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George Christy, Page 6 “What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, art is about sharing,” says David Hockney.

“You wouldn’t be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.”

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Recreation And Parks Commission To Make Recommendation To City Council On La Cienega Park

By Victoria Talbot A proposal for a new and improved La Cienega Park and Recreation Complex will be sent to the Beverly Hills City Council at an upcoming meeting with a recommendation from the Recreation and Parks Commission to consider the Master Plan as developed by Johnson and Favaro architects through a series of citywide stakeholder meetings and to consider a two-phased construction timeline

as proposed by the architects.

The recommendations to City Council are the next step in the pipeline towards completion of the project.

On Tuesday, the Recreation and Parks Commission recommend the City Council’s consideration of the Master Plan and to recommend the phasing approach proposed, Phase 1, the west side will be considered first, and Phase 2 will be (see ‘PARK’ page 24)

BHUSD Appoints Scott Lovelace As Director of School Safety

By Victoria Talbot The Beverly Hills Unified School District Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to approve the appointment of Scott Lovelace as director of School Security.

According to a press release from BHUSD, Lovelace was a officer in the San Diego Police Department for 11 years and he served as district safety manager in the San Ysidro School District for two years. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from National University and a Master's degree in Demographic and Social Analysis from the University of California - Irvine.

“Scott Lovelace’s extensive experience in both the police force and education lends a solution-focused perspective to this role. His calm demeanor and rigorous passion for student safety is a valued addition to the BHUSD

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Race Car Sheikh Subject Of Lawsuit Claiming He Ordered Murders of Americans

P O L I C E A N D C O M M U N I T Y TOGETHER–The Beverly Hills Police Department Citizens Academy Class #3 graduated at Greystone Mansion this week. The 10-week course gave the 22 residents a hands-on understanding of how the department works. The curriculum is designed to help citizens understand how law enforcement fights crime, while providing insight into training and professional conduct, functions within the department from SWAT to traffic enforce-ment, and the role of law enforcement in the criminal justice system. Pictured (from left): Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli, Field Training Officer Jeff Newman, Lisa Kay Schwartz, Rose Kaiserman, Sgt. Sean Smollen, Councilmember Julian Gold and City Manager George Chavez.

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safety and security program,” said BHUSD Superintendent Dr. Michael Bregy.

Lovelace commented: “The Beverly Hills Unified School District is at the forefront of developing innovative safety and security strategies to ensure a healthy learning environment. I am excited and honored for the opportunity to bring my training and experience to the BHUSD team.”

By Victoria Talbot Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad al-Thani of Qatar’s ruling family, the same sheikh seen racing through stop signs in the residential area of Beverly Hills in his yellow Ferrari, is the subject of a lawsuit filed by two former employees, which claims that he ordered the murder of two Americans, detained another against his will, held people at gunpoint, and more.

The sheikh first came to the attention of the Beverly Hills community in the summer of 2015 when a video went viral of a yellow Ferrari racing through residential stop signs in the flats of Beverly Hills, tailed by a 911 Porsche.

Al-Thani is the brother of the Qatari emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. A race car driver, he is widely described as the “patron sheikh” of drag racing after investing more than $10 million in the sport.

At that time, under then Police Chief Dominick Rivetti, al-Thani told the officers who investigated the incident that no one was driving recklessly and that he had diplomatic immunity, Beverly Hills police said.

A check with the state department by police showed that he did not have diplomatic immunity, but by then, al-Thani and the cars had disappeared.

Now, the same sheikh is the subject of a lawsuit brought by two former employees, Matthew Pittard and Matthew Allende.

Pittard, who served honorably in the United States Marines, claims that al-Thani threatened to kill him for defying his orders to murder an unarmed American man and woman and for helping another

Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad alThani person held captive by the Sheikh to escape his Doha compound. He says he was then fired for his refusal “to engage in criminal activity,” according to the legal documents.

The second plaintiff, Allende, a Los Angeles-based paramedic, scaled an 18-foot wall to escape the Qatari palace compound after he was allegedly threatened at gunpoint and held against his will, shattering his foot.

The two men traveled with al-Thani in Los Angeles, London and Doha. As employees, says the lawsuit, they were required to accompany him wherever he went, often without breaks, working sometimes 60-96 hours per week providing medical care and security supervision.

Like something dreamed up by John le Carré, the lawsuit reads like a novel about a clash of cultures and privilege that placed two American citizens who were employed by the sheikh in inappropriate and dangerous circumstances. (see ‘SHEIKH’ page 11)

SHE DID IT!— It was Nadia Ghaleb, the PR director of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel during the mid-1980s, who asked David Hockney (left) to paint the hotel's Tropicana Pool, which he did, and has been acclaimed internationally. Nadia has not received the credit she deserves for her vision.

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

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From The Publisher Marcia Hobbs

Reflections On 13 Years With The Courier How does one begin to summarize 13 years into… well, about 13 paragraphs?

When I joined the Beverly Hills Courier as associate publisher in July of 2006, hired by then-publisher Clif Smith, I had no idea that I would still be sitting here, more than a decade later. In fact, at the time, I wasn’t really thinking beyond the next week; I was simply trying to do my best day-by-day to help the Courier provide the kind of content the Beverly Hills community deserved.

That responsibility only intensified in April 2014, when my dear friend Paula Kent Meehan purchased the Courier from Clif. Her vision was simple – she saw the Courier as the integral voice of the community, and wanted to make sure it was preserved for decades to come.

Paula’s plan was for me to run the newspaper as president & publisher, a role she placed me into immediately after the purchase. Sadly, Paula passed away just two months after the transaction, leaving behind an enormous legacy in the worlds of business, philanthropy and cosmetics.

All of the sudden, after a whirlwind couple of months, I found myself in charge of stewarding this community gem.

The truth is, however, that I was never really in charge. This newspaper doesn’t belong to me and it never belonged to Paula. It didn’t belong to Clif before her, nor did it belong to the Courier’s founder, March Schwartz. In the end, the Courier belongs to you – the readers and members of the Beverly Hills community.

A good local newspaper should be the watchdog for its community. It should champion transparency, and shine a light on work done in the darkness. It should try to right the wrongs, and magnify that which is being done right. It should truly give you all the information you need to know.

We hope that in our five years steering the ship, we have done those things in a way that makes you all proud.

Among the stories that stand out most vividly in our mind is our coverage of rent stabilization, the illegal tree cutting at Lots 12 & 13, the birth of the Dog Park, Metro’s Purple Line Extension, the EBI/Snowden scandal, the birth of BOLD, the Oakhurst condo project, post office problems, and rampant overdevelopment (Mohamed Hadid, Loma Linda, among others), just to name a few.

We are also very proud to have birthed and supported major events in the City, such as the Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance and BOLD Holiday celebration with our quarterly lifestyle supplement, Beverly Hills Style.

There are so many people in the City – business people, elected officials, and city staffers – who have been kind and helpful over the years. We won’t name names out of fear of leaving someone out, but you know who you are, and we are grateful for your trust and partnership.

It’s hard to accurately convey the struggles of the weekly grind that goes

into producing the newspaper that is delivered to your home every Friday morning.

It couldn’t have been done without so many special members, past and present, of our Courier family.

People such as our current staff: Evelyn Portugal, Rod Pingul, George Recinos, Ana Llorens, Ferry Simanjuntak, John Seitz, Steve Simmons, Beverly Weitzman, George Christy, Victoria Talbot, and columnists and contributors Joan Mangum, Frances Allen, Jerry Cutler, Roger Lefkon, Janet Salter, Scott Downie, and Adam Sherman.

We thank former staffers and contributors such as the late Rabbi Jacob Pressman, Matt Lopez, Robert Knight, Marla Schevker, David Murphy, Lana Solnit, Abbey Hood, Amanda Peabody, Chris Sieroty, Liz Familian, Kelly Hartog and many more.

In the very first edition of the Beverly Hills Courier, dated July 22, 1965, founding publisher March Schwartz wrote “Our local tax rates, our local schools, our local public services are the things on which we propose to focus our attention… We hope the Beverly Hills Courier will come to be a newspaper you think of as a good friend… a sort of guide, counselor and source of information, with a warm sense of humor and careful eye on public business to protect the interests of all people.”

With the hard work of many of those people mentioned above, we hope in our five years stewarding the Courier that we have upheld those standards March laid out 54 years ago.

When we did, you – the readers – thanked us. When we didn’t, you made sure we knew about it. No matter what, we appreciated the opportunity to attempt to live up to what you expected from your local newspaper.

Ultimately, this newspaper belongs to the community, and you decide whether we succeeded or failed. We expect you will hold future stewards of this newspaper to those same high standards.

Sincerely, Marcia Wilson Hobbs

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City Hall To Host Reading Of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

COURIER IN UKRAINE – Beverly Hills resident Sheldon Slaten traveled to Odessa, Ukraine last month to find the birthplace of his father, who was born in 1905 in a village called Nova Publinka, which was destroyed by the communist Russians in 1917. Slaten and his family made a call to the local mayor and upon arrival to the area, which is sparsely visited by Americans, the Slaten’s were greeted by the mayor and 35 singing children from the local school. “A wonderful lunch was prepared for us and although only one person spoke English, we were able to communicate the reason for our visit,” Slaten said. Slaten brought along his copy of the Courier on the momentous trip.

Human Relations Commission Accepting Nominees For 8th Annual Embrace Civility Award

By Victoria Talbot The Human Relations Commission is accepting nominees for the Embrace Civility Award, recognizing outstanding individuals that demonstrate and promote positive civil behavior in the community.

The Embrace Civility Award is given to members of the community who are nominated by their peers because they act as a role model of positive civic behavior; take a stand in support of respect and responsible actions; and promote positive neighbor-toneighbor relations.

“We’re looking to honor someone who has created pos-

itive, lasting civil change and inspires others to take action,” said Human Relations Commission Chair Annette Saleh. “We’re asking the community for their help in identifying our next Embrace Civility Award honoree.”

To nominate someone takes only a few minutes at www.beverlyhills.org/embrace civilityaward. Submissions can be mailed or emailed, but must be received by Sept. 6. Hard copies of the nomination form can be found at City Hall, Roxbury Park, La Cienega Park and the Beverly Hills Public Library.

The winner will be announced at a future City

Council meeting and all nominees will be recognized by the Human Relations Commission.

The Embrace Civility Award is part of the ongoing, award-winning Embrace Civility program, which promotes positive human relations in all aspects of community life. The program started in 2010, when the City of Beverly Hills Human Relations Commission established the importance of demonstrating attributes of civility such as respect, courtesy and consideration at City Hall and municipal election proceedings.

For more information, contact the Human Services Division at 310-285-1006.

By Victoria Talbot The City of Beverly Hills presents the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles in a staged reading production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Sept. 15 at 4 p.m. in the Municipal Gallery at City Hall.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies.

The story is about the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons.

Hilarity ensues when the young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest, wreak havoc on the wedding plans. Puck, the iconic prankster, generously sprinkles a magical concoction on the unsuspecting wedding party, that, when applied to the eyelids of a sleeping person, renders the person in love with the first living thing they see.

Love, mistakenly rendered, creates timeless comedy before everyone can sort themselves out.

The City of Beverly Hills is proud to present the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles in support of their programs Well Power to Youth and Veterans in Art. The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles presentation of Love’s Labour’s Lost was scheduled in May, but the performance was rescheduled for administrative reasons. They are back, this time with A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles produces worldclass Shakespeare-inspired plays, best-practices in arts education and award-winning arts-based workforce development programs that target under-served youths and veterans.

Since its first Summer Festival performance of Twelfth Night in Pershing Square attracted a loyal audience of homeless people eager to contribute and participate, the group has increasingly provid-

ed outreach programs and services to vulnerable communities.

The Shakespeare Center partners with agencies including LinkedIn Learning, Santa Monica College, LA Unified School District, US Department of Veterans Affairs and others, as an innovator in the field of arts and human services.

Programs that target youth development, employment and empowerment for kids 1521 living at the poverty threshold offer full-time employment for seven weeks to produce and perform Shakespeare adaptations. A writing program hires youths to create original poetry inspired by Shakespeare after school and on weekends, culminating in live performances.

Other programs bring Shakespeare into the classroom with dynamic teaching tools to invigorate education.

The Shakespeare Institute offers educators a two-week immersion in teaching Shakespeare, including scene study, theater history and verse.

In a partnership with Santa Monica College, “unemployable” veterans living outside the workforce are hired as part of a paid on-the-job training and transitional employment initiative through the Veterans in Art Employment program, enabling students in the SMC veterans outreach program to receive career development and academic credit.

These are only a fraction of the programs that the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles provides to the community.

For more information visit www.shakespearecenter.org.

This event is recommended for children 12 years and older. It is a 90-minute staged reading without intermission.

Parking is available in the Civic Center parking structure adjacent to the Library on Rexford Drive. For reservations, visit www.beverlyhills.org/rec and for more information call 310285-6850.

WINSOME WAYLON—Waylon is a 2-year-old, 10-pound Yorkie Poodle mix. Visit www.shelter hopepetshop.org or call 805379-353. To learn more about Waylon and how to adopt him.

NEXT NIGHT – BOLD closed Saturday with a party and people were dancing in the street on South Beverly Drive. BOLD Holidays will return on Nov. 14 with a colorful new look.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PREPARING TO PAY TRIBUTE – Joel Colmenares and family (sister Asly, wife Maricruz and son Julio) are among the crews work doing prep work on the City of Beverly Hills’ 911 Beam, in preparation for the City’s annual 911 r e m e m brance ceremony, set for Sept. 11 in front of the Beverly Hills Fire Station on Rexford Drive.

