would be logged and usually documented.

They added for the client this was what is called “a reasonable expectation of service, “ particularly in the public sector, which is more prone to inquiry. “Cover yourself,” is the guiding rule One public administrator observed in general, and without reference to Malibu, the problem in many small cities is that elected officials tend to be inexperienced and vain, and easily manipulated by consultants. He added in his extensive experience a few unfortunately had nefarious motives.

As for staffs, he added that though possibly competent, they frankly tended to let consultants do their “heavy lifting” and anything that called for an extra effort, like advocating their city. He noted this has become a relatively simple matter in the age of the internet.

“These small cities, especially the wealthy ones, have become a honey pot for termed out legislators and former agency heads haunting Sacramento, and I guess most other state capitols,” he concluded in candor. At the same time, he and others observed that lame duck officials alert to post public service employment opportunities tend to be friendly to well connected consultants.

In conclusion, Malibu and the City Council should be concerned.

Raised is the question how indicative is City Hall’s relationship with California Strategies of its administration; its liaison with other consultants; and its own operations?

Needed to be addressed in particular is the contract with California Strategies. It has only a few months remaining, and can be suspended or terminated with five days notice, or amended to be more accountable.

In addition, what could be described as road shows, or simply the perks of select councilpersons and administrators, be monitored as to their actual value to the city, and generally a stricter cost benefit analysis be applied to municipal initiatives.

Meanwhile, the Council should review the prerequisite for diligent professional oversight of Malibu’s municipal operations and governance.

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IN CONCLUSION, MALIBU SHOULD BE CONCERNED. This report was prompted by a modest city press release announcing Mayor Lou La Monte, Council Member Laura Rosenthal and City Manager Reva Feldman “are heading to the state capitol to ensure that Malibu’s concerns are heard.”

The release (1.18.17) detailed the three having been appointed to select League of California Cities committees, and listed other public posts require travel to Sacramento, San Francisco and Washington DC on behalf of Malibu.

Noting that Malibu has a long-standing contract with the Sacramento-based consultant firm, California Strategies, for a broad scope of services involving governmental operations and representations, engendered several questions concerning city policy and priorities.

Not recalling any relevant public discussions, or municipal oversight, I initiated a search as a credentialed journalist and concerned citizen.

This included two detailed Freedom of Information requests to the city, protracted reviews of Council Agendas, the Internet, and select interviews.

AND SPEAKING OF

STRATEGY...

Doesn’t Council member Laura Rosenthal and City Manager Reva Feldman look awfully cozy at the Malibu Guitar Festival?

We think so.

Which leads us to question...

Who is the real strategist at City Hall?

Photo: Malibu Village Instagram

WHY DOES DIVORCE COST SO MUCH? BECAUSE IT’S WORTH IT!

By Sam Hall Kaplan

Talk about a divorce, no matter how amiable the negotiations, reasonable the settlement, and the mutual agreements for the sake of the children, as the split nears, there is always something.

Who will get to keep the wedding gifts? Who pays for the additional legal costs? Anybody who has gone through the proceedings has a story to tell of a last minute demand.

As I comment on public radio 97.5 KBU and select websites, usually it’s the money. Hence the classic joke of: Why does a divorce cost so much? The answer being: because it is worth it!

In the divorce of the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District versus Malibu, the proceedings have become sticky, and the majority representing Santa Monica heretofore magnanimous in their stance as liberals, has morphed into ingenuous conservatives; parochial and greedy, and sanctimonious.

The Santa Monica majority on the school board is now said to want $100 million as the price to let Malibu have its freedom. And just leave the jewelry and credit cards on the nightstand.

But beyond the money, is the question of power, not what is good for the kids, but what do those involved win or lose.

We’re talking here of the district’s bureaucracy, the loss of jobs, cuts in salaries, and, god forbid, greater workloads.

So what if the communities are separate and distinct, Malibu a rural seacoast village; Santa Monica, a bayside city ten times larger, and increasingly urban, the last stop on a transit rail line, and the first stop for socializing millenniums.

Obviously from its origins the district has been a marriage of convenience. There might have been early moments of a youthful fling, a tumble on the sand, if you will, but not any more.

This makes it all the harder to face the truth, and in the case of the divorce of the school district, to do the right thing.

And it prompts the thought if Santa Monica was in the position Malibu is, and an appendage to the L.A. Unified School District, and wanting to break free. No doubt Santa Monica would then most likely argue that as a distinctive city its needs its freedom, while L.A. would counter it needs Santa Monica’s money, to bolster the less affluent communities it serves, such as Compton and South Central.

And Santa Monica would answer that its independence is a democratic imperative, and frankly ethical. Therefore, for Santa Monica to contend anything different in its relationship to Malibu, I feel, would be hypocritical.

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supersize just got smaller IN AN UNPRECEDENTED MOVE, CITY COUNCIL ADOPTS A RESOLUTION THAT COULD CHANGE THE REAL ESTATE MARKET IN MALIBU

BY LESTER TOBIAS In a classic, Malibu style confrontation between property rights and “keep Malibu, Malibu”, the city council, led by “Team Malibu” (Peak, Wagner, Mullen) voted to resuscitate a long dormant project review standard known as “Neighborhood Character” for all residential applications seeking a Site Plan Review and/or a Minor Modification. Site Plan Reviews are required for all structures over 18 feet tall.

This issue of Neighborhood Character, which could have extremely far reaching implications for land development in the city, came to the fore due to the mutually exclusive conditions of a difficult site, a design solution that seemed to lack a certain sensitivity to that site, and a determined neighbor.

The project in question is a single family residence in Ramirez Canyon, located on Via Acero where it abuts Kanan Dume Road (a designated scenic highway). It was clear from the staff presentation recommending denial of the appeal and upholding the 5-0 Planning Commission approval of the project that the submittal had been run through the ringer, suffering several revisions prior to receiving a staff recommendation of approval. By the time it got to the council, it had been reduced from about 8,000 square feet to about 6,500 square feet. The appealing neighbor raised serious questions about the accuracy of all of the submitted area calculations, so this article uses approximate square footages for purposes of analysis. By the end of the discussion, the council, emphatically led by Mayor Peak, told the project owner to come back with a house no larger than 4,500 square feet, including the garage.

By the end of the discussion, the council, emphatically led by Mayor Peak, told the project owner to come back with a house no larger than 4,500 square feet, including the garage.

Although issues of scenic views, bad geology, and solar access were all part of a clearly articulated presentation by the appellant, the argument that the house was (still) too big for the neighborhood is what led to the rather shocking decision by the council to determine a project’s allowable size in an ad-hoc fashion, essentially developing zoning code on the fly. The planning staff unsuccessfully justified the use of Floor Area Ratio (only applied to commercial projects) in reaching their conclusion that the residential project was indeed within the size spectrum of the other homes in the direct vicinity.

