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January 22, 2016

Beverly Hills Post Office Botch Jeopardizes Care For Cedars-Sinai Patient

LAS MADRINAS—Twenty-eight young ladies from throughout the Southland were presented at the Las Madrinas Debutante Ball in The Beverly Hilton for their community service and for the benefit of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Back row (all from left): Daisy Dorathea Trout; Deidra Alston Logan; Caitlyn Cord Morton; Grace Catherine Morgan; Eliza Halley Houghton Bird; Reilly Butler; and Sarane Millie Caratan.

Third row: Carina Lynn Tracy; Elizabeth Fitger Shoemaker; and Jessica Ellen Sarni. Second row: Claire Emma Nordstrom; Jennifer Jean Morton; Katherine Grace Hatton; Rachel Marie Beaver; Lauren Barrett Boyle; Alyce Marie McNulty; Pilar Mae Hoye; and Emily Marie Miller. Front row: Emma Grace MacEachern; Maureen Mary McConnell; Kelly Christine Poole; Brooke Elizabeth McCloskey; Anna Elizabeth Lamb; Zoe Jane Feist; and Julia Kathleen Adams. Photo by David Balfour Photography - See story on Page 10

THIS ISSUE

Sugar Ray Leonard attends an intimate fundraiser where Burt Bacharach performs. 8

By Matt Lopez Beverly Hills High School students could soon be facing new, more lenient graduation standards.

The Board of Education broached the subject of altering, or potentially lowering, graduation standards Tuesday at its study session.

The discussion centered on whether or not to do away with the University of California (UC) sys-

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THE BELVEDERE RETURNS—On Tuesday, The Belvedere at The Peninsula Beverly Hills officially opened its doors following an extensive four-month remodel that yielded a re-imagined menu and a striking new interior where museum-quality artworks now adorn the walls.

The food is, to say the least, scrumptious. And the decor guarantees that every diner feels at ease whether enjoying a Mediterraneaninspired garden-fresh salad, or a decadent chocolate dessert. Call (310) 788-2306 to reserve a table. Courier Photo by Laura Coleman

Another Loma Vista Drive Auto Accident Claims Third Fatality

By Victoria Talbot A truck driver in last Friday morning’s crash in the 800 block of Loma Vista Drive died, said Coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter.

“The driver’s name is Gerbis Jesus Gomez Rodriguez. He lived in the city of Los Angeles. The cause of the crash is under investigation. As part of the investigation we will be conducting an inspec-

tion of the vehicle and it’s maintenance to determine whether mechanical issues were a factor in the collision,” said Lt. Mike Foxen of the Beverly Hills Police Department.

The trucker, who was in his 20s, was trapped in the wreckage for about 30 minutes and died at a hospital about 10:30 a.m.

Friday's accident marks the (see ‘LOMA VISTA’ page 19)

Celebrity Photo Agency/Scott Downie

The scene of last Friday’s fatal accident near the Loma Vista/Doheny intersection.

Photo by Victoria Talbot

Rupert Murdoch And Jerry Hall Met Four Months Ago And Are Already Planning Their Wedding ... Melania Knauss Trump Tells Harper’s Bazaar She Is Not Shy And Very Political, But Chooses Not To Appear In Public • Announcements • Real Estate • Rentals • Sales • and More

tem’s “A-G” requirements, which BHHS currently uses as a base for its graduation requirements, along with possibilities to offer alternative pathways to graduation.

“A-G” is a set of subject requirements in social studies, english, math, science, visual/performing arts, foreign language or career technical education and physical education that are mandatory for admission into a UC school.

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George Christy, Page 6

3-pound package showed that it had arrived at the Maple post office on January 16 at 3:18 p.m.

Smart was also expecting a certified letter with a value of over $60,000, the value of a CD he cashed to pay for his treatment, which has disappeared.

Smart said that he cannot have a new check issued until the matter is completely settled with the post office, but when he asked to see a supervisor, he was told that no supervisor was on the premises. “She said a

Beverly Hills High Graduation Standards Could Be Lowered

Julian Gold attended the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington DC. 12 •Health & Wellness •Sports •Letters to the Editor

By Victoria Talbot Resident Russell Smart filed a police report Tuesday when a visit to the Post Office to pick up a certified letter resulted in the employee insisting that the package had not arrived despite the tracking number showing that it had been delivered.

Smart, who has spent the last month at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center fighting for his life with kidney problems, was expecting funding to help pay for his medical care. The tracking number on the certified letter from Bank of America for a

PANDAMANIA — Kate Hudson and son Ryder and Angelina Jolie attended the premiere of DreamWorks Animation and Twentieth Century Fox’s Kung Fu Panda 3 at the TCL Chinese Theatre.

Theirs are among the voices in the film, along with, Seth Rogen, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, J.K. Simmons, Lucy Liu, others.

For more photos, see George Christy’s column on page 6.

Development Run Amok In Beverly Hills & Bel-Air, Homeowners Under Threat See pages 3 and 7 for messages from local homeowners organizations on development nightmares in their respective areas. If you live in Bel-Air and would like the Bel-Air Association to truly be a transparent, effective and model neighborhood association, please contact mhobbs@bhcourier.com.

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BEVERLY HILLS

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the City of Beverly Hills, at its meeting to be held on Tuesday, February 2, 2016, at 7:00 p.m., in the Council Chambers of the City Hall, 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California, 90210, will hold a public hearing to consider: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS AMENDING BEVERLY HILLS MUNICIPAL CODE SECTIONS 10-3-2804(B) AND 10-3-2850 REGARDING THE HEIGHT LIMITS FOR ADDITIONS TO LEGALLY NONCONFORMING BUILDINGS IN MULTIPLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL ZONES. The proposed Ordinance would amend sections of Chapter 3 of Title 10 of the Beverly Hills Municipal code regarding the height limits for additions to multi-family residential buildings with legally nonconforming building heights. The proposed Ordinance would establish provisions for a request to be granted, through the issuance of an R-4 Permit, for additions to multi-family residential buildings to match the legally nonconforming heights of those buildings.

A resolution recommending City Council adoption of the Ordinance was previously reviewed and adopted by the Planning Commission on December 10, 2015.

This Ordinance has been assessed in accordance with the authority and criteria contained in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the State CEQA Guidelines, and the environmental regulations of the City. The City Council will consider the recommendation to find the Ordinance exempt from the environmental review requirements of CEQA pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, as well as Sections 15305 because adoption of this ordinance results in minor changes to land use limitations pertaining to building heights, and applies to properties with an average slope not exceeding 20%. In addition, the Planning Commission of the City of Beverly Hills adopted a Class 1 Categorical Exemption for the multi-family residential project associated with the amendment.

At the public hearing, the City Council will hear and consider all comments. All interested persons are invited to attend and speak on this matter. Written comments may also be submitted and should be addressed to the City Council, c/o City Clerk, 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. The comments should be received prior to the hearing date.

Please note that if you challenge the Council’s action in regards to this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City, either at or prior to the public hearing.

If there are any questions regarding this notice, please contact Andre Sahakian, Associate Planner in the Beverly Hills Community Development Department at 310.285.1127, or by email at asahakian@beverlyhills.org. The case file, including the ordinance and associated documents are on file in the Community Development Department and can be reviewed by any interested person at 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California 90210.

BYRON POPE, MMC City Clerk

www.bhcourier.com 310-278-1322

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FACTS THAT THE BEL-AIR ASSOCIATION DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW! -Paid Advertisement-

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n the Bel-Air Association’s Jan 13, 2016 blog, it falsely stated that “We are postponing the election for at least 60 days in order to allow all members additional time to have the opportunity to be nominated as Directors…” This assertion lies about 85% of the way between misleading and dishonest. Of course the real, and only, reason that the BAA postponed the election was because Marcia Hobbs brought a court case to compel the BAA to have an election under fair conditions. When the BAA scheduled the January 14 election over the holidays for the express purpose of having as little participation and opposition as possible, Ms. Hobbs went to court on January 12 to postpone the election so that it really would be open to the community.

THE BAA FILED PAPERS OPPOSING THIS, BUT THE COURT RULED AGAINST THEM, and this is the only reason there will be a chance at actual democracy – contrary to the wishes of the BAA, which spent the BAA members’ dues sending two lawyers to Court to try to keep the January 14 election date.

• The BAA’s most recent tax return, filed September 9, 2014, states that its conflict of interest policy is publicly available. In fact, the BAA didn’t even have a conflict of interest policy at the time it made this misstatement. It adopted only after Ms. Hobbs filed a lawsuit in 2015, which pointed out this misstatement.

• The BAA’s 9/8/2014 tax filing states that none of its present or former officers or directors have any economic relationship with the BAA, yet at the time it made this misstatement, it was using the law firm of its director.

• The BAA states in its most recent tax filing that its organizational documents are publicly available, yet it treats both its bylaws and its board minutes as confidential, and even marks them as such.

• The BAA’s most recent tax filing states that its financial statements are publicly available, yet it refused to produce them to Ms. Hobbs even after she made a formal legal request for them--these are represented in their filings as a public document • The BAA’s June 2003 Bylaws require a minimum of 25 directors in order for the BAA to act, yet not only did it lack

25 directors when Ms. Hobbs filed her lawsuit (it said, in various parts of its most recent tax filing, that it had either 3 or 15), but, as its 2013, 2012, 2011 (etc.) tax filing shows, it acted unlawfully with no more than 15 directors for years until Ms. Hobbs brought her lawsuit and pointed this out.

• Until after this lawsuit was brought, the BAA was represented by a law firm that represented many developers.

• When Ms Hobbs rightfully questioned the BAA’s practices, the BAA did not send her a membership renewal form – they told the court that she was expelled because anyone who does not pay their dues by January 31 is expelled – even though most members don’t and none, aside from Ms. Hobbs, has ever been expelled for paying after January 31. The BAA then later admitted this was improper and allowed Ms. Hobbs to join, but only after their inaccurate story was exposed in court.

• When Ms. Hobbs sought to obtain the BAA’s vendor contracts to determine if the members’ money was being well and properly used, the BAA concealed and refused to provide them. The BAA is run in an entirely opaque fashion – and it’s supposed to be a tax free community organization, not some secret society.

None of the facts enumerated above include the lies in the BAA's blogs – and their actions – including but not limited to: support of the sale of alcohol early in the morning by a retail establishment; wanting to evict the security company in their building at the East Gate so they can rent it to a real estate firm; doing nothing to remediate the construction of the 100,000' home on Airole, and last, but not least, originally opposing the Interim Control Ordinance which would limit the amount of dirt removed from the hillside to 6,000 cubic yards and then taking credit for it after its passage.

In the name of transparency, we thought the community should be made aware of these facts.

Bel Air Homeowners Alliance Fredric D. Rosen, President/CEO Marcia Hobbs Jamie Meyer Dan Love

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COLD COURIER–Beverly Hills resident Helen Gurinow went to Winnipeg, Canada over the Holidays and made sure to bring her copy of The Courier, which came in handy in the frigid 18-below weather. To join Gurinow in the Carry The Courier Club, snap a photo of yourself with your copy of The Courier on your next trip and e-mail it to mlopez@bhcourier.com.

Beverly Hills’ Annual Woofstock Needs Pet-Centric Vendors

By Victoria Talbot Beverly Hills’ favorite pet event is coming soon, and organizers are seeking pet-centered vendors to participate.

Woofstock features a pet parade, costume contests, adoptions from many rescue organizations, including purebreds, many pet and people activities, food trucks, pet talent demonstrations, live music and pet-related vendors.

Applications for the 8th annual Woofstock 90210 pet event are currently being accepted through Feb. 5.

The event features the latest in pet-friendly products, a niche projected to generate $60 billion this year in the United States.

In a City where the Pampered Pet has its own definition, this is a great opportunity

for producers to showcase the latest and greatest trends in products and services for the furry sector.

Last year, Woofstock attracted more than 3,500 visitors and 300 pets, and the event grows every year. PetCare 90210 has been involved since the event started.

Woofstock 90210 will be Sunday, March 6, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. at “Wiggley Field” at La Cienega Park, 8400 Gregory Way, Beverly Hills.

To join the fun, vendors must submit an application, available at www.beverlyhills. org/Woofstock90210 or by calling 310-285-6830.

(Note: Speaking of upcoming events, Save the Date, May 1- for the Greystone Concourse d’Elegance.)

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Beverly Hills Chamber Of Commerce Discussion Focuses On Santa Monica Boulevard, Impact To Local Businesses

By Victoria Talbot The Government Affairs Committee of the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce hosted a discussion Thursday on plans for the Santa Monica Boulevard reconstruction traffic mitigation that will take place later this year.

The City is in the process of preparing a plan for the 1824 month project to rehabilitate Santa Monica Boulevard.

Input from the impacted businesses is crucial to the City’s planning, and the City recognizes that it is vital to creating a plan that will work.

The City’s Deputy Director

of Transportation Aaron Kunz, Michael Meyer of Iteris Consulting and Traffic & Parking Commission Chair Jake Manaster Jake Manaster were present.

The City Council tasked the Traffic and Parking Commission with designing the plan. They have created a toolbox of measures and a list of recommendations presented Thursday for review.

Among the recommendations is the temporary removal of on-street parking on both sides of South Santa Monica Blvd. to maximize the flow of traffic into the Triangle during

construction.

The meeting was called at the direction of the City Council to gather more input from businesses who will be impacted by the construction and mitigation measures.

The feedback generated by the meeting will be presented to the City Council for their consideration in the traffic mitigation process.

“We need to reduce some of the friction on South Santa Monica Boulevard to improve flow, not for through traffic, but for access traffic,” Meyer said.

Construction is expected to begin in the spring.

GREAT DEBATE–Four competitors from the Beverly Hills High School Speech and Debate Team received honors at the Jan. 9-10 Wolfpack Invitational at Claremont High School.

Pictured, from left: fraternal twin brothers, debate partners and freshmen Evan and Seth Pizzurro both received platters for competing in the quarter-final round of Novice Parliamentary Debate, sophomore Josh Galst (center) received a medal for placing 10th in the final round of Novice Congress, where freshman Tyler Kiper (right) also received a medal for placing 14th.

Photo by David Finnigan

Beverly Hills Unified School District’s Positive Budget Certification Upheld By LACOE

By Laura Coleman Naysayers about the financial state of the Beverly Hills Unified School District take note – on Jan. 12, the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) informed Board President Howard Goldstein in writing that based on its analysis, “the district should be able to meet its financial obligations for the current and subsequent

two years.”

In short, LACOE concurred with the district’s positive certification.

“A positive certification means that BHUSD, based on its current projections, will meet all of its financial obligations for the current fiscal year and two subsequent fiscal years,” Goldstein clarified. “Although the district continues to

face tough fiscal choices, a positive certification reflects the board’s commitment to our students, families and residents of BHUSD to provide a financially stable district so that our students and schools have the resources they require.”

LACOE’s letter came after the organization completed its review of the district’s 2015-16 (see ‘BHUSD BUDGET’ page 17)

At Selwyn Gallery, Artist Marcia Hafif Ruminates On Nature Of Color In Meditative Abstractions Rosemary is a three-year old, twenty-five pound Cocker Spaniel. She had many litters of puppies, and was probably used as a breeder, before being abandoned at Kern County shelter. With the help of ShelterHopePetShop.org she is now ready for a new life with a loving family. Those interested in adopting her into their home may contact Shelter Hope at 805-379-3538.

Mandy- 9 month old chihuahua mix,only 7 pounds. Super sweet and adorable

Bambi- 1 year old bull terrier mix, 51 pounds. The most adorable face and

Camille - 6 month old pitbull mix with the most ridiculously oversized ears!

Jenna - 4 year old blue pitbull, 60 pounds. Goofy, high energy, active pooch.

These four dogs are available through Wags and Walks, a WLA adoption organization. For an adoption application: http://www.wagsandwalks.org/adoption-application/ To learn more, to volunteer or to foster, contact: info@wagsandwalks.org

By Laura Coleman Since Marc Selywn Fine Art open its doors in Beverly Hills two years ago on South Santa Monica Boulevard, the contemporary gallery has become a haven for collectors in search of powerful work.

Last Friday’s opening for Laguna-based Marcia Hafif, “Glaze Paintings and Works on Paper from the 1970’s”, was no exception to the gallery’s consistent pattern of showcasing provocative artists.

The exhibition, which runs through Feb. 20, highlights Hafif’s graphite drawings and watercolors dating from 1974 to 1982.

The watercolors, all done on watercolor paper, are particularly captivating, both in terms of the brush work that punctuate each of the pieces

Selywn selected to hang, as well as the colors, which seem to hang on the liminal outskirts of what is known.

According to Hafif, she did scores of these watercolor paintings, hand-mixing the paints in an effort to render a diverse range of colors. Three pieces now on display present a deeper exploration of that effort, with layers of colors and strokes meticulously juxtaposed to render something ethereal.

Other works on display include a series of granite drawings which Hafif created with painstaking precision whereby the meditative process revealed in the collage of vertical strokes evokes the marking of time. A group of Hafif’s luminous glaze paintings from 1995-2003 are also on view. In

Marcia Hafif

this series, one coat is repeatedly layered over another, creating vibrating jewel toned canvases.

The show follows a retrospective last year at the Laguna Art Museum and an installation in Made In LA at the Hammer Museum in 2014.

For information, visit: http://www.marcselwynfineart.com/current/.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> YEAR OF THE MONKEY–The Beverly Hills Convention and Visitors Bureau (BHCVB) and partners China International Culture Association (CICA) and Beijing Association for Cultural Exchanges (BACE), with the support of the Chinese Consulate of Los Angeles, their partnership to celebrate the Year of the Monkey on Sunday, Jan. 31, at the Saban Theatre. From left: TwoRodeo Director Bill Wiley of CBRE, Sponsors of the event, BHCVB Chinese Business Development Manager Jennifer Liu, CVB CEO Julie Wagner, and Chinese Cultural Consular for the Los Angeles Consulate Madame Wang Jin.

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Bel-Air Bar And Grill Owner Seeks CUB for Extended Hours, Liquor Sales, Live Music For Restaurant

By Victoria Talbot Bel- Air Bar and Grill owner Susan Disney Lord offered supporters a choice of roast beef, chicken or egg salad as she bussed them down to Los Angeles City Hall Wednesday in her efforts to renew her liquor license (CUB) and enhance it with extended sales of alcohol at "The Shack in the Back," additional outdoor dining upstairs and live music. She

Mohamed Hadid, 901 Strada Vecchia Bel-Air Trial Continued To March 15

By Matt Lopez March 15 is the date set for megamansion developer Mohamed Hadid and Bel-Air’s 901 Strada Vecchia to stand trial against several allegations of illegal construction and unpermitted work done at the nearly 30,000-square-foot home.

