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July 10, 2015
City Looks At Additional Tour Bus Locations In Beverly Hills
Paul S. Viviano is the new President/CEO of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. 12
Alex Stettinski is leaving his post at the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce. 4
BEVERLY HILLS’ YOUNG FIREFIGHTERS –The City of Beverly Hills Fire Department and the Beverly Hills Firefighters’ Association sponsored a weeklong Junior Firefighting Camp for kids ages 10-to-15. Hands-on interactive activities included physical fitness training, fire engine and fire truck tool and equipment familiarity, hose agility, fire extinguisher use and operation, search and rescue awareness and so much more. All the junior firefighters received a Fire Department t-shirt and first-aid kit. Pictured (from left): Eli Biehl, Ryan Biehl, Tyler Chapman, Audrey Cmar, Max Cohen, Cameron Cooper, Joseph Correa, Trevor Dohm, Masahiro Fukata, Brandon Gabbai, Maxim Gershtein, Phil is one of this week’s Adoptable Pets of the Week Matthew Goldner, Ryan Golian, Dominique Halonen, Julia Horowitz, Kingston presented by Freshpet. 4 Jordan, Young Seok Koh, Samuel Mehrpoo, Allison Speir, Julie Speir, Justin Wolfe, and Nathan Yafeh.
By Victoria Talbot The Traffic and Parking Commission (TPC) reviewed additional locations to enhance tour bus activity for visitors in the Beverly Hills business triangle Thursday. The meeting sought to prioritize possible active passenger tour bus loading zone locations based on recommendations from an ad hoc committee established in July 2014. The City Council is looking for options to mitigate traffic impacts generated by tour bus activity. Stakeholders include the CVB, tour bus operators and residents. Currently, tour bus zones include the former Metro bus cutout on North Santa Monica Boulevard between Crescent
Drive and Canon Drive for loading and unloading passengers only and the Third Street/Civic Center tour bus zone for passenger loading and 2-hour tour bus staging. The committee presented several options. Three were selected for further study including one that was not on the list of recommendations, the existing cutout at N. Canon Drive. The location was first rejected in 2010 by the City Council because of objections raised by the residents on Park Way. Commissioner Jeff Levine, who previously served on the Commission, suggested the location was unanimously approved in 2010, and that it (see ‘VACCINATION’ page 13)
Beverly Hills Elder: Perl Oliff, Still Hard At Work At Age 93 Part 43 in a series on Beverly Hills residents who have grown with the Centennial City 5
Courier President/Publisher Marcia Wilson Hobbs was recognized by the L.A. Board of Supervisors. 5 •Fashion •Birthdays •Letters to the Editor
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George Christy, Page 6 A Memorable Dinner For Three With Pat Crowley And Andy Friendly At Their Bel-Air Residence, Where We Discovered The Almond Mazarin Dessert – A Knockout From Copenhagen Pastry
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By Laura Coleman At 93, Perl Oliff may well be the oldest working aesthetician in Beverly Hills. For the past seven years, she has worked at Kabuki Salon on Crescent five days a week, giving her regular clients one of two facials every few weeks to keep them looking and feeling beautiful. “I love what I do and love being with people,” Perl explains simply. Born in Chicago in 1922, Perl went on to graduate from Northwestern with a theatre major and an English minor. “My father said I had to get an education license because I would never become a star,” she said. After college, Perl “tried to make it in New York,” she recalled of the lively nine months she spent
Vaccination Vandals Hit Chamber of Commerce
Perl Oliff
living with her aunt in Manhattan while she went on “lots of auditions.” After abandoning her dreams of becoming a star, she returned back home to her family, just as her father, a pharmacist, had predicted. About six months later, she met her husband-to-be, Jack Harris, to
By Laura Coleman Concerns over changes to California’s Vaccination Bill (SB 277) hit close to home last week when a vandal spraypainted a hateful message in black on the cream wall of the City’s Chamber of Commerce: “4 Every Kid Afflicted A Public Figure Will Die - SB277.” Nearly 24 hours after the message appeared, the Beverly Hills Police Department took
(see ‘PERL OLIFF’ page 16)
YANKEE DOODLE BEAR–The Courier hopes everyone in Beverly Hills had a safe and happy Fourth of July weekend. Bear, The Courier’s six-month-old German Shepherd/Pyrenees mix mascot certainly did, winning the award for Biggest Dog at the Croyden Block Party in Westchester with Courier President/Publisher Marcia Wilson Hobbs. The trophy promptly became a chew toy as soon as Bear brought it back home to Beverly Gardens Park. Courier Photo by Victoria Talbot
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Human Relations Commissioner Ori Blumenfeld took The Courier to Scotland.
custody of 28-year-old suspect Marlon Andrino of Ontario, culminating in an investigation that included discovery of three similar spray-painted messages; one at West Hollywood’s City Hall and two more along the 10-Freeway. “It’s unfortunate when we see this,” said Mayor Julian Gold. (see ‘VACCINATION’ page 16)
A FAMILY AFFAIR — Paul Rudd with wife Julie Yaeger, daughter Darby Rudd, and son Jack Rudd while Paul was honored wtih a Star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures. With them were: Paul’s mom Gloria; Maureen Schultz, CEO of Hollywood Chamber of Commerce; Michael Douglas; Ant-Man director Peyton Reed. For more photos, see George Christy’s column on page 6.