Assuming that this action holds, several cascading effects could easily occur. The first is that the planning staff will now have to explain what neighborhood character means, and develop a set of metrics that will allow applicants to pre determine the allowable size of their house. That will take a long time. The second is that sections of town will be blocked from large home construction. Those areas will most likely see a drop in their home values as a consequence of this constraint, but residents who relish the old school qualities of their neighborhoods, and aren’t looking for windfall increases in equity will perhaps be happy. The third is that a new path for obstruction of any residential development has most likely appeared. It will be interesting to see how many more projects are delayed on this issue of “Neighborhood Character”.

Oh. There’s also the possibility of a lawsuit, but that never happens.

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STRANGER DANGERS

BY STEVE WOODS

As Malibu locals, we are all too aware of the change in seasons by the amount of traffic on our roads, beach umbrellas on the beaches and hikers on our trails. Each consecutive year the masses show up earlier in spring and dwindle later in the fall .Our winters are still ours to enjoy the cooler, moodier yet peaceful solitude but on the more pleasant winter days our coastline attracts more and more out of season visitors in need of our majestic natural resources. Malibu draws visitors ranging from the good, the bad and the ugly, with the latter group being the ones who bring their unconscious poor city habits in the form of tossing trash and vandalizing our rock formations with graffiti. Each year local community members pick up more and more trash and curse the slobs who never cease to toss their soiled pampers , fast food wrappers and beer bottles to the ground. Our trails are gathering more and more cigarette butts being dropped next to the dry brush which is increasingly threatening another disastrous brushfire. Our natural resources and parks are being inundated with vandals armed with spray cans mixed with substance abuse. Gone are the days of leaving our homes unlocked. With the influx of inner city visitors driving through our rural neighborhoods, property theft and home burglaries have been on the rise.

Law Enforcement and Park Rangers alone cannot keep up with the influx of infractions, violations and crime so we the locals have to be active in the community by being involved with Arson Watch vigilance and neighborhood watch groups. We must report potential crimes and thwart those who are disrespecting our land, disobeying our laws and tarnishing our community with their bad habits.

As a result of this winter’s relentless rainy season that produced almost double the 12.93 inches average rainfall totals in some parts of Malibu, our hillsides have produced some of the most prolific displays of flower and brush growth ever seen . Some trails are almost impassable without using a machete or shears to clear away towering 8 foot high Mustard plants, shoulder high grasses and exploding fluorescences of aromatic Sages, Sumac and Fennels. It only took a brief out of season dry Santa Ana Wind to turn our lush verdant hillsides into a golden glut of crisp, dry fuel loads for the now present fire season . Malibu is one inflamed cigarette butt away from our next brush fire catastrophe .Our canyons and hillsides are loaded with homeless campers who sometimes have campfires to cook. Do not hesitate to call the police and the Fire Dept. if one sees or smells smoke in remote areas. As the dial of summer sun gets cranked up , Southern California is expected to sizzle, prompting officials to warn residents they should gird against what could be the most perilous fire season on record. Report or confront smokers who are violating or are unaware of our high-risk fire danger areas that prohibit any open flames. Because of the extra fuel loads, this is a no joke fire season. It is recommended that homeowners immediately cut all brush down to a height of 3 inches or less within 100 feet of any structure, and to clear all brush within 200 feet of structures in so-called high hazard areas.

If your property fails the first inspection, a notice of non-compliance will be issued to the owner of record. Property owners identified as being noncompliant with the Brush Clearance Ordinance for two consecutive years, and having had their property processed and cleared by Brush Clearance Contractors, will be subject to the following procedures: During the annual Brush Clearance Inspection process, noncompliant property owners who have been cited shall abate the hazard within 15 days as provided by the Los Angeles Municipal Code, Sections 57.21 et seq. If the property remains in noncompliance after 15 days, the Fire Department will take immediate action to abate the hazard using Brush Clearance Contractors. The property owner shall be responsible for all inspection fees, administrative fees and clearance costs.

Beware of the Stranger Dangers that lurk around some our local Malibu business areas.

18-year-old Sophia Raab was surfing near Malibu when a large chunk of flesh was ripped off her thigh by what is believed to be a shark, according to KTLA News.

Malibu is only one inflamed cigarette butt away from our next brush fire catastrophe.

Hollywood actor Michael Rider was attacked by a very aggressive transient panhandler who turned violent when Mr. Rider came to the defense of a woman who was being assaulted by the panhandler who was yelling obscenities and foul language at her after she refused to give him money. Overhearing the verbal assault, Mr. Rider stood up and said “Look buddy, you’re drunk… you’re out of control… you need to leave people alone.” The panhandler turned away but picked up a metal chair and threw it at the actor who received 12 stitches on his elbow from the glancing blow.

With more and more transients gathering around shopping areas, security personnel are increasingly escorting female shoppers across the parking lots to their vehicles.

Be aware of the Stranger Dangers that lurk along our 27 miles (not 21 miles) of scenic beauty. Rider says most of Malibu’s homeless are not problematic. He hangs out with some of the homeless at Starbucks. But he lays the blame on the growing population of troublemakers he describes as drug and alcohol abusers, like the person he says attacked him with the table and chair. It’s not only the homeless that have substance abuse problems. Our wealthy homeowners are not immune to this growing problem.

Malibu has lost too many of our youth to heroin overdoses from drugs smuggled in over the border.

Malibu has lost too many of our youth to heroin overdoses from drugs smuggled in over our southern border.

Though our Malibu City Council has deemed us a safe zone Sanctuary City for the explicit protection of illegal aliens, do not let your guard down as our community has become less safe. According to a crime index stats for California, property theft has increased to above the national average, while the city of Malibu rates 19 out of 100 of the safest cities in the US ,100 being the safest. https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/malibu/crime Just when you thought it was safer to be in the water than on land ,think again , stranger dangers from the deep in the form of sharks have recently attacked several Southern California Surfers . Last weekend at San Onofre surf spot a mother of 3 was attacked and remains in critical condition . And all too close to Malibu a young woman was also bitten At around 2:30pm last Wednesday, 18-year-old Sophia Raab was finishing up a session in the Pacific Coast Highway/Sunset Boulevard zone of Pacific Palisades when a large chunk of flesh was ripped off her thigh by what is believed to be a shark, according to KTLA News.

Be Good out there!

Rangers and law enforcement are struggling to keep up with the increases in property theft and vandalism in our neighborhoods and remote canyons.

COVER FEATURE

MICK FLEETWOOD: BLUES IN THE BU THE Founding member of Fleetwood Mac brought his Blues Band featuring guitarist Rick Vito, to headline the Malibu Guitar Festival on Saturday, May 20th. He talks with the festival’s co-founder John Watkin. Photos by: Daniel Sullivan Up and down the Pacific Coast Highway, there are ghosts of rock ’n roll past. In the beach shacks of Malibu Road where countless songs came into the world and took their first stuttering steps towards immortality. In the canyons at Corral and Latigo and Encinal, where all night jam sessions echoed through the hills in the days before noise ordinances and 10pm shut-downs. And of course, on the hallowed ground of “Trancas”, where the music seemed to never end and the legends of West Coast rock came to kick back and exchange licks and riffs and war stories, until the caramel frappuccinos and skinny latté’s moved in, and the rock ’n roll elite picked up, got sober, and found themselves a new home.