Beverly Hills High Teen Joins Peers in Teen Suicide Prevention Effort

Nancy Thompson Call Passes At 91 After A Remarkable Beverly Hills Life

By John L. Seitz Earlier this month, Beverly Hills lost one of its most enchanting citizens with the death of Nancy Thompson Call.

Though she was a mere 91 at the time of her passing on Aug. 2, she lived life to the fullest whether it was riding horses or playing tennis on her aunt Virginia Robinson’s courts.

The Beverly Hills native was born on and attended Dec. 28, 1927 Marlborough School for Girls and USC. She was instrumental in initiating projects with the Junior League, the Philharmonic, and LACMA’s Docent Council among others.

She married Ted Call, the son of Margaret and Asa Call. The couple had three children: Candace, Edward and James.

According to her dearest friend Carrie Ketchum, Nancy was also a talented artist who painted an oil of the house at Virginia Robinson’s Gardens, which was the scene of her memorial service.

Beverly Hills Realtor Named NAR Finalist for Co-Founding Angel City Sports

By Victoria Talbot Beverly Hills Realtor Bahar Soomekh is one of ten finalists across the country to be considered for the prestigious 2019 Good Neighbor Awards to honor realtors who have made a positive impact on their communities through extraordinary volunteer service.

Soomekh, a realtor with Beverly Hills firm Nourmand & Associates, is the co-founder, with her husband, Clayton French, of Angel City Sports, a non-profit that supports people with physical disabilities and helps them stay active.

The National Association of Realtors is the largest trade association in the nation. This is the 20th year that the Good Neighbor Award has recognized realtors for the work. During that time, more than $1.3 million has been

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awarded in grants to those nonprofits.

“People like Bahar Soomekh, who are dedicated to their communities and committed to improving the lives of people around them inspire us and epitomize ‘who we are’ as Realtors,” said NAR President John Smaby of Edina Minnesota. (see ‘BAHAR SOOMEKH’ page 11)

By Victoria Talbot Beverly Hills High School student Sam Halfon is one of a handful of students that are volunteers for Teen Line, a peer-to-peer suicide prevention hotline based at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, which will be raising money 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Sept. 8 during this year’s Call-a-Thon in honor of National Suicide Prevention Week.

Teen Line is one of the oldest suicide hotlines in the country. Founded in 1980, it is unique in that it is a nonprofit, peer-to-peer suicide prevention hotline.

Sam is passionate about his efforts to help prevent teen suicide. Next weekend, for the Call-A-Thon, his goal is to raise $5,000 in donations on his donation page, https://is.gd/cV5j8q.

“I am a new-ish volunteer to Teen Line,” said Sam. “Our hotline caters to teens all over the globe and is here as a support system to so many… Mental health is such an important thing to be aware of and clearly, more resources need to be available to adolescents. It can be extremely difficult to reach out to people for help and guidance, but it makes it easier and more comforting when you talk to someone your own age that can understand what you’re going through…We are all here to help one another and make a difference.

We all deserve someone to talk to us and be there for us when we need it.

Teen Line teens care so much about everyone they talk to and do an incred-

ible job of helping. Teen Line really makes a huge impact on so many teens across the globe.”

To be accepted into the program, teens must complete a written application and interview process. Those who are accepted then undergo a rigorous training process to ensure that they are ready to take calls. Teen Line volunteers also respond to emails and texts through the website. Called “Listeners” in order to emphasize the importance of listening to the callers over giving advice, groups of teens and adults also make presentations, or Outreaches, about issues that teens face throughout Southern California.

Teen Line receives over 17,000 calls, texts and emails annually.

Through Outreaches, they have touched over 40,000 at schools and community groups annually. The organization is certified by the American Association of Suicidology (1-800-SUICIDE).

The line is open nightly from 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. by calling 310-8554673.

“Sam is very passionate about this and has made a huge commitment to this organization,” said his father, realtor Marty Halfon. “He is looking at all different ways to help them raise a lot of money that they’re truly in need of.

He sees what good it does and how it changes people’s lives and realizes (see ‘SUICIDE PREVENTION’ page 7)

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s years pass, die-hard conservationists raised big bucks for the restoration of David’s work on the Tropicana Pool.

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uilt in 1926, and named after President Theodore Roosevelt, the hotel was financed by MGM’s Louis B. Mayer, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Sid Grauman of Grauman’s Chinese Theater.

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he hotel’s past remains legendary. The first Academy Awards ceremony, in 1929, was held inside the Blossom Ballroom with admission being $5. That was the era when silent films were being replaced by the “talkies.” Only silent films were allowed to be nominated.

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onsidered one of Los Angeles’ glamorous sites, at the time, the hotel became a bedrock for gossipists reporting on the scandalous extramarital affairs thereabouts.

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Don Jacinto, the hotel’s general manager. “It’s not something that’s hanging on the wall — you can actually experience the pool.

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our knowledge, it’s the only commercial pool that David Hockney has ever painted.

It’s something that we can share with our guests for years to come.”

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Hockney:

“What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something. Art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience,a thought, a vision.”

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Artist David Hockney, whose art attracts collectors who pay mega-millions for his work is the spec you see in this photograph with David painting the Tropicana Pool at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The artwork, at upper right, is now internationally acclaimed as a cultural treasure.

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adia, of course, traveled with the art crowd. Ed Ruscha, Billy Al Bangstown, and Andy Warhol, who first exhibited his 32 Campbell Soup paintings at the then Ferus Gallery on La Cienega Boulevard.

arilyn Monroe called the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel “home” for two years.

Occupying a second floor room with a balcony overlooking the Tropicana Pool. She was photographed for her first paid advertisement in a bathing suit at the pool.

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he longer we live, the more we find that people who are the instigators of ideas do not receive their proper credit.

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the online research about the Tropicana swimming pool at the historic Hotel Roosevelt in the heart of Hollywood, we were disappointed. That the visionary who invited David Hockney to paint it’s Tropicana Pool, which became an iconic work of art that had its ups and downs with the city fathers, has been ignored.

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mover and shaker in our local art community, Nadia Ghaleb is the visionary who asked David to create this unusual art treasure.

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avid’s enthusiasm was obvious when he arrived with his bucket of blue paint to create for us what we call a Living Art. Page 6 | August 23, 2019

was among the many who loved David’s work and became a groupie. As for the pool, what better than to have David be part of our local scene with artwork that is now internationally acclaimed.”

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adia was there when Los Angeles was growing as a center for art with the building of our Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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e watched David paint his parentheses (or curves if you will).

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oon afterward, we toasted him during the hotel’s reception to celebrate their art treasure.

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o sooner could you clap hands did those drums of controversary begin to roll. The state did not permit paintings on pools, and the artwork was ordered to be destroyed.

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oliticos were called into action. Assemblyman Mike Roos would not let it go until a bill passed that exempted David’s work from the State rule, and protected the community’s multimillion dollar asset. Only recently, a painting by David fetched $90.3 at auction.

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Anna Camp and Bradley Whitford of Perfect Harmony.

Moses Storm of Sunnyside.

Producer Ester Nico Santos of Dean of NBC's Super Store. new musical competition Songland.

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B.H. Banker, Civic Leader Chuck Avis Dies At 76

RIDING THE SMILE TRAIN–For 12 years, Dessie Jeffries and her 4th and 5th-grade classes have supported Smile Train by making the world a happier place, one smile at a time. Smile Train is an organization that pays for children to have cleft lip and palate surgeries, free of charge. This week Mrs. Jeffries and her 4thgrade class at Hawthorne School had a special visitor, Ikiah McGowan, Manager of Community Fundraising for Smile Train. She was met with a warm welcome and a surprise. Since the first day of school, the class has raised over $160.00. "With each surgery only costing $250.00, we are well on our way to paying for at least one child to have a new look and smile on life," said Jeffries. Two of the students had a lemonade sale and raised $80 for Smile Train. Pictured left to right are Aidan Zahabian, Camila Vallejo, Jacob Omrany, Aaron Ebrahimian, Victoria Milovanova, Mila Lucas-Doyle, Lena Shokravi (1st Row); Isabella Jadidolahi, Eli Vahedi, Charlie Tomter, Sere Porso, Anthony Lin, Zoe Ben-Yohanan, Sasha Hummel (2nd Row); Baran Naim, Camille Chi, Jonah Shirazi, Elior Benayoun, Livy Heikali, Adam Raddy, Morgan Keily, Ikiah McGowan (3rd Row); and Dessie Jeffries, Andron Perera, Hayden Ramber and Ethan Hatanian.

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how blessed he is and how we can help others. In the crazy social media world of today, I take my hat off any young person that gets involved in Teen Line.”

Statistics are sobering.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, teen suicide is the second leading cause of death among individuals ages 15-24, led only by unintentional injury in 2017.

The total rate of suicide increased 31% from 10.7 to 14 per 100,000 from 2001-2017.

The suicide rate among males is nearly four times higher that of females (22.4 per 100,000 in 2017 for males compared to 6.1 per 100,000 in 2017).

Donations to Teen Line can also be made by calling 800852-8336, texting TEEN to 839863 or emailing to teenlineonline.org/talk/now.

By John L. Seitz Charles H. Avis passed away on Aug. 22 at age 76.

For four decades, he was a major fixture in the Beverly Hills community. After receiving an MBA degree from UCLA, he joined Wells Fargo Bank and later became president of the Bank of Beverly Hills, regional VP of Imperial Bank and ultimately as CEO of Hollywood International Finance, Inc. which was a production company he began in 1999.

“Chuck” Avis was born on May 4, 1943 in Memphis.

After serving in the Air Force for 4 years, he moved to Santa Monica, where he met his future wife and best friend, Sibylle (Hofmeister), whom he married on Aug. 5, 1967 and spent the next 52 years togeth-

er and raising their children Brent and K i m b e r l y.

They also have two grandchildren: Jack and Winnie Avis was the Charles H. Avis president of the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce, on the boards of the Maple Counseling Center, Amy Karen Children’s Cancer Foundation, and was a longtime member of the Rotary Club of Beverly Hills.

Information regarding a Celebration of Life will be announced in the coming weeks. Reach out to Kimberly or Brent if you would like to join in the celebration. Email: Kimaa@aol.com.

VACATION READING—Lifelong Beverly Hills resident, 6-year-old Trinity Bell had The Courier as her constant companion on a recent trip to Grand Cayman Island. While there she snorkeled for the first time and kissed a stingay for good luck. Trinity is starting first grade at Good Shepherd Catholic School.

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Home Billed As Largest In Hollywood Hills Hits The Market At $43.9 Million

By Victoria Talbot A home that is said to be the largest in the Hollywood Hills at 20,058 square feet, hit the market at $43.9 million this week, represented by listing broker Jason Oppenheim, president of The Oppenheim Group and David Parnes and James Harris at the Agency.

With five bedrooms and nine baths, the house has all the features that have come to be expected in luxury homes in Los Angeles, along with its own special surprises.

Features include an executive office suite, showcase kitchen and butler’s kitchen, contemporary game room, state-of-the-art theatre, an auto showroom, nightclub, and a wellness center, including a steam room, hot and cold plunge pools, gym and massage room.

The spacious master suite highlights an oversized walk-in dressing room imported from Lake Como, Italy plus terrace with private spa.

A 163-foot infinity pool in a wrap-around deck features a bar, lounge and fire pit for grand entertaining, which culminates in a 12foot tall waterfall that ends in an atrium terrace.

Smart house technology allows for the smooth operation of features such as sliding glass doors operated by a cell phone, including a 15-foot

outdoor television that rises from the ground with horizontal and vertical rotation visible from every room in the house. A glass elevator and curated wine cellar are completed by the audio-video integrated security.

The home is the first ground-up structure by South African architecture firm SOATA Architecture & Design. The firm has established itself in 40 countries worldwide and in Los Angeles; they have projects in Bel-Air and Trousdale, as well as the Hollywood Hills.

Noted for their contemporary architecture, the firm has taken a page from the City’s mid-century modern design. “Inspired by the groundbreaking Los Angeles case Above: The aerial view of 4804 Hillside Ave. Below: The interior of the home. study houses from the 1940s, the designs have evolved to exude the qualities of contemporary requirements and lifestyles,” according to their website.

The interior design was executed

by Mary Ta of MASS Beverly, a Los Angeles-based luxury home showroom. It features more than 32,000 feet of limestone flooring and walls with contemporary furniture that never competes with the spectacular views, from Santa Catalina Island to Downtown LA, making it turn-key ready for the right owner in a slowing luxury home market.

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ARTS & E N T E RTA I N M ENew NT Memoir Details Resident Adrienne Rubin’s Trials And Triumphs In The Jewelry Business

CELEBRATING A ‘PLAZA FOR ALL’—County Supervisors (from right) Sheila Kuehl and Hilda Solis present Music Center Board Chair Lisa Specht (left) and Music Center CEO Rachel Moore with a special commemoration for the grand re-opening of The Music Center Plaza on Wednesday. The event culminated a 20-month, $41 million renovation that turned the newly renovated, accessible outdoor urban space into a “The Plaza for All.” The award-winning L.A.-based multi-disciplinary architecture and design firm, Rio Clementi Hale Studios (RCH Studios) helmed the Plaza re-design. In its efforts to update the infrastructure and construct five new buildings—The Lisa Specht Welcome Center, permanent public restroom and three dining locations (Abernethy’s, the Mullin Wine Bar and Go Get ‘Em Tiger)—RHC Studios raised the Plaza to a single level and reconfigured the Grand Avenue stairs, which are now the Terri and Jerry Kohl Stairs, allowing for more open space during public events and performances. To create a “front door” for The Music Center on Grand Avenue, RCH Studios’ design broadened The Music Center’s pedestrian entry and added two escalators to take guests up from Grand Avenue to the Plaza. The re-opening also includes the relocation of the Jacques Lipchitz “Peace on Earth” sculpture, now located along Hope Street next to the Welcome Center.