The date was set Wednesday at a pre-trial hearing in Van Nuys, according to Frank T. Mateljan, a spokesperson for City Attorney Mike Feuer.

Sources told The Courier that the trial date was moved to March by the case’s new judge Eric Harmon to give Hadid’s new criminal attorney time to prepare.

In the meantime, the home

must be brought into compliance regarding an Erosion Control Order that was levied back in August of last year.

Joe Horacek, a Bel-Air resident who lives below the property, had been needling city officials for more than a year to take action on a project that he believed was rife with unpermitted work.

In September of 2014, city officials finally stepped in and revoked five building permits from the project.

The L.A. Department of Building and Safety found that Stop Work Orders levied over the next several months were simply ignored, and in April of 2015 finally cracked down for

good, ruling that all unapproved construction must be torn down.

901 Strada LLC, which lists Virginia attorney James T. Zelloe as its attorney, appealed to the LADBS board and lost. The LADBS then forwarded the case to Feuer’s office for criminal prosecution.

According to a presentation from Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety in June, the site had been issued 10 orders to comply since March 11, just after Hadid took ownership of the property. The title changed hands five times since he purchased the property in Jan. 2011.

Beverly Hills High School Graduate Todd Sheerin Works With NASA On Astronaut Jetpacks

By Matt Lopez Astronauts could soon have thruster and gyroscopeequipped jetpacks to fly more freely in space, thanks in part to the work of one Beverly Hills High School graduate.

Draper Laboratory, a nonprofit Cambridge research facility, is working with MIT and NASA’s Johnson Space Center to build those more stable jetpacks which will more easily allow astronauts to maneuver in space.

Todd Sheerin, a 2008 BHHS graduate and Draper Laboratory Fellow, flew a ZeroG flight experiment with NASA in August to test the technology currently being worked on.

As part of his Master’s thesis research, Sheerin investigated methods of controlling the jetpack to afford improved stability and pointing. After simulating and building a hardware demonstration of concepts Sheerin investigated, the Draper fellows successfully flew the experiment aboard NASA’s reduced gravity aircraft to extend the testing in a zero-gravity environment.

Astronauts currently go outside the International Space Station wearing jetpacks with

nitrogen-based thrusters, but those being tested

by Draper combine thrusters and gyroscopes.

In low and zero-gravity environments, astronauts are currently tethered to robotic arms or to the space lab to keep them in position when they Todd Sheerin with his Draper Laboratory are outside making colleagues on the Zero-G flight experiment. fixes, to prevent Sheerin graduated Beverly them floating away into space, like in the film Gravity. These Vista in 2004 before attending packs, however, severely limit BHHS. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Harvard and the astronauts mobility.

“The gyroscopes really masters in aerospace engineerhelp control the pointing of the ing at MIT last year. He is a jetpack more steadily at a tar- PhD candidate at MIT in aeroget, it increases the stability of space engineering.

He said he hopes his expethe jetpack platform,” Sheerin told The Courier. “It just pro- riences can help inspire other vides a broader range of con- young Beverly Hills students to trols than the thrusters alone follow their passions in life.

“I would just say, stay curican provide.”

Sheerin said that he hopes ous and if you have a passion the jetpacks could be used then pursue it,” Sheerin said. “soon... given NASA’s human “There are too many interesting exploration goals.” NASA is unknown things in the world, currently developing a plan to too many great things to pursue put humans on Mars by the to let anyone hold you back.”

2030s.

is also seeking approval of fortified wines, including port and sherry, with an alcohol content of more than 13% for onsite consumption at the restaurant.

In a neighborhood of million-dollar homes, which residents are free from a workday, who could be enticed by a bus ride and a free sandwich, in exchange for a very valuable liquor license that includes the (see ‘BEL-AIR BAR & GRILL’ page 13)

PASSING THE GAVEL– Former Human Relations Commission Chair Ori Blumenfeld passed the gavel Thursday, handing it over to the new Chair, Karen Popovich Levyn. Blumenfeld oversaw the City’s very successful Ambassador Program and the Tenant Landlord Forum. Left to right, Commissioner Annette Saleh, Vice Chair Jerald Friedman, Chair Karen Popovich Levyn, Former Chair Ori Blumenfeld and Commissioner Sonia Berman.

Edmund De Waal’s First Solo Exhibition In L.A. Now At Beverly Hills’ Gagosian Gallery

By Laura Coleman There’s a moment that inevitably comes when one enters Edmund de Waal’s solo exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery entitled “Ten Thousand Things,” when one realizes that we are just a piece in this grand cosmic equation.

Perhaps best known as the author of The Hare with Amber Eyes, artist and novelist de Waal is truly a master craftsman when it comes to pottery.

As part of the exhibition at the Gagosian in Beverly Hills, de Waal’s first solo exhibition in L.A., there is a series of 20 aluminum boxes, each filled with porcelain vessels and steel blocks. That each of the boxes contents are unique and hypnotic is somehow secondary to what it is that de Waal intends for the piece.

According to Gagosian Gallery Director Deborah

McLeod, de Waal envisions that each of the pieces will go in their separate directions, ultimately taking on an infinite number of lives, 10,000 of them, in a sense, as the title suggests.

Thus, the opportunity to see the work, in its entirety, is truly unique. And, in fact, photographs simply cannot do the British artist’s work justice.

Several other works in the exhibition, which runs through Feb. 18, are likewise captivating. Three large-scale works, particularly “Black Milk” which contains 237 porcelain vessels in a pair of wood, aluminum and glass vetrines, evoke a musical composition, the contents an improvisatory arrangement of notes in search of only a musician to give them voice.

For more information, visit: gagosian.com.

DE WAAL IN BEVERLY HILLS–Artist Edmund de Waal greets fans at his first solo exhibit in L.A. Pictured (above): Local master-potter Andy Frank, with wife Deborah (far left), stands beside his icon, de Waal, and Gagosian Gallery Director Deborah McLeod.

GEORGE CHRISTY

Melania Photo: Douglas Friedman / Reese Cover: Alexi Lubomirski

George Christy

is fun.

Always good food from chef Ina. Hot bouzouki music from bandleader Nandos’ quintet. Dancing a la Grecque led by Rita Wilson’s schoolteacher sister Lily. Gung-ho Tom Hanks takes over the microphone and croons improvised Greek numbers. While the young Murdoch daughters, Chloe and Grace, play giggly games with Jim and Ann’s beauties, Alexa and Nicoletta.

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orn to the purple of fine manners, Mr.

ing hands and cheek-kissing his soon-to-be-wife Jerry Hall, he radiates good cheer and happiness and a youthful spirit.

Shall we attribute this to Jerry?

What better than a new found love? At any age.

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elania Knauss Trump greeted journalist Alex Kuczynski in the triplex penthouse of the 68-storey Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan.

Where the residence of Melania and presidential candidate Donald Trump and their nine-year-old son Barron overlooks the skyscrapers of this great and powerful city (sorry, Ted Cruz!).

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or her part, Melania has remained largely in the shadows of her husband’s campaign,” acknowledges interviewer Kuczynski in the February issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

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ll by design, informs Melania, 45, described as “tall, lithe and limber at five foot eleven … incandescently beautiful.”

Melania Knauss Trump is photographed in the Trump Towers triplex apartment, where she lives with husband Donald and son Barron, for the February edition of Harper’s Bazaar (at right). The photograph was inspired

by Richard Avedon’s 1955 Vogue layout of “Dovima and the Elephants”. Dovima was the highest paid model at the time, earning $30 an hour while other top models earned $25. She was born Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba in Jackson Heights, New York, where her father was a policeman. She took the first two letters of her baptismal names to call herself Dovima. She died in her 60s in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where she hosted at the Two Guys Pizzeria. Please Google “Dovima and the Elephants” to access her historic photo.

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hey’re very excited about getting married,” says spokesman Steve Rubenstein about media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 84, and former model Jerry Hall, 59, who had wed Mick Jagger during an exotic ceremony in Bali where a Hindu priest slit the throat of a chicken and spilled its blood to purify the venue.

The marriage was legally meaningless and annulled.

Mr. Murdoch and Jerry

“D

onald is handling everything very well. He is not politically correct, and he tells the truth … I give him my opinions, and sometimes he takes them, and sometimes he does not. Do I agree with him all the time? No. I think this is good for a healthy relationship.

I am not a ‘yes’ person. No matter who you are married to, you still need to live your life. I don’t want to change him.

And he doesn’t want to change me.’”

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or details about how Melania and Donald met, their Episcopalian marriage followed by the reception at his opulent Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach (Hillary and Bill Clinton were paid to attend), please access our BHC column from August 2l, 2015.

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Murdoch is a kind, friendly and elegant guest. Judging from the photos of him hold-

e decided as a family that this was something we would do.

I explained it to my son a lot. I said, ‘Daddy will run for president,’” noted Melania. “‘They

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at your Beverly Hills residence … Danielle serves these extraordinary rare vintage premier crus from Bordeaux, not often available.” Ta, ta, ta.

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e’ve visited with Mr. Murdoch briefly at the Greek Easter Sunday celebrations hosted by Fox Entertainment chief Jim Gianopulos and wife Ann in their spacious Brentwood garden, where the signature of this holiday party

Shameik Moore

Saoirse Ronan Rachel McAdams

Jennifer Aniston with Justin Theroux

Celebrity Photo/Scott Downie

Hall were introduced four months ago in Australia by his sister and niece. Socially, Mr. Murdoch’s attractively approachable, having met him, as we have, on various occasions.

At novelist Danielle Steel’s annual Christmas dinner-dances in San Francisco when Danielle was wed to financier Tom Perkins, a Murdoch friend.

Conversation was easy, and, the best way to inaugurate a conversation after an introduction to a guest, as our beloved mother Kaliope taught us, is to focus on “small talk.” Such as: Do you visit the Bay Area often … will you be spending Christmas here or Page 6 | January 22, 2016

say I’m shy. I am not shy … I chose not to go political in public because that is my husband’s job. I’m very political in my private life, and between me and my husband I know everything that’s going on. I know everything from A to Z …

Helen Mirren attended the 21st Annual Critics Choice Awards at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica

Niecy Nash

Marisa Tomei

Kirsten Dunst

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Hayden Panettiere

Amy Schumer

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TO SEE AND BE SEEN

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THE FASHION OF BEVERLY HILLS

Burt Bacharach Shines Light On United Cerebral Palsy, Performs In Bel-Air Home Of The Litvaks

By Laura Coleman Westside philanthropists were treated to an intimate performance by Burt Bacharach last Thursday evening when renowned television producer and philanthropist Shelley Litvack (a Beverly Hills High School alumna) and her husband Dr. Frank Litvack opened their Bel-Air home to raise awareness and money for United Cerebral Palsy of Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.

The stellar performance by the eight-time Grammy and threetime Academy Award-winning composer was beyond compare, with three additional singers lending their voices to such favorites as Walk On By, Say A Little Prayer, and Friends. However, it was Bacharach’s rendition of Alfie that brought nearly all 40-plus attendees to tears.

“I'm honored to be performing for UCPLA to raise awareness and support for such an important and wonderful cause,” said Bacharach, whose daughter Nikki was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism.

All proceeds from the evening went directly to UCPLA, which serves around 1,100 individuals with developmental disabilities and their families throughout Southern California each day. The concert was also a pre-event to the second annual Art of Care celebration fundraiser, which will be held Mar. 12 at The Globe Theatre at Universal Studios.

For information, visit: wearehere4.ucpla.org/artofcare.

THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR–(clockwise from top): Philanthropists listen to an intimate performance

by Burt Bacharach on piano at the home of Shelley and Frank Litvak; Gelila Assefa, Wolfgang Puck and Shelley Litvack; Ron Cohen, Ray Leonard and Peter Devereaux; Bacharach performing.

Photos by Holly Eschrich and Taylor Mickal

UNICEF BALL–Hollywood stars flocked to Beverly Hills to support the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and their mission to save and protect the world’s children at the sixth biennial UNICEF Ball at The Beverly Wilshire. More than $2.5 million was raised for UNICEF’s lifesaving programs, that put children first. Presented

by Louis Vuitton, the UNICEF Ball marked the launch of Louis Vuitton for UNICEF, a global partnership between the humanitarian organization for children and the luxury fashion house to help support children affected by conflict, disease, natural disasters, and other situations that threaten their safety and well-being. Pictured (from left): UNICEF Ambassador Selena Gomez; actress Nicole Kidman; model Heidi Klum, singer Mariah Carey; actress Jennifer Connelly; and USC President and honoree C. L. Max Nikias, UNICEF Chair Ghada Irani, President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF Caryl Stern, and honoree David Beckham.

Photos by Donato Sardella/Getty Images for U.S. Fund for UNICEF

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28 Debutantes Are Introduced At Las Madrinas Ball Benefiting CHLA Las Madrinas honored 27 families and their daughters for service to the Southern California community and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles at the Las Madrinas Debutante Ball in The Beverly Hilton with more than 800 on hand.

President Megan Hernandez welcomed the families and guests in attendance, thanking everyone for their support of the research programs at CHLA, which includes the current $5 million pledge for the Las Madrinas Pediatric Simulation Research Laboratory Endowment.

Ball Chairman Melinda Montoya and Debutante Chair Lisa Brandt were saluted along with Assistant Chair Kristin Harrison, Debbe Booth, Jolie Nelson, Elizabeth Shoemaker, Seeley Brooks, Susie Baggott, Brooke Garlock, Robin Nenninger, Cindy MacPherson, Kelly Rouse and Alison Thompson.

Debutante committee included Assistant Chair Christina Hoffman (as well as Elita Balfour, Anne Ryan, Katherine Johnson, Alison Knoll, Ann Longyear, Jonna

Carls, Nancy Annick, Chris Dickinson, Liz Algermissen, Kathy McRoskey, Kathleen Duncan, Annabel Montgomery, and D.D. Shipman.

Member husband Victor F. Hawley announced the 28 debutantes, while member husband David Balfour served as director of presentation. The Wayne Foster Orchestra played the traditional father-daughter waltz that transitioned the party from presentation to celebration.

Las Madrinas was established in 1933 as the first affiliate group of CHLA and has been supporting pediatric medicine for 82 years. Since 1939, the group has honored families who have demonstrated a commitment to the civic, cultural, and philanthropic life of Southern California by presenting their daughters at ball.

Donations made in honor of the young women have enabled Las Madrinas to complete eight major projects at the hospital, including seven research endowments now exceeding $30 million and a capital project on the cardiovascular floor.

St. John’s Hosts Free Community Lectures On Urology Health Providence St. John’s Health Center will host two free community lectures to educate men and women about urology health.

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H E A LT H & W E L L N E S S

UCLA Survey: Most Young People Experiencing Stroke Symptoms Avoid Going To The E.R. The three hours after a person experiences the first symptom of a stroke are referred to as the “golden window”—the time doctors say is crucial for patients to receive medical care to restore blood flow to the brain and minimize or reverse damage.

But a new national survey

by Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center shows that younger patients, those under 45, may underestimate the urgency of stroke symptoms.

Most say they would likely delay going to the hospital for help.

“Timely treatment for stroke is more important than for almost any other medical problem,” said Dr. David Liebeskind, director of UCLA’s Outpatient Stroke and Neurovascular Programs. “There’s a limited window in which to start treatment, because the brain is sensitive to a lack of blood flow or to bleeding. The longer patients wait, the more devastating the consequences.”

Researchers asked more than 1,000 people nationwide what they would be likely to do within the first three hours of experiencing weakness, numbness, difficulty speaking or difficulty seeing, all common symptoms of a stroke. Among those under age 45, only about one out of three said they would likely go to the hospital. A staggering 73 percent said they would likely wait to see if their symptoms improved.

“That’s a real problem,”

Dr. David Liebeskind studying a brain scan.

Liebeskind said. “We need to educate younger people about the symptoms of stroke and convince them of the urgency of the situation, because the numbers are going up.”

Since the mid-1990s, the number of young adults between 18 and 45 discharged from U.S. hospitals after suffering a stroke has jumped as much as 53-percent. It’s estimated someone has a stroke about every 40 seconds in the U.S., totaling nearly 800,000 new stroke patients a year.

In 2007, Jennifer Reilly was one of them.

“I woke up in the middle of the night with an excruciating headache,” Reilly said. “I was 27, pretty active, pretty healthy and was not prone to headaches. I thought it was a really odd thing that happened.”

After arriving at work that day, Reilly shared her story with a co-worker, who insisted she go to the hospital immediately.

Reilly eventually ended up at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where Liebeskind told her she’d had a stroke.

“I was really skeptical,” said Reilly. “I didn’t have any of what I thought were the classic symptoms of a stroke, nor did I fit the classic description of a stroke patient. I was 27 and healthy.”

Ischemic stroke, when blood vessels become blocked, can happen to anyone at any age, and is often associated with high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking and obesity. A healthy diet and regular exercise, as well as not smoking and limiting alcohol consumption, have all been shown to lower your risk of stroke.

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Dedicates Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation Interfaith Center Dr. Lauren A. Cadish

Dr. Timothy Wilson

• “Understanding Prostate Cancer Screening” from 7-8:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 26 will feature urologic oncology surgeon Timothy Wilson. He will answer such questions as: “Should you get screened?” “What if it indicates you might have prostate cancer?”

Wilson will address the controversy surrounding prostate cancer screening, debunk myths and help attendees understand prostate cancer risk factors.

• “Bladder Function,” from 7-8:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan 28 will feature Dr. Lauren A. Cadish, urogynecologist, and Dr. Jennifer A. Linehan, urologic oncologist The way the bladder functions as people age can cause pain, incontinence and other conditions that can have a detri-

Dr. Jennifer A. Linehan

mental effect on people’s quality of life.

Cadish and Linehand will talk about urinary tract infections, bladder cancer, pelvic floor issues, such as incontinence, and other common bladder concerns and issues.

Both lectures will be at Providence St. John’s Health Center, 2121 Santa Monica Blvd.

Valet parking and complimentary refreshments will be provided.

To RSVP, call 888-HEALING (432-5464).

Today, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) the grand opening and dedication of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation Interfaith Center.

The 2,400 square-foot nondenominational indoor and outdoor space will serve as a place of emotional and spiritual respite for CHLA patients, families and staff.

“This magnificent spiritual care center will provide our patients and families with a tranquil setting where they can freely connect with one another and their respective faiths,” says Paul Viviano, CHLA president/CEO “Today’s opening exemplifies CHLA’s ongoing commitment to serving families from all cultures and all faiths.”

Joining Viviano at today’s dedication were local faith leaders and representatives including: Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, primate of the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America; Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles; Chaplain Efrat Brayer, CHLA Jewish on-call chaplain; Khurram Ahmed, Muslim chap-

Rev. Dagmar Grefe, PhD, Spiritual Care Services program director, inside The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation Interfaith Center at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Photo by Walter Urie

lain, Islamic Center of Southern California; Rev. Dr. Tina Jitsujo Gauthier, from the faculty of Buddhist Chaplaincy Program, University of the West; Swami Sarvadevananda, minister and

spiritual leader of the Vendanta Society of Southern California.