Mick Fleetwood remembers it all. Well, almost. Don’t push him on dates and specifics, because that was during his “lunacy” period. But he remembers the vibe, jamming with Gary Busey, and Delaney and Bonnie, and so many more, if only we’d had iPhones to record everything, but we didn’t and it’s probably just as well.

Mick loves Malibu. Despite the raging fire that drove him all the way to the sea, and the endless misbehaving that drove him to financial troubles and marital break-ups, and the prodigious amounts of cocaine that seemed to fuel everything for the better part of two decades.

And Mick loves the Blues. He’s steeped in them. An English gentleman with an uncanny love and connection for the sounds and stories of the Delta, the crossroads, the folk-lore of black history- preserved and defined by the simplicity of 12 musical bars and the endless re-telling of those stories of hardship, and loss, and love gone wrong.

Now Mick’s coming back into town, celebrating Malibu and the Blues in the best way possible- bringing the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band to headline the third annual Malibu Guitar Festival. We talked about all of this recently, two Englishmen a long way from home.

That was my whole world out there… Malibu, Malibu, Malibu, Malibu, and I might add most of it is all great memories, but some of it’s a little frightening because that was in the heyday of my lunacy, and I had as they say “too much fun” in Malibu. But I’m happy to be coming back…

JW: So Mick- welcome back to Malibu! It’s a familiar spot for you.

MICK: Yes I’ve lived a lot in Malibu, I lived in Point Dume in three different houses, and of course Ramirez Canyon by the bay there. And in truth one of the reasons I’m doing this Festival- which I know is three years in the making, I’ve been always quietly aware of it- mainly because I have friends, including a really, really, dear friend of mine Dennis Mays who lives in Malibu. And he said “Mick you’ve got to come and do the Festival”… and I said “Well let’s find out whether I can chuck my band on a plane from Hawaii and play the Festival” and we are!

JW: And Malibu must bring back a lot of memories.

MICK: That was my whole world out there… Malibu, Malibu, Malibu, Malibu, and I might add most of it is all great memories, but some of it’s a little frightening because that was in the heyday of my lunacy, and I had as they say “too much fun” in Malibu. But I’m happy to be coming back…

JW: And you lived to tell the tale! In fact am I right in thinking you almost got burned out at one point…?

MICK: Yeah in that terrible fire that came down Ramirez Canyon…. the reality was we literally got chased- we were hanging around putting water out of the swimming pool onto the roof of the house and all that stuff, and then the fire came through that canyon and probably because of the wind gusting up to 30 miles an hour, I remember being chased down that road… and one of my assistants who lived at the house stayed behind too late and he got on a bicycle and literally flames were chasing him down the road. He didn’t get burnt badly, but he ended up in the ocean where we were and the flames came right down through Paradise Cove. All the caravans’ gas tanks were exploding, and we ended up having a beer on the beach thinking that our house had been burnt.

JW: Jesus.

MICK: You brought it up not me!

JW: Well, very glad you made it!!! Another thing I was curious about… the music scene in Malibu back then was pretty amazing wasn’t it?

MICK: Yeah down at Trancas, and there were a couple of other places along the coast there, but I played ‘many a time and oft’ with some bands that I sort of put together- mostly jam-bands that used to play down there, and we had a whole fraternity, you know- Gary Busey and a whole bunch of people, mostly actors that I was hanging out with in Malibu back in those days, and a lot of them quite frankly were pretty decent musicians. A lot of actors are drawn towards music as you well know, and in fact one wonders whether they wanted to be musicians versus actors half of them. But it was a great situation and I spent many, many, many, many nights playing and jamming down at Trancas, which of course is no longer there but yeah, all good! And a lot of great players lived out there...

JW: Any specific music memories of a night at Trancas??

MICK: I remember a night when Delaney from Delaney and Bonnie came down and I had already totally fallen in love creatively with his daughter Bekka Bramlett, who was a chip off the old block from her mother Bonnie. You know Bonnie and Delaney if you’re familiar with that band that found Eric Clapton after he left Cream… and in fact the whole of Delaney’s band became the Dominoes. And Delaney was this extraordinary musician, amazingly overlooked in terms of who and what he influenced… and Eric Clapton would be one of them who would very instantly say that he had a huge amount of respect for Delaney, he was incredible singer and songwriter, and I think Eric really was taken under his creative wing to some large extent.

So that night down at Trancas would be a memorable night for me, one of many…

JW: What year do you think we’re talking… are we in the early 70s then?

MICK: Now you’re getting into dangerous water where you know, the memory bank- those days are so crazy I don’t even know what year it was!

JW: Well you’ve mentioned Eric, and I wanted to focus a little bit on the blues if you don’t mind.

MICK: Not at all!!

JW: Something must have been in the water for those young men born in the ‘40s who lived in around London and who all flocked to the blues. What happened to create that blues explosion in the early 60’s…?

COVER FEATURE MICK: It’s a long story really but it’s true, your point is well taken, there must’ve been something in the water or something. If you look at just what was going on in England after the war, young folks were definitely looking to express themselves in maybe a different way than putting on military fatigues, and that was a perfect set-up that led to a lot of the creativity that came out of that period.

The whole advent of people gravitating towards blues no doubt had something to do with a lot of GI’s, African American GI’s, listening to R&B and early rock ‘n’ roll. And so a bunch of crazy English kids started going on a magical mystery tour asking where did that stuff come from? And it lead us back right into Blues Alley you know, and the rest of that became history.

I think we were well suited to it especially people like Peter Green.

(JW note: Peter Green is the legendary blues guitarist who founded Fleetwood Mac, and then suffered from schizophrenia which eventually caused him to leave the band.)

You know in those early days when we were all born, in 1945, 46, 47, the war had just finished and most of London was just flattened. And Peter came from a working-class family and I think he was just looking for a way out I’m sure.

If you look at all the great rock ‘n’ roll blues players, you know Jeff Beck and majorly Peter Green and Eric, they were steeped in the blues, and both came out of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers as did the whole of Fleetwood Mac really, and I think we just identified with quite frankly a somewhat sad history, where people were down-trodden and wanted to get the hell out.

And blues also is a very beguiling format, it looks very easy but it’s not. It attracted a lot of people that said “God I can pick up a guitar and I only need to know like eight chords and play a shuffle”, but a few of us in England took it seriously and really listened to how these guys were laying the music down, and took the gauntlet and ran with it and became the bands that we became.

But our hats were taken off very often to where we came from, which was our love for blues- which is what I’m doing there at the Guitar Festival with the Blues Band!! We love what we do and we have a lot of fun doing it, and touch on the early days of Fleetwood Mac and Rick Vito is a hugely talented guitar player who comes from that side of the street.