By Steve Simmons Longtime Beverly Hills resident Adrienne Rubin was a wife with a successful lawyer husband, two children and a beautiful home. But she wanted more than being a part-time French teacher.

After getting a toehold in the jewelry business selling a line of Mexican silver to boutiques including local Gearys, she built her business to eventually own and operate the popular Beverly Hills boutique Avanti Fine Jewelry, for 15 years on Bedford and 10 years on Brighton.

Rubin chronicles her adventures in her new memoir, Diamond and Scoundrels: My Life in the Jewelry Business, available for pre-order online now and in stores on Sept. 17.

The first launch event will be at a private Beverly Hills home on Oct. 11. (For information contact Rubin at adriennerubin@mac.com).

Rubin describes the book “as an exciting story of a young naive woman who decides to enter a man’s world.”

She becomes a jewelry importer who sells wholesale to jewelry stores around the country. As she expands and

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upgrades her business with diamonds and gemstones, she meets a lot of rascals along the way. She trusts them unwittingly for a long time and gets in and out of hot water again and again.

In her action-filled 72,000 -word book, Rubin also discusses how she fought the prejudice against women in the wholesale side of the business, stumbling often as she negotiated her way through the doubtful ethics prevalent in the male-dominated industry. “The bad guys would scam me at their peril,” Rubin reveals.

Offering an insider’s look into an often secretive field,

Rubin says: “Most of the time I was merely finding items to sell, purchasing here and offering them there. I had ‘an eye’ for putting together a new collection every year and figuring out future trends to make a profit.”

Interestingly Rubin reveals she is not a woman “who collects, covets or wants more fine jewelry or had a need to show off. I love that jewelry can be a symbol of love, respect and caring. Well-made jewelry can enhance a face or an outfit.”

“My goal is that the reader will find something to pursue with passion, rather than stay at home, shop, go to lunch with friends, and live vicariously through the success of others,” says Rubin.

She has also endeavored to make the book about much more than a woman striving in a glamorous yet sometimes dangerous business, but an expression of her philosophy.

“I know this: to find true fulfillment, everyone needs to find a voice, a place in the world, and pursue it with passion and all the energy one can muster, in spite of obstacles that will surely come along the way, and in so doing, become the person each of us wants to be.”

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Red Cross Urges Blood Donations To Help Children Kick Cancer This September September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and the American Red Cross encourages eligible donors to give blood to support kids, teens and young adults battling cancer, as well as others in need of transfusions.

The National Cancer Institute estimated that more than 15,000 children and adolescents in the U.S. would be diagnosed with cancer last year.

Childhood cancer patients may need blood products on a regular basis during chemotherapy, surgery or treatment for complications.

Cancer and cancer treatments can put patients at risk for low red blood cell and platelet counts. Some types of chemotherapy can damage bone marrow, lowering the production of red blood cells and platelets. Cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma attack the bone marrow as well.

Blood and platelet transfusions can enable patients to receive critical treatments needed to fight and survive cancer.Location donation opportunities include:

• Culver City—Noon-6 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 3, Julian Dixon Library, 4975 Overland Ave.; 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Wednesday, Sept.

4, Symantec Corporation, 900 Corporate Pointe and 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Thursday, Sept. 12, Veteran Memorial Complex, 4117 Overland Ave. • Los Angeles—9 a.m.-3 p.m, Sunday, Sept. 1, Westwood Presbyterian Church, 10822 Wilshire Blvd.

• Santa Monica—9 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 31, American Red Cross Santa Monica Chapter, 1450 11th St. and 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Friday, Sept 6, Lionsgate, 2700 Colorado Ave. A blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identification are required at check-in. Those 17 weighing at least 110 pounds and in generally good health may be eligible to donate.

To make an appointment to donate, download the free Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit RedCrossBlood.org or call 800-RED CROSS (800-733-2767).

47th Annual Cancer Convention Set For Labor Day Weekend At The Hilton Glendale Alternative therapies will be highlighted at the 47th annual Cancer Convention with lectures, movies and exhibits from 8 a.m.-9 p.m., Sept. 1-3 at the Hilton Los Angeles North, 100 W. Glenoaks Blvd., Glendale.

The emphasis will be on the prevention and control of cancer through nutrition, tests and nutrition-based, non-toxic therapies.

Speakers include medical doctors, researchers, nutritionists and authors (among them Dr. Ronald Klatz, M.D; Frank Cousineau, Rick Hill, Ed Griffin, Peter Starr and Joel Wallich).

The 30 lecturers will offer presentations suitable for novices to experts, geared for students, family members,

patients, researchers, nutritionists, doctors and nurses (continuing education credits available).

The 60 exhibitors in the convention hall will be available for one-on-one conversations.

A special featured segment will center around recovered cancer patients with their encouraging reports.

Doctors will take part in a symposium on Tuesday, The Cancer Control Society of L.A. is once again hosting the event. For reservations at $50 per day and information, call 323-663-7801.

For updated information, visit www.cancercontrolsociety.com.

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L.A. Business Journal Names CHLA’s Viviano Heathcare Executive Of The Year Children’s Hospital Los Angeles’ (CHLA) Paul Viviano was named Executive of the Year for Leadership of a Medical Center or Hospital at the Los Angeles Business Journal’s annual Healthcare Leadership Forum, earlier this month at the L.A. Grand Hotel.

Viviano was honored for his leadership and the enterprise’s commitment to delivering unsurpassed patient- and family-centered care of the highest quality.

Viviano joined CHLA as president/ CEO as well as a member of the board of trustees in 2015. Viviano has enjoyed three decades of success leading academic medical centers, for-profit health care organizations and nonprofit community hospitals.

Before joining CHLA, Viviano served as the chief executive officer of UC San Diego Health System and associate vice chancellor of UC San Diego Health Sciences. There he oversaw the entire $1.7 billion UC San Diego health care enterprise, which included leading-edge medical care; training of medical students, residents and fellows; responsibility for the faculty practice plan and patient care delivery for two teaching hospitals—UC San Diego Medical Center Hillcrest and UC San Diego Thornton Hospital—with a combined licensed capacity of 563 beds and staffed by more than 9,000 employees and 1,300 faculty members.

Before his work at UCSD, Viviano served as board chairman/CEO of

Alliance HealthCare Services—a f o r- p r o f i t , publicly t r a d e d organization that serves as the nation’s largest provider of advanced outpatient diagnostic imaging services Paul Viviano and a national leader in delivery of radiation oncology services.

Preceding his role at Alliance, Viviano served as president and chief executive officer of USC University Hospital and USC/Norris Cancer Hospital, a private research and teaching hospital designated comprehensive cancer center with more than 200 basic scientists, physicians and faculty members.

Additionally, Viviano held various hospital and regional chief executive positions within the St. Joseph Health System in Orange, California, including Health System president/chief operating officer.

He’s also served as president/CEO of Long Beach Community Hospital and CEO of Los Alamitos Medical Center.

Resident’s New Book Details Lessons From A Lifelong Spiritual Journey

By Steve Simmons Resident Kathalynn Turner Davis has tools and lessons she wants to share. And she’s packed them into her new book KISS ME SWAMI: The Spiritual Education of a Beauty Queen.

The new memoir takes Turner Davis from Hollywood in the ‘60s and ‘70s, front-row center in an exploding sexual revolution, to living in the famed Dakota building in NYC where she counted Leonard Bernstein and John Lennon as neighbors; her lifelong friendship with comedy legend Garry Marshall; finding her way through the maze of the entertainment industry where she also had close encounters with Troy Donahue, kissed Elvis, and learned how to eat spaghetti from Frank Sinatra; to her explorations into the Science of Mind and the Sedona Method which deepened her spiritual awareness, and led her to become a life coach and spiritual counselor.

One of the main messages of the book, Turner Davis says is that “the answers are inside of us. We all have our own guru or swami inside of us; you have to always study and learn.”

Turner Davis also writes of the importance of “letting go.” Hanging on to emotions like sadness, fear, anger or pride “locks us from happiness from being authentic,” Turner Davis says.

“Our authentic selves are always within us. It never goes away, but it sometimes does get buried or covered up with false beliefs and programming that blocks us from expressing ourselves.

“And as we become more of our true selves, we are able to discern what is right for us and take the pressure to con-

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form off,” Turner Davis says.

“Most of my journey has been doing what I could to overcome the negativity deep within myself.

My journey has shown me that all of us can let go of these limiting beliefs. It’s not

easy, but it can be done.”

Launching her acting career, Turner Davis’ first L.A. audition landed her a role in the movie The Grasshopper and began a lifelong friendship with director Garry Marshall.

But at 23, Kathalynn, wanting to dig deeper, ditched Hollywood for New York City where she studied under legendary late acting teacher Stella Adler.

“She was the greatest teacher I ever had,” says Turner Davis. “She was an absolute genius about looking inside yourself. Her script preparation class taught you the most about working with people. She was absolutely magnificent and she was beautiful.

“And she loved actors and felt being an actor was the ultimate responsibility,” reports Turner Davis. “She made you feel special because you were an actor.”

Turner Davis’ first book signing will be at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 5 at Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood.

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Pittard, who served honorably in the United States Marines, claims that al-Thani threatened to kill him for defying his orders to murder an unarmed American man and woman and for helping another person held captive by the Sheikh to escape his Doha compound. He says he was then fired for his refusal “to engage in criminal activity,” according to the legal documents.

Th second plaintiff, Allende, a Los Angeles-based paramedic, scaled an 18-foot wall to escape the Qatari palace compound after he was allegedly threatened at gunpoint and held against his will, shattering his foot.

The two men traveled with al-Thani in Los Angeles, London and Doha. As employees, says the lawsuit, they were required to accompany him wherever he went, often without breaks, working sometimes 60 -96 hours per week providing medical care and security supervision.

Like something dreamed up by John le Carré, the lawsuit reads like a novel about a clash of cultures and privilege that placed two American citizens who were employed by the sheikh in inappropriate and dangerous circumstances.

Pittard was employed from Sept. 2017 through July 2018, as the sheikh’s director of security and as a senior defense consultant.

He met al-Thani in 2015 and the two began a discussion regarding his defense company, Geo Strategic Defense Solutions, or GSDS, which eventually led to his employment as security chief and as a private defense contractor.

Allende was employed in the sheikh’s entourage from Oct. 2017 through February 2018 as a paramedic, according to the lawsuit. He was hired to monitor the sheikh for an undisclosed medical issue.

A frequent visitor to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel where there is a thriving community of Arab visitors, it was on one of those trips that the sheikh had a dispute with a man from Compton.

“Pittard was solicited by Defendant Khalid for the murder of two individuals. In approximately late September of 2017 and November of 2017, in Los Angeles, California, Defendant Khalid asked Pittard to murder a male and a female … Pittard refused to execute these unlawful requests,” reads the complaint.

Pittard refused, using diplomacy to settle the problem. The sheikh, he says, became irate.

Pittard again refused.

“He asked me to kill a female and take her out in the desert,” said Pittard. “He believed she was a threat to his reputation and security.”

Weeks later, the entourage deplaned to Doha where the sheikh has his Qatari residence.

Pittard was employed as alThani’s United States Director of Security and as a Senior Defense Consultant when they were in Doha, conducting advanced counter-assault training and providing law enforcement instruction and weapons training. While there, he was forced to work 60-70 hours a week without time off; he was on call 24/7 for the sheikh.

In Qatar at that time, an ex-patriot was required to secure an exit visa from their host in order to leave the country. Without it, that person would not be permitted to leave. The law was relaxed in Nov. 2018.

Therefore, by law, that discretion was held by Sheikh Khalid.

According to Pittard, an American in the entourage was “held without his consent.”

“Approximately July 7-10, 2018, Defendant Khalid and his private Qatari security staff held an American citizen against [his] will on at least two occasions,” said the lawsuit.

“At Defendant Khalid’s request, the American citizen was arrested and jailed at the Onaiza Police Station in Doha, Qatar. Pittard and the United States Embassy came to the aide…and helped the American citizen reach a point of safety, and eventually, safely depart.”

In a wild story that captures the imagination, Pittard tells a tale of a two-week pursuit. The young man had intermittent contact with his concerned parents, while Pittard, seeking a way out of the country for him, offered protection to his fellow American.

“I hid him in Doha, motel to motel,” he said, “in opsec (operational security) mode.

Moving… They were trying to track us down.”

The young man ultimately agreed to a meeting with Sheikh Khalid to get an exit visa.

“He was kidnapped,” said Pittard. “He was pushed into the vehicle.”

The man was arrested under the Sheikh’s orders by the local police, which set off negotiations with the American Embassy.

They, “got physical with the American,” he said, “… pushed him into a vehicle and punched him in the back of the head. He was arrested and charged with something trumped up.” Pittard communicated the situation to the embassy and to the man’s parents. Finally, after a day later after a series of tense international negotiations, the young man was escorted back to the US safely, said Pittard.

When the sheikh learned that his captive was free, says the lawsuit, he “demanded that Pittard return the American citizen and provide information

about the [American’s] whereabouts to Defendant Khalid or Pittard ‘would pay the price.’”

Threats from al-Thani escalated. He told Pittard, “that he would kill him, bury his body in the desert and kill Pittard’s family… Pittard was threatened with bodily harm and his work equipment, electronics, personal belongings and medication were stolen.” His employment was terminated under duress. “Brandishing a Glock 26 firearm, which he tapped repeatedly during his exchange with Pittard,” he was forced to sign the employment documents.