“Spiritual care is a vital component in helping people heal,” says Kathleen McCarthy Kostlan, member of the CHLA board of trustees and chair of The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation, which has named the center with a generous $5.5 million gift. “Numerous studies show that the benefits of spiritual care during hospitalization can include shorter hospital stays, improved pain management, motivation to heal and an improved sense of wellbeing.”

The new Leavey Interfaith Center, which is centrally located between the Marion and John E. Anderson Pavilion inpatient tower and The McAllister Building, features: • 900 square feet of indoor prayer and meditation space— nearly seven times larger than the hospital’s current chapel; • An interfaith sanctuary for ceremonies and group activities; • A semi-private Our Lady of Guadalupe devotional with a kneeler; (see ‘INTERFAITH’ page 15)

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Beverly Hills Police Warn City’s Residents Of Jury Duty Scam

By Matt Lopez Residents should be wary of a jury duty scam currently going around the City, the Beverly Hills Police Department warned in a release this week.

According to the BHPD, residents have received calls from individuals who purport to be from the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. The caller will inform the citizen that an arrest warrant has been issued for a failure to appear for Jury Duty.The resident will then be instructed that they must get either a money order, wire trans-

fer or gift card made out to the caller to “pay the fine.”

The BHPD seeks to remind residents that a government agency will never call and solicit money for fines, and that personal banking information should never be given over the phone.

Residents who receive a call regarding paying a fine to clear a Jury Duty arrest warrant are encouraged to call the Department of Consumer Affairs at 800-593-8222 or file a complaint with the DCA online at www.dca.lacounty.gov.

CONFERENCE OF MAYORS–Beverly Hills Mayor Julian Gold traveled to Washington DC this week for the 84th winter meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors. Pictured above is Gold (second from the right) with other members of the West Coast delegation, including L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti (front row, third from left).

Beverly Hills Offers Appeals Process for City Water Surcharges CUISINE’S THE THING – The Beverly Hills High School PTSA held a culinary event on Tuesday evening with chef Sal Marino of Il Grano and Marino’s restaurants in the home of Azy Faramand, with 25 people attending. The James Beard award-winning chef made several courses including a filet with bearnaise sauce and winter caponata. Pictured (from left): Sharon Dohm, Nancy Heim Reskin, Jodi Galen, Chef Sal Marino, Azy Farahmand and Jeni Catch.

Costume Designers Guild Awards Head To Beverly Hilton Feb. 23

Star Wars: The Force Awakens picked up another accolade Thursday as it collected a nomination for a Costume Designers Guild Award, as did films including Joy, The Martian, Beasts Of No Nation and The Danish Girl.

Costume designers for Star Wars were nominated in the fantasy film category, along with Cinderella, Ex Machina, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 and Mad Max: Fury Road.

Beasts Of No Nation, The Martian and Joy were nominated in the contemporary film category, as were Kingsman:

The Secret Service and Youth.

For period films, nominations went to The Danish Girl, Brooklyn, Carol, Crimson Peak and Trumbo.

The awards will be presented Feb. 23 at The Beverly Hilton.

During the show, actress Cate Blanchett will receive the guild's LaCoste Spotlight Award, honoring a performer for a commitment to excellence and awareness of the role and importance of costume design.

–– City News Service

By Victoria Talbot The first complete billing cycle to reflect the City’s Water Penalty Surcharges for customers who have not met the 30-percent Stage D conservation targets has led some water users to panic.

However, along with the surcharge, the Public Works Commission has developed a two-step appeals process for residents who think they are unfairly charged.

Some customers have special circumstances, which could explain their increased water usage. For example, a prolonged trip in 2013 or a new family member in 2016.

Others may have begun to conserve in 2013 and it would be difficult to cut another 30 percent consumption.

The appeals process has a two-stage review. A Stage 1 Review is conducted by City staff.

A customer must submit the payment for the water bill on time first, minus the penalty surcharge, and a completed Water Penalty Surcharge Appeal form, available online at www.beverlyhills.org/appeal.

The application must be received by the bill due date without exception.

The following circumstances may make make an applicant eligible for a reduced conservation target: • Additional occupants in the home; • Medical condition that makes reduction challenging; • New water customer since 2013; • Home in a fire hazard zone with slope instability concerns and • Home with unique issues that require an adjustment, such as previous conservation efforts.

Such applicants will have the utility bill and conservation targets adjusted. A response will be in writing or in person

within 30 days.

Stage 2 Review is recourse for the customer who is not satisfied with the Stage 1 Review.

To request a hearing the customer must first complete the Water Penalty Surcharge Second Appeal Form at www.beverlyhills.org/appeal with full payment of the remaining balance on the account within 15 days of the initial appeal decision.

The appeals hearing will be conducted in person or in writing by an Appeals Officer, and scheduled within 30 days.

The Appeals Officer can waive all or a portion of the penalties for the billing cycle under review and the decision could impact all future billing periods. The Appeals Officer’s decisions are final.

The prolonged drought has led California Governor Jerry Brown to mandate cuts across the state. For Beverly Hills, a hefty 32-percent cut was assessed. Penalty surcharges are assessed to cover the costs the City incurs for not reaching the State-imposed reduction target of 32-percent. The State can charge cities up to $10,000/per day for non-compliance, and impose conservation programs for failure to reduce water consumption.

The Metropolitan Water District (MWD) has restricted the City’s water allocation.

Overages can result in costs three times the current rate.

Therefore, the City is asking customers to adopt a 30percent mandatory water reduction with the exception of those residential customers in Tier 1 using 10 units of water or less.

Since August, prior to the assessment of surcharges, customers baseline consumption target has been displayed as “gallons per day” on the utility bills showing the target for the upcoming billing cycle.The tar-

get is a 30-percent reduction of the customer’s 2013 consumption in the same time frame, consistent with the State’s baseline for measuring conservation.

Penalties are assessed in two tiers.

Level 1 Penalty Surcharge applies to customers that exceed the baseline consumption target and have water usage 71-87 percent compared to the same period in 2013. Violations up to 87 percent will be charged at 1.59 times the base rate.

Level 2 Penalty Surcharge applies to customers that exceed the baseline consumption target and have water usage 88-100 percent or more compared to the same billing period in 2013. Violations over 87 percent target rate will be charged at 3.08 times the base rate.

Customers who conserve less than 30 percent are subject to higher penalty surcharges than those who may be closer to achieving 30 percent reduction.

The City has tools to help reach conservation targets, which include the Water Tracker, an online tool that is free to customers. Sign up with a customer number on the utility bill to see daily, weekly and monthly totals, and to set notifications when targets are close, and to see year over year comparisons. Sign up at http://water.beverlyhills.org.

The Garden Guru Coaching Sessions, at a cost of $50 per household, are a 90minute crash course in understanding the unique landscape challenges and responses to save water on the customer’s own home. To sign up visit www.beverlyhills.org/gardenguru The City’s Utility Billing Office can be reached at 310285-2436.

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B E V E R LY H I L L S R E A L E S TAT E Construction Truck Hauling Nightmare Returns To Stone Canyon In Bel-Air

By Matt Lopez Another day, more construction truck craziness in BelAir. On Martin Luther King Jr. day this week, a federal holiday, more than a half dozen cement and construction trucks lined Stone Canyon Drive in Bel-Air, exporting soil and disturbing nearby residents.

The question is just how much soil was exported? The single-family dwelling currently under construction is permitted to export 973 cubic yards of dirt, but one resident reported seeing as many as 40 trucks going to the site to haul dirt in just one day this week.

“There is a huge flotilla of heavy trucks going back and forth all day... my house shakes every time they go by,” said

Trucks line Stone Canyon in Bel-Air

one anonymous Bel-Air resident in an e-mail obtained by The Courier.

L.A. city building inspectors visited the site and initially reported no violations, but when it was pointed out by

The view from the backyard of one Bel-Air resident

leaders of the Bel-Air Homeowners Alliance (BAHOA) that the amount of trucks piling onto Stone Canyon didn’t seem to match up with the amount of dirt the project is allowed to export, the site was revisited.

The BAHOA made sure to point out to L.A. city inspectors that a hauling log is required for all projects, where there is a documented report of the quantity of dirt being removed from a project. Thanks to that pressure from the community, the site was closed down Wednesday until hauling logs were provided and reviewed.

As of press time Thursday, there was no update on when the project would be reopened.

Home Prices In L.A. County Are On The Rise The median price of a home in Los Angeles County rose by 8.1-percent in December, compared with the same month a year ago, while the number of homes sold went up by 8.2 percent, a real estate information service announced today.

According to CoreLogic, the median price of a Los Angeles County home was $500,000 last month, up from $462,500 in Dec. 2014. A total of 7,196 homes were sold in the county, up from 6,649 during the same month the previous year.

In Orange County, the me-

dian price was $630,000 last month, up 8.2-percent from $582,000 in Dec. 2014. The number of homes sold rose by 13.8-percent, from 2,817 in Dec. 2014 to 3,206 last month.

A total of 20,890 new and resale houses and condos changed hands in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura, San Bernardino and Orange counties last month, according to CoreLogic. That was up 33 percent from 15,711 in November and up 9.8-percent from 19,019 in Dec. 2014.

The median price of a Southern California home was $443,000 in December, up 1

percent from $438,500 in November and up 6.7 percent from $415,000 in Dec. 2014.

“Southern California's housing market ended 2015 on a high note, but with a caveat,” said Andrew LePage, a research analyst for CoreLogic.

December home sales, which were the highest for that month in six years, got a boost from a batch of transactions that normally would have closed in November but were delayed by days or weeks as the industry adjusted to new federal mortgage rules that took effect in October.

–– City News Service

Area Homeowners Could Qualify For Seismic Retrofit Grants To Better Withstand Quakes Grants of up to $3,000 are available to help some homeowners in Los Angeles and 17 other Southern California cities retrofit their homes to better withstand earthquakes.

The Earthquake Brace and Bolt program is accepting grant applications from eligible Southern California homeowners until Feb. 20.

The assistance is available to residents in 100 zip codes

throughout who have homes with constructions that make them especially vulnerable to seismic shaking.

The Southern California zip codes are in Los Angeles, Pasadena, San Bernardino, San Marino, Santa Monica, South Pasadena and West Hollywood.

Homeowners can find out if they are eligible for the grants at http://earthquakebrace-

bolt.com .

This year about $4.8 million was made available for the program, including $3 million from the state budget and about $1.8 million from the California Earthquake Authority's Loss Mitigation Fund.

–– City News Service

BEL-AIR BAR & GRILL (Continued from page 5)

sale of single-serve, off-site consumption wine and beer?

Twelve supporters appeared on behalf of Disney Lord, at a hearing where even her supporters contradicted the denials of her attorney.

Attorney John Parker of Pacific Crest Consultants insisted that Disney Lord had not violated her CUB at all, except a “single incident” when The Shack was opened Saturday only from 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. “This was done by the applicant at the request of neighbors. . . It was an innocent mistake, she forgot the restrictions,” and she shut it down.

At a meeting of the BABCNC in October 2015, BABCNC Councilmember Jamie Hall asked Disney Lord why The Shack had consistently remained open on Saturday and Sunday, selling alcohol in violation of her CUBs. She responded, "I guess I didn't read my conditions."

Parker, insisted she had “exemplary behavior” and “no mistakes,” except for this “inadvertent mistake,” declaring that the applicant has thus earned the right to a 10-year CUB, rather than a three or five-year CUB. Disney Lord called the process “expensive,” and “exhaustive,” stating that she had been working on this for months.

Supporter Gary Plotkin, former president of the Bel Air Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council (BABCNC), said, “I had my 50th anniversary party and we had music upstairs and dancing.”

CUB condition 16 prohibits live music or dancing, which Parker insisted did not occur at the site. The applicant seeks to include live music she said will be “low decibel.”

Disney Lord, who has been selling alcohol for off-site consumption on Saturdays and Sundays at The Shack without a liquor license, and utilizing the alley as a parking lot in violation of fire regulations, has become a lightening rod for the Bel Air Homeowners Alliance (BAHOA) for her disregard for the conditions she and the neighborhood agreed to in the CUB in 2011.

Residents say Disney Lord operated legally for one year at The Shack, open only Monday - Friday, then opened illegally on weekends, claiming ignorance as exculpatory evidence, which is not supported by her behavior.

Further, at the October neighborhood council meeting, she shrugged and said she, “had to make money.”

Disney Lord was forced to admit that the “single incident” actually represented an extend-

ed period of time.

Selling liquor without a license is a violation punishable by six months in jail and/or $1,000 fine, though Disney Lord now seeks to legitimize her illegal sales.

Disney Lord is president of the Roy & Patricia Disney Foundation; she attended Duke University. Some residents say it seems highly unlikely that she "didn't know" or “forgot” her conditions.

She took ownership of the restaurant in 2007, and remodeled to create The Shack, a sort of convenience and take-out store.

Recently, a sign posted on the building read: "Dear Customers, With deepest regrets, we must change Shack operating hours to Monday through Friday 6:30 AM to 5:00 PM If you would like us to be open on the weekends, please sign our petition asking the City to approve an amendment to our Conditional Use Permit."

Customers were asked to take a bus downtown to City Hall in exchange for a sandwich to show their support for the conditions being sought.

"Now you are trying to make it alright to do what you have been doing illegally," said BABCNC Councilmember Dan Love in October.

Love, speaking for the BAHOA, said they were “unable to support the proposal for beer and wine because of the violations of the permit. The new permit should be for three years, to see that the privilege is regarded seriously and that violations cease. With the traffic and parking there it is inappropriate to have single-serve sales for off-site consumption.”

The location is positioned near the 405 freeway on/off ramp on Sepulveda Boulevard and is also the pick up-drop off site for many of the area's school buses, where kids wait for their buses or their parents weekdays.

Residents also object to customers parking illegally in the alley behind the building, blocking emergency vehicle access in the event of a crisis.

“In light of the violations of the existing CUB, the (Bel Air Homeowners) Alliance would not be able to support the extension of services at all,” said Councilmember Love. He also said that the Bel Air Homeowners Alliance will only support the original CUB, and then, only for a period of three years, rather than the 10 years Disney Lord seeks.

The file (ZA 2010-2200 (CUB)(PA1) will remain open for two weeks, and is pending review by the zoning administrator. Send comments to JoJo.Pewsawang@lacity.org.

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ARTS & E N T E RTA I N M ELAMOTH N T Honors Portuguese Diplomat Aristides De

Patti Davis Takes On Race Relations, Sousa Mendes With Exhibition, Events In Connection Uniqueness Of L.A. In New Novel In her latest novel, her 11th book, Patti Davis, explores race relations and the special qualities of L.A.’s metropolis.

Davis was inspired by watching a good friend’s daughter interact with her friends. “I noticed that race didn’t matter. I wondered if it’s possible to hang onto that innocence.”

So she decided to write The Earth Breaks In Colors, about an interracial friendship between two 11-year-old girls in Southern California.

The bond between Whisper, who is white, and AfricanAmerican Odelia is tested in a racially fueled incident.

Whisper, an only child, anxiously awaits the return of her mother from rehab while Odelia lives with the uncertainty of her older brother’s whereabouts. Their broken families struggle to heal among the rubble of fear and loss when an earthquake strikes and separates them further.

Davis has her characters scattered throughout the city when the tremblor hits; and the girls have to “pick their way through a broken city (she was inspired by pictures of the Northridge earthquake and buckled freeways) to find their parents.”

Davis doesn’t name specific parts of the Southland. “I want readers from all over to be able to picture the scene,” she says.

But savvy readers should recognize Topanga Canyon, where Davis once lived, and certain L.A. neighborhoods.

Davis didn’t set out to write a message book—”I find that obnoxious—but a book that inspires people and where the characters, all different, have grown and changed in good ways.”

The one character who becomes “heroic,” Davis says, is Odelia’s brother Kitrel. “I didn’t know he would show up,” says Davis of her “mysterious writing process.”

“He’s been banished from the family and people make the assumption that he’s an angry

With International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Patti Davis

young black man,” relates Davis. “But he really is the voice of wisdom. He sees how toxic it is to hang onto anger from generation to generation, and sees the only way to heal is to move beyond it somehow.”

The book has garnered praise for its well-drawn characters, storytelling and timeliness, but Davis admits, “it would have been timely years ago when we had the Rodney King beating and L.A. erupted into violence.

These incidents have always been around. They’re just really in our consciousness and in our faces now.”

Davis, who’s written memoir, and her pug Gracie’s story— ”I just typed it up”— is committed to fiction. “I love that you can go anywhere, and you’re not hemmed in by the truth.”

Davis will discuss and sign copies of the book at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 10 at Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd.

—Steve Simmons

The weekend before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) in Pan Pacific Park will celebrate the actions of Holocaust rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes. Two film screenings and an invitation-only reception will be held Saturday, Jan. 23, kicking off an exhibition on one of the most significant, yet little recognized heroes of the Holocaust.

The reception serves as the launch of the new exhibition, “Visas to Freedom: Aristides de Sousa Mendes and the Refugees of World War II,” in partnership with the Sousa Mendes Foundation, of original artifacts from the Sousa Mendes family as well as families that survived thanks to the diplomat’s help.

The exhibition, opening today, is set to run through Tuesday, March 1.

Portuguese Consul General Aristides de Sousa Mendes was stationed in Bordeaux, France in 1940. His government had issued strict orders to its diplomats to deny visas to Jews and other refugees seeking to escape German-occupied Europe through Portugal. Sousa Mendes defied the orders and issued Portuguese visas to thousands of people in May and June of 1940 in an operation described by Israeli Holocaust scholar Yehuda Bauer as “perhaps the largest rescue action by a single individual during the Holocaust.”

While Sousa Mendes was put on trial by the Portuguese government and harshly punished, thousands of rescued families had found safe passage to the U.S., UK, Canada, Brazil, Israel and elsewhere to begin new lives.

• At 11 a.m., Jan. 23, LAMOTH will screen With God Against Man, filmmaker Semyon Pinkhasov’s 2013 documentary that follows a group of Sousa

Aristides De Sousa Mendes and a visa.

Mendes visa recipient families, along with members of the Sousa Mendes family, as they embark on a pilgrimage retracing their families’ footsteps more than seven decades earlier.

• At 2 p.m., the museum will screen Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story, a 2013 French feature with English subtitles, directed by Joel Santoni and starring Bernard Lecoq as Sousa Mendes, which won Audience Choice Awards at both the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival and San Diego Jewish Film Festival.