JW: We’re a Guitar Festival and Rick Vito’s a fantastic guitar player I can’t wait to see him play, and I was lucky enough to meet Peter Green- never seen him play but I met him. And you Mick, you’re coming at it from the drummer’s stool, so you have a different perspective obviously, but what do you think is the secret- if you could bottle the secret sauce of what makes a great blues guitar player- and Rick is included and Peter Green and Eric and so forth… what would that be from your point of view…?

MICK: I would say in simple language much like all of these players that you’ve mentioned they have “the touch.” And I mean the touch of how they approach their instrument quite literally. I mean the touch that it’s finally tuned and in many ways delicate and full of dynamics. But then take a few steps further, what is “the touch”? And the one thing they all have in common is that they’re sensitive. And to play blues, I can’t imagine in my world that anyone that has “the touch” doesn’t have a component in their personality that isn’t hugely sensitive. And that’s what blues playing is all about. As nitty and gritty as it is, it doesn’t happen unless there’s magic happening…

“And to play blues, I can’t imagine in my world that anyone that has “the touch” doesn’t have a component in their personality that isn’t hugely sensitive. And that’s what blues playing is all about. As nitty and gritty as it is, it doesn’t happen unless there’s magic happening…”

Mick Fleetwood jamming at the Malibu Guitar Festival May 20th.

COVER FEATURE

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE MALIBU GUITAR FESTIVAL Photos by Tim Horton

Ceremonial elder Mati Waiya of the Wishotyo Village presented the Humanitarian Award to Chief Arvol Looking Horse.

Alejandra and Doug Deluca, founders of the Malibu Guitar Festival.

David Foster and friends.

Kenneth Brian Band.

Zepparella

Laurence Juber

Donovan Frankenreiter

Lenny Goldsmith

Bernard Fowler

Karma Dealers

ENVIRONMENT

When foam rules the World

A look inside AIRTech and its dedication to Earth Conscious® technology. BY christy calafati

Who knew that a particular traditional material used in our day-to-day lives could be so dangerous, and have such an adverse impact on the environment? Since the ‘60s this material has undergone some tinkering but has remained largely the same - until now. That material is polyurethane foam, which may bring to mind a particular use or application, but also encompasses a mind-boggling variety of products. We sleep on foam, sit on it, walk on it, surf on it, insulate with it, soundproof with it, clean our bodies and households with it; its applications, and uses go on and on. Advanced Innovative Recovery Technologies, Inc. (AIRTECH, Inc.) has created non-toxic foams that are unrivaled in the industry. They call it BeBetterFoam®. Imagine taking that product we use in our everyday life and using it to clean the planet.

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was a call to action for AIRTech. They joined forces with one of the top chemists in the world to formulate a new, environmentally- friendly foam product that could provide a cleanup solution for the disastrous oil spill, restore earth’s waterways, oceans, and wildlife, and prevent oil spills and toxins from spreading through our waterways. It can take many forms, but it’s easiest to think of it as a “sea sponge.” It’s made from a unique, flexible foam material that is owned exclusively by the company. According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, the foam and its technology are non-toxic, inert to the environment, oleophilic (high oil absorption rate) and hydrophobic(repels water). It is also approved to be used in all waterways. This was the first major step in the company’s long journey ahead.

This incredible story has been an uphill battle, and labor of love for the original men behind it. They introduced their revolutionary foam to replace 60-yearold toxic technology, had product prototypes made and tested in real world situations, had tests conducted by third-party labs, disseminated thousands of samples, spent years in trials to ensure its efficacy and accomplished all this on the company’s own dollar, which had to be raised by acquiring investment capital themselves. To realize such success, from concept to EPA approval, of a previously toxic substance that now meets or exceeds all environmental requirements in California (where the rules are most stringent), is truly remarkable!

But what happens now that they have overcome regulatory hurdles with a product that works? How do they get visibility without spending hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing to the oil industry? Well, it just so happens there is one item found in 98% of all households the world over, and that is a foam sponge. Since BeBetterFoam® worked so well on a large scale, the company decided to try it on a small scale, and created a hydrophobic sponge for the kitchen and household! The immediate feedback was, “This is the best sponge I’ve ever used!”

Blake Ward, Founder/Chairman of the Board, testing the foam on the banks of the Yellowstone River during the Chevron spill, Laurel, MT.

AIRTech Eco-Boom is customization at its finest.

This is Channel One at Los Alamitos Bay, Long Beach, CA during weeks-long static testing for hydrocarbons, and silicones.

That led to the creation of AIRTECH’s first subsidiary, Pura Naturals, Inc., to take advantage of an existing market that needed a shakeup. The traditional, cellulose sponge is a breeding ground for bacteria, smells toxic from the VOCs upon opening the package, and is toxic to the environment. Pura Naturals’ sponges won’t stink, because they don’t hold water, which fosters bacterial growth. Blake Ward, Chairman of the Board of AIRTECH, tells us they had to “market our story and fund our cause in such a way that people could understand what we were doing, but in a different way where the story is told through the product packaging.” This was the solution they needed: another way to deliver their non-toxic, plant-based, highly efficient foam.

Pura Naturals’ sponge is like no other because it won’t smell, hold, or transmit bacteria. The foam sponge will last longer than any other sponge, which translates to less waste in our landfills. This groundbreaking company has found a way to improve our day-to-day life by introducing a replacement for traditional foam that will not pollute the water, is inert to the environment and will not leach chemicals into our landfills. Since exploiting their very first flexible foam formula, the company has created non-toxic formulas for rigid foam, memory foam, and even polystyrene! In addition to the foam formulas, they have also created a non-toxic polyurea that performs identically to the toxic version now used.

There are a myriad of applications for the formulas, and their advanced technologies, and the versatility of their products is staggering. What they can achieve, and the impact they can have on saving the planet is unprecedented. Not only are AIRTech products cleaning the planet’s oceans, but they have pioneered systems that will clean our rivers, lakes, and streams, and can also keep the pesticides and contaminants out of them. Did you know that our generation is mostly responsible for polluting our planet enough that we cannot swim or fish in 52% of our lakes in the U. S.? By employing AIRTech’s cleaning and preventative solutions, we will surely change that!

Prevention is the key here. Along with prevention and cleanup applications, which are desperately needed, AIRTECH is also working with companies who transport oil and gas inside the refineries and ports, and also with pipeline companies. “There are two types of pipelines,” says Ward, “those that leak, and those that are going to leak.” To that end, AIRTech is creating Mobile On Demand Response Trailers (M. O. D. R.), and Deployment On Demand Spill (D.O.D.S.) units.

AIRTech Fast Attack Eco-Boom Spill Recovery Technology not only absorbs hydrocarbons, but also acts as a barrier keeping trash in the water from spreading. Shown here across Channel Two, Los Alamitos Bay, Long Beach, CA.

AIRTech training government agencies how to deploy BeBetterFoam® booms during a simulated diesel fuel spill on the Colorado River, near Yuma, AZ.