Allende was hired in Los Angeles in Oct. 2017, to “provide immediate emergency medical care, vital sign monitoring, and mobile medical emergency services,” said the complaint.

Beside “minimal meal breaks,” Allende worked sometimes 20-36 hours straight.

According to the complaint, “on or about Dec. 17, 2017, after approximately three straight weeks of work and a 36-hour sleepless binge by Defendant Khalid, Allende requested a day off, to which the Defendant Khalid agreed.

During this 36-hour sleepless binge, Allende was forced to stay awake…As Allende was leaving…[he] was stopped by Defendant Khalid’s assigned security Amiri Guard… Allende was told that, at the direction of Defendant Khalid, he was not allowed to leave,” though he had been granted a day off.

The armed guard told Allende that “Khalid had changed his mind and that Allende was no longer able to leave the premises. Allende

informed the guard that he was leaving with or without the guard’s permission, to which the guard replied, ‘No, you are not leaving,’ and directed Allende to immediately return.”

“Fearing for his life, Allende escaped… by jumping over a five-foot rod-iron fence, and then, using a security dog’s kennel to scale over an eighteen-foot perimeter wall.

Allende, knowing the risk that he may sustain serious injuries… to maintain personal security and safety, and escape from the dangerous and threatening situation… jumped from the top of the Majlis perimeter wall to the concrete walkway.”

Allende sustained serious injuries, requiring immediate medical attention and surgery in Doha. When he was healthy enough to travel, but still on crutches, he was terminated from his employment.

“We are in the process of serving Sheikh Khalid al-Thani, KH Holdings, and Geo Strategic,” said attorney Rebecca Lynn Castaneda. “Two of Sheikh’s attorneys, one in a personal capacity and one as a United States KH Holding corporate attorney, have refused service here in the United States. There are many ways to serve process, and we are just getting started. We have not had contact or any response from the defendants since the case was filed. Once served, they will have 21 days from that date to respond.”

Case No.: 8:19-CV-1784 filed in the United States District Court Middle District of Florida by Castaneda, is seeking $33 million in damages for allegedly violating the “Fair Labor Standards Act

(FLSA), Florida Labor Law (FLL), Florida Constitution Article 10 §§24 et. seq., and Florida Statute Title 31 §§ 448 et. seq., and the California Code, Labor Code (CLC) LAB §§ 1182, 1194 et. seq. as well as the supporting Floridan and California State Department of Labor Regulations for violations of overtime wage requirements, and notice and recordkeeping requirements.”

Allende is bringing a claim of “retaliation under the FLSA, and a claim of personal injury under California law”; Pittard is bringing a claim of “retaliation and claims of misuse of business information and tortious interference of a contract and business relations under FLL and Florida law.”

The suit claims that the defendants “engaged in unlawful conduct pursuant to a policy of minimizing labor costs and denying employees compensation by knowingly violating the FLSA, FLL and CLC” and that the defendants “caused personal injury and later retaliated against Plaintiffs, terminating them from employment and intentionally interfering in a business relationship and damaging a contractual agreement,” between Pittard and others.

The case has made headliines in the Arab world.

Two sworn statements exist, reports confirming the events that took place, that should in the State Department reports. FOIA requests have been filed. The two lawsuits were joined as a one federal claim, said Castaneda, to show a “pattern of behavior,” and to get more favorable legal considerations.

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ics and competition in adaptive sports and activities including track & field, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair tennis, swimming and archery.

Additional programs, clinics and events throughout the year cover an even wider range of adaptive sports and are open to people with physical differences. The organization also supports emerging schoolbased programs through adaptive sports equipment rental, coaching education and athlete training. To learn more, visitt www.angelcitysports.org.

The success of the Games since its inception has resulted in significant and steady growth; this year: over 400 athletes participated (30% increase from 2018); over 500 volunteers supported the event; 33 Paralympians attended; 16 Paralympians participated as athletes; 36 veterans participated; 47 youth athletes qualified for Adaptive Sports USA Junior National Championships in 129 events; 36 U.S. states represented (90% increase from 2018); 4 countries represented (USA, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico); a 72-year age range (youngest athlete was 2-years-old & the oldest was 74-years-old); 117 Adaptive Track and Field USA

National Records set; and 1 USA Swimming American Record set. The 2019 Games offered seven adaptive sports clinics and competitions (Track & Field, Swimming, Wheelchair Tennis, Archery, Wheelchair Basketball, Sitting Volleyball, and Table Tennis).

Five winners will be named on Oct. 2 among the ten finalists. Winners will receive a $10,000 grant and national media exposure for their efforts, including a feature in the November/December issue of REALTOR Magazine. The winners also receive travel expenses to the 2019 Realtors Conference & Expo in San Francisco to accept the award with thousands of their peers.

The remaining five finalists will receive $2,500 in grant recognition for their work.

The public is invited to vote for their favorite of the 10 finalists. The top three vote getters will win bonus grants of $2,500, $1,250 and $1,250 respectively, for their nonprofit organizations. Last year’s Web Choice Favorite generated over 165,000 votes.

Votes can be cast at www.realtor.com/goodneighbor through Sept. 28.

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Adaptive sports captured Soomekh’s attention after her son, Ezra, 14, was born with missing bones in one leg and just one finger on one of his hands. The condition, called congenital limb differences, affects six out of every 20,000 kids annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ezra’s leg was amputated and replaced with a prosthesis when he was a toddler.

Angel City Sports provides year-round adaptive sports opportunities in Southern California for children, adults and veterans with physical differences and impairments. The non-profit organization is focused on encouraging physical activity for people with disabilities and advancing the adaptive sports movement regionally and nationally in collaboration with programs such as US Paralympics, Adaptive Sports USA, USA Volleyball, US Tennis Association and USA Track and Field. Debuting in 2015 and currently hosted at UCLA, the annual four-day Angel City Games features clin-

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Kiki Ebsen onstage with a photo of her father Buddy Ebsen, cast as the original Tim Woodsman in The Wizard of Oz. Photo by Cliff Lipson

Singer, songwriter, actress and recording artist Kiki Ebsen will tell the story of her actor father’s 70-year career in To Dad With Love: A Tribute To Buddy Ebsen, Sept. 6-22 as a guest production at Theatre West, 3333 Cahuenga Blvd.

West, L.A. Ebsen is best known for his TV roles, as the sidekick George Russell in Davy Crockett, as Jed Clampett in The Beverly Hillbillies, and as the title role in Barnaby Jones.

Ebsen’s Film appearances included Breakfast at Tiffany’s opposite Audrey Hepburn, Captain January opposite Shirley Temple, The Broadway Melody of 1936 and as the original Tin Woodsman in The Wizard of Oz, now celebrating its 80th anniversary.

Performances will be Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.

Tickets, $25, $20 for students and seniors, are available online at http://buddyebsentribute.com and www.theatrewest.org or by phone at 323-851-7977.

• • • • • Antir-acist activist and the founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, Ibram X. Kendi will present the inaugura presentation in the Soraya Nazarian Equity & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series at 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 9 in the Joanie Martin Community Room at Crossroads School’s Norton Campus, 1634, 18th St., Santa Monica.

Two rock ’n’ roll pioners will take the stage together for the first time when Base Hologram presents Roy Orbison And Buddy Holly The Rock ’N’ Roll Dream Tour at 9 p.m., Roy Orbison Friday, Sept. 27 at the Saban Theatre, 8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills.

The holographic concert experience will feature re-mastered audio from both music legends alongside a live band and back up singers.

Orbison’s first hit was his own composition Only The Lonely, which climbed to a No. 2 spot on the Billboard Singles chart.

Between 1960 and 1965, Orbison recorded nine top 10 hits and another top 10 that broke into the top 40. These included Running Scared, Crying, It’s Over and Oh, Pretty Woman.

Orbison was part of the all-star superKendi is the a author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and How to Be an Antiracist.

Ibram X. Kendi The lecture series, part of the school’s Equity & Justice Institute, was established to help stimulate dialogue among students, educators and community leaders committed to tackling the problems of racism, poverty, war, environmental degradation, educational inequities, religious persecution, genocide and other forms of injustice.

group, along with Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Jeff Lynn, and was induced into the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Orbison died of a heart attack in D e c e m b e r, Buddy Holly 1988.

Holly wrote his breakthrough hit, That’ll Be The Day, in 1957. Between August 1957 and August 1958 Buddy Holly & The Crickets charted seven different top 40 singles, including Well All Right, Words Of Love, Peggy Sue, Maybe Baby, It’s So Easy and more.

Holly died in a private plane crash, along with entertainers Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, at 22.

Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets range from $50-$90.

For more information, visit https://wheremusicmeetsthesoul.com/saba n-beverly-hills/events/

Visit www.xrds.org/equityandjustice for more information on the free event.

• • • • • Fans of beloved song stylist Nancy Wilson will love Debbie Joyce’s show at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 11 at Feinstein’s at Vitello’s, 4349 Tujunga Ave., Studio City.

Who else could do a better performance of “The Definitive Interpretation of the Nancy Wilson Songbook” than Nancy’s own niece, longtime Beverly Hills resident Joyce.

Joyce will perform ballads, showtunes and more associated with Wilson, accompanied by the Tony Campodonico Trio with Campodonico on keyboards, Paul Morin on bass and Jon Stuart on drums.

For reservations, call 818-769-0905.

Visit https://www.eventbrite.com/o/feinsteinsat-vitellos-17976072805 for more information.

• • • • • Pittance Chamber Music, known for featuring resident artists of the LA Opera pit and stage, will open its 2019-20 season with “Nate’s World” at 3 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 15 in Barrett Hall at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music, 100 N. Hill Ave. Nate Farrington, who has performed in the bass Nate Farrington sections of America’s finest orchestras, will be joined by good friend Teddy Abrams, music director of the Louisville Orchestra on piano, and LA Opera Concertmaster Roberto Cani on violin.

Farrington, on double bass and guitar, plus singing, plans to take the audience Teddy Abrams ”on a musical safari” with music by composers ranging from Haydn to Hank Williams.

Tickets are $35, $20 seniors. Visit www.PittanceChamberMusic.org to purchase and for more information.

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Beverly Hills Salary Survey - What It All Means Note: the majority of City employees work a 9/80 (nine eighty hour days every two weeks) or 4/10 (four 10 hour days per week), meaning they get off either every Monday/Friday, or every other Monday/Friday.

PERS: Public Employee Retirement System. Beverly Hills grants employees retirement benefits equal to 3-percent of their highestever compensation multiplied by each year of service to a maximum of 30 years.

“Legacy” CALpers members (those in the PERS system prior to January 2013) may retire at 55, while new employees after January 2013 can retire at 62. An employee with 30 years service receives 90-percent of highest pay, plus health benefits, plus cost-of-living adjustments.

“PERSABLE Pay” is pay used to calculate annual retirement pay.

CalPERS requires an annual contribution of 8-percent of the employees salary toward their pension fund. City employees will now begin paying their full 8 percent contribution, in accordance

with new CalPERS regulations, but received a pay raise to “make up” for the burden of having to contribute to their own retirement.

•Retro PERS/Retro Non-PERS: “Retro pay happens when after an employee group contract ends, sometimes it takes a while to come to terms on a new contract. Once that new contract is in place, if it was agreed to pay any increase retroactive to the last contract end date, that generates the retro pay.” City CFO Don Rhoads told The Courier last year.

•Cafeteria Plan: An employee health benefits plan that allows an employee to chose from a variety of benefit plans. What the employee doesn’t spend on a health plan, they get back in the form of additional wages. This column is what the employee gets back after money is not spent.

•Leave Payoff: When an employee has an excess amount of vacation time, beyond what is needed on the books, it can be paid off in a lump amount.

•PERS Overtime vs.

Overtime: Some overtime, mostly public safety, falls under PERS rules, while other overtime doesn’t.

•Pay for Performance: “It’s a program for our management, professional and executive folks based on performance, goals and objectives that are set up at the beginning of the year.

They are evaluated at the end of the year and depending on how well they met those goals and objectives, they would qualify for some amount of pay for performance, which can be all the way from one percent to 10 percent of a total pool of dollars. It’s the closest thing we have in the government sector to performance plans and that sort of thing.” - City CFO Don Rhoads.

•Merit/Bonus: If an employee does something “particularly meritorious”, according to Rhoads, there is a provision where a bonus can be given.

•Other Pays: Generally falls under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which allows an employee

to receive funds in a different category while they are out on personal leave.

• D e f e r r e d Compensation: A matching deferred contribution between the City and Employee, where the employee contributes a certain amount of their paycheck, tax-deferred, which is matched by the City.

•Administrative Leave: Rhoads says: “Generally speaking, it’s used in cities for management employees.

Management doesn’t get overtime pay, so it’s typically used for those employees in recognition of the fact that they don’t get overtime pay.

It basically says ‘we’ll give you a certain number of hours per year that you can use administratively.’ It can be used much like vacation time, or can be used for whatever personal leave they have.”

•Explanation of the L e av e / Va c a t i o n / S i ck Categories: Rhodes says: “These hours don’t add any additional cost to the other columns. The only way they add cost is if someone doesn’t use all their leave at the

end of the year, so they want to cash it out. That would generate additional cost outlay, which shows in the ‘leave payouts’ column. If someone used their leave time, it would be recorded in the salary column.”

•Total Cost of Employee: All forms of income each City employee receives combined with the retirement, health care and deferred compensation benefits the City contributes to provide a more accurate look at the total cost of a City employee to the taxpayer.