• At 6 p.m., LAMOTH will host the invitation-only reception marking the opening of the exhibition. Among the speakers will be Sebastian Mendes, grandson of the diplomat; Dr. Lissy Jarvik, who received a visa in 1940; actor Michel Gill (House Of Cards), son and grandson of visa recipients; Dr. Michael Berenbaum, director of Sigi Ziering Institute, American Jewish University; and Nuno Mathias, consul general of Portugal in San Francisco.

Awards will be presented to California state legislators Johan Klehs, Rusty Areias and Richard Katz by Sousa Mendes Foundation representative Robert Jacobvitz for their roles

in obtaining justice for Sousa Mendes in his home country of Portugal.

“The exhibit will be part of our Rescue and Resistance Gallery, which educates visitors about remarkable acts of courage and compassion by extraordinary individuals like Sousa Mendes in Nazi-occupied Europe,” said Samara Hutman, LAMOTH executive director.

LAMOTH is also a community partner for the world premiere of the oratorio Circular 14: The Apotheosis Of Aristides by composer Neely Bruce. The concert, produced by Marilyn Ziering, will take place at American Jewish University at 3 p.m., Jan. 24.

The LAMOTH Sousa Mendes events coincide with International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. This year also marks the 50th anniversary of Sousa Mendes being recognized in 1966 as one of the “Righteous Among the Nations” by Israel’s Holocaust authority, Yad Vashem, and the 30th anniversary of his being recognized by the U.S. government and Portuguese governments in 1986.

KCET’s SoCal Connected Launches 7th Season, New Lost LA, In Partnership With USC Libraries, Debuts A new season of KCET’s original flagship program SoCal Connected, the multiple Emmy and Peabody award-winning news series hosted by Val Zavala, debuts its seventh season at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 27.

The weekly half-hour local news magazine kicks off with a special episode focused on urban wildlife.

Coyotes have proven themselves extremely adaptable: some communities say too adaptable. They want coyotes controlled and even killed.

Others believe people can coexist with coyotes if we know how to adapt to them. Now the

National Park Service has launched its first ever coyote tracking project.

Reporter Derrick Shore asks, how people come to terms with coyotes? He meets residents on both sides of the coyote issue, and follows a National Park Service coyote tracker to find out what science can teach about this clever and sometimes threatening urban dweller.

The program also looks at beekeeping in the 21st century and the surprising future of taxidermy.

The show will repeat at 8 p.m., Friday, Jan. 29, and 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 31.

• Lost LA, created in part-

nership with USC Libraries, is based on KCET’s L.A. as Subject web series written by L.A. historian Nathan Masters.

The three-part series, which Masters hosts, explores stories from the city’s past that have been lost to folklore, including wildlife; the Elysian Hills before Dodger Stadium’s construction; and the metropolis’ now defunct tunnels, canals and hills.

A variety of emerging regional filmmakers have been selected to direct the films utilizing techniques that range from rotoscoping to cinema verité, to bring the primary sources of L.A. history to the screen in surprising new ways.

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BEVERLY HILLS SCOUTS HONOR– Pack 100 held its last meeting at the Scout House after issues with the Los Angeles Country Club meant that the scouts will not have access to the Scout House. The final meeting at the Scout House was well attended, with the older scouts learning Morse Code and the younger scouts learning about coins.

Pictured (top, from left): Sammy Rosenthal, Casey Hartman, Calder Silverton, and Jordan Freund; (middle, from left): Phillip Turkat , Justin Perlman and Edan Khanian; (bottom, from left): Anderson Bower, Adam Jeng, Jai Singh and Stephen Carmona.

Final Draft Celebrates 25 Years Of Helping Screenwriters’ Visions Come To Life

By Laura Coleman Hollywood is known throughout the world as the place where dreams come true, and in fact, it is the drive to make it, that has propelled millions of people to move here.

One such tale of romance is that of Philadelphia native Marc Madnick, now a resident of Westwood, who moved West in order to break into the industry as a screenwriter some 30 years ago.

But life has a tricky way about it, and the success that Madnick ultimately found was in helping other screenwriters achieve their dreams when he became the co-founder of Final Draft.

It all started in a little apartment in Hollywood that he shared with a roommate, Ben Cahan, in the 1980’s. Madnick was working hard trying to make it in film production and his roommate, “a natural-born engineer” according to Madick, decided to dabble in writing.

At the time, computers with Microsoft Word had only recently replaced typewriters as the preferred tool for script-writers and both young men

immediately realized that it was totally inadequate.

Just imagine, Madnick instructed The Courier, what it was like to try to reformat a script if one line changes; it breaks up every single page break and requires painstaking revision.

“I said to [Cahan], ‘Why don’t you make it and I’ll sell it,’” he recalled, noting that he imagined it might ultimately lead to a writing career with all the people he would meet while marketing and selling the product.

Ultimately, Madnick realized that his true talent was in running a small business.

“Back then, the key was making it...look like a script should look like,” he said. “It was a lot of common sense that went about it.”

Today, Final Draft, which is now entering its 25th year, is the number one screenwriting software on the market.

“The relationship we have with the writers is very important, both ways,” he said.

INTERFAITH

and blessings, as well as guidance and support for hospital staff including education about religious traditions that may impact a child’s recovery experience at CHLA. The spiritual care team is available around-the-clock, seven days a week for critical emergencies.

Kostlan, a 1957 USC alumna has been a CHLA supporter for more than three decades. In addition to serving on the hospital’s boards, Kostlan is a longtime member of Las Madrinas, one of the hospital’s longstanding Associates & Affiliates fundraising groups. Kostlan’s parents, Farmers Insurance co-founder Thomas Leavey and his wife, Dorothy Risley Leavey, were committed to helping those in need and established The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation in 1952, which Kathleen now chairs.

Previous to The Leavey Foundation’s most recent support for the hospital’s Interfaith Center, the Foundation supported the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit at CHLA—a unit which received the national gold-level Beacon Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses in 2013.

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• Four semi-enclosed meditation and prayer spaces; • Symbols representative of the diverse array of faiths our patients including Catholicism, Eastern and Western Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and Hinduism; • A 1,500-square-foot shaded outdoor Reflection Garden with water features, symbolic art and landscaping.

With this new space, patients and family members can connect with their faith in the tranquil meditation rooms and the Reflection Garden when a retreat from the hospital room is needed.

“With 12,600 patient contacts over the course of a year, our spiritual care team is committed to providing support, comfort and hope to patients and families of all cultural, spiritual and religious traditions,” says Rev. Dagmar Grefe, PhD, manager of Spiritual Care Services and Clinical Pastoral Education. This includes conducting bedside visits with patients and families in their time of need, spiritual counseling and rituals such as baptism, communion, confession

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OUTLOOK B E V E R LY H I L L S OUTLOOK Actor, best-selling author and 2016 Grammy-nominated comedian Jay Mohr will perform live at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 23 at The Gaslamp, 6251 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach.

His record, Happy. And A Lot. is nominated for Best Comedy Record at this year's Grammys, and the entire record was written by his wife, actress Nikki Cox. He also hosts his own podcast, Mohr Stories.

Tickets range from $25$67. To purchase and for information, visit http://www.gaslamplongbeach.com.

• • • • • Man’s Dominion—David Castro’s play that tells the story of the 1916 lynching in Erwin, Tenn, of Mary the elephant and star attraction of the Sparks Family Shows, an itinerant circus that toured the American Southeast and beyond for years—opens Saturday, Jan. 23 and will run at 8 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays through Feb. 20 at Studio C Artist performance space on Theatre Row, 6448 Santa Monica Blvd.

A hit at the 2014 Hollywood Fringe Festival, the play tells Mary’s story along with those of witnesses, participants and circus co-workers and stars actor Tim Powell in a one-man theatrical event where he brings to life 10 characters in 19 separate, but thematically unified monologues.

Tickets are available at http://mansdominion.eventbrit e.com. For a complete performance schedule and more information, visit http://mansdominion.com.

• • • • • Stephen Massicotte’s Mary’s Wedding, a romantic and historical dream play, will run Fridays-Sundays, Jan. 28Feb. 21 at the Malibu Playhouse, 29243 Pacific Coast Highway.

The production officially launches the 2016 season under the helm of Jeremy Skidmore.

Staring Hallie Cooper and Mark Jude Sullivan, the play tells the story of Mary and Charlie who unexpectedly find one another sheltered in a barn during a thunderstorm, and a tentative love is born. But the year is 1914, and their first flirtations ignite right as World War I begins to engulf the western world. Nevertheless, their bond begins to fracture the hard rules of time as their story unfolds across vast prairies, on the decks of silently sailing war ships, and entwined with the chaotic trenches of Europe’s noman’s land.

Ticket prices, ranging from $10-7, and performance times vary depending on performance date. Visit http://malibuplayhouse.org/marys-wedding/

for details.

• • • • • Love is in the air when Beverly Hills vocalist Maggy Simon returns to Hollyw o o d ’ s famous Catalina Jazz Club, 6725 Maggy Simon Sunset Blvd., to celebrate the Valentine’s season of love in her all-new, one night only, show on Wednesday, Feb. 10.

Evoking memories of Judy Garland, Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick, the exquisite Simon sizzles in timeless jazz, Broadway and popular classics with a voice that fills the room with ardent, romantic affection.

Doors open at 7 p.m. for dinner; show begins at 8:30 p.m. For reservations, visit www.catalinajazzclub.com or call 323-466-2210.

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A DJ spins tunes in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

The Music Center will present the third installment of “Sleepless: The Music Center After Hours”—a free multi-sensory series that features The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion transformed sonically, visually and spatially, reimagining the use of the space with DJs, light baths, projections, sound installations, and more—from 11:30 p.m.-3 p.m., Friday, Feb 5.

As guests step into the lobby of the Pavilion, they will experience light and video projections specially commissioned for the space; get crafty and create a personalized cityscape of L.A. at an oversized shadow puppet gallery; relax on bean bags and pillows to enjoy large-scale projections, and listen to a curated roster of DJs playing ambient sounds; dance to electronic music in the Founders Room; and bask in the lower levels of the building with a sound installation.

Parking is available under the Pavilion, for $5 after 8 p.m.

For information, visit musiccenter.org/sleepless.

• • • • • In honor of Black History Month, Forest Lawn Memorial Parks will present the U.S. debut of WordTheatre’s And All That Jazz…,” featuring stories from the history of jazz brought to life in a evening of music, song, fiction, poetry,

and memoir, from 7-9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 6 at Forest Lawn Memorial Parks and Mortuaries Hall of Liberty, 6300 Forest Lawn Dr., Hollywood Hills.

With Wesley Lowery on drums, Christopher Lowery on trumpet, Matt Little on piano and Dale Black on bass, the L.A. based Lowery Brothers Band will fuse an original jazz score with accompaniment of the cast performing jazz classics.

Complementing the program will be a new a photography exhibition, Saluting L.A. Jazz: Performance Portraits by Bob Barry, which pays tribute to dozens of black L.A. jazz musicians.

RSVPs are strongly recommended: to rachel@wordtheatre.com or 323-822-0823.

•• • • • A new exhibition featuring compelling images of festivals and political rallies by California-based photographer Cindy Bendat, “Celebrate-Demonstrate: Photographs of Global L.A.,” will be on display through May 18 at UCLA’s Fowler Museum in the north part of the campus.

Bendat’s photographs illustrate ways in which immigrants maintain homeland traditions in the U.S. and express their ethnic and cultural identities.

Works on display offer a view of three annual celebrations in and around L.A.: A fiesta for the Guatemalan folk saint San Simón, in late October; festivities for the Ethiopian Orthodox Timket (Epiphany) events; and Cambodian New Year or Chaul Chnam Thmey.

From a Guatemalan botánica in the Pico-Union district to a Cambodian Buddhist temple in Long Beach, the images illustrate L.A.’s urban landscape.

The Fowler is open from noon-5 p.m., Wednesday-

Sunday, and from noon-8 p.m., Thursdays. Admission is free.

Parking is available for a maximum of $12 in Lot 4. For more information, call 310-825-4361 or visit fowler.ucla.edu.

• • • • • The American Youth Symphony will present two concerts on Saturday, Feb. 20 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

• At 11 a.m., Juan Felipe Molano, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA), will lead the symphony’s Family Concert.

The concert, designed to introduce children to classical music, and co-sponsored by First 5 LA, will feature Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Op. 34, Rimsky– Korsakov’s Scheherazade op.

35, Mvt. II, The Tale Of Prince Kalendar and The Fight Of The Bumblee; Peck’s Playing With Style; and Offenbach’s Can Can from Orpheus in the Underworld.

To reserve free tickets for the concert, maximum six, visit https://aysymphony.secure.forc e.com/ticket/#sections_a0F310 0000KP3hoEAD. • At 7 p.m., AYS will be joined by not one, but two guest conductors. Conductor and Grammy-nominated violinist Robert McDuffie will lead the orchestra in Philip Glass’ The American Four Seasons, and Maestro Marc Williams will conduct Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade.

McDuffie gave the world premiere of The American Four Seasons—a work written for and dedicated to him by Glass, with the Toronto Symphony.

To reserve free seats, visit https://aysymphony.secure.forc e.com/ticket/#sections_a0F310 0000KP60WEAT. The weekly update of local and Southland events.

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BEVERLY HILLS

Beverly Hills Community Assistance Grants Applications Open Through January 28

By Victoria Talbot The City is still accepting grant applications through Jan. 28 for funding to providers of services that are vital to the health and welfare of the local and regional community.

The Community Assistance Grant Funding is for the 201617 fiscal year.

Applicants must be able to provide a service that meets a community need. These include social services, community health and education.

CENTENNIAL TREE–Last week, members of Beverly Hills’ Urban Forest Team oversaw the installation of a bronze plaque commemorating the second anniversary of Beverly Hills Centennial Tree, a Moreton Bay fig. The tree has doubled in diameter and grown from 14 feet to 22 feet tall in just two years. Pictured, from left: Steve Hough, David Garrard, Octavio Morales, Martin Richter, Rebecca Criscillis.

Beverly Hills To Break Ground On New Water Wells

By Victoria Talbot In an effort to get ahead of water shortages, expensive solutions, and the never-ending cycle of drought in California, the City of Beverly Hills will be breaking ground on two new water wells that will tap into shallow ground water that may one day become an additional City-owned water source for potable water.

Raw water from the two shallow wells will be piped to the City’s water treatment plant and tested for approximately one year. The results of the water testing will be submitted to the California Department of

Drinking Water for evaluation for determination as a possible source of potable water.

If this water meets the state’s water quality standards, it will contribute to the City’s water supply. This will result in a decrease in dependance on outside water currently imported through the Metropolitan Water District.

The shallow groundwater beneath the City has never been tapped, since the city was established.

With the state’s approval, this additional water supply would enhance the City’s reliable water supply, especially in

times of drought.

With the state-mandated 32-percent conservation target, the importance of a reliable source of water within the City’s control is clear.

The Public Works Department invites the City to an official ground-breaking ceremony Tuesday, Jan. 27 at 1:30 p.m. at the new well’s location, 336 Foothill Rd., next to the proposed dog park.

A shuttle will be provided to take participants to the site, leaving from the Crescent Drive side of City Hall at 1:15 p.m.

A VOICE AGAINST BULLIES–Meredith O'Connor, an international teen pop star and anti-bullying advocate, performed at the Albert Einstein Academy in Beverly Hills where she afterwards spoke with students. Currently on tour across the U.S., Meredith's passion for anti-bullying has taken her to schools and theaters across the country and around the world, including stops in Greece and the UK, and through her music has helped thousands of struggling teens, becoming the role model that she lacked growing up and going through her own difficulties.

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First Interim Report.

However, LACOE cautioned that the district’s projected $1.3 million operating deficit for this fiscal year, in addition to projected operating deficits of $700,000 and $1.8

million for 2016-17 and 201718, respectively, “should be recognized and monitored so it remains manageable.”

The district currently has an inter-fund borrowing resolution in place with cash available in other funds to address any potential shortfalls during

the year.

“I look forward to working closely with the Board of Education in taking a close look at all our budget expenditures to insure a strong budget into the future,” Superintendent Steve Kessler said.

POLICE BLOTTER

These assaults, burglaries, robbery and grand thefts have been reported

by BHPD. Streets indicated by block numbers. Losses in brackets.

ASSAULTS 01/10 400 S. Clark Dr. 01/12 300 N. Crescent Dr. 01/14 400 S. Rexford Dr. 01/16 300 N. Beverly Dr. 01/17 Benedict Canyon Dr./ Ambassae BURGLARIES 01/09 9500 Brighton Way 01/10 300 N. Crescent Dr. 01/11 900 N. Rexford Dr. 01/11 1000 Shadow Hill Way 01/11 300 S. Rexford Dr. ($250) 01/11 800 N. Bedford Dr.

01/13 400 S. Rodeo Dr. 01/14 100 N. Hamilton Dr. 01/14 800 Walden Dr. 01/14 700 Foothill Rd. 01/15 700 N. Rexford Dr. 01/16 9200 Charleville Bl. ($800) 01/17 100 Peck Dr. ($25) 01/17 8400 Wilshire Bl. ($46) GRAND THEFTS 12/31 300 N.Rodeo Dr. ($2,700) 01/04 100 S. Palm Dr. ($3,310) 01/05 400 S. Crescent Dr. ($3,000) 01/05 9300 Wilshire Bl. ($6,620) 01/07 300 Reeves Dr. ($16,000)

01/08 855 N. Kilkea Dr. ($2,745) 01/08 400 S. Beverly Dr. ($10,000) 01/10 9800 Wilshire Bl. ($8,000) 01/11 400 S. Palm Dr. 01/13 8900 Olympic Bl. ($2,795) 01/15 9500 Wilshire Bl. ($1,895) 01/15 9500 Wilshire Bl. ($515) 01/17 9600 Brighton Way ($1,325) ROBBERY 01/10 300 S. La Peer Dr. ($114,000)

Applicants must either be a 501(c)3 non-profit organization or be partnered with a 501(c)3.

A completed application must be returned in person to the Beverly Hills Human Services Department at City Hall or be postmarked no later than the 5 p.m.on Jan. 28.

To obtain an application,contact Human Services at 310-285-1006, or go online to www.beverlyhills.org/cagf

BRINGING THE GIFT OF MUSIC TO THE BLIND–Four years ago, a terrible car accident left 16-year old Devon Maghen in a coma for two months. After five brain surgeries and intense rehabilitation, Devon suffers from spatial navigation issues, short term memory and processing deficits. He is also legally blind.

He will join many Iranians who will perform Sunday evening at 6:30 everything from comedy to concertos to raise funds for the Beyond Vision Foundation, located in Beverly Hills, which reaches out to teach the visually challenged to “see the beauty of life through music.” The organization teaches music, including theory and voice, to enhance the quality of life and provide a living to the visually impaired, free of charge. The performance will be at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, 4401 W. 8th Street, Los Angeles. Call 310-490-5507 for information.