ENVIRONMENT M.O.D.R.s are staged command centers designed for the early stages of a spill response. D.O.D.S. units contain state-of-the-art prevention, containment, collection, and response equipment, and are strategically placed near potential spill sites. Once field ready, the company can leverage relationships with EPA, California EPA, the Coast Guard, and other federal and state organizations.

Since all AIRTech’s foam formulations are non-toxic and emit no VOCs, even bigger things are on the horizon. For example: in 1966, NASA created memory foam to provide a more comfortable ride for the astronauts, protect them from vibrations and help minimize damage from potential accidents. In the end, NASA couldn’t use the foam because when the doors shut on the capsule, the air became highly toxic in the closed environment.

The outgassing of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) would have caused harm to the astronauts. Instead, it was made available to consumers, though it still emits harmful VOCs (the smell from a new mattress topper, pillow or mattress made from memory foam)! AIRTech’s memory foam emits no VOCs. The potential for helping improve our quality of life and day to day living is immense. Can you imagine the impact possible on those living in third world countries? Ward tells us that AIRTECH can “take the oil from polluted waters in third world countries, contain it, capture it, retrieve it, and use it to make fuel cells that generate electricity for hospitals and schools. If a community has no electricity, we can bring it to them where they live.

We can take pollution and man-made problems that are right in front of them, and actually turn them into solutions”.

AIRTech has received approval from the US EPA, California Coastal Commission, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and is also listed on the National Contingency Plan for USEPA Spill Response. In 2013, AIRTech received the California Small Business of the Year Award from the state legislature for their innovative, clean energy manufacturing practices.

AIRTech’s BeBetterFoam®, is helping to create a cleaner planet, and leave it better than they found it.

Watch this space in the coming months to read new developments about frack water filtration in the U. S., Japan, and China. AIRTech is also ready to transform construction applications through its next subsidiary, Earth Conscious Technology, Inc., which will introduce non-toxic forms of spray foam insulation, soundproofing, drywall, sheetrock, and roofing materials. airtechfoam.com

ENVIRONMENT

IF YOU REBUILD IT, WILL THEY COME? Restoring Malibu Creek Steelhead to Their Past Glory.

This story first appeared in Volume 2#1 of The Fly Fish Journal in 2009

Life wasn’t as nasty, brutish and short for the Chumash as it was for other, less blessed native American tribes. The creek the Chumash called “humaliwo” - because it was “where the surf sounds loudly” - was the southern boundary of Chumash territory. And you have to imagine the place was as prime for the Chumash then as it is for the rich and famous who live there now.

At Humaliwo, a fresh-water creek came out of the mountains, forming a lagoon where the Chumash probably stored their tomol canoes. They lived along the edge of the lagoon, which provided a natural salad bar to supplement that Malibouillabaise of lobster and abalone and rockfish that came from the sea - and swordfish once the Chumash got their tomol dialed.

A benign climate - warm in the winter, foggy in the summer. Lots to eat, and that included those weird, silvery ‘Isha’kowach’ that would come up out of the ocean after it rained, and swim for miles inland to breed. Fast, strong, smart and with fighting spirit. Hard to catch, but good eating. The Chumash would have had steelhead in their diet too - fresh and smoked.

La dolce vita, as lived by the Chumash for thousands of years, before wooden ships appeared on the water and ended their free and easy life.

Like all small towns, Malibu is home to a lot of storytellers. Some have no visible means of support so they hang around the coffee shops and talk and talk and talk and never seem to run out of BS. Others have won Oscars.

Around town you hear stories that Malibu Creek was once home to a thriving steelhead run. Hang out in the bar at Beau Rivage eating tapas and French Onion Soup, and you’ll hear a guy talk about how he won a fishing derby in the 1970s pulling an eight-pound steelhead out of the ocean from the Malibu Pier: “I won a year of free fishing on the charter boats,” said the fishing fool. “It was great.”

Google “Malibu creek steelhead” and you will find hundreds and thousands of pages of reports, studies and engineering schemes for improving (or further destroying) Malibu Creek.

The website for California Trout states: “At one time the steelhead run on the creek was thought to be over 1000 strong. Hollywood luminaries like Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy were said to take a break from their movie shoots to fish the Malibu’s still-viable runs. Sadly, less than 50 steelhead now make the trek. Eight miles of their former spawning habitat in what is now Malibu Creek State Park and the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area is permanently out of reach, the first 574 feet of it filled with the collected sediment that has made Rindge Dam useless since the mid 1950’s.”

Matt Kivlin was one of the Happy Few who enjoyed lonely surf at Malibu in the 1940s and 1950s. He remembers rainy winters, a beach littered with trees and an active lagoon: “In about 1945 Buzzy Trent and I caught some large fish probably 5 to 10 pounds,” Kivlin was kind enough to tell me. “Twofeet plus long, swimming up the mouth of the Malibu Creek.

The Creek mouth was running about 15” deep where it ran into the ocean between First and Second break. At the time we had no idea what they were.”

If you saw the movie Gidget, Cliff Robertson’s fictional Great Kahoona was inspired by the reality of a guy called Tubesteak. Terry “Tubesteak” Tracy came along a decade after Kivlin and lived in a shack on the beach in 1956 and 1957.

Hollywood luminaries like Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy were said to take a break from their movie shoots to fish the Malibu’s still-viable runs. This is Gable checking his rig on the tailgate of a Woody - and making it look good. Photo: AMPAAS Library.

‘Hard to catch, but good eating. The Chumash would have had steelhead in their diet too - fresh and smoked” Malibu was wild enough through the Golden Years of the 1950s, until the lifeguards showed up and ruined everything, Tubesteak remembers seeing fish in the lagoon, but his attention was elsewhere: “Steelhead fishing???!!!” Tubesteak bellows. “We were surfers man! Our food came down from the street on two legs. And cold beer, too!”

You hear stories that Malibu Creek was once an epic steelhead water, but in this modern world, that’s a little hard to believe. Riding waves and being in the ocean at Surfrider Beach puts you in touch every day with the Yin and the Yang of Malibu Creek. The creek flows sand and cobblestones down from the mountains that form the beach that shapes the wave, and so Malibu Creek is a good thing.

But the water is polluted by everything from bird poo to Tom Hanks’ loo. The ocean water of Surfrider Beach regularly receives F grades from Heal the Bay, and surfers live by a sort of Johnny Cochran rap:

After a rain, you must refrain.

If the water runs brown, stand down.

When the creek is breeched, I’m beached.

ENVIRONMENT The ocean waters off Surfrider are tainted by a nasty alchemy of stormwater runoff, leaching septic tanks, homeless camps, thousands of birds and an unnatural flow from the Tapia Water Reclamation Facility – a nice name for a place that can process 16 million gallons of raw sewage a day.

The Tapia water is tertiary treated and supposedly drinkable – but I Triple Dog Dare you. Some of the reclaimed water is used to water golf courses and highway medians, but some of it is released back into the creek between fall and spring – but not in summer.