•RHS Health: Is an employee Retirement Health Savings plan.

•Bargaining Groups: Listed as “Bargain” on the chart, this displays the “bargaining group” that each City employee is lumped into. The bargaining groups for City employees are as follows: Confidential, Management & Professional, MEA (Technical Services), PartTime, Police Management, Safety Support, Supervisors, Sworn Fire and Sworn Police.

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back at a later time.

The Master Plan remains conceptual and the architects of Johnson and Favaro will provide a road map for the redevelopment over time of the 17acre La Cienega Park and Recreation Complex in Beverly Hills. The plan provides for 12acres of ball fields and park open space, a community center, recreation center, aquatics center and tennis center. A key feature of the plan is a platform built over La Cienega Boulevard to both expand and unite the park --of which 10 acres reside on the east side and 7 acres on the west side-across the street. The plan includes above grade and below grade parking structures accommodating approximately 600 vehicles on both sides of La Cienega Boulevard. A subregional storm water retention facility will reside below the ball fields.

Phase 1 would include a new community center with an outdoor terrace, three-court gymnasium, storage and bleachers with support spaces to accommodate basketball in a multi-purpose functional space. A tennis center will include eight indoor all-weather courts, eight rooftop courts and a pro-shop and a pre-

school with a drop-off area and playground.

There will also be an aquatic center with both a family recreation pool and a fitness pool, a pool deck and support features.

The plan calls for a tennis center garage that is one level with 180 spaces, as well as a community center garage that is two levels with 250 spaces.

There will also be an elevated park expansion acting as a bridge over La Cienega Boulevard which will act as a raised extension of the park

and accommodation for the infrastructure.

Phase 1 construction, including demolition, infrastructure and site work, will cost an estimated $125 million.

Phase 2, which encompasses the east side of La Cienega Park, will include the demolition of the existing community center to create unprogrammed open space.

Recreation and Parks commissioners asked that their concerns would be conveyed in detail in the staff report to City Council.

Commission Chair Alissa Roston was concerned about parking, as was Vice Chair Julian Javor. Javor said that the parking above ground is a “waste of space,” and that, for a fraction more of the cost per space – they should consider undergrounding the parking.

Undergrounding would also reduce concerns about the height of the structure. He also suggested that the City might want to consider a Park and Ride component, consistent with the incoming La Cienega Purple Line station. Javor said that he was not convinced that having a Metro station in the neighborhood was necessarily tantamount to a “revitalization” of the area. He suggested that the area designated as above ground parking, if it were undergrounded, could be used for concessions.

Acknowledging that the design for the building is basically just conceptual at this point, he also suggested that the Council consider a design that would blend in with the historic architecture of the Beverly Hills Water Treatment Plant, currently home of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study, built in 1928 by the City in the Spanish Colonial Revival Style.

Other concerns were

expressed by Commissioners Susan Mishler, Judi Fenton and Amie Sherry, who was installed as a commissioner at the meeting just this week.

Mishler was concerned that there would not be enough green space, which will be part of the Phase 2 demolition of the existing structures and reconfiguration of the ball fields on the east side of La Cienega Boulevard. Fenton expressed her concerns that, by splitting the project into two phases, the timeline to completion would be longer. She also wanted to ensure that there was enough space for the Duplicate Bridge Club, which has a robust and growing membership, with activity scheduled seven days a week.

Finally, Sherry wanted to know how the City’s independent cost estimator lined up with the figures brought forward by Johnson and Favaro. Jim Favaro, who made the presentation at the meeting, explained that the costs were about 1 – 1.5% apart and that they were figured independently. In addition, said Favaro, the two are competing for accuracy.

There will be another town hall meeting on the park project at 6 p.m. Sept. 25, prior to sending the recommendations to the City Council in October.

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

Gil Seton

Shelly Sterling Carole Wells Doheny Murray Fischer

Mitzi Gaynor

Mark Harmon

Richard Gere

Racquel Welch

Dr. Charles Aronberg Cameron Diaz

Joan Mangum “This could be the start of a beautiful friendship” was the closing line of the classic Warner Bros.’ film Casablanca. Now almost 80 years later, the Friends of Robinson Gardens are recreating Rick’s Café Américain as the theme for its annual “Patron Gala” on Saturday, Sept. 14.

Dining under the stars on the historic estate’s “great lawn,” the evening will feature a menu reminiscent of the time and be complete with live “Play it again, Sam” music, surprise performers and all kinds of attractions.

Co-chairing the event are Kerstin Royce and Patty Elias Rosenfeld, who announced that Julia and Dr. Andrew Klein (pictured, left) will be honored with the Spirit of Beverly Hills Award. Julia is a past president of the Friends of Robinson Gardens while her husband Andy is director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center at Cedars Sinai.

Visit: info@robinsongardens.org or phone 310-550-2068. ******

Bob Newhart

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William Devane

Charlie Sheen

Keanu Reeves

BIRTHDAYS—Celebrating are Dr. Charles Aronberg, Cameron Diaz, Elizabeth Ashley, Timothy Bottoms and Warren Buffett (Aug.30); Carole Wells Doheny, Warren Berlinger, Richard Gere, Nancy Jones and Itzhak Perlman (Aug. 31); Lily Tomlin, Dr. Phil McGraw, Gloria Estefan, Gil Seton, and Dee Dee Myers (Sept. 1); Shelly Sterling, Salma Hayek, Mark Harmon, and Keanu Reeves (Sept. 2); Valerie Perrine, Pauline Collins and Charlie Sheen (Sept. 3); Mitzi Gaynor and Judith Ivey (Sept. 4); William Devane, Bob Newhart, Michael Keaton, Bob Fields, Murray Fischer, Carol Lawrence and Raquel Welch (Sept. 5)

CROWN JEWELS BARBEQUE–Members of the Crown Jewels were hosted at an end of summer barbeque last Sunday in the Brentwood home of Grace Scherrer. The hostess (third from left) is joined by Shana Forman, Marianne Berman, and Bernardo Puccio.

Orin Kennedy, Joni Alpert with Lowell Saifer, Art and Paula Edelman, Shana Forman, Marlene Kreedman, Ray and Eleanor Moscatel, Madeline Gussman with Roger Kollias, Marci Weiner, Linda Schwartz, Darlene Prijatel with Michael Fokolich, Phyllis Abrams with Harvey Grant, Carol Uri Leveque, Elaine Weinstock with Harlan Feldman, et al. ******

CALIFORNIA SPIRIT–The American Cancer Society’s benefit at Sony Studios honored actor Patrick Dempsey (pictured below). Above, from left): host Antonia Lofaso; event honorary chairs Phil Rosenthal and Sherry Lansing; event co-chairs JB Wilhelm and Joy Davis; and Jeff Klaas, EVP of American Cancer Society’s West Region.

Photos by Fuse House

The American Cancer Society’s “California Spirit 34 Food and Wine Benefit” at Sony Pictures Studios honored actor/activist Patrick Dempsey (The Art Of Racing In The Rain) with the 2019 Impact Award for his inspiring work in the fight against cancer through The Dempsey Center in Maine.

Hosted by celebrated chef/restauranteur Antonia Lofaso, honorary chairs Sherry Lansing and Phil Rosenthal welcomed the crowd. Actor Harry Lennix spoke passionately about the mission of the American Cancer Society while June Quan served as emcee for the benefit with proceeds supporting the society’s groundbreaking research, free patient and caregiver services, and early detection and prevention education programs. Visit: www.calspirit.org or call 800-227-2345. ****** It was this past Sunday afternoon when members of the Crown Jewels, one of Beverly Hills noted fun groups, descended upon the Brentwood estate of Grace Scherrer to enjoy a fun barbecue party.

Among those on hand were Marianne Berman, Allison Clago, Roger and Gail Dauer, Helen Rosen with Don Kaufman, Enid Rom with Joel Davis, Caldwell Bogert, Peggy Crosby, Len and Ila Krane, Ronnie Kassorla, Marlene and Bob Ridgley, Joan Ashton, Sue Bass, Annie Lehrer, Ada Sands, Nan Smith, Bernardo Puccio,

Lily Tomlin

****** The Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Prevention will hold its “Summer Spectacular” Sept. 21 at The Beverly Hilton. The invite-only event celebrates the 14th year of the foundation, which has raised over $12 million for drug awareness and prevention, focused on highrisk communities.

Hosted by actress Eva Longoria with musical performances by Sheila E. and Pia Toscano, this year’s gala will bestow the Spirit of Sobriety Award upon actor/producer Will Arnett who has been very candid both personally and through his work on Flaked, about his sobriety.

Foundation creators Robert and Linell Shapiro will also present three full ride college scholarships and 10 $5,000 college scholarships to members of Brent’s Club, its educational drug prevention program.

Brent’s Club currently serves over 5,213 children through programs in 16 locations from Boyle Heights to Malibu.

Visit: www.brentshapiro .org.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRACE–A birthday party for popular author Grace Robbins was held at Villa Blanca on Camden Drive. Pictured (seated, from left): Marci Weiner, honoree Grace Robbins, Marcia Rosner, Gail Dauer, and Elaine Weiinstock; standing Linda Schwartz, Madeline Gussman, Paula Edelman, Joni Alpert, and Annie Lehrer.

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Jewish Community Foundation Awards $2 Million In Cutting Edge Grants

By John L. Seitz The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles has announced $2 million in grants to seven innovative, local initiatives focused on transforming the local Jewish community.

This year’s Cutting Edge Grant recipients will receive multi-year seed funding to address the critical needs such as increasing support for mental health and wellness services for college students; investing in young women’s professional development; empowering individuals with special needs as leaders; and building opportunities for faith communities to address the homelessness epidemic in Los Angeles, among others.

Foundation President/CEO Marvin I. Schotland stated: “This year’s Cutting Edge Grant recipients reflect our commitment to supporting social innovation as a pathway to empowering diverse voices and capabilities in our local area and cuts across our nation Collectively these grants draw attention to these challenges, and point a spotlight on the forward-thinking leaders who are tackling those issues. We look forward to watching these programs grow and thrive in the coming years and serve as models of innovation and community engagement.”

Recipients of 2019 Cutting Edge Grants include: • Community Legal Aid SoCal in partnership with the Jewish Divorce Assistance Center for Safe and Healthy Jewish Families Project –$300,000 over three years to provide supportive services, protective orders, and civil and religious divorce assistance to survivors of abuse, helping survivors and their families leave abusive situations.

• Jewish Graduate Student Initiative for Jewish Executive Women's Leadership–$270,000 over five years to empower female Jewish graduate students and young professionals by building an innovative leadership program, exclusively by women and for women, that includes mentorship, leadership training, education, and community service.

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• RespectAbility for Project Moses: LA Jewish Leaders with Disabilities Program –$300,000 over three years to mentor and empower college-educated Jewish individuals with disabilities to serve in leadership positions at Jewish organizations, and train organizations on inclusive organizational Marvin I. Schotland practices to ensure that all voices are represented and heard in the Los Angeles Jewish nonprofit community.

• Safe Parking LA for Jewish community safe lots will receive $300,000 over three years to engage synagogues and their members in providing safe parking options and supportive services for individuals living in their vehicles, deepening the importance of social justice work within the community while combating homelessness in Los Angele • SVARA Los Angeles will receive $260,000 over three years to launch the first queer-focused Talmud learning program in Los Angeles for the queer community and allies. SVARA’s immersive learning experiences will strengthen and empower the next generation of Jewish leaders and scholars.

• Trybal Gatherings LA will receive $270,000 over three years to provide immersive overnight Jewish camp experiences for Jews in their 20s and 30s, reaching disconnected young adults and building a pipeline to ongoing Jewish communal involvement.

• USC Hillel for The Bradley Sonnenberg Wellness Initiative will receive $300,000 over three years to support one of the first Hillels in the country to launch a health and wellness program that will provide Jewish college students with mental health services, wellness workshops, and individualized counseling and support.

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PLAY BALL! – Longtime residents Murray and Bunni Fischer took The Courier with them on a trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

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Halloween At Greystone Promises To Be A Scary Treat

By Victoria Talbot No mansion in Beverly Hills could be scarier at Halloween than the Doheny Greystone Mansion, with its infamous murder mystery, giant staircase, massive paneling, forbidding Tudor façade and vast, lonely grounds. Greystone’s magnificent beauty is perfectly haunting.

In the spirit of fun, Friends of Greystone has announced a Halloween celebration that is certain to illuminate your JackO-Lantern.

Sunday, Oct. 27, there will be a scary Spooktacular that will ring through the old rafters of the grand mansion.

The Other Reindeer Scarolers, dressed in their

Victorian Zombie best, will perform tunes certain to inspire goosebumps in a celebration of Halloween.

Zombie-like, the Scarolers put on a campy show, rife with humor and bad jokes, while performing all the Halloween classics, songs with spooky themes and “Christmas Carols” that have been spiced with bit of this and that from the witch’s caldron to scare up some spookier lyrics.

Guests will be encouraged to explore all the dark corners of the first floor of the Mansion.

A Halloween dessert buffet catered by Sweet Nothings Cake Shop will be served prior to the show. Costumes are encouraged … no full-face coverings may be

worn.

Get your tickets early; space is limited and first come, first serve.

Tickets may be purchased on the Friends of Greystone website at www.greystonemansion.org, where attendees can also download a registration form.

Admission is $55 for Friends of Greystone members and $65 for non-members.

Parking is complimentary; however, there is limited handicapped access. For more information on the event or membership, email friends@greystonemansion.org or call 310-2860119

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PUBLIC NOTICES RESOLUTION NO. 19-R-13244 RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS FIXING THE RATE OF TAXES TO PAY THE BONDED AND OTHER VOTER-APPROVED INDEBTEDNESS OF THE CITY FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2019/2020 WHEREAS, in 1974, voters approved a tax override to cover the costs of improved retirement benefits for public safety personnel.