WORKSHOP AND RAIN BARRELS– Westside Cities Pollution Prevention will hold a Water Quality & Conservation Workshop 9-11a.m. Sunday at the Public Works Service Building at 245 Foothill Road 1st Floor, where they will be distributing 55gallon rain barrels to be used for water collection for irrigation. Preregistered participants will receive their barrels to collect runoff that would be otherwise be carried away by storm drains. For more information visit www.SoCalWaterSmart.com.

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S P O RT S Baseball Hall Of Famer Joe Torre Honored At The Beverly Hilton

SPIRIT OF THE GAME– Baseball Hall of Famer and World Series-winning manager Joe Torre was honored on Jan. 13 at The Beverly Hilton at the 13th annual “In The Spirit Of The Game” Awards. Torre was given the Allan H. “Bud” Selig Executive Leadership Award by Selig, the former commissioner of Major League Baseball. Also honored was Beverly Hills resident and longtime baseball power-agent Dennis Gilbert, who received the Dave Winfield Humanitarian Award. Others honored at the event included: Maury Wills, Andre Dawson, Larry King, Terry Collins, Bill White and Roland Hermond. Pictured above: Bob Uecker, Bud Selig and Joe Torrance. Pictured below: Jerry Reinsdorf, Dennis Gilbert and Dave Winfield.

Vin Scully To Be Honored By L.A. Sports Council February 25 At The Beverly Hilton Famed Dodger announcer Vin Scully will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the L.A. Sports Council next month, honoring his nearly seven decades broadcasting for the Boys in Blue.

"I can't think of a person more deserving of this recognition," Sports Council President David Simon said. "Even more remarkable than his longevity is the consistently high quality and integrity his announcing has represented over the years."

Scully, 88, announced in August that he plans to return for the 2016 season, which will be his 67th with the team -- the longest time any broadcaster has been with a single professional sports team.

During the regular season, he only announces home games, along with road games in San Francisco and Anaheim.

Scully indicated, however,

that next season would likely be his last.

"I don't want any headlines, but I would say next year would be the last one. I mean how long can you can keep fooling people?" Scully said.

Scully will be honored during the LA Sports Awards ceremony Feb. 25 at the Beverly Hilton.

Patrick McClenahan, who oversaw last summer's 2015 Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles, was named Thursday as the Sports Executive of the Year by the L.A. Sports Council and will also be honored at the event.

More than 6,000 athletes competed in the games, with nearly 250,000 spectators attending the various competitions and the opening and closing ceremonies.

In addition to serving as president of LA 2015, he also played a key role in attracting

sponsors, organizing staff and volunteers and negotiating a broadcast agreement with ESPN. "McClenahan made it the mission of LA 2015 to create awareness that leads to acceptance and inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities," according to the Sports Council. "Through the power of sport, the Special Olympics World Games succeeded in transforming the lives of the Special Olympics athletes as well as the hearts and minds of all who witnessed their courage, determination and joy."

McClenahan will be honored during the 11th annual LA Sports Awards ceremony Feb. 25 at the Beverly Hilton.

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Beverly Hills Boys Basketball Team Wins Seventh Straight, Showdown With Santa Monica Looms Tonight Beverly Hills High’s boys basketball team continued its impressive roll on Wednesday, winning its seventh-straight game in a 56-49 win over host Lawndale.

BHHS moved to 13-6 overall and 3-0 in the Ocean League, but that perfect league mark is likely to be tested tonight at the Swim Gym in a 7:30 p.m. showdown with Santa Monica. The Vikings enter tonight’s game at an equally impressive 16-2, 3-0 clip.

Prior to the win over Lawndale, Ron Artest III, the son of Lakers star Metta World Peace, continued his impressive play on Monday in a 49-47 win over Campbell Hall in the MLK Showcase at LACES. Artest III scored 21 points to lead the Normans in the win. Denzel Holt had 13.

Last Friday, BHHS drubbed Hawthorne 66-31 behind a 25point effort from senior Maddox Daniels. Artest added 13.

After Friday’s game with Santa Monica, BHHS is at Culver City on Jan. 27.

Girls basketball Beverly Hills High’s girls varsity basketball team started Ocean League play with consecutive losses, falling to El Segundo 50-27 on Jan. 13 and Hawthorne 46-8 on Jan. 15.

BHHS is currently 4-15 overall and 0-2 in league play this season.

Girls soccer The BHHS girls soccer team overcame a two-goal deficit to visiting Lawndale on Wednesday to emerge with a

thrilling 3-2 Ocean League win.

Lauren Aviram scored the game-winner in sudden-death overtime to lead BHHS (6-7-1, 2-1) off a through pass from freshman Dani Elitzur.

It was Elitzur who got BHHS on the board after trailing 2-0 with a goal in the 35th minute, then scored again on a penalty kick in the 63rd minute.

The Normans play at Santa Monica on Friday at 3 p.m. and host Culver City on Jan. 27.

Boys soccer The Beverly Hills High boys soccer team has now gone five straight games without a goal after a 4-0 loss to Hawthorne on Jan. 15.

The Normans lost 2-0 on Jan. 13 and are currently 0-8 overall and 0-2 in league play.

Former Norman Named To Collegiate Bowl Former Beverly Hills High football star Greg Townsend Jr. has been named to the 2016 Collegiate Bowl game.

Townsend Jr., who has starred at USC for the last three years, will participate in the showcase put on by the National Football League’s players union on Jan. 23 at StubHub Center.

In his first full season as a starter, Townsend Jr. tallied 43 tackles, six tackles for a loss and two sacks.

Townsend Jr. graduated from BHHS in 2011.

The NFLPA Collegiate Bowl will air Jan. 23 on ESPN2.

BATTER UP– Beverly Hills Mayor Julian Gold spent time with baseball hall of famer Cal Ripken Jr. this weekend while in Washington DC for the annual Conference of Mayors. Ripken was in town supporting the PlayBall innative with the Conference of Mayors. The PlayBall initiative seeks to strengthen the connection between baseball and American communities, especially urban and underserved areas.

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BHHS’s graduation standards are based on the A-G requirements, although in some cases, such as history – BHHS requires three years of history while A-G calls for just two – Beverly Hills actually exceeds the UC’s requirements.

A-G calls for two years of history/social science, four years of college preparatory english, three years of college preparatory math (three are required, four are recommended), two years of laboratory science, two years of a language other than English, one year of visual and performing arts and one year of a college preparatory elective.

According to a report from Beverly Hills Unified School District staff, BHHS ranked 18th among top performing districts in the state (San Marino Unified was No. 1, followed

by La Canada, Manhattan Beach, Piedmont and Palo Alto in the top five). Only 67 percent of BHHS students were able to meet the A-G requirements, which district staffers view as a cause for concern.

Nearly half of BHHS graduates attend community college, but only 39.9 percent of those transfer to a four-year school within two years, according to the staff report. Only half of those transfer out in three-to-five years.

“A-G is not the problem or the solution,” Board President Howard Goldstein said. “Onethird of our students don’t meet current requirements, so we have to figure out where is the educational disconnect?”

“We need to change our philosophy from being punitive to being compassionate,” BHHS Principal Dave Jackson said, noting that he would like to see courses that taught students about “every day life.. like how to balance a checkbook.”

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Mrs. Johnson was in a meeting with Postmaster Koala Fuller.

The woman behind the counter was rude.”

Smart said she asked him to leave and threatened to call the police.

Smart has filed a police report with the Beverly Hills Police Department and plans to take federal action.

But for now, this senior citizen is out more than $60,000 when he is sick and vulnerable.

The Courier submitted his information to the Corporate Communications for the local USPS. We were informed that “a postal employee in Beverly Hills confirmed she delivered Mr. Russell’s package to him, Jan. 19 , at 3:21 p.m. and there is a delivery scan on that tracking number in the computer supporting the event.”

Mr. Russell confirmed; a package was delivered but not the certified letter he so needs.

Another resident did not get a letter postmarked in Sep-

BHHS’ Dean of College Admissions AhYoung Chi answered “absolutely not” when asked by the board if she felt removing A-G requirements would negatively affect a diploma from Beverly Hills Hills High in any way, but the school board majority didn’t seem ready to budge on lowering the bar.

Board Vice President Mel Spitz said when the item was agendized, he heard from “many residents who expressed shock and concern that we would even considering lowering our academic standards.”

Staff recommended changes Tuesday included: requiring algebra, geometry and a third year of math; a life science and a physical science (incentivize lab sciences and three or more years of science); one year of a foreign language (incentivize two or more years of the same language); two years of physical education; one year of visual/performing arts, while creating a pathway/academy for students to pursue careers in the arts and adopting a documented plan to increase A-G and fouryear college admissions/specialty pathway programs.

The report did not detail what the aforementioned incentives would include.

The board largely seemed to be open to offering different pathways to graduation, but with a catch. Spitz agreed with boardmember Lisa Korbatov that perhaps a different diploma for students who graduated with A-G requirements would be in order.

“I have a hard time believing that once we offer various pathways to graduation, that it’s going to increase the number of students who are opting for the more rigorous curriculum,” Spitz said. “If we did have, say, two pathways... I think maybe there’s a graduation diploma and a graduation with honors or cum laude, as an incentive of some kind.

According to the list of topperforming districts staff provided, BHUSD was one of only four that had A-G graduation requirements, but Jackson noted that other school districts have different cultures and demographics that make a comparison to BHUSD difficult.

Still, boardmember Isabel Hacker said it was important to look at what those not requiring A-G are doing to send a higher-rate of students to fouryear schools.

“What are they doing that we are not doing?” Hacker asked.

Boardmember Noah Margo said that since BHHS’ current requirements in many cases exceed the A-G standards, he didn’t see any need for a change.

Korbatov said she believed one problem the district had was in the math department.

“With all due respect.. we’ve had a problem in the math department for a very long time, a problem with getting great teachers to stay.” Korbatov said.

Korbatov noted she was not in favor of removing A-G standards, and noted that she has pushed for a town hall with families to “talk about the pitfalls of Santa Monica College, which she said “in many ways is not a pathway, but a trap door.”

According to data provided by Korbatov, the number of students who attended a fouryear college increased by 17 percent over the last four years under A-G standards.

“I’m not ready to take away A-G for the kids who need it,” said Korbatov, who implored staff to think of outof-the-box ways to enrich students’ experiences at BHHS, offering a two-year requirement of Farsi as one example.

“When standards are lowered, kids work less.”

The School Board agreed to continue the discussion ot a future meeting.

tember until January and sent us a copy of his letter to the DMV: A week ago (letter dated 1/16/16) I picked up my mail from my PO box - I go there about 3x a week - and amongst my other mail I found your letter - DMV - and a letter from Bank of America - both dated from Sept. 2015. On opening the DMV letter for my license renewal I saw it was due 12-82015. I immediately went to the Beverly Hills P.O. and explained the problem, showing them the 2 letters. I asked to speak to the supervisor. They told me she had gone already ; to come back the next day and she would see me. I did that but was now told to fill out a form and the supervisor, upon reading all of that, would get back to me within 24 hours.

When I returned after 24 hours, not having heard from the supervisor, I was told to come back the next day. I told the clerk all I want is the P.O. to state this was mislaid. Next day there still was no communica-

tion from the supervisor. I have gone to the B.H. Courier since they had articles deriding the P.O. and to the Automobile Club who told me to write to you. I have paid my DMV fees since 1953 and assure you would have paid this on time had I received the notice. I am enclosing a check for $272 and beseech you to waive the penalty of $163 under the aforementioned circumstances.

I plan to send a copy of this letter to my congressman and to The Courier since this is not the way for a P.O. to behave.

The P.O. clerk I have seen and who can corroborate everything is Marilyn Wong.

The Supervisor’s name I was told is Renee Johnson.

We continue to receive calls and letters from the residents who have issues with the Beverly Hills Post Office.

Please send your emails to vtalbot@bhcourier.com Editor’s note: Consider the dysfunctional Beverly Hills Post Offices when you decide how to file your taxes.

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third death in less than two years along the same steep stretch of road on Loma Vista.

In March and May of 2014, LAPD officers were killed in separate accidents with construction trucks.

Sgt. Max Subin of the Beverly Hills Police Department said a landscaper's delivery truck with equipment and specimens in the bed of the truck was heading south on Loma Vista near Doheny Friday morning and "seemed to have lost its brakes and was unable to stop."

The vehicle was a medium-sized flatbed truck with a cab that held specimen trees to be delivered.

Subin said surveillance cameras in the area show the truck clipped a vehicle that was also traveling southbound, but at normal speeds, on Loma Vista. After crossing Doheny but before reaching Mountain Drive, the truck slammed into a parked Prius on the east side of the street, spinning it 180 degrees and destroying the entire front end, before hitting a brick wall and coming to a rest in the 800 block of Loma Vista Drive.

Police are not yet releasing the names of those involved, including the Prius' owner and the first vehicle that was clipped, but are aware of the identities and have interviewed them. The Prius' owner was visiting at the residence where the truck came to a stop.

The exact cause of the crash is still under investigation, but this accident is within a block of two accidents that killed LAPD officers in 2014.

LAPD Officer Nicholas Lee was killed March 7, 2014 when his patrol vehicle was struck in the Doheny intersection by a construction vehicle hauling heavy equipment that lost its brakes. Detective Ernest Allen, Sr. was killed May 2, just weeks later, when his private vehicle was struck by a full cement mixer that had lost its brakes and collided with Allen's small

January 22, 2016 | Page 19 truck before hitting a tree. The cement mixer drove up the trunk of the tree and fell backwards onto Allen's truck, striking it a second time, where it came to rest.

BHPD Sgt. Scott Dowling said the landscaping truck was likely traveling at speeds between 70-80 miles per hour when it hit the Prius, sheared off a tree at the roots and hit the vine-covered brick wall. The truck's cab went through the wall where it came to rest inside the perimeter of the private residence.

On June 17, 2014, following the LAPD fatalities, the Beverly Hills City Council directed staff to implement a series of measures to address heavy haul vehicles traveling to and from construction sites in Trousdale.

The measures are being examined in communities throughout the hillside areas of Los Angeles County for their effectiveness, as construction in these areas consider the Baseline Mansionization Ordinance and height restrictions by excavating hillsides to dig for more square footage for large, singlefamily homes. The resulting excavation requires heavy hauling trucks to remove hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of dirt from construction sites. Excavation is followed by cement trucks needed to shore up walls and truckers hauling large construction equipment and supplies needed for building pylons and 20,000 to 100,000 sq. ft. mansions.

In Trousdale Estates. the City reduced hauling hours so trucks would not be on the street during morning and afternoon school drop off, set haul routes, reduced the size of trucks allowed on the streets, created an inspection requirement and mandated a secondary braking system.

Construction parking is required to be off-site, and vehicles over 26,000 pounds or 10,000 pounds with three or more axles are required to give 24-hour advance notice before entering Trousdale Estates.

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A N O T H E R B I RT H D AY ! ?

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BIRTHDAYS—Linda Blair, Joseph Wambaugh, Beverly Mitchell, Ronni Land, Diane Lane and Piper Laurie (Jan. 22); Glorya Kaufman, Richard Dean Anderson, Rochelle Maize, Rutgar Hauer, Herb Wallerstein, Chita Rivera and Susan Taylor (Jan. 23); Mischa Barton, Justine Handwerger, Neil Diamond, Jeannine Sefton and Nastassia Kinski (Jan. 24); Bobby Goldsboro, Robin Johnson, and Nathan Prusan and Alicia Keys (Jan. 25); Anne Jeffreys-Sterling, Ellen DeGeneres, Anita Baker, Scott Glenn, and Eddie van Halen (Jan. 26); Mimi Rogers, Dr. Susan Stafford and Bart Ross (Jan. 27); Alan Alda and John Beck (Jan. 28).

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Desert Roundup

From its groundbreaking in 1969, the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage was destined for greatness. After all, it was the brain-child of Florence Swanson of the TV diner Swanson’s fame, whose husband suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while playing golf at Thunderbird Country Club as part of a foursome that included former President Dwight Eisenhower. Swanson believed that had there been a nearby hospital her husband may have survived.

Swanson reached out to her friends, and in 1966 Dolores and Bob Hope donated 80 acres of choice land in the center of Rancho Mirage for the new hospital. Major financial assistance was, in part, provided by Gene and Jackie Autry; Walter and Leonore Annenberg; John Curci; Peter Kiewit; Paul Jenkins; Ernie Dunlevie; Willard Keith; Freeman Gosden; Justin Dart and, Leonard Firestone.

New names have been added to Eisenhower Medical Center’s list of major supporters, including Helene Galen, Harold Matzner, JoAnn McGrath, Ed Peterson, Jan Salta, Greg and Stacey Renker and Suzy Leprino.

EISENHOWER CO-CHAIRS–Co-chairing the gala party for the 45th anniversary of the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage were Jan Salta and Suzy Leprino.

Eisenhower Medical Center recently gave itself a well-earned and lavish acknowledgement of its 45-plus years – from the birth of an idea to today’s achievement of being ranked as of an idea to today’s achievement of being ranked as one of the top 50 hospitals in the country. The party – held at the J.W. Marriott Desert Springs – featured the multi-person group, Impulse, which provided music for “Dancing Through the Decades.”

But, the biggest, best-kept pre-dinner secret was the on-stage pre-desert appearance of the “queen of Motown” Diana Ross, who proved that the queen is still performing to world-class standards, getting the room–filled predominately of doctors–to get up from their tables and engage in a heavy session of cardio-vascular exercise on the dance floor.

Plans are now being made for celebrating Eisenhower Medical Center’s 50th anniversary. Why wait for another four years? It will simply take some of the 850 guests that long to catch their breath. ****** “Glass with Class” might be a suitable sub-title for the new exhibition of a collection of Steuben Glass made in collaboration with the U.S. State Department in the 1950s as part of a United States’ program of cultural, diplomatic and public relations directed at countries in Asia and the Middle East.

The exhibit, named “Asian Artists in Crystal: Steuben Glass at Sunnylands” consists of 36 glass objects made by Steuben and engraved with designs submitted by artists from 16 countries.

The entire series, purchased by Walter and Leonore Annenberg in 1971 for their home in Rancho Mirage, will be on exhibition at Sunnylands Center and Gardens beginning Jan. 28 and running through May 28, 2017, and marks the first time the collection has left the house since it was stalled there in a William Haines-designed custom gallery for more than 40 years ago.

The Steuben Glass collection is still advancing American cultural collaboration. Just weeks after “Asian Artists in Crystal: Steuben Glass at Sunnylands” opens to the public, President Barack Obama will hold a summit with the 10 members of the

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Association of Southeast Asian Nations at Sunnylands on Feb. 15 and 16. Artworks from five of the ASEAN nations are represented in the exhibition.