Matt Stoecker is an excellent name for a steelhead-crazed biologist/owner of Stoecker Ecological Natural Resource Assessment and Restoration Services. (In full Greeny disclosure, Stoecker is married to Claire Chouinard.) But this guy has spent a lot of time poking around and scuba diving within steelhead habitat thriving and endangered and he knows the dangers: “Recent studies have shown pollution in treated wastewater that is discharged into streams can have devastating impacts to aquatic species, including turning male fish into females!”

And if you don’t believe him, Google “wastewater sex fish” but make sure underage children are not in the room.

Malibu Creek is good, because it brings cobblestones that create one of California’s best wave, and it also brings sand, which sometimes coats all those sharp cobblestones with a thick layer that saves your feet from getting lacerated.

Malibu Creek is bad, because the effluent of the affluent causes scary sore throats that feel like cancer incubators. Around Malibu you hear stories of a young surfer from Huntington Beach who died after he was poisoned by the heart-eating Coxsackie B4 virus – supposedly from Malibu Creek, but to paraphrase Spinal Tap: “You can’t dust for heart-eating viruses.”

Malibu Creek is good, because it brings cobblestones that create one of California’s best waveS, and it also brings sand.

No kidding, these two jamocas are holding Malibu Creek steelhead caught below Rindge Dam circa 1947. Steelhead fishing was good below the Rindge dam but legendary catches were also rumored above the dam before the steelhead run was blocked in 1926.

Photo courtesy: Anthony Spina at NOAA.” Stories around Malibu are one thing, but plug “coxsackie b virus Malibu” into Google, and you will find this chilling statement by no less an authority than the World Health Organization in their book Water Recreation and Disease. Plausibility of Associated Infections: Acute Effects, Sequelae and Mortality by the appropriately named Kathy Pond: “In May 1992, a 20-year old man developed nausea following a surfing outing in Malibu. His symptoms grew progressively worse and coxsackie B virus was isolated from him. He subsequently died from damage to his heart, caused by the virus. Although it was not proved that the virus was contracted whilst surfing, it was thought that this was the case (Dorfman 2004)” In November of 2009, hundreds of surfers tore themselves away from the coast to attend a meeting at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District headquarters downtown. The reason for the meeting was a final decision by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board on whether or not to impose a ban on septic systems, and force Malibu to build a sewage treatment plant in the watershed that flows into Malibu Lagoon. At the meeting, there were dozens of surfers testifying to ill effects from contact with the water. The LA Times reported: “Hundreds attended a nearly 10-hour meeting. Surfer Ken Seino, a member of the Malibu Surfing Assn., pulled open his shirt to show a scar on his upper-left chest, where he had a pacemaker implanted. That was necessary, he said, because of the viral myocarditis he contracted after paddling through raw sewage at Surfrider Beach in the summer of 1997.

‘I smelled it, I tasted it, and it was ugly,’ Seino, 53, said. ‘I regurgitated before I could paddle to the sand.’ He said he eventually needed a pacemaker.”

To me, in my naivete, I see the septic systems as the double-edged sword of Malibu. Because the city incorporated in 1991, in part to block a sewage system, Malibu is a remarkably rural place, with a population density of less than 700 folks per square mile, in a county that has a population density of more than 8,000 per square mile. Malibu is only 20 miles from 20 million masses yearning to breathe free, and it’s a Yellowstone-like miracle that the Malibu has been so well preserved. Part of that ruralness is caused by what my friend Leonard Brady calls “economic cleansing.”

But part of it is because septic tanks limit development.

ENVIRONMENT Paddling around the surfline at Malibu on a standup paddleboard, the hills are astonishingly, beautifully empty. Outsiders think of Malibu as a tony place to live, but the truth is, Malibu is one of the best-preserved small towns in America. There are more businesses and population in Hamilton, Montana than Malibu. It’s a miracle, but it’s a miracle that also fouls the water with leaching septic tanks.

Looking at Malibu Creek as a fisherman, I look at it askance: Bow my head and then shake my head. The fantasy of Malibu as a great steelhead creek is all in the past. The present is tainted and doesn’t smell good. Malibu Creek is dead to me.

And then, it wasn’t.

While poking around in the LA Times online archive, writing a book about Malibu for City Councilman (and possible future mayor) Jefferson “Zuma Jay” Wagner, I found an article dated May 17, 1916 that brought Malibu Creek roaring back to life:

Scandal BEST STORY NEVER TOLD Record Steelhead is Caught Without a License.

Fine Fishing Reported in the Malibu Region The gist of the story is a mug named William S Saltor winning a mug for landing a 32-inch steelhead (!) in Malibu Creek.

Saltor kept the fish, put it on display in a sporting good store somewhere in Los Angeles and soaked up the accolades for what is, even by modern standards, a hog.

A trophy fish. A keeper.

Out of Malibu Creek, in 1916.

All well and good, except Saltor didn’t have a fishing license and he had been warned about the consequences. Fish and Game probably secretly congratulated him for

Another nice-looking steelhead, pulled from the rocks below Rindge Dam, circa 1947. That guy looks like a bait plugger - the steelhead version of a kayaker - but whatever. That’s a big, healthy fish. Photo courtesy: Tony Spinoza/NOAA.

landing a trophy, and then publicly arrested him for claiming a righteous fish without a license. According to the LA Times, Saltor was assigned a date with Justice Frank Shannon of Malibu Township.

The LA Times article praises the diligence of the “thirty-odd men on duty throughout this end of the State watching trout streams and lakes” and it’s a little surprising to read how on top of it Fish and Game were, way back when, in 1916 – when the population for all of Los Angeles County was just under 320,000. These days, the population of Los Angeles County increases by 100,000 a year, every year.

Some of the best fishing was reported from the Malibu, probably because a few really good fishermen had the first crack at it on the Rindge estate.

But the real surprise came in the final two paragraphs, which transformed Malibu Creek from skull and crossbones, to oncorhynchus mykiss Valhalla: Some of the best fishing was reported from the Malibu, probably because a few really good fishermen had the first crack at it on the Rindge estate. Deputy Harry Pritchard took his limit before 8 o’clock opening day all on the old reliable worm, and had a demonstration of the evils of salmon-egging when some fellows came down the creek and spoiled the sport for all who came after. The limit was one of the prettiest that ever came out of that creek, which bears a good reputation for decent-sized fish and sporting conditions. Fish and Game Commissioner Connell stuck to the fly, and had good sport. In the 200 yards Pritchard fished in getting his limit, was a fine, long pool very deep, and most of his fish came out of that one place. In another spot were three great steelheads, and while trying to get them up to a fly, the salmon-egg fraternity appeared, threw in a handful of their demoralizing stuff, hung one, there was a flurry, a broken hook, and nothing more doing in that pool. So it always goes. Good fishermen get trout, but as a rule they do not use salmon-roe; when bait is the necessary thing, it is a couple of red worms; and that failing, a spinner or with clear water and fish feeding high, the artificial fly.