WHEREAS, for Fiscal Year 2019-20, the expenditures for public safety retirement benefits that can be recovered by the property tax override equal $8,894,057.38.

NOW THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Beverly Hills does hereby resolve as follows: Section 1. Pursuant to law, there hereby is fixed and levied the rate of taxes, designated in the number of cents upon each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) of the assessed value to be taxed as assessed by the County Assessor and equalized by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles, as set forth in Section 2 hereof.

Section 2. Upon all of the taxable property in each of the taxing districts within the City of Beverly Hills, there hereby is fixed and levied the rate of taxes as follows: All Districts $0.024715 The rate so fixed is needed to raise the amount necessary to make annual payments for other indebtedness of the City approved by the voters prior to July 1, 1978.

Section 3.

The City Clerk shall cause this resolution to be published and circulated in the City within fifteen (15) days after its passage, in accordance with Section 36936.1 of the Government Code; shall certify to the adoption and publishing of this resolution and shall cause this resolution and his certification, together with proof of publication, to be entered in the Book of Resolutions of the Council of this City.

Adopted: August 20, 2019 JOHN A. MIRISCH Mayor of the City of Beverly Hills, California ATTEST: HUMA AHMED (SEAL) City Clerk Approved as to form: LAURENCE S. WIENER City Attorney Approved as to content: GEORGE CHAVEZ City Manager JEFF MUIR Director of Finance

APN: 4387-022-012 & 4387-002-024 T. S. NO. 19-04-1006 REF: KINGS RD NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 2924c(b)(1) please be advised of the following: IMPORTANT NOTICE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED MAY 1, 2018. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE P R O C E E D I N G AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On AUGUST 30, 2019 at 10:30 A.M. Citivest Financial Services, Inc. as duly appointed Trustee or Successor Trustee under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust recorded on 5/29/2018, as instrument number 20180528253 of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, State of California, Executed by JUDITH ALESSI, as Trustor WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, A CASHIER'S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION/THRIFT DOMICILED IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA or other form of payment authorized by 2924h(b), (payable at the time of sale in lawful money of the United States) PLACE OF SALE: AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE OF THE PASADENA PUBLIC LIBRARY LOCATED AT 285 E WALNUT STREET, PASADENA, CA 91101 All rights, 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 follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: Lot 7 of Tract No. 20500, in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California, as per Map recorded in Book 580, Pages 25 and 26 of Maps, in the Office of the County Recorder of said County. Also that portion of Lot 2 Tract No. 20500, described as follows: Beginning at the Northeasterly corner of said Lot 2; thence along the Easterly line of said Lot 2, South 02 Degrees

44 Minutes 00 Seconds East 35.50 feet; thence South 31 Degrees 04 Minutes 23 Seconds West 8.87 feet; thence North 58 Degrees 40 Minutes 32 Seconds West 21.50 feet; thence North 14 Degrees 03 Minutes 54 Seconds East 32.00 feet to a point in the Northerly line of said Lot 2, distant thereon South 86 Degrees 27 Minutes 08 Seconds East 13.50 feet from the Northeasterly corner of said Lot 2; thence along the Northerly line North 86 Degrees 27 Minutes 03 Seconds East 13.50 feet to the point of beginning. APN: 4387022-012, 4387-022-024 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 9635 Cedarbrook Drive, 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 made in "AS IS" condition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of said deed of trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total ESTIMATED amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimate costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $136,783.33.

Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due.

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, 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 no it 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 the property, you may call, 888-666-1685 ext. 503 for information regarding the trustee's sale, for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case T.S.# 19-04-1006.

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. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. 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 written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell, to be recorded as instrument number 2019-0388111 on April 30, 2019, of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, State of California, where the real property is located. Dated July 30, 2019 CITIVEST FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., Trustee BY: E.M. MAZZARINO P.O. Box 861894 Los Angeles, CA 90086 Telephone

No. 888-666-1685 Ext. 503 –––––– SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES CASE NO: 19SMCP00347 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME In the Matter of the petition of: Monica Javidzad To all interested person(s): Petitioner: Monica Javidzad current residence address: 1053 N. Hillcrest Rd. Beverly Hills, CA 90210 filed a petition with the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, 1725 Main St., Santa Monica, CA 90401, Santa Monica Courthouse, on July 31, 2019 for a Decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Nathaniel Chaim Elazar Javidzad Proposed Name: Nathaniel Javidzad The court orders that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: October 04, 2019 Time: 8:30am Dept: K The address of the court is: Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, 1725 Main St., Santa Monica, CA 90401, Santa Monica Courthouse.

Reason for name change: Mistakenly included middle name.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the information in the foregoing petition is true and correct.

Signed: Monica Javidzad Judge of the Superior Court Judge Lawrence H. Cho, Sherri R. Carter, Executive Officer/Clerk, By: Maria Guadian, Deputy Clerk

Dated: July 31, 2019 Published: August 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 Beverly Hills Courier –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019211903 The following is/are doing business as: CHANNELING BECKY 10850 Wilshire Blvd. #350, Los Angeles, CA 90024; In The Twink Of An Eye Casting, Inc. 10850 Wilshire Blvd. #350, Los Angeles, CA 90024; The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed August 2019: Tracy Byrd, President: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: August 02, 2019; Published: August 16, 23, 30, September 06, 2019 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019230822 The following is/are doing business as: REAL ESTATE COLLECTIVE 5408 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016; Real Estate Collective 5408 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016; The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed September 2014: Clarissa Lissone Vorgeack, President: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: August 27, 2019; Published: August 30, September 06, 13, 20, 2019 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019230820 The following is/are doing business as: CANON HILLS CLOSINGS, A NON-INDEPENDENT BROKER 439 N. Canon Dr. Suite #300, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; Forward Beverly Hills, Inc. 439 N. Canon Dr. Suite #300, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed January 2007: David Bailey, President: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: August 27, 2019; Published: August 30, September 06, 13, 20, 2019 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019230760 The following is/are doing business as: NOTARY AND MOBILE SIGNING SERVICES BY

LEIZA 801 S. Beverly Glen Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024; Leiza Thomas 801 S. Beverly Glen Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Leiza Thomas, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: August 27, 2019; Published: August 30, September 06, 13, 20, 2019 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019230758 The following is/are doing business as: MP FINANCIAL 7188 Sunset Blvd. #102-A, Los Angeles, CA 90046; Deborah Miller 7188 Sunset Blvd. #102-A, Los Angeles, CA 90046; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Deborah Miller, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: August 27, 2019; Published: August 30, September 06, 13, 20, 2019 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019230756 The following is/are doing business as: 1) STRIDE PUBLIC RELATIONS 2) STRIDE PR 2068 West 220th St., Torrance, CA 90501; Robert Brown & Associates Communications, Inc. 2068 West 220th St., Torrance, CA 90501; The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed September 2014: Robert Brown, CEO: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: August 27, 2019; Published: August 30, September 06, 13, 20, 2019 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019217055 Thefollowing is/are doing business as: SAND PEAKS 17328 Ventura Blvd #196, Encino, CA 91316; Kurt Andars Stromer 17328 Ventura Blvd #196, Encino, CA 91316; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Kurt Andars Stromer, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: August 8, 2019; Published: August 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 LACC N/C

NOTICE— 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

08 LEGAL SERVICES

45 SCHOOLS & INSTRUCTIONS

EDUCATIONAL TUTORING Students of All Ages Over 30 Years’ Years’ Experience Ex xperience Serving All Your Immigration Immig ration Needs

Work W ork and Investment Visas! through employment employment y in approx. appro rox. x 18 Months!

Green Card through Now processing N p g Portuguese g Citizenship C p for Sephardic Sepha p rdic d descendants! descenndants!

Representing Religious Workers Workeers for schools/synagogues/churches schools/synagogues/chuurches around the country!

Students with Academic Needs and/or Special Needs Susan Weinberg Call 310/345-9531

LEGAL PROBLEMS? TOP “A/V” RATED BEVERLY HILLS LAW FIRM CAN HELP YOU. Specializing In: Personal Injury Auto & Motorcycle Accident Cases, Collection of Delinquent Support, Divorce, Civil, Real Estate & Construction Law. No Recovery, No Fee! Free Consultation.

LAW OFFICES OF BRADFORD L. TREUSCH • 310/557-2599 •

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ELDERLY CARE

HAPPY DOG MASSAGE

Caregiver Companion/ Assistant.

of Beverly Hills • Decrease joint & muscle pain • Improve circulation • Relieve anxiety • Promote overall health

Kind reliable lady available hourly to help you with shopping, meal prep, laundry, Give your pooch doctor appointments, the benefits! organizing and more.

Call Dr. Lori English speaking, 310.850.7105 educated, experienced, references.

55 JOBS WANTED

40 YEARS EXPERIENCE WITH LAUSD I Am A Live-In Avaiable for Companion Private Tutoring Kind, Caring w/ Exp. K-12 • All Subjects With car for errands+ Call 310/859-1121 appts., light cooking,

“ A / V ” R AT E D F O R OVER 30 YEARS.

www. Treusch .net

52 PET SERVICES

47 HEALTH & BEAUTY

SuperLawyers.com

Dental Hygiene Services at Your Door

Lifetime Smiles

Need to publish your (DBA) Fictitious Business Name?

HOUSEKEEPER

Live-In / Live-Out brings smiles to you at Experienced in all aspects the comfort of your home. of household duties.

Dental cleanings, denture Fun meals, transportation care, dry mouth therapy, provided to any oral hygiene info+referrals. destination, pet care.

Free Consultation: Fluent English.

Call: 310/986-5560 CPR Certified.

Email: lifetimesmilescare@gmail.com References (licensed by DHCC) Audrey: 562/208-2213

ENERGY HEALING TREATMENTS SCHOOLS & INSTRUCTIONS

FRENCH LESSONS Enjoy French Language!

Tutoring by a teacher with many years of experience at the Lycee Francais of Los Angeles and The BH Lingual Institute

Call Mme. Newman at 310/838-7749 or e-mail yvonnettenewman@gmail.com

I Am Seeking Companion/ Caregiver Position

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Personal care assistance, personal/administrative companionship, meal prep, assistance, pet care. med’s reminder, lite houseIn Exchange for Private keeping. W/ car+ins. for Dr. Room w/ Bathroom appts, errands+shopping. or Guesthouse Live-In or Live-Out Emma C.N.A./C.H.H.A. & Negotiable Salary.

323/302-3969 310/497-9798 Excellent References.

For homebound, elderly, persons w/ disabilities, CAREGIVER / care facility residents, etc. COMPANION /

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Call Louise 310/486-2620

BY PHONE Experience Physical, Mental, Emotional & Cellular Well-Being “All Is In The Realm Of Possibility” Call or Text 424-354-1713

www.chivibrationalhealing.com

88 ELDERLY CARE

CARETAKER AVAILABLE Trustworthy & Reliable Care for elderly or debilitated relatives at home.

Experienced & friendly, providing companionship, security, meal prep., etc.

Experience w/ stroke patients, 104-year-old woman that required a live-in caregiver to continue the lifestyle she was accustomed to.

Flexible: F/T or Hourly, Live-Out/In. Speak English & Hebrew. References & recommendations avail.

Please Call/Text Meira: 210/778-3923

• ELDERCARE • IN-HOME SPECIALIST • Caregivers • CNA • CHHA

• Companions • Live-In / Live-Out

Experienced • Compassionate • Fully Screened

310.859.0440 www.exehomecare.com

BBB A+ Rated

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Lashes by Shigeru Call or Text:

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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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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

415

HOUSES

OFFICE / STORE FOR LEASE

ROOMS FOR RENT

FOR SALE

B LESSING H ANDS HOME CARE

BEVERLY HILLS ADJ.

LARGE HOUSE TO SHARE Fully Furnished Ideal for employed male non-smoker, no pets.

1 BEDROOM +TV

In-Home Quality Affordable Caregivers

$900/Mo. First & Last

All utilities included

Light housekeeping, meal prep, incontinent care, medication mgmt, post recovery, transportation, hospice care support, etc.

24/7 Care•Long/shortterm, P/T or as needed.

Excellent References!

Please call after 6pm

323/879-9033

————— PRIVATE FURNISHED ROOM AVAILABLE IN BEVERLY HILLS with pool & parking.

For professional, non-smoker with excellent credit.

Bonded & Insured

Free Consultation @ 24-Hrs 805/915-7751 818/433-0182

$1,100/MO. ROCHELLE ATLAS MAIZE

Owned/Operated by Nurses

90 EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

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• BRENTWOOD • BEVERLY HILLS HOME • OFFICE SPACE •

268

WANTED TO BUY HOUSES

922 S. Barrington Av. Ideal for Professional: Wanted: A Dream Lawyer, Doctor, Real Home for My family It’s our family’s dream Estate Broker, etc.

5 Days A Week. to live in a beautiful {{{{ } } } } } } home in a safe area. { { Light housekeeping, Apprx 550 Sq. Ft. We are educators & Parking Included. light cooking. Must drive are selling our home. {{{{{{ } } } } } } Would you find it in your for groceries/errands and heart to sell us your Please Call home at a fair price? have references.

For More Details: Thank You, Jackie!

310/826-0541 Call 310/420-7022 323/646-0698

SEEKING LIVE-IN

HOUSEKEEPER

————— WANTED

2 TIMES PER WEEK PART-TIME LIGHT BOOKKEEPER Proficient in: Quicken, Excell, Word. eBay & Etsy listing and sales.

Personal Bills. Seeking mature with nice personality, artsy interest.