The exhibition is on view when Sunnylands Center is open: Thursdays through Sundays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.

More information is available at 760-202-2283. ****** The 28th Frank Sinatra Celebrity Invitational, February 18-20, 2016, will be a very special event honoring “100 Years of Sinatra” and the life of one of the most celebrated singers of this century.

Actor Seth MacFarlane will receive the “Special Achievement Award for the Performing Arts” from Barbara Sinatra on Feb. 20 during the tournament’s gala event. MacFarlane has created some of the most popular content on TV and film today while expanding his career in the worlds of music, literature and philanthropy. He earned a Grammy nomination for his third studio album, No One Ever Tells You, which showcases the unique arrangements and orchestral interpretations of the ‘50s and ‘60s and introduces listeners to ballads about love and loss unique to the time. He also garnered two Grammy nominations for his 2011 debut album, Music Is Better Than Words.

This year’s memorable two-day celebrity-amateur golf tournament will be held at Eagle Falls Golf Course at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio. Barbara Sinatra will share host along with Joe Mantegna, current star of the CBS hit drama Criminal Minds.

They will be joined by celebrities such as: Tom Dreesen, Grant Fuhr, Beverly Johnson, William DeVane, Jim McMahon, Elke Sommer, Kevin Sorbo and many more to be announced.

Tournament festivities kickoff Thursday, Feb. 18 with a reception for participants. Friday is the first round of golf, plus a luncheon/fashion show and a dinner featuring entertainment

by The Lettermen.

Saturday is the final round of golf, and the black tie gala with entertainment by the 5th Dimension. Sunday concludes the with an open house hosted at the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children.

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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE UNDER A NOTICE OF DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT AND CLAIM OF LIEN Order No: 5925116 TS No: M1506024 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A NOTICE OF DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT AND CLAIM OF LIEN, DATED 05/07/2015.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. NOTICE is hereby given that Witkin & Neal, Inc., as duly appointed trustee pursuant to that certain Notice of Delinquent Assessment and Claim of Lien (hereinafter referred to as "Lien"), recorded on 05/08/2015 as instrument number 20150535820 in the office of the County Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, California, and further pursuant to the Notice of Default and Election to Sell thereunder recorded on 07/13/2015 as instrument number 20150840230 in said county and further pursuant to California Civil Code Section 5675 et seq. and those certain Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions recorded on 04/04/1995 as instrument number 95-476978, WILL SELL on 02/04/2016, 10:00AM., Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza,

400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona CA at public auction to the highest bidder for lawful money of the United States payable at the time of sale, all right, title and interest in the property situated in said county as more fully described in the abovereferenced Lien. The purported owner(s) of said property is (are): SCOTT PRITCHARD, AN UNMARRIED MAN. The property address and other common designation, if any, of the real property is purported to be: 818 N. DOHNEY DR #1404, WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90069, APN 4340-018-131.

The undersigned trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of Sale is: $28,023.20. The opening bid at the foreclosure sale may be more or less than this estimate. In addition to cash, the trustee will accept a cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn on a state or federal credit union or a check drawn on state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the

California Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee's Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or the endorsee as a matter of right. Said sale shall be made, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Lien, advances thereunder, with interest as provided in the Declaration or by law plus the fees, charges and expenses of the trustee. THIS PROPERTY IS BEING SOLD IN AN "AS-IS" CONDITION. This communication is from a debt collector.

Witkin & Neal, Inc. is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. If you have previously received a discharge in bankruptcy, you may have been released from personal liability for this debt in which case this notice is intended to exercise the secured party's rights against the real property only.

NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself.

Placing the highest bid at

a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER AND ALL OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code.

The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether this sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and

TWISTING ONE’S WORDS

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date for the sale of this property, you may call 916-939-0772 or visit this Internet Web site: www.nationwideposting.c om using the file number assigned to this case: M15-06024. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the sale shall be subject to the following as provided in California Civil Code Section 5715: "A non judicial foreclosure sale by an association to collect upon a debt for delinquent assessments shall be subject to a right of redemption.

The redemption period within which the separate interest may be redeemed from a foreclosure sale under this paragraph ends 90 days after the sale." Dated: 12/22/2015 Witkin & Neal, Inc. as said Trustee 5805 SEPULVEDA BLVD., SUITE 670 SHERMAN OAKS, CA 91411 (818) 845-8808 By: SUSAN PAQUETTE TRUSTEE SALES OFFICER THIS NOTICE IS SENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING A DEBT. THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT

ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDER AND OWNER OF THE NOTE. ANY I N F O R M AT I O N OBTAINED BY OR PROVIDED TO THIS FIRM OR THE CREDITOR WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. NPP0268301 To: BEVERLY HILLS COURIER 01/15/2016, 01/22/2016, 01/29/2016 –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016008444 The following is/are doing business as: MBANC, A MORTGAGE LENDER 1141 N. Highland Ave. #C, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266; Mortgage Bank of California 1141 Highland Ave. #C, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266; The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein April 01, 2015: Michael Dallal, President: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: January 13, 2016; Published: January 22, 29, February 05, 12, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016000773 The following is/are doing business as: CARING HEARTS CAREGIVER PLACEMENT SERVICES 601 N. Kings Rd. #103, West Hollywood, CA 90048; Susan Kraut 601 N. Kings Rd. #103, West Hollywood, CA 90048; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein January 04, 2016: Susan Kraut, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: January 04, 2016; Published: January 22, 29, February 05, 12, 2016 LACC N/C

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS OFFICE OF PROJECT ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT OF CAPITAL ASSETS 345 FOOTHILL ROAD, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA 90210

NOTICE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A QUALIFIED CONTRACTORS LIST The City of Beverly Hills ("City") hereby requests qualified contractors to submit their name and pertinent information to be placed on a list of qualified contractors. This list shall comply with Section 22034 of the California Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act. Purpose of the List The purpose of the list is to have a compilation of interested and qualified contractors which the City may use for negotiated or informal bidding as projects arise during 2016. The City reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any informality or irregularity in any bid. However, any contract awarded will be to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder.

List Categories Lists will be established for the following areas: Class “A” General Engineering Contractor Class “B” General Building contractor Class “C-5” Framing and Rough Carpentry Class “C-6” Cabinet, Millwork and Finish Carpentry Class “C-7” Low Voltage Systems Class “C-8” Concrete Class “C-9” Drywall Class “C-10” Electrical Class Class “C11” Elevator Class “C-12” Earthwork and Paving Class “C-13” Fencing Class “C-15” Flooring and Floor Covering Class “C-16” Fire Protection Class “C-20” Warm-Air Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Class “C-23” Ornamental Metal Class “C-27” Landscaping Class “C-28” Lock and Security Equipment Class “C-33” Painting and Decorating Class “C-35” Lathing and Plastering Class “C-36” Plumbing Class “C-39” Roofing Class “C-43” Sheet Metal Class “C-45” Signs Class “C-46” Solar Class “C-54” Ceramic and Mosaic Tile Class “C-61” Limited Specialty Classification Class “D-3” Awnings Class “D-16” Hardware, Locks and Safes Class “D-28” Doors, Gates and Activating Devices Class “D-42” Non-Electrical Sign Installation Class “D-50” Suspended Ceilings Class “D-52” Window Coverings Class “D-62” Air and Water Balancing Class “D-63” Construction Clean-up Date of Request January 21, 2016 Deadline for Pertinent Information February 4, 2016 Information Requested (Fill out attached form) i. Name of Firm ii. Contact Person iii. Address (to which Notice to Contractors or Proposals should be mailed) iv. Phone number v. E-mail address vi. Contractor Licenses and License Numbers vii. Trade category that contractor is interested in (Must be licensed in that category) Prevailing Wages The Contractor will be required to pay to all persons employed on any project by the Contractor

sums not less than the general prevailing wage as estimate. In addition to present at the sale. If you cash, the trustee will wish to learn whether this established by the appropriate authority.

Payment Bond and Completion Bond A Payment Bond and a Completion Bond, each in the amount of 100% of the contract amount, will be required of the Contractor.

Insurance Upon award of contract, contractor will be obligated to file certificates of insurance evidencing coverage and in a form acceptable to the City. The required coverage includes Workers Compensation; General Liability of $2 million per occurrence and $2 million aggregate; Automobile Liability of $1 million. The City reserves the right to vary these requirements as the projects warrant.

Contractor’s Qualifications The City may require that Contractors on the Qualified List also have specific experience in constructing projects that are comparable to the work as projects are identified.

Retention Upon award of a contract, five percent (5%) of any progress payment or an equivalent security will be withheld as retention.

City Contact Person Procedural or substantive questions must be submitted in writing to Julio Guerrero, Contract Administrative Assistant by email to jguerrero@beverlyhills.org.

Please Complete Form Below and Return via email to City Contact Person:

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE UNDER A NOTICE OF D E L I N Q U E N T ASSESSMENT AND CLAIM OF LIEN Order No: 150018011 TS No: M15-02025 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A NOTICE OF DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT AND CLAIM OF LIEN, DATED 07/14/2015.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. NOTICE is hereby given that Witkin & Neal, Inc., as duly appointed trustee pursuant to that certain Notice of Delinquent Assessment and Claim of Lien (hereinafter referred to as "Lien"), recorded on 07/21/2015 as instrument number 20150878427 in the office of the County Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, California, and further pursuant to the Notice of Default and Election to Sell thereunder recorded on 8/25/2015 as instrument number 20151042187 in said county and further pursuant to California Civil Code Section 5675 et seq. and those certain Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions recorded on 8/23/1987 as

instrument number 871359409, WILL SELL on 01/28/2016, 10:00AM., Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona CA at public auction to the highest bidder for lawful money of the United States payable at the time of sale, all right, title and interest in the property situated in said county as more fully described in the abovereferenced Lien. The purported owner(s) of said property is (are): NILOUFAR YOUNESSI TRUSTEE OF THE 2004 NILOUFAR YOUNESSI REVOCABLE TRUST DTD 7/15/04. The property address and other common designation, if any, of the real property is purported to be: 200 N. SWALL DRIVE #359, BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90211, APN 4335-020092. The undersigned trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of Sale is: $50,695.82.

The opening bid at the foreclosure sale may be more or less than this

accept a cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn on a state or federal credit union or a check drawn on state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee's Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or the endorsee as a matter of right. Said sale shall be made, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Lien, advances thereunder, with interest as provided in the Declaration or by law plus the fees, charges and expenses of the trustee. THIS PROPERTY IS BEING SOLD IN AN "AS-IS" CONDITION. This communication is from a debt collector.

Witkin & Neal, Inc. is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. If you have previously received a discharge in bankruptcy, you may have been released from personal liability for this debt in which case this notice is intended to exercise the secured party's rights against the real property only.

NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself.

Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER AND ALL OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code.

The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not

sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 916-939-0772 or visit this Internet Web site: www.nationwideposting.c om using the file number assigned to this case: M15-02025. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the sale shall be subject to the following as provided in California Civil Code Section 5715: "A non judicial foreclosure sale by an association to collect upon a debt for delinquent assessments shall be subject to a right of redemption.

The redemption period within which the separate interest may be redeemed from a foreclosure sale under this paragraph ends 90 days after the sale." Dated: 12/29/2015 Witkin & Neal, Inc. as said Trustee 5805 SEPULVEDA BLVD., SUITE 670 SHERMAN OAKS, CA 91411 (818) 845-8808 By: SUSAN PAQUETTE TRUSTEE SALES OFFICER THIS NOTICE IS SENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING A DEBT. THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDER AND OWNER OF THE NOTE. ANY I N F O R M AT I O N OBTAINED BY OR PROVIDED TO THIS FIRM OR THE CREDITOR WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. NPP0269101 To: BEVERLY HILLS COURIER 01/08/2016, 01/15/2016, 01/22/2016

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2015315582 The following is/are doing business as: 1) DEMERY GILLAM & ASSOCIATES 2) BARBARA DEMERY GILLAM & ASSOCIATES 3) DEMERY GILLAM COURT REPORTERS 345 N. Maple Dr. #185, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; Gradillas Court Reporters Inc. 345 N. Maple Dr. #185, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein October 01, 2015: Josephine Gradillas Logue, President: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 16, 2015; Published: January 01, 08, 15, 22, 2016 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2015315581 The following is/are doing business as: AZK BLOOM 1253 Granville Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90025; Allison Zebelian 1253 Granville Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90025; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein: Allison Zebelian, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 16, 2015; Published: January 01, 08, 15, 22, 2016 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2015315584 The following is/are doing business as: ASHER MORGAN SALON 211 S. Robertson Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211; Bailey Bailey Salon, LLC 211 S. Robertson Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211; The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein

November 01, 2015: Chris Bailey, Member: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 16, 2015; Published: January 01, 08, 15, 22, 2016 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2015315585 The following is/are doing business as: 1) PICTO TEE 2) THAT SHIRT 3) AD ROVING 429 N. Oakhurst Dr. #104, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; BPizzy LLC 429 N. Oakhurst Dr. #104, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein: Bryan S. Powell, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 16, 2015; Published: January 01, 08, 15, 22, 2016 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2015315583 The following is/are doing business as: SHIVA SALON & HAIR BOUTIQUE 1915 Malcolm Ave. #201, Los Angeles, CA 90025; Shiva KH. Roohi 1915 Malcolm Ave. #201, Los Angeles, CA 90025; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein September 24, 2012: Shiva KH. Roohi, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 16, 2015; Published: January 01, 08, 15, 22, 2016 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2015324866 The following is/are doing business as: 1100 EAST LA PLAMA DRIVE BUILDING 2146 Fox Hills Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90025; Gustavo Francis Lamanna 2146 Fox Hills Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90025; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein: Gustavo Francis Lamanna, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 29, 2015; Published: January 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016005828 The following is/are doing business as: 1) TRANSPARENT ATTORNEY SERVICES 2) TRANSPARENT EXPRESS DELIVERY 8950 W. Olympic Blvd. #491, Beverly Hills, CA 90211; Terrence Franklin 8950 W. Olympic Blvd. #491, Beverly Hills, CA 90211; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein: Terrence Franklin, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: January 11, 2016; Published: January 15, 22, 29, February 05, 2016 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2015326046 The following is/are doing business as: ARTE CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT 1213 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90019; Hector Gonzalez 1213 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90019; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein: Hector Gonzalez, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 30, 2015; Published: January 15, 22, 29, February 05, 2016 LACC N/C

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N O T I C E — Fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (See Section 14400, et seq., Business and Professions Code).

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BEVERLY HILLS

PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE INVITING BIDS

system, as more clearly described in the Contract Documents.

FOR This Work will be performed in strict conforINSTALLATION OF mance with the Contract CONTAINMENT LINER Documents, permits SYSTEM AT from regulatory agenRESERVOIR 3B cies with jurisdiction, COLDWATER CANON and applicable regulaDRIVE AND tions.

CABRILLO DRIVE [the “Project”] OBTAINING BID DOCUMENTS Bid number: 15-56 A copy of the Contract Documents may be NOTICE IS HEREBY obtained by mail or in GIVEN that the City of person from the Public Beverly Hills, California Works Services (“City”) invites sealed Department, 345 bids for the Project. The Foothill Road, Beverly City will receive such Hills, CA 90210, telebids at City Hall, 455 phone number 310-285North Rexford Drive, 2467.

The Contract Suite 290, Beverly Hills, Documents, including California 90210 up to the plans and specifica2:00 p.m. on February tions may also be 18, 2016 , at which time viewed on, and downthey will be publicly loaded from the City’s opened and read aloud. website: www.beverlyhills.org: shortcuts: bid All bids must be made information: bid number on the form furnished by 15-56. the City. Each bid must be submitted in a sealed MANDATORY PRE-BID package addressed to MEETING AND SITE the City Clerk with the VISIT Project name and bid A mandatory pre-bid number typed or clearly meeting will be held on printed on the lower left January 27, 2016 at corner of the package. 10:00 a.m. at Coldwater Bids must remain valid Canyon and Cabrillo and shall not be subject Drive, followed by a to withdrawal for ninety mandatory site visit.

(90) Days after the bid Every Bidder is required opening date. to attend the pre-bid meeting and site visit.

INCORPORATION OF Failure of a Bidder to STANDARD SPECIFI- attend will render that CATIONS Bidder’s Proposal nonThe 2012 edition of responsive.

No "Standard Specifications allowances for cost for Public Works adjustments will be Construction" and the made if Bidders fail to 2013 and 2014 adequately examine the Supplements (collec- premises before submittively “Standard ting a Proposal.

Specifications”) are incorporated into these REQUESTS FOR Contract Documents by CLARIFICATION this reference, as If you discover any amended by the provi- error, omission, ambigusions of these Contract ity or conflict in the Documents. The Work Plans or Specifications described herein shall and wish to have a clarbe done in accordance ification, please fax or with the provisions of email your request for the Standard clarification to the Specifications insofar as Project Administrator the same may apply, such that it is received and in accordance with by him or her no later these Contract than five (5) working Documents. The provi- days before Bid opensions of these General ing. Requests for clarifiSpecifications shall cation received after this apply and/or shall date will be disregarded. supersede, as the case Please indicate the may be, provisions of Project and bid number the above referenced in your request for clariStandard Specifications, fication. with exception that Contractor shall not be REGISTRATION WITH required to perform, with THE DEPARTMENT OF its own organization, INDUSTRIAL RELAContract work amount- TIONS ing to at least 50 percent The Bidder’s attention is of the Contract Price. directed to Labor Code Section 1725.5, which SCOPE OF WORK provides that a contracThe Project includes, tor or subcontractor without limitation, fur- shall not be qualified to nishing all necessary bid on, be listed in a Bid labor, materials, equip- proposal, subject to the ment and other inciden- requirements of Public tal and appurtenant Contract Code Section Work necessary to 4104, or engage in the install containment liner

performance of any contract that is subject to Labor Code Section 1720 et seq., unless currently registered and qualified to perform a public work pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5. This requirement applies to any bid proposal submitted on or after March 1, 2015, and any contract for public work entered into on or after April 1, 2015.

PREVAILING WAGES In accordance with Labor Code Section 1770 et seq., this Project is a “public work,” and thus, the Contractor and any Subcontractors must pay wages in accordance with the determination of the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) regarding the prevailing rate of per diem wages. Copies of those rates are on file with the Director of Public Works, and are available to any interested party upon request.

Contractor shall post a copy of the DIR’s determination of the prevailing rate of per diem wages at each job site.

BONDS Each Bid must be accompanied by a cash deposit, cashier’s check, certified check or Bidder’s Bond issued by a Surety insurer, each of which must be made payable to the City, in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the total Bid submitted.

