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French papillion Gigi is one of these week’s Freshpet Adoptable Pets. 4
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Two local teens opened a lemonade stand to benefit Beverly Hills Firefighters. 5
BIRTHDAY BASH — The Beverly Hills Courier turned 50 this week and we celebrated Tuesday with friends from the community at a birthday party at Beverly Gardens Park. Pictured above (from left): Courier President & Publisher Marcia Wilson Hobbs, Mayor Julian Gold and Councilmembers Lili Bosse and Nancy Krasne after the City Council presented The Courier with a proclamation. For more photos from Tuesday’s event, see pages 16 and 17. Celebrity Photo/Scott Downie
The Beverly Hills Courier – Beverly Hills’ Newspaper Of Record For 50 Years This year, The Courier celebrates 50 years in the community. Throughout the year, we will honor the legacy of excellence in Beverly Hills’ heritage businesses that have called the City their home since 1965 or earlier.
In honor of The Courier’s 50th birthday, we print in full our very first front page from July 22, 1965. 15 •Health & Wellness •Birthdays •Holiday Gift Guide
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By Matt Lopez March Schwartz’s reasoning for starting The Beverly Hills Courier in 1965 was fairly simple. After a career in newspaper advertising in Los Angeles, he believed the Beverly Hills taxpayers were in dire need of a publication that highlighted the issues that concerned them most. On July 22, 1965, Schwartz launched the first issue of The Beverly Hills Courier and in his opening editorial, pledged to focus on
those issues, such as tax rates, schools and public services. This week, on its 50th birthday, The Courier’s mission remains the same. Schwartz began his career in journalism in advertising with the Los Angeles Mirror, Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. The Courier quickly became the must-read publication on local news for residents in Beverly Hills and surrounding areas. (see ‘THE COURIER’ page 14)
George Christy, Page 6 Lynn von Kersting’s Third Scrapbook/Gem Is An Inspired Ode To Her Beloved Capri And French Riviera Lifestyles, And Is Chockablock With Photographs Bursting With Rainbows Of Color
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July 24, 2015
Santa Monica Boulevard Revamp Gets Green Light
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Beverly Vista 7th grader Lucas Fuhrer met Vice President Joe Biden this week.
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SPECIAL OLYMPICS — The Special Olympics Torch Run came to Beverly Hills on Wednesday afternoon, as several amazing Special Olympians carried the torch to the Beverly Hills Fire Station #1 on Rexford Drive. They were greeted by community members and Special Olympics athletes from Monaco and Gibraltar, who are staying in Beverly Hills, which is a Special Olympics Host Town. For more photos of this week’s Special Olympics events in Beverly Hills, see page 18. Courier Photo by Matt Lopez
By Victoria Talbot City staff sought direction from the Beverly Hills City Council Tuesday on the design phase of the Santa Monica Boulevard (SMB) Reconstruction project, bringing with them conceptual renderings for medians, swales and street lights. Following an ad hoc meeting July 9 with liaison Councilmembers Nancy Krasne and Willie Brien, City staff presented five options for council direction on the Canon to Wilshire portion of SMB. Following council direction, staff found that SMB could be widened on the south side, adding 2’4” to the width. That would accomodate street trees, bus stops and bike lanes,
if the Council so decides. This would also bring that stretch of SMB up to 62’4”, almost the same as the 63’-wide portion from Canon to Doheny Drive. The council supported this in the design phase of the project at a cost of $1.3 million. City council supported a plan to create swales as natural treatment systems at various locations on the north side of the street between the sidewalk and the curb in Beverly Gardens Park to incorporate “Green Street” infrastructure and to comply with urban runoff water quality regulations. The cost is estimated at $600,000. The alternative would be to provide a proprietary drainage (see ‘SMB’ page 10)
Beverly Hills Elder: Diane Jacobs, Nazi Killer, Manicurist Part 45 in a series on Beverly Hills residents who have grown with the Centennial City By Laura Coleman At 93, 4-foot-something, and undeniably sweet, the diminutive Diane Jacobs, who has lived in Beverly Hills since 1955, does not seem like the kind of woman to shoot another human being in cold blood. But in 1938, as part of the resistance in Grunenwald, Diane successfully ended the lives of over a dozen Nazis. “I killed 14 Nazis,” she said. “I always carried a knife, a gun and brass knuckles. I had the opportunity of shooting them, so I did. I was near-sighted, but I managed to do it.” Born in 1921 in the East Prussian town of Konigsburg (today, East Germany), Diane moved with her mother, father and newborn baby sister to Berlin when she was 4 years old. Her father, who was origi-
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nally a tailor, owned several clothing manufacturing facilities. Diane’s mother, a particularly beautiful woman, was a movie actress in silent films. Her parents had a box at the opera and she went with them sometimes. Although her mom was strict, Diane went on her own to the Berlin Olympic Games (see ‘DIANE JACOBS’ page 18)
A FUN NIGHT — Mo'ne Davis with Nick Cannon; Ciara with son Future Zahir Wilburn; Lindsay Vonn partied at Nickelodeon’s second annual Kids’ Choice Sports 2015 awards ceremony at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion honoring kids’ favorite athletes, teams and sports moments. For more photos, see George Christy’s column on page 6.