Call 310/277-6873

*** FOR LEASE ***

OFFICE IN

270 CONDOS FOR SALE

BOUTIQUE BLDG $1,425/MO.

Adj. Beverly Hills 323/782-1144

1 & 2 - PERSON ————— RESIDENT BEVERLY HILLS MANAGEMENT ** PRIME ** TEAM SMALL OFFICE

• Century Towers • $1,500,000 • 2+2 23rd Fl. Beautiful Remodel!

Corner Unit with Jetliner Views of Century City, Mountains, Golf Course, B.H., Sunset Plaza, Hollywood & Ocean Too! Superior location.

Professional appearance. 120 El Camino Dr Hurry, this one won’t last.

Small complex, A treat to show!

B.H.+Westside Area Management/ Maintenance, Leasing Experience a Plus.

Short Term 6 mos. Okay $2,850/mo All Inclusive Tricia- United RE 310/853-1437

Great Opportunity!

Free Rent + Salary!

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www. bhcourier .com

310/829-2630 Or Email: THEROBERTSCO @ THEROBERTSCO . COM

270

Corner Unit with 2 balconies.

Beautiful setting.

Least expensive unit in the building!

• DIANA COOK • 468 N. Camden Dr., Beverly Hills, 90210

• 310-203-8333 •

2DianaCook@gmail.com

gayleweiss@gmail.com

310.968.8828 I dre #01365331

310.880.7948 I dre #01050268

LOWEST PRICE IN BEVERLY HILLS

CONDOS FOR SALE

KELEMEN REAL ESTATE (310) 966-0900 License 00957281

all listings are on

CenturyCityLiving.com

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

CENTURY PARK EAST

$988,000 2 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS Unobstructed City Views High Floor. Totally Renovated.

Raised Ceilings. Recessed Lights.

State of the art Kitchen. Luxurious Baths. Crystal Stall Shower Hardwood Floors. Crown Moldings. Make an Offer CENTURY PARK EAST $671,000 TO $1,050,000

CENTURY TOWERS $699,000 TO $1,099,000

PARK PLACE $935,000 TO $1,139,000

LE PARC

$2,099,000 TO $2,895,000

CENTURY HILL

$1,250,000 TO $2,390,000

ONE CENTURY

$3,400,000 TO $10,099,000

2160 Century Park East $893,000 • 2+2 11th Fl.

GAYLE WEISS

rochelle@rochellemaize.com

CENTURY WOODS

$1,369,000 TO $2,799,000

447 S. LA PEER DRIVE $1,795,000

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

————— ROOM For RENT in Beverly Hills

2 Bd.+2 Ba. Condo Furnished. 1st flr.

Master Bedroom with private bath entrance & balcony.

Large closet, parking, laundry facility. $1,600 Utilities Incld.

424/229-0808

425 THIS 3 BEDROOM AND 1.25 BATH HOME HOUSES OFFERS WONDERFUL FAMILY LIVING WITH BEVERLY FOR RENT HILLS SCHOOLS. OLD WORLD SPANISH CHARM WITH A LARGE LIVINGROOM AND FORMAL STEP UP DININGROOM. NEEDS UPDATING/ REMODELING OR Beverly Hills 90211 Beautifully Remodeled IS PERFECT FOR A BUILDER OR INVESTOR 3 Bd+3 Ba. 2,100sq.

SANDRA LEWIS AGT. 310-770-4111 BRE #00456048

403

406

PARKING FOR RENT

RENTAL TO SHARE

High ceiling, designer silk curtains, lrg closets, huge bright kitch., deck+ lush backyard, seasonal fruit trees, flowers, waterfall, LED Jacuzzi.

ACTIVE SENIOR 2 Bd.+1 Ba. Guesthouse PARKING SPACE FEMALE SEEKS 700sq., full kitchen.

FOR RENT RESPONSIBLE FEMALE W/ Guesthouse $8,500 670 Kelton Ave. To share beautiful and W/O Guesthouse $6,500 Perfect for spacious 2 Bedroom Text/Call Rebeka Shad UCLA Student or with 2 ensuite Bath Westwood Village Century City Condo. Cell: 213/761-2766 Business/Office.

New kitchen, W/D, $150/Month gated entry, pools, BIRD STREET ADJ gym, tennis court in Great Value! gorgeous park like • 310/209-0006 • Flicker Place:

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Blocks to UCLA/ Westwood Village

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BEL AIR CREST $1,788,000 TO $9,500,000

Call 310/273-8380 Cell 310/855-4179

BEVERLY HILLS

complex. Near shops, restaurants and more. 1,549 square ft $2,600/Mo. Pvt Suite 2 Bed / 2 Bath HOME Call 310/556-0797 Gated, Privacy, Security & NEST systems Temporary Housing. $8,500 Per Month Great opportunity for senior or student.

Janine Maples In Exchange: You give some help to RODEO REALTY a senior. Non-smoker.

310-261-8019 For more info: Text 310/963-7845 Janine@rodeore.com

————— FREE RENT

Wilshire/Robertson Community Secured Garage Parking Available For Rent.

Call 310/909-3804 Cell 872/985-7329

DRE #01091323

APARTMENT/CONDO RENTALS

BEVERLY HILLS

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UNFURNISHED APTS/CONDOS

UNFURNISHED APTS/CONDOS

Olympic/Shenandoah

BEVERLY HILLS ADJ.

BEVERLY HILLS SINGLE

BEVERLY HILLS ADJ.

Newly Remodeled 2 bedroom, 3 baths Owner’s Townhouse

BEVERLY HILLS GREAT LOCATION!

2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH FACING BEAUTIFUL COURTYARD $2,995/MO.

Beverly Hills Adjacent

KELEMEN REAL ESTATE (310) 966-0900 License 00957281

all listings are on CenturyCityLiving.com

N O W AVA I L A B L E GATED 5 STAR LUXURY PROPERTIES F URNISHED & U NFURNISHED

*BEL AIR *WESTWOOD *CENTURY CITY

CENTURY PARK EAST

2 BDRMS, 2 BATHS $6,875/MONTH

High Floor. Brand New Renovation. Ocean Views Quiet Corner Location. Hardwood Floors. Gourmet Kitchen.

Luxurious Bathroom 2 Jumbo Balconies

2 BDRMS, 2 BATHS $5,950/MONTH

Breathtaking City Views. Large Corner Unit. Two Jumbo Balconies Renovated. Hardwood Floors Lots of Closets

2 BDRMS, 2 BATHS $4,950/MONTH

High Floor. Breathtaking Ocean Views. Double Suites. Totally Renovated. Hardwood Floors Jumbo Balcony

1 BDRM , 1 BATH $3,850/MONTH

High Floor. Breathtaking City Views. Renovated Kitchen Luxury Bath. Crystal Shower Hardwood Floors. Jumbo Balcony

Beverly Center, Cedar Sinai Adj. Lower Duplex 2 Bdrm.+1.5 Bath + Bedroom/Office $4,500/Month Huge living-room, fireplace, hardwood flrs.

Large bedrooms, carpet. Walk-in closets.

Breakfast/dining room, washer/dryer in unit.

Central heat, A/C’s.

Enclosed garage w/ electric outlets suited to charge Electric Vehicles.

Stunning & immaculate.

Completely updated new kitchen & bathrooms, new wood floors & windows, central air & heat, recessed lighting and wired for sound.

Washer & dryer in unit.

Covered parking. $3,650/Mo. Anna 310-613-1231

————— BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. LOWER DUPLEX LARGE 2 BDRM, 1 BA. & breakfast room. High ceilings, hardwood floors throughout. New kitchen

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UNFURNISHED marble tiles, new fridge.

440

w/granite counter tops

APT’S/CONDO’S Washer & dryer in unit.

WILSHIRE CORRIDOR Remodeled bathroom.

2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH On 11th Floor with Amazing Views. $4,800/MO.

All utilities included except cable & internet.

Luxury condo w/ valet parking, doorman, pool, gym, spa, hrwd. flrs., granite counters, stainless steel appliances.

818/907-0800 ext. 1

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Lots of closet spaces.

Nicely landscaped front and backyard, parking.

Close to all amenities, shops, restaurants, etc.

$2,950/MO.

Cal 310/908-1919 HILLS ADJ. BEVERLY

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LUXURIOUS 2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH $2,995/MO.

344 S. Spalding Dr. Across Beverly High 3 BDRM. + 2 BATH $3,900/MO.

Updated & Bright

Large kitchen, stove, fridge, hardwood flrs., a/c unit, balcony, laundry facility, lots Totally remodeled with of closet space, prkg. modern fixtures and new $1,600/Month

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

Shown By Appointment.

8544 BURTON WAY

Spacious living, dining

323/270-0604 Dogs+cats considered.

10501 Wilshire Blvd.

LUXURIOUS

310/276-2295 Cell: 310/892-6010

—————–––– BEVERLY HILLS GUESTHOUSE

400 sf with full bath effenciency kitchen, skylight & backyard.

Ideal for 1 person with pet. Must have excellent credit. Utilities included. $1,600/MO

BEVERLY HILLS

a.

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$4,000 to $5,300/month

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Houseman, Staff Engineers, Switchboard, Security Staff, Switchboard, Saunas, Business Center, Pet PlayLand, Restaurant, Acres of Flower Gardens and Grassy Lawns.

paint, lighting fixtures, washer/dryer in unit, central air/heat, patio, and pool. $3,495/MO.

Call 818/321-1942

Easy Move-In! *1+1 only 320 N. La Peer Dr.

• 310/246-0290 •

C LOSE TO S HOPS & D INING

BEVERLY HILLS CONDO FOR LEASE

114 N. La Peer Dr. (North of Wilshire)

Spacious, hardwood flrs., huge closets, built-in 3 BEDROOM + 3 BATH a/c, dishwasher, pool, + 3 Parking Spaces Newly Remodeled elevator, controlled 1 BEDROOM, 1 BATH Spacious Bedrooms, access, laundry Large Living Room, Top floor with balcony, facilities. No pets.

Walk-In Closet, appliances, 2 parking.

424/343-0015 Balcony, Fire Place, Secured building.

Location!

Great Hardwood Floors Non-smoking/No Pets.

Updated Kitchen $2,650/MO. Appliances, Call 323/333-7078 BEVERLY HILLS Room Recreation 443 S. Oakhurst Dr.

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to Cedars/shops/trans.

310/247-8689

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Hardwood flrs., central 11692 Chenault Dr. • • • • • air, pool, elevator, • • 3 Bd.+2 Ba. • on-site laundry, • 1 Bd.+1 Ba. intercom entry.

BEAUTIFUL CONDO 117 S. DOHENY DR

• 2 Bd. + 2 Ba. • BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. • 1 Bd. + 1 Ba. • • • • • REMODELED • • • • • • 2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH • • Light and bright upper B R I G H T & S P A C I O U S with hardwood floors, B E V E R LY H I L L S LIVING. dishwaser, wall A/C unit, Balcony, dishwasher, laundry facility and skylight, elevator, inter2 car parking space. com entry, on-site $2,650MO. laundry, parking.

918 S. BEDFORD P LEASE C ALL : Sam: 310/422-6026 310/274-8840

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Good closet space, a/c, elevator, dishwasher, controlled access. Close

• BRENTWOOD •

————— LUXURY 3 BEDROOM

Call 310/273-6770 221 S. Doheny Dr. or 213/444-8865 or 310/734-7263 • • 2 Bd.+2 B

1 Bd. +Den +1.5 Ba.

North of Montana St.

Call 310/276-0278

Totally remodeled with modern fixtures and new granite counters throughPARK PLACE out all amenities in $4,200 to $4,950/month Quiet 4-unit bldg. kitchen and includes all CENTURY TOWERS appliances. Breakfast Large 1st flr. unit, $6,500 to $7,000/month hardwood flrs., washer/ area. Large closets, CENTURY HILL dryer, modern updated balconies, Berber carpet/ $4,950 to $8,900/month harwood foors and kitchen, patio, side LE PARC entrance, gated windows. verticle blinds. Fireplace, Sorr y washer/dryer included BEVERLY HILLS 310/277-5476 in laundry area. Secured ONE CENTURY PRIME 218 S. Tower Dr. $16,500 to $27,000/month building with garden • BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. courtyard view. Choice BEVERLY HILLS • CENTURY WOODS • • CHARMING • E L G N I S • Sorr y Newly Remodeled location Near Beverly •• 1 BDRM, 1 BATH •• Bd. 2 Ba. Condo Center, Cedars-Sinai, 2 Some Complexes include •• • With hardwood floors, Heated Pools, Sundeck, • includes 2 parking. Restaurants, Trader Joes, French windows and Old World Charm!

Tennis, Doorman, New hardwood floors, Etc. No Pets.

CENTURY PARK EAST

•• • • • • • • • • • 2 Bd.+2 Ba. • • • French doors in bdrm. • open to large balcony • overlooking pool • GORGEOUS UNITS ••

309 S. Sherbourne Dr. ( • • • ----- • • • )

————— Call 818/231-5540

BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. 120 S. Swall Dr. • • • • • • • • •

Wood+carpet floors, spacious kitchen, dishwasher, fridge, stove, balcony, walk-in closet, gated entry, pool, on-site laundry, elevator. No pets.

310/208-0111 Close to Whole Foods, Brentwood Park, Tennis Courts.

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Brand New 2018 Construction = BRENTWOOD = The Sanremo 417 S. Barrington Av.