Personal or company checks are not acceptable. Upon award of Contract, Contractor shall provide faithful performance and payment Bonds, each in a sum equal to the Contract Price. Bonds must be issued by a California admitted Surety insurer and submitted using the required forms, which are in the Contract Documents. Failure to enter into a valid contract, including the submission of all required Bonds and insurance coverages, with the City within fifteen (15) Days after the date of the delivery of the contract forms to the Bidder, shall constitute a material breach and subject the Bid security to forfeiture to the extent provided by law.

LICENSES The Bidder shall possess a valid Class A Contractor’s license issued by California State Contractors License Board at the time of the Bid submission. The successful Contractor must also

possess a current City business license.

RETENTION SUBSTITUTION Five percent (5%) of any progress payment will be withheld as retention.

In accordance with Public Contract Code Section 22300, and at the request and expense of the Contractor, securities equivalent to the amount withheld may be deposited with City or with a State or federally chartered bank as escrow agent, which shall then pay such moneys to the Contractor. Upon satisfactory completion of the Contract, the securities shall be returned to the Contractor.

Alternatively, Contractor may request that the City make payments of earned retentions directly to an escrow agent at Contractor’s expense.

No such substitutions shall be accepted until all related documents are approved by the City Attorney.

LIQUIDATED DAMAGES All Work shall be completed within 120 calendar days following the date specified in the written Notice to Proceed from the City.

There will be a $500 assessment for each calendar day that Work remains incomplete beyond the time specified for the completion of the Work in the Contract Documents.

BIDDING PROCESS The City reserves the right to reject any Bid or all Bids and to waive any irregularities or informalities in any Bid or in the bidding and to make awards in all or part in the best interest of the City.

———————— T.S. No. 010038-CA APN: 4345-024-021 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 5/1/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER On 2/2/2016 at 10:30 AM, CLEAR RECON CORP., as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 5/8/2007, as Instrument No. 20071108852, in Book , Page , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: SHAHROOZ ARIANPOUR AND FARIBA ARIANPOUR, TRUSTEES

OF THE SHAHROOZ AND FARIBA ARIANPOUR TRUST DATED AUGUST 9, 2000 WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: BEHIND THE FOUNTAIN LOCATED IN CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, 400 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, POMONA, CA 91766 all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: MORE FULLY DESCRIBED ON SAID DEED OF TRUST The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be:612 N CAMDEN DR BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90210 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be held, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, condition, or encumbrances, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $1,403,854.90 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located.

NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that

the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code.

The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (844) 477-7869 or visit this Internet Web site WWW.STOXPOSTING.C OM, using the file number assigned to this case 010038-CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. FOR SALES INFORMATION: (844) 477-7869 Publish: 1/8/2016, 1/15/2016, 1/22/2016

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016008443 The following is/are doing business as: 1) HOT ROX BY ILENE 2) I.C. JEWELRY 3) DAUGHTER OF PEARL 4) SWEET LAURA 5) ILENE COHEN JEWELRY 4629 Fulton Ave. #203, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423; Ilene Cohen 4629 Fulton Ave. #203, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein 1998: Ilene Cohen, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: January 13, 2016; Published: January 22, 29, February 05, 12, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016008442 The following is/are doing business as: 1) BEVERLY HILLS COURIER 2) B.H. COURIER 3) BEVERLY HILLS COURIER, LLC 4) BEVERLY HILLS OUTLOOK 5) B.H. OUTLOOK 6) BEVERLY HILLS STYLE 7) RODEO DRIVE FASHION FORWARD 8) OUTLOOK BEVERLY HILLS 499 N. Canon Dr. #100, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; Beverly Hills Courier, LLC 499 N. Canon Dr. #100, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein May 2014: Marcia Wilson Hobbs, President/Publisher: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: January 13, 2016; Published: January 22, 29, February 05, 12, 2016 LACC N/C

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CALLING FOR PROPOSALS Beverly Hills School District

Unified

Bid Deadline: 10:00 a.m.

Monday February 2, 2016 Place of Bid Receipt: 255 S. Lasky Dr. Beverly Hills, CA 90212 – Purchasing Department Project: Digital Copiers and Duplicators with Maintenance Service BID# 15-16/011 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Beverly Hills Unified School District of Los Angeles County, California, acting by and through its Governing Board, hereinafter referred to as "DISTRICT," will receive up to, but not later than, the abovestated time, sealed proposals for the award of a contract for the above Project. Those Proposals timely received shall be opened and publicly read aloud.

The District is soliciting formal bids for the lease of multifunction digital copiers and lease or purchase of digital Duplicators both with maintenance services.

Each bid must confirm and be responsive to the contract documents, copies of which are on file and may be obtained via email from the Purchasing Office after January 15, 2016 from Dianne Richard at drichard@bhusd.org or download a copy from the District website www.bhusd.org.

All work must be completed within 30 (Thirty) consecutive calendar days from the date specified on the Notice to Proceed issued by the DISTRICT. Time is of the essence. Failure to complete the work within the time set forth herein will result in the imposition of liquidated damages for each day of delay in the amount set forth in the Information for Bidders.

Each bid shall be accompanied by a bid security in the form of a certified check, cashier's check or bid bond in the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) payable to the DISTRICT. Each Bidder is required to furnish and maintain proof of Commercial General Liability Insurance, Comprehensive Automobile Liability Insurance, and Workers’ Compensation Insurance.

The DISTRICT reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any irregularities or informalities in any bids or in the bidding process.

No bidder may withdraw any bid for a period of Thirty (30) calendar days after the date set for the opening of bids.

Publication Dates: 1/15/16 & 1/22/16

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CALL E. STURM:

310/678-2173

• Caregivers • CNA • CHHA

• Companions • Live-In / Live-Out

310.859.0440 www.exehomecare.com

BBB A+ (Highest Rated)

RN on Staff

Companion /

• Home or Office Caregiver.

• Installation • Setup European multi-lingual, • Software Training multi- task, good driver • Virus & Spyware and sense of humor.

• Website Design

• ELDERCARE • IN-HOME SPECIALIST Bonded & Insured• Licensed • Fully Screened

Computer Consultants

ARE YOU A SENIOR AND NEED ASSISTANCE?

Live-in weekends or We can help YOU! 3 days only!

We provide experienced Cargivers, CNA’s & HHA’s Great references.

Call 310/897-9770 for seniors needing companions to drive them to

doctors, prepare meals, light housekeeping, etc...

We offer responsible and nurturing care. Our staff is thoroughly screened and we care. Live In/Out.

TechnoEntomology.com ————— SEEKING LIVE-IN YOUR COMPUTER HOUSEKEEPING Call Lisa 24hrs.

POSITION 323/877-8121 • 323/806-9498 CONCIERGE Cleaning, shopping, PC & MAC - Hardware /Software DSL / Cable / Dial Up - Troubleshooting Anti-Virus & More...

Notary Services Also Available Local References Too!

Adam d S. Goldfarb ldf b

(310) ASK-DAVE • (310) 275-3283

3580 Wilsh Wilshire hire Blvd., Ste. 1260 Lo s A n g e le s , CA 9 0 0 1 0

David@TechnoEntomology.com

www.adamgoldfarblaw.com www.adam mgoldfarblaw.com

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Schools & Instruction

Danielle Michaels, ABA, EA Accredited Business Advisor Licensed to Represent Taxpayers before the IRS.

45

LEGAL SERVICES

errands, organizing, etc.

25+ Years working for private family + New York references.

Willing to work on a trial basis.

Honest, Private, Reliable.

785/201-5734 Available in Jan. 2016

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Professional Services

Le Cordon Bleu trained Private Chef available for Parties, Events or a Romantic Evening at home.

Local references and resume available on request.

I am Chef David Erickson and I say “Let Me Cook That For You!”

(310) ASK-DAVE • (310) 275-3283

RETIRED RN is Available for PERSONAL ASSISTANT OR NURSE COMPANION OR CAREGIVER Price Negotiable.

Contact Ruth at

213/364-1470

“Quality Care, Personal Touch”

Experienced & Caring Caregivers CNA, CHHA • Live In / Live Out

• Companion Care • Personal Care • Meal Preparation • Errands/Shopping • Screened Professionals

• Light Housekeeping • Medication Reminders • Respite Care • Post-Operative Care • Alzheimer’s & Dementia Care

• 844-770-2273 • • Available 24/7 •

www.TrueCaregiving .com Licensed, Bonded & Insured

NEED HELP?

W E U N D E R S TA N D . . .

Mama’s caregivers are loving, caring, trained & bonded. Live in or out.

M AMA’ S H OME C ARE 323/655-2622

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ELDERLY CARE

CONDOS FOR SALE

OFFICE / STORES FOR LEASE

Dependable Care, Inc.

KELEMEN REAL ESTATE (310) 966-0900

HOME CARE AT THE LOWEST RATES In business since 1992 Caregivers • Drivers Homemakers Live-in or out

all listings are on CenturyCityLiving.com

NOW AVAILABLE GATED 5 STAR LUXURY PROPERTIES *BEL AIR *WESTWOOD *CENTURY CITY

90

HOMECARE ATTENDANT SPECIALIST COMPETITIVE & VERY REASONABLE RATES!

Live In / Live Out 24/7 CNA / HHA Hospice Hospitals Companion

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

CENTURY TOWERS LARGE CORNER OFFICE

Little Joe’s Barber Shop, Beverly Hills

GARAGE/STORAGE THE SCHAFFEL GROUP REAL ESTATE

SEEKING MANICURIST, weekly salary.

Beverly Hills “Penthouse� Office Suite

Also, BARBER’S Licensed/Insured/Bonded CHAIR FOR RENT Email: or COMMISSION. amehealthpro@ Please Call: gmail.com 310/271-5363 JEWISH OWNED AAA RATED —————––––

818/395-8308

Affordable Experienced Caregiver’s/CNA’s

24-Hours • 7 Days/Week 4/8/12+ Hr. Shifts Avail.

We will beet your needs, no matter how speicalized or simple.

Excellent References.

Call For A Free Estimate!

818/746-3904 24-Hrs: 805/558-3517 Owned/Operated by R.N.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Price Reduced

Building has been

1817 Square Feet + Usable Balcony • $5.00 NNN

completely remodeled.

Sy , Cory & Cindy

experience. Speak fluent

sschaffel@theschaffelgroup.com • www.theschaffelgroup.com

English and can also speak

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Call 323/782-1144

270

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Prime Beverly Hills OFFICE FOR LEASE Boutique Bldg.

IN CENTURY CITY • 2-Offices • 1 Lrg. Off. • 16’x18’ 2-ROOM SUITE live-in positions. $2,250/Mo. Call 323/655-2622 1 Reg. Off. • 9’x16’ PRIME AREA! Rent $1,425/Mo. Mon.-Fri. • 10am-5pm With reception, library includes HDAC, Utilities, DO NOT APPLY and kitchen. daily janitorial services IF NOT EXPERIENCED. 310/273-0136 and parking.

Close to shops 310/653-2551 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED & restaurants. with Kitty experience 4 hours per week Friday, Saturday, Sunday :,/6+,5( %/9' %(9(5/< +,//6 and Monday mornings. :,/6+,5( %/9' %(9(5/< +,//6 Location: PetSmart (La Cianega & Blackburn) Non-profit organization Call Toni Black at 310/995-5777

have car and available for

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Boutique located in Beverly Hills, looking for a sample maker of fully lined womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jackets.

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You won't believe the unobstructed breathtaking views of Century City and LA..

Totally renovated Granite Counters. Stainless Steel Appliances. Huge Living Room Move-In Condition

CENTURY PARK EAST

2 BDRM / DEN/ 2 BA $899,000 South Tower Corner. 2 Jumbo Balconies New Stainless Steel Kitchen, Wood Floors Unobstructed City Views, Lower Floor

SENSATIONAL 2 + 2.5 TOWNHOME Private patio garden. Valet.

$1,349,000 Berkshire Hathaway BH

Ronald Goldhammer CalBRE#01173657 310/927-5222

405

WANTED TO RENT

MATURE FEMALE Needs Pool Home/ Guesthouse / In-law type unit.

Beverly Hills resident, great credit and very reliable.

Call 310/467-1550

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Professional Female is looking to rent a room $525,000 TO $1,169,000 in Beverly Hills or Bel Air CENTURY TOWERS Estate. Non-smoker, non drinker. Very clean, fit and $545,000 TO $1,348,000 honest. Limited budget.

To view my profile www.abbybox.com $750,000 TO $1,195,000 Abby 310/774-9000

CENTURY PARK EAST

LE PARC

CENTURY HILL

407

Garage/Storage For Rent

$1,095,000 TO $1,795,000

ONE CENTURY

$3,488,000 TO $28,950,000

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2 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS $1,295,000

$1,599,000

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310-200-7146

LARGE OFFICE

8693 WILSHIRE BLVD

310-550-8710 â&#x20AC;˘ 310-289-7855

Armenian or Polish. Must

$1,475/MO.

$725/MO.

At least 5 years in home

Farsi, Russian, Hebrew,

Price Reduced

In Boutique Building Adj. Beverly Hills

CARE GIVE RS NE E DE D

Blessing Hands Home Care

PREMIER BH

License 00957281

Ask for Teri Lieberman 800-314-2986

American Healthcare Providers

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CONDOS FOR SALE

CENTURY WOODS

$1,699,000 TO $2,599,000

BEL AIR CREST $1,995,000 TO $15,975,000

To Advertise Your Listing call 310-278-1322

Some Complexes include Heated Pools, Sundeck, Tennis, Doorman, Houseman, Staff Engineers, Switchboard, Security Staff, Switchboard, Saunas, Business Center, PlayLand, Restaurant, Acres of Flower Gardens and Grassy Lawns.

SANTA MONICA 427 Montana Ave.

Storage Space Av a i l a b l e for Rent.

Close to Beach .

Please Call: 310/394-7132

YOUR AD HERE CALL

For Lease See our Ad Sec. 440

310.278.1322

CLASSIFIED

BEVERLY HILLS

425

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BEVELRY HILLS New Construction on S. Rodeo Dr.

1017 S. SHERBOURNE

440

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BEVERLY HILLS ADJ.

BEVERLY HILLS

BEVERLY HILLS

Very Private & Spacious

KELEMEN REAL ESTATE (310) 966-0900

2 BDRM. + 1.5 BATH

all listings are on

5 Bd.+6 Ba. 4,500sf. upper unit with breakfast

CenturyCityLiving.com

2-Stories, master suite and formal dining room. w/ jacuzzi, gourmet kitch. Yard, laundry & parking. w/ Viking appl., fireplace, $3,500/MO. central air, pool, security Call 213/804-3761 alarm+camera’s, 4-prkg. $18,000/Month

NOW AVAILABLE

————— BEVERLY HILLS ADJ.

310/975-1856 LARGE DUPLEX Blocks from Shopping & Dining 2 BD + OFFICE + DEN

GATED 5 STAR LUXURY PROPERTIES

F URNISHED & U NFURNISHED

*BEL AIR *WESTWOOD *CENTURY CITY

CENTURY TOWERS

2 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS $5,950/month

LUXURIOUS 2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH $2,950/MO.

New granite counters throughout all amenities in kitchen and includes all appliances. Large closets, balconies, Berber carpet/ harwood foors and verticle blinds. Fireplace, huge bar, washer/ dryer included in laundry area. Secured building with garden courtyard. Choice location Near Beverly Center, CedarsSinai, Restaurants, Trader Joes, Etc. No Pets.

You won't believe the unobstructed Large living, dining and breathtaking views of Century City and LA..

B.H LUXURY breakfast room. Granite Totally renovated Granite Counters. Stainless Steel 4 BEDROOM, 4 BATHS countertops with marble Appliances. Huge Living Room 1 Year Lease floors and all appliances.

Move-In Conditionr $5,800/MO. Hardwood floors, high CENTURY PARK EAST Shown By Appointment.

Views, Spa, Patios, Wine 8544 BURTON WAY ceiling, nicely landscaped.

Cellar. Newly Renovated. $2,950/MO. 1 BED, 1BATH Call 310/273-6770 $3,250MO & $3,400MO or 213/444-8865 Call 310/908-1919 Call Elfrieda

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• THE GROVE AREA • Prime Carthay Circle Top Floor 3 Bdrm.+3.5 Bath $4,900/Month 1930’S DUPLEX COMPLETELY UPDATED Liv rm w/ hi-ceilings, hrwd flrs, fireplace. New kitch w/ granite counters,

Top Floor 2 Bdrm.+1 Bath $3,400 Unfurnished $3,900 Furnished Remodeled incld. bath, newer kitchen, hrwd. flrs.

LISA SHERMAN • AGENT 310/724-7000 x-1851

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License 00957281

310/205-0206

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BEVERLY HILLS 9000 Clifton Way

North of Wilshre 2 Bd.+2 Ba. • $2,925 Electric Car charging station, brand new gourmet kitchen, balcony.

451 S. Maple Dr.

Bright & Spacious 2+Den+2 • $2,695 2 flr, central air, hrwd flrs, new carpet, gourmet kitch., 2-car parking. nd

COMPASS GOLD PROP. Marty: 310/293-2205

336 S. WETHERLY DRIVE B E V E R LY H I L L S H O U S E F O R L E A S E

Chose from 2 Unobstructed City Views Renovated with newer kitchens Luxurious Baths Jumbo Balconies Carpet & Hardwood

2 BED, 2 BATH, DEN $4,950/MONTH Renovated. City Views Hardwood Floors. Granite Kitchen 2 Jumbo Balconies

3 BED, 2 BATH $5,500/MONTH Renovated. New Kitchen Hardwood Floors 2 Jumbo Balconies

or 310/734-7263

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ADJACENT

• • • • • • •

• 2 Bd.+2 Ba. • Includes: 1 & 2 BDRMS doors in bdrm. to • Granite counters, $1,795 - $2,595 French patio overlooking pool • Fireplace, balcony, Large Remodeled Top Floor • GORGEOUS UNITS • laundry facility, Units With Lots of Light Central air, subterranean prkg.

In Newer Luxury Building pool, elevator, Near Whole Foods.

Granite counter tops, custom cabinets, ample closet space, stove, dishwasher, fridge, A/C, balcony, secured entry, gated parking, gym, laundry, etc...

on-site laundry, intercom entry.

320 N. La Peer Dr.

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8560 W. Olympic Bl.

Call 310/526-1484

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• BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. • • 1 Bd.+1 Ba. • • 922 S. BEDFORD ST. •• •• NEWLY REMODELED • •• •

$2,350/MO. Sam: 310/422-6026

$16,000 to $35,000/mo.

Bright unit.

221 S. Doheny Dr. laundry, parking.

• 1 Bd.+1 Ba. Close to • 2 Bd.+2 Ba. Brentwood Village.