In all probability the next Legislature will be asked to abolish salmon-eggs, which are a by-product of the salmon packing business and spoil fishing by decent methods by catering to a depraved taste of the fish. If, indeed, they do not actually injure the trout which gorge greedily upon them, owing to the preservative used in keeping the eggs. All experts will hail with joy the passage of such a law; and to those who argue they could not catch fish with any other bait, there remains the answer that trout took worms before they saw salmon-eggs, and that the worm is the natural food of the trout anyway.

“Depraved taste of the fish?” What kind of talk was that for 1916?

Salmon-eggers were persona non grata way back when? Amazing.

And then there’s “a fine, long pool, very deep…”

Does that make you horny?

LOCAL

Exactly one year ago in June, the Cornucopia Foundation spearheaded a movement to get one filtered water hydration station with bottle re-filler into every school in Malibu as well as Malibu City Hall and Malibu Library.

The machine of choice is the FLOWater machine whose functions are incomparable to other hydration stations. It boasts a filter life which lasts 5 times longer than the Elkay drinking fountain. The FLOWater machine filters up to 5000 gallons of water versus the Elkay which filters 1000 gallons. Its purification process is superior to any similar machine in that it removes 99% of any impurities including dirt, dust, rust, chlorine, etc. The Elkay machine has 2 filters and the FLOWater machine has 7 filters. FLOWater is self-contained and free-standing versus the Elkay which is a permanent installation and cannot be moved once installed.

FLOWater is distinct in its flavor which does not taste of any minerality or hardness. Last but not least, the FLOWater machine delivers chilled water that is self-sanitized and hygienic.

THE FIGHT TO GIVE

BY CHRISTY CALAFATI

Cornucopia has also been talking with local businesses, pressing to get these machines installed throughout Malibu. If there are water fountains installed in Malibu, they should not be just hose-bib water but rather a 7 filter purified, chilled water machine that removes 99% of all impurities.

The first business to hop on board is Kristy’s Village Café. This could drastically reduce the number of plastics in the oceans and provide our children and our community with filtered water that has fewer contaminants.

The movement began as an answer to a 5th grader from Juan Cabrillo Elementary who was looking for donations. The student approached Debra, which inspired a brilliant idea that benefitted everyone involved. Debra immediately approached the board of her Cornucopia Foundation which was met with a unanimous YES. We live in an age where our oceans are filling up with waste and plastics and we are witnessing first-hand the damage that plastic is doing to our wildlife and most importantly our eco-systems. Cornucopia’s wish is to be a catalyst for ensuring we leave the planet better than we found it.

Since Cornucopia’s original offer to donate the Hydration stations, Jennifer Denicola has found an alternate company named FLOW which seems to be in perfect alignment with SMMUSD strict guidelines. The FLOW systems can be leased, which will alleviate the sole responsibility of the SMMUSD having to maintain and upkeep the systems.

As of today, the District’s approval is still pending. We are also awaiting Malibu City Hall and Malibu Library to accept our gift. The future of our planet is not by chance, but by choice.

Cornucopia Foundation is so pleased and proud that the city of Malibu is joining them in their campaign to get water fountain refill stations installed throughout Malibu. Last June 2016, the Cornucopia Foundation offered to donate one to every school in Malibu (approval still pending from SMMUSD) as well as Malibu Library. Cornucopia’s ultimate goal is making it mandatory throughout the City of Malibu.

The fountain of choice is the water fountain refill station. Stand up with The Cornucopia Foundation and refuse any other water fountains. We live in an age where our oceans are filling up with waste and plastics and we are witnessing first- hand the damage that plastic is doing to our wildlife and most importantly our eco-systems. As for our health, how about what we drink.

Cornucopia’s wish is to be a catalyst for ensuring we leave the planet better than we found it.

WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR OCEANS NOW, NO MORE PLASTICS! WE NEED TO STAND UP AND REDUCE OUR LANDFILLS, NO MORE PLASTICS! The future of our planet is not by chance, but by choice.

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ART

A Fragile Strength

A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY AND EXHIBIT BY ROBERTO CABRAL On February 3rd I boarded a plane bound for Africa. A 30-hour journey I took alone, just me, my camera, and an old picture of my dad in my wallet.

– He was murdered 3 years ago. It was in his honor that I took this trip, he loved travel and loved life… I know he shared this special time with me.

My first stop was Rwanda where I stood face to face with the high mountain gorillas. Each morning I awoke at 5:00AM and prepared for the daily trek; 30-60 minute drive to meet up with my guides and then together we would hike into the forest until we came upon a family of gorillas.

The first day we came upon the Hirwa family, I was filled with awe and excitement. A nearly 500lb silverback presided over the family. I stood within 10 feet of him, while the other gorillas milled about. You could feel his strength even at a distance. And the ultimate experience is having this giant brush by you on his way around “his” jungle. What struck me was their innocence and the fragility of their existence. Although these creatures are among the strongest in the world, they are immensely threatened by encroachment, poaching and global warming. Armed with my camera, I photographed three families for 3 days capturing their innocence and their power – their fragility and their strength.

Next I flew to Kenya where I visited Amboseli and the Maasai Mara. Throughout my journey, I was humbled by the magnificence of both the animals and the people around them. So many animals, even those not listed as “endangered” are threatened by poachers, loss of habitat, the illegal bush-meat trade, and the changing climate which is melting the glaciers of Kilimanjaro at an alarming rate. Also, elephants, who must travel countless miles each day in search of food, are at great danger should they wander outside protected areas. The same is true of lions and many other animals.

As a young boy I remember seeing African animals in the zoo. Looking back now I consider maintaining animals in zoos as the cruelest practice.

Magnificent elephants born to travel numerous miles every day in family units have their lives torn apart so someone in a zoo can point a finger and throw peanuts at them. As an advocate of animal rights, seeing animals caged is an issue I struggle with deeply.

Elephants in the Dust It was mid morning as a large group of elephants formed coming straight toward me in Amboseli, Kenya - I was awestruck.

The clouds, the dust and the barren land these animals traverse daily in search of food and water, all the while in constant danger of poachers should they wander outside of their protected areas: Truly A Fragile Strength ...

As an advocate of animal rights, seeing animals caged is an issue I struggle with deeply.

My journey was one of introspection and self-discovery. Each morning I awoke invigorated and inspired to share my journey – and I did through social media. My Instagram and Facebook posts received thousands of likes and comments. My iPhone photos, videos and stories enthralled people. Wait till they see the real images!

I experienced Africa differently than I expected, what I saw and felt changed me completely. I want my photos to reveal this world to others in a way you never imagined before. My photographs tell my story - the story of A Fragile Strength.

ART I experienced Africa differently than I expected, what I saw and felt changed me completely.

Last month I was approached by The G2 Gallery in Venice – a gallery committed to bringing attention to environmental issues through the persuasive power of photographic art. “There are few photographers able to capture the raw and wild nature of an environment with the elegance of fine art. Robert Cabral is among those photographers,” says Ed Boks, Executive Director of The G2 Gallery.