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Open floor plan, high ceilings, French oak flrs+porcelain tiles, x-lrg. walk-in closets, stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops, pool, state of the art gym, laundry hook-ups, controlled access, prkg, free WiFi. Close to Brentwood Village.

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• Jr. Executive 12333 TeXaS Ave. ==== 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath • 1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath 2 Bd.+2 Ba. • ••••••• ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ 1 Bd.+1 Ba. Rooftop pool,

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

• Free WiFi Access • • Close to UCLA • 1350 S. MIDVALE AVE. L.A., 90024 Contact Mgr.:

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670 Kelton Ave.

Brand New Building • 2 Bd.+2 Ba.

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Everything Brand New Hardwood floors, appliances, washer/ dryer in each unit, central air. Pool, jacuzzi spa, fitness center, rooftop garden patio+ fire pits, courtyard, controlled access, prkg.

310/209-0006

Fireplace, balcony, Close to Museums, dishwasher, intercom The Grove entry, elevator, gated & Restaurants. parking, gym, pool.

• Close to Beach • • KOREATOWN •

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310/394-7132

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Hardwood floors, 2 Bd. granite counters, +2 • A / C , b a l c o n y, dishwasher, on-sight stainless steel appl., Ba. laundry, controlled dishwasher, stove, • alcove fireplace, • • • • • access, parking. intercom entry, fridge, laundry facility, 310/569-1159 on-sight laundry, prkg. Very spacious, granite counters, Close to U.C.L.A. & gated parking, intercom 310/478-1979 microwave, intercom Westwood Village entry, WiFi and more.

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1 Bd.+1 Ba. Hardwood floors, Spacious & Bright. Spacious a/c, fireplace, dishwasher, controlled pool, controlled access, 424/272-6596 • A / C , b a l c o n y, access, on-site laundry fac., prkg. dishwasher, stove, Close to Brentwood laundry & parking. intercom entry, • Free WiFi Access • Village, Restaurants, C LOSE TO U.C.L.A. 310/473-5061 UCLA, Mt. Saint Mary’s, on-sight laundry, prkg.

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Hardwood/carpet/tile flrs., a/c, balcony, ceiling fans.

Marble & granite counters, new stainless steel appliances, dishwasher, • 310/552-8064 • fridge, microwave.

Rooftop jacuzzi Controlled access, with panoramic laundry facility, gated parking. Club house, city views. enclosed pool, jacuzzi, gym, wifi. Pets OK.

(•)(•)(•)(•)(•) Wood+carpet floors, ≈ W E S T ≈ entry, on-sight laun- WESTWOOD WiFi, central air/heat, spacious kitchen, dishfireplace, balcony, L O S A N G E L E S dry, parking & WiFi. 1370 Veteran Ave. washer, fridge, stove, controlled access, Very close to UCLA 11305 Graham Pl. 1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath balcony, walk-in closet, pool, elevator, parking, & Westwood Village. gated entry, pool, on-site •••• •• laundry facility.

1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath 310/208-5166 • •••• • 310/312-9871 laundry, elevator. No pets.

Balcony, air conditioning * HOLLYWOOD * Intercom entry, a/c, Shopping & Dining in 310/208-0111 dishwasher, on-sight W E S T W O O D dishwasher, controlled 1134 N. SYCAMORE AV. access bldg., WiFi, Close to Whole Foods, Brentwood Village laundry & parking. 1409 Midvale Ave. * * * * * pool, on-sight laundry, Brentwood Park, C L O S E TO S C H O O L • 1 Bd. + 1 Ba. • • • • • BRENTWOOD gym, parking.

• • • • • • Tennis Courts. & F R E E WAY S • 2 B d . + 2 B a . • 310/477-6885 11640 Kiowa Ave. * * * * * 310/477-8171 • • • • Newly Remodeled • • Close to U.C.L.A • • • • Grand Opening Great Views • 1 Bd.+1 Ba. • BRENTWOOD ’s Newly Updated W E S T L . A . •• • • W E S T W O O D Great views, controlled Most Spectacular 10905 Ohio Ave. • • 1433 Brockton Ave. • • access, balcony, 2 Bdrm. + 2 Bath • • •• Apartments •• Spacious WiFi, a/c, intercom elevator, lrg. pool, • • •••••••• 120 Granville Ave. 1 Bdrm+1 Bath entry, laundry facility, •• 2 Bd.+2 Ba. •• prkg, on-sight laundry.

• • Balcony, dishwasher, Laundry facility, * * * * * * * * elevator, parking, pool. • • 1 Bd.+1 Ba. • • H IKING IN R UNYON a/c, heated pool, •• • parking. CLOSE TO U.C.L.A., • WiFi, elevator C ANYON , H OLLYWOOD • 2 Bd.+2 Ba. •• •• controlled access, Close to shopping, SHOPPING & 1 BLK. Wifi, Bright, controlled B OWL /N IGHTLIFE . dining & TO WESTWOOD PARK. * * * * * * * * on-site laundry, prkg. access, balcony, 323/467-8172 Large units, walk-in closet, transportation.

Close to pool, e levator, 310/478-8616 custom kitchen, built-in Brentwood Village, Please Call: laundry facility, prkg.

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• WESTWOOD • 310/477-6856 1769-1775 ances, hardwood floors • 310/826-4889 • 1422-1428 Kelton Av. N. Sycamore Av. • WESTWOOD • throughout, some units

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213/382-102 1 Easy freeway access

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Control access, pool, dishwasher, elevator, on-site laundry and parking.

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Another Phobia From Roger Lefkon FEAR OF MOVING ON From the moment I arrived on planet Earth, my life has been a series of moving on experiences–seldom looking back but always looking forward to the next adventure. At first there was a new home, one that was not under water. As my life evolved new people appeared, aunts named Bertha, Jessie and Charlotte were replaced by a new crop of female acquaintances, Tiffany, Lola, Candy and Destiny.

There were entry level jobs, then positions with greater responsibility and eventually a career with the CIA as a Black Ops agent with a license to kill and reliable contacts to purchase Viagra at below market prices. I moved on from being a junk foodie to a connoisseur of haute cuisine, from needing a shrink to authoring books on relations between men and woman and dogs and their veterinarians and upgrading my wardrobe to include trousers with no pleats.

Most importantly I have moved on from my dependence on social media which has become anything but sociable. No more Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, You Tube, LinkedIn and Qzone.

Yes, I have kicked the habit and deleted my entire social media presence.

The ultimate “move on” adventure is of course death, the sum of all our fears. The Grim Reaper is quick to point out that the statistics of death have not changed. One out of one person dies.

Worldwide, there are approximately 57 million deaths each year. That works out to 4.7 million per month, 155,000 per day, 6,500 per hour, 107 per minute and 1.8 per second. Armed with this knowledge and wanting to make the final arrangements ahead of the Grim Reaper’s timetable, my wife Phyllis and I decided to forgo a shopping spree at Costco and set out to find our final resting place.

Our dog Piper stayed home fully absorbed in reading the Stephen King novel Pet Sematary.

We had already discussed and discarded: (1) Burial at sea since neither of us are good swimmers); (2) Cryogenics comes with a frightfully high refrigeration bill and, in the event of a power failure, there is the likelihood of suffering a catastrophic meltdown; (3) Interment in a space capsule high above the earth is out since TV and phone reception is very problematical plus the lack of Chinese take out for visitors makes it a non starter; (4) Cremation is very messy and, if it turns out there is life after death, then what?; (5) Below the ground option is very traditional but you run the risk of strangers walking over you with dirty shoes, animals and possibly medical examiners digging you up or becoming a victim of body snatching. I know what you’re thinking, is there an aftermarket for decomposed bodies on eBay? Of course there is and it’s a very grave mat-

ter.

As we passed through the ornate gates of Memorial Park and absorbed its tranquil oasis, elegant architecture and Bob Dylan softly crooning Knockin’ On Heavens Door, we realized that the only viable option was a wall crypt in the much sought after Court of the Movers and Shakers. Once inside, the epithet crypt was replaced by the more civilized Garden Mausoleum which we thought had a more dignified ring to it. After meeting and chatting with a family advisor we were each handed a non vintage bottle of Memorial Park water, a pen bearing the parks logo, a dollar sign, and placed aboard a tram for our tour of the burial grounds.

We soon arrived at the majestic Court of the Movers and Shakers, an open air mausoleum with its own high speed elevator, unlimited Wi-Fi and salad bar. After much deliberation, during which time Phyllis and I shared a Cobb salad, we choose a double occupancy wall space on the 6th level also known as the “View From the Top” suite that was built to withstand a magnitude 8.2 earthquake.

Anything larger would require us to relocate.

We would be placed one behind the other and since, based on the latest life expectancy table, it was likely that I would pass first, my wall mate would have an unobstructed view of the planes taking off and landing at nearby LAX. It doesn’t get any better than this!

We also took the time to select caskets, a poplar golden walnut finish with a turquoise crepe interior for her and an identical one for me except for the crepe interior. Being a deeply religious person, I opted for a Hebrew national mustard interior crepe.

The remaining details would be dealt with later including bronze memorial plaques with up to 15 words (each additional word would be billed separately so keep it brief), flowers, chapel, live streaming of the service including one dress rehearsal, programs, a rabbi and an autopsy if I cashed in my chips under suspicious circumstances. No end game would be complete without the requisite post burial lunch, a tradition that dates back to ancient Egyptian and Roman times where ducks, geese, and goats supplied by Old MacDonald’s farm were all the rage. My written instructions calls for a lighter menu consisting of noodle soup, baby iceberg wedges, a choice of salmon or brisket and for the kids, chicken tenders and mac & cheese. To top it off everyone would partake in a generous helping of fruit jell-o.

From the womb to the tomb, the message is: enjoy the ride, there is no return ticket!!~ Roger Lefkon is a veteran TV writer/producer, former senior executive of Merv Griffin Enterprises, and author of The World Is A Really Scary Place

POLICE BLOTTER The following Assaults; Arson; Robbery; Home and Commercial Burglaries; Vandalism; DUIs; Auto, Petty and Grand Thefts have been reported by BHPD. Streets are indicated by block numbers.

ARSON 08/21 9800 Sunset Blvd.

ASSAULTS 08/24 200 N. Crescent Dr. 08/24 200 N. Almont Dr. 08/26 500 N. Camden Dr. AUTO BURGLARIES/THEFTS 08/22 9600 S. Santa Monica Blvd.

08/23 200 S. Arnaz Dr. 08/24 300 S. Rexford Dr. 08/24 400 N. Beverly Dr. 08/24 100 Reeves Dr.

COMMERCIAL BURGLARIES 08/21 200 S. La Cienega Blvd.

08/21 8900 Wilshire Blvd.

DUIS 08/22 N. Rodeo Dr./ Elevado Ave. 08/24 S. La Cienega Blvd./ W. Olympic Blvd.

GRAND THEFT 08/23 9900 S. Santa Monica Blvd.

08/24 9800 S. Santa Monica Blvd.

08/26 300 S. Robertson Blvd.

08/27 9700 Wilshire Blvd.

PETTY THEFTS 08/21 300 N. Canon Dr. 08/23 400 S. Robertson Blvd.

08/24 300 N. Rodeo Dr. 08/27 400 S. Roxbury Dr. RESIDENTIAL BURGLARIES 08/23 500 N. Camden Dr. 08/23 300 S. Swall Dr. 08/27 200 Reeves. Dr. ROBBERY 08/25 200 N. Rodeo Dr. VANDALISM 08/24 9200 Burton Way

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Astrology

By Holiday Mathis TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Aug. 30). There are some obstacles you really need to work through in order to get the lesson, and others that you can effectively vault over, essential saved by a hero or spared with an angel’s grace. Both come into play over the next six months. Your social scene will sparkle. Interesting people come into your world.

Sagittarius and Aquarius adore you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). What’s the thing you like about yourself today? You're allowed to think it. You're even allowed to say it, to yourself or anyone who will listen. It’s about time you got on your own side in a bigger way.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). People fear what you think of them more than you might guess. So whatever you do to make them feel comfortable is not just you being nice; it’s you doing what’s necessary for sociable living.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). The safety net can have an effect whether or not it’s actually there. The confidence one gets in thinking that it’s there will contribute to surefooted action. So how can you make yourself feel safer about taking this risk?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Good taste is often a matter of context. If you strive to be more in sync with the people around you, you’ll naturally gravitate toward tastefulness. Then again, it helps if like and admire the people around you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). How can you bring more awareness to the scene you’re in? Really, all it takes is a you-to-you request. What is it that you think you should be noticing? Start with what interests you and go deeper.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Most will be caught up in the agenda of projecting an image that feels like the right one necessary to feel comfortable in the current surroundings. Go beyond that agenda and you'll really be living.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20). Obedience isn’t the entire point of parenting, but sometimes it's taught that way. You’ve experienced some of that yourself, and you'll think about this in an interaction having to do with the balance of authority.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19). People say and do odd things. Maybe you’re not sure how to take them. Assume goodwill. It's far better than cynicism, which is depressing if you turn out to be right, and worse if you turn out to be wrong.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20). The challenges get steeper, but don’t worry. You’re not a run-of-the-mill contender in this arena. You know what you’re doing. You’ve practiced for this, and you’re a force to be reckoned with.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You know how to complete your work, show up on time and bring a willingness to work with others, even the difficult ones. It's why you keep getting asked back.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You have talent, but that's not what will take you to the goal. It doesn’t matter half as much as other things, like persistence and applying oneself to the most important task at hand.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). When fear subsides, the brain is quiet. It’s out of this quiet mind that deep insight and intelligence emerges. So the first step toward making a smart move is to create a bubble of safety and get mentally still.

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