Spacious, hardwood flrs., 310/472-8915 huge closets, built-in a/c, dishwasher, pool, B R E N T W O O D controlled 11730 SUNSET BLVD. W E S T W O O D elevator, access, laundry NEWLY REMODELED SINGLE APARTMENT facilities. No pets.

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$3,850 to $6,800/mo.

ONE CENTURY

BRENTWOOD

BEVERLY HILLS Dishwasher, On-site

424/343-0015 Great Location!

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BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. 120 S. Swall Dr. • • • • • • • • • • 2 Bd.+2 Ba. • •

•

• 2 Bdrm.+2 Bath •

••••••

Rooftop pool, deck, central air, elevator, intercom entry, on-sight laundry, gym, parking.

Old World Charm!

on-sight laundry, prkg.

Close to Cedars-Sinai, BRENTWOOD Beverly Center, The Carlton shops, cafes & transportation. 11666 Goshen Ave.

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310/270-0724

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Bright, intercom entry, BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. $3,850 to 4,700/mo. newly remodeled on second fridge, stove, laundry fac. 309 S. Sherbourne Dr. ( • • • ----- • • • ) CENTURY TOWERS floor with A/C and 2 parking. C LOSE TO RESTAURANTS

$9,850 to $14,000/mo.

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• 310/246-0290 • 519 S. Barrington Ave. CLOSE TO ˚Δ˚Δ˚Δ˚Δ˚Δ˚Δ˚ S H O P S & D I N I N G 1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath

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2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH

LE PARC

310/207-1965

washer/dryer in unit. weekday afternoon $2,750/MO. • • • • • • • • • Free WiFi Access • Call 310/926-6088 BEVERLY HILLS Very Spacious, A/C, ~ 310/476-3824 ~ balcony, intercom entry, or 310/409-6014 218 S. Tower Dr. BRENTWOOD & U.C.L.A. CLOSE

PARK PLACE

CENTURY HILL

BRENTWOOD 904-908 Granville Av.

• 1 Bd.+1 Ba.

FOR RENT 236 S. REXFORD DR. $1,050/MO. Luxurious & Bright Includes utilities 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath and parking with hardwood floors, all appliances including Call 310/474-5178

LIGHT AND BRIGHT

$6,500 to $7,000/mo.

440

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&

SHOPPING .

(•)(•)(•)(•)(•)

Single + 1 Ba. (•)(•)(•)(•)(•)

1 Bd.+Den+1.5 Ba. WiFi, central air/heat,

• • • • • •

fireplace, patio, controlled access, elevator, dishwasher, pool, elevator, parking, controlled access. Close laundry facility.

• • • • • • Good closet space, a/c, —————–––– —310/531-3992 ————–––– BEVERLY HILLS ADJ Bedford/Olympic BEVERLY HILLS 2 BD, 2 BA CONDO 443 S. Oakhurst Dr. • • $2,150/MO.

to Cedars/shops/trans.

310/247-8689

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310/312-9871 Shopping & Dining in Brentwood Village

1 Bd. + Den + 2 Ba. • BRENTWOOD Approx. 1400 Sq. ft. • $10,000 to $59,000/mo.

Lower unit with fridge, • • • • 11640 Kiowa Ave. W S E T L.A. • • Some Complexes include washer/dryer in unit • • • • • • • • • •• • 1236 Amhearst Ave. Heated Pools, Sundeck, B R I G H T & S P A C I O U S Newly Updated and 2 car parking.

BEL AIR CREST

GORGEOUS 3 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS WITH HUGE POOL. T O TA L LY R E M O D E L E D W I T H G R A N I T E K I T C H E N A N D G R A N I T E B AT H R O O M S . M A S T E R B AT H R O O M S U I T E I N C L U D E S S T E A M S H O W E R . H U G E D R I V E W AY F O R $6,900/MO. PARKING PLUS 2 CAR GARAGE.

SANDRA LEWIS

A G T. 3 1 0 - 7 7 0 - 4 1 1 1 BRE 00456048

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Tennis, Doorman, 2 Bdrm. + 2 Bath • Spacious Units • B E V E R LY H I L L S Call 310/880-7281 Houseman, Staff • • • • • • • • ^^^^^ LIVING. Engineers, Switchboard, Balcony, dishwasher, 2 Bdrm.+2 Bath Security Staff, Balcony, dishwasher, a/c, heated pool, WiFi, 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath Switchboard, Saunas, elevator, intercom elevator controlled Dishwasher, a/c, To Advertise Business Center, Pet access, on-site laundry, entry, on-site PlayLand, Restaurant, access, Your Listing laundry, parking. parking. Close to controlled Acres of Flower Gardens on-site parking Brentwood Village, and Grassy Lawns. call P LEASE C ALL :

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For Lease See our Ad Sec. 270

310-278-1322

310/435-3693

Shops & Restaurants.

& laundry facility.

• 310/826-4889 •

310/820-8584

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320 S. CLARK DR.

WEST L.A.

WESTWOOD W I L S H I R E

~ 1 Bd. + 1 Ba. ~

1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath 10530-10540 Wilshire Bl.

Robertson/Burton Way

LOVELY

1628 Westgate Ave.

UNFURNISHED APT’S/CONDO’S

1370 Veteran Ave.

UNFURNISHED APT’S/CONDO’S

CORRIDOR

B r i g h t & A i r y.

•••• •• Dishwasher, •••• ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Intercom entry, on-sight Balcony, air conditioning With balcony, tub + stall dishwasher, controlled • 1 B d . + 1 B a . • parking, on-sight shower, ELEVATOR, A/C, laundry facility.

• Single • access bldg., WiFi, gated garage, controlled Close to transportation. pool, on-sight laundry, ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ Luxury Living 310/820-1810 access in quiet building. gym, parking.

No pets. Non-smoking facility. with valet, 310/477-6885 FOR RENT ON lush garden Call 323/252-5600 WILSHIRE CORRIDOR Close to U.C.L.A. surrounding pool, 10445 Wilshire Blvd. • WESTWOOD • gym, elevator, etc.

– The Grand (the only ≈ W E S T ≈ apartment left at the Grand) 10933 Rochester Ave. Hrwd. flrs., granite L O S A N G E L E S 2 Bedroom/2 Bath Condo Jr. Executive counters, dishwasher, central air, balcony. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 11305 Graham Pl. in excellent condition • Free WiFi • Spacious a/c, fireplace, Large kitchen, Large dining pool, controlled access, Call: 310/470-4474 1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath room area, Sealed-in Patio, laundry fac., prkg.

Intercom entry, a/c, Approximately 1900 Sq. ft.

• Free WiFi Access • CULVER CITY dishwasher, on-sight Call 310/550-8006 3830 Vinton Ave. 310/473-5061 laundry & parking.

• • • Single • C L O S E TO S C H O O L W E S T W O O D • WESTWOOD • • • & F R E E WAY S 1409 Midvale Ave. • •

ONE BEDROOM

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550 Veteran Ave.

•••• ••• •••• • • • • • • • —————–––– • 2 Bd.+2 Ba. • WEST L.A. • Single • • 12333 TeXaS Ave. • • ••••• • • • • • • Very spacious, 1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath • • • granite counters, WiFi, a/c, intercom ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ entry, laundry facility, microwave, intercom 310/477-8171

Granite counters, dish- elevator, parking, pool. entry, on-sight launwasher, balcony, stove, CLOSE TO U.C.L.A., dry, parking & WiFi. intercom-entry, on-site SHOPPING & 1 BLK. Very close to UCLA TO WESTWOOD PARK. & Westwood Village. laundry, parking.

310/826-4600

310/478-8616

310/208-5166

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• MIRACLE MILE •

MID-WILSHIRE

615 S. Cochran Ave. 340 S. St. Andrews Pl.

• Single • Controlled access, on-sight laundry, a/c unit, kitchenette.

323/937-9126

• • • • • Spacious 1 Bdrm + 1 Bath 2 Bdrm + 2 Bath • • • • •

Close to Museums, Balcony, controlled access, parking, The Grove elevator, on-site laundry. & Restaurants.

Close to shopping, H O L LY W O O D great restaurants and Metro.

1769-1775 213/732-9849 N. Sycamore Av.

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• • • • • • Single • Bachelor Controlled access, laundry facility.

Utilities Included.

—————–––– LAFAYETTE PARK

274 LAFAYETTE PARK PL.

1 Bdrm.+1 Bath

••••••

Granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, air conditioned, new 323/851-3790 hrwd. flrs., designer * HOLLYWOOD * finishes, balcony, ceiling 1134 N. SYCAMORE AV. fan, elevator, controlled access. Fitness ctr, yoga • • • * * * * * room, wi-fi, skyview • 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath Pool, sauna, lounge w/ outdoor fireintercom entry, * * * * * place, laundry facilities.

Newly Remodeled elevator, on-site Easy freeway access Great Views laundry, parking.

213/382-102 1 All Utilities Paid. Great views, controlled access, balcony, 310/841-2367 LOS ANGELES elevator, lrg. pool, 401 S. HOOVER St. prkg, on-sight laundry. • • • • • • • • To Advertise HIKING IN RUNYON • 1 Bd. + 1 Ba. Your Listing CANYON, HOLLYWOOD • S i n g l e B OWL /N IGHTLIFE .

• • • • • • • • call Control access, pool, 323/467-8172 310-278-1322 dishwasher, elevator, on-site laundry and parking.

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Beverly Hills Guest House, On Demand AKA offers luxury one- and two-bedroom furnished residences with spacious living rooms, fully accessorized kitchen and dining areas, and hotel amenities and services, including use of house car, 24-hour Resident Service team, and tranquil terrace lounge. Private entry bi-level town homes, penthouse residences and terrace suites feature sweeping views of the Hollywood Hills. Steps from Rodeo Drive, with in-suite dining by Wolfgang Puck’s legendary Spago.

Perfect for out-of-town guests. Weekly rates from $395/day. Monthly from $335.

213/385-4751

—————–––– L.A.’S FINEST, MOST LUXURIOUS APT. RENTAL * * * * * *

“The Mission” • Westwood • • • • • •

• 1 Bd.+1 Ba.

• • • • •

6-Month Lease Avail.

* * * * * * Every Extra Luxury

custom cabinets, granite countertops, stone entry, pool, health club, spa.

• Free WiFi Access • • Close to UCLA • AKA BEVERLY HILLS crescent at wilshire new york city philadelphia washington dc london STAYAKA.COM 310.651.8704

1350 S. MIDVALE AVE. L.A., 90024 Contact Mgr.:

• 310/864-0319 •

b h c o u r i e r. c o m

UNFURNISHED APT’S/CONDO’S

BEVERLY HILLS

BEVERLY HILLS

S E RV I C E

468

ANTIQUES / JEWELRY

BAGS WANTED

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D I R E C T O RY

BUY & SELL

ANTIQUES / JEWELRY BUY & SELL

WANTED

CHANEL, HERMES, GUCCI, PRADA AND ALL HIGH-END DESIGNER HANDBAGS

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Chairman Emeritus Paula Kent Meehan President & Publisher Marcia Wilson Hobbs

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR There were many important points in Howard Wallack’s letter to the editor of Jan.15 regarding Lots 12 and 13. Mr. Wallack believed that the key issue to now focus upon is remediation. We respectfully disagree In the Jan. 5 Beverly Hills City Council meeting, four of the five councilmembers felt the staff report was, charitably, substandard.

Three of the five believe that an external investigation is warranted.

We believe that transparency and accountability will be achieved only through an independent examination.

We are not alone. When the DTSC remediation issue arose last June, we solicited and received petition signatures from 200 Beverly Hills residents.

The methodology of a forensic investigation will likely not sit well with the staff.

In the recent “dust-up” over Volkswagen’s not complying with emission regulations, the parent company of Volkswagen hired the German office of a top US law firm to conduct a thorough forensic investigation.

The first step taken was to suspend every employee who could have tangentially touched the deceit. From the boardroom to the shop floor, scores have been suspended, The Wall Street Journal reported, until they can be cleared.

Two hundred people of Beverly Hills have already spoken: they want the same degree of thoroughness.

If that means that the fifty City of Beverly Hills employees are placed on furlough until the investigation is completed, and the heads of the Community Services, Community Development, and Capital Assets departments are suspended until cleared, then so be it.

The culture in City Hall has to change, and only through aggressive action can that be achieved.

Robert W MacDonald, Woodrow Clark ***** Regarding the toxic soil situation on Civic Center Way, the builder and his associates circumvented codes, ordinances, rules, regulations. Their actions, exposed citizens to toxic substances. Certain planning personnel were complicit in these actions either by their omission or commission. Actually, they were not planning people, but were executive management personnel such as Steve Zoet, director of Community Services. and David Lightner, assistant city manager and director of Capital Assets.

These City employees need be fired immediately, along with the City attorneys who spent taxpayer money creating the “whitewash” presented at the City Council. The only remaining question is what kind of fines, penalties and sanctions are to be levied against the builder and his associates.

Additionally “our government” needs to take immediate steps to make these parcels “safe,” and insure these kinds of situations do not occur again Robert Block ****** I wrote the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to consider seriously this concept news outlets utilize at the bottom of a TV screen to convey information as it scrolls by.

Why not this same idea for the Oscars? The stars waste their historic moment in the spotlight thanking people who already know they have contributed to that star's career. Have a certain number of words or a time span at the bottom of the TV screen for all those boring thank yous–while giving the star time to say something memorable.

For humanity’s sake, this practice has gone on long enough. It’s embarrassing to the star, the audience, and the Academy– and it would be so easy to do.

Burt Smiley

****** It was 50 years ago last week that my life changed forever. On Jan. 12, 1966, Batman premiered on ABC TV and there had never been a show anything like it. Pop art had taken hold and Batman and Robin were pitted against colorful Super Villains like Penguin, Joker, Catwoman and The Riddler. The ratings were through the roof as Batman aired on two nights with a cliffhanger ending the first night and the Dynamic Duo escaping a doomsday trap the next. Batman was both a comedy (with no laugh track) and a drama. Kids saw the show one way and adults appreciated the brilliant satire of both the comic book genre and pop culture in general.

What you may not know about this TV show was its unique ties to Beverly Hills. The executive producer was William Dozier, a long term resident. He and his wife, actress Ann Rutherford of Gone With The Wind fame, lived at 826 Greenway Dr., so it was only natural he named his production company Greenway Productions.

Dozier came up with the idea of “camp” for the Batman show and hired writer Lorenzo Semple, Jr. to write the pilot episode “Hi Diddle Riddle,” which starred Frank Gorshin as The Riddler. It was a massive hit in the ratings and Batman ran for two years before the superhero fad subsided.

The actor who played Robin, was an unknown local kid named Herbert Gervis Jr. who became Burt Ward’ when picked for the part. Ward got the job with no acting experience because of his youthful exuberance (he was 21 but looked 15) and athletic prowess.

Ward, whose nickname was “Sparky,” played Little League at Roxbury Park and attended Beverly Hills High School.

Batman was filmed at nearby 20th-Century Fox studios (and Desilu in Culver City) and many area locations were seen on the show including Rancho Park and the then new Century Plaza. This was where the Joker turned Gotham City's water supply to jelly, The Archer (Art Carney) jousted with The Dynamic Duo, and Louie The Lilac (Milton Berle) had his lovein with the flower children of Gotham City.

Batman was a role model in my life at 6 years old. I had my first real “hero” to look up to along with Batman peanut butter, wallet, Halloween costume and T shirt! His insistence on doing the right thing, drinking orange juice, fastening his seat belt, and always being an upright citizen influenced me in ways that resonate to this day.

Batman was recently released on Blu Ray DVD in smashing digitally restored color. The show really holds up after 50 years which is more than I can say for my runner's knees. The Dozier home is being remodeled now and I can still see his white Lincoln Continental in front as I drive by occasionally to honor the man who brought Batman and my other favorite The Green Hornet both in 1966 Hal Lifson ***** Have you ever had one of those days when everything went wrong?

Well last week Murphy’s Law was working overtime with me. To make a long story short, I made a quick run to a local eatery to pick up a birthday lunch for a friend and...forgot my purse, my new car’s engine started smoking, lost my parking ticket and could not pay the full or any fare, had no driver’s license and my class was going to start soon. I wasn’t blocking traffic but horns were blaring.

As my stress levels were reaching epic proportions, it was quietly brought to my attention that a very handsome, much younger attorney, David Gharakhanisn, had paid my ticket without even taking any credit for it.

Cartoon for The Courier by Janet Salter

Astrology

By Holiday Mathis TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan. 22). February brings a delightful someone to share the minutiae with. Family has a strong bearing on where you'll live and on professional concerns, too. You’ll bank money from a savvy sale in March. Networking and travel come in May. The cause that's near to your heart in June will lead you to others as passionate as you. Aries and Virgo adore you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You thrill to the unpredictable turns of this rollercoaster day. The anticipation will be sweet -- maybe even sweeter than the fast plunge that comes afterward.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20). Indulge your whims, or they will turn against you, pouting and dragging your mood through the mud.

Your instinct to play needs expression. With no specific agenda, activities take you where you need to be.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19). Don’t ask for what you want. Get in there and politely inform the gatekeeper that you already have what you want, and that you're available and ready for more of it.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20). There are undeniable benefits to being on-trend, depending on whose trend it happens to be. Something to keep in mind: If you create the culture, you don't have to worry about staying ahead of it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ve been an idealist; you've been a cynic. And today you'll float around the vast middle ground between the two extremes. That's where you meet friends who think at your level. Such a treasure!

CANCER (June 22-July 22). When you were small you had to be in a familiar place to feel completely safe. Now you’ve grown into your “crab” essence. You're safe because of who you are, not because of where you are.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The moon favors your every move; this is your day, your night, your extended-play dance in the spotlight.

Savor the creative outlet. When your turn is over, the creativity will still be inside you, waiting for the next showcase.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Unless you’re very aware of your surroundings and how others are feeling, you may not realize what’s at stake in a situation. Challenge yourself to be more observant.

What you’ll note is that everyday life takes courage.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Education is expensive, especially the unstructured, informal education you get from hanging out with people in glamorous settings. Be frugal now so that you’ll be able to weather the storm that is coming later.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Laughter is one of your favorite love notes. It means that someone is sharing in your joy of life, as well as your intellect, point of view and general experience. You'll connect in giggles and love.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). It’s a day to pay the piper, and he’s not offering a layaway plan or installment options, either.

However you handle it, by the end of the day you’ll be square.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Of course there are no winners in conversation. However, if there were winners, the prize would go to the one who chooses the best topic. You’ve a knack for knowing which one will bring the most interest and fun.

I can’t tell you how this simple act of generosity and random act of kindness has inspired me to pay it forward tenfold. In a world full where so much is going wrong, it is, indeed, reassuring to know that decency, altruism and compassion are still home grown.

Let’s all count our blessings and pay them forward.

Joanie Garratt Beverly Hills High School Teacher

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