I captured Africa through my heart with my camera – with the goal to share these images with everyone. I hope this exhibit will open people’s eyes to the fragile nature of our planet and its inhabitants, and our responsibility to preserve it. If they perish, so will we!

The opening reception for Roberto Cabral: A Fragile Strength, will be held Saturday, June 10 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Admission is $10 and includes complimentary wine, hors d’oeuvres and valet in front of the gallery. All proceeds from admissions and art sales will be donated to Wildlife Conservation Network’s Elephant Crisis Fund.

Lion Under Full Moon is an iconic shot of an old lion as the full moon rises over Amboseli, Kenya.

It was the very last shot I took that night. We were heading back to camp and came across a family of lions playing. As the old male separated himself from the pride, he walked over past my vehicle and watched me – and I watched him. I saw the moon coming up just before we approached him and was hoping for a shot like this.

Zebra on Hill:

As beautiful as zebras are, they rarely will look directly at you because of their hard wiring. They are in constant flight mode, even when eating. Capturing a beautiful photo of a zebra was perhaps one of the most challenging pictures I’ve taken. This little lady was a super model.

Cheetah Under Tree:

This picture was made to order. I wanted a photo cheetah lounging under a tree looking just over her shoulder, and when I came upon this cat, it was just as I had planned. It only took me about 20 hours to find it, but when I found it, it exactly what I wished for.

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WELLNESS

“sleep is your best meditation”

BY DIANA NICHOLSON

Your bedroom is your sanctuary. Sometimes we forget that along with diet and exercise there’s another magic bullet... sleep! One of the best things you can do for your body, mind and spirit is adjust your sleep habits.

The CDC refers to sleep disruption as a public health epidemic.Sleeping poorly can not only ruin your day, but your overall health as well.

Almost half the population doesn’t get enough sleep, 40% sleep less than the recommended seven to nine hours a night. However, a small percentage of the population can function well on less sleep, but it’s extremely rare. Conversely, sleeping too much presents it’s own health risks.

If you find yourself exhausted during the day….something isn’t right! What’s preventing you from sleeping soundly?

Below are 11 sleep disruptors and suggested solutions.

Light exposure - Sleeping exposed to light, even a small amount interferes with the release of melatonin and, subsequently, the release of growth hormones. Cortisol also remains abnormally high when you are exposed to light while sleeping. Solution: Draw the curtains and turn off all electrical devices including the digital clock by your bed..

Late night workouts - Regular exercise can certainly help you sleep better, as long as you do it earlier in the day.

Workouts, especially cardio, raise your body temperature significantly, preventing the release of melatonin. It can also interfere with your ability to fall asleep, since it usually increases noradrenaline, dopamine, and cortisol, which stimulate brain activity. Solution: Avoid exercise in the 3 hour period before bed.

Using electronics before bed - Many people enjoy surfing the internet, emailing and watching favorite shows just prior to sleep. These activities increase the stimulating hormones noradrenaline and dopamine, which can prevent you from falling asleep. You should also be aware of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) that are emitted from electrical devices. These can disrupt the pineal gland and the production of melatonin and serotonin. Research has also linked EMFs to increased risk of cancer. Solution: “Power down” and focus on calming activities that make your serotonin dominant and improve your sleep such as, reading, journaling or meditating. These are good habits to cultivate.

Sleeping in tight pj’s and clothing - A comfy sleep t-shirt or your favorite pajamas can actually help you sleep better, but not if they’re too tight! A bra, underwear and socks can raise your body temperature which has been proven to reduce secretion of melatonin and growth hormones. Solution: Wear lose fitting clothes or sleep in the nude.

Avoid socks, heavy sheets and blankets.

Not getting the right amount of sleep - Most sleep experts agree that seven to nine hours a night is optimal.

However, some people may require more or less sleep than others. If you wake without an alarm in the morning and feel refreshed when you get up, you’re likely getting the right amount of sleep.When your sleep is insufficient, your cortisol and hunger hormones both surge, causing a corresponding increase in insulin. You also experience decreases in leptin, melatonin, growth hormone, testosterone, and serotonin, all of which lead to weight gain. Solution: Aim for seven and a half to nine hours nightly… early to bed, early to rise!

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Toxic Chemicals and Mold in your Mattress - Most mattresses contain toxins including boric acid, formaldehyde, petrochemicals, phthalates, polyurethane, polyvinyl chloride. These dangerous chemicals are often used in some foam fillers and memory foam mattresses. In addition, some fire retardent chemicals including polybrominated diphenyl ethers have been linked to asthma and non-diagnosed sleep disorders. These foam chemicals can cause a rise in body temperature and increased moisture resulting in the formation of mold. Solution: Research all the materials used in the construction of your mattress. Choose natural and organic materials that have proper air flow. Companies like Hastens which have been making handcrafted beds for six generations believe the right mattress is an investment in yourself.

Mouth breathing - Breathing through the mouth while sleeping can cause snoring, intense dry mouth and sleep apnea, all of which can be disruptive to quality sleep.The optimal way to breathe in general is through the nose, it triggers your parasympathetic nervous system and relaxes your whole body. In addition, the nose filters out dirt and other particles. Solution: Nasal strips can help you get in the habit of breathing comfortably through your nose. If they don’t, it may be time to see an ear, nose and throat specialist.

Sore hips and knees - If you wake up sore with achy knees and hips, it could be due to the way you sleep at night.

Most of us sleep on our side, both knees can rub against each other, or one knee will fall slightly forward. This compromises the angle of the pelvis causing strain on the hips and exacerbating knee pain. Solution: place a small pillow between your legs. This will cushion the knees, help align the pelvis and spine and alleviate lower back pain resulting in a more sound sleep.

Drinking too much liquid before bed - Drinking fluids just before bedtime can definitely increase your need for late night trips to the bathroom. This interrupts your natural sleep patterns. In addition, if you turn the light on when you go, you also run the risk of suppressing melatonin production. Solution: Stop drinking all fluids two hours before bedtime.

Eating Too Close to Bedtime - Late night meals and snacks prevent your body from cooling down during sleep and raise your insulin level. As a result, less melatonin and growth hormones are released while you sleep. Solution: Stop eating 3 hours before bed.

Too much sleep - Researchers in the US found that people who consistently slept more than nine hours each night were twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia over the next ten years as those sleeping nine hours or less. “We’re not suggesting you go wake up Grandpa. We think this might be a marker for the risk of dementia, not a cause” of the illness, said Dr. Sudha Seshadri, a professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and the senior author of the study. Solution: Limit your sleep to seven and a half to nine hours a night.

The foundation of good health is a good night’s sleep!

BEAUTY

The ScentS of Summer

Growing up on the sands of the most celebrated beaches in the world, local Malibu surfer Kim Hansen set out to create an essence that captured the sand, sea, and tropical beauty, she loved so much.

Kim, an experienced perfumer, combines exotic essential oils such as Hawaiian Jasmine, in her debut perfume Leilana, which has developed a cult following.

New to the collection is BEACH, a summer sensational coconut-floral combo, that will have you smelling like summer all year long.

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